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  1. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    @zazen Perhaps it will end up in a really good deal being put together and USMCA turning into the previously talked about North American Union

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Union

    BRICS is looking pretty financially powerful with China going into the next 10 years but if the US and Canada make a good deal we have a pretty powerful industrial sector as well, not quite China level but still that combined with good relations with Europe is solid. 

  2. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    That's really cool, I like that. I'm not Indian but I wanna incorporate some elements from multiple cultures and religions of that time. Hinduism is one of them so mystical creatures from the Hindu lore is cool. I wanna take some elements from Shaktism as well specifically some of the goddesses they have and their ideas on feminine and masculine polarities. 

    The lore is also about exploring immortality and life after death as part of the story is that the main character deifies himself through the word conquest and also ends up given the power to resurrect the dead and thus he creates an immortal empire across earth and the Abyss. 

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    Sort of how Hades 2 is about invading the underworld

     

  4. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    1 hour ago, kavaris said:

    Explain to me the game again, but from this sortve perspective,

    Like whats the story w/ it, and who are the characters in it, And "Why", like are these characters serving the game / environment, or does the environment serve the char., or sumthin else, Like get a little abstract w it

    The story is about a mage named Nerathar who travels accross different Kindgoms in the 17th century and eventually conquers the world. It's a dark fantasy world with magic and the point is to explore how magic and the scientific revolution/age of enlightenment of the 17th/18th century would pair up.

    The first version of the game will be a fast paced 2D roguelite hack and slash type of game. Like Oblivion Override or Dragon is Dead 

     

    From where if it's successful I wanna develop a wider scale game like a 3D action adventure game and the vision 10 year down the line would be to turn it into a VR web 3 MMORPG.

    The world-building, anime and TCG are aspects of it I'm developing alongside the game. 

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  6. Posted

    57 minutes ago, kavaris said:

    Which pokemon? Cause newer pokemon is pretty hardcore as far as technicality, Like thats GaneFreak or watever the company in the game div., their bread and butter. Id be surprised if they didnt have a full proprietary package behind all of their titles, giving credence to the years spent having to develop things very specific to the mechanics, etc.

    I think the two best Pokemon products by far are the Pokemon TCG and Pokemon Go. 

    I remember people in my neighbourhood playing Pokemon Go and running around city trying to catch pokemons fighting gyms. I was too into pickup at that time so I didn't play but I regret it. It seems really cool and I think one of the downsides of video games is it cuts you off from the real world so augmented reality is a massive innovation to this issue. I will find a way to incorporate it in to this project. Maybe literally copy it and you can find cool abyssal creatures around your city in places where you have to physically scan them with your phone or AR glasses to collect them.

    Pokemon Cards are an insane innovation in terms of collectibles and are a new class of assets in and of themselves. I've been following the trend blowing up since the past year, it's very fascinating to me as the other flaws of video games I see is that you waste your time playing them. If you can play my game and you collect real assets and actual cards that go up over time, then that will crush and give it potential to also be worth billions if it scale to that level. Pokemon Cards in and of themselves have a market cap of $2.5 billion so that's pretty cool. 

    I designed some playing and collectibe cards for Legend of the Abyss, I played it with some friends it was not that bad. I made it based off of heartstone where you get an Aether point each round and each card has a specific aether cost to play.

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    1 hour ago, kavaris said:

    I can help you w/ low level stuff, but it would require of you to let go of the burning desire / need to rush into a video game thing.

    Cool I'll message you. 

  7. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    1 hour ago, Elliott said:

    I don't think you understand the proposed deal, Canada will be restricted from trading with other countries, will have free trade from u.s. and the u.s. will tariff everything that's also made in the u.s., Canadian auto industry would cease to exist, so would  lumber.

    Yeah they should push back on some of that. I think the US will pull out of NATO though and will exclude Canada from security guarantees if the deal goes poorly and I will have to go up North to get killed by Chinese and Russian robots while freezing my ass off so I think that's truly the option they better fucking avoid.

    Canada doesn't even meet Nato dues so our military equipment is dog shit as well. If that actually happens I'm moving to Europe and joining @TheGod in Marid; you better believe I'm not enlisting. 

