Portal

Someone seriously needs to hook me up with an advance copy of Portal...

I's an FPS! No, it's a puzzle game! No, it's both wrapped in one magnificent conceptual adventure!

Simple rules leading to complex scenarios... you draw the parallels.

The Law of Profit

The Law of Profit is as essential to the stock market, as the Law of Gravity is to people living on Earth. It regulates everything. It doesn't matter what someone may be offering to you, it doesn’t matter how perfect they seem, how little they ask of you. In the end, nobody invests in anything unless they think they can profit from it. The only variables are what kind of profit they are seeking, and how long are they willing to sit on their investment before it matures. Any way you look at it, the goal is always the same.

Visualize every single person you know, or have gone out with, or slept with, as a company producing goods and services. Like any company, each of these people are in the pursuit of personal profit.

While personal profit can come in many shapes and forms, (some want to get laid for one night, others are seeking marriage with kids, and yet others want someone to parade in public by their arm) the overall reward can be summed up in one word: ego. Every single transaction in the sexual stock market takes place in the pursuit of strengthening our ego, pumping up our self esteem, and strengthening the value of our company in the market. Ego is the driving engine propelling a company’s activity, the equivalent of the shareholder boards of the companies trading in the financial markets.

To keep our ego (shareholders) satisfied, we will cook our accounting books, lie, improve our health and appearance, bad mouth former associates (ex-boyfriends) we no longer do business with, and vanquish anyone whose interests conflict with ours.

Investments come and go, but no matter what, the ego must always be fed.

Meaning what?

Relationships are a stock market. It works like this:

All relationships between people are based on an exchange of goods. Every time we get close to someone, we do so because we want to acquire something from them, such as affection, understanding, sex, and in some cases, a laundry service. To purchase these goods, we offer the person some goods of our own, such as sex, money, understanding, affection, and in some cases, a never-ending supply of dirty laundry.

So while we like to think of love and emotional involvement as a matter of the heart, in reality we are all standing in the middle of a vast trading floor looking for the best way to buy low, sell high, and pull our profit out before the bottom falls off the market.

Let's call this the Sexual Stock Market™.

And the idea is?

What is the idea behind this site? Well, I have this theory. These people I know (let's call them "friends") have problems, like everyone else. I sit, I watch, I examine, I report. Easy. There is a very simple way to understand the whats and wherefores of people's motivations when given the proper framework in which to dissect them. So, my theory is this:

Relationships are a stock market.

I'll elaborate more tomorrow.

First Post!

You know, with all the time I spent on this machine, you'd think I would have started one of these earlier.