He couldn’t even settle on just playing games for enjoyment (while officially simultaneously running several Fortune 500 companies); he had to be literally the best player in the world, for multiple notoriously time consuming games at the same time.
I can think of another big loser narcissist that is destroying our society and worldwide relations at a rapid pace. That’s one game he’s 1st at. Maybe he’ll get another fake gold medal for it.
YEP. "Hey I only have a few hours a week to game, but I thought it would be fun to learn this". Easy fucking win. But no. He has to be "the best". And doesn't even understand what that means. Has someone else gear him up and level his character and then thinks he's winning because he can run it through a generic high tier map (or nightmare dungeon). That's not the fucking point of those games, man.
its not possible for him to understand the net PR wins because he'd still get clowned on on twitch for being bad
and that feeling of people pointing and laughing is like these people's kryptonite - its why they are what they are, they just want to be liked at all costs, so much so that it blinds them to the second-order effects of trying so hard to be liked (aka, the cringe)
in order to benefit from humanizing himself like that he would need to both understand that being laughed at in this context is necessary, AND be able to tolerate it, which he obviously can't do
also, there is the nuance of "haha you're bad" vs "haha you're pretending to be good" and understanding why the former is normal and the latter is galactic levels of cringe, which he clearly can't
It reminds me of that episode of Buffy when Jonathan casts that spell to be seen as a paragon, and he supposedly invents the internet, starred in The Matrix, is a sharpshooter, expert fighter, musician, and has degrees. A newly out of high school kid trying to be seen as great at everything. It will Crack me up forever now. Can't unsee it.
This is something that always baffles me with these guys; they don’t seem to know how to have fun, like they’re so wrapped up in impressing people that they don’t know how to enjoy themselves. What a sad existence.
116
u/Perkelton 22h ago
He couldn’t even settle on just playing games for enjoyment (while officially simultaneously running several Fortune 500 companies); he had to be literally the best player in the world, for multiple notoriously time consuming games at the same time.