VicariousE 2017-04-19 18:52:12

Simple answer would be, yes. There are so many factors facing (and changing) a person as they go through their mortal existence. I'd guess 90% or more of a personality is locked in by the 'age of reason' (age 4-5 or so) is past. After that, many many years can go by before all the nuances finally rise to the surface.

Having worked with musicians and actors in the past, I know not everyone's gonna have a good day, every day. There's always an itch that drives one to become a performer, but sometimes: the itch goes away, becomes bearable/ubiquitous, gets worse, changes position. Bad enough music can be such a subjective art, both in its composition/performance/post-production and how it's received.

(Very generally speaking, I sure wish most people would record and master vocals independently of the instrumental track, sometimes it sounds (or tastes) like a perfect meal thrown into a blender... still tastes ok, but there's no contrast between the side dishes and the main course. In a perfect world, I'd love a mic and track on each drum, 2-3 per vocal, wow, maybe even 6 tracks for each guitar, straight from the pickups!)

But if you're referring to the person, not the music, well, that's just as subjective. There are a lot of actors (writers, musicians, politicians even) I like on stage, but don't like in real life. I didn't care for Madonna's music from the get-go, liked her personally even less, especially after her on-tour documentary went out on VHS. I never had the sense she valued her work, over and above what it could earn her. Some of the articles I've read (this century) quoting her former employees do show she's loyal to her inner circle, to a point... if she felt slighted in any way, the consequences were kinda extreme, and mostly unwarranted. Hard enough to manage an entertainment business with so many close relationships, I guess.

(At the risk of writing off-topic even further) Sometime in my late 30's I was made aware, that some women write a sort of 'moral checklist' - all or most of the boxes must be ticked, if there's any chance of a LTR leading to marriage... everything else is just causal playtime. I guess the question is, where the moral threshold lies, and how open you are... and in between is your tolerance level, which affects your emotions.

I hope this poor sinner's response to your question helps some. For stopping by, I'd offer you a doughnut and some tea/coffee, but maybe these wiki links will suffice. And remember, all art is derivative ( of something that's been done already ;) eg: Simpsons, majority of modern Hollywood flicks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93observer_asymmetry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle

VicariousE 2017-04-20 06:22:03

My brother spent 2 weeks there on a business trip, and as nice as it sounded on the surface... well, at least there's a variety of places on Earth. If I'm really serious about getting better ($?), gotta look closer to home first, Canada maybe, I know one two folks that might put me up for a little while.

I think it (Singapore) was one of the places where they pay elected officials a very generous salary... but also intimately keep tabs on them as well, and issue quite severe punishments if caught in official hanky-panky. Can only wonder if something like that could work in the West... likely too late for that

VicariousE 2017-04-20 15:23:31

Oh shit, you heard that? Something nasty sounding woke me up this morning, and I hoarsely screamed at the world from my back porch... in an Eastern direction. Don't give a fuck if I disturbed Wegra, his neighbors look like the sort who scream anyway

Was having a decent dream too, just had a perfect haircut (wish my hair was that thick again), and one of the female barbers was juuuust beginning to give me a nice neck massage before I went about my apparently important, but happy day

VicariousE 2017-04-21 15:47:23

Oh shit that was you guise?? The old crackpots thought hackers or the CIA popped those transformers, but I guess most of it was another sun fart http://www.suspicious0bservers.org/

Getting better I guess, almost left a message for you on discord, but I'm still figuring out the butter-faec, autistic-fantastic interface. Still kinda on the fence about, well, really ANY site that you can use for free, Cloudflare included. This one guy's convinced it's run by the Pizzagate facilitators http://discordenablespedophiles.online/ Guess the once politically connected Backpage was an easier and older target... guess the interwebs war continues and spreads as the years turn into decades.

VicariousE 2017-04-22 05:08:38

IDK man, my peripheral vision is way better than most people's, another sign of borderline autism. First time an optometrist put me in the machine to test for visual dead-spots, he somehow thought I was cheating (can't beat the laser).

It's not so much about seeing the tree(s) as in accepting them. Even a single middling tree can cool and respirate, and be enough to inspire the brain to add a few more... guess it depends on how far you wanna travel in said forest.

