I am starting to hate the sound of Stefan Molyneux's voice. He reminds me of a really bad Shakespearean actor, self consciously modulating his voice, from growl, to controlled rage, to whisper.

I like some of his content, and he is obviously smart, I just think the whole thing has gone to his head, and he reminds me of a community theater King Lear who got a little bit too much into the role, and is really starting to think he is a king.

Until now, I have automatically downloaded his videos and listened to them, as long as I was interesting in the topic, and I like his interviews.

The most recent video I listened to was this one:





It was supposed to be a video to encourage younger people, and to take it easy on the Millenials, and say that their problems were caused by bad parenting and society.

Instead, it was an extended meditation on how great his childhood was, how he overcame the problems, what a great athlete he was as a child, you get the idea.

At one point he even got a bit self aware and said, "I don't mean to keep making this about me. . " and then went straight back to talking about how great he was as a child, pretty much insinuating that any younger person who didn't have the early advantages of free unsupervised play like he did was essentially sunk as a social being.

The self aggrandizing subject matter of the video and the amateur theatrics of his voice, and the basic supercilious attitude, it just got to me, and I think that unless he interviews someone I really want to hear from, or tackles a subject I care about, man, don't think I can listen to him anymore.

^Guilty secret. I could never stand him from the first second. I in no way dis-endorse his message, but the instant I first heard him he sounded like a high-school counsellor.

Just imagine him saying "so how do you feeel you could have handled this issue differently?"

I bought a book called "The Best Ten Minutes Mysteries" from a bookstore in Shibuya, Tokyo. Not many people know this, but the Japanese fucking love mysteries. Like Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot, all that shit that just kinda died as a genre in the West after say, WW2? The Japanese still write an assload of mysteries, and they're all really good.

All of them, that is, except this fucking book. This book, which is called THE BEST TEN MINUTE FUCKING MYSTERIES does not actually have any goddamn mysteries in it. It's got a bunch of 10 page stories about random shit. One story is about an underground female fighting ring where two illegal fighters beat the shit out of each other with silicon-filled boxing gloves and shoes loaded with iron plates in the soles. One of them is about a guy who makes an amazing piece of candy that tastes like a rainbow. One is about a man who hangs out in a fucking hot spring and moans about his dead wife.

I paid seven bucks for this piece of shit book, hoping I would get some goddamn mysteries, and instead I get to read about how some dude made some fucking rainbow candy. Do the Japanese just have some kind of massively expansive definition of the word "mystery" that I don't know about? Like, "These stories teach you how life itself is a mystery" or some zen buddhist shit like that? Is that how this shit works?

I also got a book at the same bookstore that's about how the REAL reason the Japanese lost WW2 was because they had to send most of their battleships to fight Cthulu. I didn't realize this, but there is an entire popular sub-genre of "Imperial Japanese Army fights Cthulu" books. So all in all it wasn't a wasted trip. Just pissed off that my mystery book sucks.

I hate having to keep on a happy, smiling, agreeable face for incompetent idiots.

Been wasting hours of precious time having to explain basic shit to people.

And I also hate it when people can't just get out a fucking calculator and do relevant math. They will spend hours babbling about bullshit that could be resolved with 5 minutes of physics and math.

I've gotten good at dealing with it but the average person is incredibly subpar at visualizing in three dimensions and reasoning with physical evidence.

I have to make more money off of these fools.

Edit:

And I hate that I haven't leveraged my knowledege further than a salaried position.

I've been able to troubleshoot code in multiple languages, over a person's shoulder, in complicated situations. As in, you're writing a program in X language and I can diagnose your mistake.

And programming isn't even my fucking profession.

(03-16-2017 07:38 PM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  ^Guilty secret. I could never stand him from the first second. I in no way dis-endorse his message, but the instant I first heard him he sounded like a high-school counsellor.

Just imagine him saying "so how do you feeel you could have handled this issue differently?"

Annoying breathy therapist voice. The worst.

I hate it when people waste their energy hating on things

(03-18-2017 08:10 AM)polnischspeaker234 Wrote:  I hate it when people waste their energy hating on things

Woah dude... that's like... all meta and shit.

