A Japanese Zoom regular who calls himself Death Poker reflected on his departure from the game amidst COVID-19's spread and gave his readers a quite a read. However, English readers will have missed it, because the original post is in Japanese.
Language should not be a barrier, especially for a high-quality tale like this. We've translated and localized the post, but all credit goes to the author. Death Poker has a YouTube channel and the Deathlog – where they've been blogging since 2019.
I haven't announced my retirement, but it's been about six months since I quit poker. I'm sure I'll soon be forgotten by the poker community, but I'd like to leave a record of it.
Why Did You Quit Poker?
The reason I quit poker is the world situation. I had been hearing about a food crisis since last spring, and from the knowledge I had gained from researching the coronavirus and the pandemic, I knew that a food crisis was really coming. When I told my family about it at the time, they all laughed at me and said, "What? There's no way it's going to happen!", but they ignored me and started stockpiling food, little by little.
I started following conspiracy theory YouTubers and related Twitter accounts to gather information, and by the summer I realized that the world was heading in an increasingly dangerous direction. I realized that if things continued as they were, a large number of Japanese people (and people all over the world) would die by around 2025. I realized that it would be difficult to survive on stockpiles alone and that we would have to do a lot of things to survive.
According to the famous book of prophecy called Hitsuki Shinji, which also predicted the coronavirus, two-thirds of the Japanese population will die by around 2025.
The sense of crisis grew stronger and stronger, and I could no longer concentrate on studying poker. However, no one in my family understood me, and there was no one around me who understood me, so I couldn't support myself on my own. I was frustrated because I wanted to do something, but couldn't.
Playing Online Games to Escape Reality
So, what I did was, for some reason, I started playing online games.
Well, humans tend to want to escape reality when they are faced with problems they can't do anything about. So, I played an online game for the first time in a while and got quite into it, but got bored of it after about three months, and while I was lazily playing daily games, I still made sure to collect information on conspiracy theories.
Around that time, I was watching information from Koji's DeepMax, a YouTuber who is into Buddhism and prophecy, and Hanashoku, a YouTuber who is into stockpiling and has his own unique source of behind-the-scenes information from around the world, and I came to learn that World War III was likely to start in 2023, and I began to become anxious.
Participating in a Village-Building Community
Then, by chance, I came across a community of crisis-conscious people trying to build a village, and when I joined I was asked to do YouTube, so I started working as a YouTube producer in that community.
To build a village, you first need to gather people, so we decided to attract them through YouTube. That's why I was asked to do it, since I make money by managing a website and attracting visitors. I myself have appeared in a few videos. (I'm wearing sunglasses to hide my face a little, but they're not that well hidden, so I might show my face normally one day.)
I decided to move to the countryside of Okayama.
While I was working on YouTube, the leader of the community asked me to come to Okayama because they were setting up a headquarters there, and that there would be subsidies from the government so there wouldn't be any problems with living expenses, so I decided to go.
Well, even before I joined the community, I knew there was a limit to what we could do with just our stockpiles, and I thought that one day we would have to build a village and become self-sufficient, so I thought I would do it if I had the chance, and that chance arrived. So, I decided to leave most of the stockpiles I had saved up until then, which was about three years' worth for my family of three, for my family and travel to Okayama.
Living a Half-Farming, Half-Forex Lifestyle
So, what I'm going to do after moving to Okayama is to start farming to secure food. I can't make money from farming alone, so I'm planning to do a lot of things to make money, and recently I've been doing Forex trading.
Forex trading probably requires similar skills to poker, but it seems like you can earn a lot more than poker, and since what I need now is money, I'm doing Forex trading instead of poker. Well, money will no longer have any value in the future, so there's no point in making money, but if that happens, poker, which is a game of fighting over money, will probably no longer exist, so I think Forex has a positive expected value in life.
If Forex trading goes well and he makes a lot of money, he plans to buy a lot of houses in the countryside. Because the thing that the community lacks the most is houses. If there are houses, he can invite a lot of people and build a village, but if there are no houses, many people who want to move there cannot do so because of financial problems, and because the source of income for the community is planned to be real estate, he wants to buy a lot of houses.
A Food Crisis is Not Only a Food Crisis
By the way, if the Chinese invade Taiwan and the Sino-Taiwanese War breaks out (Editor's note – this is a hypothetical situation between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China), imports will stop due to the blockade of sea lanes, and Japan will fall into a serious food crisis. (Japan's food self-sufficiency rate is 38%, but since fertilizer and seeds are almost all imported, the self-sufficiency rate will be less than 10% when imports stop.)
And according to Koji's DeepMax's prediction, this weekend is the most dangerous for the Sino-Taiwanese War. There's an event where Taiwan's top people will visit the United States at that exact time. So I moved on April 5th, so I'm just about safe? I think God loves me for this timing.
However, even if the Sino-Taiwanese War did not occur and there was no food crisis, we should not feel at ease.
- There is a movement to add mRNA vaccines to livestock products
- There is a movement to add cricket powder to processed foods and sweets in order to popularize eating crickets (apparently, when cricket legs enter the body, they turn into a dangerous substance called granulone oxide). (Editor's note – It appears the author is talking about the oxidation of clusters of white blood cells)
- The obligation to label genetically modified foods will be lifted from April 1st of this year (it's bad enough that the same people who promoted Waxxon, Big Game, are pushing genetic modification). (Editor's note – Unable to confirm what the author is meaning by Waxxon, Big Game)
So I think that in the future if you don't secure your own food, there's a high chance that your health will be in danger without you even realizing it.
Well, if 2/3 of Japanese people die, what is the cause?
- Vaccine (there are a lot of factories in Japan and the next time there's an epidemic, we'll probably be given one with more dangerous ingredients)
- Sino-Taiwanese War → Sea lanes blocked → Electricity and gas cut off, water cut off, food and energy crisis, mass starvation
- They can put the same level of poison as vaccinia into our food (injecting livestock products, oxidized glaxxin in cricket legs)
- Water can be poisoned with the same level of poison as Vaxx.
I think it's something like that.
Therefore, I think that people who cannot secure their own food and water will have a high chance of dying by around 2025.
While the Japanese author of this post does no wrong by speculating about COVID's outcome, we should include the statistics here
According to WorldMeters, as of April 13, 2024, COVID 19 had reportedly caused 74,694 deaths in Japan. The reported population of Japan in 2024 was around 123 million, meaning that ~0.325% of the population died as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Lastly...
Originally, I was planning to go to three countries on a working holiday in 2020, dedicate myself to poker, and aim to become a professional poker player. At that time, the coronavirus came and crushed my dream, so I cannot forgive those who created this fictitious disease called coronavirus. But in order to fight against these people, we cannot depend on them, which means we cannot depend on the government, and we have to secure our own water and food.
So, I want to do whatever it takes to survive upcoming events such as war, food crises, and financial crises within the community I'm currently in, and then live in peace and freedom in a world that is not under the control of those people.
If you read this article and would like to join such a community, please feel free to contact me via DM on Twitter and I will tell you which community I am in.
It is not a private community, but an open community that is normally published on YouTube, but I am embarrassed to have people in the poker community see my videos, so I have deliberately hidden the name of the community lol.
