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Just had a pretty huge breakthrough in terms of how I'm gonna develop the project. I've decided like 80% sure to make the first game a visual novel. It'll let me work on the worldbuilding of Legend of the Abyss which is my favorite thing to do while still developing a playable experience. The whole world conquest plot is a political thriller instead of being more of a mindless action story so I think it'll work beautifully as an multiple route investigative visual novel. I've written the outline of the campaign and when talking about it with Gemini it should take me about 1-2 months to have a playable version I can ship so my goal at the moment is to have a complete early access version I can put out on Steam in early December so I can have it commercially ready in time for the Steam Winter Sale. I called it the Sanguine Masquerade, stay tuned for more!

I was talking with Leo today about using AI to make video games and he didn't believe AI would be that helpful so here is my devlog to prove otherwise! I have been ideating this world building project for around 4 months now and mainly using AI for generative images and lore building but I fundamentally wanna make a game out of it as I think that medium is more powerful than something like just a manga or an anime which I do also plan on making eventually. I don't have experience in game development, my main related skills would be in marketing and content creation. I tried my hands at unity a couple months ago and it was I mean not too bad but really frustrating and I got as making this square on the blue background that you see below but it was a very empowering feeling. I really like this video that I watched here That basically warns you about trying to take on an overly ambitious game project and making your dream game right away and instead trying to ship modular projects that work and are profitable and build upon that over years to eventually build your dream game. I like this idea especially as my dream game is a VR web 3 MMORPG, and mmos are notoriously hard to build but I want particularly one with a well developped economy that ties into the real world so I think that will encounter even more novel issues. My current idea is to make a simple 2D roguelite game as a MVP test project and build upon my ideas from this foundation. I think it's possible to bootstrap by myself with just mostly my time and a few hundred dollars of budget in tools to kick things off. I'm gonna use the Unity engine as it's free for startups and seems like a powerful engine both to make the 2D version of the game and eventually transfer the game assets to VR. I think there is a very powerful feedback look that's able to be utilized these days where you take on a project and document yourself building the game(in this context but can be anything) and that serves as your initial userbase and community to launch the game when it's ready. I've followed a few people that did it this way and it seems to be a very powerful way to bootstrap your own game studio basically. I used to play a lot of League of Legends and did got paid for it for a while. Made it to challenger which is top 0.01% of playerbase and that was really fun and I feel like Riot did a great job building a community in their game that was the biggest in the world at that time and I met many friends in real life that also played the game so it was a great social experience as well. I feel that they built a lot of cool stuff around their IP like the show arcane, esports world championship tournaments and local leagues but it fell short of what I think a gaming ecosystem could be. I'm a big believer in web 3 and eco investing in a gaming ecosystem with your playerbase instead of just squeezing them for cosmetics in exchange of a fun consumer experience. For example as a league player I invested something like 20 000 hours into my account, got a lot of rare cosmetics and high rank badges and emblems, spend like $2500 of my own money in the game and if I tried to sell my account it would be worth like $500 at best where as in other game ecosystems like Eve online and games like Counterstrike your time investment is translated to actual assets that are worth tens of thousands of dollars in some cases. Multiple people in different ways talk about the downfall or collapse of the gaming industry, I think it's dramatized as the profits are still there even though a lot of layoffs and downsizing are unfortunately happening in the industry but I do agree that gaming as a whole has stagnated big time. I think web 3, AI agents and VR/AR offer unique opportunities to supercharge the industry and bring it into a new era of glory. Riot Games actually ruined my favorite champion in League of Legends through a rework and thus it actually ruined a big part of my enjoyment of the game so that's also part of my motivation in wanting to develop my own game. There is a massive MMO project that just collapsed last month and I find that very sad as it was a very ambitious project that had a lot of hype in the community but it was ultimately mishandled through overambition, lack of transparency and corruption. I aim to take some of their good ideas and learn from their mistakes. There is also another game that I enjoyed playing that did operate for a while Spellbreak which was a really fun mage PvP game that ultimately fell short of its potential. I really like this mage PvP system so that's a big part of the inspiration for Legend of the Abyss that I wanna carry out. Their mistake was also making it too competitive and not casual friendly which was something that League of Legends managed to do very well. Feel free to subscribe to the Youtube channel for the project here. So far I've only posted basic character concept arts and game concepts but I want to start doing devlogs especially if I managed to build community interest around it. I think AI tools immensely empower small teams and creators to accomplish massive thing and I hope to prove it with legend of the abyss. If you have interest in helping out the project and joining the team I would totally be open to having co-founders on it!