     

  9. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    1 hour ago, Heaven said:

    I believe Leo’s work is mostly internal and that is true happiness for the long term.

    Material achievements aren’t the focus here and actually the teachings are most likely will make you “achieve” less of it.

    Although I’m by nature very competitive and ambitious so I guess there are up and downs in my world but I definitely feel fulfilled. 

    I disagree. His work allows you to master your mind and remove the insecurity and mental blocks that allows you to actually achieve your wildest dreams and achieve your life purpose. 

    Not everyone wants to be Eckhart Tolle and get enlightened on a park bench. If that's you then great but there's an infinite universe out there of awesome things to do. 

    The main product of this community is the life purpose course which specifically talks about how to achieve your wildest vision. It's not a standard spiritually bypassing stay in your room and do nothing based community. 

  10. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    You didn't read the thread? I've already addressed the parts on appearing strong vs posturing and triggering ego unnecessarily. 

    On 8/23/2026 at 3:04 AM, LordFall said:

    Where I've not given your point enough credit is that in foreign policy weakness is not respected and gets abused. Nixon had the saying "Probe with bayonets any situation that looks mushy, withdrawing only when the bayonets meet steel."

    I think not conceiting and staying strong can help get us a better deal. I just worry about needlessly antagonizing narcissists. If they feel insulted they'll sabotage the negotiation at the benefit of no one. Sometimes you have to placate people that are crazy like Trump so that they feel like they won and everyone wins in return.

    I hope you're right and Carney is playing it right and not falling into his ego in this case.  

     

  11. Posted

    8 minutes ago, TheGod said:

    Maybe try to watch less porn if you watch it. In my experience it tends to make me feel lonely and depressed.

    Really? Does the opposite for me. If I don't watch it my sex drive becomes so huge that looking at women outside makes me feel physical pain and I will not be able to stop the impulse to try to get laid in ways that are not productive to my life. 

  12. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    Arguing with people on the actualized.org forum of course, 8/10 therapist recommend this method. The other 2 are incels. 

    More seriously as an INTP I have less of a need for socialization than you do and what I value is intellectual companionship so people that understand my ideas and wanna talk about them so I mean AI has kept me quite good company these past few months. I also have phone calls with friends in other cities occasionally but honestly Gemini helps more.  

     

  14. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    Yes I'm experiencing an exponential curve in the things that I'm able to accomplish that I only dreamed of 10 years ago. I still have some major roadblocks and bottlenecks that are stopping me from really actualizing my full life purpose but the past 5 years have been a blast.

    I've been able to get paid to host parties and photoshoot with models, host my own fashion show, get into the concert industry and overall be on a career path that is both fun and lucrative in the end. 

    It's not magic and its step by step so I had to move back with my dad to save on money because my cashflow isn't there yet but the dream is happening; slowly but surely.

    If you have Instagram you can look at the fashion show I hosted and how it came together over a few months last year here : https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18060769145048516/

    Not that long ago I was a basement nerd playing League of Legends 12 hours a day so I'm quite happy with how my life is going. In 5 years the cashflow should be solid and I should be able to travel the world, date all the women I want and be able to contribute positively to the lives of the people in my communities. 

  15. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    35 minutes ago, shubhamsharma said:

    I don't have goals. My only goal is to live. I can't work because I am anti psychotic medication which makes me sleep 12 hours a day.

    Good, that's a great place to start. You should have goals otherwise there is literally not much point to life.

    What do you like about reality that you want to experience more of? If you're feeling anhedonia which is reduced ability to feel pleasure that's a key part of depression then at least start by anti goals which are things that you dislike or hate. 

    So for example I dislike having another man tell me what to do and being forced to work jobs so financial independence through entrepreneurship is one of my core life goals. 

  16. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    1 hour ago, Elliott said:

    "Offset". Trump is trying to tariff above any tariffs Canada has on us. Under usmca we already had equal trade, Trump is the one that created it even. Republican scotus does not follow precedent, nor do they want tarrifs, they rule like kings for BlackRock whom doesn't want retarded tariffs. They would have used this argument the first time if it were good.

    You're mixing up executive strategy with legal validity. The administration used IEEPA first because national emergency declarations skip procedural reviews entirely. Once SCOTUS struck that down for lacking explicit tariff language, switching to explicit trade statutes like Section 338 or Section 301 is standard administrative maneuvering not a sign that the argument is weak and won't work. 

