OSTER project's Twitter
Translations of tweets from @fuwacina. For an archive of other Vocaloid-related Twitters I no longer keep up with, go here.
Is "touching your sweet neck" perhaps not wholesome??? (asking for a friend)
All I can do is fantasize about studying abroad in Paris reunion room-sharing childhood friend yuri.
I do both lyrics and composition completely by instinct.
I dunno anything about lyrics...
And lyrics demand a completely different kind of skill at accurately expressing feelings with words, so it's even harder.
There are only so many words, so even if you select the closest ones, there's always a margin of error that adds up and results in misunderstandings. It's too hard...
If feelings are continuous analog waveforms, words are discrete digital waveforms. You might sample something very similar, but there's always missing information.
The lyrics to Cat and Balloons came out of an effort to be wholesome, stylish, and cute...
I like the potato salad they sell at supermarkets and convenience stores that are a little sour with smaller potato chunks more than the potato-loaded kind my mother makes... Sorry, mom...
I put the video together based on the illustration that was drawn for me, so I want praise.
Want to keep upping my upload rate.
This video is getting more views on NicoNico than YouTube, so I'm feeling like I really do need to put more effort into having people watch on YouTube.
[Picture of Cat and Balloons in Nico rankings] First place! I'm happy! Thank yooou! :clap:
[Jun: "Huh? OSTER, are you thinking "I wanna go out and self-quarantine!" right now?"]
I'm being tested.
A meteor shower happened today, so I'll stream composition tomorrow. :sweat drops:
I'll stream some song-making tomorrow or the day after.
An important announcement about Cat and Balloons: The kitty in the lyrics is the type to chew candy in their mouth. This ends the important announcement.
Let's give myself special permission to do nothing on days I upload a song.
These times after I finish something where it's like I'm out of fuel and can't do anything are such a waste, so I wanna break out of them, but I can't get motivated to do anything...
I wasn't going for that at all, I really didn't know.
C a t A n d B o o b s
[Picture of definitions for the English word "balloon," pointing at the one that says "(American slang) boobs, breasts." "Eh?"]
Imagine your OTPs with my lyrics...
I'm quick to have Lesbian Song fantasies, but when I make everything this sickeningly sweet, my biased CPU unfortunately can't allocate any memory for a man to go in there...
Cat and Balloons sounds like a yuri song about girls who were friends as kids but separated when they changed schools having a chance reunion when studying abroad in Paris, and while buying each other matching necklaces and hitting it off and sharing a fancy but cramped apartment room, they catch glimpses of each other's fragility, and a feeling of "I want to protect her" begins to bud (character limit)
I have something to report to you all.
It's a personal matter, but I have uploaded a new song, so please listen to it.
I'll continue to cooperate with Bassline and Chord Progression in walking the path of a pervert, so please give your regards.
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Enjoy my new song!
An accumulation of endless work with a mouse.
Listening to the backing on its own led me to discover far too late a bassline I'm not fond of, so let's just un-discover that!!!!!
Listen to this mouse-made backing I worked so hard on. #Dominowns
I put two -sans on. :cat: :smoke puff: :smoke puff:
The beautiful and lovely illustration is by shnva-san (@shnva06ka)-san! Thank you very much! :clap: :clap: :clap: :balloon: :cat: :smoke puff:
I did my best under the restriction of not having a backing sus4 sample for the acoustic guitar... Why no sus4...
It's a new song! Give it a listen. :cat: :balloon:
[New Song] Kawaii big band jazz made with all the might a mouse can muster! :sax: :trumpet: :guitar:
A song about reclaiming a lost spring. :cat: :balloon: :balloon: :balloon:
Cat and Balloons feat. Hatsune Miku
YouTube / NicoNico
#Dominowns #OSTERsanCD
30 minutes until my new song.
I'm testing out Twitter's scheduled post function, but how am I supposed to check if it's actually scheduled...
While I listen to music that I worked really hard to make sound like it's live, I keep thinking "I wonder what this'd be like if it were played live"...
It appears 6 PM is most convenient for everyone, so I'll release it at 6 PM.
6 PM made a combeack...
Seems like there might a lot for 8 PM?
There's some real competition happening in this poll.
I think I'll use this poll to decide.
What time will my new song go up?