I would love his in depth thoughts on human vs artificial intelligence. Since it's one of his most talked about topics it's a good synthesis of an esoteric spiritual topic and relevant business discussions. His forum replies are pretty shallow around it so I think with a long form format he would have some cool insights to share.

Clarity Act being voted on by the US Senate literally right now. Results should be tallied in the next 30 mins. Edit: It did not pass

This post is for @Leo Gura and really any other that believe in an AI crash. I will seek to prove that this is basically impossible and AI companies are already in the too big to fail category and ChatGPT moving towards military industrial complex instead of a business to consumer model is a proof of that. The whole reshoring manufacturing of America over the next 10 years is based on their tech supremacy. Remember the whole meme of american workers retuning to work in factories? Obviously that will not happen and the US will aim to be a robotics and automation leader, which it's already well positioned to do. A K shaped crash will absolutely happen and will serve in further squeezing the middle class into nothing as their labor becomes literally obsolete. Leo your idea that AI value is based on AGI is misguided. AI value prop is based on enterprise workforce. The whole overinflated valuation of the market is based on the premise that AI agents can replace human employees en masse. That premise is still up in the air but as someone who works with AI tools and automation daily I'd say it's already a done deal, the macro forces are just too powerful and humans not adaptable enough. It's also heavily based in the military industrial complex really as you print money to make top tier weapons with which you secure global trade and force countries into doing commerce under your umbrella and get rich off of financialization and exporting the USD. The US has just proved in its Maduro operation and its Iran strikes that their military supremacy is as unchallenged as ever and the whole tech-AI industry fits right into that. Having said this I would say that claiming that an AI bubble crash is imminent or even likely has a MASSIVE BURDEN OF PROOF under it and I invite anybody to try and make an argument and case for it. I'm pretty confident that the corporate layoffs we've been seeing will keep accelerating throughout this year and it's highly likely that Trump and his Tech buddies will introduce some sort of UBI promise this year with the primaries to secure their votes and burry their epstein scandal further.

How many dates have you been on in the past 6 months? If you've only been on 2 or 3 dates and one person gave you that reaction, you're reaching a final conclusion when you just have too small of a sample size to know if you can really attract cool women at the stage of life you're at now. If you are pursuing different things but have not achieved success then women will be a lot more forgiving than if you're not doing anything in life nor care to make your life interesting. It seems that you do have hobbies. Women don't need a provider but you score bonus points for being able to fill that role for sure! Being a provider is not easy and it requires excellence in the marketplace which a lot of men will not reach. It's a good ideal to aim for but if you want dates in the next few months you don't need to have achieved it to find dating success.

@Olaf The week is over my brother. I don't think you achieved the goal right? There are of course still many lessons to be learned from a failed quest. What are your biggest takeaways from the week? I haven't followed the whole thread beyond my initial contribution and answering some questions but I assume you took massive action this week and learned a lot.

What's your top 3 favorite video games so I know what I have to live up to

Super excited for what AI has in store for the future and my new video game/anime project that I'm building with it! I The future is bright boys and girls.

Orange felt like it was me against the world and I had to ruthlessly master all areas of life otherwise I would be fucked. Green came as a result of my dad sharing with me a lot of the issues he sees in the capitalist world and its unfairness. Also as I've lived through my 20s experiencing poverty myself led to more compassion since before I had a bit of a every-man-for-himself if you can't make it then you're not trying mindset. Yellow feels like instead of reacting to unchangeable circumstances of life, reality just offers up a bunch of levers to decide if I want to pull or not. Some levers require more energy or more time than others but it fundamentally feels like unlocking the secrets of the universe. I see stage green people being too stuck in their feelings and experiencing injustice as an absolute where as really they could conquer their country if they wanted to. It's just gonna take a while and some effort but the levers that they'd need to pull to do so are available. Turquoise feels like the divine comedy by Dante, what a good name for reality. Before it felt like I was standing in front of the levers being given options to pull and affect reality but then each deeper mystical experience I have I realize I'm made up of levers and it's all a joke that I should appreciate instead of taking too seriously.

