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Don't you ever get to a realization that the story/game you're playing will come to an end and you'll never get to have another one of those stories with those characters ever? Kinda makes you want to stop playing/reading so that the story isn't finished and that you're given the opportunity to pursue it further?

Ye. I basically got the feeling of playing persona 3 portable, then realizing I could've enjoyed it so much more if I just ran it through an emulator on my computer FFFFFFFFF. Such a good game in a long while story/character-wise. Damn, WHY OH WHY DID I FINISH IT? :(

Anyway, onwards with more philosophical banter! Inspiration hit me today and I came to the conclusion that a lot of people don't pursue a variety of skills because "they're not good at it". Art/drawing for example, are a major one as many people say "oh well, I'm no artist and I can't draw or visualize etc." I would argue that, well yes OBVIOUSLY you suck at it because it's the first time that you've ever done the said act. I think as wee grow older wee are more accustomed to success and moreso less to failure. People like to see action put into instant gratification or firm grip over a subject, as soon as they screw up in the said subject they throw in the towel and say "that's it, I can't do this, I'm not good at it."

Ever seen a baby learn how to walk? They totally suck at it the first time, but they keep getting up because they don't know any better. They keep trying and failing over and over, hitting the ground, crashing into things, but they don't have the thought of "I can't do this, I fail so much at it." If any of you guys are wondering, it's my nephew that does this :P.

Anywhoo, I think wee all can strive to be better at a lot of things if wee literally try and accept our failures. People need to stop seeing mistakes or failures as a negative thing and start looking at the good that can come out of it. If you really want to be good at something, you need to also fail at it, failure shows you where you're wrong, it doesn't mean that you're incapable or "this just isn't for you." I believe that if you wanted to, you can become a mathematician, artist, writer, doctor, etc If you literally just try.

Seriously as cliche' as this is, if you need to be a person that can do no wrong, then you aren't human, because as humans, wee're imperfect as hell.

(This post was last modified: 05/12/2011 11:49 AM by Tetris999.)

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Does this happen to be related to you or just contemplation thanks to your nephew?

(05/12/2011 11:44 AM)Tetris999 Wrote:  Don't you ever get to a realization that the story/game you're playing will come to an end and you'll never get to have another one of those stories with those characters ever? Kinda makes you want to stop playing/reading so that the story isn't finished and that you're given the opportunity to pursue it further?

For me, never really happens.  I just get it over with, move on.

But I know some people who are heavily affected by these kinds of things.  I think I recall SkyDX saying he leaves a whole lot of shows hanging with 1 or 2 eps left because of something like that.

(05/12/2011 12:51 PM)S7* Wrote:  Does this happen to be related to you or just contemplation thanks to your nephew?

It's both really.

It did sort of happen to me when I first played the Xenosaga trilogy, Final Fantasy IV, Star Ocean 4 and Dragon Quest IV.

But generally...

(05/12/2011 06:15 PM)Assassinator Wrote:  For me, never really happens.  I just get it over with, move on.

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(05/12/2011 11:44 AM)Tetris999 Wrote:  Don't you ever get to a realization that the story/game you're playing will come to an end and you'll never get to have another one of those stories with those characters ever? Kinda makes you want to stop playing/reading so that the story isn't finished and that you're given the opportunity to pursue it further?

I've had it once or twice, but I basically consider that I have no other choice but to finish it anyway.

(05/12/2011 11:44 AM)Tetris999 Wrote:  Anyway, onwards with more philosophical banter! Inspiration hit me today and I came to the conclusion that a lot of people don't pursue a variety of skills because "they're not good at it". Art/drawing for example, are a major one as many people say "oh well, I'm no artist and I can't draw or visualize etc." I would argue that, well yes OBVIOUSLY you suck at it because it's the first time that you've ever done the said act. I think as wee grow older wee are more accustomed to success and moreso less to failure. People like to see action put into instant gratification or firm grip over a subject, as soon as they screw up in the said subject they throw in the towel and say "that's it, I can't do this, I'm not good at it."

I think the issue isn't trying to become good, it's more the attitude.
If you're thinking that, you probably don't have that much interest in art anyway, so even if you keep trying, you'll not really be motivated to improve.
On the other hand, if you want to actually become good, and I mean, really want to, you wouldn't be thinking in that manner, more like "hey this is rather fun, what happens if I do this..?".