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See, this is why I tell people to read Fundamentals first. It seems to me everyone is so focused on this suggestion kick because of juvenile fantasies of possessing superpowers.

I notice that almost everyone thinks of gaff cards and trick decks when they think of gimmicks. I personally think of thumb tips first. I wonder why that is... Anyway, I refuse to vote in this poll. I'll say this instead: Less is more. Make of that what you will.

Um... no. I was saying the most people do not improve because they lack the initiative and ambition to do what needs to be done. No, you said that cards are more versatile as if I had at some point suggested that a deck of cards is a one-trick pony. I think I would have remembered saying...

Kind of my point. Are you really that desperate to justify bad performances? Get used to disappointment then. What if I would actually like to keep useful things in my pockets? What the hell are you on about?

Considering I'm in Parkour, that doesn't impress me much.

No, I'm referring to self-proclaimed "cardists" (god I hate that word) who mix magic and flourishing into one generic, uninteresting mess. The ones who can't do anything without their cards. The ones who are too flaming ordinary and uninteresting to hold a conversation without the cards in...

No, their lack of performing ability can be quantified. Do you think I'm saying because I don't like cards? Don't make me laugh. I say this because most card specialists are egomaniacs with fast fingers and very little comparative personality. When they perform, their demeanor is ripped off...

I personally dislike the idea of being dependent on any one prop all the time. Also I have a particular bur under my saddle for card specialists because most of them I've seen are boring as sin.

I personally prefer other effects using the ideomotor response. Pendulums and all that.

He was suggesting a trial night. Showing the manager magic does not communicate the benefits of your service. So in actuality, you're not disagreeing with him except in the idea that you do want to show the manager magic. And there I have to disagree with you because I have never heard of...

Reading comprehension it seems is a dying art. I said this is not the Vaudeville stage anymore where one specialization to the exclusion of all else can carry a career. The era of T. Nelson Downs and (early) Howard Thurston has passed. It's also worth noting that not all of your examples...

This opens up the big point that every single potential client is asking, "What do I get out of this?" And if you're only answer is, "You get to have a magician!" or, "Your customers get to be amazed!" or something equally obnoxious, you're not going to get the job. To be an entrepreneur, you...

Too much of a stretch. There's a difference between specializing and being so bloody dependent on pasteboard that you're sunk without it. This isn't the Vaudeville stage. This is the 21st century. What makes you think I'm frothing at the mouth with net-iquette Nazi rage right now? Was the...

Screw that. I'd prefer to spend my pocket space on useful things. Not to be rude, but if someone isn't going to try and obey basic grammar, then their message isn't important enough to be read. So cards are the only props in the world that can be used to do magic? Don't write analogies if...

Ghost Bills For One To End... Garrett Thomas's Ring Thing Key bends And I plan to start working with aura reading in the near future.

I saw your post before you edited it out, so let me answer your criticisms by saying that you didn't get my point, so I fail to see why I should have answered by reframing everything to your misconception. You talk about YouTube exposure. But we're not talking about a faceless, anarchic...

Nothing worth reading past this point. You haven't made any effort to understand my point. It's not about being terrified of exposure. It's about doing the right thing.

Another refuge of the witless.

In other words, you have no argument. You haven't spent more than a nanosecond of thought on this and are completely unqualified to be telling me or anyone else what side of this issue to take. Maybe by having an independent thought? Oh, so I'm stupid now because I don't personally know...

I don't need to travel overseas to a convention organized by a bunch of pompous, duplicitous, out-of-touch windbags to appreciate magic. Maybe if you had actually read what the Chinese magicians were saying, you might understand why I'm speaking so harshly. But then again, perhaps I'm asking...