- 6:00 PM
- 7:00 PM
- 8:00 PM
- 9:00 PM
In the first place, "better" or "worse" with regards to anything is a question of personal tastes. Maybe all that exists in this world are likes and dislikes?
The more ketchup you put on omelette rice, the tastier it is.
Is a joke that needs explanation second-rate or not...?
It's the same as "the more red pepper you put in curry, the tastier it is."
[Re: "complex chord progressions" tweet] It seems some people are taking this tweet as a serious opinion, but I hope you read it with the nuance of "the more energy drinks you drink, the healthier it is."
This is sudden, but today, believe it or not, I'm uploading a new song!!!!!!!
Music? She's in my bed right now, buddy.
People who call urrequited love fun must be so strong-minded, I don't get it at all... I wanna be loved by music more.
Maybe "liking" to me is a feeling of suffering. Because of how much I like it, I get more and more detail-oriented, and chase my ideal, and suffer. Liking something is a fun and painful cruelty.
The fact I can make music makes me suffer, and it saves me.
I'm saved by the fact I can make music, too.
As long as people tell me my music saved them, I want to do the best I can.
If your life is exhausted, doesn't that mean you can't make music?
Even if my life is exhausted, I shall make music.
It's often thought in composition that the more complex chord progressions you use, the better, but the more complex chord progressions you use, the better.
If I win 500 million yen in the lottery, I'll do OSTER "BIG BAND" project 2.
I'll need to do music for another 5000 years.
So cool... I want to be Yoko Kanno-san... At least 0.00001 of a Yoko Kanno-san...
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┃O┃
┃O┃
┃B┃
┃S┃
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#Tanabata #TanabataWishes
You're also free to repeat that 5-minute song 5 billion times if you want.
Spending however many dozens of hours making a song, making a video, only for it to be listened to for 5 minutes. Maybe 1 minute, if they stop partway through. But I give it all for that moment.
Even though it'll get messy again someday, we clean. Even though we'll get hungry again someday, we eat. Even though we'll die someday, we live to the fullest. Just to make moments that shine, we live.
I want composing talent. (because I want composing talent)
RT @MONACA_kosaki Man, I want composing talent... Should I write that on a tansaku?
No one can beat me in lack of self-confidence!!
I'm confident in the fact I'm not living a life so stellar that I can deny someone else's personality or way of life. It's good to have confidence in yourself.
People who fail to recognize that they don't know anything about individual people's circumstances, and say things like "___ people have serious issues" to categorize and deny entire groups, have serious issues. (recursive function)
[Timmy: "The current price for turnips is 29 Bells per turnip!"]
Until the rain stops falling, I can't return...
That spread more than I expected, which is cheering me up... Real grateful.
Vocaloid... Vocaloid?! You know Vocaloid?! Isn't Vocaloid great?! I love stuff like, you know, like OSTER project, her Miracle Paint and Love Ward are so nostalgic, huh! Eh... you don't know her?? Oh, well, sure...! She's so obscure, after all! Aha! Ahahahahaha!!
[Timmy: "The current price for turnips is 33 Bells per turnip!"]
How good would it be if this were a dream... [Spoilers: this low of a price on Monday means she's guaranteed a small spike later in the week.]
Iron nugget x12
Hardwood x6
Clay x12
Stone x12
I'm not amazing because I'm a pro. I'm a pro because I'm amazing.
twinkle testicles friday
The seaweed in ACNH looks like a Dementor.
A good friend of mine went overseas once, and I gave them a stuffed dog as a gift saying to think of it as me. (extremely overbearing woman) They named it Calvados, which made me happy. It's not that kind of song, but Calvados Queen :apple:
If I'm going to be eaten, I won't let anyone touch me again.
This OSTER lady makes all kinds of genres, it's amazing.
I make rock using a mouse.
[VOCALOID] Love Prison [Hatsune Miku]
I make kawaii future bass.
OSTER project - kissing fish feat. Hatsune Miku & Megurine Luka
I make idol songs with emo progressions.
OSTER project - AI Want Your Love! Kiritan feat. AI Kiritan
I make city pop.
OSTER project - Passenger Seat Road Movie feat. Kagamine Rin
I'm a woman who makes wild songs.