Mods. Please move this thread to the deep forum.

I hate gammas, and the fact that I'm related to a few.

(03-18-2017 09:47 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  Mods. Please move this thread to the deep forum.

Why?

I hate idiot AMOGs.

It's one thing to wreck my vibe with a girl if you're going to end up taking her home at the end of the night. We all know the rules here. I'm not some kind of shining white knight paragon of virtue, and despite your social akwardness you're (probably) not a black-hearted rapist who's planning to dismember her in the alleyway out back. We're both here to fuck this chick, and neither of us is really better than the other.

But if you want to rudely brush in and start distracting her while waving your fancy drink around (and were you actually wearing a fucking FEDORA? Those don't stop being gay just because you crossed the international date line) at least have the decency to properly game her. Don't awkwardly spout some lines and then trundle off.

That particular interaction was going fairly crappy even before that, so it's not like anything of value was lost. But good lord that was annoying.

(03-18-2017 05:05 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote:  

(03-18-2017 09:47 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  Mods. Please move this thread to the deep forum.

Why?

I think he was making an existential point about the nature of hate.

I hate hearing about the Boston bombing.

3 people died. Get over it already....

I fucking hate how the news websites replaced video journalism with these dumb ass slideshows with annoying narration and stupid background music.

I hate dumb bitches who treat a date as a way to get a free meal.

Not today bitch, at least not from me. Try that shit on a Low T cuck beta chump.

I hate it when stupid fucks package pozidriv screws with their home improvement products. What normal homeowner has a goddamn pozidriv screwdriver set, and why would you imagine the typical DIY noob would even know the difference before they stripped the screws trying to use a phillips driver? No doubt some accountant saw he could save 0.0000000000001% by sourcing pozidriv screws and, since pozidriv looks like phillips, he didn't know the difference.

It's really precious when I get a mix of phillips and pozidriv in the same goddamn package. I almost damaged a freshly refinished cabinet door in my kitchen a couple weeks ago because of that.

Phillips screws themselves are pretty goddamn retarded. In this day and age, there's really no excuse to use anything but torx/robertson/allen drive fasteners*, especially on tiny little screws. Torx/robertson/allen fasteners all offer some degree of positive retention on the driver without magnets, while being a lot harder to strip. I don't have fucking chopstick-size fingers. It's not that easy to put a short phillips head screw into a horizontal or overhead hole with my normal man-size fingers.

I hear we can all thank Henry Ford for the standardization of the phillips drive screw, because he was too much of a controlling dick to accept a non-exclusive license for use of the Robertson drive screw in the US. Thanks a lot, jackass.

--end hate--

On a side note, I always thought robertson screws were kind of retarded and preferred allen or torx. I had occasion to use some robertson screws the other day and they're actually really nice. Preferable to torx even, since the driver is less likely to bounce out of the recess. I guess I was wrong, and those silly Canadians are doing something right. Too bad stores here don't carry them, or if they do, you have to pay out the ass for them because they're packaged in little bags of 25 or 50 screws. I'll have to buy a big order online sometime.


*Except on wood-stocked guns. Wood-stocked guns get slotted fasteners.

(03-16-2017 05:56 PM)debeguiled Wrote:  I am starting to hate the sound of Stefan Molyneux's voice. He reminds me of a really bad Shakespearean actor, self consciously modulating his voice, from growl, to controlled rage, to whisper.

I like some of his content, and he is obviously smart, I just think the whole thing has gone to his head, and he reminds me of a community theater King Lear who got a little bit too much into the role, and is really starting to think he is a king.

Until now, I have automatically downloaded his videos and listened to them, as long as I was interesting in the topic, and I like his interviews.

The most recent video I listened to was this one:





It was supposed to be a video to encourage younger people, and to take it easy on the Millenials, and say that their problems were caused by bad parenting and society.

Instead, it was an extended meditation on how great his childhood was, how he overcame the problems, what a great athlete he was as a child, you get the idea.

