I’ve always read. I’m constantly taking in content that’s in a written language. But I haven’t really been reading canon content for a while.

I read all the books. Then I stopped.

That didn’t mean they didn’t continue to make new books.

I just haven’t had the mental resources to read the canon material. Not when the fics are all laid out there.

But recently I’ve been enjoying Chinese novels.

Like this one right now:

• Dude, don’t test someone’s blindness by throwing a basketball at them!!! WTF is wrong with you? Who raised you??? * He’s got a serious anger issue. It’s a diagnosis he carries. * He’s very rich, but currently a bit of a family disgrace.
• She just had eye surgery after being blind for years. So she’s just starting to get her sight back and has to wear sunglasses. * She whacks him with her cane when he tries to snatch her sunglasses.

Her complete disgust with him is causing him to change and become a better person.

I enjoy drama stories.

I hate drama in real life.

Anyways.

The Internet was out all night and day 🙁

It sucks and I couldn’t help the paranoid thought–"Why did the police cut out the Internet? What are they doing?"–that popped in my head.

I hate that they’ve been so entirely awful at their jobs that my first thought is starting to always be "What did they fuck up now?"

And it’s like, I think our local police department are okay.

But I don’t know if the police I’ve dealt with have been purposeful nice guys that were chosen for their public-facing customer service work. Maybe the rest of the department is a blazing clown fire. I don’t know.

Like, there’s a lot of local government people getting arrested for some truly heinous crimes.

And I know, some people are like "They’re all getting arrested for awful shit! That means they’re getting away with lying and cheating their way into office!" but I’m kinda like "They caught them. Good." I’m always just really hopeful that they get epic prison sentences and crippling fines.

Stop them from being able to use the power of their money to circumvent what’s right.

I feel disappointed when they get a slap on the wrist and no prison time when a person without so much money gets sent straight to prison. And I’m not like "Good! Lock up the dude! Nobody should have a means of lessening a minor sentences." because they didn’t commit minor crimes.

It sucks that people have spent so much time and effort to change the laws to favor the rich and punish the poor.

I hate the current prison system. And I side-eye the government system that is propping it up.

Someone with money can pay money to get out of prison and have their record purged of serious crimes like physical assault, sexual assault, and "I didn’t know it was murder"-murder. While at the same time, a woman pre-pandemic wanted her daughter to go to a better school district and I think she’s still in prison today. Like, where the fuck is the governor or whoever hands out the crime forgiveness certificates at?

People should have their right to vote returned if the "big felony" they committed was like smoking or selling weed 30 years ago. Why is that person still in prison? Why are you continuing to torture them and their family for stuff that’s no longer a crime? You should free them and offer them some kind of "rehab therapy?" where they are taught how to adapt back into a world they haven’t been a part of.

Recidivism happens because someone that has been kept in a cage for months and/or years was then released with no help to adapt. I mean, some people are straight up evil. If they’re going to be violent, they’re going to be violent. But others are people that were in prison during the entire rise of smartphones and maybe even of computers.

A dude that doesn’t know how to sign up for an email address because the last one they had was a Hotmail account.

"Here dude. All consequential transactions are now handled online."–Like, WTF? Even for people that haven’t been to prison, it’s a terrible way to run things.

The credit card system went down because the Internet was out.

It was very inconvenient to buy milk today. But if the Internet was out long term? And someone depended on their own card reader to get paid?

Soft-forcing people to have to use cards is bad enough. But then to charge people for spending their own money?

Anyways. The Internet was out. And a lack of necessary infrastructure was very difficult to deal with in a regular moment. I don’t know what it would be like in a war zone.

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So I’ve found D’Angelo Wallace on YouTube.

Like, I don’t usually watch videos. But every once and a while I’ll take a dip into the rabbit hole. Especially since I can watch YouTube on the big TV screen.

I watched a bunch of "Koreans React to American" videos and some World Friends content last night. Like, the stuff about differences between Chinese, Korean, and Japanese chopsticks opened my eyes. There’s a reason why there’s different chopsticks. Like, I should have an array that I rotate my way through.

And today I visited Bluesky and my attention was caught by an Iron Spike share of D’Angelo Wallace talking about the "Natalie Beach being soft-stalked by Calloway"-shitstorm that’s seemingly building up in the background of the world.

Like, Calloway is seemingly out of control and she needs a wake up call of some sort. Because she’s obviously sliding.

Natalie seems to be doing great. But there really needs to be an eye kept on the Calloway situation because… yikes. She could pop up at any moment to cause some "drama." And I mean the type that involves the police.

I have no involvement with the story. I didn’t give that woman any money. I did see the tweet thread on Twitter (it was Twitter, not "X." (And I put that in quotes because he likely changed the name because he hopes to sell the Twitter name at some point in the future and he wants it to be worth money. If things had continued on in the same way, the resale value would be like nothing; he changed the name. So, if you want to continue calling it Twitter… it can help keep the name at value costs, just saying.)) but it was so long ago I’d forgotten about it. Until I watched that 2 hour long video today.

I’m a nosy person. I want to know what’s going on even if I’m not involved. So that whole Adult Drama going on… Calloway seems like someone to at least keep a side eye on.

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I’m really enjoying this Chinese novel. It’s been machine translated to "Losing Money to Be a Tycoon." (The author name has been translated to "Inebriation-seeking Blue Shirt.")

It’s 1717 chapters long, with some author notes here and there. And it’s a "guy wakes up 10 years ago with a system" story. Only instead of a magic finger, he’s given $50,000 with a promise of more if he follows certain steps.

He has money to use to make money. THEN the system tells him that he can convert the unused portions and the used portions for money. Which immediately attracts his attention.

So he starts reading the rules and things are flipped from what he thinks they should be. He finds out that used portions of the money will be bought back at a ratio of 1:1 while extra money will be bought back by the system at a ratio of 100:1.

He thinks he can spend $50,000 and get $50,000 back.

The only thing is: He can’t spend the money selfishly on himself. Which was one of his first impulses.

The money can only be spent on different money-making ventures. And in the course of making money, there are employees and other venues where money should be spent.

He is forced to be a humanitarian.

And by forced, I mean he doesn’t want to lose the chance to make money and change his life.

Because the system gives him a bunch of money and a time limit. It keeps track of its own money and his money. And after the session is over, it gives him a cut and takes the rest. Then it resets with a different amount of money and a different time limit.

All he wants is to see his balance grow. And the best way to do that is to start a venture and fail.

How hard is it to open a business and lose a bunch of money?

Apparently: very hard.

SPOILER ALERT!

He is aware of his own ineptitude with money.

• I don’t know if he has gained valuable skills at this point. He could truly understand finances on a deep and powerful level. I don’t know. And neither does he. He doesn’t want to risk it.
• He wants to lose money so he does everything he thinks will cause a business to fail. Yet he keeps making money.

Maybe he’s in one of his own games.

• He has a fondness for screwing with his characters.
• (Breaking the Fourth Wall:) It would be an ending that the author has been leading up to.
• Some of the games and movies and their inevitable endings could be seen as foreshadowing.

Maybe he’s in a coma.

• He could be in a futuristic pod, his brain exercised by a virtual reality machine.
• He died(?) and woke up 10 years in the past of his own life. Which allows him to make different choices and leapfrog out of poverty.

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