@Cyberdevil yo, democracy and capitalism as bad as they are still are the best possible. Communism, anarchism, ancap are all beautiful things in theory, but the human nature is the main problem. We had anarchism before, but somebody like colonizers, vikings or something did end the anarchy and put their rules there. Even if the government end right now, the first one to organize themselves as mafia, militia, faction would be the new government. So i really don't believe in such things.
The main reason i want to go to a latin country is due to keep the latin lifestyle, you know it's pretty different, we would have many culture clashes, we latins like to party, talk a lot, make friends and such, while you gringos are more serious and take yourselves real seriously (it's a great thing when it comes to the professional and political side of the thing, but in being social it's not too good). I don't know no one from paraguay, but i didn't know anybody here at newgrounds when i first came here. Paraguay is not too far from here Santos either.
My family came from poor background, brazil was in the military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985, they're from the northeast (the redneck places here in brazil), education was hard back in their time, even electric power was hard, they didn't have it when they were young. They know how to read and write, but they're not very good at it. Thankfully i was the nerd kind of guy who always loved to learn, specially useful things like use a computer, speak english, stock exchanges, etc
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Capitalism may historically yield the best net living conditions, historically and empirically, but like most (all) systems it cannot be sustained forever as the human race evolves and especially when technology renders constructs like capital redundant. What's the solution, I don't know, and it's quite early to speculate. Anarchy seems to be working fine for uncontacted tribes/peoples. Socialism seems to work well for smaller populations where there's an abundance of resources: think of a sports league, where there are maximum and minimum salaries (where the minimum salary is 10x+ what the average person makes), and your supplied premium health care and pensions and what not. But maybe these aren't good examples.
agreed about Latinos vs Gringos lol
@S3C yo, thx, i used to practice guitar, but i sucked at it, so i did give up and focus on the animations. Tool is a progressive band, i like progressive stuff but i don't listen too much to it, i guess i'm more into simplistic music, maybe cuz i'm a brazilian and brazilians like repetitive simple music. I like cool riffs, simple formulas, 1 or 2 guitar solos. Morbid Angel for example is not a progressive death metal band, but they have some complex song formulas, like "Angel of Disease" with about 11 guitar solos in that song, i like that song but it's something i wouldn't want in most of the songs i listen to. In many of the progressive stuff i listen to i like some parts of the song, but others parts i just want to skip or get back again to the part i like. Kinda like a long classical music
yes, Tool is progressive, but I don't think progressive metal alone is a sufficient descriptor. For example, both Dream Theater and Tool are progressive metal, but they have significantly different sounds.
@S3C yeah, cuz of the subgenres, again that's why an iron maiden sounds so different of a black sabbbath, etc, cuz they're different subgenres. As i'm not too much into progressive stuff i wouldn't know exactly what they are, Opeth for example for i have heard is a progressive death metal/progressive rock band, but i'm not 100% sure, all i know they are progressive stuff. A pure progressive death metal album i like is "Cadaver - ...in Pains" (1992), that album i have listened all of it many times, so i know it well
ok.
maybe I will become the first progressive Bossa Nova Death Metal musician??
@TheMiamiDeSantos I hope you're wrong about that...the bit about IQ, I mean. In the US the average is around 85-115. Anyone whose IQ is 90 or less usually has lots of difficulties in life.
@ShadenLines brazilians have a lot of difficulty indeed lol. But i hope i'm wrong on mostly of the things i think. I have heard the IQ is not the best thing to measure people's intelligence, by which i think it makes sense, there are many smart people when it comes to technlogy, arts and ting, but when dealing with people they are donkeys, while dealing with people you gotta have some intelligence to
IQ is a valid measurement of intelligence _if_ it's tested correctly. There are only two tests that do so & neither one can be taken online, as far as I'm aware. Psychologists & psychiatrists can give the tests to their patients. If you apply for certain jobs in the US, you have to take an intelligence test & score at or above a certain IQ level to be _considered_ for the job, let alone hired.