    Section 338 grants broad authority to combat perceived trade discrimination against US commerce; it isn't limited to a strict line-by-line tariff parity match.

    Also court challenges take months or years to wind through the Court of International Trade. Even if SCOTUS eventually rules against them, the tariffs sit in place during the litigation. Canadian exporters and supply chains have to deal with the immediate economic reality today, not a theoretical court injunction 1 year or more from now.

    Section 338 is from the 1930s and has no recent precedent so it will perhaps successfully be challenged down the line but for the foreseeable future it will allow the trade war to go on. 

  17. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    21 minutes ago, Lyubov said:

    If I had to pick one for pure pulling, getting laid, nightgame is king and there is nothing better. Online is second if you have the right profile and are able to sift through it to find the horny girls who wanna fuck on the first date (trickier and can get pricy spending cash on dating apps)

    Nightgame is good for extroverts. Introverts should go for online dating undoubtedly. When I was in my fuckboy phase I would get laid every week from online dating. You get tinder platinum for $50, you 1-2 boosts at $5 each and drinks and you get laid consistently with almost mathematical precision for like $20 lol. Mankind was not supposed to have this power, its too powerful! 

    They key is to have a pulling methodology in place. I would invite girls to have drinks by the lake and wow surprise I live on the lake and was we go to the liquor store to get drinks I would say wanna go back to my place and listen to music and chill and 80% would be down. Some dudes have weird online dating strategy where they meet the girl next to her place and then try to invite themselves over or meet halfway where there is no option to pull and that's just self-sabotage.

    One of my ex clients told me this story where he was at the park drinking wine with a girl and hitting it off and she was into it and he tried to fuck her behind a bush and it almost worked but her logical brain took over and was like wtf is going on NO and the magic did not happen that night.

    You should ideally have a place by yourself with mood lighting, a smooth sex music playlist ready to go and good smells to make her relaxed and get her to escalate on you if anything. I had a messy af roommate that made our life a living hell but when he would have a date he would clean the whole apartment spotless each time, it worked. 

    Key to online dating is to have the right archetype in your pictures, you can do it well even if you're not that good looking. Like have bdsm handcuffs, motorcycle, cigar, nice place overlooking the city, nice dress shirt, shirtless if you're fit, etc. If a chick is looking to get fucked she should find your profile easily in the sea of boring dudes. 

    This 5 part tinder guide is a must read

    https://killyourinnerloser.com/tinder-guide/

  18. Posted

    @Carl-Richard Makes a lot of sense, I like the job system's inter reliance I wanna implement that for LotA as well.

    Thanks for the detailed explanation, 3 hours on that video is a bit much but I'll watch like a 20 mins video and get back to you with some insights I get about the game that we can discuss. 

    That 70% community poll is cool, I'll write that down. One massive consistent complaint across most major games is that game dev just don't listen to the community so clearly there's something there. 

    @AerisVahnEphelia Love it, it's common for smart talented people to want to build their own projects instead of working regular prestige jobs like FANG. I completely relate.

    I also agree with your points. Soon enough I think you will be able to make a one prompt game. Project Genie by Google Deepmind is working on precisely that.

    My prediction is that it's gonna lead to a bunch of generic games flooding the market which is why I'm looking to build massive amounts of depth into my project before this drops so that when it does I can skip a lot of the boring coding and just plug my system into Genie and other systems that have a first movers advantage on the wave of new game dev that are gonna pop up once everyone can make a game in 20 mins. 

  19. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    5 hours ago, Zenterus said:

    Of course not! You're better than that!

    I see what you're saying here and I do agree that you want to have your own tribe that's centered around you and your unique interests. However, you don't have to build your own meetup event to have that materialize. You can momentarily join other people's social circles and either systematically establish yourself as a leader (which any guy with any decent cold approach experience will easily be able to do compared to most normie guys) or you can simply extract the people you connect with the most and invite them to join your own social circle separately. The latter one is interesting because when you start inviting specific people from an existing social circle to join you on your own adventure on the side, other people start to get curious about you and where they stand with you because you didn't invite them. Over time, that can also lead to you becoming the center piece of the previously existing social circle because of the social value you convey with your selectivity and the stories they hear about you from the people you did invite to join your adventure.

