This seems a good example of a "common sense" guideline, although I don't actually think common sense is that common anymore. Perhaps though, to go to guideline 1, common doesn't mean everyone has it, but that it is a broad sense of things. In that case, if it becomes clear that we need a ...

Agreed, with pretty much everything. Short replies is a good idea. It means we will probably loose interesting points and parts of the discussion, but I think that it is necessary, as you said Ant, to keeping the conversation going. And yes, defining terms is a WONDERFUL rule or at least principle. ...

I didn't mean to conflation "debate" and "conflict," but to point out that it makes a world of difference when your approach is to curiously question rather than aim to dismantle. Example: "What reasons led you to believe that?" vs. "But that is simply irrational b...

Eh, what? Is there a return to discussions on the Pastel Forum? Why yes, you should have discussions. Debates are ok, but they tend to be merely people defending their biases and attacking others biases. How about we all acknowledge we have our biases and then seek with curiosity why others believe ...

Grave digging! Limbo, Last Survivor (in a dark kind of way), and you should check out anything by Nifflas, especially the most recent one Knytt Underground, and of course comb through the many many levels for Knytt Stories. I've made several levels for it myself under the name of Headgrinder. White ...

So a buddy of mine is the computer labs administrator of one of the local colleges and one of his employees recommended a pad by Monoprice that is much much cheaper than the high end bamboos but are just as sensitive. It is extremely natural feeling and I've gotten use to it very quick, though I've ...

Holy crap guys, thanks! Ha! Only took me 17 days to find this! :oops: :oops: :oops: Sorry for being so absent. :oops: I was coming back to tell everyone of a very nice cheep yet effective drawing pad I found. Called a monoprice and it was only about $60 but with the sinsitivity of one of the high en...

Oh wait, that was thoth in the subnet. Nm.

Thought you guys would like this. Perhaps those hieroglyphs in the submachines are just safety labels.

Hmmm... then it sounds like I'm leaning towards that then. I ask on another, very very slow forum I participate in but no one has answered there yet. I miss having an easy way to paint... meaning I don't have a studio and it is too much work to clean up all the time. I'm hoping this gives something ...