My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Page 337

On December 06 2011 02:20 diverzee wrote:
Uh, this is a mess, I never learned how to quote stuff. This reply is to GMarshal and Agonyx90 (hehe sorry for writing it like this. My computer skills are sad.)


I think the approach you two have to learning skills you want to be good at is a good one. Not having genious level innate talent shouldn't keep people from doing things they love. But some people, including me, get a little frustrated with things not coming to them as easily as for naturals (for me it was a reason I stopped playing SC2 - it was either Korea, or no playing ^^). Yes, it is pretty childish. Still, I do believe talent limits us a lot. Anyway your reasoning gives me motivation (as do ponies), so when I have time I'll try to learn more. Also, it's ridiculously fun whenever someone likes something you did.

Pony!
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On December 06 2011 04:43 [Agony]x90 wrote:


Theres a button that says quote on the top right of a post. It'll prompt a new reply automatically.

Also, Saurabhinator was right when he said this, drawing is super freaking frustrating. I spend half my time internally yelling at myself. It was no different when I was learning an instrument, learning SC:BW, learning SC2, etc etc. Of course I am super impatient and always super critical of my own stuff. I've quit my CSL's teams twice, quit out on my LoL team, gave up on playing trumpet a hundred times, nearly gotten ulcers and lost countless nights of sleep because of these things. Honestly though, this behavior is the worst for developing a skill. Why? because everyone gets frustrated when doing these things. It's a question of who can cope and push on.

But if you don't want to deal with the frustration, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're "childish", "incapable", an "idiot" or anything like that, it simply means that the payout of personal enjoyment is not worth your personal willingness to put in work. This is perfectly fine, since they say the true meaning of happiness is actually "content and adjustment in what you are doing in life" rather than "doing what you think you enjoy in life".

Just try to keep these things in mind whenever you want to restrict yourself by saying "I can't do it".

On December 05 2011 20:54 diverzee wrote:


Well, talent and its impact is widely discussed without there being any consensus about it. New studies on the subject are published every year but the results have too little significance. Personally I believe talent plays a much larger role than people think, even though I wish we lived in a world where everyone could be anything. I think lack of talent keeps hundreds of TL members only wishing they could compete in Korea, or someone as tone deaf as I from playing guitar despite trying as a kid.

Anyway, whatever its significance you're right in that everyone can improve. One pony who does not need to improve however is Celestia, because she awesome with Twi:

On December 06 2011 05:31 Chaman Jyash wrote:


Are you familiar with Athene? He's that really funny german internet guy who plays this super douchey troll character who thinks he's better than everybody. I know he does a bit of WoW stuff and always gets to get to max level first, I also saw a lot of SC2 stuff last time I checked out his youtube channel. Anyways his real project that he's been working on has been titled god is in the neurons, and it's about the scientific research him and a few others have been doing on the brain. There is a full documentary on it so don't take anything I say here briefly for too much but the studies show that anybody can learn anything through constant practice practice practice. Your neurons are always building, connecting and growing whenever you do something so it is possible for humans to become super ultra mega awesome at whatever they should choose or be compelled to do.

In anthropological terms this makes much sense as there is no basis for "intelligence". Humans are put in any situation and learn to adapt and live and become stellar at whatever that may be. For instance if you were to put a Mbuti pygmy in new york he would have no chance just as you would have no chance catching the elephant in the congo region. Indeed we have pre-existing pathways that will allow us to do much more than we are aware of.

If you're talking about starcraft and becoming the best at that by practice practice practice, well that's probably not going to happen given the volatile state it's in, but more so the fact that there are many other people who do the same. The korean practice times in their houses are crazy, and it's still not as difficult as it was in BW. I don't think that anybody can possibly be the best at anything though, others will always rival, times change, people die, or more people can collaboratively work together and oust you.

On December 06 2011 05:39 Lowell wrote:


Athene is not German. I think he's french, but not really sure.

On December 06 2011 07:24 Zephirdd wrote:


OH GOD I WANT A BANELING

ehm, I mean, no problem at all man!

On December 06 2011 07:49 Artanis[Xp] wrote:
I, totally unexpectedly, got a Rainbow Dash toy from my sister for Sinterklaas. Didn't exactly have it on my wishlist so I was pleasantly surprised as I haven't been shouting it off the ceilings or anything. Pics below.
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On December 06 2011 10:32 GMarshal wrote:
LemanRuss Applejack from today drawfriend for Agony

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Been seeing a lot of applejack in 40k lately, not that I mind, its just interesting.