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Sure, I'm not saying it was the entirety of your point but it was a big part of it. I don't know if recognizing that relationships run in big part on reciprocal value is an oversimplification; it's the baseline reality underneath a lot of romance. One can dress it up in whatever psychological language they want, but at the end of the day, healthy dynamics happen when both people genuinely enrich each other's lives rather than demanding accommodation through guilt or social shaming.

I've been playing around with it and adding new stuff to the demo, I'm on the 7th version now. There's now a soundtrack and better SFX. https://sites.google.com/view/lotadungeon7/ I changed the character to Livia Illiacourt since I want to release the Sanguine Masquerade as the first game. Illythiah doesn't have too much to do with the story at that point. Reason being it's early on in the story so the magic is not really developed and Livia and the enemies use blade weapons and muskets/pistols not elaborate spells. I really want to explore narratively how you take our real world and then add a bit of magic to it to turn it into a pure fantasy world. I want the story to be very heavy on politics and economics and not solely be about magic or "the power of friendship." Only a part of the game is gonna be about combat and the rest about storytelling and exploring how the fall of an empire and the rise of another happens. Especially exploring how power works and how the characters in the story build it and lose it. I like this workflow because the feedback loop is so quick I can immediately test and implement new ideas. HTML 5 isn't the most powerful engine but I can use it to develop the main ideas of the game like the different weapon types, upgrading system, stat system, items, menu system, enemy bestiary, etc.

It's a good lesson to learn while you're young. Giving your money to the market to make money for you while you're young and have the energy to build a cashflow business that you can actually control is a bit silly. I came to this conclusion after getting into crypto in the 2021 bullrun, making some decent money from it and then I got into it again hardcore in 2024-2025 but realized that if I spent all the time I was taking studying finance and macroeconomics and just put it into my own business, I would be far richer far quicker. I read the Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous, listened to like 10 Michael Saylor podcasts and bought some Microstrategy stock at its peak at $420 USD around July 2025. I don't regret it, it taught me a lot about how capital and the world works but really the more middle men are in between you and your money the less control you have of it. Capital markets are a middleman, Bitcoin is a middle man and so are individual stocks like MSTR or NVDA or whatever else you're buying. The best way to be as close to money as possible is developing a skillset that lets you solve problems in the marketplace with high margins. Once you achieve that you will flip your relationship to capital markets and other people will now start wanting to put their money in your business. It's also another way to think about diversification. Just watched a good reel by Ray Dalio on the concept: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DfxYs6qC1CT/

How old are you? You can afford to wait a long time to setup your life before starting to have kids. You can freeze your sperm and have it be at in its peak state even into your 50s and 60s. That would be an extreme age but with anti aging and age reversal starting to look quite promising, there are all kinds of options that look to be possible in the next 10-20 years. I'm 31 and am still building my life. My fatherhood instincts are kicking in though and I don't wanna delay it forever. Probably around my late 30s I will have built the life I want and experienced all that I want out of singlehood and will be ready to pivot towards settling down with one or a few partner and build a family with kids. I think being setup financially and having a career/business that provides a solid income while not requiring too much time makes such a difference in building a high quality life and not just struggling with a partner while trying to raise a child.

If you mean being more stoic, confident and grounded as opposed to being overly emotional and engaging in antagonistic rants left and right then of course the former expression is gonna be more attractive. It doesn't have to be a political point as plenty of conservatives are overly emotional and belligerent and some leftists have class, charisma and are charming in their well thought out rhetoric.

Dating is a market at the end of the day. If dating you comes with a list of 100 requirements then you need to offer something of value to makeup for it otherwise your offer is probably not gonna get many interested suitors. Being available and interested to join and partake in someone's life is indeed an attractive trait that usually younger partners offer. See how you recapped the whole phenomena to younger women are more easily manipulatable but older women know what they want; that's not what the concept of baggage means. It reminds me of some(not all I'm sure) groups of women that when giving each-other dating advice they just give a narcissistic slop of "you're a queen babe, you're too good for him!" when their friend has objective flaws that require fixing to meet a man that's high quality and will not overlook them. Part of bringing a lot to the table is bringing a self-development attitude to your dating life and making sure that no matter what gender and age you are, someone would objectively get a lot from having you in their life. Well it goes to show how weak a lot of traditional marriages are. They are not built with deep compatibility in mind just in people that get along to the bare minimum and child rear together. When the kids grow up and if the man has done well in his career/business then of course he's gonna look to split with his partner if he finds not much value in his relationship. What I see from a lot of marriages is bickering and codependency. Only a few seem to be deep unions with truly compatible people who value each other deeply in all kinds of ways. Older women can bring a massive amount of value if they keep working on themselves and now have more confidence in who they are, an understanding of how the world works and expertise from their career/business, have kept some charm and easy going ness to them and don't have that jadedness that some older people of either gender have, keep taking care of themselves physically, etc. There are some common red pill talking points on women reaching the wall and not being attractive after a certain age. That's not where my post is coming from at all, I find some older women very attractive and would definitely date one in my polycule. My post is aimed at people using shaming and manipulation to get their needs met instead of providing genuine value.

