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Holy shit We are actually here! It could be possible for me to skip the 2D version of the game and go straight to 3D with the current advances in AI game design shown with GPT 6 Astra What a beautiful time to be alive

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!

Honestly I mostly talk about it with Gemini and write huge paragraphs to it about my life and the parts of myself that still confuse me and ask it to find explanations for it. I basically told it that I'm into spirituality and it's helped me become quite wise but I also have some blindspots that confuse me that I want to dig deeper into and we had an hour long conversation on it. It led me to researching more about the Bhagavad Gita which I had heard about but knew 0 about and I was surprised to learn that instead of being a tale of a nice harmless dude trying to help mankind like the Bible, it's about a massive war of succession that is inspired by an Indian kingdom that predates Jesus by 1000 years. This is a good video to summarize the basics of it. It's very non-dual and talks life being a non-dual battleground of evolution. I'm surprised Leo hasn't touched on Hinduism in his videos, the parallels are quite strong. I listened to the 3 hour Lex Fridman podcast with Modi and I found that guy to be very wise in what he was saying. There is clearly a lot of deep wisdom and truth that comes out of India, I look forward to exploring it more over the years. I'll check out videos of Immortals Fenyx Rising, hadn't heard of it before but that type of mythology based game is very interesting to me!

How do you recommend starting to dip your toes into mastering the new models? I do find it overwhelming to keep up with all the new features that are coming out and mainly just use it for basic conversations, introspection and image generation.

What type of man do you like then? If you had to name 2 celebrities or influencers that appeal to you; who would they be?

I don't look at it like conquest, maybe a little bit in terms of a fun playful idea but more so just being able to get what I desire. If you are arguing that you YOURSELF don't experience sour grapes then totally fair; I don't know you personally. I think if we are being honest it would be an accurate general statement that most men experience sour grapes in terms of the women who do not want to date them, and oftentimes MASSIVE sour grapes that turn into resentment or overt misogyny. A recent post was shared on this forum in the dating section along these lines. Being able to sleep with women easily makes you appreciate them a lot more and when you start to learn mechanisms of leverage like building your own social circle and social media brand then levelling up your sex appeal as a man becomes a very fun and energizing process as opposed to a tedious grind. Having options makes it much easier to find a quality long term partner and also sleeping with cool hot women is fun.

Is this a feeling that you have or have you studied the effects that capital punishment has on society? I'm mainly worried about societal progress, I empathize with the victim more than the murderer but I don't believe in blind punishment. Also I've had a pretty traumatic psychotic episode myself so I know the bad effects that this can have on someone.

Which games are your favourite around it? I studied some Christianity and a lot of the principles made sense. Buddhism has a concept called the middle path which made SO much sense to me because I'm driven to a more hedonistic lifestyle and I find wisdom in the asceticism philosophy but both ends seem to have flaws. The fact that he figured this out in the 5th century BC and today we're STILL having debates where people praise both sides of the extreme without showing people the middle path is mind boggling to me. I was quizzing Gemini on my spiritual beliefs since I don't fit into any spiritual system that I had researched previously and it taught me about the 4 varnas which made a lot of sense to me. I guess someone like Leo and others on this forum that are more philosophy minded fit more into the Brahman path but I related more deeply to the Kshatriya path. I'm a very aggressive person and I'm driven for conquest but not for the sake of it. More like for both the advancement of mankind but also to fulfill my selfish desires; so once again we're back to the middle path. I feel like society has failed me in terms of spiritual education but then again that lead to me adopting a very stage orange view of the world for a while through my involvement in pickup and entrepreneurship and finding Actualized.org lead me to a more holistic view of the world. If I didn't go through my stage orange foundational phase I think I would be much less effective and interesting as an individual. My dad is a big stage green/blue type of guy and he helped put me on the empathy for others path but it never made deep sense to me until I had mystical experiences to really relate to my fellow human beings otherwise it would've felt forced to me. @niko123 Thanks man, I'll check that out. I'm trying to integrate the main character of my game as both the 2nd coming of jesus, an incarnation of the devil and a manifestation of Shiva who ends up attacking Mount Olympus so previous thoughts written around a combined mythological model is very useful to me!

