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Yes I'm experiencing an exponential curve in the things that I'm able to accomplish that I only dreamed of 10 years ago. I still have some major roadblocks and bottlenecks that are stopping me from really actualizing my full life purpose but the past 5 years have been a blast. I've been able to get paid to host parties and photoshoot with models, host my own fashion show, get into the concert industry and overall be on a career path that is both fun and lucrative in the end. It's not magic and its step by step so I had to move back with my dad to save on money because my cashflow isn't there yet but the dream is happening; slowly but surely. If you have Instagram you can look at the fashion show I hosted and how it came together over a few months last year here : https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18060769145048516/ Not that long ago I was a basement nerd playing League of Legends 12 hours a day so I'm quite happy with how my life is going. In 5 years the cashflow should be solid and I should be able to travel the world, date all the women I want and be able to contribute positively to the lives of the people in my communities.

Good, that's a great place to start. You should have goals otherwise there is literally not much point to life. What do you like about reality that you want to experience more of? If you're feeling anhedonia which is reduced ability to feel pleasure that's a key part of depression then at least start by anti goals which are things that you dislike or hate. So for example I dislike having another man tell me what to do and being forced to work jobs so financial independence through entrepreneurship is one of my core life goals.

You're mixing up executive strategy with legal validity. The administration used IEEPA first because national emergency declarations skip procedural reviews entirely. Once SCOTUS struck that down for lacking explicit tariff language, switching to explicit trade statutes like Section 338 or Section 301 is standard administrative maneuvering not a sign that the argument is weak and won't work. Section 338 grants broad authority to combat perceived trade discrimination against US commerce; it isn't limited to a strict line-by-line tariff parity match. Also court challenges take months or years to wind through the Court of International Trade. Even if SCOTUS eventually rules against them, the tariffs sit in place during the litigation. Canadian exporters and supply chains have to deal with the immediate economic reality today, not a theoretical court injunction 1 year or more from now. Section 338 is from the 1930s and has no recent precedent so it will perhaps successfully be challenged down the line but for the foreseeable future it will allow the trade war to go on.

Nightgame is good for extroverts. Introverts should go for online dating undoubtedly. When I was in my fuckboy phase I would get laid every week from online dating. You get tinder platinum for $50, you 1-2 boosts at $5 each and drinks and you get laid consistently with almost mathematical precision for like $20 lol. Mankind was not supposed to have this power, its too powerful! They key is to have a pulling methodology in place. I would invite girls to have drinks by the lake and wow surprise I live on the lake and was we go to the liquor store to get drinks I would say wanna go back to my place and listen to music and chill and 80% would be down. Some dudes have weird online dating strategy where they meet the girl next to her place and then try to invite themselves over or meet halfway where there is no option to pull and that's just self-sabotage. One of my ex clients told me this story where he was at the park drinking wine with a girl and hitting it off and she was into it and he tried to fuck her behind a bush and it almost worked but her logical brain took over and was like wtf is going on NO and the magic did not happen that night. You should ideally have a place by yourself with mood lighting, a smooth sex music playlist ready to go and good smells to make her relaxed and get her to escalate on you if anything. I had a messy af roommate that made our life a living hell but when he would have a date he would clean the whole apartment spotless each time, it worked. Key to online dating is to have the right archetype in your pictures, you can do it well even if you're not that good looking. Like have bdsm handcuffs, motorcycle, cigar, nice place overlooking the city, nice dress shirt, shirtless if you're fit, etc. If a chick is looking to get fucked she should find your profile easily in the sea of boring dudes. This 5 part tinder guide is a must read https://killyourinnerloser.com/tinder-guide/

