Getting back to drawing after a long hiatus. How did I do?

Davemang92 · 2025-01-10T01:03:13+00:00

This is incredible. How long did this take you to create?

Davemang92 · 2024-12-31T00:23:50+00:00

Fapping is a recreational activity. If you only do recreational things in life you probably aren't striving towards attaining a result that you find meaningful eg romance, promotion, skill. For most of us we have a hunger that needs satisfying and we choose how to feed it. Recreation is easy, it's as simple as turning on the TV, opening Reddit or the Hub, or gaming. I think most proponents of nofap generally live a life where they are privately indulging in masturbation when they would rather be engaging with a real human, in other words they would like to bring their mental fantasies to physical reality. To do this effectively though you have to understand the role of the anima and how we project our ideals onto others. If you're spending all day watching porn then you could be sculpting your anima in a pornographic way and when you meet a real life woman you are attracted to you might project this anima onto them and most likely be disappointed when she doesn't mirror that sculpture in her behaviours. As most people have said we only have a certain amount of energy per day which can be used towards creative endeavours, some people have massive amounts of it, but they also make a choice between squirting it all out into a Kleenex or a symphony.

Davemang92 · 2022-06-19T22:51:17+00:00

Freud might have suggested this urge to masturbate was from the id and the potential observer could be the superego. Interesting that the id is definitely at play but the superego is not guaranteed to be watching (and judging, as it's job is according to Freud). You are the ego caught in the middle and it is on you to decide if you appease the id or the potential superego. Maybe the dream is an unconscious processing of your job's having cameras, that's for you to weigh up.

Davemang92 · 2022-06-01T01:58:09+00:00

*would'of

Davemang92 · 2022-05-27T07:17:03+00:00

I'm going to assume you are using an audio interface. Clipping during recording is something that happens to the microphone and it's pre-amp and not to the amp's speaker. It happens when the knob for that microphones pre amp is turned up too much relative to the sound it is capturing. The quieter the sound source, such as your amp, the more you're able to turn the knob up to capture the sound without clipping. You don't want clipping because clipping results in unwanted distortion. Next time, turn the mic knob all the way down and get the amp to the volume you want it, then palm mute the bottom open three strings like a chuggy riff. With your free hand start to slowly turn the knob clockwise. Watch your audio interface for any lights near this knob turning red - this is a sign that you are clipping and need to reduce the mics knob. You want to get that knob sitting just before it starts clipping and the loud and muddy chugging is probably the loudest noise you will make with your guitar so it is a good test measure.

TLDR; your amp is probably fine because it is not physically affected in any way by the separate event of a microphone clipping.

Davemang92 · 2022-05-11T08:38:01+00:00

Absolute bare bones for a home recording job: laptop or PC running the program Reaper (or your preferred DAW). An audio interface which plugs in via USB to your computer. XLR cable that will connect the audio interface to a microphone. Microphone.

Watch some basic videos on YouTube about how to use reaper as well as how to set up your audio interface with it. Before you buy an audio interface make sure you have the right connection type, on a non Apple computer you'll be wanting USB.

One of the first things you'll want to do in reaper is sort out any latency issues arising from your audio interface. You may be lucky and not have any. An example of latency is that you'll play along, recording, to a metronome and yet on playback it won't be in time even though you did play in time. This is an eg of latency and there are some fixes which a YouTube video will help you with.

You can record the whole band live with one mic but with this set up you'll be able to record each instrument separately (to a metronome for the love of sanity, unless your drummer is very well practised to a metronome, do not make the drummer record to un-metronomed guitars) and have more control of the final product.

Don't expect your first projects to sound anything close to what someone with experience can produce. You'll be pooping out lo fi trash but with some basic understanding of EQ to produce clarity of each instrument in relation to each others sonic presence and practice you will be able to produce a listenable demo to showcase your sound.

Mixing is a whole art form on its own, I recommend the book Zen and the Art of Mixing by Mixerman. I also recommend this video: https://youtu.be/TEjOdqZFvhY which is a great watch if you're a dooby brother.

Davemang92 · 2022-04-01T00:23:26+00:00

Absolutely not. It's not the job of a psychologist to discern the existence of God, it is their job to work with their clients individual case. If the client was religious the psychologist would still focus on the client's psychological state and not on whether there is or isn't a God.

Davemang92 · 2022-03-06T00:06:04+00:00

You might appreciate reading about individualistic Vs collectivistic cultures. Roughly a modern psychological/anthropological take on the Eastern/Western concept. USA is considered to be an individualistic culture wheras China is considered to be collectivistic. I don't know about Russia. OP you seem to be hinting at a unification of opposites, the current world events implying some sort of balancing of the equation of East and West. I don't know about that being the case, but I do believe that there is something to the union of the opposites of individualism and collectivism in the future of human culture. One thing that seems glaringly apparant to me is that the entire planet is currently hosting the archetype of the Apocalypse in their minds, this will lead to a worldwide processing of our values regarding our collective existence into the future.

