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https://theconversation.com/amp/large-numbers-of-americans-want-a-strong-rough-anti-democratic-leader-198578
Lots of Americans want to kick down the Statue of Democracy.
Understandable! What can they reverse an authoritarian government back to democracy? Most likely no!
But can…
Have you guys tried Half Life Alyx?
Seems like a cool game.
Nope, but it does look cool. I haven’t played any of those games, but I thought Portal 2 was pretty great. It’s funny because the Portal games are set in the same universe as Half Life, and here is this underground facility (ironically filled with idiots) where portal technology has secretly been perfected. Meanwhile, the people on the surface are struggling to fend off against an alien invasion and are in desperate need of it.
You need a VR headset for this game, but I read about a mod that removes this dependency. It seems to work quite well, for the most part. Overall, I am not the biggest fan of Half Life. Both HL 1 and 2 were hailed as the best games ever when they were released but I found them pretty boring.
YouTube’s algorithm must be broken, considering that this short video of some big-titted Japanese chick in a zoom garnered 16 million views:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZKf267NAZLA
Probably those are mere crumbs they throw at people to pretend that they are not aggressively censoring everything they don’t like.
Do you know any work on modern theory of causality? I have been introduced to these works by a friend of mine who studies Statistics:
Causation, Prediction, and Search (Clark Glymour et al)
Discovering Causal Structure: Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Science, and Statistical Modeling (Same author)
I have been quite interested in causality, but do not know where to start to read more. I am not afraid of mathematical formulation as I have some experience with formal logic and set theory. Causality is central to Buddhism, and is a hindrance to my internal faith for it. I embrace many aspects of this religion, yet am still not convinced by many of its doctrines.
My singular sceptism is that an absolutely moral man might face a extremely tragic end despite being committed to righteous act. That was the case of Wilm Hosenfeld, who died in Soviet captivity, despite saving many Jews. An explanation from a Buddhist perspective is that the grievous crimes of the collective mass of Germans, acting as causes, resulting in the death of this hero, which is the effect.
Then you have problems even in the US with rich people committing murder and still get away with it. Money buys good lawyers and snake-liked judges, like O.J.Simpsons. Sure, the corrupted legal system was the cause which allowed him to escape, despite his act deserving him to be shot in the temples.
So I resist the tenet of Buddhism and come to my own conclusion: The degree of punishment you receive for your crimes, vices, unwholesome actions and mischievous deeds diminishes according to your social rank and political connection.
What then is the purpose of doing good things if that may not give you a good outcome? Or that outcome does not happen to you because of other causes which affect the chains of effect?
I briefly looked into philosophical speculations, er, research on the topic of causality about 15 years ago, and what I found was severely disappointing. The SEP probably has an overview article to get you started but before you go down a rabbit hole you may want to keep in mind that you likely will not find what you are looking for.
I see. I may ask Reddit forum or some other appropriate places. Thanks!
Change is coming slowly but surely. Some days ago it was announced that BuzzFeed, one of the biggest leftist cesspools on the internet, is shutting down. Today I read that VICE is cutting jobs. They will completely shut down their gaming site Waypoint, which the otherkin of Reddit and Resetera are very upset about. On a related note, half a decade ago VICE reached out to be about a PUA story:
https://blog.aaronsleazy.com/index.php/2018/04/16/about-vice-news-exposure-of-justin-wayne/
I ignored them as my expectation was that they would only smear me.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahmarder/adult-male-celebs-who-dated-teens?origin=tuh
Can’t stand this shit. How do you say cesspool in German?
Thanks to your blog, I am basically immune to these rhetorics. Predator? What about “Pedatrice”?
And if you are rich and famous, you might be well the prey! Which is the price you are willing to pay and the pride you should try to wear.
BuzzFeed is going to get shut down, so better enjoy such toxic headlines because there will be fewer in the future. The German equivalent of cesspool is “Sündenpfuhl” (“Sünde”/sin + “Pfuhl”/pond, but the latter word is only very rarely used nowadays).
