[Handsome Creepy Eel]

Quote:

Geek culture is consumerism targeted at introverts and autism-spectrum men who are otherwise not appealed to by the standard advertising spiel that hooks women's consumerist instincts as if you've thrown half a ton of chum in the water.

The fisherman in me just went crazy as I read this part

Very accurate summary. I was also thinking of how these XYZCon things are an expression of consumerism, but I didn't know how to describe it exactly. Great job.

[Paracelsus]

(07-19-2015 07:15 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

The fisherman in me just went crazy as I read this part

I was inspired: went fishing with a friend yesterday off Carnac Island in Perth. Picked up 6-7 little squid, a flounder, whiting, and a blowfish that lived to piss people off another day ... and about 12-15 herring, which went insane when my friend dropped some burley and fish oil in the water. We didn't even have baited hooks (he forgot his tackle box), we brought them in on lures

[CH-Toronto]

(07-18-2015 12:56 PM)philosophical_recovery Wrote:  

Reminds me of this documentary on singles events at comic cons:

Previous lounge post

That was hard to watch and yet.... the second video was even more cringe inducing. Aside from one guy I was just watching saying, "make it stop- make it stop!"

4:45 - 7:05 is just so goddamn frustrating

[Atlanta Man]

(07-18-2015 05:33 AM)Foolsgo1d Wrote:  

When a man uses the word "trigger" he is most likely a limp wristed faggot.

I agree! The only time a man should use that word in a sentence is "He was breaking in my house so I squeezed the trigger, now his brains are on the wall and you can see what he was just thinking. He had a dirty mind...".

[RickyGP]

(07-19-2015 02:09 PM)CH-Toronto Wrote:  

(07-18-2015 12:56 PM)philosophical_recovery Wrote:  

Reminds me of this documentary on singles events at comic cons:

Previous lounge post

That was hard to watch and yet.... the second video was even more cringe inducing. Aside from one guy I was just watching saying, "make it stop- make it stop!"

4:45 - 7:05 is just so goddamn frustrating

I don't know, the last guy she was talking to at around 6:50 seemed to have some confidence and charisma.

[lemko]

(07-18-2015 10:53 PM)CRR Wrote:  

(07-18-2015 12:56 PM)philosophical_recovery Wrote:  

Reminds me of this documentary on singles events at comic cons:

Previous lounge post

I’m forwarding this to some of my female friends to say this, this is what men think when you try to tell us that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, that these are your fat and/or weird, unattractive friends that you try to set us up with and insist are beautiful.

This guy is obese, is a brony, and lives with his parents. Even the fat chick bailed as soon as the cameras left. This fella needs to lose a lot of weight, stop being a brony, and get his career going. I know more people of his generation are living with their folks due to student loans and the economy, but he seems to accept it as a way of life. Sure, he seems like a good guy. But he needs to do a serious self evaluation and really get his shit together if he wants to improve his lot in life.

But again, I cannot stress enough to any feminist reading this, that when you try to tell us fat women are ‘curvy’ or that they should be judged on other traits, watch this video.

Good God, that was excruciating! I'm surprised he didn't swallow a bullet at the end of the video. He's 25 and still lives with his parents in a room full of comic book paraphernalia? Shitty economy or not, I'd be more motivated than to live like that! I think I'd rather be homeless wandering from city to city as a hobo rather than living a prolonged pre-adolescence!

[iamdegaussed]

The saddest thing about it is that these guys convince themselves they're happy living like that as a defense mechanism from accepting reality. You simply cannot be happy as a man living that way and it shows in his quiet desperation to find a girl.

I don't know why I feel such sympathy for him, considering most of this is his own doing, but yeah.

[Hardy Daytona]

(07-19-2015 07:03 AM)Paracelsus Wrote:  

For every woman who goes there to attention whore (and all of them do), and every guy who goes to one of these things just for a fun day out, there's at least four or five guys who take this shit ultra-seriously and work day and night on these fucking costumes so they look "legit". Or should I say, "in the fold".

Indeed. All women there attention whore. It just varies by degrees.
I'll freely admit that I used to be into the whole costume thing quite heavily before I took the red pill. There was an aspect of escapism to it, of being able to lose myself. Not so much now because I enjoy being myself far more, though since I've been working in construction I've been contemplating sinking my teeth into a new project. And it gave me an idea for a side business the other day.

(07-20-2015 06:05 PM)iamdegaussed Wrote:  

I don't know why I feel such sympathy for him, considering most of this is his own doing, but yeah.

This is the thing. Most of these men are in a prison of their own making and they don't know how to escape. Worse, some don't even know that they're in one. Then there's the 'better the devil you know' argument they spout.

[Hotwheels]

^^^ I've run into a few guys that are prisoners of their own thoughts and got them to roll with me for the evening. Didn't tell them what to think or do, this is key, but just let them hang and see what I do and how I act around others.

One could see the gears turning but it takes more than one night to get them to break out.

[Foolsgo1d]

I'd like to go to Comic Con because I'd like to experience it one time and see things which I have a passing itnerest in.

One day. I'll investigate the claims of some here who say the COSplay girls like the dick.

[iamdegaussed]

It isn't just cosplay girls, Foolsgo1d. AWALT, you know.

Anyway, I am going to Otakon this weekend. My friends have been on me to go to this for about five years now, but I only agreed after enjoying MAGfest so much.

I have a bag full of adderall and a backpack full of booze and I am going into the depths of SJW/neckbeard hell to try and get some ovulating nerd girl pussy. To go where no RVFer has ever gone before. If I do anything outlandish and fun I'll tell the story here.

[Kingsley Davis]

"Piemonster 2 days ago
When your wanna cosplay as Goku but you wanted to cosplay The Weeknd"