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I am not a legal, financial, medical, or pop culture expert of any kind (or any expert of any kind.) I am not offering advice. This is not advice. I always say that everybody should do their own research, and contact actual practitioner of what they need advice for, because they know how the systems actually work. I use I/Me pronouns though; I might have the highest IQ in the country and should have several Doctorates

[hexelline]

Dating and Stuff

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" is a commonly used comment that implies something has a level of skill involved... And certainly; you lose 100% of the lotteries that you don't play in--Play 100,000 lotteries and you'll realize that the game is rigged against you

"What's the worst thing they can do say no?" - people that haven't been rejected 100,000 times, or weren't about to carry the weight of an adult-child who weren't dating for Love, but for an allowance

You may say to be "But Melin, you're a T-Slur and don't meet the criteria of the 6,6,6, why would any woman want to date you? Especially when everyone thinks you're gay and dating men?"

I had two of the 3 6s, and now I'm about to have the frequently sought after D-Cup

But dating isn't about that

In the military, Women aren't allowed in combat roles. For the most part; they're not really accepted in the Military due to appearances; if a Female can be accepted as Manish, one of the boys, the kind you don't want to date because they're "Like a Bro. Dude" you might get a pass

But the thing about Human beings is that they do weird stuff. The military doesn't want women because "men fight over them" and you'd think it would be restricted to "Female Women" and you'd be wrong

It's not the Gays and Queers that initiate; it's other Men who fear what it means if they're "attracted to penis havers" they fear the stigma of what it's like to be "Penis Connoisseurs"

And they act on it

Women have an expectation that they get to be the passive one in the relationship; they like to be the one to tell Men "You're not the guy I'm looking for" and for some it's flirting, and for some it's not

You can really get stuck on both sides of a [Not a Relationship] in this way

For Queer people; you get treated as if you're the one refusing all the advancements. Because flirting, as they say, includes a level of plausible deniability

So women tend to do something called "Friendzoning"

They here the plausible deniability and they will say "Look, I'm not looking for a relationship, I'm thought we were just friends"

Women get caught in an in-between world where they can't tell if a person is a friend, or only hanging around for the opportunity to "Catch you naked in the Locker Room Showers"

The assumed passivity follows you into the work place; A Female trainee asking questions about their job might start being assumed to be "Asking others to do it for them" or to be "using sexuality to get people to do what they want"

That's sometimes true, but more often it's an internal thought by the person (often a supervisor) that has it because they project their internal feelings onto a subconscious interest and won't admit it to themselves

Women used to get married just so they could have a roof over their head and treated men as if they were replaceable (even when they were not) more like a wallet than a person

Part of it was because "The Woman's job was Children Rearing and Homemaking" with the Implication being that the Man in the relationship was akin to her employer, and along with child rearing the expectation of the submissive partner in the relationship is to further the Man's career

Because despite the actual reality of the situation; Marriage means that two are one. And so one should be treated as the other

And that's how a lot of naive home making wives without an allowance were tricked into applying for hundreds of credit cards and putting their husbands into debt

Predatory Lending is an industry Man

So a lot of people want [the flirting] or the [one night stands] or the occasional date night out for the Social interaction, but they don't want the long term conenction

Maybe they each got their family and just want a child to raise in the confines of their family system

Or maybe you're Queer (especially if you're Male) and the expectation is on you to want to be sexual.*because* unlike a "Real Woman" you can't get pregnant. So why wouldn't you just do that?

And that expectation is placed on you by both ends of the sexual binary

The dating pool restricts itself.

In my case; I've seen what Divorce and those kinds of interacts cause in a Familial System, and the potential partners I've had when I was younger saw it directly; and rightfully avoided me because they didn't want to be a part of *that* mess

It's easier to date when you're in a classroom setting of some kind. High School, College, when you're interacting with people for hours a day and that interest can grow and make it easier to reject or be rejected

Unless they're social interactions you want to keep having without the threat of Sexual Connection

When you're interacting with People, some people have this expectation that a "Man needs to act like a [Leader]" they "Need to take charge" and for women the implication is "They need to tell me what to do"

What they're looking for is a replacement for their Father. And not a date or a love interest

For many Guys, We learned a long time ago that those "Expected Leadership Behaviors" are toxic

Either we used them and the outcome was not respectful, or resulted in you taking control of a situation where you should not have been the one in control

A parent begging you to change your mind about something like you're the one in charge of their fate is one of those things that happens from that kind of toxicity

Or a Parent acting like you were the parental figure and complained about you like you were the same age and pulled their hair in class or soemhting

Or when you do "Take charge" the other players in that game start getting upset in a mean way that you're not considering their "Feelings"

You can't take control of someones individual life or what's happening in their head, or their character development

And if you do, there's a chance they'll take that as a "Oh. They heard me tell them what to do. So I just have to tell them how to be a leader and they'll do what I say"

"act like a leader" "no not that way. I don't like that way"

"Make me an Excel Spreadsheet" "Now format it"

"it is formatted"

"NO ITS NOT. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT SPREADSHEET AND NEEDS TO BE BEAUTIFUL"

"Ok honey... Why don't you show me how you wanted it formatted"

*proceeds to no change just the fonts and background colors of the cells*

"Ah yes... Just like Tongue&Quill doesn't say to do. How Professional"

In times of famine and kingdom building; Women are rare and Worshipped. In the middle east. For example; where they have population control and educational issues

In the "Modern World" women just exist at the same levels as Men do

Which means that the idea we have about how Genders should act is from a bygone Era where mean used to fight over the objectification of women, and all that's left is that concept of "Two become One"

Where there is no "Submissive" or "Dominant" unless there's an educational gap or age gap; and then you'll never not have that in your relationship

And they say "as you get older a man's value goes up and the woman's value goes down" in the arena of Reproduction; because Men have resources and don't go into menopause; and can therefore attract women who don't want to grow up (objectifying them)

Where women (even if they have resources) who have men and force them not to reproduce is kind of seen as a... Kind of like a neutered lap dog?

That's also the Stigma Queer people have imposed on them

As you get older, you don't want to have to raise your spouse and your child.*together* what you want is to find a partner that you can grow old with

But when you're young; it's fairly obvious what kind of person can lead you to dissatisfaction and divorce; as you make a decision between [sex and reproduction] and finding a partner that will treat you equally in the relationship and want to cultivate and grow that relationship together with you

A lot of people today aren't ready for that commitment because of the community and culture around them

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I have a few rules I like to live by

Always stand by an Ally that might be doing something wrong so they don't go down alone. [Never let them stand alone, even though you know it's wrong]

I mean a minor infraction. unless it's obscenely wrong, the. You stand opposed to them until they discard you

Always have something that people are supposed to call you out for when you're in a new group. That way you know if your team has your back

Never upstage the person who needs to make the call. [stand behind your supervision]

Always push people into things that will help them improve or learn

Always try to improve the situation (even if people don't like it)

I have a lot of Anxiety at times. Or at least I used to. Especially with a large crowd. And a lot of the things I get called out for isn't the things I'm doing incorrectly

I get called out for "Not fitting In" or "Not being the stereotype"

And it's the difference between these two things that let me know about the culture and the people around me. Especially so I know which of the two things I'm currently being Antagonized, Discriminated, or Reprimanded for

Am I incorrect for wearing the wrong Name tape; Or am I Incorrect because you don't like me?