@Carl-Richard Makes a lot of sense, I like the job system's inter reliance I wanna implement that for LotA as well. Thanks for the detailed explanation, 3 hours on that video is a bit much but I'll watch like a 20 mins video and get back to you with some insights I get about the game that we can discuss. That 70% community poll is cool, I'll write that down. One massive consistent complaint across most major games is that game dev just don't listen to the community so clearly there's something there. @AerisVahnEphelia Love it, it's common for smart talented people to want to build their own projects instead of working regular prestige jobs like FANG. I completely relate. I also agree with your points. Soon enough I think you will be able to make a one prompt game. Project Genie by Google Deepmind is working on precisely that. My prediction is that it's gonna lead to a bunch of generic games flooding the market which is why I'm looking to build massive amounts of depth into my project before this drops so that when it does I can skip a lot of the boring coding and just plug my system into Genie and other systems that have a first movers advantage on the wave of new game dev that are gonna pop up once everyone can make a game in 20 mins.

That's true but bro there is HUGE difference between being king of the castle and just being a high status guy in someone else's circle though. I learned this mainly through 2 painful experiences in my life. I used to work at Cactus Club which is a trendy restaurant in downtown Toronto. I had hot server coworkers and invited them to the club with me one time. My roommate was a club promoter with a free booth and bottles in the biggest club in the city so I went out with him and I got lucky and one of the hottest servers I had a crush on came out that night and she used the guestlist I gave her to get quick entry to the club so I thought I was set. She came to the booth and took a shot with me and then she asked me who's booth is this? I wanna take a shot with the guy. Another time I went out with that same roommate and we were at a party that he organized and I was flirting with this cute girl that was friends with this other girl that my boy was flirting with. It was a big party and at the end it was kind of winding down and there was a 3rd friend of ours who was trying to flirt with the girl I had too. We ended up going back to our building and then it turns out that that guy was third wheeling so we told him bro love you but good night go home. We went back to the girls airbnb and to my horror as I kept trying to flirt with my girl turns out I was double wheeling and she was more down to have a threesome with my roommate than us both hooking up with our own respective girl. I reversed the situation and it turned out more in my favor when my own status increased and I was the one organizing everything it became much clearer that other guys in my setup were more like irrelevant visitors than true holders of power and influence and girls are much more attuned to these power dynamics than we are. Winner takes all is a key concept when it comes to social circle and status game and usually the top guy takes 90% and the 2nd dude takes 8% and the rest of the dudes are stuck fighting for the scraps and often times they don't get laid at all. There is a true meritocracy component to it because to build an empire is hard and it's much easier to collab with dudes and split the load and you should do that in a lot of ways but joint ventures are much better in my experience than really trying to make an egalitarian setup work. Hugh Hefner was the king of playboy and there was no #2 in command just employees. That's how you achieve true peak status and peak 10/10 SMV. Drake's producer and the other dudes in OVO don't have 50% of the status Drake has, they have like 5% which is still 500x more than the average guy but they're still irrelevant compared to the king. I built this brand with my business partner at the time and I realized that we were actually cucking eachother because nobody was king and we were both princes of the brand. It made it much less effective in terms of being a proper social circle and media ecosystem. That's why we ended up splitting it so that its fully his brand and my brands are fully mine and we collab for events but there is only one king of the castle for each brand. https://www.instagram.com/the_velvet_network

Do you have a big juicy goal in mind and a dream life to look forward to? I also felt depressed and life was pointless until I let go of societal expectations and crafted goals and a life purpose that was exciting and fulfilled my deepest desires. If you're telling yourself that your goal is just to be a responsible member of society then yeah when life gets hard you're gonna be depressed and want to just smoke weed and escape the pain of day to day life. When I decided that I wanted to be polyamorous and have 6 wives and a superyacht sailing across the Mediterranean and eat the best food in the world while making the best VR video game of all time and started to make progress towards that daily then life got a lot more fun. Your dream life will be different than mine but writing down what your best possible dream life if anything was possible and then surprise most things in life are really possible it just takes time and effort; I think that will help you a lot bro. Independence is really good, often times most of our life trauma and limitations comes from how were raised so finding financial independence and living on your own can solve a lot of it instantly.

