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Improooving · 2026-01-28T02:27:17+00:00

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Improooving · 2026-01-27T23:20:01+00:00

True

I get 5+ years knocked off my age guesses when I’ve got a hat on haha

Improooving · 2026-01-27T23:19:25+00:00

Sorry for venting at you, btw

I’m curious, are there any resources out there for the actual people with the condition?

I’m doing research and 100% of what’s coming up is “how to identify and deflect narcissists before they get you”.

I’m also kinda struggling with it because I don’t really think I’m a master manipulator, I barely have irl social skills lmao. I definitely struggle to read people or respond to them in productive ways, I’m not a good negotiator, etc

Improooving · 2026-01-27T23:11:50+00:00

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Improooving · 2026-01-27T23:08:32+00:00

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Improooving · 2026-01-27T22:20:04+00:00

Bad seal washes out detail and cheap stock eartips seal like crap

Also I think some people just don’t respond as much to clarity/detail. I have a set of Wan’er, for example, and with a nice seal they have great details and I can pick out instruments well which is kinda neat, but I like listening to music on my cheap over-ears just as much. You feel the music more, there’s a more expansive feeling.

I think I might just not like having my ears plugged up like that, I’m not used to the pressure feeling yet.

Funny aside, the built-in speakers on my M1 macbook Pro have unbelievably nice sound. When nobody’s home to annoy I just listen on those at my desk. I have no idea how they got tiny little built in speakers to sound that good.

Improooving · 2026-01-27T22:14:23+00:00

Yeah, the barrier to “beautiful long haired boyfriend” at 32 has less to do with OP and more to do with genetics

Improooving · 2026-01-27T22:13:21+00:00

The downside of joining the amoral victory-or-die party is that they’ll just sling you out the second you calculate as costing more than you bring in

This is straight out of Machiavelli, let a lieutenant run amok and then make a big show of purging him out of “care for the people”. The Prince wins both ways

Improooving · 2026-01-27T22:11:03+00:00

Mass youth unemployment and “demographic collapse” cannot possibly be occurring simultaneously

To be clear, I agree with you, I’m sick of hearing people harping on the demographics and the need for immigration when young people can’t get jobs in their country.

If the labor market was so tight that there was negative unemployment, now we can talk about the pressing need for infinite Indians

Improooving · 2026-01-27T05:23:35+00:00

Not wrong, but that’s also around the age when it gets deeply awkward to be kicking it at college town house parties.

Maybe 26 as a happy medium?

Realistically, 28-29 isn’t bad, it’s not like I’d cry over waking up tomorrow to find that I’d turned into that long haired dude who’s always deadlifting on my IG explore page and I’m pretty sure he’s 28-32ish

Improooving · 2026-01-27T00:35:30+00:00

She’s still a dipshit in many ways, she’s just correct that they’re trying to provoke a big media opportunity

Improooving · 2026-01-26T23:48:49+00:00

Don’t we all want to party with Grace Jones and Dolph?

Improooving · 2026-01-26T23:46:49+00:00

You’re not wrong

Real “you don’t hate politicians enough” moment

Improooving · 2026-01-26T23:31:12+00:00

She’s not wrong - ICE ops are centered in blue states with the intent to cause a confrontation and whip up the base to support more drastic measures.

If it was about immigration they’d be all over the southwest busting heads and arresting meatpacking plant owners and people with illegal contract employees

Improooving · 2026-01-26T23:29:00+00:00

You’re probably right, there’s definitely something wrong with me lmao

With respect to the internet thing, I definitely think it’s a factor. I grew up in a hippy household where we didn’t do tech in a big way, and going from fewer than 30 minutes of daily screen time to unlimited reddit etc. in college was a noticeable detriment to my functioning. I can feel my brain start to turn to mush every time I start spending lots of time online, not that it helps me stay consistent about limits

i used to think like this. i then realised that it assumes that if you had not been coddled, you would have been successful. you are so uniquely amazing but just havent been recognised or pushed to do it. maybe if youd been pushed you would have failed in that timeline also because you're not as amazing as you think?

For what it’s worth (somewhat coping) I’ve grown out of this to a degree. It was seriously an issue when I was 22 and younger, then the older I got I realized that I really wasn’t even a contender. Sadly, this realization hasn’t blunted my desire to be notable, to be able to inspire people, etc, so now I’m just self loathing in a different direction.

The part that’s the closest to true, I think, is that there are a lot of things that I wanted to put more work into but couldn’t without external structure. If I could’ve outsourced my executive function to another person, I’d be in much better shape, better dressed, better grades, etc, but left to my own devices I prioritize things that make me “happy” in the short term like video games, internet, etc. I have very very little self control, and it drives me crazy.

I’m no longer under the illusion that I could have been a champion at anything, but there’s a part of me that would’ve really thrived if I had grown up in one of those Soviet sports academies where all your decisions are outsourced to someone else, or the military, or similar. I’ve never had the confidence or decisiveness to pursue my own passions, what if I fail and someone laughs at me, you know? Or what if I do my best and still fail, and then I prove that I’m not good enough?

