Well, I'm listening.

Not to the bold, underlined, (insert future mutilations here ) text, anyways.

Originally Posted by Piccolo

Well, I'm listening.

Not to the bold, underlined, (insert future mutilations here ) text, anyways.

It's perfectly normal now. Name your excuse.


If you don't want criticism, don't make anything. No matter what you create, you'll get criticism. Not everyone in this world is a hug-happy deviantzombie, and the MINUTE you release something to the real public, you will be hit with so much hard criticism you'll break down to tears. Most people'd break down to tears, you'd probably kill yourself.
Don't think of criticism as a series of insults, think of it as a "proofread". Do you think famous authors write a book, send it in, and make millions? No! If you've ever seen a proofread book, you'll wonder how the editor could afford that much ink. Does the author say "screw you" and release the book anyway? No! They cut, copy, and paste until the book is the epitome of perfection! I've seen novels get turned into children's books during the editing process, so don't expect it to EVER be easy. But the authors know that they either listen to the editor's criticism, or hear the same thing from thousands of angry readers. There's a VERY large line between completed and completed right. Cruel criticism WON'T go away. Kind criticism is always incomplete criticism.
It's a cruel world. Learn how to twist it around your finger, or get twisted.

I didn't see it cos I was waiting for italics?

My page. =3

You're running out of excuses. You can't hide forever.

*sigh*
Jeez.

If you want me to listen to you so badly, why don't you try listening to ME for a change?
I'm not the dumb little child you apparently think I am.
I have made my own experiences with the world, I know it is cruel, better than you, I can tell you that for sure.
I know what I am doing, okay?

I appreciate criticism on my drawings since I know that they still need some improvement... AS LONG as the criticism is GOOD criticism.
"She looks like Q-Bert." is definitely not what I'd call constructive.
If you want me to, I can show you how well I can criticize myself and show you what I mean.
I'm seriously tired of all this arguing, man. >_>

Originally Posted by Piccolo

If you want me to listen to you so badly, why don't you try listening to ME for a change?

I do. Your statements simply carry no proof or truth.

Originally Posted by Piccolo

I'm not the dumb little child you apparently think I am.

You're one year older than me, about a foot taller than me, and weigh over 20 lbs more than me. You aren't a little child, just dumb.

Originally Posted by Piccolo

I have made my own experiences with the world, I know it is cruel, better than you, I can tell you that for sure.

You missed the point there.

Originally Posted by Piccolo

I know what I am doing, okay?

Doesn't seem to be much at all.

Originally Posted by Piccolo

I appreciate criticism on my drawings since I know that they still need some improvement... AS LONG as the criticism is GOOD criticism.
"She looks like Q-Bert." is definitely not what I'd call constructive.

She did look like Q-Bert. I would say "She looks like Q-Bert and you can fix this by", but I was assuming you were able to figure some things out on your own. I was wrong.

Originally Posted by Piccolo

If you want me to, I can show you how well I can criticize myself and show you what I mean.

Shoot.

Originally Posted by Piccolo

I'm seriously tired of all this arguing, man. >_>

It's only an argument when one or more people aren't thinking or listening. Otherwise it's a debate.

I expected you to react childish like this. Fine, if you won't listen...

Originally Posted by Piccolo

I expected you to react childish like this. Fine, if you won't listen...

If I would be more mature ignoring your statements, answering incompletly, and sticking to an opinion with no evidence to back it up, by all means I'll do it.
Let me try being mature:

I am not eight years old. You're all better than me. I know what I'm doing even though I'm accomplising nothing. I have a good reason but I won't say it. Maybe it isn't real. Plz stop depressing me, I'm emotional monday through sunday.

Okay, you guys really need to stop. Radium, this is a warning for you, and Faw, I'm going to have to tell you that you were flaming back, so please refrain.
If this goes on I'm going to close the thread.

Ducky beat me to it.

EDIT: And in a much more sophisticated fashion, with less swear words, too. Envy.

Ach, sorry; got carried away again.

Yay, Ducky. =)

Oooh, it's over. ;(

let me preface this by saying I am not trying to degrade your story in any way, but only to raise a grammatical question about the title.

ok, ignore the following if the title of your story is intended to be italian (a language I am wholly unfamiliar with), or some language other than latin. But if it's latin, bear with me because it's time to enter:

LATIN PEDANT MODE! (all true latin students posess the ability to transform into a pedant at will. kind of magical, if you ask me)

--initiating latin pedant mode--
I hate to nitpick, but if you were going for latin in your title (fabella vita /ae--you seem to change it in the topic and the title--) you're close but not quite there. the latin for tale/fable/etc is Fabula -ae, and what you've got is a bit of a distortion of the diminuitive form (i.e., "little tale"), the proper identity of which I'm not sure of (fabula is not one of those words you often see in the diminuitive like that). Whatever the diminuitive is, though, I'm thinking there isn't an e in there.

But I don't actually think you wanted the dimunitive, seeing as you translate your title as the story of life, or something like that. What that would actually be is "Fabula Vitae." You had the Vitae correct all the way through; well done on that front. You'd be amazed (well, maybe I'm the only one who is) at the awful latin distortions that go on in the harsh, harsh world of non-latin students out there.
--exiting latin pedant mode--

well that was fun. thus ends my single post for the month--and, I think, my second post ever in the war tavern. see you in january.

THANK you, Duckah.

I'm still saying I was just defending myself...
I wasn't the one calling the other dumb.... but whatever. *sigh*

Thanks for the correction, Paul! That mistake would have killed me if I had kept it...

Indeed. Latin will one day be the death of us all.