    That's true but bro there is HUGE difference between being king of the castle and just being a high status guy in someone else's circle though. I learned this mainly through 2 painful experiences in my life.

    I used to work at Cactus Club which is a trendy restaurant in downtown Toronto. I had hot server coworkers and invited them to the club with me one time. My roommate was a club promoter with a free booth and bottles in the biggest club in the city so I went out with him and I got lucky and one of the hottest servers I had a crush on came out that night and she used the guestlist I gave her to get quick entry to the club so I thought I was set. She came to the booth and took a shot with me and then she asked me who's booth is this? I wanna take a shot with the guy. 

    Another time I went out with that same roommate and we were at a party that he organized and I was flirting with this cute girl that was friends with this other girl that my boy was flirting with. It was a big party and at the end it was kind of winding down and there was a 3rd friend of ours who was trying to flirt with the girl I had too. We ended up going back to our building and then it turns out that that guy was third wheeling so we told him bro love you but good night go home. We went back to the girls airbnb and to my horror as I kept trying to flirt with my girl turns out I was double wheeling and she was more down to have a threesome with my roommate than us both hooking up with our own respective girl. 

    I reversed the situation and it turned out more in my favor when my own status increased and I was the one organizing everything it became much clearer that other guys in my setup were more like irrelevant visitors than true holders of power and influence and girls are much more attuned to these power dynamics than we are. 

    Winner takes all is a key concept when it comes to social circle and status game and usually the top guy takes 90% and the 2nd dude takes 8% and the rest of the dudes are stuck fighting for the scraps and often times they don't get laid at all. 

    There is a true meritocracy component to it because to build an empire is hard and it's much easier to collab with dudes and split the load and you should do that in a lot of ways but joint ventures are much better in my experience than really trying to make an egalitarian setup work. Hugh Hefner was the king of playboy and there was no #2 in command just employees. That's how you achieve true peak status and peak 10/10 SMV. Drake's producer and the other dudes in OVO don't have 50% of the status Drake has, they have like 5% which is still 500x more than the average guy but they're still irrelevant compared to the king. 

    I built this brand with my business partner at the time and I realized that we were actually cucking eachother because nobody was king and we were both princes of the brand. It made it much less effective in terms of being a proper social circle and media ecosystem. That's why we ended up splitting it so that its fully his brand and my brands are fully mine and we collab for events but there is only one king of the castle for each brand.

    https://www.instagram.com/the_velvet_network

  20. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    7 hours ago, shubhamsharma said:

    My head rush with suicidal thoughts and I feel uneasy. Everything seems point less. 

    Do you have a big juicy goal in mind and a dream life to look forward to?

    I also felt depressed and life was pointless until I let go of societal expectations and crafted goals and a life purpose that was exciting and fulfilled my deepest desires. If you're telling yourself that your goal is just to be a responsible member of society then yeah when life gets hard you're gonna be depressed and want to just smoke weed and escape the pain of day to day life.

    When I decided that I wanted to be polyamorous and have 6 wives and a superyacht sailing across the Mediterranean and eat the best food in the world while making the best VR video game of all time and started to make progress towards that daily then life got a lot more fun. 

    Your dream life will be different than mine but writing down what your best possible dream life if anything was possible and then surprise most things in life are really possible it just takes time and effort; I think that will help you a lot bro. 

    7 hours ago, Sugarcoat said:

    I moved from my family 

    Independence is really good, often times most of our life trauma and limitations comes from how were raised so finding financial independence and living on your own can solve a lot of it instantly. 

  22. Posted

    9 hours ago, Elliott said:

    No they don't 

    The US legal system works mostly on precedents.

    The reason these Section 338 tariffs are expected to hold up better than the February ones comes down to statutory text and procedural requirements:

    Direct Statutory Authority: Unlike IEEPA (which SCOTUS struck down because it doesn't explicitly mention "tariffs"), Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 explicitly authorizes duties up to 50% to offset foreign discrimination.

    Broad Judicial Deference: Courts historically grant massive latitude to the President on trade decisions tied to foreign policy disputes.