One of the most toxic “journalists”, Patrick Klepek of VICE, shared how much he made:
https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/1270729535655305216
An income of over $100k for shitting on white men, gamers, or anyone who likes to look at attractive women is nothing to scoff at. He did not even need to be able to exhibit any skills at playing games. This gives us an insight into how societal subversion works: You pick some talentless hack from the masses, pay them more money than they could make anywhere else, and tell them to do your bidding. It is quite incredible. Well, with this long list of skills, ranging from shitting on gamers to kowtowing to feminists and trannies, I am sure that Patrick Klepek will find another well-paid job very soon.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P30xndYwVJU&pp=ygURUHJldHR5IGdpcmwgd2Fsa3M%3D
Can’t believe the level of profanity and sexually provoking here.
America no longer has an Elvis, we get instead these sluts mimic the tune of orgasm while riding the carousel.
I could only watch this video for about five seconds. Black culture is not really my thing. For the most time, it is not clear what they are even talking about, even though the retard-level lyrics of this track pose no such challenge. It’s too bad that we are preventing them from building Wakanda.
Well you could hear the “motherfucking” this and that.
Not so long ago, we have many great songs such as “I don’t wana miss a thing”.
I like old Blues and Jazz from Black culture. But the current trend in Black music community is really troublesome, to say the least.
Cool it with your anti-Black rhetoric, please! It is bad enough that companies like Walmart or Whole Foods close down stores in Black neighborhoods, and all just because they lack an appreciation for the finer parts of Black culture.
Woke vidya news rag Kotaku got blacklisted by Nintendo and will not receive review copies of TotK:
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1307cs0/kotaku_blacklisted_from_previewing_the_new_zelda/
Oh, I apologize, the correct terms if of course “disallow-listed”.
Apparently Kotaku has been creating bad relationships with Nintendo for a little while now. Back when Metroid Dread dropped they posted an article detailing how to go about pirating it. Even now they’re putting up content discussing all the TotK leaks as they come out, basically spoiling their entire reader base while further creating more bad blood between themselves and Nintendo.
This is quite interesting, as I have encountered a similar attitude among Gen Z colleagues, i.e. a complete disregard for basic courtesy and decency, and bitching when they get put in their place. Some months ago I was working on a memo at work and shared a draft of it with a small number of colleagues. One of them, a guy in his early 20s who is barely out of university, took this draft and showed it to a bunch of other people without talking to me about it beforehand first. When I asked him what the eff he thinks he is doing, he blurted out, like a petulant child, that those other colleagues would eventually get to read the final memo anyway. When I explained to this guy why his behavior was out of line, he seemed genuinely confused. As I am on very good terms with this guy’s manager, I told her what happened and that I don’t want to deal with such nonsense, asking her to teach this guy basic manners. Not surprisingly, she revealed that I was not the first one who brought such behavioral issues to her attention.
You can bet that the average Kotaku employee is similarly maladjusted. They probably don’t even realize why they have been pissing off Nintendo, and if a Nintendo representative took the time to tell them, they would probably say that all their games will eventually be widely played on emulators anyway. Frankly, compared to such people I prefer female Gen-Z’ers who spend all their time on social media. I also prefer Gen-Z female journalists who do not write anything over any Kotaku journalist who writes anything at all.
It’s incredible to think and ponder about the blatant lack of foresight, entitled-ness, or just plain ol’ disrespect it took for your Zoomer colleague to go behind your back like that and reveal sensitive documentation. I wonder what he thought he was getting out of doing so? I also have to wonder if a lot of impulsive behaviors like this are simply the result of automatic unconscious programming due to a ridiculously low standard of upbringing. It really seems like attention seeking behavior.
I have been observing a recent influx in early 20s-something Zoomers into my profession, and have even tried to bang some of them (I’m thinking I’m getting a handle on this now after a few attempts, btw). There was recently this one chick that seemed so traumatized by her short life experiences so far. She was working as an orderly and had began majoring in a discipline that would have allowed her to easily move up and make a good living for herself. However, she just couldn’t deal with the environment. She had some fantastic idealistic notion of how the profession was supposed to be (she seemed very empathetic in a codependent type of way), and when she realized that the people servicing and those being serviced weren’t so whimsical and picturesque as she had imagined she then had a psychological break. She broke down crying, quit on the spot and last I heard she had changed majors all within the scope of a couple days. She made it about a month and a half in total, only having been on her own for a few days after the orientation period.
