The other day a friend of mine sent me a video that discusses the significance of radiant and muted Christmas lighting in the movie Eyes Wide Shut, a movie I wrote about three years ago. The hypothesis presented in that video seems plausible, but that is not the point. Instead, my mind got stuck on… Continue reading Middle-Class Income Differentials Are Almost Inconsequential
In a comment on my recent article Destructive Relationships, Chris asked the following question, which I want to explore in detail: “Some women are so adept at pushing the guy’s buttons that he will hit them at some point.” So, how do you handle a situation like this? First, let us talk about the observed… Continue reading Dealing With Women Who Provoke You Relentlessly
One of the more interesting thoughts I came across when reading about Europe in the 20th century was that there are some countries that seem to be better off if they are poorer. The example given was Germany, with its tremendous post-war economic performance, rising like phoenix from the ashes. Yet, after life had gotten… Continue reading Looks-Maxing is a Sign of Societal Decline
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading Open Thread #404: Misc.
As an addendum to my article Destructive Relationship I am going to discuss the problem of young men and their susceptibility for outside influence, with a particular focus on women. In the aforementioned article I describe how women can ruin a guy’s life. Now, let us look at why this happens. The problems of young… Continue reading Young Men are Easy Targets for Destructive Women
Occasionally, I come across people who seem quite dissatisfied with their life, yet are not willing to change it. Nonetheless, they cling onto some romantic notion about drastically turning their life around even though chances of doing so are small to non-existent. I have met people who had taken a wrong turn at some point… Continue reading How Often Can You Start Over?
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading Open Thread #403: Women/Dating
There are very few content creators on YouTube I follow closely but plenty I check up on every once in a while. Just now I finished watching the latest video by Thinking Ape, in which he discusses fear of missing out (FOMO) in the context of sex and relationships. There is one comment he makes… Continue reading Destructive Relationships
Lucretius Carus left a great comment on my article, How to Use Money to Get Girls, in which he details the understanding of the Ancient Greeks on “love”. In contrast, modern languages do not have the same level of differentiation, leading to a lot of misunderstanding if not downright confusion. I warmly recommend reading his… Continue reading The Many Facets of Love (Guest Article By Lucretius Carus)
A question I have been asked quite a few times over the years is how to leverage financial success into getting girls. This question often came from geeks how suddenly found themselves making a fair bit of money, for instance as software engineers, as well as guys who became rich, sometimes accidentally, for instance due… Continue reading How to Use Money to Get Girls
It’s the end of the year and as many of you deliberately do not have an expensive girlfriend or wife, maybe you want to send some love to the author of this blog instead. So, think of all the fun and education you got from this blog all this time. As you know, there are… Continue reading [Sticky] End-of-Year 2024 Fundraiser
We have often talked about how to more effectively meet women, and how to have sex with them faster. On the other hand, women have it much simpler, at least in theory. In this article, I describe the ideal female dating strategy, which a lot of women seem to be quite unaware of and only… Continue reading The Ideal Female Dating Strategy
There are a lot of dumb feminist claims out there. One I have come across a few times, but rarely, is that it is no problem for a woman to raise children on her own because even if she thinks she cannot handle it anymore, she can always get a man to marry and support… Continue reading Men do not Want an “Instant Family”
Feminism tells women that they are just like men, but better. Even when it comes to sexual relationships, they should behave like caricatures of the men they idolize, i.e. shun commitment but instead have have lots and lots of casual sex. According to feminist doctrine, it is empowering for women to get railed by a… Continue reading There Are No Fuckbois: Power Asymmetries in Fuck-Buddy Relationships
A friend of mine recently told me about a woman he used to date a while ago. Years ago, he was on the brink of entering a serious relationship with her, but he eventually bailed. Nowadays, as he is active on social media, he occasionally comes across woke posts from her, and he quipped that… Continue reading The Adaptability of Women
I have written a few articles about the economy, in particular the tech industry. Among others, I presented arguments that tech is a clown-world career. The bigger question, though, is whether it is worth pursuing clown-world careers. There are ebbs and tides in the culture wars, and clown world has persisted for a long time.… Continue reading Clown-World Careers are Ultimately a Dead End
This year I have spent a bit of time on watching movies, but not just as a means to passing my time. Instead, I consider them lenses through which to view the Western zeitgeist. Indeed, if you think a bit about the action on screen it is often quite fascinating how crude the metaphors are.… Continue reading Man of Steel (2013) is Pro-Immigration Propaganda
I have spoken to quite a few men who have sex with prostitutes, but perhaps it is more correct to say that quite a few such men have spoken to me as I hardly, if ever, bring up this topic myself. While the standard approach seems to be to get the hottest hooker in whatever… Continue reading Why Do Some Guys Prefer Ugly Prostitutes?
