“This above all: to thine own self be true.” @eccentric-king - Tumblr Blog

istg people constantly joke about how brushes don't make you a better artist but i have this one brush that whenever i use it i'm suddenly able to paint and my art gets wayyyy more positive tags than usual. i feel like a hack. a fraud. all because of one brush. the moral of the story is to KEEP GAMBLING

cosmopoliturtle

Rathalos - King of the Sky

#art by op #monster hunter

beemovieerotica

I feel like I would have been diagnosed with OCD a lot earlier if the vast majority of screening questions (for mental illnesses in general) weren't based on the person's perception of their own behavior, in isolation. and what i mean by that is asking someone with OCD "do you wash your hands excessively?" is not a good question.

a person with OCD believes they are washing their hands the correct number of times. it's not excessive. we believe we're exhibiting best practices and helping to keep everything clean.

better questions might be, "does it seem like you wash your hands a lot more than your friends or family?" "do you get dry patches or cuts on your hands from washing your hands?" "do you find it deeply distressing, more so than how you've seen other people react, when you get something on your hands that you can't clean off right away?"

being asked "are you overly preoccupied with bugs, symmetry, and contamination?" also got "no" responses from me years ago in my life. what they didn't ask for, and didn't know, was what *exactly* I was doing in my day to day life that genuinely ate up my time and mental space to a concerning degree, but I *didn't know* that other people don't do this.

"do you spend a lot of time cleaning?" -> no, it's not a lot. it's a good amount. why?

"do you become frustrated because it seems like no one else meets your organizational and cleanliness standards - do you often 'take over' for other people because they can't do it right - do new friends seem surprised by how strict you can be about your living space?" -> oh. yeah. yeah I get it now.

#remember #its all about how you ask it #its like the are you okay? question #everyone will say no but if you ask are you overwhelmed? might get a more true answer #i know i still gotta work on the questions myself but it make a huge difference

Cannonball

Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy

#elden ring #art by op

monstermonger

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑛𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒 𝑠𝑘𝑦, 𝑛𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔.

#elden ring #art by op

monstermonger

Messmer the Impaler

#elden ring #art by op

monstermonger

Scripture of the Elden Beast

#elden ring #art by op

monstermonger

Dragonlord Placidusax I

#elden ring #art by op

ingridverse

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see

I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right?

But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize, snarkily say, “So, you’ve decided to join us”?

Or when someone does something they’ve had trouble doing, say, “Why can’t you do that all the time?” (Happened to me, too often.)

Or any sentence containing the word “finally”.

If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don’t complain about how it’s not enough. Don’t bring up previous stuff. Encourage it.

Because I swear to fucking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished.

redcurlzbychoice

Encouragement and acknowledgment are so much more effective than punishment.

ingridverse

carmen-berzattos

Do you write music with the view of being politically active and delivering a message or does it just happen and the rest follows?

micah-hacim

c4tbr4t

ALL THINGS ARE INTERCONNECTED SO DEEPLY SO AS TO BE IMPOSSIBLE TO DILENIATE IN ANY MEANINGFUL MEANNER. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INTERACT WITH THESE CONNECTIONS BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN THEY DO NOT EXIST

clarasunflowers

redscharlach

Okay, so it turns out I could watch tigers on ice for HOURS.

petermorwood

"Tigers On Ice" would be a great stage show.

#video #animals #i love these big goofy cats so much

kaijuno

ladymavet

Little kids are actually so tolerant and nice T_T

beesmygod

ed zitron, a tech beat reporter, wrote an article about a recent paper that came out from goldman-sachs calling AI, in nicer terms, a grift. it is a really interesting article; hearing criticism from people who are not ignorant of the tech and have no reason to mince words is refreshing. it also brings up points and asks the right questions:

if AI is going to be a trillion dollar investment, what trillion dollar problem is it solving?

what does it mean when people say that AI will "get better"? what does that look like and how would it even be achieved? the article makes a point to debunk talking points about how all tech is misunderstood at first by pointing out that the tech it gets compared to the most, the internet and smartphones, were both created over the course of decades with roadmaps and clear goals. AI does not have this.

the american power grid straight up cannot handle the load required to run AI because it has not been meaningfully developed in decades. how are they going to overcome this hurdle (they aren't)?

people who are losing their jobs to this tech aren't being "replaced". they're just getting a taste of how little their managers care about their craft and how little they think of their consumer base. ai is not capable of replacing humans and there's no indication they ever will because...

all of these models use the same training data so now they're all giving the same wrong answers in the same voice. without massive and i mean EXPONENTIALLY MASSIVE troves of data to work with, they are pretty much as a standstill for any innovation they're imagining in their heads