Use your might to spread me through the world. :bowing woman:
Sometimes I see tweets like "I'm sad I don't know many people who've heard of OSTER-san." Well, I'm the one who's sad.
My first quiche tasted like haniwa.
In the future, should I transition to lyrics like "Never mind social distancing, I want to touch with you until morning"...?? (new lyrical ritual)
I hope we don't end up in a world where the lyric "I want to touch with you until morning" comes to invite joking comments of "No, practice social distancing!"
I left my pure feelings in my mother's tummy.
Her feelings become a mess without her even realizing, and the final words she's able to wring out are "What should I do?", you see? It's that kind of song. Will you listen, everyone?
Love Ward Miku-chan strikes me as someone who'd never carry around a reusable bag and pay the plastic bag fee every time. Crude and blunt. Wouldn't you like to see a girl like that get toyed with by love? Alright then, dig in.
Perhaps both words and music are raw.
The worse the effects of coronavirus, the more I feel the changing of times, so I think about it more than ever. Yesterday's common sense might be nonsense tomorrow. I have to always be updating my common sense so I can make things that resound in people's hearts.
It's old-timer melancholy hours.
The reason you can instantly understand "ah, she went to the store late at night to buy something that might help with a cold" is because of the common image of a plastic shopping bag. When that underlying common sense changes, the nuance of the lyrics changes with the times.
It's sad thinking that what the Love Ward lyric about "I'm going to see him with a shopping bag in hand" means will probably become less understandable over time. Common sense is always on the move.
R.I.P. free plastic bags
R.I.P. June
Money is more important than life, yes, yes.
[Timmy: "The current price for turnips is 533 Bells per turnip!"]
Another fine day of work.
The chord progression in AI Want Your Love! Kiritan feels like a banquet an idiot came up with.
So even if you tell me "Wouldn't it be more nutritionally balanced if you added some vegetables?", I'll be like "Sorry, find somewhere else that serves salad." I hope all the high-calorie-heads come to my place.
I feel like my songs are like combining curry with fried food and mayonnaise and cheese and other high-calorie foods and baking in the oven, then being like "I've come up with the ultimate meal!!!!" With that focus on thickness over eloquence, I suppose that's why not many chords without 7s show up.
But your replies about the nuanced differences between 9 and add9 are in fact helpful and I'm glad for them, so thank you. :folded hands:
In other words, I'm a little girl.
I'm an annoying woman, so whenever I say "Why does this have such a pretty sound?", I'm the same as an excited little girl going "I wonder why rainbows look so pretty!", and most often not looking for a tangible explanation.
At the time, I always thought "The notes CDE are just all in a row, so why does playing them at the same time have such a pretty sound?" But now that I consider it, why DOES playing them at the same time have such a pretty sound???? :thinking: :thinking: :thinking:
When I hear "add9," I think of the accompaniment in the chorus song "tomorrow," but that's also the kind of add9 that's aiming for a refreshing sound.
I don't find many add9s when I analyze my own songs, it's usually just "also contains a 7," so how am I supposed to use add9? Does having the 7 make for a richer sound in comparison? I associate add9 with accompaniment in chorus songs.
I always write chords containing a 7 as C9, but I'm worrying over whether it's more kind to write C7(9).
Though it's been 20 years since I started making music, I'm turning 18 this year.
Naturally you'd think making songs for 20 years, you'd get tired of it, yet I constantly hear the calling of "As usual, I wanna make something...", and working on songs can make me feel super good like it did yesterday, so music's amazing.
I aim to attempt a variety of genres, and I'm quick to be like "I've made a song like this before, guess I'm a boring one-note person after all, I'm gonna go die," so I need to keep adding to my repertoire or I'll die.
When you make an innumerable amount of songs, it's incredibly common to find you can only come up with similar ideas. But even if it's similar, you can make something properly different if you've leveled up in every way since then. That's why I have to always be leveling up, so I can make something different even I'm when doing something similar.
It's been about 20 years since I started making music, and those 20 years have been a history of battling against "I've done that before... (so it's boring)"
Natural garden deadline:
Hard deadline x9
Iron deadline x3
Ironwood deadline:
Iron deadline x6
Deadline x12
To prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, please lend your assistance with the destruction of mankind. (Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office enveloped in red light)
I'm lousy at Japanese.