It's always in support of each other that we know what our merits or demerits actually are

Am I going down for being Excluded, or am I going down for being incorrect

Are they Going down because they're excluded; or is it something deeper. Maybe they just need somebody to stand near them so they know there's a team that has their back. Maybe they don't

Are they asking me out to the bar because it's a Date; or to improve teamwork?

Am I about to get Date raped and that person is keeping secrets?

And as a teammate you have to keep asking yourself these same questions; Are they burned out? Are we burned out? Do we need to make a call? Do I need to exclude people?

Do they already feel antagonized and excluded and socially isolated?

How do *I* know where I stand or what group I stand in and vice versa.

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What if Link is Dead?

So the most common Theory for Majora's Mask is that "Link has Died, and this is his Spirit travelling in Kami-form, still protecting the land from injustice"

And if that's true, then Him uniting with his various Masks of deceased Heroes is an extension of that Idea

And what about the Skull Kid, who when Link unites with him Attains the Fierce Diety Mask?

The question here is where or not the Player has always been controlling the Protective Spirit of Courage that protects the lands of Hyrule; something more recognizable in Japanese culture than American culture

Well; if you exclude the Native American heritage which the [White People] and [Briatania] has done to separate Native Americans from their heritage as "Pagan Worship"

Then Majora's Mask embodies an idea closer to "The Day of the Dead"

<aside>I'm a racial Mutt with no Heritage nor connection to any idea except that of the Bastardization of Christianity and Settler Culture.

Not an insult; just a Reality that I live in

So all these things I enjoy, and not ones that I've been brought up to understand as one would if they were raised in a culture where it mattered

Sucks for me; but you get it learn with me</aside>

In a certain context; [Link] is actually every single player that picks up the controller. The players who were victorious and beta the game; the players who didn't. And the players who just wanted to run around the map and be pacifists and don't really want to confront Ganon (or are too afraid to)

[Link] is that which unites every player who has ever touched the Game and had Become Link

But, if Link is dead At the end of Ocarina of Time, What killed him?

Is it his return to the past with no body or home to return to?

Is it the Master Sword that sealed his Soul inside it?

Is the controller representative of the Master Sword in this way, and link doesn't exist because what actually happened is that Zelda banished the spirit of the player from the game?

Or, was it simply that the Game censored Zelda killing Link?

One can imagine Zelda saying these words: "You don't belong in *my* world, trash"

And in-fact in Twilight Princess, that's the Environment of Zelda we see in that iteration of the "Light World"; an evil and warped version of Zelda; Beneficial ruler over all of Hyrule

Tho, one could argue that every Zelda needs an Event where the Kingdom is overthrown and Zelda is removed; all that's remaining is her Spirit

Like that of Links

Guardian Kami over the Land

In that sense; technically, everyone is dead

One can Imagine praying to the [Great Spirit]>> one of the three

And then some kid somersaulting past, treating the prayer as a side quest asked directly to him and then somersaulting away like Spiderman without his webshooters

Except when he has a grappling hook and appropriate grapple point

And, In Majoras Mask, we see exactly that; Link Fanatics praying to the Great Fierce Diety Link, even going as far to dress as the previous iteration they believe embodied that [Hero Kami] best

Tingle, the most devout follower makes a living off of selling things to Link

But Tingle, often loses [The Way] to Greed and [Gambling Addiction] which is why he never walks with Link except in Spirit

In Majora's Mask, Link is not Dead, Link is the Resurrection of the [Dead Heroes] who were defeated by [The System] and [Ganon]

He is Dead, only as far as he is Dead in the Hearts of the players who believe him to be Dead

Zelda killed Him, and he did not Die

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BotW vs TotK

I haven't played TotK yet, but I keep seeing spoilers on like because the algorithm is uncourteous

A lot of comments about how it feels strange that these are considered to be inline with each other; they're not

The first example we have is one game features Blue Link, and the other features Green Link; this sounds like some round about 4-Swords bs, but the Zelda Series is not foreign to interdimensional travel nor time travel

Though, I do think that what the series often frames as [Time travel] isn't

For example; BotW Blue Link time traveled after losing to Calamity Ganon in a way that suggests that Link might actually be an artificial construct created by Zelda and the Sheika

Where did he lose before? The series doesn't explicitly say

But TotK sets up the events if BotW in the story itself. Specifically through the lore of the Shieka Slate tech that doesn't exist in one or both timelines

This suggests that TotK predates BotW and BotW Pura sent updates back to TotK Pura

it could also suggest that BotW is just a Full-bidy Simulation where the Player wakes up as Link

While that shares similarities with our tech and the way we play this game, I don't think that's the whole case; because we've seen this before in [Twilight Princess]

Where the "Twilight Realm" and the Twili (reminiscent of the Zonai) act as a "Digital Reality" despite not being that

In fact, there are multiple different realities in which Ganon wins or Looses;

There's the Light World, Dark World, Golden Realm, the Shadow Realm, The Twilight Realm, the Mirror Realm--Which could all be the same thing warped by wishes to the Triforce, or something else entirely

In reality; this is a metaphor for subtext or [The Current Meta]

Where, in reality, Society and sometimes that if a ruling force can dictate how reality functions by changing the Meta or the Narrative or the Culture that most people follow

This Allegory is described in the Zelda series as the split between the Light and Dark worlds; where all the bad guys come from the underworld (dark world) or are Humans and Light World Inhabitants warped and mutated by The influence of "Ganon" and [The Dark World]

On the [Surface World] everything looks normal and like it always had

But if it was, Link would not have needed to start on his quest to enter the underworld and gather Triforce pieces

The story, overall, works as a way to teach people the concept of the [Meta Narrative] changing on you while you're in a system of power. Or just around a society of People

Or playing Magic the Gathering enough to see how new sets change the way the game is played both Intentionally and Unintentionally by the developers

Journalists and Politicians know this from how their job changes based on public sneriment

All that aside;

The Zelda series has now started a new format, where there are different [Light Worlds] that are joined through the shared [Dark World Narrative]

And we as the player (especially long term fans) are thrown off by this shift

So we Assume the Blue Link and Green Link are the same character

Despite Blue Link having already defeated Ganon in his world, And Green Link setting out to defeat Pre-Calamity[Imprisoned] Ganon

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Bed Bugs and Fleas

Niacin, Energy Drinks (Pre-workout especially), Nootropics, and Nootropics disguised as "Shrooms" sold on gas station shelves make you Itchy as Fuck

They work to excite the immune system which start attacking all the things in your epidermis, and bug bites, and anything that can kinda make you itchy that maybe you've learned to ignore over the years

And they make you REALLY ITCHY. especially if you don't take a bath or take a Hot Bath that strips everything off your skin exposing you to Stuff in the Air line Pollen

In case you were wondering and have been paranoid about tiny home invaders that don't seem to exist after you've burned your bed and all your fabrics

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How The Information Control Apparatus works Online

So when you have a massive grouping of undereducated and inexperienced newbies; even if they're smart and educated and fresh out of [A School of some kind] ; They're easy to take advantage of with simple arguments.

