HOLY cow, I feel the love just ooooooooozing out of the walls around here.

All right, listen up now.

This place has always had a penchant for tough love and I mean that sincerely. There's a lot to learn here and a lot of good people and I firmly believe that ReyRey is one.

This is also a place of egos unbounded and that is an important aspect.

Folks, this is the way it works. Art runs on ego. If you don't believe in your work you shouldn't try to do art. Its the ego that allows you to get up and try again day after day after day and not give up, EVEN WHEN IT SEEMS NO ONE ELSE IN THE WORLD BELIEVES IN YOU OR WHAT YOU DO!

That's the way of it. Always has, always will be.

And egos, often, aren't very pretty. When I started here it was with the understanding that people were going to judge my work sometimes with a "THIS SUCKS!"

Hell, they still do.

But you have to learn to take it, and glean the bits of useful critiques out of the slaps in the face. It happens here, its a part of the site. It will happen other places too if you show your work. So what I am saying is learn to take it, put some armor over your feelings and get on with chopping. I'm sorry if your feeling get hurt, mine were too and 2rey's have been, it comes with the turf. Its not going to stop, just learn to shrug it off, slap back a little, understand that 90% of the time it was well intentioned and the 10% that it wasn't is well below the average on the outside.

Come on, let's freaking chop.

This is all good.
But can't help what I felt when I read that first comment on how all the chops he looked at sucked and didn't what to take the time to look closer. It's about everyone that's trying to do there best and to have the Almighty kick them is sh*t!

I once looked up to Rey, But have absolutely no respect for him now. I feel this thread has done more damage then good and has hurt some good people.

I thought about PMing him and said to my self, why bother, he'll just talk himself out of it... and I'll look like the ass once again. Like I did just now.

This thread is dead to me now. Time to move on and chop for the fun and not because I'm pissed.

See you guys in the dailies,
Cheers.

I done a drunken chop for tomorrow! YAY!!!

I have always admired ReyRey's work and exceptional skills, and have no doubt he's a "good guy". But that doesn't mean I have to accept this "tough love" method, without saying something to the contrary, right??
I'm always grateful for "useful critique", but I think it's NOT encouraging to anyone, especially not to new members, to occasionally "glance" at the daily contest and vote for those that "suck the least". How's that constructive?

. . . and this is different how?

I know a lot of my posts have been done when I'm drunk. But I felt I had to post because of all the complaining about the lack of entries in the contests lately. The more of us that post the better the site is going to be! Wow, get my drunken talk, I'm being positive and not taking the piss out of anyone! I want a medal!!! I love this place!

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Folks, this is the way it works. Art runs on ego. If you don't believe in your work you shouldn't try to do art. Its the ego that allows you to get up and try again day after day after day and not give up, EVEN WHEN IT SEEMS NO ONE ELSE IN THE WORLD BELIEVES IN YOU OR WHAT YOU DO!

That's the way of it. Always has, always will be.