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Messy · Post by **Messy** » 21-03-2006 17:51

<3 I love this site.

http://wiki.ehow.com/Successfully-Play- ... rail-Games <-- hi2u notpr0n people

Other interesting things:
http://wiki.ehow.com/Play-3-Coin-Hockey
http://wiki.ehow.com/Always-Win-at-Tic-Tac-Toe
http://wiki.ehow.com/Read-Sheet-Music
http://wiki.ehow.com/Play-Jazz-Piano
http://wiki.ehow.com/Make-an-Egg-Go-Through-a-Bottle
http://wiki.ehow.com/Spin-a-Pencil-Around-Your-Thumb

And my personal favourite:

http://wiki.ehow.com/Exercise-an-Open-Mind

ps: "OLD!1LOL"

fb.shev · Post by **fb.shev** » 21-03-2006 18:49

all a load of bollox (apart from tic tac toe which is obvious)

Rincewind SW · Post by **Rincewind SW** » 21-03-2006 19:03

Well that site kind of led me back to Wikipedia where I then spent 20 minutes looking at Rubik's Cube articles. Sorry, but Wikipedia pwns all.

I found this there

Can't solve my own Rubik's but this Japanese guy takes all the fun out of it ^^ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 6410134693
btw quite a few threads with Rubik's Cube themes in NotPron lol

Messy · Post by **Messy** » 21-03-2006 19:12

Rincewind SW wrote: Sorry, but Wikipedia pwns all.

Yes <3

But I didn't quite think of this as a competition. o_O

...I'm sorry if I misunderstood that.

Rincewind SW · Post by **Rincewind SW** » 21-03-2006 19:52

I meant it shouldn't keep linking to Wiki, each Wiki click can lead to 5 more tabs o_o gj I don't use IE

slimshady · Post by **slimshady** » 21-03-2006 22:14

very stupid stuff..

especially the open mind one..

Messy · Post by **Messy** » 21-03-2006 22:15

Any time I read wikipedia a single article will lead up to 20-something tabs.

The same thing could happen with half of them as well

It's all so interesting /o\ I'm thinking of quiting school and just reading wikipedia all day

edit:

slimshady wrote: very stupid stuff..

especially the open mind one..

didn't you play notpr0n?
He's basically telling you it's worth it to learn random stuff.

Didn't you enjoy notpr0n teaching you morse and how to handle applications etc.?

This is basically advising the same thing :\
Are there any arguments why you regard this as 'stupid stuff'?
Because I'm quite curious

Post by **DavidM** » 22-03-2006 09:37

Learned and Done:
http://wiki.ehow.com/Always-Win-at-Tic-Tac-Toe
http://wiki.ehow.com/Read-Sheet-Music
http://wiki.ehow.com/Play-Jazz-Piano
http://wiki.ehow.com/Spin-a-Pencil-Around-Your-Thumb

on to the next ones...

slimshady · Post by **slimshady** » 22-03-2006 17:46

Messy wrote: Any time I read wikipedia a single article will lead up to 20-something tabs.

The same thing could happen with half of them as well
It's all so interesting /o\ I'm thinking of quiting school and just reading wikipedia all day

edit:

didn't you play notpr0n?
He's basically telling you it's worth it to learn random stuff.

Didn't you enjoy notpr0n teaching you morse and how to handle applications etc.?

This is basically advising the same thing :\
Are there any arguments why you regard this as 'stupid stuff'?
Because I'm quite curious

yeah i loved notpron, but more because it was challenging, and smart.. not really because i was learning new stuff and all.. (even though that's not bad)
about the articles: the tic tac toe one is very obvious, AND it DOESN'T give you a 100% efficient strategy to win! but that's ok i mean it's just a game after all..
but the article i really did find stupid was the How to play jazz piano one...

i mean come on what's that? some recipe?.. maybe it's just me, but i hate it when people are giving "directions" or "points" when it comes to art.. learning to play jazz is an adventure, a long one, it shouldn't be summarized like they did..
the worst one is the "how to exercise an open mind" one.. it would be nice as a joke.. it's a list of very random stuff that dont seem to be really useful, stuff that actually many people already do .. and many of the advices can be summarized by a simple sentence : do what you don't normally do .. i don't know man,it's just not interesting... and yeah! why ? why watching series or reading books or listening to music i dislike?.. i mean come on everyone has a taste.. and tastes change gradually.. you shouldn't force yourself to change it..

Messy · Post by **Messy** » 22-03-2006 17:50

It's just a guideline, and often to be taken with a grain of salt o_O

Guides like that should still usually stress time and motivation, which they do

so I don't see your point

Obviously learning to do something 'big' like that isn't just a trick ;p

Also, I think the 'open mind' one is pretty decent on giving some examples of how to think ;p
Of course it's a narrow concept of open-mindedness, but the message is still useful

As for your summary:
"Do what you don't normally do" sums it up quite nicely, yes.

Not many people would take that advice without any examples though, right?

ps: I do think forcing yourself to listen to different kinds of music and look at other artforms is quite good.
If you keep ignoring other genres and artforms your taste wont 'gradually' change by itself, you know..

slimshady · Post by **slimshady** » 22-03-2006 18:15

well i did discover a lot of different artforms by myself and without having to search for them .. you know, just by living my normal life.. discoveries just come by themselves.. (for an example: i had never liked cold play, till this morning, was watching tv and i heard a nice song by them, and i was like : ah ok they're not that bad).
IGNORING other artforms is, no doubt about it, wrong. But you don't have to TAKE the decision to discover new stuff, (and especially stuff you know you dislike :-O) i think it would steal some of the "joy" of discovery.

i'm not saying that those "guides" won't be useful for anybody, i'm just saying that they aren't for me .. if you like them then great ..

i just don't, i find them stupid like i said

peace

Post by **DavidM** » 22-03-2006 18:21

you are talking trash about the jazz piano thing.
it is telling the right thing. a very rough guideline to build all the art on top

speedy · Post by **speedy** » 22-03-2006 18:32

noughts and crosses

Warnings

* Don't use it too much or no one will play you.

Messy · Post by **Messy** » 22-03-2006 20:02

slimshady wrote: i had never liked cold play, till this morning, was watching tv and i heard a nice song by them, and i was like : ah ok they're not that bad

Then what's the problem with looking for it yourself? o_O

Surely you can't trust MTV to filter what you hear..

ps: Being open-minded doesn't mean you have to actually like everything..
..just that you're able to appreciate it for what it is, giving you the ability to not only have valid arguments for your personal dislike; you'll also learn to respect people that like other things

It's still way easier to just say everything else sucks though

slimshady · Post by **slimshady** » 22-03-2006 20:40

DavidM wrote: you are talking trash about the jazz piano thing.
it is telling the right thing. a very rough guideline to build all the art on top

i never said the guideline was wrong

i just think it's wrong to make guidelines when it comes to art

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