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For sure! The ides of march is very sad, Brutus is truly one of the worst traitors in history. I won't spoil more then that but how they explore his character and what happens in season 2 is masterful media. Enjoy the story of our people.

I don't think highlighting all of someone's flaws without taking into account their strengths especially publicly is disrespectful. I wouldn't keep someone like that on my team. Sounds like a liability.

I think Leo is quite patient and egoless for tolerating people questioning him all the time lazily without offering any other credible viewpoint nor really offering value at the same scale. Nobody is perfect, even Jesus is just a dude that preached for a while and then got killed without chancing too much about the world and he's supposedly god himself in human form. Even God lets so much suffering and abuse happen in the world. Personally I woulda banned your ass for the ungratefulness lol @Carl-Richard

Have you tried it in real life yet? I did recently after thinking about it for a few years. Was pretty fun and relieving. I feel more whole now and I can sense men's energies a lot more clearly. It's pretty cool but can be kinda creepy at times, a lot of men are quite intense. I'm not really attracted to masculine men but I'd try it to see what it's like. I wanna try dating a submissive femboy type that sounds really fun.

I agree with you. I think a lot of people demonize bodycount because of a sour grapes situation more than anything factual though. Generally it comes from men not knowing how to sleep with a lot of women/attractive women or men that can but then end up mistrusting and fundamentally not knowing how to vet a quality partner. Let alone the hypocritical influencers that are hypersexual but then demonize women that are also promiscuous. Even if we go away towards the topic of bodycount and sex and more towards love, people are scared to death of that as well! My favourite insight towards this is when Dr Helen Fisher set out to study love and break it down scientifically for her phd, she was highly discouraged from researching it and one peer review literally told her it's unstudiable as it's part of the supernatural lol. Good interview to watch overall.

Part of it is finding people that are open to change. Part of it is also having a wide network and reach so you can find quality women that are already living in a conscious way that just want a greater adventure to join. I didn't say it was my highest value, we're just talking about dating life here. I enjoy creating communities and helping people figuring out systems that they wouldn't have trouble figuring out on their own. I run multiple creative communities and business chats. It's high consciousness because I use system thinking to raise up myself and the people I interact with and have to utilize massive amounts of understanding and empathy to connect to people and understand both their goals and their limitations. Each time someone thanks me for an insight or help that I've helped them with it feels quite fulfilling. Doing it inside of an intimate relationship is even more rewarding. I wasn't necessarily talking about you when talking about being delusional. If you know yourself and are happy with your relationship and impact on the world then you've won your life there isn't much else to say. Personally I am not and have much more to accomplish in many areas. I was talking about people like @Valach and others in the thread and in society as a whole that make blanket statements on systems they don't really understand and try to come at it from a higher than thou perspective while clearly being intermediate in their journey.

I watched an Alex Hormozi podcast and he talks about burnout being about your reward cycle being out of whack. Meaning that you're not feeling rewarded by the actions you're taking anymore, perhaps it's because the rewards are too far off and you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel anymore or you're habituated to the reward you were giving yourself and need to switch it up. I can relate to it because I have such big goals and it's taking decades to get there but learning to find the Ws regularly helps me. I'm a big fan of women so I use them as my muse for a lot of my work so having just moved to Montreal there are so many beautiful ones it's inspiring. My money situation is not to the point where I can date comfortably at the moment so it's frustrating but I'm finding ways to find rewards outside of that. It's really hot here so I get a lot of enjoyment out of my daily mcdonalds $1.50 iced coffee. Hopefully that somewhat helps. @Yimpa I agree that there seems to be a lot of suffering baked into life. A lot of problems and suffering seems to be self-inflicted though. Someone posted a good thread in the general section with an an Orion Tariban video on true intelligence being able to solve problems. I've been reflecting on that a lot since I think of myself as smart but I run into very predictable problems often times so perhaps I'm not as clever as I think I am! I get a lot of peace from suffering from knowing a lot of it is in my control and can be avoided if I manage to learn from mistakes and plan better next time.