To be fair, I do find quite a few rural Zoomers who are pretty well adjusted. Honestly, many of them are more adjusted than I was at their age. As in they seem to have a clear path defined for themselves and there isn’t a lot of baggage from a bad upbringing holding them back.
@Sleazy:
I’ve just recently ask a girl out.
Did say something that is really cringeworthy:
“I just want to talk and find out about each other, nothing really serious (extraordinary)”
“Ghê ghớm” implies something that is really terrifying, like fumbling each other, feeling up, or something else.
The original line is “Mình chỉ trò chuyện tìm hiểu nhau thôi chứ không có gì ghê ghớm”
You can post up this line on Chatgpt in order to obtain a better translation.
Really creepy.
I consulted my friend and he said so.
She is busy due to her graduation. Don’t expect much to meet her.
We met at a Chinese Speaking Club. She gracefully declined to meet up for a coffee, but still said she would come to the Chinese Speaking Club again. Just not sure when.
I’m currently reading a personal memoir by a 50-year-old virgin where he details all the personal experiences he’s had chasing women and failing. Maybe you could benefit from reading how and why he failed. He was very awkward and cringeworthy in his pursuits. Somebody posted the link to it on this blog a long while ago, in fact.
https://www.love-shy.net/book%20pdf.pdf
I first ran into that material years ago,but only now found it again. Thanks for linking it again.
I have not read much of it yet,but judging by this piece early on:
_________
Whenever I was in situations where I thought that my time had finally come, I would be blindsided by the almost schizophrenic behavior of whatever girl I was with at the moment – the abrupt changing of her mind, the misread signals, or
the most common occurrence – the revelation that she had a boyfriend.
________
It would seem that the situation he’s in is not entirely his fault. My experiences with women right now is not much,but I’ve experienced some of these occurrences myself. Anti Pua Johnny has written about it here:
http://anti-pua-johnny.blogspot.com/2013/01/will-she-act-on-her-interest.html
I really don’t blame Alek for not wanting to bother with the dating scene anymore,and why the folks here (despite being more successful at this stuff than the typical guy) recommend pay for play over the long haul once you have this skill dow. Get a good amount of your sexual needs satisfied that way while capitalizing on low investment opportunities that come your way.
The vast majority of relationships I have seen in my personal life are…well. “more trouble than its worth” is the succint way of putting it. I thought my sister had found a great relationship for example,until my mom clued me in that she argues with him constantly,often ending in tears. (and this is a long distance relationship. Why on earth you’d want to take on all that headache for this,I can’t understand)
A reminder that social media doesn’t necessarily paint the full picture of a couple’s relationship. behind those seemingly smiley and cheery photos might be a toxic relationship behind curtains.
I will read it.
I think I am not a hopeless case. I am just not familiar with the mating dance and poorly read the implication of what I say.
That is it: implication or implicature.
@CQV
I just finished reading the memoir, and I think the value of it is in showing you what NOT to do. It was very frustrating reading how the author repeated the same mistakes with women over and over again over the duration of 30+ years. But he seems like a weak person overall anyway as at the age of 53, he moved back in with his mother and didn’t have stable enough finances to afford his own place. The biggest underlying issue regarding his problems with women seems to be his fear of rejection.
The only reason I managed to read it to the end was because I saw strong parallels with a former colleague/friend of mine whom I’m still in irregular contact with. My friend is 44 and quite certainly still a virgin. A few years ago, he told me that “When you’re at this age, you don’t want to chase/play games anymore.” He expects finding somebody to simply entail just her liking him for who he is and wanting to get together, which is obviously not going to happen to him as 1) women want to be chased and generally don’t take the initiative, 2) he’s short, bald, and isn’t rich or professionally successful (average at best). His fear of rejection prevents him from taking action even though he very much desires a partner. So he defends his ego by not even trying and thinking that if it’s going to happen at his age, it’s going to just land in his lap. Another lie he tells himself is that he wants smart women and not “flower vases”. He’s a very sad and pitiable case.
@CQV
To add on, another friend of mine has had decent romantic and sexual success even though he doesn’t have LMS. In fact, if you just look at him superficially, you’ll be baffled by how he’s had gfs and sexual partners. He’s overweight, of average height, has a pimply complexion, and at one point even had some scalp problems so you could see flaking skin. People in our social circle laughed at him to his face as well as behind his back. I think he owes his success to being assertive and direct. He knows what his flaws are and has even told me in a cynical, realistic manner that he doesn’t expect to be able to snag a great girl. But he keeps looking and chasing while bearing in mind how low his chances are.