At one point he even got a bit self aware and said, "I don't mean to keep making this about me. . " and then went straight back to talking about how great he was as a child, pretty much insinuating that any younger person who didn't have the early advantages of free unsupervised play like he did was essentially sunk as a social being.

The self aggrandizing subject matter of the video and the amateur theatrics of his voice, and the basic supercilious attitude, it just got to me, and I think that unless he interviews someone I really want to hear from, or tackles a subject I care about, man, don't think I can listen to him anymore.

I came a bit late to the whole 'SteffAhn' trip. I binge watched the best of his stuff in a day or two recently. The stuff on the boomers is top-notch. I got that video mixed up with boomer stuff and you're right, it was all over the shop. Reason I confused it was that Generation X were also known as the latch-key kids. Easy mistake.

You're right about the faux dramatica. I draw the line at growling like a Lion personally, but ymmv. The way he says StefffAhrn when he introduces himself grates as well. I've about as much of the bloke as I can muster.

And you are right about the arrogance. It's happening to all of them. PJW, Styxhexenhammer666 (who reads this forum btw - hi Styx!), Sargon of Akkad, any of them with more than a 100K subs - they see themselves as the new kings. Then again, you probably would too if you got the adsense revenue for that, and still they panhandle for Patreon and whatnot.

Another problem I have, and this is just a problem in general I have, is that I don't like voices and I don't like heads! I hardly ever hears someone's voice and think ASMR, I usually feel as if my balls have been put in a cheese-grater and I'm getting rubbed up the wrong way. Also, heads - I like aesthetic beauty. Even in men, I expect a certain amount of handsomeness just so they don't annoy the crap out of me when I have to look at them. I'd rather look at some square-jawed killers physog that makes sense in some kind of way, than some scrawny sarcastic looking fucker. I know I'm odd, but I have standards.

Molyneux is annoying, but he isn't the worst of them. Sargon has one of the most disagreeable voices I've ever heard. And he's also an extremely arrogant fucker. I don't bother with him at all now. He really thinks he's the Stephen King's philtrum. It's pathetic really how much their new found success has overtaken their egos, inflating them to a point where they are just about to pop. Can't wait!

Styx is another one. A supremely arrogant cunt. (Hi Styx! Love ya baby!). I tested him on a few things. My god. He's another that is about to pop his cork. Twat.

PJW is just an annoying twat generally. The voice, the facial expressions. The arrogance. We get it. You are the new kings. We are not worthy. Tell us what we do not know. What we can not understand. Enlighten us oh masters.

These people often have some good points. But who the fuck in their right mind is going to listen to that nails-on-blackboard scrape of a voice that is Sargon of Akkad, droning on for half an hour to make a point he could make in 2 minutes? Not I.

But it's the arrogance of the cunts, pretty much to a man, that gets me now I've opened my eyes.

There are no pearls of wisdom to be had that several RVF members don't drop hourly on an original basis. Thought provoking, often funny, coming in from a different angle. And no arrogance.

These people are ok (youtubers), but they are a little bit too big for their boots. I was thinking the other day about when I first found Roosh and RoK and then the forum. But Roosh's writings were first. I spent days/weeks reading just about everything I could get my hands on, and there was a lot of stuff. I don't think I ever did get through all of it. I must go back and have another crack. But I've not seen him display a tenth of the arrogance of these youtube stars, pretending that they are on the telly all the while proclaiming we are new media. StefARn claiming it's a frigging radio show, on the fucking internet. Dick.

I think it takes a certain quality of snake-oil salesman to be successful on the youtube front. Roosh is a little too natural in the videos I have seen him in, he doesn't force a front, he just seems pretty much himself, and of course, a certain amount of theatrics are called for. It's contrived. But I actually prefer Roosh's delivery on many fronts. It's not so whiz-bang gimmicky, but then again, it wouldn't grow old very quickly like StefArn Molyneux. Pretentious wankers.

I mean this in the nicest possible way. But they think they are pop stars and they are not and they need bringing down a peg or two for their own good. They don't care though, the kids love 'em. The easily impressed. I'll continue to keep 'tuning in' while they are interesting and relevant, but if you listen really hard and watch really close, they don't actually have that much to offer in the punditry department that you couldn't get in a million other places.

