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knightofbalance-13 · 7 years

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The Logical Fallacies of Criticism

https://www.raphkoster.com/2013/10/14/on-getting-criticism/

Everyone who dislikes your work is right.

And the bottom line is, you put the game out there in order to get reactions. If it were not for reactions, you could have just kept the game in your drawer and gotten everything you needed out of it.

Incorrect: Nothing is ever valid if it is correct on that simple basis alone. i can say that the Avengers is literally the worst movie in history with terrible action, horrible dialogue and atrocious music and I would be right by this logic, despite it being a widely accepted fact that the Avengers movie is great in all these areas and having a very positive overall score to it. Just because you believe all criticism you got is correct doesn’t mean that applies to everyone or that even you are right. That is just a gateway to being used and manipulated by people.

You yourself say that reactions are what is needed for media: Would not positive reactions be included in that? And what about negative reactions that goes beyond the logical acceptance, such as what happened in Tokyo Ghoul where the creator was told to go kill himself because he didn’t make a ship canon? Should he retcon a decision of his so he can appease a group that went ballastic over a ship? The answer is yes to the first and no to the second and third.

The criticism that is useful is that which helps you do it better.

That means there are two aspects of your work that you want to hear about the most. What you did right, and what you did wrong.

This is a direct contradiction to what you said before where you basically said that negative criticism is always right but now it’s both sides that are important. And this brings up the question of: What if the reaction only shows one side? What if someone says nothing but praise and the other says nothing but criticism? Accepting either one means denying and avoiding the second side and that is an incredibly dangerous thing to do.

Nothing’s perfect.

The fact is that to do creative work is to know that most of what you do is shit. And we feel that way because we know we can do better. Honestly, if you aren’t pushing the boundaries of what you can do, you’re probably not working hard enough. And working at the edge means a lot of screw-ups.

While being critical of oneself is good, doing so too much and believing that “90% of what you do is shit” is not a valid nor even slightly healthy way as it denies you a style and constant puts you under pressure to change or improve everything when somethings don’t need improving or changing and are perfectly fine the way it is. Acting and thinking this way will only stress you out and leave you open to manipulation.

You often have to choose between your ideals and your message.

It doesn’t mean I have to give up on the philosophical ideal. But it does mean that there are many many ways to compromise, and not all of them leave you compromised. In fact, being uncompromising may be the least successful way to achieve your artistic goal.

Wait, but you said in the second statement:

People make games for different reasons. Some do it just because it is fun. Some do it as a form of personal expression. Some have a message to get across, and some are out to make money to put food on the table.

So what if compromising that message would contradict what they want to do? What if they want to get their message or philosphy across first and foremost? Yeah, in games this can be bad but not in all media: Books are a good media to get this across through a story, entertaining the audience by detailing their philosphy. So this seems contradictory again.

You have to dig to get the gold.

Most feedback you get isn’t going to be from fellow practitioners. Even when it is, they are not going to know as much about the specific ways in which you did things, the tools you used, the practices you follow, to be able to pinpoint exactly what’s wrong without a pretty deep dive.

This means that usually, when someone tells you that something is wrong or broken, it’s going to be wrong. But wrong in the sense that it will be imprecise. You need to find out what the problem is underlying the problem. In other words, the symptoms described will almost always be right, and the diagnosis will often be wrong.

Don’t discard the feedback because of this. Look at it as a door you need to push on. Dig deeper and find out what the real issue is.

Incorrect again. Just because someone says it’s wrong doesn’t make it wrong. In criticism it only becomes problem if a massive amount of people say it’s wrong. Listening to one person who could just be a spiteful troll say something’s wrong due to personal opinion is stupid and fallacious. You have to trust your instincts and take all criticisms into account.

Good feedback is detailed.

Look past what may feel like condescension. This sort of detail is impossible for someone who has not engaged fully with your work. The sign of a critic who does not care is brevity, not detail. It’s dismissal.

Now, all the other caveats about whether or not this feedback is right still apply. It can be detailed and not right. But never dismiss serious thought.