For dealing with people, I don't think it's raw intellect so much as the ability to listen, & to get an idea of where someone is coming from. If you can do that, you can hang with almost anybody. If you can do that & don't have a conscience, you'll make a great con artist. 😆
I think IQ is *a* valid measurement of intelligence, sure.
We may have a different idea of what sets the IQ average bar of 100 (I'll assume this is normalized to a Western average for sake of argument) but I don't I agree with the claim that if you have a below 90 IQ, you will have serious difficulties in life, especially if we are looking beyond the average 'blue-collar' and middle-class Western lifestyle. IQ of 70 is considered borderline mentally retarded, and if you have an IQ of below 80 (in the US) you can apply for government assistance.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-iq-by-country
I'm skeptical of the results to a certain degree (there are countries with IQs in the 40s! how did they administer the IQ tests to large populations that can't read?), metric does has limited utility without knowing the variance. But yeah, if you grow up as a farmhand on the boondocks, with minimal education, you are likely going to score akin to someone in elementary school. Which can be okay for that lifestyle.
What jobs? Excuse my anecdotes- I've done retail, and now I'm in engineering/tech and I've never had to do an IQ test for a job nor do I know of any peers that require it. Nor was an IQ test required for graduate school. Mostly technical questions (some harder than others), proof of a degree, experience and projects I've worked on (latter two can usually substitute a degree these days if impressive enough).
how old are you anyway? early 40s or something?
Late 40's, if you must know. It's possible that my knowledge of certain job quals needs to be updated. For testing in general, I do know that our armed forces still administer competency tests to all potential recruits, but as of now I don't know the official names for such tests.
that makes sense, when you are likely to be dealing with artillery and sensitive information you would want to gauge a recruits intelligence along with their physical fitness. where you in the military?
@S3C *lol* No but I get that a lot.
@TheMiamiDeSantos best alternative we have right now, I do agree. :) Though I hope for something better... well, democracy is great always - I just wish we truly were as democratic as we claim to be, as for capitalism I wish we had a better alternative, an incentive for commerce that isn't directly linked to destruction. Like say we'd measure a country's gross domestic product in happiness, instead of money, as they do in Bhutan. I don't know if the people in Bhutan truly ARE happy, or if it's just a way to hide other issues there, but the idea's nice. Ultimately we can't sustain an ever-increasing cycle of consumption forever, but then again in the future maybe we'll consume differently, maybe we can recycle our consumption in a way that lets us both buy more and more and still require less and less raw materials for the products we use. A circular system of capitalism...
If AI evolves to the point it can handle all our chores, maybe we can just spend time on our passions and robots manage our necessities for us? :) And we won't actually need or want to consume so much.
Even when we had tribes, I do think we did have some form of democracy. We had leaders, and people who followed them, or fought to replace them. The social order in a tribe maybe wasn't that different, just how we lived our lives otherwise. With only a bare minimum of resources. When we started to industrialize, and learned to take more than we use, that's really when we started getting problems in the world IMO. Because the more you can automate and take, the more you can earn - with any country that isn't a dictatorship at least, and so there's a direct correlation between how well you can live and how much you can destroy.
How could we change our perception of the world though... I wish we could reward ideas more than materials. Innovations over materials. As you say any attempt at changing our social order now would probably be destructive too. Unless we really have good leaders...
Yeaaah I'm definitely not a real party kind of person. XD But I envy it! It feels like y'all are a bit more in tune with life that way. Especially in Scandinavia we really tend to keep to ourselves. If someone talks to you on a train you think there's something wrong with them. XD Unless they're American... or Latino, of course! Americans are just the common tourist stereotype, that's how snowed in we get... though we may be wilder than you'd expect if you get to know us. :P
Say how did you first get a computer, have you had computers in the family from the start? Humble origins man. I didn't know Brazil was a REAL dictatorship before, though it seems it's always been governed in a dictatorial way, hard times...
Paraguay looks nice, I've just never heard anything about it. Except for the Paraguayan (the fruit) then, if that counts. Panama I know for the canal...
