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What fuels these doomsday prophecies? As soon as a magician hears that a layman is learning a trick, they don't bother to gather the facts. Instead they reach for a sword to commit ritual sepukku. I had hoped you would have seen I was using hyperbole to add a little levity, but now that I...

First of all, I wouldn't call it hopeful thinking. It's not like I want the world to give greater reward to instant gratification. Second, I'm not claiming to be a scientist, however this is the theory I've put together after corroborating various studies I've read with my own observations...

I'll have to dig up my books again, as I've put this together over the last... I'd say five years. My personal reasoning as to why instant gratification is a genetic inclination comes from my involvement with animals, and specifically with greyhound rescue work. Greyhounds are not...

No, I'm just a misanthrope.

Which part? The idea of appealing to instant gratification or the idea of it being genetic programming to seek instant gratification?

Actually, I've had words with people about that. I do. If someone is from a non-English speaking country, I generally am nicer to them, but if they're using internet slang, I don't put up with that. If you're typing in your native tongue, you can use your fingers instead of your elbows. I...

Advertising is about appealling to people's sense of instant gratification. We are genetically programmed to think of instant gratification because back in caveman times, that meant the difference between life and death. Also, advertising appeals to our self-interest. On an unconscious...

I think I'm going to throw up. You can't take something and then declare it to be something else just because it's convenient for you. Theory 11 is a business. Call it what it is, and don't pretend that doing that is somehow a bad thing. Yeah, bragging about a feature they offer is...

By business route, I take that to mean they actually advertise and think about all that soulless corporate stuff, like turning a profit this year. If this is not the case, please enlighten me.

Oh stop it. If you can't figure out how to turn something like this to your advantage, I doubt you'll ever make it as a professional. Oh, and nice potshot at Ellusionist. How dare a company want to make money? What is this world when coming to when people actually think about having more...

I think you're looking at the situation the wrong way. If a professional can't get better reactions than an amateur, there's something wrong with the situation and the first issue I would address is whether or not he's connecting with the audience.

Very mature. This conversation has been very enlightening. You'll find no one on this forum who will take your side on this, but since you only seem to care about yourself, I doubt that will affect you very much. I know I can be a pain to deal with. I'm opinionated, narcissistic, and crass...

I call bullcrap. Do you know how much time in an average week I spend practicing with my thumbtip? This exemplifies a theory I've been working at that seems to be a universal constant among artists. We all go through a series of phases in our development toward mastery of our art and...

If I like what I hear, the artist gets my money. I dislike judging music strictly by singles, so I find alternate methods. Doesn't change the fact that I make a conscious effort to support artists whose work I like. You're fighting a losing battle by trying to argue this with me. You...

I warned you already to drop the attitude. I'm trying to be civil and make up for my mistakes yesterday. If you want civil conversation, I'll give you that. But if you want to take advantage of my trying to play nice to continue taking shots at me, then get out. I'm not having that...

Give me 24 hours. That's distribution. Not the actual acquisition. Would you like me to copy and paste your exact words? Clearly, you didn't listen the first time, so I need to repeat myself. I download to sample. As in preview. If I like what I hear, I delete the download and...

What was your topic? Humor me. Saying this makes you sympathetic, how? I hate to sound like a broken record, but you asked people to tell you what the gimmick to Box Monster was. You're still stuck on thinking just about methods. What, you think there's nothing else to talk...

Just as well. I can't seem to find it.

Do you remember what month or year it was? It'll help me better track down the thread.

Before you go patting yourself on the back, Phenomena, keep in mind that it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to enter someone's house where they made the rules perfectly clear, break said rules, and then get upset when they intervened. Getting into a fight with your hosts doesn't help the...