you were a DJ?!

my sunday office:

oh since when do we award niceness? booo

thats some kind of inception like punishment isnt it? oh you're good

SO MUCH MATH!!!!

yeah it all depends on what you're wanting to use it for and how often and skill level. as with anything really. believe me i looked for the cheapest versions of things, but on some, the wacom in particular, there's its tops. pen sensitivity, pressure, screen feel, responsiveness. even still it takes a learning curve. i wouldnt touch digital without a pen, because i'm left handed and i tried my hand at mouse based usage and well......did NOT go well.

Eww gosh, yeah if I didn’t have my Wacom tablet there I wouldn’t even bother with digital

did not know what that was, had to look it up. nope i use Clip Studio Paint. its pretty well specifically designed for making comics, i moved from photoshop to it a little over a year ago and am in LOVE

evening office configuration:

yes it is maple. and yes experience. i learned at a young age not to hand feed your tortoise as for the painting, was just finishing up a Sovereigncy strip yesterday. @EirikDaude you are correct sir! about the mug. its really the perfect mug, i have yet to find better @HeavyHalfMoonBlade........dude.....why so many bananas?!

Lol yeah, mines a california desert tortoise, mom had her since before I was born and I inherited her. She’s endangered so we have a permit for her. Currently just settling into hibernation though. so my morning office: and where I’m currently at:

yes. yes i do.

to this i say, is not guilt and remorse so intertwined as to be nearly the same or one the root of the other? and is not remorse a good thing?

very true, though i suppose there needs to be some distinction or definition to what constitutes a guilty pleasure. as you've pointed out there are personal ones, (self-imposed) and societal ones (external pressure) both of which can be healthy or dangerous. its all about degrees isnt it? the degree to which we hold them. the degree in which we allow them power. as in all, moderation is key as its all balanced on a razor's edge. societally, guilty pleasures are close kin to peer pressure i think. in fact it may well just be peer pressure in disguise. inter-changeable. as you've said it gives too much power to those imposing the idea of it being guilty. i suppose there's a couple side tangents we can explore here; 1. why do we feel the need to associate guilt with pleasure. they should be opposites, yet we make enjoying ourselves feel guilty. is it solely societal? or is there some innate part of us that feels guilty/selfish when we focus solely on ourselves? 2. how much do you find yourself a victim of societies whims and thoughts? why does it matter to you what society says about say, enjoying taylor swift, or indulging in cartoons as an adult, or secretly liking Twilight etc. 3. in what cases is the surrendering of control of our pleasures healthy?

lol lily the candy hoarder. we got a ton left over if you need more. seems i'm mostly a guilty pleasure enabler muahhahahhaha hmmm interesting ledzep. raises the question, how much of our guilty pleasures are based on ease of access to them?

so we all have them. little pleasures we enjoy that are, mostly, derided by society as a whole. that's right, i'm talking about guilty pleasures! we're already on the dark side, might as well confess them. what are yours? AND to dig deeper, lets dissect the nature of guilty pleasures too. what makes them guilty? why do we buy into the idea that they're something to be hidden?

trick!

i may need to make sister make that

the ship. @Ryrin how about paranormal activity then? whole slew of those movies

trick me too

Smile any jordan peele movie Signs sis and i are gonna try Troll Hunters saturday, not sure thats the type of paranormal you're going for

sis and i are watching as many halloween-ish movies as we can fit in. just did Elvira last night. and we'll do the usual carving of pumpkins and passing out candy. i wanted to go on the queen mary haunted history tour this year but doesnt look like that'll happen

treat!

thanks

i would say that our mind's desire to see patterns and its ability to do so does, as you say contribute, however i believe our belief and participation in the superstitious is more derived from our inner desire to make sense of or exert control over that which we have no control.