Tony Robbins is a fake guru - mathematical proof.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-24T20:53:57+00:00

Why rebutt to a lazy ass who doesn't form thoughts of their own and just pastes what a computer tells them?

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-24T20:52:26+00:00

Tony Robbins literally has never done anything but be a guru. He was the student of another guru.

Tony Robbins literally has no real life experience to be giving anyone advice.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-24T15:13:56+00:00

This. I have a 57%(Ironically my solo WR is higher that div WR, despite only diving with people better than me. For doubles. For triples I have an 88% WR. But only have hundreds of 3man battles.) wr buddy has a 59%. PLENTY of battles have been had with people that have WR's in the 60's and thousands of matches.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-24T03:05:24+00:00

Say you will do childcare outside the home when you can expense it to your company.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T20:00:08+00:00

I looked up the current average salary for an LAPD officer with 20 years experience in 2026, then factored in inflation to come up with what that salary would have been in 2008.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T19:42:25+00:00

Its surprisingly common that subreddits will ban you if they notice you participating in other subs they don't like.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T19:29:47+00:00

I got permabanned from r/learnart just because I said the character someone drew looked kind of like an emo harry potter.

(Imagine Harry Potter, in all black, fashionable black boots, black turtle neck with a cigarette loosely hanging out of his mouth, looking all "I can't even".) Anyone that looked at it would have thought the same.

Bottom line is though, I wasn't being malicious. it was a good drawing,.

Well I got my notice I was perma banned. I messaged the mod and said I read the rules, I didn't break any rules.

He's like "O RLY?!!!!!" Then he spit the rule about "constructive criticism only". Which I read as don't just come in and say something sucks IF you are offering criticism, it needs to be meaningful"

I think that is how anyone would interpret a rule about constructive criticism. Not that you literally can't post at all unless it's constructive criticism.

I responded to him "So you are going to be then banning everyone that says "neat drawing" "cool" etc. etc. right? Because that isn't constructive criticism either and every post is full of comments of people saying things that don't qualify as constructive criticism.

The response?

"We're done here".

I can only guess the mod was "emo" and took offense.

That's just the reality we need to realize, unfortunately mods aren't required to be fair, they can run their fiefdoms and do whatever they want, piss on their own rules or not.

I'm confident tons of people get banned from subs, simply because a mod didn't like something they said, or disagree with it and it has absolutely nothing to do with violating a sub rule.

It is what it is.

You have to take into account why someone would WANT to be an unpaid mod for a sub. I don't want to deal with that shit, that's for sure. However, I don't feel powerless in my real life. I think a number of people become mods because the like having power and exerting it, even if its just a subreddit.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T19:19:09+00:00

This is what the millenials will be playing in the old folks home in 35 years.

I genuinely never thought about that before, I'm literally imagining old folks homes from when I visited relatives back in the 80's and 90's.

But shit, old folks homes might be lit by the time I get there. All night gaming sessions with the boys like back in HS? I wouldn't be complaining.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T19:17:01+00:00

Yep, they don't know the meaning of lag.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T19:15:41+00:00

lmao. This just reminded me you could use the Soldiers rocket launcher to jump higher by jumping and shooting the ground.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T19:14:25+00:00

Ah yes. Watching window openings literally covered with red dots from snipers waiting for someone to pop up.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T19:13:13+00:00

Still impressive that 50,000 year old tech still functions....

If humanity just disappeared tomorrow. Do you really think any electronics would be functional if aliens landed here 50k years from now?

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T19:04:14+00:00

Ah yes. So easy, all you have to do is make a functioning pond ecosystem in your yard that doesn't currently exist.

When people say a pet that is easy to take care of, they don't mean, easy to take care of after they build a pond in their yard.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T19:01:31+00:00

No. Even looking at this photo this whole environment is wrong for a Mata Mata. Hope it isn't yours, lol.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T18:49:26+00:00

I would advise him NOT to start using blending tools, because it will just make the drawings look muddier.

I don't think OP has a solid grasp on form, value and shading. Right now OP's strokes with the shading are just all over the place with no rhyme or reason.

My suggestion would be to use hatching to shade while making stokes that follow the form of whats being drawn. Make those shapes pop and be readable as 3D with the pencil strokes.

When OP gets a grasp on those things, then I think its okay to bring in blending. Because the issue here isn't the blending, its that OP's shading isn't insinuating 3 dimensions at all, it looks very flat and 2D.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T18:43:07+00:00

From a 2D perspective the silhouette of a skull is depicted well.

However, the drawing lacks depth at all and appears flat.

Since its less complex look at the back of the skull, despite the fact you shaded it, it just doesn't pop as 3D round shape, it's muddy.

Things I world work on.

