My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Part 12: Six seasons and a movie

[Azmaria]

oh and
when I get home I'll need someone who has played mgs1 to help me I'm stuck
no, seriously

I may be able to help though its been a while since I played it.

[Dontrike]

That looks good Zook.
Morning ponies, how are y'all today?

Yozzers Az. Doing alright. How are you today?

[Thoroar]

That looks good Zook.
Morning ponies, how are y'all today?

Good morning, Azma :3

[Freyera]

Good morning, Azma :3
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Hello Thoroar

[Thoroar]

Hello Thoroar

Frey~

[Freyera]

Frey~
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Always beautiful.

[Hetalia]

I go through the same thing with Magic all of the time. Over 8,000 cards and it still isn't enough.

and then there is a set of the sphere ones that are are all unopened, fully sealed. I want so so badly.

[Thoroar]

Always beautiful.

How's your evening folding out?

[Hetalia]

Not weeaboo

Shamefur dispray

Not everything I buy has to be weeaboo

but a lot of it is

My grandma used to get me one really big expensive lego set every year for Christmas. One year I got the Millenium Falcon set that was super cool.

You mean the scale model one with so many pieces? The one which is super awesomely expensive and this?

I once bought legos for 100 dollars
oh and checking currency now it seems dollar raised a little again
or maybe I wasn't paying attention lately

I did that a while ago as well. I'm not so obsessed with Lego anymore, but Bionicle is still the shit.

[Freyera]

How's your evening folding out?

Poorly, more so than usual. Yourself?

[Dontrike]

and then there is a set of the sphere ones that are are all unopened, fully sealed. I want so so badly.

I know the feeling all so well. Magic puts out a new set every three months and two or three new products a year.

[Azmaria]

Morning Floater

I don't know why but I read "Hola Floater" the first time around. I really need to wake up more =_=

Yozzers Az. Doing alright. How are you today?

Hiya Don .
I'm doing good though I'm just a little worried and stressed out atm.

Good morning, Azma :3
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Hiya Thor .
Looks like it has sharp teeth when you stop at some spots.

[Dontrike]

Time for this guy to hit the hay. You folks have a good day/night.

[Freyera]

I don't know why but I read "Hola Floater" the first time around. I really need to wake up more =_=

Hiya Don .
I'm doing good though I'm just a little worried and stressed out atm.

Hiya Thor .
Looks like it has sharp teeth when you stop at some spots.

Hola Floater :3

Time for this guy to hit the hay. You folks have a good day/night.

G'night Donners

[BAKANA]

You mean the scale model one with so many pieces? The one which is super awesomely expensive and this?

No it was much smaller and fewer pieces but still really cool to twelve year old me.

Anyway I am falling asleep goodnight.

[Azmaria]

Time for this guy to hit the hay. You folks have a good day/night.

Have a good sleep Don.

[Thoroar]

Poorly, more so than usual. Yourself?

Hmm, can turkeys make it any better? (sound required, but the vid is short)

I should be heading off now... or about 8 hours ago.

Hiya Thor .
Looks like it has sharp teeth when you stop in at some spots.

Heh, that's likely just the shading.

[Bluesparkks]

Yeah, I know.

Still, when most of the people you talk to have this discouraging attitude, it's a bit disheartening.

Though I guess I can't say most. Both Klocko and Vay took a liking.

Really, I just want to see people get passionate about something and for the most part, the only thing I can get people pumped for is drawing. lol

Ouch, that's a crappy situation. :/

Still, it can't be too hard to find the thing that brings you the most joy, and to put efforts towards it, can it? I mean, at least no more difficult than it is for any person.

I mean, I didn't bother with drawing until high school. Up until that point, I just played video games.

Currently, I can pretty easily say that art and game design are my primary interests. While I'm focusing on illustration and the art aspect, I still have large interesting in game design, or the design of interactivity. It's partially why Psychology/Sociology/Philosophy interests me so much.

From finding this out, it became a process of finding the job that exemplifies this. Ultimately led to Industrial or Entertainment design. A concept artists, basically.

They create and design the elements that go into a game, the initial actualization of it. Both design and illustration go into this process, so it drew me in pretty quick when I found out about it.

I just want people to try doing this themselves. There has to be something each person enjoys more than other things.

PS: Sorry, edited a lot. lol

I like writing. My sketches, however much I insist otherwise, aren't too terrible, and I do have a pretty good sense of color and graphic design. I really enjoy game design as well.

My real issue is that I simply can't practice drawing as much as I can practice writing; writing is very much a mental thing, something I can practice while cleaning glass or sweeping trash at work. I can think of quotes or scenes or characters and flesh them out freely almost anywhere as long as my focus isn't occupied by something else. Drawing won't work without my focused attention, so I simply haven't done that much of it.

And yes, I like inspiring passion in others too, or at least making them think and reconsider assumptions and traditions. It's kind of one of the reasons I've gone drama llama so many times over BWSD; it both inspires passion in me and makes me consider a very simple, but very profound question (I won't spoil it, but it is very meta). As someone who typically isn't sure of anything, I'm 100% certain that BWSD (minus some to-do polishing) is the best story I can offer. It has concepts and ideas and characters I can get behind, a theme I agree with, a question I really want to explore. Every part of it from the smallest incidental character, to the explosive scenes I have yet arrive at, to the tinest subtleties and the broadest themes, all of it resonates with me. It's raw passion to the point that it's survived countless attempts to abandon it just because I can't get it out of my head.

So it's somewhat hurtful that only a precious few seem to be interested in the same ideas, never mind get passionate about them.

(Notably, the same passion and ideas that drive my writing also drive(/drove...maybe) my drawing. If I do a drawing nowadays, it's almost always of my OCs, of which there are a lot.)

I'll be blunt: I've always hated the idea of talent.

I've heard so many times from family and friends that I'm so talented. I always thought it was a nice compliment until it turned into some sort of crutch.

Instead of it being something nice, it was "Oh, well, you didn't have to try or put effort into learning, you could just do it!" Which annoys me to no end. I put a tremendous amount of time into learning to draw, so much so that I almost failed school doing it. And for people to brush that off and say "You could do it anyways because you're just talented" Feels like a slap in the face to the years I spent practicing.

I feel the same way about being Asian. You can make ninja and impossibru and bad Chinese jokes all day, but I will get irritated the instant you use my race to discredit my work. "Well it's only because you're Asian." "Well, fuck you, I worked hard on that."

Unless you really are a protege, you just can't pick something up and expect to do anything well with it in less than a few years. Even then, that's pretty quick. I'm a pretty big believer in the 50,000 hours idea. While of course it can't work in all cases, I'd say if any average person put that much time into any one thing, they will have some professional skill in it. Of course, 50,000 is a pretty large amount of time, and that's why you need to be passionate about it, which I feel is far better than having inbred talent. If someone with all the talent in the world had no motivation to use it, it wouldn't matter to anyone.

There's a reason people say you can be anything you want. You only have to want it bad enough.

[Freyera]

Hmm, can turkeys make it any better? (sound required, but the vid is short)

I should be heading off now... or about 8 hours ago.

Heh, that's likely just the shading.

See you later, Thoroar

[Thoroar]

See you later, Thoroar

Just because I should doesn't mean I will.

Is there anything I can do to help?