The more you dig into things you dislike and bad feelings, the more they come out without end, so there's really no need to dig them up and bring your own ruin. Yet sometimes you brood about stuff, so you need something else in your life to fill your head with, which is what I play games and watch anime for.
People who live happily are people good at turning their back to unhappiness.
Being able to cram in a whole bunch of condensed coolness in the form of phrases that sound totally natural but would be pretty tricky to actually play is what's interesting about making live-style songs digitally, I think... Though of course, I take a different approach if I know it's going to be played live.
As far as art, I think the opinion "if you're going to paint that realistically, just take a photo" is nonsense, because on a canvas, you can paint sensuous meaning that defies physical laws and can't be included in a photo. But yeah, I have a similar sort of feeling about digital music.
When I see art that looks like it's a photograph, I'm like "Amazing!!", but it's hard to get someone to shout "Amazing!!" about digitally composing something that sounds like a live performance. I wonder if that's because of the fanatical nature of composition...
Machines are programmed lifeforms.
Humans are living machines.
I am a machine that makes music.
That said, saying "I hope your happiness lasts" sounds sarcastic too. Putting what you're thinking into words is more difficult than you'd think.
Isn't telling people who got married "be happy" sort of saying they're not happy now??
The thing that goes on the end isn't "chou." :butterfly:
My goal for the future is also to become a tyrannosaurus.
RT @YahooNewsTopics 6-Year Old Discovers Mistake in Dinosaur Encyclopedia
First-grader Jun Ikemiyagi-san (6) from Ginowan, who has loved dinosaurs since age 3 and states "my goal for the future is to become a tyrannosaurus," discovered a mistake in a dinosaur encyclopedia. Publisher Gakken Plus has taken notice and plans to fix it in future printings.
[Re: the previous riddle] Something goes on the end of the words.
It seems like everyone's figured out yesterday's, so it's bustling [with replies of other examples].
Today's.
[Wall has it, floor doesn't
Bee has it, wasp doesn't
Module has it, piece doesn't
Bell has it, chime doesn't
Sow has it, plant doesn't
Pummel has it, beating doesn't]
[Spoilers for solution and original Japanese: Add a "lo" sound to the end. The Japanese version adds "hou" to the end.
Nishin (herring) = nishinhou (binary number system). Sawara (type of mackerel) + hou isn't anything.
Kinou (yesterday) = kinouhou (induction). Ashita (tomorrow) + hou isn't anything.
Saikou (highest) = saikouhou (highest peak). Shikou (supreme) + hou isn't anything.
Chou (butterfly) = chouhou (priceless treasure). Hachi (bee) + hou isn't anything.
A (the first half of Aum/Om) = ahou (idiot). Un (the second half of Aum/Om) + hou isn't anything.
Kanon (canon/cannon) = kanonhou (canon law OR cannon artillery). Rondo (rondo) + hou isn't anything.]
My first kiss tasted like tempura.
Unbelievably, someone got it right, so I'll reveal the answer: it's synths that have articulation switching due to key switches and synths that don't.
Maybe it's iffy whether MODO Bass has it, but it does.
This is so otaku-oriented, no one's going to get this.
[Trilian has it, Keyscape doesn't
Spitfire Chamber Strings has it, Omnisphere 2 doesn't
MODO Bass has it, Massive doesn't
Broadway Big Band has it, Nexus2 doesn't
Prominy SC Electric Guitar has it, BFD 3 doesn't
Prominy Hummingbird has it, Stylus RMX doesn't]
When did I become a riddle bot?
The exact same approach.
[Since I can't think of more English ones for this, I'll just list the Japanese ones, which follow a similar pattern to the first.
Oiran (courtesan) = raion (lion). Maiko (dancing girl) doesn't rearrange into an animal.
Maku (membrane) = kuma (bear). Suji (muscle) doesn't rearrange into an animal.
Daraku (depravity) = rakuda (camel). Kinben (diligence) doesn't rearrange into an animal.
Karui (light) = iruka (dolphin). Omoi (heavy) doesn't rearrange into an animal.
Koin (coin) = inko (parakeet). Shihei (paper money) doesn't rearrange into an animal.
Baabii (Barbie) = biibaa (beaver). Rika-chan (Licca-chan, a similar kind of doll) doesn't rearrange into an animal.]
