Geetnerd

You magnificent bastard… 🤘

A lot of it is bluffing, like in Poker.

If you get to that level, you know all the strategies and moves.

It’s all about tricking someone into making a mistake.

Chess requires dedication, conviction, and patience. Anyone with average intelligence can learn the game to the point of competence in 30 minutes.

It requires much more time to become an expert, or master.

And most people don’t have that much time to expend on it. That’s not something to be ashamed of.

The only US politician one I truly trust, and still the one of the 4 or 5 that l like slightly less, is Bernie Sanders.

OK, I guess that was a joke. A very abstract joke. But OK.

Yeah, but this is a person who doesn’t know, and wants someone to explain, and quantify it.

Even if they never truly understand, or truly feel it, it would be advantageous to intellectually have an idea of what it is, and to be able to mimic it to fit into common society, and not be ostracized.

I think I have this.

I feel everything in a social situation. To a painful, heighetend degree.

Empathy is imagining how you would feel in another person’s place, if they were insulted, or assaulted, or injured. Or even happy, or joyous.

Even if you don’t feel it, learn to fake it, and attempt to aid them. Maybe you’ll feel it, eventually.

It would be called “Hail!”

Not to be a smartass, but… YouTube?

I almost went to art school out of high school, and speaking from experience, practice… a lot. You’ll get better. There will be a moment when it starts to come out pretty much the way you wanted, and your confidence will soar, and you’ll want to draw/paint/sculpt more, and you’ll keep getting better and better.

But, find a good YouTube channel. Best of luck. Don’t quit.

I can see all of them up to 5, which looks blank to me.

No, that’s divine.

I know a woman like this. She just doesn’t have those pain receptors.

There’s a woman who can smell Parkinson’s Disease with almost 100% accuracy.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/23/820274501/her-incredible-sense-of-smell-is-helping-scientists-find-new-ways-to-diagnose-di

On the same tangent, there was a band called Flyleaf that had a minor hit in 2005 called “All Around Me.”

In the video, the bass player is hopping around like he’s high on crack the entire video. It’s extremely distracting. The director should have nailed his feet to the floor.

Emotion.

Music the the closest thing to real magic we have.

Edit: that said, some people have… weird facial tics when playing that are distracting, and sometimes disturbing. Two guys on YouTube who review gear, and stuff, who I won’t name, seem like really nice guys, guys you’d want to hang and play with. But, one chews his tongue the entire time, and the other stares stone faced like a robot into the camera the entire time. The latter has worked on that after people mentioned it, and is much better about it.

To be clear, I’m not mocking them. Like I said, they seem like really cool dudes. But that kind of thing can take all of your attention, instead of listening to the playing.