Incorrect: the person can be lying through their teeth or willfully not taking things into account of “missing” certain details and do so with detail. They can talk on and on and on about how much this sucks but if they are lying or not taking things into consideration or are motivated by selfish desires then the detail is irrelevant. Again, trust your instincts.

People who tell you you’re awesome are useless. No, dangerous.

I am not saying that you need to lack confidence in yourself. (Heck, you’ll never put anything out if that’s the case! You need to have the arrogance to assume anyone will care in the first place). I am saying that nobody is ever done learning, and people who tell you you have arrived will give you a sense of complacency. You should never be complacent about your art.

But that is exactly what will happen if you follow these guidelines: You will have no confidence in what you think and what your opinion is, only what the audiences want. And said to say but most vocal parts of the audiences are very small groups who are motivated by selfish and destructive desires so they will take advantage of your insecurities to abuse and beat you into their slave and make you write what they want, not what you want. And a creator’s first and foremost concern when making something for themselves or out of passion or love (which are usually the highest regarded works) should make it for themselves and then show that love to the world. The Nostalgia Critic says it the best: https://youtu.be/F0_W6gomFA8?t=12m41s

Someone asked for feedback will always find something wrong.

This is super simple. When someone is asked to critique something, they will feel like they have failed if they don’t find something wrong. So everyone will always find something, even if there’s nothing major to fix.

That doesn’t mean that the thing they mention is wrong. If the only feedback you get from multiple people is the same minor thing, you should feel pretty good!

This contradictory to the previous statements again which say that only negative criticism is good and that positive people are not.

Good work may not have an audience.

This is a sad truth. There is no correlation between quality and popularity. You may make something that is sophisticated, subtle, expressive, brilliant, and lose out to what is shallow and facile and brash. Oh well. And that really is the right attitude to have about it, too: oh well. Getting bitter about it is pointless.

That said, don’t underestimate the skill required in being simple, polished, and accessible. Dense and rich is easy. Simple is hard. You denigrate “pop” at your peril.

Except they won’t have that attitude due to all of the advice before hand which will leave them in a state of extremely low self esteem and will make them question their abilities as a creator: thus encouraging them to think they are no good and quit. This is why balance is such a necessity.

Any feedback that comes with suggestions for improvement is awesome.

That’s because it means the person offering the criticism actually thought about your goals. So either you get avenues to explore that assist you in your artistic goal, or you get told that your goal is invisible to an audience! Both are highly valuable information.

But what if that person isn’t making suggestion for the improvement to everyone: What if their suggestion is incredibly selfish and self centered and serves only to make it better to them and them alone? What then:? Should you take that advice even though it is obviously destructive?

If you agree with the criticism, say “thank you.” If you disagree, say “fair enough,” and “thank you.”

Complaining about a critique, or about a bad review, is utterly pointless. You can’t deny the subjective experience of the reviewer. You also have to be thankful that they paid enough attention to actually say anything at all. The fact is that indifference is the enemy, not engagement, even if that engagement doesn’t get the results you want.

You’re going to face way more indifference in your career than anything else. There are a lot of people out there working really hard, and they all want the audience attention that you do. Always be grateful for the attention. Someone takes the time to let you know what they thought? That’s already one in a thousand. They cared.

Exactky: Subjective. Meaning biased, opinionated and ultimately no use to you: you need to look for criticisms that are trying to be objective and factual. And that argument of “at least they paid attention” is crap: You can pay attention to something just to hate on it and just to know what lies to say and what facts you can twist.

Once indifference was the enemy: Now it is everyone. You can only trust attempts at being factual and honest and your own instincts.

You are not your work.

Above all, don’t forget this. Oh, be personally invested, of course. Your art will be poorer if you are not. But every little ship we launch is just our imperfect crafting of the moment. And we move on. We create again, and again. Each can only ever express a fragment, a tiny fraction of ourselves. And if you are trying to always improve in your craft and your art, then every old fragment, everything out there in the world already, that’s old news. You are on the next thing. Your next work, that’s who you are. Not the work that exists, but the work that does not yet.

So if someone savages it, who cares? That was yesterday. It’s not who you are now.

Hold on to that, because a lot of people can’t separate the work from the artist. Including a lot of artists.

