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Nice share. Always knew they were fishy but this explained nicely how they actually take your chips.

This is just what happens when society evolves to become more complicated. The individuals within it need to also evolve and outperform the generation before, else it's not really progress. Also, we now have eight billion people on the planet. There are just way more people competing for resources.

Modern indie films have never been better. Problem is the marketing models for indie films suck. Go to film festivals if you want to watch great stuff. Blockbusters are financially forced to cast too wide of a net to be truly great, with few exceptions. Also a big studios goal isn't to make good movies, it's to cheat on tax. Hollywood accounting is biblically corrupt.

Same logic can be applied to Zoomers when they eventually take over from millennials. And gen Alpha after them. Today's iPad addicted diaper babies will inevitably take over, and we will be better off for it. -- The oldest millennials I know are getting prepared for their boomer arc. They are buying multiple properties and getting ready to horde resources and blame kids for not working hard enough. You too will become like a boomer, it's only a matter of time. It's almost as if the boomer issue is not a problem with a specific generation, and instead it's a greater cultural and survival problem brought about by aging and success seeking.

FXPHD - Learn everything Compositing Academy - Learn Nuke ($$$) At some point, you will need to create the final shot and that is what Nuke is for. Any VFX artist would be served to learn basic compositing. Nuke is where at most VFX jobs are.

Blender is a jack of all trades tool. Learn it a bit since you can do a bit of everything there, but there are more specialized tools you will mostly use later on EDIT: Kind of not true. It's free so pragmatically it makes a lot of sense in smaller teams.

The Ayunda video was made by Robin Zeeb. Go DM him and ask him how to learn to do that. He's a one-man band. You need to make it your job to get good, simple as that. Do something else as a hobby or go all in.

This is a VFX career path. I'd recommend learning Nuke and Blender to start. Maybe Houdini if you like it. Get a showreel together of basic work and get a junior level role ASAP. All the best learning in this work happens when you get creative under pressure on the job.

Insight #9 The world is exactly what you make of it. A lack of consciousness makes you a victim of circumstance, and robs you of your ability to flow with reality. Increasing your energy and non-destructive free will is the true meaning of the new age term 'waking up'.

You've found a thread of insights that have occured to me, that I figure Actualized.org enjoyers would appreciate.

Insight #8 Make peace with God, or you will face his wrath. Be a Taoist.

Insight #7 - Suffering Love the people around you. Everyone suffers tenfold more than they let on. A person in suffering always has a reason why. Most suffering happens purely out of circumstance, not because of any error a person made. Yet people tend to blame themselves or others, when the truth is its no one's fault. Most people are truly victims, and do not have access to the resources or knowhow to overcome suffering. If you are not suffering greatly, you are extremely lucky.

Insight #6 - Free Will Be utterly grateful you a degree of free will at all. Despite how difficult it is to manage that responsibility and how painful it can be to survive to maintain it, a rock is not so lucky as you. God gave you a chance to contribute to it's grand design. Don't fuck it up.

Insight #5 Reality is one infinite, mental database. Your consciousness is the software that renders pure data into experience.

Insight #4 - Transhumanism Transhumanism will be the biggest leap forward in consciousness that has ever occured on earth. Anyone clinging to their biological humanity doesn't understand what they are missing out on. The second adopters of this technology will usher in an unrivalled golden age for civilisation. Our cyborg descendents weep for us.

Insight #3 - Nothing is original. Everything is derived. Pythagoras didn't invent shit, that theorem has been true for eternity. Metaphysically speaking, intellectual property is theft. No one has ever invented anything. God beat you all to it.

Insight #2 - Wrapped up Many people, businesses, and governments are completely wrapped up and hamstrung by their own bullshit. Many entities of this sort have have built a disfunctional system around themselves that they are too afraid to tear down. Sometimes the best move is to downsize. A large company becomes too big to maintain profitability under a shifting market, and refuses to downsize as that's considered a failing business by management and investors. This leads to stagnation and rot. Have you ever caused yourself more problems by adding things into your life? Cut that out. A lean strategy is best for long term sustainability and for the human experience.

Insight #1 - Liar's Advantage A liar usually has the upper hand versus a truthful person. A liar has first mover's advantage. It is difficult for a victim to anticipate a lie and plan for it. Usually, lies must always be reacted to, processed, and only then can be ultimately rejected. That is why Elon, Trump, Zuck, whoever can get away with bold-faced lies. Before the public consciousness catches on, it is too late. The average person is easily gaslit. Solution? Don't be a liar, instead get really good at spotting them and calling them out. Being caught in the act as a liar is death, but being caught post-mortem is escapable.

Not necessarily. Such a company could easily eat itself alive.

You're going to love owning a gun

Jumping in because I went through this phase: 1. The base skillset you need to get a job is far lower than what you will learn in your course. Don't overthink your skills, just get a job. 2. If you're passionate and talented, you will rival or surpass your role models in about 5-10 years of full time work. 3. Drop the needy optimistic kid energy. It doesn't serve you. Be a professional. 4. People skills and having a good vibe beats nerdy technical talent, but having both is a superpower.

Yeah this guy rubs me the wrong way too. His channel used to make actual what if alternate history video which were interesting, but very quickly it became his trash political dumping ground. The problem is not a lack of education or a particular point he makes, but his self-bias is out of control. Every idea or historical fact he warps into something that's favorable to his demographic, a white conservative american young male. He would never ever ever concede a point that's not in favor of white males and in favor of another demographic. So when he cries about woke identity politics, hes being a hypocrite.

I suppose it's only fair and fun if the devil gets to play too.

I just read Leo's last two blog posts. It begs the question then; how do you beat the devil? Is it possible to be dedicated to truth and succeed in business? I look around the industry I work in and see deception and systems exploitation everywhere. In filmmaking, in order to get anything made (and therefore to be employed) you need to exploit government grants, tax incentives, cheap overseas labor, race to the bottom contracts, and so on. It's kill or be killed, it seems that if you don't participate in this system and out exploit other filmmakers, you have no chance of creating something great. Is there any examples of businesses or projects that have been successful while sticking to truthful and honest core values? What did they do differently? My thought experiment led me to the conclusion; create a new market. You have to refuse to play in the same game as the devil. You have to refuse to engage in the same market, refuse to use the same exploiting tools, refuse to compete with the devil's product. Is that correct? Or am I being overly nihilistic here?

Because they give him what he wants. It's really that simple. Elon's character is not that deep.