Fun Thread The Last Person to Post Wins - Ichiban Kasuga

[Charlie]

Ya never know with Gates around talking about the next pandemic.

 

[Sanity Check]

Bill Gates was cool back when he parroted quotations from star trek.

Back when he predicted he would become a billionaire before the age of 25-30.

Back when he was credited with writing FAT16.

One of few tech CEOs to admit his microsoft CEO job was nothing but reading and responding to emails all day.

 

[Charlie]

Yeah but not so cool when he invests into bio tech companies then warn of pandemics that later coincidentally come to pass related to said companies research or investments.

Prollly what happens to a person with too much money on their hands.

 

[Sanity Check]

Spoiler

Peak Bill Gates

 

[Charlie]

Nice to be young. If only we had the tech to rewind time lol.

And with that another cold asf morning. Happy Sunday to everyone who made it. Hope y'all have a fantastic day. Let's gooooooh!

 

[z.5]

I'm always amazed at the things that my kids manage to dig up, whenever we visit my parents

Spoiler

 

[Charlie]

 

[Sanity Check]

Your new avatar, bruh.

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Haha, its all good if you dont like btw.

I'm just joking.

Too gaudy for most.

 

[arrowofsky]

At least we are not (yet) replaced by free ChatGPT

Spoiler

 

[Sanity Check]

"AI is a bubble."

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R.I.P.

Eric Bauza

 

[Charlie]

Morning folks happy Monday to everyone who made it! Have a good one today!!

 

[arrowofsky]

I think I have a hypothesis about why us weebs may generally have a hard time against real life manipulative people (except good mafia role MG players here maybe ). Of course, this precludes that weebs as generally have hard time, which may be wrong, but let me elaborate below:

Spoiler: Hypothesis

We are easily immersed to the completely false-unreal worlds of so many different genrees and stuff, we can get emotional, gang upon others, even like/dislike other people on the grounds of those characters. I am not even mentioning cosplays and other more real cases. Not that any of these are wrong, I would (and probably will do) myself, and I am also reading mangas everyday and think about fanfics. But to cut it short, we are easy to sort of believe the reality of such fantastic worlds that this open mindedness and naivety lets us to be manipulated far more easily.

Recently, I frequently heard about a similar view from others on avid book readers, about how they can miss the life and reality not only because they invest time and attention to not-life things, but also on gullibility maybe. They did not directly talk about manipulation and stuff but that was an easy-to-reach conclusion. I wonder your thougts.

Let me hear your thoughts. Some mentions on random order: @Charlie @Sanity Check @Jammin @z.5 @Kiki @Vali x lucifer @Erinyes @xi0 @Juviii @Tatsumaki @GrySun (yeah you rule in the land of blinds and never be here so tagging you too). etc.

 

[Sanity Check]

October almost over.

Too busy to watch horror movies.

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I think I have a hypothesis about why us weebs may generally have a hard time against real life manipulative people (except good mafia role MG players here maybe ). Of course, this precludes that weebs as generally have hard time, which may be wrong, but let me elaborate below:

Spoiler: Hypothesis

We are easily immersed to the completely false-unreal worlds of so many different genrees and stuff, we can get emotional, gang upon others, even like/dislike other people on the grounds of those characters. I am not even mentioning cosplays and other more real cases. Not that any of these are wrong, I would (and probably will do) myself, and I am also reading mangas everyday and think about fanfics. But to cut it short, we are easy to sort of believe the reality of such fantastic worlds that this open mindedness and naivety lets us to be manipulated far more easily.

Recently, I frequently heard about a similar view from others on avid book readers, about how they can miss the life and reality not only because they invest time and attention to not-life things, but also on gullibility maybe. They did not directly talk about manipulation and stuff but that was an easy-to-reach conclusion. I wonder your thougts.

Let me hear your thoughts. Some mentions on random order: @Charlie @Sanity Check @Jammin @z.5 @Kiki @Vali x lucifer @Erinyes @xi0 @Juviii @Tatsumaki @GrySun (yeah you rule in the land of blinds and never be here so tagging you too). etc.

My thoughts...

Narcissism versus empathy.

Empaths tend to be more listeners than talkers. Readers of manga may trend towards being more listeners and consumers than talkers or producers. The act of reading is defined by listening to someone else's story and message, thus listeners. Each role carries advantages & disadvantages.

