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May 16, 2017 6:07 PM

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lmao
an egomaniac and a fool

May 16, 2017 6:08 PM

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Another oldie, but goldie

May 16, 2017 6:09 PM

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holy shit he kinda does
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May 16, 2017 6:09 PM

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#NotMyChosenOne
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May 16, 2017 6:12 PM

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May 16, 2017 6:13 PM

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May 16, 2017 6:15 PM

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im not sure thats an entirely accurate representation of a dogs bone structure
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May 16, 2017 6:20 PM

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Have you ever dissected a dog
May 16, 2017 6:20 PM

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those foxes ><

May 16, 2017 6:20 PM

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those foxes ><

May 16, 2017 6:20 PM

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oops

May 16, 2017 6:20 PM

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you said that twice how
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May 16, 2017 6:21 PM

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I'M CALLING THE POLICE
May 16, 2017 6:21 PM

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is it possible to learn this power?
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May 16, 2017 6:23 PM

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Pledge allegiance to Hitler and apply for the mod team
May 16, 2017 6:25 PM

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i will try to redo that

May 16, 2017 6:25 PM

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it didn't work

May 16, 2017 6:26 PM

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May 16, 2017 6:27 PM

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moist
May 16, 2017 6:31 PM

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how do you discern which of those he wants
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May 16, 2017 6:34 PM

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what if he wants 3 at the same time

May 16, 2017 6:34 PM

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he always wants all of them

May 16, 2017 6:34 PM

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makes me

May 16, 2017 6:42 PM

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what a greedy sob
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May 16, 2017 9:32 PM

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Zeally said:
what if he wants 3 at the same time
It should be noted that I've upvoted every single person who's disagreed with me here, as far as I know. That said. In 7th grade, I took an SAT test without preparing for it at all, it was spur-of-the-moment, I knew about it about an hour ahead of time and didn't do any research or anything. I scored higher on it than the average person using it to apply for college in my area. An IQ test has shown me to be in the 99.9th percentile for IQ. This is the highest result the test I was given reaches; anything further and they'd consider it to be within the margin of error for that test. My mother's boyfriend of 8 years is an aerospace engineer who graduated Virginia Tech. At the age of 15, I understand physics better than him, and I owe very little of it to him, as he would rarely give me a decent explanation of anything, just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding thermodynamics. He's not particularly successful as an engineer, but I've met lots of other engineers who aren't as good as me at physics, so I'm guessing that's not just a result of him being bad at it. I'm also pretty good at engineering. I don't have a degree, and other than physics I don't have a better understanding of any aspect of engineering than any actual engineer, but I have lots of ingenuity for inventing new things. For example, I independently invented regenerative brakes before finding out what they were, and I was only seven or eight years old when I started inventing wireless electricity solutions (my first idea being to use a powerful infrared laser to transmit energy; admittedly not the best plan). I have independently thought of basically every branch of philosophy I've come across. Every question of existentialism which I've seen discussed in SMBC or xkcd or Reddit or anywhere else, the thoughts haven't been new to me. Philosophy has pretty much gotten trivial for me; I've considered taking a philosophy course just to see how easy it is. Psychology, I actually understand better than people with degrees. Unlike engineering, there's no aspect of psychology which I don't have a very good understanding of. I can debunk many of even Sigmund Freud's theories. I'm a good enough writer that I'm writing a book and so far everybody who's read any of it has said it was really good and plausible to expect to have published. And that's not just, like, me and family members, that counts strangers on the Internet. I've heard zero negative appraisal of it so far; people have critiqued it, but not insulted it. I don't know if that will suffice as evidence that I'm intelligent. I'm done with it, though, because I'd rather defend my maturity, since it's what you've spent the most time attacking. The following are some examples of my morals and ethical code. I believe firmly that everybody deserves a future. If we were to capture Hitler at the end of WWII, I would be against executing him. In fact, if we had any way of rehabilitating him and knowing that he wasn't just faking it, I'd even support the concept of letting him go free. This is essentially because I think that whoever you are in the present is a separate entity from who you were in the past and who you are in the future, and while your present self should take responsibility for your past self's actions, it shouldn't be punished for them simply for the sake of punishment, especially if the present self regrets the actions of the past self and feels genuine guilt about them. I don't believe in judgement of people based on their personal choices as long as those personal choices aren't harming others. I don't have any issue with any type of sexuality whatsoever (short of physically acting out necrophilia, pedophilia, or other acts which have a harmful affect on others - but I don't care what a person's fantasies consist of, as long as they recognize the difference between reality and fiction and can separate them). I don't have any issue with anybody over what type of music they listen to, or clothes they wear, etc. I know that's not really an impressive moral, but it's unfortunately rare; a great many people, especially those my age, are judgmental about these things. I love everyone, even people I hate. I wish my worst enemies good fortune and happiness. Rick Perry is a vile, piece of shit human being, deserving of zero respect, but I wish for him to change for the better and live the best life possible. I wish this for everyone. I'm pretty much a pacifist. I've taken a broken nose without fighting back or seeking retribution, because the guy stopped punching after that. The only time I'll fight back is if 1) the person attacking me shows no signs of stopping and 2) if I don't attack, I'll come out worse than the other person will if I do. In other words, if fighting someone is going to end up being more harmful to them than just letting them go will be to me, I don't fight back. I've therefore never had a reason to fight back against anyone in anything serious, because my ability to take pain has so far made it so that I'm never in a situation where I'll be worse off after a fight. If I'm not going to get any hospitalizing injuries, I really don't care. The only exception is if someone is going after my life. Even then, I'll do the minimum amount of harm to them that I possibly can in protecting myself. If someone points a gun at me and I can get out of it without harming them, I'd prefer to do that over killing them. I consider myself a feminist. I don't believe in enforced or uniform gender roles; they may happen naturally, but they should never be coerced into happening unnaturally. As in, the societal pressure for gender roles should really go, even if it'll turn out that the majority of relationships continue operating the same way of their own accord. I treat women with the same outlook I treat men, and never participate in the old Reddit "women are crazy" circlejerk, because there are multiple women out there and each have different personalities just like there are multiple men out there and each with different personalities. I don't think you do much of anything except scare off the awesome women out there by going on and on about the ones who aren't awesome. That doesn't mean I look for places to victimize women, I just don't believe it's fair to make generalizations such as the one about women acting like everything's OK when it's really not (and that's a particularly harsh example, because all humans do that). I'm kind of tired of citing these examples and I'm guessing you're getting tired of reading them, if you've even made it this far. In closing, the people who know me in real life all respect me, as do a great many people in the Reddit brony community, where I spend most of my time and where I'm pretty known for being helpful around the community. A lot of people in my segment of the community are depressed or going through hard times, and I spend a lot of time giving advice and support to people there. Yesterday someone quoted a case of me doing this in a post asking everyone what their favorite motivational/inspirational quote was, and that comment was second to the top, so I guess other people agreed (though, granted, it was a pretty low-traffic post, only about a dozen competing comments). And, uh, I'm a pretty good moderator. All that, and I think your behavior in this thread was totally assholish. So what do you think, now that you at least slightly know me?
May 16, 2017 9:42 PM

