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Physical beauty and sexual attraction are so important in romantic relationships. We are biological creatures before we are intellectual psyches. You don't have to choose between attraction or intelligence, that's a scarcity mindset. Also valuing physical beauty doesn't negate wanting intellectual intimacy and connection.

Society is phenomenal. The game is about developing agency in your own life and the leverage and power to help steer society towards conscious development. The more you study where we come from and how we got here, the more amazed you'll be at the world we have built today.

It's definitely an experimental passion project but the goal is to commercialize it. The marketing is going well so far, most people I show it too seem to like the idea and some of the videos are getting a decent amount of views on socials. I've decided to write a Light Novel as the first version of the Visual Novel which I'll be starting to post that on WattPadd and Royal Road over the next few weeks. I got the first Chapter about 70% nailed down, I'll post it here. If you guys wanna give me feedback on it, it'd be much appreciated! I'm gonna write it George R.R. Martin style and switch POV each chapter so I can introduce the different cast members and have them develop their own plot lines in the game. The first one is from Livia's perspective, she's gonna be one of the main framing characters of the Visual Novel so I think it's best to start readers off from her perspective. The setting is Venice in 1671 at the Naval Academy, in the story Venice is controlled by Naples where a lord conquered all of Italy in the mid 17th century and renamed it to the Iveilan empire. This is her character overview:

What's wrong with copying successful content formats? Shorts are great, they let you watch a video and only spend 30 seconds -2 mins of your time. So many cool long form videos I wanna watch but they're too long and I can only justify spending so much time watching videos a week. That's interesting, you mostly consume YouTube on your phone? I guess I do watch shorts on my phone but I would say 70% of my YouTube consumption is on my laptop. Have you ever thought about being a content creator yourself? I think it's a really fun hobby to get into and the potential ROI if you manage to do it well is massive.

Seems like 2027 is going to be a big year for YouTube, they're adding a bunch of changes. I think it's a great time for people to get into it and start becoming content creators. Youtube studio is becoming much more powerful with many AI features that are gonna let you basically talk to your Youtube account to figure out how to make better videos and overall be more successful on the platform. I'm a huge data nerd so I'm going to spend a lot of time with these features to grow my multiple YouTube channels. I also work with musicians so I think the new Youtube Music upgrade is gonna be huge for them as well. I think honestly YouTube is my favorite product ever, and there are good arguments that it's one of the top 10 best products in the world today so I'm glad they're keeping it fresh and are on top of things with AI. Anyone else here creating content or planning to jump into YouTube this year?

This is actually an interesting case of multiperspectivalism. My first experience of Samuel L. Jackson was Mace Windu so for me he killed the role. I watched him in Pulp Fiction only much later, probably only like 10 years ago. To me I always see him as the stoic badass Jedi Master in all his roles like Avengers, Snakes on a Plane and Django Unchained is like his evil version of that. I don't recall seeing him in a different archetype of character but I'm sure he's played some.

That misses the point entirely. The ability to understand someone's internal rationalization doesn't change whether the outcome is functional or destructive. People construct logical narratives for self-sabotaging behavior all the time. Empathy lets you map their reasoning; discernment lets you recognize when that reasoning leads to an objective dead end.

You're making one HUGE leap of assumption here that every human is rational. A lot of people vote against their own self-interest and literally in the past 10 years plenty have died because of voting for Trump and then him cutting their medical funding. Plenty of people can be manipulated to act against their own best self-interest or are actually so stupid that they don't even act in their own best interest in the first place. You're making the Stage Green mistake of invalidating objective hierarchies. Plenty of people objectively are terrible at learning things and they cannot deal with new and difficult situations. If you wanna add to it problem solving as an intelligent person should be able to solve their life's problems; you can add to the definition of stupidity creating problems for yourself and others.

Mastering social calibration is how you do it. Doing pickup is one of the best way to learn since you're putting yourself in one of the highest friction mode of interactions possible, approaching a woman that you don't know on the sidewalk. Teaches you building rapport quickly and also little things like body language and facial expressions. There is a good argument that pickup should be practiced even without the goal of romantic intent because it's such a powerful social skills training mechanism. I was a shy introvert before and now often times people don't believe me when I say I'm an introvert because I host events with 20-50 people but I do that like one every once in a while and the rest of the time I mostly chill at home. Other great avenues to practice social calibration are getting a sales job or working in customer service/retail/restaurants. All of these avenues gives you both high number of social encounters to learn from with little stakes in terms of messing them up at first. There's so many great videos on Youtube that'll teach you advanced social calibration to the point that you can end up understanding social dynamics way better than neurotypicals. There is a camp that would call social skills training the opposite of authenticity but I disagree. It lets you gain intentionality over your behaviour, how you come across and your relationship with others. That would be like saying learning to walk or to speak a language is a lack of authenticity because it's not our natural states.

