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Deal with the cards you were dealt and be a Dual Master.

A phrase about owning your situation instead of blaming it. “Deal with the cards you were dealt and be a Dual Master” means you don’t waste energy wishing for better circumstances — you master what you already have.

“Dual Master” refers to mastering both sides of yourself: strengths and flaws, emotion and logic, offense and defense. It’s about balance, control, and adaptability — not luck.

The phrase was first said by Arteobis after an early setback, and it stuck because the meaning applies to anyone: you can’t choose your starting hand, but you can choose how well you play it.
Example Sentences

You should master both your weaknesses and strengths, instead of wishing for a different hand. — deal with the cards you were dealt and be a Dual Master.”

“It’s not about luck, it’s about balance, controlling emotion and execution at the same time. Deal with the cards you were dealt and be a Dual Master.”
by Arteobis March 2, 2026
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So you took that as an accusation of wrongdoing but YOU WEREN'T ALONE in doing it and now you are trying to make it a thing like this was because I "accused you falsely of doing something"

Hym "I don't think you knew you were doing it but SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE ALSO DOING IT... KNEW they were doing it. And it WAS A THING THAT WAS HAPPENING and IS. And is a problem. For you to assert that we have to care about saying nigger and faggot more than this. No. You didn't know it was a thing. I discovered that it was a thing. You felt attacked because you though I was accusing you but you didn't know anything at the time but by the time you found out about it. You just didn't get it. At any point. You didn't understand what was happening. You didn't want to play ball because I was being offensive and derogatory. And the people I said would suffer (through no fault of my own) for it did in fact have to do so. Even though THEY HAD NOT HAD TO DO THAT INITIALLY. You thought it was something it wasn't. I was flippant about what it was but at a certain point you had to have picked up on some general themes that emerged and you had to have known you didn't know what was going on and at some point you'd have to talk to the actual guy
But you didn't want to do that because you thought I was playing a game or something because I use a 50's announcer rhetorical flourish. 'Don't give him the attention that he wants. Oh! Shit! The kids!' And it wasn't even a set up! IT WASN'T EVEN A SET UP AND YOU THOUGHT IT WAS A SET UP! To TELL THEM THAT... 'don't give hym the attention that he wants. Oh no! Muh kids 😾 now I guess I'll do 'the opposite! Cus he said that one time.' Because you though it was a set up... And then for it to go disastrously wrong and then for you to BLAME ME FOR THAT... And make my life hell as a result of it. I don't think you knew you were doing it. I think you didn't believe me. And were dismissive about it and I was right and it does matter that I was right."
by Hym Iam December 7, 2025
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