Yes it gave me a lot of appreciation for games and software that works well. It's why I went with just a 2d platformer for my first one, I don't wanna fuck with 3D at all seems like a nightmare. I think a lot if it comes out good. I don't really think people care how things are made just the quality of them. There's a vocal minority of people that are hating on AI everywhere right now but I think once phenomenal AI products start coming out they'll fade away just like the luddites did. Cool that we live in the same city! There's a lot of meetup events related to game dev in the city. I went to the unity one a couple of weeks ago and it was a bit disappointing just a silent coworking session. I'm going to go to one of these drinking with game devs one next at the esports bar probably in early July, if you're down to join lmk we can coordinate. https://www.meetup.com/montreal-game-development-meetup-group/events/314915342

She's 21 and making millions, I wouldn't blame her for not being the highest integrity person on earth. If you look at her speak in podcasts like the recent one with Graham Stephan she seems like a thoughtful and smart young woman. On the one with Howie Mandel and his wife he seems to be the one behaving weirdly and being resentful and toxic in my view. @integral You don't need to want to sleep with many women, if you're happy in your relationship that's phenomenal. I'm saying that the way you speak about people sounds defeatist and jaded. Also it seems like coping because instead of putting your lack of communication skills and leadership at the forefront you blame people for being underdeveloped. Especially since we're on a forum to raise our consciousness made by a man who raised his consciousness and acted as a leader for people to raise theirs as well. Seems like a sad perspective coming from a moderator. I think you should both give people more credit and yourself as well in terms of being able to influence people positively!

That's true. Do you have another source that you like better?

I tend to fall into bitterness when I'm coping but also when the lagging indicators of success are well lagging and I feel like I'm putting a lot of effort but mostly spinning my wheels in the mud not making the progress that I want.

Yes I will become one of them soon, I guess that's the point of self-development.

That's fair I assume you're an introvert. I would try your hand at social circle game. It allows you to cater an environment over time and meet women on your terms doing stuff you enjoy doing and are good at. You can read more about it in social circle thread. If you don't do that and just wait for the time you magically are in an environment with women long term that you are attracted to that are also attracted to you then you'll probably wait a long time. @Schizophonia I would be careful in assuming negative characteristics to attractive women that you can't get. In my experience famous hot women influencers are really cool and have beautiful feminine energy, they just have access to a lot of top men and thus are guarded with their energy and time. Easy to fall sour grapes part which is just getting bitter instead of getting better. @Sugarcoat I’ve slept with around 50 women and I feel like I’ve barely started to experience them. So many dynamics and different types of women to explore. I’ve mostly slept with women in Toronto and Calgary. Women are drastically different depending on where they are so doing a world I could easily add 100 body count right there. Plus different dynamics, I’ve mostly done standard monogamy or one night stands or FWBs. I started working with women recently through hosting a fashion show and helping musicians with their content strategy and that’s such a fun dynamic. It allows me to express my masculinity in a way that’s so deep I highly recommend every man tries it. I’ve also never really experienced multiple women together and if having sex/hanging out with one woman you like is amazing then finding two women you like a lot and watching them fuck eachother and you fucking both of them must be amazing. I also love social dynamics so I would love to build a polycule with many people. I also want to experience with BDSM dynamics and specifically from a position of abundance seems a lot of doms I see are like larping as a dominant entity but are just a regular dude in regular life. So I wanna be able to build all of this from a position of financial and social abundance and also be able to share that with the woman and men I bring into my intimate life. When I had my last serious girlfriend I felt a deep sadness that I would settle down without experiencing all of this so after we broke up I slept with like 20 women since and as I said I’ve barely started to scratch that itch also building status is very fun to experience compared to cold approach. People come to you and are excited about getting to know me instead of having to try hard to meet them so I’m also excited to experience fame game. That’s why I say people that claim to have been there and done that by sleeping with a few people are delusional lol, it’s an infinite area of life to pursue and enjoy.