You'll see this after a political cycle with all the newbie high schoolers taking on the opposite side of whomever was in power because of Oversaturation

Republicans are extraordinarily good at taking advantage of the Media Sphere in this way

So what you'll see is a Topical Division; "We don't we people talking about that thing" or "People are sick of talking about this thing" like [Evidence for Climate Change] that never seems to manifest despite it constantly being recorded

You can argue that those readings don't really tell the whole story because we only have about 100 years of recorded data, the first half of which was reliant on manual recordings

But nobody ever does; because they don't care if Climate Change is real or a threat anyway

A good example of this in that sphere is directing Climate Activists to [Cow Farts] or [Water Consumption]; instead of [Carbon Emissions] and [Atmospheric Heat Generation]

Or towards people driving Cars when Some.other industry is producing more than 50% of the global Carbon Emissions while the car industry has been steadily decreasing carbon emissions while still meeting customer demands

This works especially well online where there's a lot of automation, and automated accounts will repost whatever it thinks is the "Common sentiment" instead of what actually is the common sentiment

So people are operating in this way and are accustomed to the automated accounts doing whatever they say. And, funnily enough, now they're taking tips from AI that is telling them to leverage that to try to change public sentiment

Not really realizing that it's the [Automation's Sentiment] instead of [Public Sentiment]. It's why the numbers don't add up for Politics to whatever the [Data Calculators] say they should Online

Because the information collected is faulty (I mean. And RnG and people changing their mind at the last second. Or lying. Or running Parody accounts)

Parody upsets Parity; which is the Entire Joke

And newbies get upset because they thought one thing was unironic when it was ironic or vice-versa

But right now; Legitimate Unironic Businesses are operating on Data collected from Ironic Parody Sources. AND legitimate Unironic Businesses think the Ironic is Unironic, and vice versa

And that is exploitable.

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How to actually understand the Abrahamic Bibles

The Bible is set from a perspective that there is a [Thing] or a [Mystical Power] that exists. And there are two major characters in these Bibles; One set tries to subordinate God, and the other shows deference to God

Atheists in the Bible simply act as tho that [Force] does not exist, because what they interpret from reality is the ones trying to control God {passing through}[The Nothing] and subordinating those that show deference to God

And those who show deference aren't deferring to the Subjugator; but if you don't see God in the exchange, then it certainly looks like they're fooling themselves

It makes a very harrowing understanding of Atheist vs Theist in modern times

The Atheists says "Everything you do is just showing subordination and difference to these other Human Beings in power. They're *not* God*

And the Theists says "I'm not showing subordination to *them*. God just wants it to appear as tho I am"

And then the Subjugator wants the Atheist to take the brunt of their defense; "why are you questioning their faith?" They know they're abusing faith in [The Whatever] as a tool of control against what Moral God Fearing people believe. But they would prefer they show subordination to what we gives them their power from subordination

They say to "Be wary of those who don't Fear God" and that gets twisted into people who want to Instill [fear of "God"] into others AND the Artists who don't understand why these people are showing subordination to these people when they say they're showing faith in their religion

They incorrectly disbelieve the atheists who tell you "I don't see God" and believe those who use the concept of God and Faith for their own sordid ends

Interesting

And as the Bible continues and you read it with the understanding of these three character profiles, it starts to tell a different story. Especially the Christian Bible which tries to explain the misuse of God and Religion and how people get abused by that very system of power that is mistaken for God

[Jordan Peterson] battles Aethists in a YouTube Video who tells him these things to his face because they don't understand God or Religion. And he came out none-the-wiser

That's the [Armor of Faith] in action, the one that obscures God in exchange for Defense. Very interesting demonstration and explanation of these more obscure biblical definitions that your average Religionist doesn't understand

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How to change between local and net storage (A white paper)

So the MVC design pattern is one of the more useful ones, AngularJS devs call it the MV* pattern. Mostly because they have an idea that is too "Tightly Coupled" to a strict definition or process

So there's a dozen or so MV* patterns that are just MVC but by a different dev trying to something that isn't as tightly coupled as the original MVC framework

Which was developed for early JS for AdobePDF applications but nobody uses and isnt the MVC pattern

MVC calls the overall app an "Application Facade" because they're pretentious and didn't want people think it was an App, it just looks like one to the end-user

It's supposed to encompass a more web-design oriented type of application instead of a Typical Application like we think if when we think of an App or a PC.Executable

It was widely used in an environment where users were already familiar with Web Pages and HTML/JS and using websites as an App already. Because Developers are often more silly than they want to believe

The joke gets funnier when you realize that earlier app development already used patterns like these for Physical Video Games and common "technology hacks" that "worked even though it isn't pretty"

And then later for common Linux non-deskrop setups and computing clusters

However; MVC is meant to be a logical organization for the software dev in a system where you don't know where storage might be (hard drive, disc, storage cards)

Even though most software devs don't actually ever think about that anyway. Anyway;

The ApplicationFacade that the user cares about is called "The View" this is what the User sees or interacts with and send instructions to the Controller

The Controller is supposed to be the actual Application Logic. It send data to the View that may get rendered, but doesn't concern itself with any of that. Just the Backend services

In a Network/WebSite environment. The View is the HTML page that the user has to interact with the APP and the Controller is the Server data

The "Model" on the other hand is wherever the data is coming/going from

This is all the data that gets sent to the view to be rendered, or the database used to store and present information, or a Music Streaming service to give the user BGM

So let's all take an opportunity to *really* appreciate the irony of this entire design here and how "Serious" this design pattern really is.

All the Data is stored in some location, that gets loaded into Memory and Displayed to the user by Controller Logic

Yep; it's not so much a "Design Pattern" so much as a description about how Computers work. And people take it incredibly serious that they keep developing "Frameworks" that encompass this [Design Theology]

In full-stack development. This just described the Webpage being used by the User, The Sever doing all the logic it doesn't want the use to have access to. And the Database with all the information

But; it ALSO provides terminology and structure so you're not spaghetifying your code

For a Web Service or a Game; it doesn't matter how far apart these various components are. You can packages them into an individual app and it would work the exact same as a Website with multiple Web services

If you know anything about how software design works and start with that idea instead of some of the things we commonly see new web designers and engineers drift towards

Making it more complex than it needs to be because they have no structures definitions of what they're doing. They're just "Making it work"

"It's not pretty but it works"

So when AngularJS was invented they made it from this MVC concept... Even tho AngularJS was meant to be part of the View in entirety

They made an MV* for the View specifically (if you use the terminology) and then called the "Controller" a "Whatever" because the view still needed to connect to the background service. Or the server, or whatever else not local to the user

Eventually NodeJS was invented and Angular was moved to the backend, and several ASPX modules were invented all to glom onto this "miraculous" Methodology

Serving to more convolute things instead of simplify them; because Developers are done. Especially the well paid ones

Uhh... I'm remembering why I began separating my articles/posts to three separate but interconnected at a time...

