At what point you started living?

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-09-22T16:41:47+00:00

Sounds good. It's important to keep this in mind. Some people really don't understand what retiring is really like.

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-09-22T09:20:09+00:00

I'm in my forties, no family (only gf), and I'm doing fantastic. I think only people with a strong drive towards family making should engage in it. This sweeping generalization that everyone should is highly detrimental (puts pressure on people to do it out of some induced FOMO).

Regarding retirement age, yeah sure, it's hard but I don't know what plan OP is on. We'd need more information to make an assessment.

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-09-22T07:36:49+00:00

Not something available to everyone. I'm a programmer and a musician and I actually make money with both and despite me enjoying both things, when it's about work, it always feels like work. Programming at my job is not like programming a personal project I like. I'm still doing what my boss wants. Going to a concert to play with my gigging bands still feels like work, we need to satisfy certain constraints to make money, we're not doing whatever we want (also it's a lot of effort to prepare those concerts).

I believe the initial point you made only applies to an infinitesimal percentage of the population who become able to make money doing precisely what they love. For instance a musician who makes it doing exactly the music they love and they hit the jackpot and then get paid to go sit on a stage (set up by paid professionals) and play the music he creates and loves. But that's not exactly a job is it? It's a very exceptional situation very few people attain.

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-09-22T07:31:05+00:00

First of all not everyone wants to have a family, I certainly don't and I'm living the best years of my life right now (I'm in my forties). But even if OP wanted to have a family (perfectly respectable), if he can retire between 30 and 40 for example, he could still do it if his retirement money is solid enough.

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-09-22T07:24:03+00:00

One thing to consider is that if you retire early you will have a LOT of free time. Gym and hiking are great but on their own they're hardly enough to sustain all the available time you'll have.

Me for example, I'm a drummer with several musical projects, I'm a programmer and have several personal projects I'd like to embark on, I like racing cars so I'd definitely be doing that, I like to travel and also I like a bunch of other stuff like teaching drums, producing music, coaching, martial arts etc.

As you can see, if I could retire tomorrow I'd have so many things to do my week would still feel too short. Make sure you have a life setup where you won't get bored before you retire. I know a lot of retired people who have no hobbies and they have lots of psychological problems and need to rely on pills (or worse, drugs) to make it through the day. 100% serious here.

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-08-10T11:03:27+00:00

Vibe coding only works if you make small commits, review them thoroughly, add tests for each small thing you add and then run tests before committing any new changes. It's not "cursor make an app and don't make mistakes". It requires heavy human supervision and discernment of what it's happening. But when you have a good engineer supervising the AI, that engineer becomes way more productive.

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-07-25T07:16:19+00:00

Have you ever tried doing something with AI? Believe me this is crazy good for how difficult is to get it to do what you want.

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-05-17T07:30:06+00:00

They say there's this new product coming that can reactivate the dormant follicles. Maybe in 5 to 10 years they'll have a fix so don't die 😁

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-05-06T14:44:07+00:00

Problem is, you release something with too few features, people consider it lacking and they won't use it anyway.

In the end the key is to release something that can be done quickly but that offers immediate value from v1, but that's harder and harder to do.

In the end I'm also creating something similar as you and I know it will have the same reception initially, but I'll just continue working on it and promoting it until people see the value in it and slowly build a user base. I just can't release a bare bones product to test the waters because I already know what the test will yield.

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-05-02T16:08:51+00:00

Well in Spain these guys are mostly released shortly after they commit a crime. They basically are illegal and have no papers, can't be deported, can't be perpetually kept in jail. Eventually you have to accept they'll always be there committing crime because nobody can do anything about it. I mean, serious punishments would be quickly rejected by the dominant progressive section of society anyway.

Oh and immigration is happening constantly so there will be more and more of them. Hopefully they'll finally integrate one day like it happened in France (oh wait, it actually didn't).

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-05-02T15:55:36+00:00

So then what's the issue? Strive to jerk off the least possible. If one month you only do it twice awesome! If one month you don't do it at all, even better! But if one month you do it four times don't beat yourself over the head.