@Juan Racer review is out!

Fair point @yetineti. Best to just let the process play out and see what official details actually emerge from the grand jury rather than speculating.

I think you have a big mental block around this and clearly life needs to prove it to you deeper before you get it. The one that's predictable is you my friend, I told you this exact situation would happen 2 months ago. Your answer to me calling you out was to flex your bodycount and project me lying to get laid since that was an old habit of yours. It's fine to have an ego but I hope that I've proved to you that your personality is quite easy to read and your bottlenecks are obvious. I think you're making a lot of assumptions that are not based in reality. The more financial abundance you have, the more optionality you have. You don't only have to date career women or influencers, you can date any type of woman that you choose. More importantly, you have more leverage over your lifestyle. If you have enough savings you could take 3 years to travel the world and mostly focus on your dating life and only maintain your cash flowing assets. If you had even more money stacked up you could never work another day in your life and spend the whole rest of your life finding the highest-quality, most conscious women on earth. Attributing negative traits to people that have more abundance than you is a classic sign of scarcity mindset. I was a dating photographer for years. I've worked with students that used their last money before their next paycheck to buy my shoots, with well off entrepreneurs that just wanted abundance and even with religious dudes that have no interest in sleeping around and just want to find a high quality wife. Dating strategy for males is pretty straight forward and ignoring the basis of reality will only leave someone frustrated and unfulfilled. I've tried to point out Miguel's blindspots but he insists that he has it all figured out and other people are the problem. The post I quoted was 2 months ago, someone that is stubbornly trying to push through the same wall with the same strategy is bound to spin their wheels for years. Life is mostly patterns, if you refuse to spot the ones that hold you down then you're bound to repeat the same mistakes. We'll see how his journey develops. All the best man.

It's a pretty wild case and I think it's worth deconstructing from several angles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Cornell_University_rape_allegations The case has been reopened by a New York District Attorney so you'll be hearing a lot about it in the coming months. Since it's reopened, the District Attorney will present the evidence to a grand jury to determine if there is cause for an indictment. More official details will come out through that process.

Sure same. I will make the prediction that as biotech comes up with designer drugs that uniquely address an individual's genome like they're working on and your energy issues are fixed you and Miguel will be back in the club in 2032 and meditating in a cave will be a long-forgotten thought. IMO let's just thank God that we live in the 21st century and not in antiquity and most of the problems we face have real solutions and there is no need to meditate most issues away.

Let's actually describe what's happening here though. He never talked about transcending relationships, he talked about not being able to find the right partner and get the relationship he wants. I doubt that for most people any level of consciousness really makes you transcend relationships. When I had mystical experiences what I personally experienced was that my limitations were imaginary or temporary and I could build whatever life I want. That could be different for others but it seems a lot of times you just are able to be content with not reaching other goals that were previously important to you such as a high quality relationship. That's why I called it coping. Coping is a valid strategy for some problems in life but every person needs the self-awareness to know what they want and not lie to themselves. Miguel has made another thread on this before so we have a lot more context than this one. Seems to me like he's still figuring out his value as a man and doesn't have a solid career and business set up for himself and due to that fact he's not able to get the level of respect and abundance in his dating life that he desires. I believe he has a bias that I commonly call the unhealthy stage green shadow where his rejection of stage orange's validity is leading him to the conclusion that women are playing games and not being ready for a man of his caliber in terms of vulnerability and honesty. We can deconstruct this further but that's my read. As I've stated previously there's no real shame in this. I think a lot of men settle for mediocre relationships where both parties don't really respect nor really appreciate each other and settling for such an arrangement is unfortunate. To really get a high level relationship you need to develop your life in terms of both communication skills and emotional intelligence but also more realistically having a level of financial abundance especially as a man is very important. There's a reason financial issues are one of the leading causes of divorce. I think it's a wise move to take a break from dating to work on that and I've done the same.