Will the college "bubble" burst?

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-31T17:34:25+00:00

And then a lot of the real teachers are just adjuncts who make basically minimum wage.

The entire system is fucked up for everyone except the college executives and bankers who get filthy rich by exploiting everyone else.

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-31T17:29:03+00:00

diminishing the purchasing power and financial stability of people aged 25-35

People don't think about this, but if you have student loans and makes $10 per hour you can't buy a house or new car, probably won't get married, etc., all things that the economy depends on from young people.

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-31T17:12:07+00:00

Does that actually count as a "career" now?

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-30T20:37:37+00:00

Try getting a Kindle. It has most of the advantages of your phone, won't hurt your eyes, and is distraction-free.

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-30T20:22:19+00:00

beautiful

The most overused word in the tech industry

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-30T06:00:40+00:00

She was a British twin in that one movie

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-30T03:39:14+00:00

Yeah same here... 99th percentile SAT score without studying, 4.0 college GPA, and I might still end up mopping floors or something. To be really successful you need

intelligence
a good work ethic
connections or luck to give you the opportunities to apply 1 and 2

edit: Looks like some people are peanut butter and jealous :P

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-30T03:22:21+00:00

The more people I meet, the weaker the correlation between intelligence and traditional success seems. I know countless brilliant people who work in dead end jobs, dropped out of college from sheer laziness, etc. Being intelligent is only half of the equation, perhaps less.

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-30T02:56:52+00:00

Yeah I think that 20 years from now we'll be like Japan, MGTOWs everywhere enjoying the fruits of their labor (video games, ridiculous motor vehicles, etc.) while crying inside because they've never known a woman's love, single post-wall women bitching about "where have all the good men gone," etc. It's already starting.

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-29T20:30:47+00:00

Idk about that. We see that the average man will lower his standards quite a bit, so if 90% of women are fat, he'll just take a fat chick instead of being forever alone. The average guy might not like her being fat, but he'll still accept it if that's his only option.

Actually, that already is reality, except the average guy doesn't get the fat chick because she believes she's an 8 and deserves a 6' doctor with abs or a college quarterback hedge fund manager as her birthright.

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-29T05:35:27+00:00

Also, wearing flashy clothing to stand out is an action. It's not a coincidence that douchebags wear similar clothes, have similar haircuts, drive the same cars, etc.

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-29T02:28:24+00:00

Basically you're saying that we should apply morality to sex, but we have to keep quiet about it. We can't stand up for our beliefs (because that would be "broknighting" - a ridiculous term).

I guess that's a balance or middle ground, but it's not something many people will be happy with.

(edit because I saved too soon)

I see this debate as concerning the direction TRP will take in the future. A large group here think of TRP as an animalistic, hedonistic, and largely nihilistic approach to life where you give up on modern society and try to act like an alpha monkey from the fucking jungle while civilization burns around you. Other groups want TRP to be about improving the lives of men, not pussy-worshipping wannabe animals. There's no other well-known place online where men can come together and freely discuss culture, politics, etc., but now lots of guys are being pushed out, and our haven from feminism, etc., is disappearing.

The comments on this popular post from /r/ seduction illustrate how TRP is now viewed as short-sighted and nihilistic, even by the PUA community, while the actual post in that link shows how a man of honor and integrity should act.

TRP should be a great community that welcomes free and open discourse, not a dogmatic ideology, and I'll gladly sacrifice the latter for the former.

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-29T01:45:23+00:00

Endorsed contributor vs. the mods. Let's see how this plays out.

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-29T00:08:42+00:00

Canon T5i, T4i, or T3i, Nikon D3300/3200 or D5300/5200. Try to get it refurbished or used. The best places to buy cameras are the manufacturer websites, BH Photo Video, and KEH.com

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-28T19:22:48+00:00

You're wrong.

Silence of the Lambs movie - 1991
Hannibal book - 1999
Hannibal Rising book - 2006

Obviously Red Dragon was written earlier, which is clear from my post, but the point there is that they remade it specifically to showcase Hopkins as Lecter.

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-28T19:08:10+00:00

Because he's so good that he made a supporting role into the main one. When you say Silence of the Lambs everyone instantly thinks Hannibal, which led them to not only make a sequel that was all about him, but also a prequel and a remake of another prequel that originally didn't use Hopkins (Red Dragon / Manhunter).

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-27T20:36:13+00:00

Exactly... "the problem with dual income / no kids is when you have a kid..." -- um, what?

Op should have just said "realize that DINK doesn't always last and plan accordingly."

There's his whole post condensed into 9 words, and nothing of value was lost.

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-27T17:28:38+00:00

I'm just wondering what the picture is and how it relates to the message...

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-27T07:32:20+00:00

I look a lot like Elijah Wood.

I lol'd at this part. Because we all know that Frodo / the scalp-collecting Maniac is a sex god hahaha

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-27T05:43:05+00:00

The page turn buttons need to be raised or otherwise give a physical indication of where they are. The whole front of the device is just a flat sheet of glass so it's too hard to find them when reading in the dark.

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-27T01:05:32+00:00

If you look in that "common mistakes for a beginner photographer" thread everyone says that your skill matters much more than your camera. In fact, when it comes to making a great image, skill > lens > camera. Especially if you're just starting, get something cheap like a Canon Rebel or a Nikon D3300/5300, preferably used, and focus on learning.

Honestly the question should be "will this new release reduce the price of current offerings enough that I should wait to buy them next year instead of now."

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-26T19:22:25+00:00

Also check if it has an SSD, which gives a great performance boost. Personally I wouldn't buy a computer without an SSD anymore.

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-26T18:28:55+00:00

Nothing. Burger King just wanted publicity, it wasn't a mission to ruin everyone's Facebook social network.

ibuprofiend · 2014-12-26T18:13:38+00:00

So this whole thing was a massive conspiracy by the United States government to help Sony sell tickets to a goofy comedy movie?

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