Haven’t seen him in forever. Went off to the military?
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I believe he retired, actually. He has already done his military service if I recall correctly.
What happened to sOs?
He’s on to phase two of the life of sOs. It’s a video game. He’s a big boy and ready to start playing the game of life. Idra is now a material scientist. Iasona is now an AI researcher. The guy who was tearing up WCS NA a few years back, aka Hydra, now owns a bar. Anyone know what Polt is doing these days?
Eventually you have to set your sights higher than faux video game accomplishments. Real life is like a video game only a trillion times more complicated and the stakes are higher. Eventually your brain is big enough that one super simple video game can’t hold your interest anymore. You move on to playing real life. It’s way more rewarding. Just wait until you buy yourself a motorcycle, car, house, hot tub, pool, RV, boat, jetskis. I got a buddy who just bought an airplane for funsies lmao.
Side note: with this framework in mind, what does that make Artosis? 
Side note 2: My buddies keep telling me I need to buy a boat. The problem with being rich is that you can bury yourself in meaningless purchases that you never use. I had an uncle who bought a thousand dollar coffee machine then didn’t even bother to unbox it. It sat in his garage until he threw it away. Literally. He didn’t want to give it away because he didn’t want people to start brown-nosing him for his money. He made it clear his money is his and that way he knows his friends like him for who he is. My rule is that if I want something I have to make it. If I want a boat, I have to put in the hours which gives the boat actual meaning and value. When I take people out on the boat, I can tell them all the funny stories associated with the making of the boat. I can build memories with buddies thanks to their help in making the boat. As much fun as it would be to own a boat, I have too many other projects that are higher priority. I have to prioritize. That’s how you know you’ve won at life - when your time becomes the most valuable resource. I remember the days when I used to be ecstatic just to be on a dinner date across the table from a pretty face. Nowadays I just sit there thinking holy cow this bimbo never shuts up would it be rude if I checked the time on my watch?
If you are rich, there is no problem in wasting money on useless stuff because you have plenty of it
Nope. That’s how you become un-rich very fast. You think a few million bucks is lot of money. It is not. Fortunes are built in a lifetime and lost in months. That’s why by the third generation, ~60% of former billionaires are broke. Each successive generation can’t keep up the same level of efficiency and slowly the fortune erodes. Being rich isn’t about having a large bank, it’s about being vastly more efficient with how much you spend compared to how much you make. Wealth is about cash flow, especially thanks to inflation which, currently, erodes your fortune at a rate of ~11% per year. That means if you have a million bucks in your bank account, you are losing about a hundred grand a year. That’s probably the biggest misconception out there about wealth. It’s not a dollar value in your bank account. It’s about cash flow. Money in, money out. Your bank account is a buffer to accommodate fluctuations in your cash flow and your expenses.
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Billionaires made their money by pinching pennies and cutting corners. You have to be smart about it or you will lose money. You have to know what corners can be cut - there are BIG reasons why other people didn’t already cut those corners. You need new and creative ways to solve problems nobody else knows how to solve. It’s like the SC2 meta. You invent a new build but it only stays your build for so long. Eventually the “trade secrets” get out and what you have isn’t special anymore. That’s why to be a top SC player, you have to be constantly innovating. You have to be 1 step ahead of everyone else. That’s also why fortunes erode over time. Billionaires are misers who count every penny and are geniuses who are always 1 step ahead of their competition. Their children don’t grow up knowing how to count pennies. They have everything handed to them from birth. They are denied the core life experiences that are a necessity to build fortunes. They don’t know the extreme paranoia of nitpicking every aspect of your operation from top to bottom, looking for flaws and inefficiencies, or the constant worry that you are falling behind everyone else. They don’t know what it’s like to obsess over something so much you can’t get it out of your head, ever. Dedication is a concept foreign to them. Daddy billionaire is also away running the empire the entire time and exerts near zero influence on the kids as they grow up. So, their fortunes erode and eventually they go broke.