He also has a healthy sense of self-esteem and isn’t desperate. In fact, with his current gf whom he’s enamoured by over what a catch she is, early on in their relationship when there seemed to have been some doubt in her over whether he’ll ever be enough, he told her to think about it hard and give him an answer. If she had said no, he was prepared to walk and he let her know that. (Her former bf was rich and paid for lavish expenses while my friend is a civil servant whose salary cannot increase quickly.) I find this very impressive. It would’ve been understandable had he clung on to her; because they’re also religiously-aligned, she is justifiably more special/suitable/precious to him. This move has worked out well.
So when I contrast these two friends of mine, overcoming the fear of rejection as well as not being desperate seem to be so important and decisive for men. Good luck with your pursuits.
That friend of yours you mention presumably approaches a fairly high number of women. Thus, even if his statistical success rate is quite low, he will still end up with more women than more attractive guys who hardly ever approach any women. I believe you know about such a case among your friends, too.
“1) women want to be chased and generally don’t take the initiative”
Really, though? The majority of the women I hooked up with did most of the chasing in the beginning. In fact, here lately I’ve been much more aggressive and it has pretty much always ended with constant texting where the chick just refuses to come meet me out. This in turn leads to me giving up and then they’ll eventually block me, leading me to believe they just like stringing certain guys along for validation until that dries up. It was actually eye opening when one chick in particular told me that guys just eventually “quit talking to her”. I could certainly see why, and I lost all illusions that she was just a really good girl when I learned that she had most recently been in relationship with a black man (and not a really upstanding one either, frankly. I quit taking to her almost immediately). The last chick that did this more recently got like two chances to hang out, then she became furious that I quit talking to her seriously and even went as far as to quit her job (the only thing that probably kept her there as long as she had been there was me encouraging her, she hated it there) and block me right after. I’m not exaggerating when I say that the thing that gets me blocked is literally just giving up—I just stop chasing because it is taking too much time and effort. Even if I wanted to marry one of these chicks it’s just not a good sign.
“He’s short, bald…”
Okay, lol that’s enough information. I’ve seen videos of more attractive men that have approached hundreds of women PUS style and never gotten anything from it. The videos are just of them explaining how mass approaching women got them nothing in the end, whereas an attractive man would have eventually scored something even if his conversion rate was like 5% or less.
@Sleazy’s Wife
Thank you so much for offering me your advice. I did round up my sticking points about my weakness:
1) Fear of rejection
2) Nice guy, not aggressive. Fear of escalation.
I have a perennial fear of physical escalation, as if I am afraid that the girl is really going to slap me or something.
I am reading the memoir, up to the point where he said his girl is stolen from him by a jog named Ted, I have full sympathy for him. Really painful to read. He however defended that chick, not knowing that she was an easy girl.
I need to overcome this few
@Sleazy’s Wife
Since you’ve read the entire document,I’d like to ask a question.
Why is the writer refusing to see an escort? Is it because he believes it is unethical or out of pride? (some people see the idea of losing their virginity to a escort to be “losing”.)
It could also be because he’s just not that interested in sex in general,but given that he wrote almost 200 pages about his unsuccessful love life,I’m gonna assume that’s not the case.
Let’s be practical. Hiring an escort in the US is not easy due to its hypocrisy.
He has to go to Europe.
He was 50 something, did not have a great career and moved into his Mom’s house. The prospect of hiring an escort is forever much harder than you think.
原来是“ 花瓶”。此词第一次听到，谢姐啊！
Oh it turns out to be a Chinese slang. First time heard of it. Thanks sister!
@Maou
He doesn’t want to use a prostitute as he wants his virgin experience to be out of mutual desire.
@CQV
Physical escalation can also be a touching of the waist/elbow/arm/hand, etc. Former suitors have done that to me and that was enough to indicate to me that they were potentially interested in more. It didn’t make me want to slap them. The important thing was that their touch, even if it was a simple lingering of their hand on mine, made me go “ohh” and created sexual tension. Then it got me considering whether I could see them as a boyfriend and something more.