[She posted another one using emoji which I'm not sure I get, and that might not be translatable anyway.]
It's interesting seeing so many examples come up that didn't occur to me no matter how much I racked my brain.
I made a serious has-it/doesn't-have-it riddle. [A kind of riddle where the "has it" column has a certain quality that the "doesn't" column does not.] If you get it, reply with some other examples. :kissy face:
[Intake has it, exhaust doesn't
Surely has it, definitely doesn't
Dorothy has it, the Wizard doesn't
Tokyo has it, New York doesn't
Certain has it, absolute doesn't
Clinging has it, hanging doesn't]
[Spoilers for the solution and the original Japanese words: Read the syllables backwards, looking at the pronunciation moreso than the spelling. The Japanese version rearranged syllables freely, but also followed a theme.
Mago (grandchild) = goma (sesame seeds). Ko (child) doesn't rearrange into a food.
Gorin (Olympics) = ringo (apple). W-hai (World Cup) doesn't rearrange into a food.
Suna (sand) = nasu (eggplant). Tsuchi (earth) doesn't rearrange into a food.
Sashiba (false tooth) = basashi (horsemeat). Ireba (dentures) doesn't rearrange into a food.
Rubii (ruby) = biiru (beer). Safaia (sapphire) doesn't rearrange into a food.
Raiku (like) = ikura (salmon roe). Rabu (love) doesn't rearrange into a food.]
Girls who are like big dogs, with a smart and nervous side but they're actually affectionate, are super cute... (talking fast)
Don't know much about mountain goddeses, but I slept with all of them.
I saw a tweet about how gods of mountains are goddesses, so they like hot guys and don't want women to come, but what're you just assuming the mountain goddesses are straight for?
It's Yuri Day? You should've told me sooner.
OSTER project - kissing fish feat. Hatsune Miku & Megurine Luka
It takes from my lifespan every time I make a wild song, so it might be starting to become dangerous.
I only make wild songs.
I just made a wild song...
More than they realize, people tend to decide things based on their past experience, and you can generally consider said experience to be pretty biased. I need to understand that I'm a weirdo.
To be serious, there are so many things you need to experience yourself to get why someone would be suffering from it, so you absolutely can't just casually deny someone's feelings and pain. It's way too impertinent to act like you can look at all things like a god and properly judge them.
I'm troubled by how I'm not getting 5 billion yen in my bank account.
I super don't like the phrase "trivial worry." 'Cause only that person understands their own suffering, right?! It's one of those things you should only say to yourself and never to somebody else!
I thought "channel strip" was referring to something sexier.
["CONGRATULATIONS! Cleared Puzzle Level 1000!"]
Progress.
If I can make it through the month, I'll stream making a Bubblegum K.K. arrangement...
It's the same for art, and manga, and movies... They're the crystallized effort of people who have endured all sorts of hassle. That's why creations are to be revered.
The music everyone can just listen to casually took a ton of troublesome doing this and that and whatsit to make, y'hear.
I mean, having the minimum knowledge to produce sound with a DAW, thinking up a melody, considering chords, coming up with phrases for each part, understanding how to use each of your synths, writing lyrics, doing mixing and mastering, and having to make stuff like lyrics sheets and strings-horn sheets and chord sheets is just such a high bar, y'know??????
Making songs with your ears alone is seriously tiring, so people who want to make complex songs should really study composition theory.
Composition is so nonsensical, I'm gonna snap.
[Toro: "When you're deep kissing in your room, you have to keep quiet so your neighbor doesn't kabedon you, meow."]
Accurate information.
Having to do both is one of the hard parts of being a composer-arranger...
Retakes when making a super-difficult rhythm game song: "Please add more notes."
Retakes when arranging: "Please have less notes."
If it's for me to wear, I prefer a swimsuit that hides my body lines, and if it's to put on someone else, I prefer a swimsuit that doesn't hide their body lines. Thanks in advance.
During an interview back when I made Summer Idol, I remember being asked "OSTER-san, what kind of swimsuit do you like?", and I wasn't sure if they were referring to what I'd want to wear or what I'd want to have Miku-chan and company wear, and it made me super nervous.
My name came up in this survey because it got a lot of votes, so just the fact my song is part of a lineup of many famous songs is a victory for me, and I have no regrets...