Personally, anything growing out of the Earth can be either considered a weed (some pretty big ones out there) or a worthy plant. Thanks to foreign trade/bird seed, my former farm's now plagued by a creeping sappy vine, covered in little stickerballs. In the early 1980's it was somekinda Japanese briar that quickly forced out the kinder cat briar.... fucking stupid government. You think they would've learned from history (Australia, Florida, Hawaii, etc.) but nooooo, gotta catch 'em all ($$, not invasive pocket monsters)

(meh, thx)

VicariousE 2017-04-22 23:38:06

Barely. The conflict of interest I have with this place is, how far outside of real life it's become. Hope I can find a nice birthday card for the maniac in charge, maybe a half eaten cat clinging to a swampy branch, "Hang in there!!1"

VicariousE 2017-05-14 05:02:03

Guess we all need to wake up from something, or at least acknowledge there's gonna be 3 sides to many things: your side, their side and the actual unfathomable truth.
Nah mon, we straight, besides how can you be in debt to a friend? Shit, I haven't even seen some of your stuff, since you produced the 20th collab, like the white rabbit, "I'm late im late im late!!11"

VicariousE 2017-05-15 05:57:43

The trendy (mainstream homages) here never really applied to me, only played one Sonic game, a handful of anime movies, never owned a Mario game... but it's the individual's take on these concepts that I've found interesting. Both dark and light inspired artwork fascinate me, again, going back to the artist's motivations, and how they visualize and produce it.

Shit, think you're likely right about mortality spoiling the fun pf playing around in this ball-pit of primary colors, and dubious debris at the bottom. But there are plenty of older hangers-on here; the appreciation of viewing and producing doesn't change.

So you're running gluten-free? I'm sure there's a bacteria strain that can cure or mitigate it, but they're trying to cure other diseases generated by our chemical soaked civilization. If I get get treated, I'm wondering if I should refrigerate my poop or get a fresh bacteria transplant (brown milkshake :p) from someone healthier. When the practice was first mentioned last century, my folks and I thought, "gross, but OMG, doesn't that make all the sense in the world". Fecal therapy without the politics... what a world, what a world (melts into Oz).

As an old male fart, I've consciously cut down on grains and such, except for pizza (they make gluten free crust around here, but I can't get that fussy); between the parasites and my back injury (surgeon said there would be a 70% chance I'd get obese, just from getting my discs trimmed), it's a battle of the bulge of sorts.

VicariousE 2017-05-15 20:14:56

"Who's the best pilot you ever saw?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/world/europe/king-willem-alexander-pilot.html?_r=0

The same could be said (about legal lines of governance) if you look far back in US history, back when 'the tyranny of the mob' forced Americans into a republic, after the end of the war for independence. Some say we've never been completely free from her/his majesty's government, and that we're all tenants of USA Inc, or American States, holdings or something. Anyway, it's still on the books lol, can't find the bookmark, but it's quite ludicrous, no follow up statutes or laws on how that's supposed to be carried out.

The Bilderberg meetings are a worry, no doubt about that, and all elected US officials attending, are in breach of law, by attending a meeting with no public transcript/minutes, yet that law's been broken often.

Western governments only govern on paper, merely for our show, it's the elite who pull the strings. Not even the CIA can mediate anymore, which was their real job after WWII. Huge war is over, and all the money is in the hands of the companies who won it; when you've got money, you don't have to worry about jaywalking or influence peddling.

After that, free trade (laughingly) was supposed to 'level the playing field' by allowing cheap imports and cheap immigrant labor into countries that still had money in the hands of its citizenry, but only through the elites floodgates, and under certain conditions, so as not to spread the profits out to silent majorities. That money is now almost gone, consolidated in the hands of the old and new elite... all without a war.

There are so many examples of this usury out there :p Let's take non-Dutch chocolate.....
http://www.progressive-charlestown.com/2012/02/things-you-probably-dont-want-to-know.html
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-15/how-government-meddles-your-easter-chocolate

Even in an aircraft, your King is still in a gilded cage, likely over the remorse of humanity's gangster governance.

VicariousE 2017-05-21 15:36:43

Yeah that's one theory I had read about, though anytime you want the real truth of any matter, follow the money, to see what's what. Biggest problem is, the richest people on Earth can hide almost anything, especially their families, de-concentrating the wealth and the finger pointing. Foundations are a way for very rich individuals to hide wealth as well, look at the Clintons, prime example of influence peddling and graft.

