LordFall

I'm 31, not in my mid-20s. I don't claim to be turquoise, but I have had many mystical experiences experiencing the world from that paradigm. Be careful not to judge a book by its cover. My life purpose is to help solve mankind's problems while creating entertaining events through my soon-to-be global communities. I don't think partying and serious personal development are mutually exclusive at all. Measuring Tier 2 awareness by having kids, being 50, and pulling a €200k salary is confusing a LinkedIn resume with developmental psychology. Spiral stages track worldview, operating paradigm, and cognitive development.

Just released an original soundtrack for the game! It features one of the first antagonist factions The Iveilan Empire and their sailor ballad. Really excited about this part of the development. It might seem that I'm not focusing on the game development much, that'll come. I think the cultural development is actually way more important and will pay off 100x once it takes off. My goal is to build a catalogue of these tracks; for the ones that people like best, I'll hire local musicians to perform them and film it for a mixed reality experience. The whole idea is that Legend of the Abyss is not a game, it's a world that you can inhabit that also intersects with our own world. I'm picturing about a year from now when I start showing it at comic/anime conventions, we can have a post convention fan meetup at a bar and people will sing the songs they like and talk about which factions of the universe they like best and why. There people will make friends or romantic partners that they can play the flagship version of the game with and it will serve as both an offline and online experience unlike a game that isolates you socially. Hitting the musical element is a move that might seem unorthodox but seems like a no brainer stroke of genius to me. Let's see how it pays off!

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!

It was clearly defined. We agreed to a conversation examining a man's value and more specifically how you define and demonstrate that in your own life. Instead, you avoided defining what you think value is, refused to share how you provide it to the people around you, and forced me to spend an hour re-explaining my own metrics and defending why the topic was even worth exploring. You came in with an agenda to cross-examine the host rather than engage the prompt. I gave you over an hour of leeway to bring substance to the table, and once it became clear the play was deflection and evasion, I pulled the plug. The tape is on the channel for anyone who wants to see how it played out.

Lifestyle and models of masculinity sounds like a solid premise. We’ll take the lessons from this one and set it up properly: a clearly defined thesis on both sides, a concrete outline, and a 60-minute timeframe. Shoot me a message closer to January and we’ll lock in the date and structure.

Having a job right now would give you a lot more flexibility and options. Also higher education is less safe than ever right now with the AI revolution happening. If I were you I would be in the trenches being able to try stuff yourself, this will give you the most skill training and overall marketplace value. It's how I live my own life and as long as you have a safety net built to cover downside risk, it's the best way to live to gain competence.

Ben is a gem for owning it directly, most of Crypto Twitter and YouTube analysts quietly delete tweets and pivot narrative the second things don't go their way. He didn't see this rally coming but his macro thesis kept people from incinerating their stacks on altcoins for the last two years while BTC dominance ran the show. You should use his channel for risk management and cycle history, not to front run temporary pumps.

Let's do it. What would you like to debate?

To me, it felt like we got caught in a filibuster. To be fair to Yeti, he was aiming for an open-ended, exploratory dialogue, but we set a specific topic meant to explore how we practically provide value to those around us—and how each of us approaches that. When the response shifted to indignation that the question was even being asked, the conversation lost its structure and began moving in circles. While I appreciate him coming on and being willing to chat, I had to call it once we were spending more time debating the premise than exploring the topic itself. Appreciate the feedback from everyone, future streams will have clearer guardrails, hard time limits, and tighter moderation so expectations are aligned from the start.

@yetineti We set a topic and you spent an hour and half not answering the question and then questioning why you should even answer. I think I made my points quite simple and clear but the conversation was not productive and going in circle. The VOD is up for those who couldn't watch it live, thanks for everyone that came on and asked questions!

We're live!

He's confirmed so we're good for 8 PM, see you there! @Lyubov @Rishabh R Wrote down your questions to talk about on stream.

Yeah I call it just being at the cause or the effect. People that can't make things happen for themselves develop resentment that seeps out in other ways. Also being a pleasant nice guy is a survival strategy that people adopt not necessarily because it's 100% who they are but because especially in the post WW2 era there was an abundance of economic upside so that's all you needed to do to find your place in society. Even as a man, I avoid associating with low-value males. It’s not out of malice—it’s practical. They rarely possess the agency or competence to help you move toward ambitious goals, and more importantly, they carry an unhealed psyche that inevitably rears its head in all kinds of erratic, unpredictable ways (as @AION and I were touching on earlier). Women have to be even more selective since they're gonna entangle their lives with these men and have kids with them. A man doesn't need to be a dangerous criminal to still have a majorly negative impact on a woman's life.