There are social media influencers like Andrew Tate who loudly proclaim they cannot stand watching or reading other ppls content. They might be defined as more talkers than listeners.

Those two trends taken together could wind up being something like shephard and sheep stereotypes. But I think over time it is the sheep who are gaining power, while shephards are growing weak.

Projection is the most common way we relate. By projecting our own values and expectations unto others. That is why we are surprised when expectations are not met and we wind up disappointed. Even though there were countless indications this is how things would be all along.

Et al.

 

[Teubier]

Month went by so fast, just realised I forgot to wish a happy birthday to my brother’s wife Saturday. So lame.

 

[Charlie]

Wish them a happy belated bday!
Or givem a gift or money...

Hmm as for the question by @arrowofsky .
More or less try not to stereotype as not every fits a certain mold. Don't judge a book by its cover. Be respectful and kind even with opposing viewpoints. You don't always have to agree on everything . Live and enjoy life to the utmost as you want or need within the governing laws of course.

 

[arrowofsky]

Wish them a happy belated bday!
Or givem a gift or money...

Hmm as for the question by @arrowofsky .
More or less try not to stereotype as not every fits a certain mold. Don't judge a book by its cover. Be respectful and kind even with opposing viewpoints. You don't always have to agree on everything . Live and enjoy life to the utmost as you want or need within the governing laws of course.

This is not stereotyping though. There will always be a major trends so I am trying to understand what is going on, not nitpicking individuals and framing them, aside from mafia game joke. I am also respectful and kind towards the opposing viewpoints, but did you provide any? If you don't want to discuss, you may not, of course.

 

[Jammin]

I think I have a hypothesis about why us weebs may generally have a hard time against real life manipulative people (except good mafia role MG players here maybe ). Of course, this precludes that weebs as generally have hard time, which may be wrong, but let me elaborate below:

Spoiler: Hypothesis

We are easily immersed to the completely false-unreal worlds of so many different genrees and stuff, we can get emotional, gang upon others, even like/dislike other people on the grounds of those characters. I am not even mentioning cosplays and other more real cases. Not that any of these are wrong, I would (and probably will do) myself, and I am also reading mangas everyday and think about fanfics. But to cut it short, we are easy to sort of believe the reality of such fantastic worlds that this open mindedness and naivety lets us to be manipulated far more easily.

Recently, I frequently heard about a similar view from others on avid book readers, about how they can miss the life and reality not only because they invest time and attention to not-life things, but also on gullibility maybe. They did not directly talk about manipulation and stuff but that was an easy-to-reach conclusion. I wonder your thougts.

Let me hear your thoughts. Some mentions on random order: @Charlie @Sanity Check @Jammin @z.5 @Kiki @Vali x lucifer @Erinyes @xi0 @Juviii @Tatsumaki @GrySun (yeah you rule in the land of blinds and never be here so tagging you too). etc.

Well, as I understand it, that hypothesis is based on the idea the "weebs" (which is being defined here as enthusiastic fans of fiction) have a particularly hard time dealing with manipulative people. And I don't necessarily think that's true. In reality, I think it's normal to struggle with manipulative people to a degree. Especially if you're inexperienced at dealing with them. Because a person that lives their life in that way simply has more practice at it than someone who does not.

Reading fiction often relies on affective empathy, which is a persons ability perceive the emotions of another and feel them as their own. Manipulation relies on cognitive empathy, which is a person's ability to calculate what a person is feeling without feeling those emotions themselves. On the surface these can seem similar but there are ways to know what to look for. Like how a person treats emotional boundaries or if they person is acting empathetic with a goal of some sort.

Books can teach some of that but practice is the only way to recognize and deal with a person like that.

If anything, I think, culturally we've also sort of gamified emotional manipulation on the internet in a way that causes us to accept it more than we should. Which trains us to view it more harmlessly than it often is. In forum terms "rage baiting" "trolling" "flaming" for example. What are those if not an attempt emotional manipulation? This leads to us being far more accepting of similar behavior IRL.

 

[Charlie]

This is not stereotyping though. There will always be a major trends so I am trying to understand what is going on, not nitpicking individuals and framing them, aside from mafia game joke. I am also respectful and kind towards the opposing viewpoints, but did you provide any? If you don't want to discuss, you may not, of course.

Ah I just meant in general. That's just my approach in general to life.