So when do you think you'll be unsubbed this time Satan?

You know you will.

I think it's on account of you're being kind of nuts, in a similar fashion as Sham, Inc. and a Masochistic Sub

and a Texas Lawyer of course.

Did you know that Texas Lawyer is about the equivalent to ditch digger in the rest of the world?

No offfense to ditch diggers of course as they are of better character and harder working than yourself.

So,

By the looks of it, that little crazy gene is ramping up in your head again.

You think maybe about a week?

Will you immediately run to the same tribes again, seeking attention like you always do?

Will you create a thread named Refunds #37.

?

~V~

oh no...


GODWINS LAW



--S

>> "a casual loop of systematic thinking at best. " <<

I'm trying to parse what this could possibly mean...

I think rather than "casual", Mike meant "causal". A "causal loop" is described here:

"predestination paradox, also called either a *causal loop*, or a causality loop and (less frequently) either a closed loop or closed time loop, is a paradox of time travel that is often used as a convention in science fiction. It exists when a time traveller is caught in a loop of events that "predestines" him or her to travel back in time. " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pred...on_paradox

But I don't think that's what Mike meant. The only "causal loop" associated even marginally with "systematic thinking" is the Causal Loop Diagram:

"Causal loop diagrams (CLDs) are a kind of *systems thinking* tool." www.pegasuscom.com/cld.html

So, I have a feeling that "casual loop of systematic thinking" was a muddled version of "causal loop diagrams are a kind of systems thinking tool."

>> and you responded that he just must not be seeing them right <<

LOL! That was it, in effect. First it was "you should present your own art before you criticize!" then it was "you don't know how to critique!"

In undergrad art school, we stopped couching negative critique within positive terms sometime during our freshman year. We just didn't have the energy to always be saying bullshit like "I really like your creative initiative and the colors. And you always have such energy! This drawing is not as good as your first one, but I totally totally love it!"

By sophomore year we would straight-up say "Wow. That piece is really disappointing." if indeed we felt that it was. At the same time, if you got praise, you knew it wasn't bullshit.

So, when Mike presented his cartoons for evaluation, all the non-artists were all "Wow, so amazing, that's awesome, blah blah" but I assumed that Mike, being a professional artist, wasn't looking for that. so I said "Mike, they look like bad political cartoons" which they do. Which made him mad.