I recently rewatched Scorsese’s Raging Bull (1980), a biographical movie on the life of the boxer Jake LaMotta. He became a boxing champion, even though many people tried to prevent it, and then he lost it all, ending up as a washed up club owner, before somewhat turning his life around. The first time I… Continue reading Tragic Rise-and-Fall Stories are Shallow
While the United States there is a bubble of everything, i.e. housing, healthcare, and education are more expensive than ever before, Europe has been faring a little bit better. Only housing is completely out of reach for the vast majority of non-boomers whereas healthcare and education have not gotten that much more expensive. The sudden… Continue reading Was the Recent Housing Boom a Scam to Benefit Boomers?
It is unfortunately very difficult to get unbiased information on seemingly anything in today’s society. Everybody has an agenda. Of course, sometimes there is also a lot of incompetence at play. A good example is the discussion surrounding methylphenidate (MPH), not just in society but also in science. A fair amount of college students use… Continue reading Methylphenidate and Cognitive Performance Improvement
As I am a bit of a gamer, I am somewhat familiar with the collector’s market. No, I am not a collector myself but I know that some classic video games go for pretty inflated prices. There are plenty of people on YouTube who show off their game rooms, sometimes with thousands of games. You… Continue reading The Limited Time Horizon of Nostalgia
This year has seen a lot of high-profile commercial disasters in the movie and vidya industries. It is all-too-easy to make fun of game or movie studios that burn a solid nine figures in order to push an agenda. More interesting, though, is looking at the mechanisms in place behind it. I felt motivated to… Continue reading The Woke-Industrial Complex
I recently watched the movie The Color of Money (1986). It is the sequel to the 1960s movie The Hustler, which I only learned about afterwards. I have yet to watch that movie. The Color of Money is great. I really enjoyed watching it. It takes its time to develop characters, which have remarkable depth.… Continue reading Nostalgia is the Death Spell for Creativity
I live my life in symbiosis with PCs and laptops for work. In my spare time, I sometimes watch movies, and occasionally I play games. When I am not on holidays, which is most of the time, I sometimes say to myself that once I have a few days off, I am going to watch… Continue reading Office Work and Video/Vidya Consumption
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading Open Thread #402: Women/Dating
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading Open Thread #401: Misc.
Before I start, let me preface this article by saying that I originally wanted to publish it in April this year but did not get around to. As time progressed, however, I was wondering if I would see my original hypothesis hold in the short term. Now, over six months later, I think that what… Continue reading We Need to Worry About Blacks and Jews!
On my article, The Dangers of Marrying Older Women: Early 30s vs. Early 40s, Jessica left a really interesting comment about why it may be a good idea to go for women who rapidly approach the end of their fertility window. Her comment is really interesting, and it provides a perspective I had not considered… Continue reading Attractive-Woman Genes at a Discount
In a recent post I explained why “tech” is a clown-world career. I had two follow-up thoughts, which point in the same direction, and led me to predict that it will be a long while before we see excesses in the tech sector again, if at all. The first thought builds on a comment left… Continue reading The Tech Industry Will Remain Stagnant
The other day a mid-tier PUA named Johnny Berba committed suicide. He is not the first PUA to do so, and he will not be the last. Furthermore, even among PUAs who have not killed themselves, you are going to find quite a few genuinely troubled characters. On top, there is the issue that the… Continue reading PUA Suicides are No Surprise
One of the more interesting films I watched recently is After Hours (1985) by Martin Scorsese. This is not a bad film at all, albeit it is quite underappreciated. It has a very similar structure to Stanley Kubrick’s subversive Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and for that reason alone it is probably worth watching for aficionados.… Continue reading The Appeal of Crazy Women
It was not so long ago when the tech sector was booming, including cottage industries that promised everybody a six-figure job, no matter how untalented they were. All it took was a six-week “boot camp”. Shockingly, this racket worked for many years. I will first look at how this could happen, before I describe the… Continue reading Tech is a Clown-World Career
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading Open Thread #400: Women/Dating
