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[peanutbuttershoes]

Here I am being pessimistic and cynical, until I realized... I'm stupid.

Go nuts kiddos, play with the world and mold ideas into reality.

Stretch and grow dem creative muscles.

[Capntastic]

While I can admire the optimism PB, that's sort of bad advice because so far he's ignored the questions I posed regarding "Why hasn't anyone done this yet?"  I'm not saying he shouldn't pursue it-- I'm saying that if he chooses to, he needs to figure out why it hasn't been done yet, and what needs to be sorted out so it can happen.

[ANtY]

@Mr.Mingoo: why won't u just make a couple of demakes? Ah wait, you don't wanna work, just throw a few bad ideas, sorry to bother 

[peanutbuttershoes]

@capntastic:

Why is encouraging someone to be proactive bad advice?

IMHO learning by making mistakes while doing something is the best kind of learning.
It allows you to know what's up. Your brain connects the dots and it becomes a part of your nature to be aware of certain legit pitfalls and their level of affect on your plans.

Through doing things our understanding more and more mirrors the actuality of reality and then reality is easily processed (changed even). Self-confidence is built. Strong men and women are born. Humanity gains 10 XP.

We don't think, we know, we live.

Why are we so quick to skip steps, to skip actual learning in hopes of simply attaining the facts we think we need in order to achieve what we want? It's not only dang'd lazy, it's sub-optimal.

I'm not saying this is a brilliant idea, but I'm optimistic that if they actually put their thoughts to action and really get into the guts of this idea that they will over time be the better for it, eventually pulling off something with brilliant excellence. All without sacrificing their visionary inclinations... I mean, why not encourage them?


@MR.MIGOO:

I guess my only cautionary advice is to work on something smaller, keeping this one in the crock-pot for slow cooking. You might burn yourself out too quick if you don't have the resources or capabilities needed to complete something like this, or to even get it off the ground.

[Capntastic]

DIRECTED TO PB SHOE:  You specifically said to go nuts which sort of implies "rush in and do it".  That can be bad advice solely because without knowing exactly the sort of problems a project is given to face, one quickly magnifies the risk of getting burnt out when they stack up.

That's why ideas are a dime a dozen or cheaper when actual solutions to problems are quite a bit harder to come by.

I mean, if someone wants to do something because they truly enjoy it, risks and hardships be damned, that's fine.  But if someone is putting forth an idea, and basically sidesteps basic criticisms and concerns like "why would someone use Social Product B when Social Product A has 90% of the market share already, exists already, and your own product isn't even being made to address any specific issue of product A's", it sort of indicates someone's just spitballing rather than actually interested in developing anything.

So while being encouraging in of itself isn't bad in any way, he's sort of avoided any direct answers as to why his theoretical project, the biggest thing since Steam, is worth getting excited about.  Better advice would be less "go nuts" and more "you should be excited about your project enough to be able to develop the core idea into something you can convince people to be excited about."

[Capntastic]

huh

Be Prepared.

[peanutbuttershoes]

i confuse.

are you helping them... or attempting to control them?

or are you stroking your own ego?

or are you set in the belief that they will fail and are empathetic to the pains of failure and wish to save them from it?

or are you a machine with no actual will, set forth by a villainous rogue who has a machine  army that "lives" out the villain's will for their existence? which... appears to be sounding like you know what you're talking about with no proof of it.

I mean, granted, we're all talking heads here. there's no point in competition. I can quote books all day long just like the rest of us who can quote books all day long like the rest of us.

..And yet... I typed this out with a certain sense of retaliation. I'll admit, this internet thing is such a tantalizing system of interaction.

THATS Y I RESORT TO stupidtalkin. IT MAEKS THE MOST SENSE HERE. I ARE DONE WITH THINKIN ITZ WORTH MY TIME TO TRY AND PROVE ANYTHING HERE.

I done.

[Capntastic]

Just saying that "do whatever, go nuts" is a non-committal form of approval to the point of actual apathy whereas actually saying "what would actually make this idea appealing" might actually help the kernel of idea solidify and sprout a little bit.

[peanutbuttershoes]

i suppose i was mostly publicly expressing the dismissal of my cynicism.

but you're right, it's not very helpful.

He's kind of not writing anything lately. I wonder if he will.

[Capntastic]

Did you watch the Uncle Willie promo yet like you promised?

[peanutbuttershoes]

watching it now.