Take this survey, please! (not saying to vote for Summer Idol for questio
RT @_MitchieM Take this survey, please! (not saying to vote for Ageage Again for question 2) [Question 2 asks to pick from a selection of "Beat the Heat! Cheerful and Energetic" songs that were the most voted-for in a prior survey.]
Everyone is a born genius, so it's good to live saying you're glad you were born a genius.
Glad I was born as a genius...
Made a genius song.
RT @art_vie_keisuke I believe dimM7 = mM7(-5)!
m, dim, and aug depend on the root note letter (i.e. C), while M depends on the 7. But since dim is already a tetrad that contains A, it ended up getting mixed up with (-5), so writing it as "dim7" originated as a way to distinguish them. :light bulb:
Music's really hard since just changing notes by a half-tone super changes their sound and function, I can't make music.
When it comes to dims, 7 becomes A. Let's try understanding it that way. But then when you write dimM7, what happens with the composite notes????
C Eb Gb B → CmM7-5?????
That last one's wrong, huh...
C Eb Gb A → Cdim7 (C diminished seventh)
C Eb Gb Bb → Cm7-5 (C half-diminished)
C Eb Gb B → CmM7 (C minor major seventh)
I don't get theory at all, and even when it's explained to me, I'm a dummy and usually don't get it.
RT @zussie_piano The thing I absolutely can't comprehend about chord naming. [Video about how the difference between C/C7 or Cm/Cm7 is adding Bb, yet when it comes to Cdim, Cdim7 adds A. And if you add Bb to Cdim, that's called Cm7b5.]
I've said this 5 billion times.
Does anyone understand the feeling of being afraid of being left behind by society, yet more afraid of making contact with society?
I want to use a supercomputer to load up ultra-huge synths in 0 seconds.
[In English] I want to be an invincible woman
I was too relaxed in the first half of June, and now I'm working like mad, so hold on...
Wanna be invincible.
Strike while the iron's hot.
Stan while you can stand to stan.
I want to stream composition again, but it's hard to get to work on a hobby song.
[Jun: "Let's turn out the lights, OSTER, Jun will party animal your fatigue away, hop!"]
What a flatterer.
[Jun: "Noblesse oblige, while I was harvesting fruit, I kinda got a craving for nude women, hop..."]
Such a vivid imagination.
Their home was destroyed by Frieza, though. [Excerpt from the lyrics: "Si, we were always two who were one, always unbeatable back home"]
I imagined Kami and Piccolo doing a Seishun Amigo duet and was cheered up.
I feel like somebody getting turned into a woman makes them cute, yet getting turned into a man doesn't necessarily mean they'll be attractive... Is that just how my brain's built to blame...?
I've never even entertained the notion of being accepted by everyone anyway, so I'm like "let 'em be free."
When they're output in the form of words and actions, there's responsibility to be taken, but shouldn't thoughts themselves be free...?
And when I see people furious that someone has such and such thoughts on something, I feel like that judgement of thoughts themselves is persecution based in biases. Not being pleased when people don't have the thoughts you want them to is a super scary way of thinking.
I think everyone has biases, so I'm biased to think that people who say they have no biases just don't notice their own bias.
I am invincible.
I'm very happy to have a bunch of situations lately where I'm someone's mother.
I'm AAAA's mother.
RT @q07a_ ["Who's the first composer you took inspiration from in digital music?"]
O S T E R p r o j e c t - s a n
I'm a little swamped with work, so uploading any music-related videos this month might be hard. Please enjoy my stupid tweets in the meantime.
I've lost followers, possibly because I've been saying lots of stupid stuff, but I believe I'll continue to say a lot of stupid stuff. Thanks in advance.
I'm sensitive, so when I saw the word "lecherous" trending, I felt like I was being dissed and got depressed.
Could that be because you do it with a mouse?????????
Making music is time-consuming.
Is there an app that can turn you into a furry girl yet?
Can't make music.
You'll inevitably get judged and ranked by others as long as you live, but that's nothing more than their opinions, and life's easier if you assume "absolute value" is a made-up fantasy. One man's trash is another man's treasure.
What's important in both creation and in life isn't having pride in being better than others, nor feeling inferior to others, but drawing a line of "other people are other people, I'm me," is what I think.