Ownership. Cosmetics owned and controlled by Jagex and Valve have 10% of the true value potential of an immutable asset. If you have a CSGO blockchain skin and valve decides to ban you and it can still be traded to other players and used by them in the next version of CS like games because we are now in a web 3 world vs a web 2 one; then the world changes forever. Of course. I think many lessons will be learned from the 2021-2022 era of NFTs and the next wave of products built around it will be far superior.

Mythology. I'm using common myths like Christianity, Hinduism and Greek mythology to write my IP Legend of the Abyss and it's really cool the deep lessons that have permeated humanity through our myths. I'm constantly humbled as I think of myself as a cutting-edge intellectual but seeing a writer from 3000 years ago write some wisdom that solves a psychological hangup I have is a pretty, dare I say, mystical experience!

Remember that we're on a self-development forum. Not a safe space to be validated about your biases without confrontation forum. Calling a moderator when challenged on one's views is on brand for a stage green victim-mindset individual. Notice that when my points were challenged I made them stronger and didn't back down from the challenge. Stage green loves to make their personal flaws a moral virtue. That is indeed the sign of a weak, ego-driven psyche. You take an honest conversation (albeit a slightly aggressive one) as an insult to your character as opposed to an exercise in deconstruction of both the platform and your relationship to it. You don't have to reply to me but take it as an opportunity for introspection, growth and adoption of an antifragile mindset that will both help you in life but also to have a healthier relationship to social media if you decide to go back to it. Having impact requires becoming stronger through adversity, not folding to it.

Since you dodged every single question, you’ve basically made my point: you don't possess the discipline or agency to interface with high-leverage tools without becoming their victim. If your attention is that easily hijacked, total abstinence is definitely your only move.

I think that's a limiting belief my man. The obvious common argument is that short form content dilutes the message and to reach 3 billion people you have to pander to the masses. Sure, on a surface level. That's why funnels are a thing. You start out wide and you convert people to a different platform where you can engage with them deeper to convey the more substantial aspects of your message. This is marketing 101. I do it in a way that I have city-specific pages so I can reach people in different locales and target my content to them. There are many different ways to do it but it works quite well. If you have true value to give to others why not give it to as many people as you can? I think that's an indisputable notion.

I've already addressed the negative aspects having some validity. The fact that you emphasize the victim-mindset part to me sounds like that hit the right target in terms of your personal dislike of it. If you'd like we can deconstruct it further. What did you dislike about the app when you were on it? Do you feel like you're able to reach your goals in life effectively? Do you ever feel resentment and bitterness towards people with more success than you in the areas of life that matter to you?

I don't enjoy mysteries personally; I like solving them. You can always add more complexity to your identity if that helps you in some way but we need definitions to make sense of reality. What is a woman? Greatness. Easy-peasy lemon squeezy. You're welcome brother. You got this!

Well yes because most people have a victim mindset and don't produce much in life so seeing people produce stuff and going on adventures is gonna sting. I don't experience that effect myself because I've worked on my psychology to see myself as a continuously improving being and not as a static victim of my circumstances. It gives me ideas for events I can host, trips I can take, and the types of videos I can make. If you have a victim mindset any type of success is gonna hurt to see. You're gonna hate hearing about celebrities, dislike anything related to business and definitely influencers are gonna be the worst because they are much closer to you and me than film actors that seem more out of reach. I agree. The truth is that the planet has 8 billion people on it and you can interact with all of them if you build a successful brand. The less of those people you are able to reach with your message or through your business endeavours the more irrelevant and unimpactful of a human being you are. Social media allows you to scale the impact you have. Some teachers produce great effects on the students they have in school. Their impact is limited to maybe a couple of hundred people per year max. If you think you have value to share with the world why not try to win market share with the 3 billion daily active users across Meta platforms? You could perhaps go as far as to say if you think what other creators are sharing is nonsense and you have higher quality stuff to share then it's your moral responsibility to do so. Why watch history happen when you can be a part of it? That's my view on it at least. I've had many people thank me for the impact I've had on their lives and my main platform for reaching them and setting up events for us to meet in person was Instagram.

