Le Journal de Palpatine™ (2022)

Khan + Mogul + [Sex Title of your choice]

(I’d recommend Sex Mastery since your wife seems to be into you these days. And anything more ‘search and seduce’-oriented right now may be a distraction from your empire-building.)

From what I’ve observed, you already have great ideas/skills and just need to get through the Winter phase of steady building before things begin to take off.

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That couldn’t hurt anything :slight_smile:

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@Alphamale and I were chatting a bit in DM, and I had a good (I think) idea on how to approach sub selection. Funny how it’s easier to get good ideas on someone else’s behalf.

A bit after posting that, I realized it’s great advice for me too. Kaizen sometimes IS the way.
So for today’s stack I’m running EoG1, EoG4, R.I.C.H. for the wife and I.

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haha
its easy to give good advice to someone else haha

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In keeping with Kaizen, I may go even smaller than EoG1/4 together. Since that’s still approaching a goal of “BE UBER RICH”.

I’m taking to paper right now to write down exactly who I see myself as in the future. Then I’ll make a list of the traits, beliefs, etc needed to close the gap between me now and Me 2.0.

Sort that list in order of seeming difficulty to achieve a change in each item.
Maybe even figure out 2 subs…one for the “easiest” thing and one for the “hardest”.

Lots of possibilities with this idea.

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My stack this week has kicked my ass. I’m looking to break it down a bit more than I already did.

It’s legit had me tired this week. Fatigue tired and tired of life. I’m not afraid of recon, but this week has been a bit much, even for me.

Not even that the stack is “too big” or whatever. More that I need more pathways of action to let the stack work fully.

That’s why I’m doing what I outlined in the post above this one.

Easing into it a bit slower than usual. If I were in a “steady paycheck” job like before, I think I’d have more leeway to run that stack longer.

Saint is right about how you can’t like to ZP. Money is more important to me.

I realized my M1, M2 M3 idea is totally backwards.
that was Meet Women, Have Sex, Get Rich. In a nutshell.

In the marketing world, the idea of “funnels” is basically where you get potential customers by way of different traffic sources, get them into the funnel and use different structures to get sales.

Partly through persuasion, partly through weeding out bad apples as early as possible.

With funnels like that, it is most effective to optimize the stuff on the “back end” and work your way forward to the beginning of the funnel.

If you just optimize the front of the funnel, that basically takes the form of getting more prospective customers cheaper. Lowering the Cost-Per-Customer.

My M funnel is the opposite.

When really it needs to take the form of M3 (sort out my finances/empire), M2 (get better and better at sex), M1 (Meet/manifest women…wife and/or others).

So by the time I am bringing more women into my “funnel” I’m already damn good at what I do.

Plus, being rich first will help find women, right or wrong. They are drawn to men of means, to my understanding.

“Rockin’” - Duke Nukem

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Finally settled on a small stack.

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I’ve always found it annoying that I can give people pretty insightful input into whatever they ask me but me, I’m blind to what I need at times.

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I’m making progress with learning C. It’s easier having already done stuff with JavaScript, PHP, Arduino, etc.

Loop structures are nearly identical.
I might end up making a simple prose/text adventure game purely with C. Should help me learn more.
I’ve pretty much figured out arrays already too. That’s definitely one of the things a text adventure game would help solidify. My mom and I made one years ago in TRS-80 BASIC.

It was pretty sweet. Starts out with you in the desert outside a small ghost town.
You can walk into the town. If you tried going any other direction than toward town, it would just say “You are in the desert outside a small town” haha.

The ghost town has a bunch of small buildings, etc. Barber shop, Livery Stable, blah blah.
The only real actionable thing was in the Barber Shop, where if you sit in the barber’s chair, it would fall through the floor and you end up in a subterranean maze type thing.

One of the rooms is a cave with a switch on the wall. a Lever type thing.
If you flip the lever, you hear a rumbling sound and water floods the room and you die…then you basically spawn back above ground.

It was a simple little game, but it got lost. We were saving out latest copy to disk…I reached over and turned on the printer so I could print out the code.

Those old TRS-80 computers were notorious for line noise, RF noise, etc. they basically had no power filtering whatsoever. Which is one of the reasons they got a redesign and came out as the Model II.