Sure yes apologies I didn't get a notification for your question on that thread. I don't think the idea is to be guarded as you enter a relationship. More about making self-development part of your identity so that you naturally self-improve. Some people tend to only use self-improvement to secure a baseline of safety and then let themselves go once they get into a relationship. I think that's why the idea of life purpose is so powerful. If you are in a lane of society that you hate then yeah it makes sense to see clocking in or working out or building a social network as a draining obligation and once you find someone that accepts you for who you are type of idea then you've arrived and there's no need to try anymore. If you genuinely fall in love with what you're doing in life I think you can keep reaching greater and greater heights. In the case of a relationship it'll either make it more fulfilling as you both embark on a shared life purpose together as a mission that underpins your marriage. Some people don't really like each other nor have common goals and just use their relationship as a childrearing arrangement. If you build your life this way and you do get into a divorce or a breakup, you'll be back on the dating market stronger than ever instead of being completely out of your depth and a shell of your former self.

@Lyubov I would be careful with throwing out the baby with the bathwater in terms of invalidating the validity of hierarchies. They serve many purposes in our society beyond soothing low self-esteem or chasing approval. Our doctors for example face a rigid hierarchy to get into college and to get into med school. Our engineers similarly need to be above the crowd in their skillset so our infrastructure is high quality. A lot of people do not enjoy striving for excellence but the ones that do generally tend to bless the rest of us with the fruits of their labor.

Yes I like smart and somewhat dominant women too. For me they also need to know when to give up control and be submissive. Then it becomes a fun dance of polarity. Some women are very uncalibrated and it turns me off pretty instantly. I like women that can banter and speak well, I'm definitely a sapiosexual.

It's an important concept to understand to better identify the type of woman you're dealing with. Some women play games because they enjoy chaos and don't know how to function in a stable environment. Some others simply have high standards and are serious in their quest to find a long term partner. If you mistake the former for the latter you'll end up with the exciting but destructive woman instead of an exciting powerful woman that's gonna be a blessing in building all that you desire in this world.

It's definitely a test, although it's probably mostly subconscious. It comes from the concepts of signalling theory in evolutionary biology where in the mating process every suitor pretends to be a highly valuable choice. There are signals that are harder to fake than others and those are called honest signals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory For human males it can come from the form of pretending to be higher status than you are or also hiding a lack of compatibility. That's why a lot of women will subconsciously say something offensive to you to test your frame and men will either be able to banter back and not be affected, get angry at her and "put her in her place type of energy" or crumble under pressure and start stuttering because they don't react well to confrontation. In all cases she has gained invaluable information in being able to see through the mask the man was putting on.

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Because you get paid to solve problems and if someone didn't solve it already it was probably too hard, complicated or annoying to solve. Our economy is derived from agriculture for which you needed to toil for months to get to the harvest and then collect and be able to relax for a bit. It's still the same concept today where your paycheck is what you harvest from the marketplace for solving other people's problems. That’s why your best bet is to find where your natural inclinations intersect with market demand. Study business models to understand how value is packaged and delivered, then build a skillset that solves problems efficiently and at scale. When you do that, the money takes care of itself. This is why I find myself drawn to the creative and media space. It's a big industry with many problems worth solving and my form of intellect complements more artistic people well that find researching marketing and content distribution pipelines to be boring whereas I find the interconnecting ideas to be fascinating. I'm not quite financially independent yet as a result but I feel much closer with all I've learned this past 12 months.

