if i'm going to spend hundreds of hours in 3rd person staring at an ass, it better be a woman's

People are over the renaissance. Let me know when museums sell out all their tickets because people love renaissance so much. It's not the apex of art. And for that reason, people with the ability to paint realistically isn't a big deal anymore (in the art world).

When speaking in hyperbole referencing hours marginalizes the measurement of time into, well... hours. It's not reasonable to assume that you were referring to seconds, days, decades, or infinity when you use the word "hours".

As for venice beach, there are tons of skilled artists with immense mastery and ability…

It was never there. Learning curves vary from person to person and it's reasonable to presume that people exist at either end of the extreme spectrum but even that means that there is no such thing as innate ability.

Aesthetic can be developed. Compare Justin Timberlake's work with NSYNC to his solo work. He basically learned how to have better taste. The problem is that taste and aesthetic are vaguely understood aspects of any skill set.

Countless hours? I'm talking a decade, at least. All artistic mediums are filled with aesthetically derivative hacks who have technically mastered their craft and there's like 3 dudes in Venice beach who can paint you into a perfect rendition of a Michelangelo painting.

you seriously need to dig deeper when talking to these people. typically, these people have a laser like focus that allow them to obsessively invest hours of focused time onto a single task. this noodling period is usually done on their own whim away from the observations of other people. i have many friends that are…

the definition for ART has been blown open long ago to include pieces with or without skill. the argument here is for the skill to wield an exacto knife against printed video game screen shots.... this, is well within the grasp of almost all people willing to practice the skill.

if you were able to track each artists hours invested in a specific medium and plot them on a chart, generally speaking, their time put in would equate to what they can create. now this does not equate for taste and aesthetic, but when it comes to skill... i'm confident that most artists abilities would reflect how…

nope

i liked it the first time, when it was called DUNE

definitely

imagine all the perverse machinations that he's constructing in his closet.

at least they are still entertaining the notion of personal ownership. eventually we're just going to be buying playing licenses.

When you start out grappling, you learn broad general concepts that teach you the composition of a fight. Concepts like what positions are advantageous versus those that will get you killed. These observations are universal and objective and simply being aware of them gives you a huge advantage without much training.…

I don't know where the homoerotic concerns came from but in answer to your question us grapplers are very aware of how homosexual this stuff looks to outsiders. In fact, it's often a referential point of humor, with people using Brokeback Mountain quotes during a strangle hold. If anything this homosexual filter…

i don't even give a shit anymore. not trolling but my apathy over the series was spent a long time ago.

such a weird franchise where the hardcore gamer crowd basically hijacked the game mechanics and caused it to go so damn far off the rails that it no longer resembled anything close to actual skateboarding

Fall? Dude, my kids are already bored of this game. I know, each play set is technically a different game but they're not seeing it that way.

when an attempt at cultural appropriation turns into cultural misappropriation