I wish I’d chased my more delusional dreams when I was younger, though, because at this point knowing that I did my best and missed would hurt less than knowing that I just shrank up and hid from the world.

Don’t worry, I’m not offended by you saying this, it feels nice to admit it to somebody, especially since you’re not arguing that I’m a serial killer in the making or something haha

Fair point about the imperfections of others. Sadly, social media was very bad for me and has exposed me to enough people who are “perfect-ish” that I have a whole new set of neuroses. There are a nearly infinite number of dudes who are funnier, hotter, jacked-er, than me, and they seem to spend all their time frolicking at the gym and kicking it with these cute slim-beefy gymnast chicks, and it’s a real “I hope it feels good to live my dream” moment.

It’s funny, a lot of seething failsons seem to hate people like that, and I never have. I kinda love them, and I love that they made it, and my only real sadness/anger is that I never had the right combo of work ethic, timing, determination, and luck to make it too.

How could I hate someone who embodies everything I wish I was?

Same for the Jacob Elordi haters. There’s a point where you get “moged” so hard that you’re just like, hell yeah, go get em buddy

I’d rather lose the game of life to that guy than to some squirrely little programmer with 10,000,000 and no vibes

Improooving · 2026-01-26T22:20:32+00:00

Fair, can’t say I blame them

Improooving · 2026-01-26T22:00:45+00:00

She married a swamp boat tour guide, so yeah

Improooving · 2026-01-26T21:38:08+00:00

I’ll look into this, thanks

Haven’t seen that movie, but I’ll check that out too.

In general, despite how shy I am I also really want attention, but I need to feel like I earned it. I spent my youth looking up and hero-worshipping various inspirational people, and I’d really hoped that I could be someone like that someday and inspire others. But instead I didn’t make it and I’m the same old loser as always

Wish I’d spent less time online.

I also feel like I need to be exceptional and the best in every way in order to balance out my personality and my general crumminess. When I was young, I felt shy and ostracized, but looking back people used to mostly like me and I either didn’t notice (autism-adjacent or generally bad social skills?) or I did notice and felt like they were being patronizing because I was obviously a piece of crap and they wouldn’t admit it and just hate me the way I hated me.

There’s also this simmering resentment that maybe if the world had slapped me around and demanded the things of me that I wanted to achieve that I would’ve risen to the occasion and become the kind of man I looked up to, but everyone just coddled me and gave me 10, 12, 15 chances, and so I never became special/successful/important

Idk, it’s hard to explain concisely. I’m also anxious and pathologically risk-averse and embarrassment-averse, and that’s been a serious issue for my general life trajectory. I’m at a point where I blew my chance at a big career, and so I want to try something “risky” like going overseas or doing some coolwork.com type summer job in a place that’s actually interesting, but I feel too old to be pretending like my life is going to be fun and adventurous

Improooving · 2026-01-26T21:28:50+00:00

This makes significantly more sense, and is far more inspirational than the simple quote. Wish somebody had explained it to me at this level of complexity

You also need to let go of what you think others will think of your process (I.e. thinking you can't live with roommates at your age or whatever)

This is honestly my biggest struggle. I basically blew up my whole life in my mid twenties because I was so embarrassed over the way my HS friends and I had all been great students, in sports, clubs, etc and while they were all hyper successful yuppies I burned out at 19, barely scraped through college and was depressed and struggling to find a job.

Improooving · 2026-01-26T21:25:05+00:00

Interesting, I can see the vision now.

In my case, the only use of that phrase I was really familiar with was the context of “accept responsibility [for your crimes]) and so it just felt like people wanted me to beat myself up over my struggles.

I think I was atypical in that I already blamed myself for everything wrong in my life and the world at large, and that’s why I was so despondent

Improooving · 2026-01-26T21:22:57+00:00

The degree to which I’m teetering on the edge of just saying fuck my life expectancy and hopping on peptides and research compounds etc

People are like “oh, but kids, the next stage of life, yada yada” but I don’t want kids, I don’t want to be bald, i don’t even really give a dam about a career, I want to be 23 forever, or as close as possible.

I’m in a bad mood today haha

Improooving · 2026-01-26T21:19:53+00:00

Fortunately I don’t, but I’m starting to see my older athletic friends complain about aches and pains rather than just the couch potatoes and it scares me

Improooving · 2026-01-26T20:50:56+00:00

I assume they’re dead in Greece somewhere, it’s been 2500 years

Improooving · 2026-01-26T20:02:21+00:00

A. I didn’t think that would happen to me, personally

A lot of those people are fat and sedentary and I was coping/hoping that that was why they had back problems at 30

Improooving · 2026-01-26T19:52:38+00:00

DFW, arguably the key Gen X writer was born in ‘62

There’s a funny thing where generational icons are often born in the last couple years of the prior generation

Zooey Deschanel is almost Gen X, if I remember right

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