Glad it resonated. Rooting for you bro. I'm on a same path, I love influencer girls. It's a worthy end goal. You have to baby step your way there and handle the boring repetitive side of life first up though to build yourself up. I cold approached Sara Waisglass in Toronto a few years ago It did not end up in a win for the Fall nation in this case, we talked for like 5 mins on King Street in Toronto's entertainment district. I had no idea who she was but I got her at the end. She didn't follow me back unfortunately. Another ex friend of mine had a much bigger brand than mine and had a penthouse 5 mins from there and he apparently brought some Netflix actresses back but I also don't think he fucked one but he got closer than me. This stuff is fairly straightforward to build up to although it takes time but if it's honestly your goal then YOLO why not go for it. The self-deception comes from thinking that you have a unique soul connection to these people and spam messaging them is gonna you there. If we use a non-dual frame work every single man has a soul connection with every single woman so it's not really what's gonna move the needle. Do you have an Instagram? Build up your personal brand and host events. That is the way.

Bro you're looking at it 100% wrong way. First of all, you don't go there by yourself you definitely bring one or many chicks. It's basically Disneyland on water. All the amenities you could want to have a week long getaway with your partner(s). Also if you don't have any special lady friends they do sex cruises. They've thought of everything, it's a foolproof concept. They do pollute a lot though so they need to eventually make them nuclear or electric and then I'm starting to take one each year for sure. The less kids on a cruise the better, best number being 0. It's definitely paradise on water. I've never been on one but it's definitely on my bucket-list.

To steelman Leo's point on AI, I think this video is the key insight I do think AI produces a lot of truth but its top value is not truth. The companies building these products are driven by profit, AI arms race and milking the customer. Some people are also lazy in their AI usage and use it to confirm their biased opinions instead of using it to dismantle their points and have a back and forth with it to increase their critical thinking ability. I don't think that's a reason to not use it and you can also use open source models to change the weights and reduce bias yourself if you are tech oriented. I'm not particularly a techie, I just use Gemini but it's something I want to look into eventually. I also love to use AI to stress test my arguments, its part of why I'm hard to argue with because most people are very surface level in their thoughts whereas I test my opinions multiple times before I stick to them. You aren't living if you don't call your AI of choice an idiot often and tell it to back up its claims if it challenges you. Sometimes that little bitch backtracks right away, YOU SAID IT SO CATEGORICALLY THE FIRST TIME THOUGH BRO WHATS UP I THOUGHT YOU WERE A GENIUS SUPER INTELLIGENCE WHAT HAPPENED Although since it's so good at synthesis it will explain where the disagreements lie and let you explore the conversation from a multi-perspectival angle very easily. It's definitely a stage yellow tech although it has its flaws.

Fear and social comparison can be useful tools to drive us towards reaching our full potential. I've met plenty of people that lived in their own bubble and thought they were on top of their shit until they encounter the greater market that encompasses our species as a whole. Fooling yourself to think you're the big dawg because you're a big fish in a small pond type of thing. Happens all the time with the discussions I have on this forum. Which is why I encourage people to build a brand on Instagram and get into business so that the market starts working in their favor as opposed to being a force that inevitably will crush them. Being fundamentally anti social media is adopting the survival mechanism of the ostrich as one of yours. I wouldn't personally recommend it. @Lyubov I agree with your point that it should be regulated and just like it's not the manifestation of hell on earth, it's also not heaven. I disagree that alcohol is a good comparison. I would compare it more to a car. There are plenty of car accidents daily but it's still a great mode of transportation. Some people full on think cars and technology are evil and live without it like the amish. I don't aspire to be amish but I think a lot of them live great lives through their philosophy. It's up to you and what you want. Electric cars are the answer to solve the pollution effect of cars and self-driving will hopefully reduce the car accidents to pretty much 0. Similar guard rails should be built into social media. I do like your idea of posting on it but not consuming, that shows a pragmatic strategy around it. I could for sure use being less dopamine addicted so I'm not saying my strategy around it is necessarily peak. If I look at my ROI for it though it swings massively towards the positive axis. I do meditate everyday though so my relationship to presence and my ability to avoid distractions are probably stronger than the average person.