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lmfao that is a beefy wall of text
May 16, 2017 9:45 PM

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not reading that

my eyes will not survive the cancer spacing

May 16, 2017 9:47 PM

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quite impressive actually
May 16, 2017 9:50 PM

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You're just too slow to comprehend it all
May 16, 2017 9:52 PM

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Are you guys ever tired of having to babysit @zeally and the sack of rocks inside of his skull? They should pay me smh
May 16, 2017 9:53 PM

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Here's the e-mail the same kid sent to Gaben:

At age 15, I'm currently at the point where I should be considering my career options. Life goal number one (not life goal number zero - that's to live forever) for me has been to at some point have at least a billion dollars for about as long as I can remember. It seems to me that, given my skill set and interests, the best way for me to do this is by entrepreneuring or perhaps just business-managing in the tech industry. So, as a huge fan of Google, I decided about six months ago that being the CEO of Google is my primary objective in life; I'm smart enough to have a pretty good chance at pulling it off, and there's much less competition to become the CEO of Google than there is to grow your own start-up into a multi-billion-dollar corporation. Everybody wants to start their own company; not many want to take over an existing favorite. Plus, if I fail to become the CEO of Google or decide I don't want to be, I could always try for one of the many other companies I like, or I could still decide to start my own company after all.

(That and there's no time limit on starting my own company, while there may be one on the Google thing - Larry Page and Sergey Brin are likely to step down in 2024, and their replacements will probably be in place running the company for quite a long time before I get another chance.)