I think there's wisdom in taking a break from dating to reevaluate your goals and perspective. To claim it as the superior perspective is foolishness though. Specifically because it directly points to a lack of skill in leadership. People's personalities are very weak and malleable. If you were truly a solid in yours(not saying that I'm fully there yet) then their nonsense would roll off of you and you would be able to put clear boundaries where the problematic behaviours lie and inspire towards elevating themselves if you could successfully demonstrate that your perspective is truly higher consciousness. To use your analogy it's thats the police. You would train yourself to be stronger than the average person and stop them from punching you and create an organization powerful enough that they don't really need to punch back to neutralize and teach people better. We're kind of halfway there in our western societies but you as anyone can see easier said than done!

All you're saying is perhaps you're too spiritual to deal with the plebs. Does that sound like someone that's really high consciousness or just coping by spiritually bypassing? Sorry for being uncouth but I have to call out illogicality when I see it. @Jirh Do you feel it's an ego defence mechanism as in you're worried that women won't appreciate you until they really get to know you and thus you won't let yourself be attracted to them? It reminds me of dudes that get into pickup and say THERE ARE NO HOT GIRLS HERE in a venue clearly filled with hot women because they have anxiety about approaching them and it's easier to shut the door completely rather than face being not good enough for them at the moment. Women can be ruthless lol, it's natural selection at play. Biology is gatekept by the psyche if you were truly in abundance and knew you were the shit and women loved you I think you would have an attitude more like Gattouz here. Worth a watch, spiritual circles tend to try to pretend they're above sexuality because well mostly they're not that successful at it. Gattouz is one of the top male pornstars right now and his life philosophy is basically I love women women are beautiful and every single one deserves my dick no matter how old or fat. I think that's a beautiful mindset for a young man. Idk how he'll evolve as he'll grow older but it was very inspiring for me to listen to it.

Sure, it tends to devolve in that way because humans are low consciousness and corrupt by default. You could film yourself everyday showcasing your product and showing other people using it and just through truth of having a superior product than what the marketplace offers and the work ethic of doing it daily and the freshness of authentic marketing you would be very successful. This forum has a deep stage orange shadow it seems I'm worried about why you guys get so triggered with marketing and business. Seems worth it to introspect on that. Fundamentally it has to be that you're mad that other people are more successful than you and/or are perhaps able to manipulate you. I feel that too but as they say you can only really get more bitter or better.

Combat footage is very red pilling in terms of understanding how the world works when it comes down to it. I recommend everyone watch through this subreddit(warning NSFL) and to see what a war really looks like https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/

Agreed! I'm most excited that they're very fearful of the biological capabilities of this model and have gone overboard to censor it. To me that means that once they scale this out in vetted universities and researchers the level of medical advances that will come out in the next few years will completely change our paradigm. I'm a big believer that we will reach biological immortality soon and this is a proof of it.

I think everyone could use more self-development. The extent to which they go down the multiple paths is offer is up to them. If we're talking about dating and relationships there I think most men are underdeveloped and a lot of women as well. You're right perhaps I'm describing neediness and scarcity more than codependency in this context. I think if you're a well developed person you'll be able to form many bonds with many people if you so desire and you'd be able to attract many opposite partners of the opposite sex or whatever way you swing that you find high quality. I think it's much more common for people to dive a bit into the pool of facing your fears and doing pickup for example and then giving up once they realize the true gap between who they are compared to who they need to get the result they want and rationalize it away afterwards. Which is why I'm skeptical of people saying they've been there done that and are above it now. It's like someone being above money but has never had built a successful career or business; it's mostly sour grapes. Ultimately self-awareness is key and knowing what you envision for your future. If people are satisfied with what they got then it's far from my intention to preach my way as superior. It seems to me that most people are coping and not satisfied though. To me this is the epitome of coping. It's to admit powerlessness and ability to change the world. You influence others through your actions, beliefs and behaviours so if you are truly higher consciousness you will purify those you hangout around. Most people are not monogamous, it's just that enforced monogamy has been the most stable societal configuration for the past couple thousands of years. Globalization is changing that though so I don't really see a way that society will evolve apart from further hypergamy and a more competitive dating marketplace. It's just the natural state of evolution and our species.