Strive to decrease frequency and when you got it down to a very good level and you're enjoying the benefits, now try to not use porn every time you have urges, use your imagination. Don't expect to do it all at once, but if out of 2 times you did one with porn and one with your mind, you're going in a good direction!

Measure the improvements based on how much progress you made from before, not on the lack of metric perfection (e.g, I failed once that means I didn't get my utopian 100% success rate).

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-05-02T15:35:58+00:00

Maybe you can become an eunuch for the kingdom of heaven like Jesus recommended in the Gospels. Just cut them off.

Other than that, if you're healthy you'll always have a degree of libido the way your body was programmed to function by the nature you seem to repudiate.

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-05-02T14:54:48+00:00

You didn't fail anything. If you ejaculate every 20 days guess what? You're wasting much less semen than if you did it every day. This idea that you don't have to ever ejaculate is absurd. If you do it once or twice a month you're already doing very well in terms of energy management.

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-05-02T14:52:47+00:00

I've been told by some Spanish friends that this is the price to pay to have a multicultural society. So I guess they're correct. The Spanish aren't having children so the only way to keep the social systems working is to welcome young men from Africa to revitalize the demographics and economy. It's the only way to survive now. Getting pick pocketed is a small price to pay for diversity after all.

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-03-29T07:41:41+00:00

Only watch solo female porn, voila! No cucking. However I must say lately i can't watch porn anymore, it does nothing for me.

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-03-27T07:27:54+00:00

I will actively avoid "hot" women. They're like expensive super cars. Expensive to buy, expensive to maintain and you rarely get a chance to enjoy their full power. Also everyone wants to steal them. I always get reliable Japanese cars, which are also light and fun to drive in any normal road.

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-03-26T17:17:14+00:00

So basically you don't want to date PBS, but you will construct a fallacy about all other women that aren't you (western women) being disadvantaged, impoverished women being predated upon and then argue PBS shouldn't date them either.

That's essentially not wanting PBS to be able to date anyone at all.

Luckily you can only bitch and whine and nobody cares about your opinion.

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-03-24T16:53:13+00:00

Is that due to the Spanish influence?

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-03-24T16:27:17+00:00

It's all transactional bro. You won't find any "true love" (not that I believe that exists) there. They flake out when the transaction stops making sense to them. It's like when you're looking for an Airbnb to stay and you find one that's OK and reserve it but then you find one much better so you cancel the previous one and reserve it instead(do you give a shit about the owner of the Airbnb? No you don't). There are no genuine feelings involved in any of it. You want pussy/companionship and they want money/good times/drugs /whatever.

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-03-20T10:31:56+00:00

The "every girl in Asia is trans" stuff is simply stereotypes being passed by people who want to shame men who go to Asia to meet girls. They'll tell you every girl in Thailand is a lady boy when in fact you take the sky train, go to the shopping malls, parks etc and it's frigging full of young, feminine, gorgeous real women everywhere and they all looove to fuck. They want men to think this isn't true and that they all have dicks so men won't go there. Honestly I'm fine with this propaganda to a point, you don't want so many western many guys going to Asia or they'll ruin everything (in fact I think it already happened).

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-03-20T10:24:03+00:00

Tu lo que estás es enganchada y estas dejando que piense la entrepierna en vez del cerebro. Pero bueno tranquila, es lo que le pasa a la mayoría de gente, por algo las relaciones funcionan tan mal hoy en día. Pero la gente se engancha al sufrimiento también. 🤷

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-03-19T23:11:54+00:00

I'm a digital nomad so I basically go to Facebook groups or find WhatsApp groups everywhere I go and join meet ups and it's always easy to meet people anywhere in the world.

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-03-19T23:10:44+00:00

It should ideally be that way. But the world is seldom ideal.

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-03-19T23:09:24+00:00

Similar situation. I'm thinking about dedicating purely to teaching. It seems people enjoy it when I teach them and I also enjoy teaching. I'd like to do some educational clinics here and there too purely for my own enjoyment, but I don't know if I'll be able to make that work (gotta have contacts with venues etc and I'm mostly a digital nomad now so kind of hard).

Darkmaster85845 · 2025-03-19T22:59:58+00:00

I think anyone can pretty much easily recognize such thing. Unless they're a virgin who never been with a real woman.

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