Part 3; How do we make this better?

It's a skill issue. I can't fix developers who are more about Theology than Technical Proficiency. It's pretty much in the Pattern itself; MVC

Model - where the data come from

Controller- what's in charge of Switch boarding

View - what the user is interacting with

Angular(and most frameworks) are actually intended to be closer to "Components" that were pretty common in the attempt to make "Form" and "Interface" design better, Buttons and Sliders and what not. But for Social Media apps it's the "Post" or "Comment" that is the same thing and displays when the controller sends a bunch of them to the user

That's why they call them "Reusable Components" because I guess old Social Media devs were just hard coding every individual comment and post as it was posted and wanted an alternative to doing that

For your average developer and development team; I would suggest dropping ALL frameworks and design philosophies and start at the basics

A lot of those thing written to make things easier just add to overhead and don't actually make things easier. The ease of use comes with on the Job training and just following the basics

Especially since languages and systems have improved that a lot of the Generic /Vanilla portions are more complex and robust than they used to be when these things were invented

Is there a need for more simplified use cases? Maybe.... But they'd be more valuable as part of the standard; or an extensible format submitted through the W3C and Incorporated by browser devs

But you don't really need all that because in most cases they exist

The View Components these days just means a customizable control that doesn't already exist, or fits the formatting of your website (Browsers could use a hand in improving)

And once you have a basic library of those and a simple Instructional Booklet. You don't need much more

There's actually more frameworks than functional websites these days which means that most devs are working on libraries and not on actual implementation or all anyway. Which should tell you the value of those frameworks that they're more worked on than used means nobody's doing the testing of how they feel to use on the user side

Actually;

To improve in the MVC terminology. We could actually use some design patterns that are in each of those different Zones, because the problem is handling and understanding each of those zones independently, and not so much the overall concept itself

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Nutrient Deficiency

If you're deficient in some nutrient; and you consume a food or supplement with that in it; Your body is going to go into a kind of Zombie Food addiction craving

This is what we see in a malnourished population after they are in an environment with proper food and nourishment; they can overeat to their death

Because of the possibility of Poisonous foods to contain Nutrients you're deficient in, and High-Calorie food containing miniscule amounts of nutrients while the majority of the rest of your diet doesn't contain these

Or the possibility that it contains minute amounts of one nutrient and too much of another

You have to be careful when adding new food to your diet. Even if it's something you need

Doctors would call this Titration; where you add some chemical/medication/compound to your diet/daily consumption in smaller doses until you reach a homogenous daily level of the [whatever]

You also have to worry about over consuming the nutrient/mineral as anything in a large enough dosage is poisonous; even if it's under the suggested amount that should be in your body

Because your physical body might not understand that a pure nutrient form of a thing is not part of another larger type of food; and just keep eating it like it's fruits and berries

That zombie food eating thing I mentioned earlier

And this will happen with any nutrient/mineral or [Addictive Substance] that you come into contact with for a reason that you cannot determine if you're deficient in that nutrient

And I think that's something Nutritional Health needs to fully consider

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Strains of particular Drugs and Various effects

Kratom, Marijuana, and Opium have various identities. All modern sales teams give some bullshit about One makes you Energetic, One makes you Sleepy, and one is literally Caffeine

I'm gonna call bullshit on that now. And while each one has an inebriating effect, each one also has different side effects on the body as well. But as far as "flavors" on each plant?

Akin to saying different color Carrots have a completely different nutrient profile outside of what ever antioxidant gives them a different color

Do various strains have different medicinal uses and effects in high doses? Maybe.

But here's what I think; I think those rules of thumb came from when we as foragers were identifying different kinds of Tea Leaves

That leaf makes you sleep, that leaf wakes you up, that leaf makes pain stop, and that one; hoo boy, don't touch that one unless you really want to test God

Have there been attempts to separate the different compounds of these plants and prove the different uses and effects? Yes and they're probably useful

Can you get a completely different kind of "High" from a different strain of your favorite "illegal plant"? Not likely. Unless it's laced with Something Else

Cultivators and SalesPeople want to advertise themselves as connoisseurs with actual evidence and experience; but they honestly don't know for sure

They don't even know that 1mg is enough to get you High and that 20mg is enough to affect you the following day

It takes 30 minutes to begin affecting you

Those people exclaim "Micro Dosing is the Best!" But it's literally... Regular dosages are way too high

There's also the idea that smaller doses might work as stimulants because they increase your heart rate (similar to alcohol) because it causes your body to want to start clearing out the obvious poison you just ingested for funsies

And sleepy in high doses because you're overloaded

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Issues with Slide-Capitalism

[Slide Capitalism] I'm going to define here as a Person with capital entering an unfamiliar industry with the intent to Brute force their Success in the new venue

our typical understanding of Capitalism (in this post is limited to the use of Currency as the primary means to trade goods and services) includes Merchants trading goods at a distance (which has largely been replaced by Big Store Front, allowing Goods owners and a producers to sell to the store front and the store front to deal with the customers across the globe) and Using Wealth accumulation and Sales Numbers as the primary method one gauges Quality of a Produced Good or Service

In the latter understanding; this is how we rely on Competition to determine which Good or Service is the best value to the consumer

A Person or company Produces a superior quality product at a specific price point and is rewarded through Capitalism. On the large-scale it doesn't really hold up

Consider a Local Diner Chain competing against McDonalds or iHop; either they won't get customers due to lack of brand recognition, or they won't be able to compete against the price points set by the businesses with large supply backbones

This is pretty standard throughout the U.S. now, it's quite hard for a Newbie to any market locally or digitally. Unless they're resellers (Derogatory term: Scalpers) who buy goods to resell online due to scarcity and demand manipulation

It's something that big chains Amazon and Wal-Mart are currently fighting against, but a model that other chains such as eBay run on

So let's oversimplify an industry on a smaller scale so we can clarify what I mean by [Slide-Capitalism]

Sugar and High-Fructose-Corn-Syrup are currently very cheap. They were cheaper a few decades ago and have since risen in price in dramatic fashion and have destroyed our Unlimited Free Drink Refills that relied on cheap and ubiquitous SUGAR sources

But let's take a few arbitrary Confectioners

They all want to make a [little candy] that eventually reaches wide-scale distribution in the same fashion as Hershey's or Mars or Haribo

So they develop candy and become a multi billion dollar product (Maybe rivaling Coca-Cola or Pepsi-Co)

<aside>Or, alternate timeline; thousands of Confectioners enter the market on a Gold Rush because some [new flavor ingredient] becomes popular and raises the price of sugar dramatically for everyone eventually pricing people out of even trying (who knows what could happen in this economy!)</aside>

They then take that money to market that is already populated by strong players, and instead of cutting a deal with one of those makers; they decide to make their own Inferior product, that most customers don't like, and then price it very cheaply using their profits from the Candy Division

Something like [Yum Brands] or Kellogg or Lays chips where they slide to something within their wheel house would be what you're thinking of. But what if they slide into something unrelated, such as engineering a TabletPC using raspberry Pi blueprints as a guideline?

