Just... just... yeah...

So... I've been pretty fucking busy lately... like, REALLY damn busy with this new house I'm moving to...

I have not been able to really get some work done on my stories (Yes, I'm working on a lot more than just the one I have published) and it also seems that this entire summer has brought writer's block with it...

For now, I just don't feel like working on the HoE: The Severius Equestrian War... I just don't. So, I'm going to place that on hiatus until this move is done with, maybe within that time I will get inspiration for it and be able to work on it without forcing myself.

I am almost done with a reboot to another story and I am still working the Griffon story...

Fuck, there's just so much going on right now and it's eating up a lot of my time along with my family's... we keep coming home at late hours, working from 8 am to 7 pm regularly...

Hopefully you guys understand me and have some patience with here, since this move comes as top priority to me right now.

So, thanks for keeping with me through this bullshit... I guess.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and
then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
-- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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[ClassyGeneral]

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Yours would be interesting, after all.

The fuck makes you say that?

Lastly, you get a for that surprisingly fitting quotes from the Art of War.

I've been doing it often lately... I think I may convert to Sun Tzuism as a religion because of it.

[ClassyGeneral]

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Don't rightly know, but with you there'd be some depth to it. I'm mostly a lazy ass with spouts of terrible anger. So mostly like the regular ass.

Meh, I just keep to myself most of the time. As in staying inside working on shit... I have to keep myself busy or shit gets weird in my head. Then once I'm out doing shit you get the active and possibly angry side of me... not much depth really...

How would one participate in this faith? Would they show up to a library of strategy books every day? Or would they just go around and fight people on the street? Whatever this faith is, I'm interested.

23. Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve. Officers and men alike will put forth
their uttermost strength.
24. Soldiers when in desperate straits lose the sense of fear. If there is no place of refuge, they will
stand firm. If they are in hostile country, they will show a stubborn front. If there is no help for it,
they will fight hard.
25. Thus, without waiting to be marshaled, the soldiers will be constantly on the qui vive; without
waiting to be asked, they will do your will; without restrictions, they will be faithful; without giving
orders, they can be trusted.
26. Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself
comes, no calamity need be feared.

I guess they would just live by the Art of War and apply it to everything really...

[ClassyGeneral]

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Don't even bother trying to find a book copy...

Never know, maybe one day it'll be the next spiritual practice or something. I've seen crazier things become legitimate faith. Or remain legitimate faith.

Well the thing is... you can apply a lot of The Art of War to real life...

21. Though according to my estimate the soldiers of Yueh exceed our own in number, that shall
advantage them nothing in the matter of victory. I say then that victory can be achieved.
22. Though the enemy be stronger in numbers, we may prevent him from fighting. Scheme so as to discover his plans and the likelihood of their success.
23. Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as
to find out his vulnerable spots.
24. Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is
superabundant and where it is deficient.
25. In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them; conceal your dispositions, and you will be safe from the prying of the subtlest spies, from the machinations of the wisest brains.
26. How victory may be produced for them out of the enemy’s own tactics—that is what the multitude cannot comprehend.
27. All men can see the tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
28. Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.
29. Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards.
30. So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak.
31. Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier
works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.
32. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.
33. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may becalled a heaven-born captain.

When one is able to understand it, then you may be able to apply it and then recode it for whatever you want to use it for.