JoeDios.com Forums - View Single Post - Hammerfel.... Let's do this

Some observations about life, the site, internet and helped by not being on any medication at the moment (shhhhhhh don't tell the pyschiatrists)

People say they want honesty. What they really are looking for is affirmation. Honesty and truth can be brutal at times, and if you're not ready for it, you want your mommy fast.

When young, single and childless I had time to do stuff that seemed important like chat online (mostly with people at FFURG.com and ex-college friends), watch a lot of TV and Movies, and . Now with a mortage, wife, and kid I'm lucky to watch the local weather these days when not in the lab. When the kid naps, if I don't have yard or house work to do, I customize, take pics, edit pics. Would I like to get to know more here personally? Sure. But knowing your work for now is all I can, and all I can speak to with honesty and occassionally Carlin-esqe sarcasm (see above about honesty).

You don't learn or get better by being successful. You have to fail. It is the only way to learn. Eight plus years of neuroscience, chemistry, and pharmacology research is more than enough to back that up with peer reviewed work if life hasn't taught you it yet. From time to time, throw up a failure to see what went wrong, and if anyone out there can help. You never know when you'll find the right mentor and they'll get everything going better.

I mentioned FFURG above. There the rule is if you're going to just compliment (or insult) don't post. If you're going to explain why something is good, what you liked, what you didn't, etc, please go ahead. It takes time, practice, and patience to learn to post questions like that. It also takes a thicker skin and more self-critical eye from the picture poster. But it helps everyone. Those who lack the skills start asking how something is done, the "artist" has should explain, others can learn, copy, and make better work themselves. You may not be able to see what the picture poster means for several attempts, but each one will bring you closer to your personal expectations, and that is all that matters. Whether this would work or could be tried here sounds like what a great number of posters have suggested, but that lies in others hands.

Ok, now that is done. Thanks to Hammerfel for the site. Thanks to the contributors. Thanks to those who have commented on my small amount of things. I've thought about everything said that is constructive, may not have incorporated it, but definitely filing it away for sometime. That's just what's in my mind, it could be schziopherenic.