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“For example, if you’re trying to convince people to boycott a segregated store, your object is to convince them that boycotting the store will have a strategic effect, not that desegregation is morally important. For whatever reason, on a cognitive level human beings have a really hard time with this. Smucker cites an example of a Lefty roleplaying session where people were tasked with selling an action to people who agreed with them on principle but didn’t see the strategic merit of the action. Surprisingly, the sellers couldn’t make the conceptual switch to sell strategic merit: instead, they doubled down on THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT — even though it had been stressed to them that the people they were selling to bought into the importance of the issue. People react poorly to “this is important, so do WHATEVER I SAY”; they want to be convinced that what you’re proposing will work.”
Source.
Also from above:
“Bob Wing, a grassroots organizer, explains this nicely: “If winning feels impossible, then righteousness can seem like the next best thing.” But righteousness is not conducive to getting normies to join your team if your team cannot demonstrate ability to, at least sometimes, win. Nor does righteousness help you make real inroads with regular people.”
these are good quotes but this ones a banger for different reasons
i have got to get my father to sit down and focus and actually watch some portion of HLVRAI before he dies. im constantly haunted by the knowledge that all this incredibly innovative, completely grassroots improvisational theater--which is frankly some of the most cutting edge "new media" that currently exists and gets zero credit from academia or the larger art world for it because you have to be an exact 50/50 hybrid of annoying shakespeare college guy and annoying extremely online guy to understand what's even going on--is happening ON TWITCH for an audience of people who, while appreciative, are only experiencing it in the context of it being a "[a joke about a] video game stream". there should be regular columns in the New Yorker about stuff like Jerma's Dollhouse stream, one of the most well-known pieces of performance art in the classical sense that currently exists. it just bugs me. i dont know what to do about it. i used to be able to get paid to write really long articles about stuff like this in Kotaku and Wired etc but there's no readership for that either, and there wasn't then. no matter who im trying to explain how groundbreaking this stuff is to, they will need like a 30 minute preamble about either the world history of live theater traditions, or why the joke a gnome just said originated on the Something Awful forums in 2004 and why it matters.
of the two types of annoying guy you have to be to get this particular angle on this medium, the theater people are the ones who are going to get more out of it with much less explanation, but when you spec out of academia you lose touch with that peer group except for the other dilettantes, who are extremely few and far between. there's nothing anyone can do about this except vaguely plan on writing a book someday
for the first time ever in human history we are experiencing as an audience an improvised, live, ensemble theater production from the first person perspective of one of the actors. there should be a new paper about this on Academia.edu every week!!! its a big deal!!
me trying to explain to a theater person why someone is trying to distract Gordon and keep his field of view pointed a certain way while they delete the Lanky Kong prop they just spawned behind him by accident: its like that scene in A Night At The Opera where Harpo climbs the matte paintings during Il trovatore and drops the Potemkin(?) backdrop behind the Anvil Chorus
them: ohhh i get it. lmao
me trying to explain to the average twitch viewer why they keep calling the Vortigaunts "Vonneguts": so first up have you ever read "a book"?
them: no
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i know we’re deep into january now but i hope this year everyone realizes the way ads have started to adjust their tactics. every time i see a post with an ad that looks like it has some kind of unintentional innuendo it makes me groan. “didn’t they know what this looked like before they put out the ad??” yes motherfucker a conference room full of suits pretending to be people all gathered together and said “if we make it look like this guy is blowing someone in our advertisement someone will snap a pic and post it on social media giving us a 1.4% revenue turnaround on our ad campaign investment” they aren’t trying to sell to you anymore they’re just trying to get you to do the work for them and the worst part is it’s been fucking workinggg
Ever since I took a class on material culture and the significance of things and objects in our lives, I’ve started taking note of relevant readings I come across. For those interested, below is a partial list:
Objects of Despair: Inspired by Roland Barthes, Meghan O’Gieblyn’s monthly column examines contemporary artifacts and the mythologies we have built around them.
Fake Meat | Mirrors | Mars | Drones | The 10,000-Year Clock
Concrete: The Most Destructive Material on Earth (more on The Guardian’s “Concrete Week”)
The Unfortunate Fate of Childhood Dolls by Rainer Maria Rilke
AirPods Are a Tragedy
Thinging the Real: On Bill Brown’s “Other Things”
Sum Effects: “Personal or real, tangible or intangible, durable, hard, soft, consumable, or perishable: my grandmother owned none of it. Goldyne Alter died with no possessions.”
A janitor rescued migrants’ possessions from a border facility’s trash. Now they’re art.
Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, ed. by Sherry Turkle
Friendly Floatees
Great Pacific garbage patch
Plastic: an autobiography by Allison Cobb
Curating the Anthropocene: “Imagine a future archeologist on a dig in what was once downtown Los Angeles, excavating, exposing layers of history, like the paleontologists at the La Brea Tar Pits are doing today, finding bones of saber-toothed cats, mammoth, and dire wolves. What does the archeologist of the future find?”
The System of Objects by Jean Baudrillard
My master thesis on The Bed
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some advice for digital artists!
adjust your pressure curve to a level where you are not pressing against your tablet to achieve your most reasonably-often-used "medium-heavy" line
it's worth remembering that dagoth ur is not a reliable witness for the events of his own death, because while he speaks to what was emotionally true to voryn dagoth, as voryn would have recounted it to someone he trusted completely, he is no longer the person who remembers the events.
if you have to consistently press a smooth object against a slick surface to achieve your second most common lineweight, then you're causing unnecessary stress to both your tablet and your tendons
the most explicit statements which point towards nerevar being dagoth's killer rely on a mix of testimony that is complicated by outside interests or is otherwise degraded by unreliable format. morrowind was a politically volatile battleground at the time, and as time marches on, interests become only more entrenched. even vivec's own most sincere confessions must be viewed through the lens of someone who is subject to the retributions of AlmSi.
in a similar vein, if you find yourself struggling to maintain a consistent pen pressure, create a plateau of sensitivity around the area you're struggling with
the hurdle of probability to cross in believing that nerevar killed dagoth is that vivec can't quite bring himself to say it in his most direct confessional, while alandro, who would absolutely have attested to nerevar slaying dagoth for his heretical madness if it happened, places it after foul murder. perhaps the most believable course of events is the one indicated by vivec's omission of dagoth's death, and alandro's non-mention of a zeal killing in azura's name.
if you find yourself failing to achieve the line confidence you want even with stroke correction, then it may be time to zoom out on the canvas, as it's much harder to draw a straight (or even confidently curved) line across a great deal of space than a small span of it
voryn dagoth believes nerevar to be a traitor because he feels he never betrayed nerevar. it's as simple of a matter as that. if he was loyal until his last breath, then the one who left him to die must be the one who killed him. with that in mind, it makes a lot of sense that dagoth ur would fully believe nerevar to be a traitor who murdered him. left skittish and delirious as nerevar told him to stay behind, departed the mountain, and "sent back" only a murderous tribunal to do away with him.
this is a bit deceptive if you're used to drawing traditionally, as your view of the page doesn't affect "size" of it in relation to your drawing surface
dagoth ur beholds a secondhand retelling of his own life, reborn in his own body and given to the conclusions of his memory, but he cannot change his mind, and he cannot view the events of his own life as they occurred.
and of course, don't forget that having your correction set too high can lead to you fighting against it. you ideally want to set it somewhere comfortable for you, which facilitates the pen movements you want to achieve but are not able to
he has only his own word to go off of.
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