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The US legal system works mostly on precedents. The reason these Section 338 tariffs are expected to hold up better than the February ones comes down to statutory text and procedural requirements: Direct Statutory Authority: Unlike IEEPA (which SCOTUS struck down because it doesn't explicitly mention "tariffs"), Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 explicitly authorizes duties up to 50% to offset foreign discrimination. Broad Judicial Deference: Courts historically grant massive latitude to the President on trade decisions tied to foreign policy disputes. So while importers will definitely challenge them in court, the legal basis under Section 338 is much tighter this time around.

@Natasha Tori Maru Thank you for your in depth reply, it does makes a lot of sense, I've read it a few times to really make sense of what you're saying. My takeaway is that I should sit down and write down my blocks because yeah I also can't really label them and just feel a mix of frustration and negative energy that leads me to avoiding work a lot of times or just working in short bursts to meet deadlines in a way that stops myself from reaching that excellence. This part I relate with as well. As I mentioned the other day I'm a very competitive individual and I love control but there is definitely a lesson in surrendering ultimate control to gain more micro control that I need to figure out because some parts of me are definitely stuck in some weird resentment that I haven't fully figured out yeah that is giving me a lot of resistance. The MBTI distinction here is super fascinating. INTJ vs. my INTP really highlights the exact execution gap I’ve been trying to bridge. As an INTJ, your Te/Ni stack naturally drives you to be process-oriented and outcome-driven. Sounds like you genuinely enjoy refining SOPs, organizing logistical moving parts, and seeing the physical, tangible building in the end As an INTP (Ti/Ne), I tend to be framework-oriented and concept-driven. I get obsessed with solving the abstract puzzle or building the mental architecture, but once the system is "understood" in my head, my brain treats the actual mechanical execution as a monotonous chore. I've been having trouble pushing past this and the business bro advice I keep listening to JUsT Do It DISCipline > MotivVATION is not helping that much. Yes that makes a lot of sense too. Being entitled is a recipe for very low effectiveness. The more I actually host events and make stuff happen in the real world the more I audit how much energy, effort and money some ideas really take as opposed to the dream vision so it's helped me narrow my vision to only the things that matter most to me and not random fantasies. Yeah stage blue is not that bad but it embodied most of the system I was trying to rebel against my entire life and overcome so now I have to loop back and integrate it in a way that makes sense to me I feel like. I understand. You should engage more on the life purpose and business section, it's the one I feel is most grounded. The lost people can be guided towards where they need to go and the lunatics are some of my favorites. As a very logical person there are few things I enjoy more in life than pointing out the logical inconsistencies in what people say. It's an INTP super power. People that seem a bit insane are often times just lost in subjectivity. If you can understand where they're coming from and say something extremely logical through first principles that's basically objective truth then sometimes you can snap them out of it quite fast.

That's a good analogy. In regards to Crypto I think a good concept to ponder in depth is how do I minimize my downside risk while scaling my upside potential? Humans get greedy and forget their downside risk. That's what ruined Sam Bankman Fried(also illegally trading) but he was a smart guy and if the market went his way he never would've been arrested. It doesn't matter if the market goes your way though, what you really gotta worry about is when it starts shitting on you. Are you prepared for that? Delta neutral strategies are very interesting to me for that reason, it's a way to make money whether the market goes up or down.

Yeah some of the IEEPA tariffs were overturned in February by the US supreme court. These new tariffs use a different legal mechanism to get pushed through and are expected to hold.

@trenton I think once AR glasses become common AI girlfriends will blow up. You will be laying down on your bed using your laptop and you will see an actual girl laying next to you that talks to you in real time. You won't be able to touch her but I mean that's the plot of bladerunner there are ways around that. I think a lot of dudes will straight up stop dating when that comes out but my personal plan is to having human companions and also interact with AI. I already spend like 4 hours a day minimum talking with Gemini and it's really primitive at this point so when it's an actual human like intelligence that can challenge your blindspots like you said and is funnier and more into you than a real human I think it'll blow up.