I realised what a bunch of clowns they all were after tuning in to a live cast with Sargon of Akkad and he kept screaming 'autistic screeching' at this bloke who does actually have autism. The funny thing was, he sounded like the fucking sperg in the room screeching all the while the real sperg was giving valid reasoned argument. And this sperg actually has his shit together to a, well, autistic level. He is super high functioning. Harmful Opinion iirc is his name. Anyway, Sargon, for someone that has over half a million subs just make a prick of himself, like a child looking for attention - he really did sperg out.

That's what half a million subs does for your ego-inflation kids - don't try this at home and careful what you wish for.

With regard to StefAHrn Moly - I heard he has a pretty tidy sum in bitcoin and his adsense is obviously enough for him to have his youtube 'radio' gig has his main job - enough to start a family. So why does he have to panhandle for shekels? Because it works. Wonder how much he got? A few grand? 10K, 100K?

I've donated a few quid here or there before, because I'm a mug. But I have a strict rule now, no money or donations for anyone on point of principle. We put store in these people, give them respect, and you make one comment they don't like (Hi Styx! you still reading?) and they really do speak to you like a piece of shit on their shoe. "Do you know who I am?" Eh eh, not a problemo.

They will all have to find new gigs soon though the way it's going on the youtube front. People just will not use other sites. They will still make money though. But it's interesting watching them squirm now with the shtf and them having to have unpopular opinions. A lot of them choosing just to keep their big yaps shut and do non-controversial topics. As we approach wwIII expect more of that - talking loud and saying nothing.

Talking of which, I'm a gonna stfu myself. Thankyou for listening. I feel better now... talking of which...

(03-18-2017 05:05 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote:  

(03-18-2017 09:47 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  Mods. Please move this thread to the deep forum.

Why?

Because some people are just so fucking stupid that they wouldn't be able to get the joke if it hit them in the face and fucking knocked them out and on to the floor!

:-)

(took me a while to get it as well, don't feel bad bro')

(03-16-2017 07:38 PM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  ^Guilty secret. I could never stand him from the first second. I in no way dis-endorse his message, but the instant I first heard him he sounded like a high-school counsellor.

Just imagine him saying "so how do you feeel you could have handled this issue differently?"

Sooooo, I'm at my therapists, on the couch, pouring my little broken heart out...

"So how is Rigsby today then?"
'Oh, you know, doing ok, actually not really ok, but thanks for seeing me at such short notice'
"So what is it lately? Did you resolve those other 'ISSUES' that we recently talked about?"
'Oh, those. No, not really. Things have got much worse since then. The shit just keeps piling on and I feel like I'm drowning'
"Tell me, what's the problem"
'Well, I got home the other day and found that the debt-collectors had been and cleared out my entire house - every single one of my possessions had been taken - they gutted the place'
"Go on"
'But that wasn't the worst of it. I then got a phone call, and my entire family who were taking a road-trip together had had a car accident - every single one of them wiped out - 4 generations, just snuffed out like little candles in the wind'
"Ah hum..."
'But the worst was yet to come. There was a knock on my front-door, and it turned out it was my Doctor - he was ashen faced and said he needed to see me ugently, and that I had better sit down'
"Yes.."
'It wasn't good news. He said there was no easy way to say it, but my tests had come back and all our worst fears were confirmed. I did indeed have a particularly virulent and deadly strain of Berry Berry, and I only had six weeks to live. Five now, that was last week'
"Mmm... I see... AND HOW DID THIS MAKE YOU FEEEEEEEL?"

Rigsby starts banging head on desk. Very hard. Shouting. I WANT TO DIE. FUCKING KILL ME NOW. KILL ME. Splat splat.

"Nurse, quickly, 20Milligrams of Lorazepam, stat. We have a MAN in here that is unable to express his feelings"

....

This is an ever so slightly exaggerated account of a real life event, but not by much. If all war is a racket, then counseling and therapy really is the great snake-oil scam of our times. I don't disagree with it on principle and if it works for you - good for you, I'm happy. But it didn't take me long to figure out these people could use a good dose of what they are offering up to others, themselves.

