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Why bother? I don't waste my time on YouNoobs unless it's to bait them into a towering rage for my own amusement.

If you can't build rapport and get them on your side in 10 seconds, you're not as good as you think you are.

Exposure mostly affects bad magicians. This is not a problem you can solve by bludgeoning it to death.

I know. I just don't care. About two or three a piece. I rotate them depending on venue, audience, season, that sort of thing. If I had to pick a favorite, it's a variant on Docc Hilford's Self Help from the Monster Mentalism series. I was doing something similar for about a year prior...

Well, dur. I may be an egotist, but I'm not stupid. When appropriate I can smile through my teeth. But at the same time I don't see most people being positive. They just learn how to put a cutesy mask over their dark thoughts. Positivity is not an attribute they truly possess, but an...

Most people here wouldn't know mentalism if it kicked them in the throat and Theory 11 know where there bread and butter is. That said, Bob Cassidy's Fundamentals is indeed a must-have. There is no better guide to the basics of mentalism performance theory.

I'm on my own side because if I learned one thing watching artistic communities, it's a mistake to take sides. Anyway, I don't see anyone rushing to contradict my point that if you're too nice people just blow you off. I tried being nice to magicians, and then I realized that we're all...

Well, most people already have the first part down. 1. Key card 2. Richard Webster's pendulum intro 3. Spirit writing 4. Out of This World 5. Equivoque

Anything not challenged regularly goes weak. At the very least you could ask someone to expound on a point.

Why is this languishing on page 4 when it's far more important than most of the garbage people are talking about?

What's in it for me? That said, I don't like the "Honest Deceiver" archetype some magicians try to present. My preference is to use the power of silence. If someone is not going to suspend disbelief and reference fast hands and the like, I just change my scripting to remove any and all...

Most young magicians don't rehearse. Ever. They're either move monkeys or they mistakenly believe that they can successfully improv. I'm just going to say it right plainly: If you think you don't need to rehearse, you're a bad magician.

I did report the posts. And yet it doesn't change the fact that he didn't see the idiotic behavior as the problem. No, it was the naughty words. Am I the only person in the world who thinks that stupidity is more offensive than a word? And I don't find you particularly useful either. Funny...

My skeptic alarm just went off. What do you already have?

Thank you for proving me right by not addressing my point in the slightest. If that's the best you can do, you're not very imaginative. I choose to be different here because it soon became apparent that being nice is seen as a sign of weakness, and the weak get trampled under the stampedes of...

The topic is hijacked by a bunch of clowns acting like drunken buffoons and you tell us the problem was a few dirty words? I don't think we see eye to eye on this one.

You're just tying your own noose. Then why are you still acting like a moron?

I know, but people confuse criticism with personal attacks. They forget what criticism actually means and entails.

Well if we agree that there is no causation then we can agree that slippery slope arguments as a result are not particularly effective, nor are they very favorable to use.

Okay. I still don't how we are going to make the leap from lame joke to culling retarded people from the population. And you think I am going to somehow be indirectly responsible for a mass segregation?