I don’t know what you think about when you think of “physical escalation”, but my point is that it doesn’t necessarily have to be as aggressive as you might fear. I’m just talking from my personal experience of course, and not claiming that I’m representative of the female population.
@CQV
Hahaha yes, my friend actually said it in Mandarin!
Dude, whether you chase or she chases depend on many factors. If you are Leonardo or Paul Janka, then many women will not chase but hunt you down and … you. So that is an issue of status.
Then there are women whose personality is a bit more proactive, they will chase or give you plenty of opportunities so you can capitalise on
Then there are women who are in the grey-zone. They need a bit of reassurance before opening up to you.
Then there are women who will make you chase no matter what because they view chasing you to be a losing face act.
Lots of factor involved, but in general, I think Miss Sleazy is entirely correct. Women like to be pursued. That is just their sexuality.
Thanks Sleazy’s Wife.
It is valuable to hear it from a female’s perspective.
Yes, I will try to be a bit more assertive and dominant. I would say overt moves such as touching the bottocks would be quite out of place with the current girl or many Vietnamese girls I am pursuing. But I am a beginner so I will adopt light touching as you described.
When I was a student in Shanghai. I did try to touch girls and received bad reactions. One is touching the back of a Japanese girl that I liked, but she stepped away and said she had a boyfriend. Well, that was not technically a negative reaction, just a preferable reaction as I now knew she was taken. The other was in a club, where that girl kept eyeing on me, but I came to take her hands and she immediately withdrew it and exclaimed: “你疯了吗?”, which in hindsight means she might just be looking for attention.
Those experiences really make me more reserved towards touching. But I think it is FEAR OF REJECTION that is behind all this resistance.
@CQV
With those bad experiences it looks like those girls just weren’t into you, not that physical touch is a faulty approach. The case where that girl in the club asked if you were crazy, might it not be a “shit test”? If she had been eyeing you, there’s a good chance she was interested.
That 50-year-old virgin feared rejection so much that he didn’t want to do much to indicate to the girl that he was romantically/sexually pursuing them. As time passed, he became their therapist/listening ear and soundboard/errand boy/wallet (for meals)/house-sitter when they were away…you get the idea. I think there’s really a lot that you can learn from him about what not to do.
No, I am sure it is not. Her reaction was very negative. I had to go to a nearby bar because I felt really humiliated.
You are right. For timid guys like me, fear of rejection is the biggest hurdle. That said, if you want to be direct, you need to calibrate a bit. Calibration comes with practice. I need to look out for signs as well, and then up the intensity of touch. In hindsight, with that club girl for example, I could try to hip bump her.
In general, I have to:
1- Overcome fear of rejection
2 – Learn to be direct with my intention
3 – Initiate physical contacts
4 – Calibrating (secondary)
The problem with me is the stigma of being a creep. In Vietnamese we call it “goat”. Oh he “goats” you mean he is touchy-feely you. I think it is this stigma that prevents me from ever seeing success.
In general, I think a courageous but clumsy approach is still better than a cowardice initiation.
Luckily, I have come to that point. As much as I like a girl, if I cannot have her, I distance myself from her. My definition of friendship between two sexes is the absence of romantic interest from both sides. Thus, if I feel like I like a girk, but she doesn’t like me back, I immediately back off and fade into black. I see no point in continuing a “relationship” in hope that one day it turns around. If she has sex with another guy, I will never speak to her again because it is clear I am not attractive enough to be her primary guy. This is the case with Italian girl I talked to Sleazy during our consultation, which was 2 weeks ago.
Sorry Sleazy, could you fix my last comment blockquote in the above comment?
Done.
Thanks Sleazy
I have NEVER come to that point.
A question I have for Alek.
Is it alright to ask for your height and weight? I coulda sworn I read somewhere that you’re 5’8ft. and what weight were you when you were in seduction (looks-wise I mean,nowadays I know you rely more on status) prime?
I’m 5’10ft and down to 269lbs (The same weight I got to the last time I got to working on my weight almost 2 years ago. I’m excited to the scale blow past this!). I’m aiming to get to 200lbs. I don’t know whether or not that’s going to end up being the ideal 15% bodyfat range,but I can adjust my goal to go down even further (or focus on body recomposition at that point rather than deficit even further) if it turns out to not be sufficient.