This statement is contradictory: you are not your work but your work is a part of, therefore, who you are. I feel like this is an attempt to devalue an artist’s personal interest and investment in their work in order to detach them from it to make it more susceptible to control.

And that’s what this whole thing reads as: an attempt to make works susceptible to control from a vocal part of the audience by telling them that all negativity is good while simultaneously saying contradictory words in order to disguise this. If anyone followed this, they would have such a low opinion of themselves that they would listen to anyone who could get through to them first which, considering the power of screaming and mob mentality, would undoubtedly be an abusive group who just wants the media to portray exactly what they want for their own selfish wants. I have seen this in the past and I’ve seen it done today, by no other than the person who showed me this link. They wanted a certain show to go exactly the way they wanted which would alienate everyone except their small group by acting like a bunch of abusive lovers who try to emotionally abuse the creators into doing exactly what they want. This thought scares and pisses the hell out of me because the creator’s drive should be treated as the foremost concern, not the wants of the crowd. The creator does what they want with the show, all we can do is help guide them down the path they want, not choose that path for them. That is the road to successful works, not this abomination.

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CREATIVE NON-FICTION

REOLADA, HARVIE

Authobiography

My name is Harvie John Zamora Reolada. Im a son of Hector and Lorna Reolada , I have four sibling named Hendrix, Hecson, Henna and Lorvin. We lived at Lawaan St. San Jose Rodriguez Rizal. I am 17 years old. I loved to play basketball, valleyball, billiard and my most favorite sports is Baseball, I am a varsity player when I was in Junior High School and we are two timed defwnding champion. I am also an actor and my favorite activity in school was role playing because on that activity I can show my talent, Im not a singer nor a dancer, Im an actor/director of my life , Actually I am a nominee of being a best actor in Indie Film making contest and fortunately I won that award.

When I was grade 1 to grade 6 I studied at San Jose Elementary School and Im so proud to say that Im consistent section 1. When in Junior High School I studied at San Jose National High School. When I was grade 7 I learned to make trouble and every quarter K used to went in guidance office because I always make a trouble in our school, but I realized that theres no giod outcome on making a trouble so that I decided to focus on my study. When I was grade 8 I am consistent top 1 and I got many medals and cerificate in any subjects, and Im so thankful that all of my dedecations were worth it. I get back in section 1 when I was grade 9 and 10 I learned so many things on tbat section that I wont forget; " Attitude is the most important" and "Being a leader is so fun".

Recently, I studied at San Jose Litex Senior High School here in senior high.

Before that I planning to take up a STEM because I want to become angineer so that I would become rich and I easily go to politics because I have so many money. But theirs a hindrance, theres no STEM in public school, and I cant afford a private school, so that I decided to take up a HUMSS and I like it. I like when I stand in front talk everyone. I feel so powerful. And besides that I met a beautiful girl. And shes my girlfriend. Now Im grade 12 student of Manggahan Campus. And continue mu study and palnning to study at Philippine Normal University to become a teacher.

And now I am Harvie a tough and gentleman, I have a beautiful girlfriend. I want to become a President of the Philippines someday and I would never let anyone to stop me to get my Dreams

Memoirs

I heard some voice calling me "Kuya, kuya !Gumising kana" and I woke up ,Im so shocked when I realized that day was the day of my entrance exam in PNU. I noticed that it was already 6:00 am and the exam start exactly 8:00 am. And PNU is in the Taft, Manila and tbe approximate time to travel was 2 hours and above, and I have to eat my meals and take a bath quikly.

I leave my house at exactky 6:30 am. Im in rush , I used to ride in jeepney, while Im sitting in jeepney; I prayed, pray, pray and pray " Lord God plssssanapoumabotako". When the time that I should ride in SUV I ask someone that what time is it, and He said " 6:40 am po " and I was shocked from Montalban to Litex, Quezon city.

I travelled only 10 minutes? Whoooo Lord God your the best. Continuation; when Im in welcome rotonda in Maceda, theirs a long traffic, If would continue I would be late in my exam. I decided run frkmMaceda to Taft, Manila and I went to PNU at exactly 7:58 am. "Thank God I made it" I answered the questions of my exams carefully ....