Maybe they use their confectionery profits to distort information in the Tech Sector, maybe they operate at a loss in such a way that nobody can compete because their Candy is just a fantastic product that is better than most of the competition and competitively priced

So they keep funneling their profits into the tech sector like that, and trying to brute force the competition. They're expecting longevity to establish word of mouth as a cheaper/competitive product

But they're not cheaper and they're not competitive, because they keep operating at a loss

Most people ask the question "Who would make such a dumb decision, especially for the long term?"

And you might be surprised at the answer to that question

Or perhaps they use their Confectionary Profits to buy some ingredient or material (increasing the price on it) in order to force other businesses to pay more?

Not because they're selling. But because they're buying

And they force quality businesses to close because they can't keep up with the capital placed in the arena?

Imagine any of your favorite Snack or Drink brands

What would it take for any one of them to have to stop producing their [Famous Snack Flavors] and 10 years later you as a consumer still cannot find a similar quality product

Everyone has a personal example of this

Now what happens to the sector as a whole if excess-profits and investments are allowed to affect such sectors in such fashion?

When the result isn't competition; it's Economic Warfare over legal control of resources

In the U.S. we have a safeguard that nobody wants to use called [Imminent Domain] we used it for metals during the WW-Era; everybody gets upset when it gets used because people feel cheated

Ye I.D. is meant for land acquisition. But really; it {pretty much} describes the Government safeguard against such practices or emergency need

That's Freedom of Speech and a Freedom to Waste capital for whatever reason you want; and yet ... It's ALSO something we would get upset at the Government for exercising control over a population of people for

A kind of Government Power that you can have if you slide into industry you're not skilled enough to do with the sole exception that you have money to do it

What I'm getting at here is the arbitrary barrier of entry, and the ability of Corporations and Money to exclude people from industry, or doing something they might be more skilled than your average [similarly qualified professional] at doing

But they can't do it; because somebody with more money doesn't want them to

Here's what I'm getting at;

We're in a dilemma folks. Because Warfare and Provisions for the defense are the Governments Job. A Job that the government cannot do because of the Influence of Wealth

Which stifles competition, innovation, and Technological advancement all the same

<aside>BUT WHAT ABOUT AI DESTROYING HUMANITY?

bruh. AI requires the Internet, which is a common use utility. If they're able to force Human users offline for AI; this is an example of what I mean. Most of the AI devs don't own the internet infrastructure, but they do abuse it with permission from telecom Companies who use it as an excuse to increase prices</aside>

So the [common defense] is lacking in this way,

And even though we have more and more skilled professionals with more and more access to information, they're also prevented from using their skills and knowledge to compete in the public and private sectors

Not because of a lack; but because money didn't study and assumes that your average [internet denizen] didn't either. But that's not the case.

The money actively goes to keeping skilled competition *out*

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High Cortisol

Stress causes weight Gain, Increased Blood Pressure, Anxiety, and Pain. Conversely; all those things cause stress

Through the mechanism we know as Cortisol

As such; if you experience a long period of High-Cortisol, and then get better; you begin to experience Cortisol withdrawl symptoms which appear as similar to Addison's Disease (a lack of cortisol production)

Spironolactone, a commonly used blood pressure medication ALSO causes similar effects (And Breast Growth, which Suggests that you could self-feminize after a prolonged period of stress and recovering)

Obligatory GoogAI drip for "causes of High Cortisol"

That middle one is concerning to Athletes and Trans People alike. Alongside people in the hospital for hormone related imbalances

The one that concerns me is at the bottom there that says "Chronic Inflammatory Illness" That the doctors both knew was an correlated issue AND probably treated me like and idiot for not knowing that "Stress and Cortisol" was a common symptom of "Arthritis"

Extreme tiredness, also called fatigue.

A diagnosis I am still unsure was even the right call

What am I getting at here?

Stress causes Cortisol. Cortisol causes Stress.

But in my research. I keep finding links to things I would've assumed were unrelated;; such as symptoms of Addison's Disease (ref: Mayo Clinic)

Early symptoms of Addison's disease can affect you in various ways. Some early symptoms can cause discomfort or loss of energy, including:

Dizziness or fainting when standing after sitting or lying down. This is due to a type of low blood pressure called postural hypotension.

Sweating due to low blood sugar, also called hypoglycemia.

Upset stomach, diarrhea or vomiting.

Pain in the stomach area, also called the abdomen.

Muscle cramps, weakness, widespread pain or joint pain.

And, the reason why most of my doctors think I'm taking Spironolactone (even my endocrinologist who thinks it was a happy coincidence that I'm fine with being transgender) Symptoms of Hypertension: (ref: Cleveland Clinic)

Changes to your mental function

Chest pain

Dizziness

Edema (swelling)

Heart palpitations

Peeing less than usual

Seizures

Severe headache

Signs of stroke, like sudden facial droop, slurred speech or sudden arm/leg weakness

Vision changes, like eye pain, vision loss or sudden blurry vision

Addisons has similar symptoms to Hypotension. Hyper and Hypotension , however, are directly measured by blood pressure being out of a typical range

Fantastic; guess which symptoms I have between both of these lists?

All of them

That probably suggests that I go through periods of Hypertension followed by Hypotension. Hypertension when increased Stress, and when that relaxes I suddenly have to throw up

This Usually follows along with the day night cycle; Day time I have higher heart rate and can sleep; Night time I'm exhausted from being stressed out day and then I throw up and have related gastrointestinal issues

I have gotten past the worst of gastrointestinal stress; I was able to get off of proton pump inhibitors through adjusting my diet and fasting a little, and I have cleared out most of the blockages in my intestines (Coffee Ground like poop caused by NSAID overuse)

But i still have regularly high oxidative stress followed by brief periods of low stress. Of which the Spiro doesn't really keep regulated as much as one would hope

I think it's because it also works as a testosterone inhibitor; which assists with recovery of damaged tissues and muscle repair. And Spironolactone will reduce your Testosterone to 0 if you take it regularly enough

Which is not great; and proves the GymBro sphere right about the "Low-T" epidemic in middle-aged men

<aside>I just popped a Spiro pill out of anxious stress while writing this, knowing that my body doesn't like the side effects, and have been avoiding daily doses because it's helping to repair an injured shoulder. Same one that should have recovered about three years before I started HRT-Transition

The really bad areas are so close to recovering. It's this constant tease where I feel the muscle building up and tendons and ligaments falling into the places they should AND THEN NOT BEING FINISHED RECOVERING. one day.</aside>

What's this mean?

