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    1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

    Most people don't.

    You think the guy working at Walmart seeks status?

    Disagree.

    Humans are chimps after all.

    Are we pretending the Walmart guy is post conventional now?

    Not likely. 

    Humans constantly engage in primitive social games dictated by there biology.

    Some are way less effective at it obviously and you will see that omnipotence chipping away at the overweight video game addicted mid 20s Wal-Mart employee. 

    Of course in this hypothetical scenario I'm imaging a guy with possible trauma and neurodivergence but nevertheless if he had the opportunity to display his passion and areas of strength in a way that bolstered his status he'd be very eager to do so. 

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    2 hours ago, AION said:

    I’m not going to catch a bullet for these women. And men who are willing to do that while they hate us to the bone are dumb as fuck.

    Dating culture change all the time. And we can’t roll back the changes. The problem is that men need to change too. Men are too naive about dating. 

    I see a lot of men struggling. And nobody cares about them because they don’t have the right genitals. A friend of mine got divorced last month. She got half of his money and she is already with the next dude. 

    Brutal sorry about your friend.

    The unfortunate part about the world we live in is that culture changes hard and fast. 

    At the end of the day this is a spiritual forum I feel, right?

    So to me that inner alignment and values precede and override any worldly circumstances and inconveniences.

  3. Posted

    @AION and that w

    4 minutes ago, AION said:

    I think Owen has a point. Back in the day you could hold an average girl attention and loyalty with the bare minimum.  With the invention of social media and Tinder the game has changed. Most women are on cloud 9 in terms of expectations versus what they deliver. There are still some girls who aren’t ruined by feminism(female egoism) and the toxic dating culture. Especially in western style environments. 

    And that will be to there own detriment. 

    They will never be happy or be in stable relationships if they can't drop the facade and be real.

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    @Cred Also what I'm realizing is I'm probably Aspergers.

    Upside to it is that nothing has fucking worked for me. 

    There is hardly a safety net which neurotypicals get by simply being themselves.

    Relationships, jobs, socializing... It all just happens. Not saying they don't work hard and have there struggles.

    But for me everything has been damn near impossible. The amount of obsession and dedicated time I've put towards GAME and social skills development to the expense of the rest of my life is rare. 

    Ultimately the result Is say is highly developed philosophical and spiritual qualities... Because I have almost nothing to hide behind. 

    But of course there's other areas where I struggle to sustain a basic level of competence. 

  7. Posted · Edited by PenguinPablo

    @Joshe Absolutely. I've seen this cope so many times. There are fictional stories warning about becoming this type of person. The genius that has the whole world figured out and is "above" most things in society, yet is a man child playing video games in their parents basement -- because it's easier to create castles in your head than accept the reality of being mediocre. Such a person hasn't even stepped into the ring. 

  10. Posted · Edited by PenguinPablo

    33 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    BTW, you are grossly over-estimating that number. You have not played even close to 10,000 games of chess. That's an insane number that even a grandmaster hasn't played.

     

    I heard Magnus in a fun video where he had to guess strangers ELO and he said something like a few thousands games isn't very much in Chess. So he predicted that the player was very low ELO like 1000 or something based on that along with a few questions about how they approach the game. 

    I haven't lost the nuance though. I think with Chess for instance there are certain suggested avenues in terms of training, and ways of looking at the board that are mental shortcuts so to speak. Principles and so forth that allow you to cut through the noise and simplify the logic. 

    I think that's the problem with most humans that they don't really reflect on what they are doing. 

    Hence you see a lot of people that are mentally stunted. 

    And to be fair if you are around low consciousness people you are just repeating the same loop over and over, perhaps your whole life. 

    Hence the benefit of independent thinking, albeit their is also wisdom is structures that are proven. You just need to be selective and intelligent about which ones to plug into and benefit from.

     

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    Granted most of these are shorter games and not serious 15+ min games but this is just Chess.com. Add onto that his OTB classical games which Google AI said was only around 6000. Makes sense. 

    I will concede that proves your point. 

    6000 classical games is some serious shit. Actually gives you enough time to think things through thoroughly as opoosed to the mindlessness of Blitz games.

  11. Posted

    I've probably played 10,000 Chess games yet I'm only in the top 65% of players.

    Am I stupid?

    I think just doing the thing is not enough. But serious analysis and curiosity is necessary along the way to notice the gaps in your approach.

    I think in the majority of cases experience will suffice to see radical improvements and transformation but I think their can be bottleknecks depending on intellectual aptitude, trauma, etc...

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    @fopyloBro it's not weird being there alone. A very large percentage of people in Thailand are traveling solo. If they are in groups it's because they met them in Thailand in many cases. 

    This is not the same environment as your home town where everyone sticks to their high school cliques and ostracizes you.

    It will be hard to see through what I am saying until you let your guard down and start talking to people.

    Stay at a hostel for a couple of nights.

    Might be nerve-wracking at first based on how you are describing yourself.

  18. Posted · Edited by PenguinPablo

    I've heard rumblings around Vegas that Leo is one of the biggest real estate moguls in the state of Nevada.

    @Ramasta9 

    With 5 million might as well live in a better location. 

    SE Asia is for brokies trying to live like millionaires.

    If you have 5 mil might as well leverage the money and live in a location where you can really put it to work and do bigger things.

    I guess the healing / retreat biz is cool though. Don't know much about it. 

  20. Posted · Edited by PenguinPablo

    9 hours ago, Hojo said:

    @PenguinPabloWhats this person feeling?

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    No multiple choice because you dont get that in real life. Multiple choice on a face reading exercise is bogus. You are just guessing at that point. You are not 'reading' someone face you are looking at eyes and making a guess based on the answers they give you.

    On some of them I did guess.

    However, on some of them the emotion came to my mind and then I chose the emotion most similar to what I felt.

    On others I would look at the face first. Then look at the answer choices and intuitively select the choice that "felt" like what I felt from the eyes.

    I got 29 as a score which I think was slightly higher than the neurotypical average.

    It was also a bit stressful and draining taking the test for me. Not cognitively but emotionally draining. 

    By your standard of multiple choice tests not meaning anything, you should go revamp the entire education system since multiple choice doesn't mean anything. 

    I'm not sure how effective this test is specifically for what it purportedly  measures but I can understand the reasoning for it's design. 

    That's why you can't evaluate autism with a single test.

  21. Posted

    @Hojo Then it would be way too obvious. 

    Also I specifically said right after that the eyes dilate in certain ways and the muscles surrounding the eyes.

    Many people aren't extremely expressive anyway with their entire face.

    So you'd have less to go off on if they didn't speak or made a very subtle micro expression. 

    Not sure if you're being intentionally dense or just playing devils advocate.

    For experiment purpose I'm sure there's tons of methodology and reasoning for why they do it around the eye area. 

  22. Posted

    On 1/23/2026 at 1:17 AM, Hojo said:

    @Carl-RichardI got 18, test seems dumb what does autism have to do with eyes. If there are no people around are you still autistic.Philosophically maybe not. How can they guarantee the actors or faces are making the right expressions?

    Obviously there is some universality and overlap in facial expression across our species. Certain patterns in terms of how the eyes express themselves and the muscles surrounding it. 

    People with autism have a harder time reading this. But I didn't have to say that part. Everybody knows that. 

    Anyway I scored 29. @Carl-Richard