The Approach - Health and Tech

This is an update on website changes and upcoming services. I will be providing increased educational and consultation services. The MRI program, through J-Team, I'm hoping to have accredited in the near future. I have developed simulation software to assist in the education process that I will host. There is also gaming software that I am developing. I want to focus on the new Versus game I developed. I believe it is revolutionary and will help boost the sales of collector cards.

The other day, I visited the local card stores in my area, where I became aware of the fact that there is an enormous collection of sports cards in variation for every athlete in every sport. But not only are they not played, they aren't even collected or known about. They sit in bins, passed over, while the only card games being played are Magic the Gathering and Pokemon. This means there are countless dead card games as well. These are well made cards from various companies that go completely wasted.

 I mentioned to the store owner that I have a plan to bring usefulness and sales back to these well made cards. I had the idea, but not the execution down yet. After configuring code and ideas for over a week, I had a premise in place of a card game with set stat numbers for characters. It worked well, but was a bit too predictable. I introduced a tier system and expanded stats and specialties. I wanted spontaneity but reliability, which was a hard balance to strike. I also included a create-a-character feature to add to customization. I plan to have standardized rankings for each character or athlete that are coded into each update, so the value is in the card.

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The other update is in the field of nutrition. I've always had a rigorous approach to nutrition and health, and have experimented with many supplements and vitamins over the past decades. I emphasize clean and healthy products for longevity. What I've found over the years, is that it is very hard to get all of your nutrients in one place, and also products have less and less concentration of nutrients in their items, along with unhealthy additives. Years back, I started following Athletic Greens due to a podcast, and have used their green powder for several years now. Prior to this, I used Source of Life Liquid vitamin for a while, which you will now find it difficult to find anywhere. That vitamins was packed with vitamins and had everything you need. You felt it right away. I also  found the super supplement Glucosil, which is great for regulating blood sugar, carbohydrate digestion, and cardio health. That used to be sold online, an then found its way to Walmart shelves.

 Then, in recent times, it has become scarce again, and must be purchased online. I've taken Lutein, Biotin, D3, Magnesium, Resveratrol,and Fish oil. The source of life liquid had many of these built in. However, as much as Athletic greens boasts about how complete it is, I find it disappointing that I have to take each of thiese in addition. If they want to have the bragging rights they desire, they need to step up and actually be a complete multivitamin. These addition vitamins are absolute essential to complete health. Many times, Magnesium is lacking, as well as D3 and Resveratrol, all of which Source of Life had. I see no reason why this can't be improved.

Why should I have a cocktail regimen this large if I'm taking a super vitamin.

I think that there is much in healthcare that is kept disfunctional not always for profit but at times pure laziness and incompetence. Diabetes, is likely a very curable disease. The is profit in the sickness, so they forego procedures such as stem cell coming of pancreatic tissue or other therapies. It's sad to see. But in time, there may be a shift in healthcare solely to preserve pride, due to the life expectancy rate being disproportionate for all of the medical advances. We'll see.

Essay on Love

 I have had several drafts written in the past few months that I didn't find necessary to release, but this is an essay that I feel is very essential to write. When it comes to love, there are a lot of inequities and misconceptions in general globally, but when it comes to judging others' love, this is something that has tremendous gaps.

  Some people tend to put timelines on love and affection, and deem love inappropriate if it doesn't match up with their timeline. However, I think one huge flaw made is that people really don't realize how quickly love actually moves. And I'm talking about real, and informed love. It doesn't take nearly as long as people like to think to know enough to really love someone. And I believe there is actually an abundance of fabricated love out there, that is more forced and structured. There is no such thing as setting love at a timeline of a specific range or length of months. It is organic. It can't be quantified or bottled.

  Especially if you've been hurt or betrayed and fallen out of love, people question your ability to assess love going forward, which is understandable. But while you can have flawed judgement, you can also still have very clear judgement as long as you move forward in the right way. That's where perspective, closure, and honesty come into play in a big way. You have to completely unravel yourself, and go through vulnerable rebuilding. It's a beautiful thing what becomes of you on the other end of that. You become someone you can be proud of again.

  Asking the right questions, getting the needed answers, and feeling totally and completely and honestly in love can happen and honestly often does happen very fast if it involved two people who have the feelings in a strong way. You may see it done differently the majority of the time, but honestly I think that happens when the people are inexperienced, far apart, having limited contact, or divided and distracted in other directions. That's the only real reason for the process to be drawn out. If the love between two people is capable of being one in a million, they will sense it before very long. There will be a period of getting to know what foundation there is underneath all of that, but it really doesn't take a long period of time to find if the foundation and the fantasy add up. It has nothing to do with blind infatuation. It's logical and clear love that is absolutely real.

