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Wow fascinating. I rank porn videos /100 to find the best adult art on the internet and identify my interests over time but I never thought about logging masturbation. What is the use case for it?

Did your sex drive go down massively? Usually trans men report that they finally understand men when they start taking Testosterone lol. I imagine being high estrogen makes you feel things way deeper, avoid conflict more, be more anxious and not be as horny as the average male.

Good stuff bro. I would advise you to try online dating on top of cold approach. Cold approaching is extremely inefficient and to get to the point where you go on dates and get laid consistently from it will either take months/years or for most guys it'll never happen. Whereas 30% of new marriages now come from dating apps. I would make a profile on all major ones Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, Facebook dating, Feeld and Badoo and you should be able to get to the point where you're having 1 new date a week from it pretty reliably. You don't need to be a male model to make it work, you just need to hit the right archetypes for your pictures to pique female interest. This guy covers the main ones pretty well. Basically pictures of you dressed nicely at a nice restaurant or rooftop bar in your city, one of you in a social setting, one of you doing something badass like smoking a cigar/riding a motorcycle/with BDSM handcuffs, one of you in a cool location, etc.

I just made a post on why I think NFTs are coming back. To keep riffing off of that train of thought, I learned a lot from Gary Vee in my business journey. Usually he's pretty on point but I think he made a big blunder with his NFT collection here The core idea is great and it'll probably make some people money but it's guilty of the massive structural failure of having a big identity crisis. Who is the target audience for this? Kids will find it weird that characters are called Empathy Elephant, Patient Panda or Accountable Ant and adults will find it cringe. I think he has the right idea of highlighting virtues as the core of his IP but I think he missed a big obvious thing here : anime. Anime is built all around values and the whole plots are based on friendship, courage, hero's journey, complex ethical dilemmas, etc but they package it in gripping storytelling instead of bizarre cartoons. Please watch this and tell me who on earth will enjoy this If anything, a parent that catches his kid watching will probably be concerned that it's tied to a highly controversial speculative asset. I think it's a case of someone being business/marketing focused first instead of organically understanding the art of the industry they're getting into. He's trying to replicate Pokemon and Disney but both of these have actual high quality storylines. Pokemon is about youngsters playing with extremely dangerous creatures while having epic adventures, making friends and saving the world. What the fuck is the cartoon I linked about? This is part of my strategy with Legend of the Abyss; understanding what other projects are doing right and wrong and making sure my project is built on a solid foundation. I just came up with a sick twist integrating augmented reality, taking some ideas from Pokemon Go. I would honestly want to play the game I'm envisioning and can't wait to make it happen so I can actually play it with people. It's gonna be insane, hold on to your seats boys and girls. Gary Vee understands market trends quite well and I think he's very right about NFTs and collectibles having huge momentum that will endure over the coming decades. I think his vision as a creative and artist is lacking big time on this one though.

Makes sense, at the start we are nervous and tend to ramble usually instead of having a more intentional conversational flow. Are you collecting Instagrams from this or just numbers?

@Emerald Careful, Emerald. If guys stop treating female validation like fentanyl, half the dating advice industry will go bankrupt overnight. That pops the AI bubble, triggers the prophesied Armageddon, and collapses the entire universe. You're playing with fire here.

I want this timestamped so I can say I told you so. I think NFTs are a fundamentally great technology and the mid 2022 crash of the industry has no bearing on it's potential future success. You see it today with collectibles blowing up as people are looking for a mix of entertainment and personal finance. It just makes so much sense. I think web 3 as a whole and Web 3 gaming are gonna be huge. If I had to give it a timeline I would say in about 5 years bullish case and by 2035 latest. For it to surpass it's previous market cap of $40 billion It's also gonna piggyback on the AI slop dissatisfaction as generative AI makes anything digital very abundant. We are overall gonna be in an entertainment renaissance in the 2030s as generative video makes movie production and game production accessible to the masses. More consumerism and more entertainment by itself is not that valuable but anchored by a wave of investing in collectibles makes too much sense. Just to be clear the previous bubble was built from the euphoria of the money printing around the covid era and that overvalued basically non-products. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the literal concept of non-fungible tokens that will make video game items, media assets and perhaps all kinds of asset tradable on the blockchain. I see it with the IP I'm building now Legend of the Abyss, making a cool plot and game is one thing but creating an economy that people can participate in and also get wealthy from has perhaps literally uncapped potential. Axie Infinity was the progenitor of web 3 gaming but in 10 years actual mainstream AAA titles will embrace the tech en masse.