However, both Larry Page and Eric Schmidt are pretty hard to get in touch with; plus, as much admiration as I have for them, I don't really identify with either one personally. So, barred from being able to get input from somebody who knows what it's like to be CEO of Google firsthand, I decided I'd email you; though it isn't Google, you do seem to have experience being in a CEO-like position at a company with a similar corporate structure to Google, albeit considerably smaller. You have over a billion dollars, I know your email address, and, very importantly, out of all the tech figureheads I've ever been a fan of, you're the one I identify with most strongly (a simple example being the fact that you're a brony).

So, without further adieu, here is my point:

Recently, I've begun to worry about the prospect of being a tech industry CEO, on grounds of the fact that all of them are extremely busy. It's not the workload that intimidates me; the job itself, I think, would be an enjoyable way to spend time. It's the fact that I'm afraid it may be something which goes beyond work, and takes over your entire lifestyle. I'm worried that, if I were to become CEO of Google, I'd have to be ready to make a crucial decision or get to the Googleplex at a moment's notice, 24/7. In this hypothetical outcome, I'd never be able to take vacations, I'd never be able to spend a few hours ignoring calls to pay attention to my family, etc. What's the point of having an $18.7 billion net worth if you never get the chance to spend a few hours walking around your city, throwing money at homeless people, stealing people's cars and replacing them with newer models, or filling every paid parking space in the city with an old car, not paying the meters, and having the cars towed, only to put each one back, and the city can't stop you because you can afford to keep paying the fines, and they don't have enough tow trucks to keep up with you?

This hypothetical outcome scares me, not because I think it's likely, but because I might have no way of finding out whether it's the case until it's too late. By the time I'm close enough with any big tech industry leaders to know what their lives are like, I've already devoted my life to getting there; it's too late to change my mind and try making a billion dollars some other way. And, even though I can rationally back it up, the statement "The CEO of Google probably isn't too busy" still sounds rather laughable.

So, I decided I would ask you. If any of these are too personal, feel free to tell me off, but if not, answers would be greatly appreciated.

Do you get to spend a lot of time with your wife/kids? What would happen if you spontaneously decided to take a week-long vacation because nothing particularly important was happening at work that week? What if you took a week-long vacation but planned it ahead of time? About how many days do you spend at work each year?

Essentially, how much of your life is controlled by working at VALVe, and how busy do you feel it makes you?

Again, I apologize if any of that's too personal. I appreciate your time reading this, and hope to hear from you.
May 16, 2017 9:56 PM

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This is actually his mugshot:

May 16, 2017 9:59 PM

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i wish i could grow hair like that

holy moly

May 16, 2017 10:00 PM

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does rogaine work for facial hair

May 16, 2017 10:00 PM

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mulling my options here

May 16, 2017 10:02 PM

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Just glue your pubes
May 16, 2017 10:10 PM

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how about i superglue cole's dick on your forehead

:thonking:

May 16, 2017 10:14 PM

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Not like anybody would notice
May 16, 2017 10:38 PM

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Hatin' on me make ya situation worse, you don't wanna take a ride in that long, black hearse
May 16, 2017 11:07 PM

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mood- ~_~

May 16, 2017 11:18 PM
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I'm currently trying to teach myself to drink black coffee.

Because I'm a man, dammit. Also because I don't want to have to rely on a bunch of shit to make it edible. Seems tedious.
May 16, 2017 11:20 PM

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i usually put 1 packet of brown sugar and a bit of half and half or soymilk if they have it

May 16, 2017 11:24 PM

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Real men can drink fancy dessert coffee without tarnishing their manhood. Looks like you've got your work cut out
May 16, 2017 11:25 PM
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Well, usually I get a salted caramel mocha. Mostly because it was the first thing I ever ordered, and only because I asked the barista to recommend me something that wouldn't taste at all like coffee.

But if I'm going to start ACTUALLY drinking coffee, I want it to be simple. Just a simple 1-step process for extra energy and perhaps for the taste even, once I get used to it.
May 16, 2017 11:27 PM
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I finished a cup. I'm weirdly proud of myself.
May 16, 2017 11:36 PM
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And my legs are bouncing all over the damn place. This may have been a mistake at 11:30 at night. Send help.
May 16, 2017 11:37 PM

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just down a shot or 2 of expresso for energy
less liquid, strong af, but tastes pretty gross tho

May 16, 2017 11:38 PM

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or just do crack

crack works too

May 16, 2017 11:40 PM
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You keep trying to get me on crack.
May 16, 2017 11:41 PM

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He's dealing
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