    So while importers will definitely challenge them in court, the legal basis under Section 338 is much tighter this time around.

  23. Posted · Edited by LordFall

    @Natasha Tori Maru Thank you for your in depth reply, it does makes a lot of sense, I've read it a few times to really make sense of what you're saying. 

    11 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

    Shit it is such a hard question - mostly because my blocks have been varied and many not just mental. I would categorise most of my blocks to be in the emotional / feeling domain. And all (mental "thought" or feeling) blocks were based on me resisting or having a poor relationship with the thought or feeling. Not the actual feeling itself. The blocks were essentially areas where my mental/emotional energy was being used in maintaining a narrative, judging or rejecting. Once I worked on those - the excess energy that was wasted in the "block" was funnelled/diverted into action because the action simply felt like exactly what I wanted to do. My largest blocks were 1) approval seeking with men (blocking love + feeling as if I needed to earn love) 2) resistance to "wanting" (I was stuck in "should" and had to allow myself to really want something) 3) judging others (blocked an emotion, I cannot feel the emotion behind the judgement if I am busy moralizing) 4) False belief: wanting money was greed 5) False belief: I only excelled because I was a good looking woman and not due to excellence or aptitude. Everyone will have different blocks for sure - and they are often (but not always) linked to our shadows. What we aren't claiming in our experience. This is why I enjoy being triggered on the forum - if I feel okay to judge someone, it tends to indicate I think "I don't do that" but I probably do, and need to investigate it. I had many blocks I slowly worked through. And they all essentially served one purpose: to steal energy away into mental narratives. Energy that I needed to divert back to useful, available energy. Especially to work in commercial construction.

    If I think I don't experience something - an emotion or feeling, even a thought - its an immediate call for me to investigate it. I am more often than not just not able to recognise it. I had to sit and redefine emotions and feelings, be able to accurately name and define the feeling. Work out where in my experience they showed up. This was the hardest part of the process for me, as I am not naturally good at identifying the nuances in feelings. Anxiety, worry, concern, sometimes even anticipation - they all (for example) used to feel like the same emotional soup to me. Now I can find the difference in my experience. I used to think I never felt jealousy - but I was actually so busy judging another for some other thing, I was blocking it. ie my mother would show me her amazing op shop finds of silver. I would immediately judge her "she is lazy, doesn't want to work, and just searched for endless dopamine to waste money. She hoards useless stuff". But in reality - I was jealous I couldn't have a day off to hunt for silver. The narrative was feeding my rational brain, bypassing the real emotion of jealously and diverting to suppress the emotion. But that loop > judge > narrative > emotional suppression - that loop! That was where excess energy was looping out of my system like a program eating up memory in a computers OS. In the place of jealousy suddenly happiness for her came up. I had to find those loops. Emotional work, psychology and shadow stuff was a big part - so I think you are onto the right path. There could be other avenues though, this is just what worked for me. It wasn't easy either. I test as INTJ (take that for what it is, MBTI slides into pseudoscience) Not sure if this has anything to do with it, but my inner emotions just aren't so easy to access.

    My takeaway is that I should sit down and write down my blocks because yeah I also can't really label them and just feel a mix of frustration and negative energy that leads me to avoiding work a lot of times or just working in short bursts to meet deadlines in a way that stops myself from reaching that excellence. 

    11 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

    One other small remark I might make is regarding spirituality.

    It helped. A lot.

    No self was huge for me. Self will not being a thing (but still behaving as if I have agency) also. I stopped being so attached to outcome. I just made sure I was taking action when the greatest probability for the outcome I desired would arise. I have no ultimate control (and I was a control freak). I am at the mercy of too many other people, logistics and variables to commit to attaching to an outcome. This helped eliminate 50% of my latent stress. When I started to deconstruct my own experience and the phenomenology of it, I also begun to stop resisting and judging some tasks as "bad" or "good". Folding the laundry became a purely tactile experience. Cutting the vegetables was so auditory and strange, feeling the vibration and pressure as a sharp knife went through a cabbage with a CRUNCH. Sensory experience in any arena is now welcome. I have my preferences of course. But its all just sensation. I don't hate any of it. I just don't resist.

    I don't know if any of this resonated. I hope it does! I used to procrastinate a lot.