@Joshe I don't think you understand utility of the model well. You seem to have a huge bias against it due to a fear of being labelled and perhaps your identity diminished? The whole point is not to particularly map each individual but to figure out where their centre of gravity lies. I find spiral dynamics very useful in generally assessing what a person's viewpoints and values centre around @Leo Gura Yes, I think that's where its cognitive limitations lie. By refusing to empathize with people they demonize, they fail to understand the mechanics behind those people's actions and thus fundamentally misunderstand the world. @Xonas Pitfall Well put. I think green is indeed quite empathetic but its refusal to understand the darker side of the reality keeps it quite limited in both its understanding but also impact on the world. @OmniNaut I find myself mostly centered around Stage Yellow. I've had a lot of Turquoise level awakenings but I also have a lot of unintegrated aspects from the lower states that stop my development as an individual. I'm an INTP. @Ulax I think they are a cool stage. Indeed annoying but well meaning. It's important to understand a stage's limitations to be able to integrate its strengths and overcome its limitations.

This phenomenon has become increasingly obvious to me over the years as I deal with more and more people that seem to fall under the stage green umbrella but have a weird shadow and seem to lack the ability to empathize in a lot of ways. First let's define our terms so we know what we're talking about here The main phenomenon I see is that these people tend to identify really strongly with their own pain and thus they gain a lot of sympathy for the pain of others experiencing SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES that often revolve around powerlessness and you vs the system. This gives them a disdain for the system and all things related to it like meritocracy, business, competence, quantification, science, skillset, etc. This leads them to fundamentally not understand society and reality and not being able to make the jump to yellow. Other people that aren't in a similar situation as them they don't feel relatability towards and thus their sympathy is cut off and their empathy skills were limited from the start so they turn weirdly bitter, resentful and sometimes openly violently antagonistic. This is where cognitive empathy comes in and the ability to understand another even if they live different lives than you. You should be able to empathize with someone from another nation or someone that's richer than you or someone that has different a ideology than you.

I think you're generalizing and perhaps even projecting. This depends on the teacher that people learn from and who they are as an individual before they get into it. You undermine your point and it's credibility by making shallow observations instead of going deeper to the truth of the phenomena. Learning PUA is fundamentally a skill that teaches you social self-sufficiency and thus freedom and power when it comes to your dating and social life. It's a very rare skillset in society that's not widely taught and represents the culmination of the life's work of many very smart and competent men. That some misuse it to further their trauma and treat others poorly does not invalidate the incredible nature of it.

Dogs are present and happy, doesn't mean they're spiritually advanced. Don't conflate being detached and enjoying the present moment with high development. A lot of it comes from avoidance, a lot of these dudes defend Andrew Tate, for example, because they avoid the hard truths of what he represents and just like that he's "good vibes," validates their insecurities/misdirect their grievances towards the unfair system (THeMaTrix) and drives a Bugatti. I don't know if Owen Cook specifically has spoken well about Andrew Tate but I know that Michael Sartain has. I even specifically dmed him about it and he stood up for him, I lost some respect for him that day. He's still a smart guy that taught me a lot about game so it's important for us to be able to deconstruct people to assess them accurately and not create idols out of flawed individuals. I like Owen a lot and I'm very grateful for what he's taught me but calling him more spiritually advanced than Leo is coping lol

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There are unhealthy parts to it but in general it helps you become a competent communicator who can easily relate to others and builds networking skills if you lean into social circle dynamics.

Forums are great, I spent half of my life on Reddit lol. Try a stream of consciousness, that's one of the best formats I've found for introspection through LLMs. I just vent to it about thoughts or problems I have and it does quite a good job of organizing my thoughts and finding problems for issues or at least pointing out blind spots in my thinking.

@something_else Yeah I think it depends on the phase of life you're in. When I was in my teens and early 20s then shooting the shit with the boys was one of the funnest things I could do. Now I have way more fun working on stuff that has an actual outcome and the time we spend just chit chatting or having a beer to destress after the week I still appreciate but its not as meaningful to me. Some of my best memories in life involve others but in an achievement type of setting. One of my best friends helped me make my first few montages and we created my first Youtube channel together after I hit Challenger in League of Legends. We had other great times just smoking weed and fucking around but that one stands up above all others. 2nd was probably when he came across the country to live with me for a couple months and we started out first business together. I think you proved my point here, I think a lot of people go to the gym more than they hangout with their friends. Plenty of people workout 5 times a week or daily and hangout with friends once a week or only a few times a month. I meditate almost daily but I only see friends once in a while. If an activity has really high ROI you would do it daily and perhaps multiple times a day.