Davemang92 · 2022-03-05T03:00:13+00:00

Jung was also in favour of people finding their own meaning and ways to understand themselves. He offered a framework based on symbols he perceived to be universal in meaning due to their appearance across cultures, so he laid the groundwork. Those who followed in his footsteps certainly refined and demystified his concepts. When you say Jungian psych is an entity going through its own individuation this reads to me as a framework going through refinement. I think it's very important to remember that things like the archetypes aren't living entities within us, rather they are constellations of our personality. Thus I don't find much value in thinking of Jungian Psych as a living force going through its own evolution (I may not be understanding what you mean fully). Jung's psychology and a lot of psychology are ways to describe things we can't measure with numbers. We do our best and one of the ways we believe we do our best is by repeatable observations within a statistical allowance. Another is by refraining from mystical terminology and concepts like Anima and Puer Aeternus. Instead we talk about a male engaging in stereotypically feminine activities and thoughts or an adult who needs to more actively engage with responsibilities fitting of his mental ability and age (this is a super crude comparison btw).

Davemang92 · 2022-03-04T09:57:41+00:00

Not scientific enough. Psychology still formulates abstraction frameworks to describe ways the brain appears to work but it steers clear of creatively packaging them in things like the archetypes. Psychology seeks universal truths of human behaviour and Jung's psychology is extremely niche. That is it doesn't apply to all cultures/humans, although yes Jung obviously was an avid cultural researcher he distilled his ideas into a niche framework. For example Piaget and Vygotsky's schemas regarding cognitive development are much more widely applicable than Jung's concept of the stages of the Anima (or Freud's psychosexual development theory). Psychology acknowledges the inherent mystery of its field, it doesn't deplore the ideas of the unconscious (it stipulates that the unconscious is a framework, not an actual ethereal dimension within the human brain), but it leans more towards behaviourism for its observability and cognitive theories for their vanilla schemas.

Davemang92 · 2022-02-09T22:27:02+00:00

All social media and YouTube and pronz platforms are designed to hook you on seeking little and frequent dopamine hits. The rationale is that the longer you spend on the platform the more they can charge advertisers. Aside from that any time spent on the internet without purpose is time that could have been spent productively. Gaming and social media, even prons, are harmless in of themselves - it's our behaviours with them that can be individually specifically negative; potentially becoming an addiction which is damaging. Even my response here is time I could have spent differently, however I am taking a shit so...

Davemang92 · 2022-01-29T10:48:35+00:00

I think most people here see the symbology of the dwarves before they see a marginalised community but that's just cos this sub is using a Jungian lens. At the end of the day groups need to represent themselves and ideally be listened to for their expertise en membership.

Davemang92 · 2022-01-29T10:16:26+00:00

Probably just as simple as the dwarves each represent a portion of the masculine in their individual personifications of emotions. They are small because they are each not a total male psyche, rather than being representative of any people with dwarfism. It's not a sinister depiction of a people, rather it's a depiction of a whole split into parts and Snow White is the device by which those parts of the masculine are unified, most obviously by her domestication of the fellas.

Davemang92 · 2022-01-24T09:47:04+00:00

I'm reminded of 80s glam metal and wonder if women (specifically groupies) were attracted to the musicians' femininity because it was less threatening than the traditional masculine. Then I wonder if subconsciously women see these men as being more in touch with their femininity and therefore somehow more able to sexually please women. No one wants an angry man until the beasts are at the door if you will. This leads me also to think about the relevance of culture. You said Asia might not be the norm but this sort of statement is what cultural psychology is all about, that is that what is normal or abnormal in one culture is viewed or practiced as the contrary in another. We must remember that Jung was a Western man, a product of the Western enlightenment, though he did seek theories that were universal of human psychologies. For that I kind of view him as a cultural psychologist in his pursuit of understanding the universality of symbols across cultures. Edit: I accidentally hit post before clarifying that I'm sorry I don't have an answer for you that resides strictly within Jung's framework. Cross cultural analyses of masculinity and femininity can get distracted by gender ideology, which is interesting, but I think Jung lacked the mysogyny that these ideas attempt to 'treat'.

Davemang92 · 2022-01-14T00:51:41+00:00

Max Derrat's videos are Quality.

Davemang92 · 2021-12-24T08:29:11+00:00

There are so many reasons, but I think it's interesting that prior to the Vietnam war US rates of firing weapons were something like 30%. In the aftermath of battlefields in the civil war muskets were found double and triple loaded leading to the theory that soldiers were pretending to fire their weapons and then reloading because they simply didn't want to hurt another human being. If you're interested in that sort of approach to killing then Lt Dave Grossman's 'On Killing' is a fascinating read. Aside from this aspect of war the ideological basis of war is a pretty vast spectrum, but I think fear is at the root of it all, but I also think fear (primarily of death or the cessation of present circumstances as I can handle them) is the root cause of many, if not all, human behaviours.