Not particularly but I don't think he'll be allowed to work with children so that's a non-factor. Also there is a concept for this : Recidivism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recidivism Criminology is a deeply studied field that makes up the foundation of the most western legal systems around the world. Blind revenge doesn't do much good. Don't worry AI is coming soon to spare us the execution! Knowing that your society is anti death and violence is a good point too though on a serious note. I do seriously believe that wars themselves will leave humanity in the next 20-30 years after we figure out global AI policing. Psychosis is hard to understand man. The fact that she sent her husband away beforehand is pretty damning though. Didn't the prosecution obviously highlight that fact? What was the defence's reply?

He's one of the only cyborgs in Star Wars, it's kind of cool. I just rewatched Revenge of the Sith the other day, homeboy got wrecked by Kenobi lol. He should've studied fencing a bit more that was embarrassing I would give it a go, they make it work quite well. It shows his fall from grace and Sidious replacing him and him even getting chased by the empire which culminates in fighting Vader. The 8.5 on IMDB is well deserved.

How do you know she's not repentant? I imagine that if you had killed your own kids that would shatter your psyche in all kinds of ways that would leave you pretty emotionless and not seeming like a normal person to others. They do release murderers after they've served their sentences. What would you do then capital punishment for anyone that kills someone? I think we moved away from the death sentence and that's led to a generally better society. What goal do you aim to accomplish by further punishment of the murderers if the goal of rehabilitation has already been achieved? Do you have compassion for the perpetrators or only the victims? It is an important discussion to have.

Well rehabilitation is the goal, not punishment for punishment's sake right? Punishment as a concept is only really useful for scaring criminals away from crime or perhaps to make the victim's family feel better (even that's a dubious justification) and in this case the victim is the husband that got remarried right away so I don't know if punishing his ex wife does much for him. This woman has to live with what's she done for the rest of her life, that seems punishment enough as long as her psychiatric team is confident she won't hurt anyone else. I think that's why she's getting so much support because people feel her pain and think she's been through enough already.

Well you do have a point but not the full point. Sour grapes just means disliking what you cannot get or I mean even if you can get it, you feel like perhaps it's too hard and rationalize it's not worth getting at all. It's a fair point to say that beauty is not everything but let's not demonize attractive people or talk ourselves out of attracting hot women. It's also about self-awareness and knowing what you want. If I walk down the street in downtown Montreal I can see dozens of really attractive women. I want to sleep with some of them. Perhaps it's not as important for others but usually men talk themselves out of beautiful women because their subconscious makes a calculation that they can't get them, or it's too hard might as well not try. Pretending that beauty is not real so you can sleep easier at night seems a bit silly and that's why I spend time working on my self-development, social circle and status so that I have an abundance of options when it comes to my dating life. I encourage every man to do the same.

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That's a good blog post, I hadn't read it before thanks for sharing. It makes sense, I think I agree if we're talking about the poetic beauty of death. My point was more towards the earthly reality of it.

I think good but not great. The rating of 8.3 compared to Game of thrones' 9.2 makes sense. Sorry I never got the tag, didn't see this thread until it was bumped Yeah the writing is much worse and so are the characters. Aegon seems to be the only one with a really cool character arc. I think they got rid of Otto too quickly, the smart mastermind type of characters make shows much more interesting. Game of Thrones also got worse when Tywin died. The lack of nudity also takes some of the edginess off imo, I think they should've put more in. The last battle was gripping but a bit rushed imo. I did love how they showed Ulf being an unreliable drunk and ruining the fight, that seems like a realistic plot that would happen in the chaos of medieval battles. Rhaenyra is a very bland character. The only thing I like about her is it shows how heavy the crown lies and how hard her life is. Daemon fucking her to get closer to the throne is an interesting plot line, they should've went a bit deeper into the implications that has for his character. It seems like they only focused on the taboo side of it and not too much into how obsessed he is with power. I guess they do show him being a liability to Rhaenyra with him wanting to conquer the world while she's concerned about the stability of the kingdom. The last supper murder scene of the gold cloaks was great, super terrifying stuff. I wish they showed more from the perspective of the assassins, I just watched episode 2 of shogun where a female assassin goes on a killing spree and it was pretty badass. The dragon fight scene was sweet. I like how Daemon first orders Caraxes to kill Sheepstealer and then has pity on him and leaves him be. Shows insight into Daemon's character and how deeply he values the dragons that give power to house Targaryen.