one thing I really hate about the internet is how every forum for knowledge is necessarily stuck at beginner level now

as the internet opens everything up to massive traffic, every hobby is like that, and my religion is also getting like that

everything is beginner kiddie shit because those are 90% of the users

yeah the public internet has become pretty atomized. You have to really go deep to find any accumulated expertise beyond shit you can pick up in 15 minutes of casual reading

"Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."

now conversations about fitness that go beyond 5x5 and CICO only take place in passworded secret forums or actual hardcore gyms

Yeah

my jiu jitsu is like syrup

I have actually been noticing lately that the people who would've been internet power users are now driven entirely offline

what's a power user

normal fucking retards have infiltrated the entire internet, now it's all cell phone subreddits

people like prozak - intelligent, purposeful users who tend to pioneer stuff rather than bandwagon

Ah.

I fucking hate cell phones. Used to dev on them.

now most of my craziest friends are offline people, not online people

I want to participate. I am constantly looking for a good writing group / forum.

There's just nothing good. Any good writers groups are closed to protect themselves from normies and losers

yeah

if you weren't in a group/community as of 2012 or so, they won't take you

that's why to me it's important to be able to practice stuff solo

if I show up to an established group for something and I've already practiced it for years and read a bunch of books etc., I'm usually received with less reserve

Yeah. Because 99% of everyone else is just a floater. They want to write because its nice to think of yourself as a writer and dream about publishing. But they suck at it and they are fragile people so they'll quit within a year or so or produce nothing and their participation in the group will revert to memes and discussions of their personal life

I want to do manga someday

something berserk tier

A bunch of lines on paper!?

That will never work!

I hope to do it all digital

I can draw well but it's time consuming to draw, scan, touch up, colorize etc

it would be way simpler to do a full color from the start using some photoshop knockoff

A bunch of pixxels on screens? That will never work!

yeah

that's another big thing too in communities full of normies, everyone is a crab in a bucket

<<< Your Satan, taunting you to overcome.

"You want to do a routine that isn't 5x5? that will NEVER WORK!!!"

Exilarch similar to your escape scheme with the online sales, I'm in the early stages of developing a self-publishing platform

good

4x4 300 dpi is the shit

I build systems and then when it's time to use them to create content my mind goes blank

@automaticblue I probably would do something ghetto like that because it would remove the need to choose layouts

Ready 2 rape when shutterfly has their free print sales

I guess there are a lot of fucking people out there buying shitty fantasy for their kindle lol