Sure, the life and skillset that you need to build to sleep with one of the most in demand woman on earth are different from the life I'd need to build to be able to attract many of them at the same time. It would just be proof that what I'm doing is working and I need to triple down on it. I think bisexuality is hard for people to understand(and sexuality as a whole) but there are many bisexual women out there that would feel suffocated in a monogamous relationship with a man. My goal is to find many of them, travel the world with them, have awesome adventures and build a communal business and family with them. Why do you need to bond with every person you sleep with? Sounds like co-dependency to me. You can be intentional in the relationships that you do choose to build whether that'd be business partnerships, friendships or long term polyamorous entanglements without needing a monogamous partner. Sounds to me like you're inexperienced in this domain and projecting a lot of insecurity and fears that you have on it in terms of not being able to find a partner you can trust. A lot of high body count women are very intentional in their relationships and value the few men that rise above the rest quite a bit and are not mentally ill hedonists like you project. For example the influencer Aella talks about being an escort and I'm sure her body count is well above 100. She is currently looking for a long term partner but she isn't the wild caricature that you portray.

Well if you dislike what you sell and thinks it hurts people then that has nothing to do with marketing. Let's break down marketing into separate parts since you guys seem to lump it together with macroeconomics and manipulation. The main parts of marketing is having a product, service or idea to sell. Then defining the parts of that products that would beneficial to others or that they would like to have. Then you yourself talking about those benefits and/or hiring other people to talk about that thing or making images and videos that talk about that thing. Then assessing how well that worked and doing more of what worked and less of what didn't work. Where do you get subhuman and rat out of this? Sounds like an extreme overreaction to me and a confusion towards the issue we're talking about. If you have a drug that people shouldn't take because it actually lowers their life quality whereas what they really should do is eat healthily and workout regularly and you lie, manipulate and coerce vulnerable people into taking it because your business model and living is based on that then to me that has little to do with marketing. You guys should watch Alex Hormozi videos, he breaks it down in a no bullshit way and defines terms quite clearly. Mostly you have your offer and you have your leads(i.e. the people you contact that would probably benefit from your offer and can afford it)

Thanks man I'll take that into account and try and make it as modular as possible so I don't get stuck with unfixable spaghetti code. Gemini gave me a timeline of about 6 months for a polished commercial 30 min early access demo with 10 hours a week of development; hopefully I can hit that. Are you still working on a game yourself? I vaguely remember you talking about getting back into game design recently

It seems like you're an artist and you make some cool stuff on X — I can understand the frustration of feeling under-appreciated for your efforts. Some of that disgust toward marketing might actually be sour grapes though: resentment toward people who are getting recognized because they figured out how to communicate their value effectively. Marketing is mostly effective communication at scale. You can do it honestly or dishonestly like anything else as well as learn it and get better at it like anything else. There is some art to marketing but a lot of it is brute force and utilizing bias in human psychology to make people interested in what you have to offer. It can be a bit low brow for sure but the alternative is few people noticing or caring about what you produce so it's a bit of a necessary evil.

Yes it's an ideology in a box with a lot of the deepest truths baked into it. If you don't have a belief system based on loved and unity you can turn pretty selfish and wicked that part is accurate. There is a massive amounts of prophecy and truths baked into christianity though especially stuff surrounding Israel and wars that we see play out today. The jury is still out if a christ like figure will come to unite the world though who knows.

I agree porn is a fascinating category of creativity. Some people really have the courage to do some wild stuff out there, props. The craziest to me is insect porn idk how people do that. How so? Sounds like you have a big shadow around sexuality to me.