It's great to think God is purely all loving but when we think about an omnipotent creator of the universe, sadism must by definition be one of its top traits. If one was omnipotent there would be no need to use evolution as a way to evolve consciousness, there would be little to learn if you know everything and have infinite intelligence to calculate everything. One of the traps that such a being could fall into though would very simply be boredom. So creating billions of creatures that fight amongst each other can perhaps be proved as one of the foundational divine plans and be based in the enjoyment of watching them fight and kill each other infinitely which can simply be recapped as sadism. The idea of a hierarchy of values is key because I'm not claiming sadism is God's primary value—reality could easily be engineered to be far more agonizing if pure malice were the objective— but it clearly sits much higher in the divine design hierarchy than conventional spirituality is comfortable admitting.

Here is the really inspiring story of Jordy Lakiere who built we who are about to die by himself which is one of the biggest gladiator games out there. Cool to see how he made it happen and how it went from not much traction to blowing up due to an entertaining concept and a strong demo that made it big on Steam Next Fest. He launched the full game in November 2022 and these are his thoughts a year later in late 2023. Success stories are helping me stay motivated and keep trudging along.

What other books in that genre have you liked better? Personally I liked the general topics covered in 48 laws of power. It allowed me to contemplate different examples of power building and how it can be used in different aspects of society. His new book Laws of Human Nature goes even deeper into psychology, I thought it was a phenomenal read. I want to read the Art of Seduction, that's one I haven't gotten to yet.

I think this is the right path. If you consistently take action you'd be surprised the progress you can make in 1-2 years. I started out with regular day game and cold approach, eventually I got a girlfriend for about a year when I was 24 and when that didn't work I moved to Toronto and started throwing events with the pickup guys and promoters I knew there. Throwing parties and shooting podcasts was way more fun than just doing cold approach on the street, you start being able to have a lot of fun instead of the mechanical process of just engaging in shallow interactions over and over again.

@Joseph Maynor I'm a fan of debates, not gonna lie but an open long-form conversation is also fine with me! @yetineti Look man, in the thread in the spirituality section you asked to do this: Then on Page 1 here, you insisted on the topic: You demanded the thread, set the terms, and gloated about trapping me. Now you’ve spent 4 consecutive posts trying to back out. You’re very good at manipulating reality to make yourself seem like the victim when it suits you, but the panic only started once the face-to-face talk actually got scheduled. I scheduled the stream and accepted your challenge in good faith. If you want to sit down like two adults tomorrow at 8 PM EST, I'll be there. But if speaking off the keyboard is too overwhelming and you need an exit ramp after all that posturing, that's fine. Just let me know now so I can clear my evening.

Omnipotence and infinite power are very tricky because they invalidate reality if done improperly. For example if we look at geopolitics we can clearly see that one entity that's too powerful ruins the lives of all the others. It doesn't necessarily have to be the case which is why spiral dynamics is such an interesting model. I think omnipotence has been baked into reality with the pursuit of consciousness so that some entities learn how to become extremely powerful while increasing other's power at the same time without limiting it creating a multiplication effect and a positive sum game. So for example by watching Leo's content you become more conscious and thus now your power adds to reality as opposed to detracting from it and also gets him paid which is win-win-win across the board. If it was not done this way then power becomes self-destructive but that's not really what omnipotence entails. Do you mean ontological truth as opposed to basic shared reality truth? Clearly it's possibly to learn a lot of truth from other humans.

Building leverage in the marketplace is the unlock that turns this valuable but sometimes depressing concept into a dream lifestyle. In my late 20s I struggled freelancing doing gig after gig making some okay money but being exhausted and stressed. Now that I'm brand building and leveraging the impact I can have, some crazy opportunities are lining up in the future where I can make thousands of dollars for like 3 hours of work. Really more like 3000 hours if you count the years of research and testing involved but now that it's mostly behind me, the good times seem to be starting. AI agents will make this scalable for so many people, I need to start implementing them but I've had a mental block to research them lol