You're putting massive pressure on yourself trying to solve your entire life, spirituality, and dating in one giant leap. When your mind is racing between enlightenment quests, extreme fasting, and fixating on people you see on a screen, adding more big ambitions usually just fuels the burnout. Forget dating, forget celebrities, and drop the search for enlightenment for a minute. The most spiritual and grounding thing you can do right now is wake up tomorrow, go to work with your dad, do the physical tasks in front of you, and stay completely sober. Real stability isn't found in a breakthrough or an intense experience. It's built in the boring routine of showing up every day and letting your nervous system calm down. If things start feeling overwhelming or your thoughts start racing again, talk to your dad or reach back out to the professionals who supported you before. Keep your world small and simple right now. Once you got a good growth curve going then we can talk about hosting events and building a brand so that you can meet real influencer and celebrity girls in a way that gives you a shot at dating them.

Most people are uncalibrated in all kinds of ways that turn off the people they'd want to attract. It's a hard thing to nail down as it moves with culture and changes over the years. There are generally two main categories of calibration : verbal game and visual presentation. Verbal game is being good at talking to other humans and creating good emotions in them or being able to confront them effectively if you feel the need to do so. Visual presentation comes in all kinds of different aspects but dressing well, being fit and having some sex appeal are the general categories. A lot of people seem to talk like they're ugly when that's not their real bottleneck. In high end venues they don't stop ugly people from coming in, they don't tend to allow people that dress like shit though. Most guys and women can easily look 3-4 points better on a 10 point scale if they fixed their visual presentation and even the way some people speak makes them less attractive than they could be. It's no accident that being funny and charming is known to be a panty dropper. Even for women there is a huge difference between being known as a mean girl or boring vs being enchanting in a way that gets them anything they want.

Also synthesis in and of itself is a proof of intelligence. Plenty of people have a lot of knowledge but can't summarize it because they don't have the systems thinking and foundational understanding of the matter to summarize it. The fact that most AI platforms can already synthesize the sum of human knowledge in any way you want is already an insane level of intelligence. Try to ask the average person to summarize the economy or the government and they'll either admit they have no idea how it works or say some drawn out nonsense that doesn't make much sense. @Leo Gura your points are clearly biased and lacking a lot of nuance. Most of these models are extremely precise at solving most kinds of queries you give it. It's already better at analysis than 99.9% of people and it does it 5000% faster than any genius alive could.

It is a discussion worth having but let's take one step back and admit though that social media gets a lot of undeserved hate. The glue is simply entropy, the rent, capitalism or survival my guy. Let's not fall into this superstitious mindset that because Zuckerberg owns it now its a lightning rod for everything evil in the universe. There are plenty of people selling nonsense on there but that's just like real life. If anything it is just extremely efficient at letting us experience society as a microcosm that can fit in your pocket. I think it gets scapegoated for a lot of the problems of society BECAUSE it's such a great product and so efficient at what it does. Instagram is basically a digital mall or shopping district. If you don't want to go to the mall that's fine. When we start to call the mall the epitome of what's bad about society I think we've gone off the deep end a bit here. You can't even really call it anti-social since as I've said you can definitely use it to join and build communities and attend events. Also plenty of meditation, healthy foods, travel and spa centres type of pages. Now let's go back to my point that I do agree it's fair to want/need a detox once in a while from social media but once again that can be said for society as a whole. I think that having a negative relationship with social media comes mainly from our own psyche and the paradigms we operate under such as consumer vs producer, victim mindset vs growth mindset, etc. If we utilize it like a marketing channel like any other and learn to avoid the pitfalls that our individual psyches fall into with it then the pros far outweigh the cons IMO.

Are foxes also perpetuating this spiritual war by eating rabbits or are we the only ones held to this invisible plane standard? I think veganism is a good goal but his explanation is not that great. I do feel bad when I kill any beings though even bugs. I was vegan for a couple of months but it was too hard to maintain. Perhaps I'll go back to it one day.