LE 2m40s DRR2 4m AC 12s
+1s/listen for AC is as slow as it can get without risking overexposure.
Anything higher seems to surprise me slowly over time.
30s-50s is still the middle ground, even after almost 2 years of continuous use.
1m10s+ is too much for my taste.
I wonder if AC is just not for me.
I just don’t like how recon/overexposure affects my performance.
I was bracing myself for recon from LE + DRR1 + DRR2 in the stack.
But there’s no recon from DRR2.
Nothing significant, nothing slight.
I guess chipping away at DRR2’s recon paid off.
I used it normally for 2 months & for only 2-4 times a month for 3 months.
DRR1 is not a concern since i never really got a recon from it.
This month i only used DRR2 twice.
I’ll be a bit daring and use it 4 times next month.
I used it that many times last month and it went well, but i have DRR1 in the stack too now so there could be unforseen consequences. It’s too risky to be hasty, I need to take it slowly.
I’ll also try DRR1 + DRR2 in a day.
It’s incredibly rash, but i have this burning curiosity to satisfy.
I never get recon from DRR1 & I have cut down the recon from 2 significantly.
So maybe i can handle them both together at the same time.
2-4 times a month works.
2 feels a bit too stretched. So i think 3-4 times a month is the best to cut down recon.
Once every 7-10 days.
I did the same with WB back then.
Using it 3 times in a cycle was better at getting the recon under control & fixing it.
Using it normally with only <30s worked, but it was not as good.
I think the recommendation for resolving recon should emphasize more about reducing the frequency too on top of using microloops.
It should be held with the same level of importance.
Update 1:
I did a deeper introspection and figured out the tiny recons from DRR2.
I had to look really close to notice, it was barely noticeable.
That means the recon has reduced significantly over these past months.
But I still like having no recon if the sub is not that important for what I’m after.
So I’ll use shorter loops for DRR2.
My stack is fucked.
The Executive with NSE is worth the detour from LE that hasn’t got it yet.
It has the built in NSE release valve that LE doesn’t.
I’ll use it as soon as it’s released.
But after I think about it a bit more, I’ll stick with LE if ETE has romance scripting like Emperor.
I wonder what SC put in the experimental RM:V.
I was reviewing what i wrote with RM:UWX and what i compose with RM:V again.
RM:UWX gave me great opportunities & manifestations.
But from the skill growth & the end product perspective, the exp RM:V gave me much more.
So much that i’m still having trouble getting back to that level quality when i was actively using the exp RM:V.
There are too many variables.
They both tackle different fields, it’s only natural to assume this level of disparity.
I wanted to run RM:UA to compare it from the “visual art” perspective.
But later i found out that UA is for all types of art. Not just drawing and the likes.
It seems like i come back to this topic again and again every other month. But it’s still bugging me.
If only i’m not running DRR now, i’d have tried RM:V. Using 2 multistagers hastily is not a good idea for someone who’s just started exploring multistagers like me. But i don’t have the slot available anyway, rofl. I’ll just depend on UA in a custom later.
Fuck it.
I’m swapping DRR2 to RM:UWX.
I want to write.
I have the time.
I want to actually write stories in earnest, not just something work related like the last time I used RM:UWX. I can afford to put aside 1-2 hours a day for it.
I’m also curious about what i wrote in the journal before. This will give me more clarity.
I planned to use DRR2 for only 2-4 times a month. It wasn’t disruptive to the whole stack.
But now i want to use RM:UWX like a normal sub.
So i gotta put less focus on the other subs in the stack because of it.
I’ve been changing the third subs very frequently, but the core of the stack itself, LE & DRR, remains intact. With the exception of when i was using DRR2 + LBFH, everything is still going in the right direction towards my goals.
LE + RM:UWX + DRR1.
This is the productivity + creativity + booster stack that i’ve been waiting for.
I just don’t like how convoluted a normal 3 sub stack feels compared to only 2.
Well, this is the cost of curiosity & impatience.
I’ll just have to suck it up and follow what i want.
I forgot about the new executive… it will be too much to swap to it after so many this month.
Well, I guess I’m stuck waiting for LE’s update this spring then.
LE 3m UWX 15m
I decided to use the 13 on 5 off schedule because i want to write now.
1 thing is clear after DRR:
Reading stories that are based off of people’s lacking doesn’t resonate with me anymore.
If it didn’t resonate with me earlier, DRR showed another layer of detachment.
DRR dug really deep, but my experience with meditation helps me to adapt better.
I would be in deep recon if i weren’t familiar with just “observing”.
I wonder how this detachment will affect my writing. I’m optimistic.