If I were you I would become a concert promoter. It's quite similar to a nightlife club promoter but for the music industry. You can network with other artists in your city that are bigger than you and you can get paid to put on their shows. Even better you can spend your time cold approaching and trying to get laid and the girls that aren't into it you just tell them are you into music? I'm putting on a show for X artist in a couple weeks you should pop by! The idea of leverage is one of the most powerful concepts I'm starting to master. It's the simple idea of getting more output for your input. You can cold approach or you can cold approach, film content in the process and cross promote an event and it's maybe 1.5x more effort for 10x more results. If you like that idea start studying the economics of the music industry and you can you can become a rapper yourself, but also start a concert promo company at the same time(which is free btw) and hit 2 birds with 1 stone. When you become a multimillionaire rapper media mogul with 3 wives remember the sometimes friendly neighbourhood forum poster LordFall @AION Really, what don't you like about Greene's writing style? I guess it can be a bit dry and academic but personally I love how he makes his points by writing history lessons in the footnotes to give them credibility, I don't read actual academic texts so I find it a happy medium. Have you read Neil Strauss? He's much more playful in his writing, might be more your cup of tea.

True some very dark songs out there but there are also many deep songs that talk about overcoming limitations and fighting for what's right. These are some of my favorites:

Yeah I would read first The Truth by Neil Strauss and then The Setup by Dan Bilzerian. The truth is not as talked about as his first bestseller the game but it's much better imo. He talks about the next few years of his life after becoming a famous pickup artist and how it led to unstable relationships and him cheating on his wife. He talks about finding ways to reconcile his polyamorous desires with the hardships of a monogamous framework. He went to therapy and tried all kinds of alternative lifestyles for a while to ultimately integrate his life cohesively and build a lifestyle that works for him. Neil is such a talented writer, I read the 400 pages in like 2 days. It reads like a narrative fun story more than a self-help book and is funny but also has some really deep lessons in there. The Truth is in my top 5 books of all time, I would say it's a must read for all single people men or women. He takes all the valuable dating dynamics from the pickup industry and removes all the darkness of the red pill energy for a read that enthralled mainstream audiences. I think he's one of the best authors of the 21st century. The Setup talks directly about building a massive social circle and the media infrastructure to sell it. It's also a deep life story about Dan and his upbringing and it shows that contrary to lazy stereotypes, he's a very smart and well thought out man. He hired the up and coming videographer Jay North to document his life and make him the icon that he is today whereas before he was pretty unknown. He talks more directly about how to get laid and build mutually beneficial alliances with women.

That's the difference between building your social circle and joining anothers. A leader dictates the social boundaries of his community. Also notice where the value component comes into play here. People gather around religion because it's the lowest common denominator. Building a music based community is a superior construct because it doesn't require uniformity to hold. It's based on mutual interest and aligned incentives. I don't lie in anyway to maintain my social circles. I talk basically exactly the same as I do here. I talk about wanting multiple wives, my thoughts on cryptocurrency and my favorite anime at my events. Of course in a calibrated way but it's a completely different ball game. I basically have a gambit around polyamory in regular conversation now lol. If a girl is like that's weird or idk why you want multiple wives I say "We can all agree that women are great. Of course I'd want multiple girlfriends. The question is why don't you? I think you should get a girlfriend too. Isn't Ally here great? Let me introduce you." It turns into playful banter with an undertone of sexual tension. I haven't yet managed to turn one of these conversations into a threesome but getting pretty close lol, the girls usually love it and giggle. @AION Totally agree.

Of course, you've just started to dip your toes into the basically infinite pool of status based game. I'm excited for you. Do you think Hugh Hefner built his empire in 3 days? Yet it fuelled his dating life until his 80s. Cold approach as the basis of a dating strategy is like walking across your city approaching random people for jobs instead of attending networking events, or posting on job hunts sites(online dating) or building your own business over time(building an intentional social circle with a media component so it scales endlessly.) If you attend one open mic monthly and after like 3-4 months host your own and then reach out to videographers in your area to shoot music videos AND still cold approach in the meanwhile, I guarantee that in September 2027 your dating life will be solved. I'll bet you $100. The power of combining cold approach and social circle is you've become a whole community now. Don't get me wrong I still got laid when I wasn't hosting events and just invited bored chicks to drink by the lake but now I invite them to photoshoots or music events or food events and even if they don't want to date/sleep with me we can still become friends and add value to each others lives. Plenty of chicks with fiances and husbands came on my podcast and still increased my status and I gave them a platform to express themselves and share what they were working on. That's the power of the win-win and building power and impact as a man so that you can help others achieve their goals while still building the dating and sex life of your dreams.