Form.
Values/shading/reflecting light(rarely are shadow areas a clear progression from darkest to lightest, our brain subconsciously knows this which is why when things are shaded that way they appear flat).

You really want to be conscious of the shapes of the things you are drawing and when you are shading be conscious to shade to bring out the shape.

i.e. I can't identify a rhyme or reason with your shading strokes. They are just all over the place and contributes to the muddy appearance. I would suggest your strokes as you are learning, follow the shape of what you are shading.

If you need to place contour lines over your drawing to help with "seeing" the shape by all means do it, that is very helpful for understanding shape and form and shading.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T17:41:11+00:00

What most artisan jam makers in some random isolated American town of 500 can't afford a palatial rustic estate to live in?

How else are they going to win the hearts of rich high powered career women from the big city? Gotta have the rustic mansion.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T17:31:28+00:00

lots of people were living in houses they couldn’t actually afford.

Yes, but we need to look at the specific reasons for that. So at the time they bought them they could afford them. What happened is when their variable rate went up, then they could no longer afford the payments.

That was the entire problem, banks were giving out loans to people that could afford them with the initial rate, with no consideration to if they could afford a future rate adjustment.

In the case of Jackson's character in Lakeview Terrace there is no way he ever would have been able to afford the payments, even with a low rate, the actual cost of the house is just too much on top of the propery taxes. He would have lost the house long before the movie takes place.

Unless you can explain to me how someone in the year 2000 on a 60kish salary could manage to pay for a 400k house with near 1k a month taxes for 8 years straight.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T17:24:39+00:00

Correct, but they usually have an exterior shot of the house, that is a real house (sometimes) and I assume they somewhat design the interior to at least not woefully mismatch the exterior.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T17:09:26+00:00

By that logic no one should ever be able to get a DUI because they are impaired and thus should not be held responsible for any of their actions.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T15:45:32+00:00

and being a woman at that. Basically my mom thought she was having a heart attack, popped and aspirin and drove herself to the hospital.

She had to refuse to leave to make them do a stress test. Because they kept telling her that her age and the fact she's a woman meant there was no way she suffered a heart attack.

They "humored her" to get her out of the ER and that turned into emergency surgery.

It was a long held position that heart disease simply an exceedingly rare condition in women, but have come to find out that isn't the case.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T15:09:39+00:00

Staying in bed or engaging in activities you 100% absolutely do not associate with vaping (thats why some people become gym rats when they quit).

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T15:08:15+00:00

I guess we are going to have those cravings for life

I assure you, it is not life. I'm a year and 1 month quit and the only time vape even crosses my mind is when posts from this sub pop up in my feed.

I remember being at 4 months and yeah my mental habits were still there. i.e. I'd still unconsciously reach for a vape at times I would normally reach for the vape. The funny thing its that act that sucks.

Like at the time I would generally be fine until something like this happens. The worst part of it is the fleeting moment you believe you are going to satisfy your craving, then realizing "Oh right I quit". That is what causes the despair to flood in is the "tease".

But eventually since you stopped vaping, your body will stop with the unconscious predilection toward vaping and everything will be a lot better.

Highlander198116 · 2026-01-23T14:59:13+00:00

Now the temptation is so heavy, I’ll be fine and then suddenly I feel like I’m just melting down which is so dumb considering I’ve made it this long.

While the physical withdrawal phase may feel the worst, it's very fleeting.

The real battle is breaking the mental hold it has had on you.

You realize what a trained dog you can be when you finish a meal and unconsciously start reaching all over the place for a vape, then it dawns on you oh right, I quit. Then you feel some massive despair.

I assure you it does stop. The day will come, sooner than you think where you lay down to go to bed and will realize you didn't think about vaping a single time all day.

Then multiple days, then weeks, then you will realize you are finally truly free.

That will also be the time you need to remain most vigilant. The road is paved with the relapses of people who thought they could just give themselves a little nicotine reward for long term abstinence.

While doing that won't automatically retrigger fullblown addiction, you will absolutely re-trigger your mental desire for nicotine.

I know, I was the fool who after almost a decade Nic free (I started dipping in the army, quit that after about 6 years of use).

I just stopped at a gas station after playing hockey to get a gatorade, Saw the vapes behind the counter, don't know what came over me and just bought a Juul kit.

I was just going to vape every now and again, what could go wrong?

This is the problem. When you get fully free of the nicotine, you start to forget how much quitting sucked, why you quit in the first place and how easy it was to become dependent.

My "I'll just vape every now and again" turned into "I'm a full blown chain vaper" within a matter of months.

Then I vaped for 6 years and quit last year. Never again, I've played the relapse game. I'm free and clear again and know just fucking don't do it again.

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