@Cyberdevil probably the best ones we will have (as bad as they are), i can't even imagine something else without being utopic, unrealistic, magic or "too good to be true"
I believe AI will be like that, but for 8 billions of people, no way. Maybe for 1 or 2 billions of people, maybe 3. They say the world is ending, nature is being destroyed, global warming, wars, pandemics, etc, etc, yet some say the future will be very technological
Pure anarchism also can't exist, rules are a must in order to thing works. A site like newgrounds needs rules and organized systematics in order to it work properly, imagine a society
I love you gringos, americans and europeans. I know you guys can be pretty wild indeed, just by the rock and metal music we can see that. But you guys are different, we latino treat each others like brothers, it's something i would really miss
I got a computer at the age of 7 or 8, my mother always wanted me to be a lawyer, a doctor or something, she always did endorse such things as using a computer, speak english, read books, etc. But she hated the idea of me becoming an artist lol. We were the first of our family and relatives to have a computer, my older cousins were always here at home in order to use the computer for free. I did use a lot of orkut and msn messenger back then, things pretty popular here in brazil's internet in the 2000s. Also started to get in contact with english stuff back at that time, super mario world rom hacks, super mario world central and youtube poops, i didn't understand shit they were saying back then but i loved to watch super mario cartoons, donkey kong, sonic, kirby, etc
Paraguay is rising those last years and they're welcoming people there, encouraging people to change to there with such things as low taxes, specially brazilians tired of brazil, while brazil can only think of tax tax tax tax, tax it, tax that. I have heard paraguay is already in the 3rd of the countries with most of brazilians besides brazil (USA the 1st and Portugal the 2nd)
@TheMiamiDeSantos I always knew I wanted to be an artist and storyteller, since I was a little , I was like 5 or 6, wanting to create a new universe and thought I could draw it.
@AdventVoice yo, dude, i know how it is. Since my child days i wanted to be the creator of a sucessful animated series, it's my only dream, no family, no super car, no mansion, no trip to hawaii, paris, monaco or something, just "be the creator of a succesful animated series" . It's like a mission, it's like i have born with this
I'd think these dreams are all still attainable, especially at the ripe age of 25.
Super car or mansion is difficult, but doable. You can either be born into wealth (luck), be born with some extraordinary talent (i.e. be extremely good looking, have a Lebron James body, have a super-intelligent brain- which is even more luck than being born into wealth), win the lottery (unfeasible amount of luck), or get a job through sheer hard work & dedication. The world is filled with flakes, most people will never max their XP because they're committed to the '9 to 5 and leave' schedule, leaving lucrative opportunities out their achievable with enough dedication (and a little bit of luck).
Trip to Hawaii, Paris, Monaco- save up for a year, sign up for travel deals, go to a timeshare presentation, definitely doable
Your 'successful' animated series as a goal is an interesting one. For one, I believe you shouldn't focus on 'success' as that's relative and largely out of your hands, and ultimately meaningless, but rather value- which you have already provided if you yourself (and others) enjoy the work you have created already. Secondly, I would still argue you have created a successful animated series...761 fans, and you've been here since May 2022...that's approximately 3 people every 4 days that look at your work and think it's cool. Success landing on Cartoon Network or whatever may be a far reach (but probably not as far as you think- I refer to the point above about people being flakes, this is especially true in the arts world from my experiences), but I don't think that should be the goal, the goal should be to continue to improve and make more cartoons for people to enjoy, even when/if you get featured on Brazilian National TV.
When I was young my dream was to be a professional basketball player; my dream should have been just being a good basketball player. Reality started to set in when I didn't make my school basketball team, and coming to terms that my height would be a major limiting factor going forward. So I started playing less and less to not at all, and got out of shape (still out of shape decades later lol) but if I could go back I would slap myself and say so what if you cannot go pro, are you having fun? And with enough practice I could have made a less competitive D2 or D3 league in college, continued with rec/amateur, maybe became a coach, and I would consider that plenty a valuable basketball career. Now my only wish is just to have good health, everything else is a bonus. Though I would be at the top of the world if I had a family or girlfriend. I think I might be romantically incompatible with women...there's still room for improvement, but the older you get the harder it's to find a significant other that will accept beginner applications :P
@TheMiamiDeSantos I'm glad to have been able to create a world of my own before my stroke and this endless struggle has taken over my life, I have these moments to look back on and encourage others with, to keep Dreaming and creating.. I love sharing my old works in my city where there is no art.