Update 1:
I can read faster.
I don’t need to take as many pauses as before.
This result surprised me.
Other than that, it’s the usual. I like it.
Update 2:
RM:UWX is digging through my past.
This is the same thing that happened when I used it back then.
Is there something to clean? to make amend to? why does it do this?
It doesn’t feel like a recon, just the things, people, memories, and events from/related to the past manifesting like how Mogul manifests wealth opportunities.
Anyway, it doesn’t affect my performance even back then with full loops. so it doesn’t matter.
I’m just puzzled by why it’s creating all of these results.
DRR1 15m RM:UWX 15m
This is the kind of creativity boost that i want.
LE is a bit too broad to be as useful for my needs.
RM products are just better in my case.
I wonder if is it because they have newer scripting than LE.
It’s not only useful for writing stories.
There are stuff i do that aren’t writing, but i still need to “craft a story”.
RM:UWX is just better.
Do you consider Emperor: The Executive?
Maybe.
I want to see first just how focused is it towards productivity after it got included in the emperor series.
What HeO gave me + DRR1’s effects are enough to cover emperor’s resilience.
LE will be productivity that’s based on limitless, that’s more interesting to me.
So I’ll most likely skip it and wait for LE.
But if it’s interesting enough, i might try it.
The name embed major is finally coming.
It’s perfect for DRR1.
I’m plenty satisfied with the current DRR1 as is.
I want to make a custom out of it, but I’m afraid it’s gonna affect its performance.
That’s why i wanted to stick with it first before making it a custom.
The name embed solves both problems.
My desire for as little modification to the sub as possible & making DRR1 stronger.
I’ll stick with the normal DRR1 first, then when i feel like i want more, i’ll either make the upgrade or go straight to building a custom. Depending on the how the situation develops.
4-5 months / 4-6 cycles.
After looking back at the patterns I see in my journal, this might be the sweet spot of how long to use a sub before taking a break for a cycle/a month. At least for me.
While there’s a value in using a title continuously, there’s also a value in taking a break to clarify the changes the sub has brought. That’s what I found mainly after using HeO for 12 cycles straight.
1 common thing that I found:
When a sub reaches 4-5 cycles continuously, there’s a good chance the sub will uncover a new depth.
That was the case for me with LBFH (4 cycles), DRR1 (4 months), HeO (6 cycles) etc.
This is the golden opportunity.
But if I use the sub even longer, more than 6-7 cycles, the changes will feel so natural that I can’t distinguish what is brought by the sub and what is my natural state of being without it.
Which is good, but it makes me too pampered by the sub. I prefer to have both the “automatic guidance” from subs and the personal agency to temper myself independently.
This is hard to do when the clarity is gone.
This became very clear after I stopped HeO. I leaned too much on “it will just pop out in my head” without actively cultivating them inside on my own. Of course, many I cultivate actively, but HeO also brought many things that are hard to keep up without the sub unless I consciously try to cultivate them by myself. Everything being too natural makes it hard to know what I should still consciously grow and what is already a long lasting change.
If seen from that perspective, the changes I received from LBFH feel more natural.
I used it just as long as HeO in total, but I didn’t use it continuously. This gave me the “pause” where I had the space to keep up & cultivate what I learned from LBFH independently without its help.
4-5 months, with 1-3 months of independent action to internalize its effects without the sub’s help.
That’s my theory of what’s the most optimal approach in my case.
This requires much heavy experimentation to confirm.
But I’m starting to see the pattern, vague as it is.
If I find that this is true, then having a break from a sub or a long washout altogether after a certain span of time, will not only be something that’s “nice to have”, but a straight up mandatory activity to gain the most out of subs.
A few weeks ago, I set out to try to live up to what HeO taught me back then, and i became aware of this quote from musashi:
“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.”
1 thing i always say about HeO: it gives you extra resilience & motivation by making you realize that what you do is not just for you, but for a higher purpose.
I thought that’s just the indirect effect of the virtue scripting.
But it might actually be built into the sub.
I said back then that i would not run HeO again until i can live up to what it taught me by myself. I failed, then 2 months went by, and i attempted it again. This time i think i nailed it well enough. Not as good as when i was actively using the sub, but it’s passable.
With LE being put aside following the “4-5 month rule” i posted yesterday, the stack having only 2 light subs that give me no recon, and the condition in my life being conducive to use a 3 sub stack, I think i can finally use HeO again.
I swear to god the last time i used HeO was more than half a year ago.
But when i looked back at the history, i realized it has only been 4 months.
The changes between when i last used it until now is so huge that it felt really long that it skewed my perception of time.
