[David's grinning between sips of his tea while Balthier talks.]
You and I are going to need weekly discussions at this rate. Do you have any idea how much I've longed for someone to talk to like this? You're brilliant, Balthier, and the way you think about things is familiar but refreshing.
[He missed Jane Foster because she asked things like this sometimes.]
Okay, yes, I can iterate the dance, and I theoretically could synthesize, but what I get can't impart creativity itself. I don't have the spark for creativity in a lot of fields. So let's actually look at it as a comparison to music instead of cooking as a starting point. Say I was to acquire the skills to play a certain instrument from someone, and let's go for obscure for my world. I pick up how to play a lute. I don't have the creative spark myself to make new pieces of lute music. But I can synthesize from principles and pieces I know from other instruments. I could iterate a piece of piano music to the lute or lute to the piano, because that relies a lot on theory, rather than full on creativity. Will it sound as good as someone who has a creative spark doing an adaptation? No. But it will sound true.
Cooking? That I do have a creative spark for on my own. While I do work with recipes, and sometimes even pick up new recipes from people who just KNOW how to do certain things, I bring my own experiences, preferences, creativity, and even the mindfulness of who my audience is into play to create something new, or adapt something old. I can even make a new dish, but again, that's a spark in myself mixing with the absorbed skill of cooking from my father, and years of practice. With technology, where I'm actually just a prodigy and capable of great intuitive leaps of my own, I can go further. These glasses I made by hand, and they're pretty advanced for my world. Put me in a room with other great tech minds and honestly, I'd probably become one of the best tech minds of several generations.
[Hopefully that explains it all.]
I've got to warn you, I tend to cook for my friends. So you better just be forthright and start thinking about what you like, what your allergies are, and when you're going to draw a line to tell me to stop cooking for you. Just don't expect baked goods. I'm terrible with those. That I lack the talent for.
[The figure skating leaves David flustered for a moment. The guy didn't even seem bothered that it was something David was a) somehow missing, b) planning on stealing back from someone, and c) that he was working with a god to do it. Damn, he could like this guy. But what really leaves him flustered was thinking back. He'd only ever shown his skating prowess to one person before and the memories of that day were... Well, not for public consumption.]
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You and I are going to need weekly discussions at this rate. Do you have any idea how much I've longed for someone to talk to like this? You're brilliant, Balthier, and the way you think about things is familiar but refreshing.
[He missed Jane Foster because she asked things like this sometimes.]
Okay, yes, I can iterate the dance, and I theoretically could synthesize, but what I get can't impart creativity itself. I don't have the spark for creativity in a lot of fields. So let's actually look at it as a comparison to music instead of cooking as a starting point. Say I was to acquire the skills to play a certain instrument from someone, and let's go for obscure for my world. I pick up how to play a lute. I don't have the creative spark myself to make new pieces of lute music. But I can synthesize from principles and pieces I know from other instruments. I could iterate a piece of piano music to the lute or lute to the piano, because that relies a lot on theory, rather than full on creativity. Will it sound as good as someone who has a creative spark doing an adaptation? No. But it will sound true.
Cooking? That I do have a creative spark for on my own. While I do work with recipes, and sometimes even pick up new recipes from people who just KNOW how to do certain things, I bring my own experiences, preferences, creativity, and even the mindfulness of who my audience is into play to create something new, or adapt something old. I can even make a new dish, but again, that's a spark in myself mixing with the absorbed skill of cooking from my father, and years of practice. With technology, where I'm actually just a prodigy and capable of great intuitive leaps of my own, I can go further. These glasses I made by hand, and they're pretty advanced for my world. Put me in a room with other great tech minds and honestly, I'd probably become one of the best tech minds of several generations.
[Hopefully that explains it all.]
I've got to warn you, I tend to cook for my friends. So you better just be forthright and start thinking about what you like, what your allergies are, and when you're going to draw a line to tell me to stop cooking for you. Just don't expect baked goods. I'm terrible with those. That I lack the talent for.
[The figure skating leaves David flustered for a moment. The guy didn't even seem bothered that it was something David was a) somehow missing, b) planning on stealing back from someone, and c) that he was working with a god to do it. Damn, he could like this guy. But what really leaves him flustered was thinking back. He'd only ever shown his skating prowess to one person before and the memories of that day were... Well, not for public consumption.]
Maybe I will sometime.