Pain and Injury increases Cortisol

Cortisol causes all those High-Cortisol related symptoms

Including weight gain and decreased athletic ability

Cortisol causes Stress causes Cortisol in a neverending(limited by the body's natural mechanisms and nutrition) cycle that causes Stubborn Fat in the mid section

Ah hah; The common factor between ALL people in the world; Stubborn Belly fat. The thing Every Natural Remedy Guru has been trying to breach for hundreds of years as their chosen get-rich-scheme.

Cortisol increases cravings for carbohydrates, and retains fat. I wonder what survival mechanism this must be. Perhaps a way to survive through famine and periods of food insecurity?

Perhaps a need for the body to Hibernate and rest and recover? (Which we don't do because of Industrialization and slave labor)

<aside>That's a claim that a lot of people are going to refuse has any basis in reality.. Even learned people who have read stories about Lords and Lady's experience extended periods of Malaise that they eventually recovered from after a long-long rest and medical attention</aside>

Ah Hah; there it is... In order to recover and lose this stubborn fat i need to repair my damaged shoulder and entire muscle system which affects my entire back. Which causes high Cortisol. All of my Arthritis related Symptoms. Everything I have been complaining about for a decade now AND the military has been complaining at me about when I was still in complaining to them about how much pain my body is actually in and trying to find a path to recovery

Doctors, not just military ones, have this weird predisposed thinking

Which has some basis in reality, don't get me wrong.

About how people only go into the clinic for pain and related symptoms (invisible pain with heightened blood pressure) because they're actually lazy and not exercising and just trying to get a waiver or a doctor's note to avoid going to the gym

Even though that image shows that one of the causes of High Cortisol is over-exercising. Which means you could be a good damn tank in muscle with a keg belly; and the doctor will treat you exactly the same as somebody who doesn't go to the gym or do physical activity at ALL

which means that they can't identify Muscle Tissue, only Fat tissues

Doesn't that seem like an Odd weakness for our Physicians to have in their ability to diagnose and treat people? It's very specific and a very odd symptom of the entire medical system that it crosses the ENTIRE globe

I, for one, Blame the gym Bros who don't believe that Fat is real as long as you're lifting despite Sumo and Power-Lifters all being quite fat indeed--Something wrong with the GymBro industrial complex man

🤔

Well. I think this completes my Self-study on pain, oxidative stress, diet and exercise in relation to. And a whole host of understanding. Now it's time to prepare myself to feel an Extreme amount of Depression as I begin going through Cortisol withdrawal

As if medication and caffeine withdrawal wasn't enough .... Oof

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Nerfing High-Skill players

So Hearthstone nerfed my account specifically because they couldn't figure out why I have very quick brain processing power; which is whatever, it becomes pretty obvious when they're messing with the discovery Algorithm because they're not sure why a specific player or deck build works a specific way

You can also manually change the Seed attached to your deck by deleting it and rebuilding your deck; which is really neat AND really dumb

I was playing Mage at the time because I wasn't really understanding the mechanics of Mage in general; and later priest, which really made them upset when they learned I wasn't manipulating the RnG to be skilled

They also have bot accounts to play against players when there isn't another player readily available; and unfortunately. Many of them will have the exact specific draw order of cards to exploit a weakness in a specific deck

And you'll only be aware of it when it happens a specific amount of times in a row. My particular deck building weakness is usually early game Aggro; but that's whatever, you have to have a weakness when your deck is meant to cover most weaknesses and exploit the card pool that the devs authored

I don't personally care; I can just make a new deck if I want to play a different deck. But I'm more analyzing the systems Blizzard Devs created and understanding how the underlying mechanics work AND how the devs designed their cards to work with that particular system

I stopped playing HS again, I don't really want to keep playing because it's more of a battle against Devs who don't like the thing they built. And their constant underestimating of basic card interactions that can be quite overpowered and watching them struggle to adjust it to balance for most players

At the time I was intentionally playing an underpowered deck incorrectly; and trying to figure out why certain mechanics were designed in the way they were to better understand the devs thought process on class-based design and RnG

That gets you to about Gold level in a season without fine tuning and restructurings

Most of the players at bronze are people that open the game once a week maybe and play a starter deck. Most of the players at silver and gold are Free players with a bit of fine tuning. Maybe they have a season pass;

Gold and Platinum are people with a custom built and fine tuned deck; and legendary players are usually theory-crafters and gimmick exploits

Usually

But; what I'm going to talk about is the balancing of the system for the entry level player;

See. HS is intended to have two separate core game modes; Standard and Wild

Standard is meant for your average daily player, and Wild is meant for players with A lot of experience, skill, and card collections.

Which usually consists of players who buy seasons passes to complete their collections and play that way. Which is great.

But then Power Creep enters standard with game breaking Card interactions that usually causes them to nerf sets because they're not the newest, and buffing sets that are newer

Part of the business model also. Whatever

And then they remember that they always have newbie accounts with limited card pools in comparison to players who buy the PRE-ORDER BONUSES

AND High-Skill players; High-Skill usually indicates what many casual players would consider "No-Lifing a Game" believed not to have a job, or no other hobbies, or just unlucky in the romance department

Usually by younger players who can't afford to invest time or money into a Novelty

Sometimes argued by a casual 30yo player with no job, and still living in their parents basement and can't understand why they can't keep up in the endgame or competitively

It's because you're a casual who doesn't study and wanted to just be a casual player; which isn't a bad thing. But why you gotta be upset about that?

Sometimes skilled players are just really good at "Hold on; lemme do my dailies real quick while I listen to this [crash course ] video in the background"

<aside>Crash Course is a free Curriculum that is great for studying for CLEPs/DANTEs testing ; it's amazing how they're still able to keep making videos that are free</aside>

Most of skill and life is doing dailies and studying mechanical nuances, right?

But Blizzards business model has two parts; The newbies and the Skilled players

And they usually cater to younger skilled players; people in highschool or college; so if your skilled past that point, or you're a Hospital Kid with literally no life outside of the game; and have an immense amount of skill, you may be overlooked

Part of the business model unfortunately; there's a few stories you're going to "Well Acktually" me about; and you'll find them limited to what they can afford and the PR they need

They're not a bad company. But they do have to make money.

So what they tend to do is to start treating certain accounts; like ones who can use the discover mechanic way too quickly; and suspect them of being Bot or Automated Accounts

I'm certain they have stats about the average reaction time of your average player and what it looks like if a BotAccount is automated, premoved, or takes nanoseconds to take a turn

And the point of it is you need to make it fair for players who are not RTS gods at a Tournament with money at stake; unless it's specifically the tournament mode

But I'm lazy at pre release gaming and usually get about 3-4 wins before being kicked out of Arena

I'd prefer to play that style. Don't get me wrong. My weakness is draft style deck building because I'm more interested in the game design than the limits in place for arena

So they spend an awful lot of time restricting skilled accounts in order to make it fairer for the newbie players; because if the game becomes about how much time you have played it, then then it becomes less accessible for newbies

Less broad appeal

So I've been thinking about all the ways you could change the system and design philosophy to accommodate. And, the reality is; They like the big flashy game breaking cards because that draws newbie players in

They don't like complex interactions that break the game further because that's what they have to adjust for

So they won't change what they're doing because the sparkles keep players playing.