  Just like your favorite song, if you have an intellectual taste, had you at the beginning. There is initial surprise and infatuation with a flashy or catchy tune, but you know within a few listens over a couple of days if a song is timeless to you, or just a phase. Love works the same way. You just have to be honest with yourself, because what some people do is ignore the fact that they don't really feel a full love. They just really want to, and choose to push through whatever situation they have at hand. Those situations are the ones that get all short courtships labeled as impulsive. In reality, it is not about the time. As long as you have that in proper perspective, you don't have to fear how your timeline is moving. Just know that you will have many detractors. Don't let that discourage you. It is unavoidable. The main thing of importance is that the couple themselves are on the same page.

Piracy

 I may have spoken on this topic in the past, but with recent events, I feel a need to bring it back again. Over the past decade, there has been a concerted effort to cut off actual ownership of software. I am an artist, a programmer, and a creator in every sense of the word, so I've always been split on this discussion until now. I understand that piracy has been a problem, but the response by the publishing companies has gone completely to the left for no good reason at all.

  I have had experiences in the past with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and with Sony, where due to being offline, I had issues playing games that I had purchased, or accessing save data. This has gotten much worse over the last few years. Physical games and digital games alike, are completely attached to network profiles, and monitored for updates. If you should miss an update, not only must you get online, but until you successfully update your system, you can be completely blocked from not just saving or going online, but from playing your game at all. I've had incidents where I am online, but with a locked or unstable connection, where I cannot get an update, and I have been unable to play a large portion of my library on the Switch. I have also had issues where I'm offline and playing my games fine, and because I'm off the grid for a number of weeks and miss an update I don't know about, games would deactivate in real time without even going online for an update reference. That's where I began to realize that every update that you accept has an expiration period, or time bomb installed in it that will brick you library, physical and digital after a period of time, if you do not stay with their updates.

  Microsoft is also very weird these days, and seems to be really pushing purchases of storage space on their One Drive platform, to extreme degrees. One Drive used to be a storage and data sharing option, and now it has become interwoven into the core drive on the Windows OS. You have to dive into settings and restructure core programs to allow usage of your applications with system storage. I have computers with over 1TB of storage that never get properly used because Download folders, Document folders, and Program operations through Windows System Drive are all tied directly into the 5GB tiny storage that One Drive gives you, and if you deactivate your computer from One Drive, core programs have to then be dissociated.

 I just purchased Street Fighter 6 after contemplating it for a long time, being a fan of 5 and the series. It was a physical copy, but I ran into one of the other issues of today's games. DVD's are limited to a few gigs of storage. Games today are usually over 10 gigs of overinflated storage space. So when you buy a physical game today in the store, you are given a license within the disc to go on the network and download the remaining data for the game onto your system in order to play the game. So after you pop a disc in, you will be asked for an additional 6 or 7 GB of storage. If you don't have it, you have to free up space. All I have on my PS4 is Street Fighter 5, Street Fighter 4, Tekken 7, Nioh, and other save data for games. I had to delete my Horizon Zero Dawn and Final Fantasy XV data, which includes the save data and the game data. I now realize I have to purchase a large external storage to play more games on the system. That makes buying phyiscal games feel extremely stupid now.

 I have friends that have Steam Decks, and I've wanted to get one of the new age handheld PC-gaming machines, but I have never liked or trusted streaming services. I'm not against online networks, and even gaming from time to time. But I do not like relying on online accounts, memberships, network connectivity, and profile and system updates. I usually work in secured networks, where some devices cannot go online for security reasons. I should not have to worry about my system be up to date to play old school games that I have downloaded on my console.

This is why the jailbreak community has gained my support. You can never comfortably own you own media unless you have an unlocked device with non-proprietary software. I've always supported the homebrew community, but at this point I think it is a necessity. I don't mind using Steam and other gaming outlets, but if you can have or even write your own software to host your content, that is going to be the future of counteracting  this new wave of censorship. I have had countless videos and essays taken off of hosting platforms for absolutely idiotic reasons. I had an educational music video I shot for Black History month, titled, "February," that Youtube tore down because I'm not initiated in their sick little cult. I've been saying for quite a while that personal hosting is going to be a wave of the future, and I'm going to be its pioneer. I'm just in the process of rolling out methods. When you own your content, be it literary, visual, educational, or otherwise, that is when you exist.