Aaaand Breeeaatthe.

I hate that women complain that men act like "babies" when we are sick.

Maybe it's because when men get sick, it's usually because they're sick. Not mental health, not period, not just cuz. Actually sick.

I hate hoes who think their shitty personality defects are qualities. I know I should love them for warning me, but I don't.

Bitch I was macking on today at a client's office. She ditched her 2 male coworkers that she clearly had plans on having lunch with to come kick it with me - I wasn't even eating. Just sitting there pretending to work honestly. And every time I spoke her eyes lit up and I knew I had her full attention.

"Haha, I have no problem being bossy...jk" -Translation- I'm a dumb demanding bitch and people follow my directions because I have a vagina

"I'm the queen of confrentation I just don't know why he's acting weird" - Translation - A hit a nerve with a co-worker and he doesn't want to talk to me now

"I'm usually a really nice person" Translation - I frequently have melt downs that cause everyone aroud me problems

No bitch, shut your stupid mouth. I probably would've tried to give you some dick if you didn't signal that you would be all kinds of problems afterwords.

I hate not having the right tools for a job, and not having a permanent work space.

Not having all the right tools often means making bad design compromises--if I can do the project at all--and can turn what should be a 1-5 minute job into an hour of fucking around.

Not having a dedicated space means it's a major league pain in the ass setting things up, taking them down and resetting shit for the next phase of the project, etc. It inevitably leads to a lot of wasted time, increased likelihood of accidents, and at least some decreased quality in the result.

It just sucks all round.

I would like to propose a law where anybody who responds to any use of the word "decimate" with "actually, it means reduce by 1/10th! It comes from how the Romans would impale one out of every 10 soldiers on a spear as a warning to others!" is immediately impaled on a Roman spear, and their dying screams recorded as a warning to other idiot pedants.

We all know what the goddamn word means. It means "destroy a lot of". No one cares about the Romans. No one, with the exception of historical writers and pedants trying to show off their knowledge of the dictionary, has used it to mean "reduce by 1/10th" at any point in this century, and probably the last as well.

Fucking idiot pedants trying to win points off of dictionary knowledge. No one is impressed. No one likes you. If you want to read something stop reading shit clickbait articles like "10 words you've actually been using the wrong time (And that you can feel smart about when you correct your friends!)' and read "How to Win Friends And Influence People", the bible on how not to be an unlikable fag, where in the first couple pages motherfucking Dale Carnegie says "Don't correct people over stupid bullshit. You look like a fucking fag who will die alone and childless, because you put your own idiot ego gratification over basic goddamn social graces."

I can't stand fat people, Feminists, Liberals, Feminnine men and muscular women. It makes me sick to my stomach to see how broken people have become today that I dread coming back to the west! It's like living in a nightmare where most people are acting gay and they are 2 brainwashed to feel any shame just like sheep!

If you try to act like a man, people will look at you weird where talking back at a woman will end up being physically assaulted by a group of weak cuckold men.

I'm so fucking sick of women in the workforce!!! They make so many errors where everyone looks the other way and act like it's ok cause they have "special needs."

When I have to deal with services or a product, I ALWAYS ask to speak to a man! Can you imagine having a female doctor operating on you that is going through menopause or PMSing!?!? I can't believe people are that stupid to pick a female surgeon!

I don't know how many times I use to deal with a woman in sales that had to ask a man regarding a product cause she was fucking clueless like someone with "special needs." I don't have time to fuck around with retards!!!

Women bosses are the biggests jokes where I've left many jobs in the past due to these weak women that are unable to deal with the stress of their job due to not being biology wired to do so! Nothing worst than dealing with a woman who's ovaries have dried up and is 2 stupid to have any children due to being a brainwashed slave choosing a career hence suffers from major depression and moods swings. Fuck spending 40-60 hours of your week around these weak female managers that spend more time bitching than getting any work done if any! She will also give wrong instructions where she will put the blame on you and never her! It's the same as having a child as a boss where I'm no fucking babysitter!!!