Character Sketch

I really love this person. She has a long black hair , a bright and slit eyes, a pointed nose a veg small lips and flawles skin. Shes only 4'11" in height but has a sexy and beautiful body.

Shes so smart, actually she has many medal and certificate. She graduated top 1 on her class when she was in grade 10. The way she recited in front Shes very smart looking and fluently in speaking in English and easily solved a math problems. She's my mentor.

She is very charm person; every men,boys and even old ones looked at her.

One day tried to count how many men will look her. While were walking, as I expected there so many men look at her and I count them andnit reached 40 men in only 10 mins of walking. Shes so very appealing and charming.

When I first met this lady she is so weak and crying baby. She cant handle all of her problem. She didnt call for help before, and I entered on her life and boost her confidence,. I always there to sah her that "I am allwaystheir for you, You can do it". In almost two years that we've been together I see her change; the person who was weak, is now a string woman who has a confident and always smiling. Thats my girlfriend.

This person accept me even I have a bad past also this person loves me and comfort me when I have a problem. She shows me what really love is. This person really inspired me well; to continue my study, to continue to live happy and continue reaching my dreams. This person is my Girlfriend and my Future wife. She is Jean Paula A. Samson

Biography

Hector SagunReolada, He is 40 years old and born on January 1, 1976 at Quezon City. Hector is a second child of Rodolfo and Marilyn Reolada, He has five siblings ; there are Rachel, Ramil, Jojo, Roda and Grace. Hector was live at San Jose Rodriguez, Rizal

Hector studied at San Jose Elemntary School when he was in grade school.

Hector was so naughty boy, he stole fruits and vegetables in market when he was a little boy. He studied at Ramon Magsaysay High School when he was in High school. When he was in 2nd year highschool. A rolling paper and sachet of marijuan caught on his bag and it was result of Hectors dropout. When the time that Hector was drop out in school He decided to leave their house when he was 14 yearsold.

Hector works at billiard house and become a spotter boy in almost 5 years.

He also joined a fraternity when he was 15 years old and joined some trouble aftrtthay. Hector also learned how to used marijuana and shabj when he was 14 years old.

He continue this kind of life style until He met Lorna Zamora. lorna was a beautiful lady. Hector fell in love in Lorna, and eventually Lorna became wife of Hector.

And when the time that his first child get birth and when He saw the baby, He cru and reminisce all his bad memory and promise to himself that He would forget all of his addiction and started a new life with his wife and his son.

Hector Reolada is my father, He is now my father of 5 children. Hector is my Hero , He is the best man of my life . And Im proud to say that He is my Father

Travelogue

"Sama ka? Nak, punta tayong laguna" My lolo Rudy said, and I ask why and when? And he answered me " bukas na, Namatay yung kapatid ko". And I agree because I will go to laguna, the place where all of the Reolada came from

Tomorrow morning; the day that me and my Lolo went to Laguna. Lolo picked up me in my house ag exactlh 4:00 am and we travel from Montalban to Araneta bus terminal. In first place I tought that it wouldn't fun but Im wrong. Its my first time to travel with my Lolo and I tought that my Lolo has a bad attitude but Im wrong He has a lot of care to me and he has a concern to me.

We arrived at Laguna exactly 9:00 am, We first went to my Lolo's house in Antipolo, Laguna. There so many Reolada on that compound my lolo told me that all of those twenty houses were Reolada. I met one of mh Lolo's brother his name was Lolo Ted, He was so kind to me. Aftet that we went to Rizal, Laguna. While were in tricycle I read some banners that written " Reolada Funeral Homes " I asked my lolo if that Reolada on the banner was our relatives and He said "Yes." Most of the people in this community were Reolada they were all relative.

We went on the community of Reolada. I met my cousins, Uncle and Auntie, Lolo and Lolas. There were so kind and I find out that all of the Filipinos were hospitable.

We went on the community of Reolada. I met my cousins, Uncle and Auntie, Lolo and Lolas. There were so kind and I find out that all of the Filipinos were hospitable. It was so fun on that community. And I want to back ther if I has my own family.

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