clashing colours :P

not sure, I was looking for a question I know we have about it, but couldn't find it

I know which one you mean

I searched and searched, and gave up

this one?

hehe, "bordering colors", those were the words!

ah, no, wait, it's not that one

drat

confused now

I read this: "All the squares are filled with solid color without any gradient, but at the borders between the colors we see as if gradients were used." and thought nope, that's not what I mean

but I am not sure I understand what he means

so maybe it is!

check plainclothes's answer

it goes off-tangent and borders on what I think you're referring to

still don't see it

but the noise-clashing is not balancing, it's 'conflict' (can't find a less dramatic word)

I feel a nice question coming...

from me? from you?

from the universe?

if some random guy now suddenly asks a history-changing question I'll be a little freaked

lol

(also, that would make an awesome mod superpower)

I guess you'd be posting a follow-up question: 'What is the name of this noise effect that complementary colours create when juxtaposed?'

haha, no, I'm still convinced there is one somewhere

I saw it!

history-changing? like 'Why didn't Napoleon win Waterloo'?

not sure, I am not a history-changing question asker

one of those questions that get 110 votes and gets featured everywhere

"the question"

hmm now thinking of it, I wonder which one is "The question" for us

(currently top voted: graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/31/…)

Maybe graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/2167/…

and top-starred, I guess

would be nice to make a "top 10 GD questions of all time"

ah! good thinking

hm, I've been searching for 'complementary' (just that) and I'm seeing a lot of questions that might contain the term you're looking for.

will do that

graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/search?q=complementary

but what you mean is this SE's 'Armor-piercing question'

I'll add a link to plainclothes' answer in this question graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/29534/…

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArmorPiercingQuestion

I like that quote from I, Robot

(and the title itself is plain amazing)

"Sometimes a single question, well phrased and well timed, can collapse a person's mental defenses and throw her entire worldview into doubt"

tvtropes is full of great stuff

it just a tad bit too prone to wiki walking your day away

it reminds me of a girl I met a long time ago, we had a philosophy class and the teacher was talking about the existence of god. This girl started saying that well, yes, of course there is a god (statement continued with unrelated stuff), and suddenly I could see her eyes getting super wide and she almost whispered: "But hang on. Who... created god?"

:D

her face was amazing

a true moment of awe

'dawning on', 'sudden realisation' are phrases that pop up

now I'll be thinking about armor-piercing questions for a couple of hours

should I apologise or be proud?

the asimov quote also reminded me of the debates on "is artificial intelligence possible?", and what is intelligence, and are biological robots, and on and on

not sure, depends how many new sudden realisations I can find

'do androids dream of electric sheep' is a related trope

yes, very

when a work starts wondering what makes something intelligent

leading back to Descartes' philosphy, that its rather hard to prove anything beyond your own existence

that said, did you know how Descartes disappeared?

good (and depressing) point

Disappeared? what do you mean?

Descartes was in a bar, when a lady asked him whether he could give her a light for her cigarette. Descartes' answer?

'I think not'.

xD

and he disappeared

(right?)

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DontExplainTheJoke

hahaha, I just want to make sure....

sometimes I laugh before jokes are over because of the silly connections I make beforehand

poor joke-tellers

and then people look at me like wtf gurrrl

Descartes was definitely a badass question raiser, I frequently find myself going back to that simple truth

(again, simple and depressing)

there's more like him. I remember reading 'Sophie's World' and being amazed all the way through. I didn't even mind that the book read more as a Philosophy 101 than a novel

yes, it was one of the first 'serious' books I read!

it all looked 'graspable' in that book, then I took some philosophy courses at uni, found myself reading interpretations of interpretations of Hegel, suppose, and spending maybe 3 hours just in 2 lines

heh... must've been a bad course, then

where there was fire, ashes remain, but and philosophy and I kind of parted ways after Hegel

I don;t know, everyone else seemed pretty happy with it

I enjoyed the 3/4-line-per-hour reading, but I struggle with memory and abstract thinking

(I have difficulty spelling, for example, the letters start swimming in abstract soup)

(my excuse for "I'll never be a programmer")

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EpiphanicPrison

oh, I never noticed

I never tried coursed like those. The most off-beat I did was some theatre/film/tv science

I am the worst chess player :)

ah me, too, but that's more because I can't think ahead to well

when I try, I can't differentiate between all the possbilities

they all merge together into a mess I can't find heads nor tails in

yeah

chess is my nemesis

that's why I like games that most chess players despise -- because thinking ahead is too complicated or trivial

nice symbolics in chess, though

for example?

there's one that a chess player gave me because it made his head spin.

uh... what's it called

(examples for both statements, please: games and symbolics in chess)

oh, the last is easy: the black-and-white comes first

but also the ranks and the war

maybe games about relationships between things?

