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  • Emotions are somewhat intangible sensations that you can observe within some perceptive core of your being. We call that our consciousness. Typically the various types of emotions are governed by your body’s systems using chemical signaling. Most emotions felt in the consciousness also express themselves through various sensations in different areas of the body. For example, face getting flushed, frowning, clenched fists, dilated pupils, changing heart rate, tingling sensations, etc. So in a sense it’s very real to say that one can feel one’s feelings.

    It’s fair to say that anger requires a primary driving emotion that is not processed or expressed well. Anger is somewhat of a maladaptive process within the human psyche.

    Reasons for anger can be various, some examples are feelings of powerlessness, fear, resentment, jealousy, uncertainty, abandonment. One positive thing anger can do is act as an indicator that there is some underlying feeling that should be explored.

















  • Circa 1997 I was making some innovative new games, employed by a dude who’d put millions of his own money into the company. He was completely nonplussed when I brought him 20 CDs in a sealed box to remove from the building and store off site. He thought I’d lost my damned mind and blew it off as ravings of a stressed dev. I pointed out real threats to our IP including the hardware failures and even so far as the building burning down. 2 years of custom art and code gone. “Unlikely. Relax.”

    After I moved on… an ex co-worker who’s still a longtime friend, tells me a different division lost a huge amount of FMV over some whoops-I-destroyed-the-wrong-drive blunder. 20 days to render on an 8 or 10 machine farm. Poof - No backups. In 1997 even with top-of-the-line gear it took an insane investment to render quality 3D.

    The friggin’ carelessness irks the shit out of me as I type ahah