Looks like a sweet subreddit, thanks for sharing! There is some cutting edge science being shared on that subreddit. The guy testing the physics engine on this one is pushing the boundaries what mankind can achieve https://www.reddit.com/r/TopologyAI/comments/1xtcwl3/i_was_wondering_if_fable52_is_good_at_physics/

What about if the AI bubble pops and it drops 20-60% further in the next 12 months?

I would work to develop healthy cashflow assets with high margins. Relying on the capital markets to increase your wealth is fine but if you want to take a more intentional and direct approach to the process then you can learn about business and operations and buy into businesses that interest you or start your own. Relying on being a passive investor you could be twiddling your thumbs losing money for the next 3 years if we end up in a long term recession but if you become a skilled operator and entrepreneur then you can be making loads of money in that time. Easier said than done but it's possible to do and the effort is rewarded by the market in a whole different way than just hoping that time in the market will outdo a downturn.

You have to save her first of course and this is easily doable since you are the chosen one! I'm a fan tbh I teared up a bit watching that 15 min one lol

These are getting pretty damn good lol

I think this is the first big case of an AI remake of a popular movie going viral and people are loving it. There are different versions made by different creators but it shows a preview of what's going with AI and entertainment. You will soon be able to remake any movie, tv show and anime the way you want to with better writing or a new twist or different characters or exploring how different choices would've impacted the story. On top of being able to create brand new stories and IPs. We are at the cusp of a new renaissance of entertainment. I think that's already phenomenal in and of itself. I think it's far greater than that though since a new massive supply of high quality entertainment is great but it's just that; entertainment. It'll also be accompanied with new ways to interact with these worlds through AI agents and digital assets and bringing forth web 3.0 which will allow us to have shared ownership of these new and even existing media properties(Pokemon being a good example with many people making $100k+/year from starting a Pokemon Cards business.)

Just made this morning the first webapp playable version of my game project Legend of the Abyss! https://sites.google.com/view/lotadungeon5/ Playable on desktops and laptops, I haven't started to figure out how to do the mobile UI for it yet. Craziest part is this was done in one prompt on Gemi 4 Argon. I'll play around with it over the next few weeks and let's see what it looks like 1000 prompts later.

Holy shit, it's actually happening. I'm happy to announce you can now actually play Legend of the Abyss! https://sites.google.com/view/lotadungeon5/ It works on laptops/desktops but on Mobile the UI makes it not playable yet. I don't know what I would call this? Pre Pre Alpha maybe; it's definitely not Diablo 4 yet but we are getting somewhere. I just started playing around with the new Gemini 4 Argon model and it made the game in HTML 5. This one came from one prompt "Can you create a 2d side-scrolling game where a female character with white hair is going through a level and shooting fireballs at monsters(make 3 types: skeletons, orcs and spiders) as well as being able to hit them with her sword at close range. she has a mana bar that recharges over time and a health bar. each monster has a number of health between 40-200. " I'm gonna keep playing around with it over the next few weeks and we'll see what it looks like 1000 prompts from now. We are right at the start of AI gaming massively taking off. I'm gonna keep focusing on two concepts as my moats: 1) Real life crossover into mixed reality gaming. 2) Collectible digital assets. If you can make friends in real life in your city by playing a game like local LAN or TCG communities do and also make some money from it then you got the recipe for an incredibly valuable ecosystem that can scale to ridiculous proportions if executed properly. The playable character in that demo is the fire mage queen Illythiah Grey

They got beat by Bloomberg Originals. They had an interview with him that was about to drop and they flipped it to a breaking news on his affair type of thing. @Inliytened1 It's a bit silly to consider yourself being wiser than Sadghuru lol. Would you really claim that wisdom is one of your top character traits? I would perhaps give you authenticity and charm but not quite the voice of wisdom my man.