ah, I see, yes

ah Yinsh

that's what it's called

(googling origin of chess)

boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/7854/yinsh

ooh, that's a rabbit's hole

hadn't heard of Yinsh

One of my favourites is SmallWorld, especially because it looks like you can think ahead, but you really only can in a 2-player game

"Category: Abstract Strategy". Damn.

yeah

I think it's a belgian game

so it might not have reached the other side of the globe :)

nice description for SmallWorld

haha

I haven't played that many board games lately, mostly Settlers of Catan

Ah, I played that to death

have you tried the app for SW?

not yet

I'm not very... 'smart' yet

still getting used to the smartphone I got half a year ago

ah, it's only iTunes

might try, but I really value the sit-down, social aspect of board games

a got a small tablet (Galaxy note 8) and it's probably one of the best investments I've made in my life. My phone sucks though :)

yeah, true

I have an iPad, borrowed from a friend, to test sites and stuff, but I don't want to install any leisure things on it

(was going to write "but you need real friends", hoho)

thanks, mate :)

(is this what GD does to one?)

lol

(no, I meant me!!)

I like word games

for example... pick two words, and find connecting words between them

the less words the better

oh, free-association stuff

I like those as well

yeah

they really get the creativity going

and they are not competitive, they are more...

when I'm stuck, I love to do some mind-mapping to get to a concept to design from

how do you say...

cooperative?

yes!

mind-mapping how?

relating concepts?

just by jotting down the first associations I have with the brief's subjects, and then associating from those associations

like... t-shirt company?

--> cotton --> fluffy --> cat --> eye

and doing that many times over

yes, that's great

you find the weirdest connections to start your sketching with

i apologise, but I gotta go. Gotta pick up my bike from the mechanic

I need a motivating project for my brain

no problem! have a nice day!

motorcycle?

I'll be back in an hour or so

no, just regular human-muscle-powered one

I'll be around, as I said before, sleeping is for the weak

see ya 'round!

powered by ideas!

see ya

motivating project... shut-eye? ;)

xD

drawing

also in editing and meta question-answering frenzy

bike healthy?

it isn't done yet :/

will have to check in later today

oh

apparently, they had to order some specific components

a new bike heart

poetic :)

new drive train

(if that is what it's called)

(English =/= native)

(drive train google results: image2.cpsimg.com/sites/carparts/assets/roadtests/fordmustang/…)

(that would be a creepy looking bike

Tony Stark would be proud of it, I guess

uhm... a new chain and two new sets of gears, then

haha

good

I haven't owned a bike in yeeears, similarly than with chess, I get too distracted

too risky :)

then you won't want to cycle in a city, I guess

struggling with my nomination text

no I won't

wouldn't? xD

I walk

almost everywhere

used to walk to work and back, 7km each way

oh wow

that's more than an hour's walk

it was perfect for thinking about stuff, because it took me around an hour. And an hour is a good measure of time for investigating a subject

I walked home the day before yesterday because... well, bike

it's a nice way to clear the mind

when I work at my 'office', I usually bike there, it's about 45 mins

along a river

really relaxing

sounds really nice

I now live 300mts from my office :)

where does your walk take you through?

(also nice, more sleeping time, but not so much thinking time)

it wasn't that interesting, but there were two awesome bridges

one over the highway, cool design, looong, and the other more like a covered path in zigzags

those noplaces-places

(last part too much traffic)

nice places to let your mind wander

oh I let my mind wander everywhere :D

ah, then now I finally understand your avvie

haha yes

wandering still under control when not driving vehicles or handling heavy machinery

(avatar is by Christian Schloe, great artist)

ok, there you have it

you convinced me

I dont think Iv'e asked you, what kind of stuff do you do, for work?

convinced you of?

graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/election?cb=1

I juggle print and web design

yay!

like them both, being ok at best with both :)

and I'm self-employed

self-employed is good

you're as well?

not at the moment, no

working for a company, doing interface

I want to go back to contracts semi-soon, though

I like moving places, meeting people

sounds adventurous

drifting, like your mind? :)

it's all part of the same 'characteristic', yes

I travel a lot too

I envy you. By the time I dared letting go of some securities, I kind of settled as well

I envy the people who have settled, in a way. Once you start moving around, it's difficult to stop

But once you've settled, it's hard to pick up moving

I really hate moving house, for one.

sounding really cheesy: you don't have a home any more, or the whole world is potentially your home

yeah, true

I love moving houses :D

Monopoly?

monopoly?

as in, the board game

where you build houses and hotels

sorry, I'm quite the geek

no, I do play monopoly too

I don't anymore. My mother always won

haha

monopoly brings up the worst in people, that's why I dont like it too much

depends who you play with, of course

(same with Settlers, too)

uh yeah, I can relate to the Settlers

most of the people I play Settlers with, just complain. Myself included