But they will start discouraging players for spending too much time on the platform; or simply having too much skill over the average player

It honestly seems like a development skill issue to me; you're not making "Color Sort" games on purpose you know?

(Honestly. A class play style that's essentially Color Sort would low-key be an amazing design choice. Because then it would be easy to understand how to play the class AND to understand how to play against it)

So the issue with player-skill and game balance is between these two extremes; Cards and Play styles that are interesting and flashy and motivate players to keep playing opposed against being upset at players who play too much and can think outside the systems as designed by newbie Card Pool Designers

However; if it's too obvious it will be just as easy to develop a simple algorithm in your head to play, as it is to open an Algorithm to play for you

Which I think is the real issue here; how do you make a simple card game that's immune to automation? And the. Be able to discern that automation from a player with an algorithm in their own head?

How can you tell the difference between a Chess Grandmaster and Stockfish without the names and labels?

I dunno. I've been trying to figure out since I first learned about save file hacking when Diablo was released

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FF8 - The Real Story

FF8 has a *very* experimental story line that most players didn't understand, or simply don't talk about. On it's surface FF8 is a straight forward kind of linear story that ends with time compression and defeating the big bad "Ultimecia"

But there's more to it; FF8 is more like Groundhog's day

Throughout the game we see a lot of Quest repeatedly get started and never resolved; We start Timber's liberation, but then forget the town exists; and then Learn that Rinoa isn't even from Timber--she's from Galbadia

Later we Learn that Zell's Mother who raised Zell from birth and enrolled him into BattleSchool isn't even his real mother; no it turns out every student that becomes SeeD is actually an orphan and raised by the Sorceress Edea

Despite the Game ending with the concept of [Time Compression] where all realities, all timelines, all past and present and future collapse into a single point; We as the players are wholly unaware what's actually going on here

It isn't unless we look at Laguna, Ward, and Kiros that we begin to understand what's happening.

Everytime we experience that side quest; we change the fate of the Trio

At one point Ward dies, and at another he is no longer dead

At one Point Quistis is the instructor; and at another Squall is instructing Quistis on the thing she had taught him at the beginning of the game

Most players default this as "A non-cannon result" which extends from the player choosing the wrong combination of party members; but if that's the case, why bother giving that choice to the players... AND then having a couple of unique cuts scenes play out based on party configuration AT ALL if they were intended to be the "Correct way to play"

No there's something bigger at play here, and it has to do with the Sorcerer/ess.

There are two Ultimate Sorcerer's in this game; Ultimecia and Adel, and the reveal on what that means in particular doesn't happen until FFX with the Priestess and her Consort(Guardian)

They are synonymous, because they're two become one

It's starts to sound like "Marriage is Bad because then You become the Sorceress"

What's actually happening is that Squall and all of Garden and SeeD are trying to break this loop that keeps getting them stuck and resetting

The Reset point is the Fight between Squall and Seifer; Why? Because that's what the devs decided should be the opening cutscenes for bored high school students who re-play their favorite FF8 title over and over again

Actually, I don't know, but I do know that once you have the whole context of the game, a lot of the interactions seem stranger and stranger when the whole context is applied

Seifer's outburst in the classroom is because it's not the first time he's seen the world restart and found himself back in this classroom

<aside>I'm going to take a brief second to ponder whether or not this is a reference to Illusion of Gaia's beginning and ending. Hmmm 🤔</aside>

Seifer actually has a really rough go of it, but what's interesting is [The List] Seifer talks about before getting shunted out of SeeD (after having an excellent track record, and no real reason for expulsion)

In fact, Squall can get a perfect 0 on the SeeD test and manage to pass it anyway. They say there's only two requirements to be a SeeD, but I think that's subterfuge

What we're really seeing on this List is who is capable of becoming the sorcerer in the end and who isn't; specific *power* couples can become SeeD

Squall and Rinoa (if you pursue the romance scenes), Zell and the Library Girl (if you pursue the romance scenes), the Queen of Cards and her Beau (If you take all their cards away and force them into revenge)

The Queen of Cards is actually the closest NPC that looks like a Human variant of Ultimecia by the way

And at various points in the timeline; certain characters have "outbursts" that are out of character; Squall when he finds out Seifer has died, Irvine when he "Just can't do it man",

And it only ties back together when we realize that "Junctioning" the main way characters get power in this game can be done across time and space by a Sorcerer; Sorceress Ellone specifically, who is playing her own game of FF8 that stars Laguna (The game the devs say they originally envisioned)

Meaning characters are Junctioning in and out of space time right under the players nose

And Travia garden even features a throwaway scene of Selphie interrupting Squall's snooping into her file which reveals a Cyberpunk Selphie. And a cutscenes of Selphie mourning her Travia friends that got nuked; but those friends Gravestones have a Irvine's Sniper Rifle and Squalls Coat

I'd reference the "Squall is Dead" theory here; but that's only *one* ending that causes the game to reset

Ultimecia doesn't want Squall dead or time compressed; Ultimecia wants her counterpart "Sorcerer Adel". And she does that by find the strongest 2 people in the world and joining them together; Adel taking the Masculine Form and Ultimecia taking over the Feminine

But it only works if there's a strong interest AND bond between the two

Laguna was a strong Entity; but he didn't have a counterpart that was compatible. We see the future variant of this with Adel "Junctioning" Rinoa (in front of the whole party no less) and not really merging well

We also learn that Ultimecia can just use the "Draw" ability to take whatever GFs she wants, and only takes Griever. Meaning that GFs are basically the Souls of each individual party member (and then some)

If Adel and Ultimecia have their way; they would simply take control of the world's strongest person. Who has collected all the power in the game and there's only one way to block her influence;

The Sorceress Bangle (the one Rinoa Gave up) was designed to protect her from being absorbed into Adel; but she had to, in order to defeat the Ultimecia

<aside>The game is weird man. I dunno what the devs were thinking. I mean I do know what they were probably thonking; They were being experimental and trying to imitate the other iconic Brands that did the same thing that they remember as being memorable but most everyone else in the world would say about those other influences;

"Yeah the experimental stuff was good man. But it was way to technical and experimental. And you can see where they decided to go way out in left field and just keep going knowing it was going to alienate fans and be entirely incomprehensible to Normies. And even the devs themselves."

"Just what were they smoking that they decided it was a good idea?"

Every good band has an album like that; Some suggest it's entirely random whether or not it's acceptable to audiences; but to me.... It's entirely obvious when it's not going to be a hit (even if it's a niche hit and not a mainstream hit)

It's a little bit different from Cultural nuances that "the west" wouldn't understand and "Definitely wrote this in different drugs because you didn't finish any of the through lines"

Mother 3 is an example of a game that relies heavily on Japanese culture to fully understand; FF8 is an example where even knowing Japanese culture doesn't explain what the hell is going on

Gamer culture might; but... Not really

Or Like John Lennon and Yoko Onno vs Anything Radiohead put out

Radiohead is well received in niche markets and you can see the through lines; anything post Beatles is kinda... Ehhh ..?