It's a planetary mafia meeting, the turnout will likely be 100% for attendees, for fear of being suspect or non-complicit. Interesting location this year, very near https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_City,_Arlington,_Virginia where our military-industrial complex is administered, creepy. Yea, I remember that kid in the video, glad he's still fighting. Just sucks we can't enforce our own laws regarding attending secret meetings (or at least banning those who attend from being elected, or hold government contracts)

Ronald Bernard... figures his biggest advice was to follow the money. Haven't watched the whole video yet, but I'd say thanks for the red pill in advance

VicariousE 2017-05-23 20:50:14

Yeah there's some diamonds. The problem is, I can't seem to run a lot of them! So far the new Construct 3 games seem to be OK, but Unity and some of the other ones just won't run on Firefox... bad enough they dropped Flash support for the 32 bit version of FF.
I guess it's the internet in general that's pissing me off - Google is an immoral monopoly that should've been broken up a long time ago, but without them, the internet as it is won't work. Now there's only 5 big tech companies running the show, and they all should suck an EMP, let some of the little guys like Tom have some legit competition...

Some sites like Facebook won't even let you look at user pages unless you have an account, which is crap considering public services are relying on them to relay (sometimes) crucial info.

Plainly, it's all gone wrong and the black hat guys are going to be even that much worse when it comes to disrupting the internet as we know it... and why shouldn't they, considering the evil marriage between big businesses and shadow governments. Good thing I've got enough unread books to last what's left of my limited life

VicariousE 2017-06-07 03:03:04

Mama earth does not have a bank account, that's why lol. Ironic that the B&B Circus is no more, yet the phase 'a sucker born every minute' and 'this way to the egress, 1$' lives on to this day.

I'm all for lowering particulates, gases and other iffy stuff like the next treehugger, but that carbon buying scheme, like banking, has ppl waiting for their cut, no matter what.

VicariousE 2017-06-08 09:05:36

Late 1999, early 2000 I've been coming here, but I don't draw, produce music, animations or video games. All I can do is blow digital hot air, that's about it.

The Construct 3 Jam we had was sure something though, was shocked almost all of those games worked! I wouldn't mind doing a text based game with some royalty free pictures and medals (have to have medals, or else a good 20-40% of the gamers here won't even bother).

VicariousE 2017-06-09 06:23:24

That's something the content providers need to work on, if they wanna succeed. Not just in garnering attention, but in making pitches, dealing with criticism, offering advice to others. Making a living seems to be a bigger deal, than talking shit and uploading stuff they did in between jobs to amuse themselves.

BTW, have you ever seen "Hamilton"? Ugh, just dropped one buying 2 plain and one bacon and chicken slices o pie, 2$ change, and 1$ tip in the plastic mayo bucket leaves me with one to wipe my puckering asshole with

VicariousE 2017-06-13 22:47:03

Not sure I knew that back when the site was in operation, which is good, no need to keep dropping daddy's name. Sure didn't know he bagged a glorified seamstress. 10 years previous to that, I wrote a 1 act play for my HS drama class called 'A Michael Eisner Christmas' which was never meant to be produced. Kinda figured the (new) CEO ran things by the seat of his objectifying pants....

Guess I was always a sarcastic and nihilistic sour puss

VicariousE 2017-06-14 22:05:44

I caught some of what you said to Troisnyx while I was catching up with some her posts (since I've been doing what you've been doing w/ NG lately). I appreciate the rational candor you showed her... but haha! to be young and hungry, so eager to be famous, for simply doing what you like the best. And like the man said in one of the later Shaft movies, 'money always matters'.

Over 20 years of commercial money into the online world, and the cruel pyramid is up and funneling even more money away from the public. OK so the base has shifted, and the most viral get rewarded, a phoenix fire set to the old print and broadcast agencies... but the monopolies, the lack of consumer and constitutional rights, really suck. And the news can only satisfy the stockholders by creating more foment, and not pressing the actual actionable matters. Like, grr, you know?

VicariousE 2017-07-11 21:10:39

Arugula, iceburg lettuce, swamp cabbage, maybe there's a thread there lol

VicariousE 2017-07-13 00:13:30

Unless the big cube upends itself near a shoreline, likely the bigger prob might be the salt content of surrounding waters, might produce more clouds/water vapor than usual?

VicariousE 2017-07-21 20:19:42

I'll get a pic for ye, bad tick season but I gotta go next door anyway, where the back of the backyard is quite damp, needs to have the ditch cleared, but the roots... bring on the zika pandemic lol. Have to boil it for at least 8 hours to get the funky odor out of it, it's common up here, but hell to try n eat.

Yea ya, but I grew up on lil head lettuce, not the monsters their making now, but ones which had a shit ton more green in the center and a better vibrant taste (less water, filler)