I’ll use again HeO next month. I would love to use it now, but i swapped too many subs last month. I need to stabilize the stack first.
LE will be updated this spring. That’s really close.
I’ll run DRR1 + UWX + HeO until LE gets the update.
I think this is a good set of subs to rotate around.
Light, focused, no recon and I’ve used all of them for at least 4 months.
If 1 sub reaches 4-5 month, i’ll rotate it out for the other, let it rest for 1-2 month, then reintroduce it again while rotating out another sub that reaches 4-5 months.
I forgot where, but one of the founders have talked about 4 subs rotation before iinw, so i’m confident about this.
1 more month has passed with 11 on 4 off giving me 0 lingering overexposure symptom at all.
This is it.
This is the sweet spot.
Update 1:
I made a planner for the rotation
If I miraculously stick with this stack for 3 years without changing anything, this is what it’d look like.
What if I play a game where the character is using a sword?
Will HeO help with that?
It’s a funny idea, but worth the try for the giggles.
Idk if I have the time to play games though. Well, I’m gonna keep this idea on the back of my head.
If you want to try a game, I’d recommend**Kingdom Come: Deliverance".
As someone who trained historical swordfighting for a couple of years, I can tell you, it’s the most realistic game I’ve ever played.
I bought it, rofl.
I’ll play it sometime.
I might upgrade all 4 subs to the name embed format instead of making customs.
What i feel lacking in UWX, HeO, LE & DRR1 is social skill & a tad bit of wealth generation.
Other than that, everything is already there.
I can easily solve that with 4 extra modules.
HeO + Synergy: Primordial Aura
LE + Synergy: Tale of the Dragon / Rembrandt
DRR1 + Synergy: The Golden One
UWX + Rembrandt / UA + Synergy: Words Untold / RM:V + Synergy: Tale of the Dragon
The price is almost the same as just getting 2 customs, but i want to confirm the 4 months theory i wrote above.
The only problem now, none of those are updated yet besides DRR1.
That means paying for them again when the update comes.
I’m not that hungry for the social boost to do that.
I’ll wait until ZPU, since they said they’ll focus less on upgrading after that point.
Honestly i might never even touch the q store at all.
The store version is just that good, it’s more than good enough for my needs.
It’s a good thing also that my goals are narrow.
A custom would have been nice, but it will be just that, “nice to have”. The store majors deliver most of what i need.
And there’s that, another rambling about a plan that won’t see the light of day.
HeO + Synergy: Primordial Aura sounds cool though. HeO is all about cultivating what’s inside. The module modify it so it also shows outwardly. I might make this one to add a celebratory aspect to HeO, just like DRG4.
True social and executive are coming out soon, that’ll help.
Most likely, a module or two that is mined from true social will get launched as well.
So if you do end up liking the executive, I could see that being the name embed, alongside a module from TS
Tldr: train by moving slowly to realize what you do wrong when you move quickly.
This is the basic of building a good form in bodybuilding. Why didn’t I connect it with sword training? Is it the best approach for martial art? Idk, but it’s worth exploring.
From fencing to dancing this is true. Interestingly they are very closely related.
To even understand I sometimes watched videos on 10% speed and it was still hard.
For getting a feel for the move within your body it’s the same. Go slow, go pro.
There are so many nuances. Sometimes just moving your elbow an inch or turning your knee about 15° is the difference between making a move work or not.
Speaking of this. Even in playing piano I noticed that if I play it fast, it’s easy to make youristakes in a way that even you yourself can’t notice them anymore. But if you play slowly, you’ll definitely realize if you know what you’re doing or not.
So… I might or might not have started HeO earlier than I planned 
Well, it’s not like I’m being overwhelmed or overexposed in the first place, and everything follows the 12 day rule. But the plan to “stabilize the stack this month” is out of the window, rofl.
I’ll also reduce UWX’s exposure from 6 a month to only 4.
Honestly, the “manifestation to bring back things from my past” is getting annoying.
Not that I hate it, it’s just that I don’t understand why UWX manifested these things.
To make it easier to explain, the “nostalgia” manifestation is the same as the desc in this module.
Back then I used micro & short loops most of the time, so the effect was not as apparent.
But now I went straight to 15m. That was bound to increase the effect.
The manifestation was so strong that I couldn’t just look away.
Other than that, I got nothing bad from RM:UWX.
I was just annoyed about not knowing what to do with these manifestations.
So I thought, instead of microlooping, why don’t I just decrease the exposure frequency so I can give more to HeO & DRR1? I just need a slight push from RM:UWX anyway.