People often focus too much on the end goal, forgetting to consider the process they need to follow through.

It's clear he wants to test our mettle, but I'm not about to play along. A signal at +10000 and we're done, got it?

he says his relationships are like fireworks, they start off bright, but then they fizz out and leave him wondering why they even lasted at all...and then there's this one guy, he's always talking about the signals we send out, trying to figure out if anyone's actually listening...but what if he's right

Thanks for your response! Signalling is part of the soft fork protocol as you probably know. The #BIP110 temporary soft-fork will indeed get activated and bring about a significant 'signalling' in the ecosystem that is beyond the software only.