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Penetrations look cool, but motivating them can be a ***** if you don't have the right setup. I still favor anything that means I do less work.

Diplomacy is great when it works. Not so much when the surroundings are not terribly conducive to it. To put it an a way that's less likely to draw more angry flames (this thread has been hijacked enough as it is), it's teasing. Remember the girls teasing the boys they like in elementary...

There's a lot of love in this thread. Anyone else getting a little misty eyed thinking about it? No to the first two, meh to the third. I'm actually quite surprised by what the staff lets me get away with, and I'm still not sure why they do it. Redi, sleep on it. Come the morning, I'm...

At least someone has a sense of humor in all this horse hockey. Yeah, yeah, same old song and dance. Heard it a million times before. Thing is, I've been called worse for less. I just find it ironic that anyone thinks this kind of juvenile one-up-manship is going to cowl me.

What can I say, while not a Method actor, I'm pretty close. If you read "An Actor Prepares" you'll get more advice on how to turn real into experiences and emotions into acting chops. No problem. To be perfectly honest with you, I came up with that whole routine in about a minute. I don't...

This is very true. I wrote a little about this in my blog. Laughter as a physical mechanism is specifically made to release tension. When you laugh, it gets endorphins flowing, it sends signals to the muscles to relax, and it breaks the flow of tension in the brain. In the case of the...

See, this always happens. Everyone likes to talk about how much more mature they are than me, and then the name calling starts. You forfeit the moral high ground by talking like that. Don't bull**** a bull****ter.

I get that. But not everyone shares your intentions. These things always end with some jackass with a vendetta to settle or the hopes that fanboying it up will get him attention from the admins. Ultimately, the best answer you're going to get is going to a forum you want to know more about...

Okay, I don't normally do this, but... Frame the sloppy shuffle triumph as nerves. Use it as a bit of physical comedy to take the edge off of your real nerves. Finding the deck in such disorder, quickly riffle the pack to create a nice, loud snap. Ask the volunteer what their card was, look...

Yeah, a cop would totally bring me up on misdemeanor charges for everything I've done here in this thread. :rolleyes:

What material do you already know? How often have you performed it? What can you do without even thinking about it?

To repeat, absolutely nothing I can say that you wouldn't take as harrassment. And for the record, I do not accept, "That's just my style," as an excuse because it's fallacious thinking. Dissent needs to be voiced.

Uh huh. And that totally justifies this played-out bull**** vs. match, how? The reason the forum members capable of forming non-stupid points are objecting to this thread is because they've seen them before and they always devolve into a pissing contest between fanboys, those with a...

Okay, first of all, I don't think there's anything I could possibly say that you wouldn't call harrassment. So why stop now? I'd prefer to see this nonsense through on my own terms. If I'm going to be called the bad guy, then I might as well deserve it. Hell, I wasn't even being particularly...

Hence why I added in parentheses, "people in general." Point is, magicians are awful at taking criticism. Anyone who provides a critical voice is immediately labeled the enemy, someone to be destroyed. It's much easier than thinking or admitting that you made a mistake. The human brain is...

Honestly? Magicians I find have rather defeatist attitudes. And they're very good at rationalizing things they did for inadequate or unintelligent reasons. Consequently, the public in general does not have an exceptionally positive impression of us. And as long as I'm being honest, neither...

Why so melodramatic? I was more calling you out on the fact that you leaped to defend a fallacious argument as a knee-jerk reaction.

How are any of these things related and what the hell do the last two have to do with my opinions? What is the point you are trying to convey here?

These two posts occurred one after the other. I don't think it would be unfair to guess that the latter was made because the person writing it read the first post and nothing else, then immediately hit the Reply button because their opinion is just so... ****ing... important that we uneducated...

Doesn't matter what you intended. You're going to end up with douchebags having a douche-off.