I ask this question because our circumstances in this department seem so similar! I could be wrong though. You might not have been anywhere near my weight when you were at your fattest. haha. But I’d like to know anyway. Both your weight when you looked your best,and when you were at your fattest. (but status made up for it for you)
You must be confusing me with someone else. I’m close to 5’11, but due to being trained in proper posture, a lot of people mistake me for being 6’0. They’re surprised when I tell them I’m actually shorter than that.
Yes, you’re right due to my experiences I can speak to the points where you see a difference. When I gained back weight, I saw the biggest differences going from 180 to 185, and then later, when I went from 200 to 220.
The 180-185 is just due to my personal genetics because of how I store fat in the face. A couple of pounds put me in and out of the chiseled-face category.
Didn’t see a huge difference in getting laid from 185 to 200. But saw a difference again after 205.
*-It’s important to note these are with a decent amount of muscle. I guess for a guy who has less muscle you would decrease all of these numbers by 10.
So, yeah I think you’ll see a huge difference in sexual interest around the 200 mark.
@Aaron I mssed up comment above by not closing the blockquote, so it’s all one big blockquote, instead of just quoting Maou
Good question. When I went from 180 to 200, my status increased at the same time, so it’s hard to tell which factor contributed how much. Was it that weight-change doesn’t make a huge difference or is it that the increase in status cancelled out the decreases in looks? Can’t tell for sure.
I fixed the formatting of your comment.
Just to clarify ive lost weight two times in my life. Before the first one I might have been nearer to your weight, but I don’t remember..
0) Was really fat as a kid and a teen …
1) In my late teens I lost a ton of weight and chicks started hitting on me. I didn’t know how to respond to the interest and looking for answers I found pua (wasn’t called pua back then).
2) Then over time I regained most of the weight and got fat again.
3) Then I went hardcore into weightloss and got really lean (175 at lowest) and went on a mission to get laid as much as possible. Started building status and hitting on everything in sight.
4) continued building status as my weight first crept back up to first 200 and then 220.
Anything I’ve ever commented has always been based on 3 and 4. I don’t even remember life at 0,1 and 2 or what it was like.
Alek,maybe this question doesn’t really matter so much because we’re all of different physiology,but I wanna ask anyway…by the time you got yourself a good physique after the fat loss,what were you lifting numbers? (Squat,Bench,Deadlift. Or you can mention machines if you never used those)
Popular folks in the lifting world seem to say you need to get your Squat and Deadlift to the 300lb+ range and Bench at the 200lb+ range at minimum before you start seeing nice results in your physique,but maybe not necessarily. That’s because I’ve spoken to some folks who have nowhere near those numbers yet already have a pretty nice looking body. (Not huge,but you can see the muscular development)
https://blog.aaronsleazy.com/index.php/2023/03/04/the-deadlift-is-the-most-honest-exerise/
I actually deadlift more than Aaron at the point in time he mentioned in this article. (Both heavier at 270lbs and more sets and reps. My program had me doing Deadlifts for 3 sets of 8 reps,and I was able to do this at the aforementioned weight) I think Aaron says he already had a somewhat impressive (Not huge,but lean. Neither skinnyfat nor weak looking) before he got into lifting though.
I do somewhat suspect that I already have a decent physique under my blubber of fat and my goal now is to at least maintain it as I finish my weight loss. I’ll still try to progress and get stronger,but I suspect it won’t be long before I truly reach the end of my beginner gains. My progress is definitely slower now than it was when I started on Day 1 in the gym.
Just using numbers as a benchmarks for lifting does not make any sense as a basic understanding of physics shows. If you are tall, you do a lot more work with all compound lifts that someone who is very short. For some reason, this simple fact seems to escape a lot of fitness bros. The simplified argument is based on the definition of work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_(physics)
However, you should also consider acceleration. It would be a nice exercise to show how the work done by a midget versus a giant relate to each other in the basic lifts.
I honestly don’t remember, but if I had to guess, based on what you’ve commented so far, I do believe you have decent muscle under the fat.
So as long as you lift hard whilst you continue leaning down, you’ll look quite good to women.
@ Maou
Do you have large bone structure and are pretty tall?
If so then your potential is really good.