I've been resisting this thread for months, and now just read the whole thing at once. {insert woozy smiley here}
I have kept various notebooks in the past, and for a few years now they've mostly consisted of game design notes and story ideas. I'll post a few later. (I need to go to class in a few minutes, so I just want to respond to a few posts that caught my eye while reading....)
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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
As an attractive female, there's no reason you should [know about Settlers of Catan].
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Hm. I'm quite familiar with the game, and female. Oh well...
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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
Who said anything there made sense? Or that you read the binary in the proper direction and orientation?
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I once made a case for a friend's Palm Pilot with a beaded flap that spelled out his name in binary/ascii codes. I didn't tell him what the pattern meant. He's a unix kernel engineer-- I assumed he'd figure it out. He figured out that it represented
something, but I don't think he ever thought to check binary.
I haven't seen him in years. His wife decided she hated me, so we parted ways.
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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
I whined to ZP that "I wish I could draw" and she told me the secret: draw.
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I suspect this advice works for writing, too. Possibly other things as well.
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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
I thought about going back in and darkening everything, working on the shading, but decided I'd probably mess the whole thing up. And I liked it, so I put the pencil down instead.
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More good advice, about drawing and writing. Know when to stop.
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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
I still draw, although 3D rendering has sort of taken over as my most frequently used tool.
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I've always been the sort of person that does things in spurts. Creative mood swings of a sort ... which means there are always a few million projects around the house (or the studio or the office) that just don't seem to get done.
Half finished quilts, a three story enclosed cat condo with only the first two stories complete, several partially written books, a short film for which I haven't been able to get the music rights, so I gave up on that ... it's the curse of the polymath with a short attention span.
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Another lost twin!
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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
So with guitar, I bought one and played about 6 hours a day, day after day, until I could play the few songs I set out to play. No lessons, no books, just me and a guitar and some basic instruction on how to form specific chords.
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See, Z-chan's advice works for learning to play the guitar, too.
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i find it quite interesting that you seem to be very comfortable with languages (english, french, programming) in their written forms, but less so verbally. i wonder whether it is linked to the parts of the brain used for visual comprehension rather than aural ; perhaps your neurons are more efficient there, or have more connections. however the guitar would seem to bely this, since learning guitar must be at least partially aural.
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But music isn't processed by the brain in the same way as aural language.
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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
When I need to know LEFT, I have to look for which hand has a particular scar. That's left.
Instructions that include LEFT-click or RIGHT-click require me to hold both hands over the mouse, find the scar, and that's the LEFT mouse button. I'm generally quite easily confused by such "frame of reference" situations.
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I have to look at my hands to know left from right, too, though I don't have a scar to help me. For some reason, I manage right-mouse-click and left-mouse-click, but I think it's because I use different fingers for them.
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
oh god. you have no idea the trivial distractions i've been able to involve myself in, to avoid doing something more important that i just didn't want to do.
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Like reading 25 pages of a Mobileread thread rather than debugging a CSS problem?
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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
I've got a TON of real live work on my desk that needs attention. So, right now .... I'm trying to figure out a way to correct errors in a Marvin the Robot model so that I can rig it properly for posing.
Now, no one has asked me to do this ... No one CARES if I do this. So, naturally, it takes priority over every other single thing in my life.
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I care! I'd like to have a posable Marvin!
Ok, gotta go to class now! Love you all, you wacky geniuses. See you later!