When I turned on the printer, it spiked the code in the computer…saved it trashed to disk…was trashed in RAM. BOOOO.

Anyway, I think it’d be cool to make one of those…when I talk about prose/text adventure games, think stuff like ZORK, Enchanted Castle, Madame Fifi’s Whorehouse Adventure (personal favorite of mine)

*** The reason I said text game would be great for solidifying array structures is those are nothing BUT arrays.

One array is for location descriptions, another is for items in your inventory, another would be for the location of other characters (like the thief in Zork).

Certain actions you take, it will change the text values in the location array. So if you flip are in the control of the dam in Zork, and push one of the buttons, it will change the description slightly so that room will now say either “The Sluice gates are open” or “The sluice gates are closed” and so on.

OK enough geeking out. Time to learn about bitwise operators :wink:

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With the exception of learning a bit more C today, this sums up my day:

More about C:

I’m at the point in my learning curve where I try shit and if it doesn’t work, I work like hell to figure out why. Trial-and-Feedback

So far, I found out you can use increments and decrements on elements in a string array!
Example, I have a string (which in C, are treated exactly the same as arrays, being just an array of characters)
Say the string is a variable named ‘a’ and has a value of “aaaaaaaa”
char a[]=“aaaaaaaa”;

I realized today that you can actually do increment/decrement on any given “element”
So if I look at that last ‘a’ in the string, I can use:
a[7]++;
and that increments it the same as would work for a number. It actually IS arithmetically incrementing it by taking the ASCII decimal value of ‘a’ (which is 65) and it becomes 66.
And since this is a string of characters, it ends up being a ‘b’ now so that:
char a[] = “aaaaaaab”;

I think what’s fascinating me about C is it is technically considered a “high-level” language, but it’s actually only ONE layer above assembly language. Which is in itself just one layer above machine language (which is writing programs using nothing but 1s and 0s).

I’ve been thinking of the stuff @SaintSovereign has mentioned in regards to cracking the code more and more with ZP.

Seems to me that ZP is the latest milestone in getting closer and closer to approaching being able to write very efficient “brain programs” in the actual native/machine language of the brain/mind.

I imagine it being like beginner-level subliminals starting with full-on English in the “code”…and each build method and scripting innovation going more and more “low-level”.

Like how I first learned using the BASIC language on a TRS-80 Color Computer 1 (I’m getting older haha) and now I’m starting to learn C.

Not even C++ right now. C. And I’m loving it.

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whoa. blast from the past.

used that too back then.

and had a TI99/4A at home.

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That looks B E A Utiful. I love old tech like that. It reminds me of the learning spirit I had as a kid. I still get it in spurts now. I definitely will be getting Quantum Limitless though. I’ve mainly avoided using Stark because I’ve no desire to be actually FAMOUS like Tony seems to relish it.

My fav scenes in IM1 are of him tinkering in the shop, and he says “J.A.R.V.I.S., you up? I wanna open a new project file.”

I’ll probably just move forward with running Stark sooner rather than later. I’m not gonna manifest the lifestyle I want by holding back.

When I was still working at Apple, I ran Emperor V3 for several weeks.

I ended up stopping because I was afraid of it interfering with my job. Looking back, EV3 probably would’ve saved me a lot of anguish if I’d just stuck with it.

I need to move forward now, yanno?

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@Malkuth Here’s what my first computer looked like:

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Holy s**t. I just remembered this show that I watched back then.

I literally haven’t ever looked this up on YouTube. I forgot all about it. That means the last time I saw it was 1980-something.

And the crazy part is that I was thinking, ‘wow, that song kind of slaps’. haha. It’s probably 40 years old.

“Me mum” helped me to buy the book and course, that I think were associated with this show. I still appreciate that now.

On an unrelated note, do you ever think about the fact that when your parents were first raising you,. they were basically at an age that you might now call “kids”. hahaha. My mom was a ‘kid’. She was a nice kid.

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I try to avoid such thoughts haha. It just reminds me I’m running out of time to figure out what my “it” is.

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My first computer:

Time goes by… :smiley:

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Assume it also ran BASIC? (Imma start a thread for this stuff haha)

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Good idea. Yes Basic.

I love BASIC. It’s kid’s play for the most part now…and if I try stuff in BASIC, I’m like “BASIC can’t do this? JavaScript can!” haha

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