I'm really sorry to hear about your affliction. I know there's a wide range of prognoses and severities associated strokes, some are quickly able to make full recoveries, some people pass away from complications. I'm glad you are still with us. And I'm sorry if your stroke has diminished your faculties to make stories and art. But you made two thoughtful comments on my page, so I think there's still plenty of room to improve and get close to your old self.
@S3C yo, thanks dude. By sucessful i mean sucessful like Touhou, at best i wanted eofs to be the "western touhou" or at least the brazilian touhou. If not possible, the Sepultura of the animations would be a good, if not, Sarcófago of the animations. I'm kinda of succesful already, i have great followers and friends by which i love a lot, i find customers through my animated series, receive some donations, but my goal is to make a living out of it, specially through donations, sell merchandising, make interesting partnerships, interesting allies and such and reach many people, i also want to be an influencer too, make livestreams, dress like king diamond, papa emeritus or alice cooper, i want to talk about politics, society, religion, etc, etc.
Personal development teachs like that, you shouldn't focus on "be a sucessful animated series" but focus on doing the best you can every frame, every animation ep. The navy seals says "how you can eat an elephant? one bite at a time". One thing i have learned on this animation business is that patience and persistence are the keys that open many of the doors.
I already have an animated series, gotta focus on making it a real good animated series and then make it a sucessful animated series.
Don't know how your health is but you're 49, i don't think it's too late. I have a small family, just my father basically, don't have a girlfriend either, nor put focus on that, i was kinda of "mgtow redpill sigma" before it was "cool", at first it started as the frustrated teenager hating women and such, but then i realized it was just foolishness, but kept the no girlfriend and no marriage mindset. i did read all the bible and Paul also recommend to not marry and such, so this mindset did root deeper in my mind:
"I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I."
1 Corinthians 7:8
@TheMiamiDeSantos @S3C how did I miss this. You are a fresh set of enthusiasm that I miss, and wish I had around me more, I think my family are spirit vampires and want me to lock myself away but I just don't know to what extentnd, if I go away from them don't they lose the benefit of my check, if I stay don't I lose my soul??
@TheMiamiDeSantos @S3C how did I miss this. This is the best thing anyone has ever said about me and I think I need more of this in my life, opposed to the spirit sucking vampires of my family. Don't they lose my check if I just go away, and do I lose my soul if I stay.
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@TheMiamiDeSantos That's true, unfortunately... yet it seems that the right people do have the potential to change those ideas, no matter how old they are. The situation was a bit similar in Argentina before no? All you need is good marketing... easier said than done of course, but it's fascinating how certain things or ideals we took for granted in the past have shifted so drastically overtime, as if the old way of thinking never even existed, at an international level sometimes too.
Ah those are countries we don't get much news about here... how's leadership in Paraguay and Panama? Do you know people there? Seems you've grown up in an interesting family man, but educated yourself well!
Mmm I gotta watch some Brazilian school movies; see your equivalent... saw the Tropa De Elite movies a few years ago, that's about as much a glimpse into the social order there I have, and the favellas commonly depicted in action flicks and franchises like Fast & Furious... indeed, anarchy's great in theory (IMHO), but in practice it really requires a very specific group of people for it to work well, I think with good enough education and overall wealth it'd be an ideal social order, but if everybody's looking out for themselves, or lack empathy; consideration for the collective, it'd turn bad pretty easily... all 'better' ideologies seem unfortunately prone to abuse. There doesn't seem to be a thing such as true Democracy either, but maybe it's still the best option. Anyway...
Brazilian girls yes! Mhm. You do have some things going for ya over there... Sarcófago huh, I'll check them out too, ties to Sepultura also...
Y'know one strong point with Brazilian metal is just the language. Sarcophagus sounds... a little tame compared to SARCOFAGO!!!