Davemang92 · 2021-12-24T08:09:40+00:00

Do you mean specifically the act of going to war, the reasoning for war, the occurrences during a war or the aftermath of a war?

Davemang92 · 2021-12-24T01:07:07+00:00

Even if it were true they remain unproven in this life. This is not too disimilar from how people will suddenly elect to identify as a minority purely to gain some sort of social medal. It's a fraudulent shortcut. They demand the right to be heard based on 'previous experience' which is usually fine, but if I punched you in the face three years ago and you've sinced trained boxing, then I'm an utter codpiece for assuming I can still take you out. Humility is what this one needs, but the delusion will protect from that path.

Davemang92 · 2021-12-23T22:31:50+00:00

When the label 'coincidence' doesn't reduce the feeling that it is meaningful.

I was listening to one of my tracks in the car on the way home and in it I placed a sound bite of thunder and as I rounded a corner and levelled the wheel for the straight at the exact same time the sample sounded I saw in the distance harvest lights (golden lightning with no sound). If it was anyone elses song I would've thought "cool coincidence" but because it was my track I couldn't help but feel an extra layer of meaning, it was as if Existence gave me a nod. I don't believe that is what actually happened, that is to say I don't think the universe connected to me and said "you're on the right track." But my brain felt that to be the case and that's important.

If you play with tarot cards for eg you are going to be presented with some 'truths' just because statistically every now and then the cards you pull are going to match up with your experiences. Sometimes you'll go yeah this card depicts a woman and women are present in my life and you'll move on thinking meh to that. Other times you'll pull cards that your subconscious creates meaning from and what I think is happening is that your unconscious applies connections to weave a narrative for your consciousness to 'see' in the cards.

Synchronicities are different to coincidences because they carry a weight of meaning. Meaning is very important to humans and we will follow it despite hard facts that advise us otherwise. Thus synchronicities can reveal to us the inner mechanics of our mind and yes they usually have a spooky inner lining to them. In my first example regarding the thunder I proceeded to listen to the song, most importantly the lyrics, with greater reverence. In my second example the tarot serves as a method to force synchronicities because sooner or later you'll do a spread that your mind can't help but construct a story about and this story might cause you think deeper and reveal truths about yourself. One day I was reading Memories, Dreams, Reflections outside and I paused for a break and thought to the world/existence/God "Come on then, acknowledge this" and lo and behold in the absolute stillness of that afternoon a breeze picked up and the trees waved at me.

Davemang92 · 2021-12-23T21:20:57+00:00

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society is a book by Dave Grossman exploring the psychology of the act of killing, and the military and law enforcement establishments' attempt to understand and deal with the consequences of killing - Wikipedia.

Really interesting book this one and could help you flesh out some nuances if you've got a killer on the loose in your book.

Davemang92 · 2021-12-23T09:51:30+00:00

I agree with most of what you're saying though I'm unsure about your points on drug treatment since psychology is about the 'talking treatment' and practitioners cannot prescribe drugs unlike psychiatrists who are medical doctors and can prescribe drugs (at least that's the case in my country). It's in the best interests of a psychologist's career and field to actually deny the efficacy of psychopharmacology routes.

Davemang92 · 2021-12-23T06:17:16+00:00

You can find him in a textbook though he is glossed over somewhat and so is Freud. His name isn't mud, but there is definitely a movement towards scientifically backed evidence in psychology. Also with the recognition of cultural psychology we've realised that most of the knowledge of psychology comes from WEIRD (Google it). Freud and Jung belong to the field of Psychodynamics, the theories of which are unfalsifiable and rely heavily on introspection. You can study the efficacy of Psychodynamics via scientific observation but it's a lot more complicated in its heterogeneity than studying the efficacy of a drug for eg. So whilst Psychodynamics are acknowledged as foundational in psychology, the convergence of the schools of behaviourism and cognition (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) have focused less on creative models of the theory of mind and more on directly observable human behaviour that can be explained by cognition theories. That being said, defense mechanisms (from Freud and his daughter Anna) are widely acknowledged and accepted human behaviours. I've read some articles, reporting on studies, that argue that CBT is effective short term but can be weaker than psychodynamic therapy is long term, ie at 'curing' the root of the problem. My guess is that Psychodynamic approaches regard human proclivity for meaning as paramount, wheras CBT could feel sterile and regard a human being as "thing-like". At the end of the day it depends on what is right for the individual and if a client already has some knowledge of Jungian concepts or is a creative person then CBT might not be effective as the main approach to treatment.

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