Hit an miss you know? FF8 is that...

Though I do commend the Devs for leaning more on what we actually got in FF8 on the surface if not [The Depths] of the game

I have not practiced enough to explain this particular concept I'm trying to explain, but I know for a fact that there's enough Musicians and Radio hosts in the world that know exactly what I'm trying to say and might be able to explain it better</aside>

So we get to Seifer's pertinent question when interrogating Squall, he's not interrogating him. He's reminding him "What is SeeDs purpose?"

He need to "fail" being a SeeD so he could disrupt the Edea/Cid variant of Ultimecia by becoming the "Sorceresses Knight"

The people on the list are people that can disrupt Ultenecia from taking hold of a couple; Quistis is on "The List" because she can disrupt Squall's Adel

In that Scene we also see a remnant here; Cid is half here and half not, leveraging the PlayStation's hardware limitations for this one particular scene and nowhere else; players assume it's only that; Lazy Devs and hardware limitstions

On the surface it's an Metaphor; Cid is part of the Furniture, or part of the background noise and the really Heros are the party members. Perhaps in the future Squall we also become part of the furniture if he replaces Cid as Headmaster

But underneath; Cid is halfway here. And halfway sitting as Edea's Knight, probably the original Adel before he and Edea began to work against Ultimecia

Both being controlled by whatever Ultimecia is AND working against the Ultimecia Entity

Creating the Orphanage so Ultimecia knows where the her strongest pawns are AND so that they can understand how to better defeat Ultimecia and break the loop

There's a lot of stuff going on in the layers of time compression; Historical Reference of children of war. Child soldiers. Abuse, using children as weapons to control the land and for personal gain at their expense. Trying to break the cycle of Warfare by uniting the Nation

Freeing Timber AND joining the world in peace through military might

And trying to break the Ideological hold that Ultimecia represents about how power gets used both intentionally and not

Garden and SeeD has lost repeatedly over and over and over again;

Becoming level 100 and collecting all the GFs and Cards and everything simply brings all that power to Ultimecia for her to take control and turn you into Adel

Romance makes you susceptible to the thinking of power and protecting each other; making you vulnerable to Ultimecia creeping into your mind and taking control (like we see happen to Rinoa and Edea)

So.... Here's the theory;

The only way to break the cycle is to wait until you're older to get married, don't grow up to soon, And don't focus so much on obtaining power and skill that you lose track of who that power gets wielded against

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Nintendo Games

Legend of Zelda has a specific meaning for the "Triforce" in its games; one represents Power, one represents Wisdom. And one represents Courage. They also have a corresponding Color scheme; Red for Power, Blue for Wisdom, and Green for Courage

This is well represented in the original Zelda through Link's various Tunics.

You get the Blue Tunic through becoming wise enough to save your rupees (only to recklessly spend them in weird secret underground shops) and the Red Tunic from the final dungeon after blasting your way through said dungeon before meeting Ganon

Nintendo Keeps this motif, these colors ALWAYs representing the same things between every single Zelda Title

And not just in the various Zelda Titles; but in their other Flagship titles; Mario and Metroid

Mario's key color is Red; and he often scales through the repeating mechanic; "Star Power"

Samus's key color (after Fusion) is Blue, when they retcon all her "under armor" outfits to Blue; and the games traditionally embody a combination of Alien and Star Trek (alongside classic Space Punk Motifs)

Unlike Mario, Samus doesn't chase after Star Power. She routinely loses confidence and the ability to use her power suit in general

There's also a design theory that the original Metroid was designed in a kind of "Color Blind" mode representative of what Cameras might record under different lighting conditions in Outer Space

Meaning that,.just because the original Metroid Was Yellow and Red; that doesn't mean the colors would be the same in the Lighting Conditions and Technological advancements we're used to in the modern day

But Fans might be upset if Nintendo Retcons all that *now* after it's been in the culture for so long

I just wanted to point that out... That when Nintendo uses these colors; RGB and Y, they're usually representing the same concepts and ideas no matter what Game they're in

It's not really something you see across all Video Games; much less most media. The language of Colors in this way is unique based on who decides which color should go with what meaning

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BinaryXML to HTML conversion DesignDoc

In order to save data during transfer. Many websites are using extraordinary means to do so Instead of... The basic ass things you can just do. Here's an example

BinaryXML is an XML format converted to XML; the intent of XML is to be "Human Readable" that way, if they end up in the worst case scenario, a human can read the content you're distributing to them no matter what browser or tech they're using.

BinaryXML follows XML rulesets, but reduces the base level data to do so. Turning your typical data structure into a binary stream where the tags are small_int or less depending on needs instead of a minimum of a 7 character string e.g. <b></b>

Smart people know that you can already do this with ajax and an HTML front end; but Dumb Ppl don't like the "Human Readable" part for more than just "Saves Data Footprint" reasons

Because they hate the end-user and consumers in general

On the server side you can just generate a binary tree format from whatever data you need (like SQL Databases or other) distribute that to end user, and then decompress it so that your standard HTML browser can read it

A standard web browser can already read it with a single plug-in; but again... Companies hate End-Users, so they don't ask the W3C to add it to the standard websafe format lists and have the browsers do that already

BinaryXML has been in use since about the time regular XML was invented, so it's pretty open-source already

TL:DR; Web and software companies are really bad at their jobs and hate the end-users. And the open web standards.

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Femme Clothing

Most of my understanding of Feminine vs Masculine clothing actually comes from the Military Dress&Appearance hand book... Which is really fucking weird if you think about it; it's like the military wants to dress up it's men as FemBoys

In military dress clothes the key factor is snatching your waist; you wear black knee-high socks, and garter straps that pull your blouse tightly down; then you pull up your pants to your belly button and tighten your belt for a perfect hour glass (but flat chested appearance)

So that your "Ribbon Rack" is the asset everyone can stare at

A lot of male military members hate this; because it's effeminate.

Alternatively, in your battle uniform; your pants sit at your hips and your blouse (still snatched BTW) can often be seen resting on the male military members hips, instead of at the waist (belly button)

If you continue following the proper methods; Everyone will suspect you for being Queer. And actually treat you as such.

Especially if you're already genetically predisposed to gender Incongruence

I want the Ranking Military member to really let that sink in; You can be discriminated against *because* you're following the D&A to the letter. Because it's intentionally emasculating; and be promoted for skirting the standard to match societal gender expectations

But, also; for trans people... Just doing those things with your belt line goes A LOT farther than you think for Genderizing your wardrobe, no matter what gender your clothing happens to be

Though; if you're quite femme; you can still get away with feme by letting your bottoms rest on your hips and wearing a shorter length top or loosely tucking your shirt