Yes I'm familiar with MLMs. They sell people the dream while keeping them stuck in an unprofitable business model. It's not really my issue I've tried multiple business models. My issue is more that as an INTP most things really bore me and I have a hard time motivating myself doing monotonous tasks if they are not intellectually stimulating. Part of why I end up arguing on the forum all day instead of like cold dming clients for example. What do you find helps you get rid of your mental blocks? For me I have always procrastinated on work every since elementary school. The kid that would never study and still get As because I understand it type of thing. It doesn't work as well in the real world because it's not about understanding so much as much as execution. I think understanding my psychology will help me solve it because otherwise it's like I stand in my own way. For example I have other friends that I know who are a similar age than me and are very smart but live with their parents and don't do anything. Their psychology and lack of survival pressure stop them from actually being productive members in the economy. That's not really my issue more so the last 10 years of my life I try different business models and then make money for a while and then get complacent and have to get a job to pay my bills then start another business start making money again, quit my job then start the cycle over. So I feel like it's an issue of lack of alignment with what I'm doing so I'm not that motivated or it's a problem with my psychology that I gotta solve. How do you keep motivated to work on your construction business? To me if it was not something I was passionate about it would be extremely hard to work on it with consistency and I would give it up after like 6 months.

That's my main understanding of what she was thinking. Years of stress plus feeling isolated with no other options with a christian ideology to invalidate her crimes in her mind.

Yeah, that's fair. I think it'll 10 years it'll be the new thing but right now the headset is a huge problem. This girl is blowing up with her AI videos on Instagram. I'll give it a go and report back if it worked. If I can start getting tens of thousands of views on the Legends of the Abyss instagram then that's gonna be the start of a customer base. Fuck then I'll have to really code the game asap haha let's get it going!

@Emerald Wouldn't the fact that she asked her husband to leave the house while she did it invalidate the insanity defense? Sounds pretty rational to me.

@Natasha Tori Maru Plot twist, dog blood plasma is his new vertical to search for immortality. The dog's name is Patient #004 and he's already tried to escape 5 times but they keep catching him. Sorry I shouldn't ruin you standing up for him

Fuck yeah House of the dragon was awesome. It's part of the inspiration for my story. Seedance 2.5 I think turned one prompt generation to 30 seconds. Seems like it's getting pretty close to being able to anime whole shows and movies if you string together many prompts. I haven't tried it myself yet though, just what I've seen other people talk about.

Yeah I wonder if they assessed her for psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder. She does look stone cold in the clips I've seen of her.

Everything trends to 0 that is not marketed continuously. You would forget about coca-cola soon enough if they didn't have a $5 billion yearly marketing budget. Depends what Leo's goals are with the brand but he could launch a major marketing campaign to revitalize it. People complain about there being no women on the forum but he could easily make like pop culture which spiral dynamics stage are you quiz that leads to signing up for the site. I think he previously disliked that angle but he has recently embraced short form content on his Instagram so perhaps he'll look into it.

Haven't watched Solo yet, I'm gonna watch it after The Acolyte and the Obi Wan show. Do you have another series you like more than Star Wars? AI recommendations are great. Not that long from now it'll create new shows out of thin air just for us personally to entertain us. That's why I like the idea of web 3 assets to connect humans together over what we care about which is well money. Otherwise everyone will be in their own bubble of entertainment and relatability between humans will drop to an all time low. You're not really into sci-fi then? What are you into usually

What don't you like about VR? How uncomfortable the headsets are or you don't believe in the concept fundamentally even if they made the headsets way better?

@AerisVahnEphelia Yeah I loved Andor. Deedra Meero would be my #2nd favorite character after Shin. Did you watch Ahsoka? What didn't you like about the prequels? I watched them first growing up before the originals so I could be biased but I think they introduce more interesting characters than the originals. Have you watched some of the shows or just the movies? The movies I think are much worse than the shows because they made it a cultural statement more than Star Wars.