I was aware of ADHD medication in the past. Friends and acquaintances have told me that they take it, some of whom were self-medicating in an attempt to get an edge academically, and there was also the occasional weird kid around in school that was on all kinds of meds. However, I find difficult to… Continue reading Methylphenidate and ADHD Meds in General: Dosage and Intensity of Side Effects
We spoke about the feminized workplace before. In this post, I highlight some of the aspects of female runs meetings. With men in charge, none of this would happen. I had a big meeting a while ago, with over 20 attendees. The first question is obviously why there need to be that many people involved.… Continue reading How Women Run Meetings
In my recent article on the Fast and Furious franchise, I pointed out that one of the main female characters, played by Michelle Rodriguez, aged a lot worse than the male lead, played by Vin Diesel. The same is obviously true for all female characters in this franchise, and all male characters. There are, however,… Continue reading Movie Franchises Cannot be Built Around Female Characters
After my initial experience with methylphenidate, I thought about how to best describe the effect of this drug. In this context, I came up with the metaphor of the cone of attention. My hope is that the neurotypical among my readers better understand the effect of this rather effective drug. As I mentioned in my… Continue reading Methylphenidate: The Cone of Attention
Recently, I watched all movies in the entire Fast and Furious franchise, a staggering eleven movies. The latter movies were about as braindead as I had imagined but the first three were pretty good, and I liked where this franchise seemed to be going, i.e. stories centered around the street racing theme, with changing main… Continue reading The Fast and The Furious Franchise and Differential Aging of Men and Women
In this post I describe my first experiences with methylphenidate. I want to make it very clear that I do not condone any kind of illicit use or purchasing of stimulants. My backstory is that I went to see a psychiatrist because I was curious if I would get an autism diagnosis (“Asperger syndrome”), and… Continue reading Methylphenidate: Day One
I obviously do not need to tell you that female beauty peaks early and that they all hit the wall in their mid-30s, give or take a few years. However, what is perhaps not so easy to visualize is how rapid this process is and how much different women look who are not even that… Continue reading The Dangers of Marrying Older Women: Early 30s vs. Early 40s
I have written about inappropriate female behaviors in the workplace in the past. Here is another behavior I have encountered a few times, i.e. women talking about their sexual availability. I work in an office environment. My area of work used to be male-dominated. Technically, it still is, but a lot of the men behave… Continue reading Women Opportunistically Announcing their Relationship Status
I recently heard of a most curious incident in Germany. I have verified it but I want to keep the exact details for myself as that is not relevant for the point I am going to make, and the people involved probably do not need further attention. Anyway, there used to be an iron-clad law… Continue reading Why Would People Protest Against a School in the Neighborhood?
Earlier this year, I started making more of an effort of going through my backlog, with a particular focus on games and movies, but there are also other achievements I wanted to tackle, such as improving my headstand — it is is better than it ever was, after weeks of practice, and it is now… Continue reading Why Modern Games and Movies are Not Memorable
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading Open Thread #399: Gaming
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading Open Thread #398: Misc.
The Open Thread is a place for open discussion among my readers. Post anything you feel like sharing! From now on, the Open Thread will no longer be monthly. Instead, there will be a new Open Thread whenever it is adequate. The stage is yours. Go ahead! The latest Open Thread is made ‘sticky’ to… Continue reading Open Thread #397: Clown World/Politics/Economics
I recently skimmed Jonathan Haidt’s book The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. In case you are not familiar with him, this guy sucks up to Jordan “Benis” Peterson, is a “public intellectual”, and part of the “intellectual dark web”, whatever that is. It also happens… Continue reading Why Parents no Longer Let Their Kids Play Outside
I recently read up on psychopathy. Robert D. Hare wrote a couple of books on that topic, but Martha Stout also comes up a lot. Her book The Psychopath Next Door seems to be selling quite well. For some reason, I have not yet bought any of her books. I assure you that it has… Continue reading Female Nature and Psychopathy
I am asking for a friend: does anyone of you have experience with taking methylphenidate? I am not interested in anyone’s adventures in recreational off-label usage (in Minecraft), though. Instead, I would like to learn more about the performance-enhancing aspects and experienced long-term effects, based on typical therapeutic dosages (10 mg). Common brand names are… Continue reading Request: Methylphenidate Experiences