    Connecting to outcome through relationship with people was huge for me. I had to feel the result.

    This part I relate with as well. As I mentioned the other day I'm a very competitive individual and I love control but there is definitely a lesson in surrendering ultimate control to gain more micro control that I need to figure out because some parts of me are definitely stuck in some weird resentment that I haven't fully figured out yeah that is giving me a lot of resistance. 

    11 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

    I test as INTJ (take that for what it is, MBTI slides into pseudoscience) Not sure if this has anything to do with it, but my inner emotions just aren't so easy to access.

     

    The MBTI distinction here is super fascinating. INTJ vs. my INTP really highlights the exact execution gap I’ve been trying to bridge.

    As an INTJ, your Te/Ni stack naturally drives you to be process-oriented and outcome-driven. Sounds like you genuinely enjoy refining SOPs, organizing logistical moving parts, and seeing the physical, tangible building in the end

    As an INTP (Ti/Ne), I tend to be framework-oriented and concept-driven. I get obsessed with solving the abstract puzzle or building the mental architecture, but once the system is "understood" in my head, my brain treats the actual mechanical execution as a monotonous chore.

    I've been having trouble pushing past this and the business bro advice I keep listening to JUsT Do It DISCipline > MotivVATION is not helping that much. 

    5 hours ago, something_else said:

    I think this shadow is quite common among INTP or ADHD type personalities, or those with high openness in Big 5. I relate to it as well. This desire to be unique and special. To lead an interesting life. Eventually you just need to accept that you (probably) aren't fundamentally very special, and that's OK.

    Counter-intuitively, when you accept that it makes it easier to accomplish interesting things because it shifts your perspective from "I am special and unique so I deserve Thing" to "I would like Thing in my life, how do I work towards getting Thing".

    'Stage Blue shadow' encapsulates this issue really well, because stage blue heavily penalises individual uniqueness while valuing work ethic, monotony, and doing what needs to be done even if it's boring to you.

    Yes that makes a lot of sense too. Being entitled is a recipe for very low effectiveness. The more I actually host events and make stuff happen in the real world the more I audit how much energy, effort and money some ideas really take as opposed to the dream vision so it's helped me narrow my vision to only the things that matter most to me and not random fantasies. 

    Yeah stage blue is not that bad but it embodied most of the system I was trying to rebel against my entire life and overcome so now I have to loop back and integrate it in a way that makes sense to me I feel like. 

    8 hours ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

    Because I haven't found those real ass communities that serves my specific goals yet, but I'm slowly starting to discover them. Also I have never been trying to keep myself completely busy like I am trying to now. This is a place for lunatics and lost people, is the way I see it

    I understand. You should engage more on the life purpose and business section, it's the one I feel is most grounded. 

    The lost people can be guided towards where they need to go and the lunatics are some of my favorites. As a very logical person there are few things I enjoy more in life than pointing out the logical inconsistencies in what people say. It's an INTP super power. 

    People that seem a bit insane are often times just lost in subjectivity.

    If you can understand where they're coming from and say something extremely logical through first principles that's basically objective truth then sometimes you can snap them out of it quite fast. 

  24. Posted

    35 minutes ago, Hayato said:

    People invested massively in the creation of US railways, believing they would be useful and produce profits. Railways are very useful to this day, but the financial benefits did not materialize immediately, and a lot of investors lost their money.

    With the advent of the internet a lot of companies invested in .coms for similar reasons. Most lost their investments because the market was overhyped. But the internet didn't disappear, now it is integral to modern life. It can be used for both good and bad, making people smarter or dumber based on how they choose to use it.

    I think AI is completely analogous to both. There will be a correction, but the technology is here to stay.

    That's a good analogy. 

    In regards to Crypto I think a good concept to ponder in depth is how do I minimize my downside risk while scaling my upside potential? Humans get greedy and forget their downside risk.

    That's what ruined Sam Bankman Fried(also illegally trading) but he was a smart guy and if the market went his way he never would've been arrested. It doesn't matter if the market goes your way though, what you really gotta worry about is when it starts shitting on you.

    Are you prepared for that? Delta neutral strategies are very interesting to me for that reason, it's a way to make money whether the market goes up or down.