I've been reading here since the beginning. Gone through it a few times, in fact. Great stuff.
I recently moved to south eastern Mass from 25 years of 'hermiting' in northern Maine. People have gotten even more stupefied, but it doesn't bother me now. All types are easy to deal with, and I am really enjoying that. It's real handy, and I thank you for it.
Got my coffee table version last week. It's beautiful. Thank you.
P.S. my wife read the whole thing and immediately recognized her girl-boss friend as Cate.
The girl-boss got a 4-year journalism degree, came out as a non-binary pansexual about a month after marrying her husband, who is straight. Her goal is now to be "an advocate for trans children". The system hooked this one, BAD.
My wife particularly liked the boomer mice wanting to hear more about the standard vs. deluxe "end-of-life" sales pitch. Reminds her of her father.
Gamma males are more frustrating than having a colonoscope and finding out that you might be pre cancer. Example my life:
On Wednesday I had a colonscope where they found stuff and I might be precancer. On Thursday I was back working from home. I wrote a series of marketing letters that I needed one of my coworkers to put into our email system. He and I don't like each other & we've butted heads in the past. So he wasn't inclined to be helpful and I knew that getting the letters into the system was going to be like pulling teeth.
I sent him the letters to put into the system. His first email back to me was they didn't have headers for the emails. Ok, I should've thought of that one but still it is his job to get the emails out and he could've done the headers in less time than it took to tell me about it, me do them and send them back. He's supposed to be our email marketing guy after all and it is his job to get them out.
After getting him the titles then it was the test email. That took multiple emails back and forth to get set up. I knew that he was dragging his feet, mucking up the process and dragging it out just to be difficult, like a US district court judge when he makes national injunctions. So tiresome. Finally we got the test done. Then it was what list are we sending it to? A couple more emails and it was to our complete list of everybody who accepts our emails. So tiresome.
Then as a parting shot, he told me to be ready for tons of bounce back emails of people who've been laid off since our last blast and tons of emails letting me know that the recipient was out of town. By Thursday night I was exhausted.
Today my 2 oldest kids were playing with 2 of their cousins at my parent's house out at their pool and my gamma male brother showed up. Now my brother is outwardly high social status but once you interact with him, he's totally gamma. First he walked into his mother's house and started talking about how it smelled like dog piss. It doesn't. Of course there's a rug that my mom's dog and my brother's dog pee on. If the house reeks, his dog is partially responsible. I'm taking that rug to the dump this week. Of course his house reeks of dirty laundry and dog, so who is he to talk?
Then he started talking/bragging about his most recent round of golf. He was telling us about how there was this group that had some karen lady playing before him. They were going slow and they were at the other end of the hole. My brother figured that he could't get the ball to them so he just went ahead and tee'd off. The brag was that this was the best shot of his life so far and nearly hit their group. Then like 2 holes later they were going slow and he shot again and this time hit the ball even farther and almost hit the karen lady. I noticed the humble brag. Of course I didn't point out that my brother was literally terrorizing the group in front of him and maybe the karen was on to something.
Then one of his sons got hold of a water hose with the attached sprayer and started running around spraying the kids. My daughter and oldest son were playing with 2 of my sister's kids. My brother's son was going to wherever they were playing and spraying them. The group then started migrating around the yard trying to get away from their cousin with the sprayer. I was just sitting there watching this whole mess wondering when my brother was going to do some parenting and get his bratty son under control.
My dad said something about my nephew with the sprayer. My brother just said, "He's doing what he loves to do. . . terrorize people" and promptly did nothing. Of course with my kids if one of them has a dirty face, or if our 2 year old twins get a poopy diaper and my wife and I don't notice it, he will make sure that we know all about how we are failing as parents. Of course our children don't go around terrorizing other children and are pleasant to be with but my brother has nothing to say about that.
I know from personal experience that having a colonoscope, having parts of your innards cut off and finding out that you are possibly pre cancer is literally less unpleasant than dealing with gamma coworkers and gamma family members. It's all so tiresome.
The gamma co-worker's anti-cooperation with regard to the explicit duties of his position:
cc: all e-mail to higher ups tends to solve this foot-dragging problem.
With perpetual problem coworkers, bcc; everything to your supervisor and the other person's supervisor.
"My brother's son was going to wherever they were playing and spraying them. The group then started migrating around the yard trying to get away from their cousin with the sprayer. I was just sitting there watching this whole mess wondering when my brother was going to do some parenting and get his bratty son under control."
You should have just turned the water off. And then taken the nozzle off of the hose.
Then tell your brother, "If you fail to instill discipline in your kids, others will. And in increasingly drastic and unpleasant ways. Fix the problem before they end up in prison."
That sounds very unpleasant and I wish you and your health well. Despite the large amount of gamma I found your story to contain many lessons being taught primarily on how not to behave. It also made me chuckle although I'm not sure if that was your intention.
Thankfully a lot of people predicted a positive outcome for the Hypergamouse book. Mine just arrived and it is excellent. My wife enjoyed it too. Well worth the money and the wait. Thanks!
I got my copy with the variant hardcover a few days ago. Marcelio Sousa did really well with the artwork! Mari and Jami are hot, and the interior of the book looks fantastic.
A ship that never leaves the Harbor has little chance of sinking.
It also has zero chance of doing what it was intended to do - transporting people and materials around the world. Defeating other ships in battle.
Ships are meant to be used.
People are meant to risk things. To live.
But oh noes, he says. Not me. Not the gamma.
Far preferable simply to live, get by, and imagine being the winner, because I can project what I can do, how I could do it better than everyone else, because theory trumps all.
If you never take a shot on goal, then you never miss. If you never miss, then you're perfect and never have to be honest about your comparative skill level.
The like button is not quite enough. A button that says Vox is right again, damn him would be more appropriate, at least to me. As I wrote on my one other post I am D.O.G. and the G took a hit from this entry. I've never commented on another person's mating choices but I see disaster everywhere, but I have learned to shut up about it.
Of course he will predict disaster. The average gamma has lost all his few friends to women by the age of 25. Plus gammas can't wait to gloat that they have girlfriends in front of other gammas that don't. Once we found a girl for one gamma just so he can rile up his gamma circle jerk. It was hilarious.
I've been reading here since the beginning. Gone through it a few times, in fact. Great stuff.
I recently moved to south eastern Mass from 25 years of 'hermiting' in northern Maine. People have gotten even more stupefied, but it doesn't bother me now. All types are easy to deal with, and I am really enjoying that. It's real handy, and I thank you for it.
Got my coffee table version last week. It's beautiful. Thank you.
P.S. my wife read the whole thing and immediately recognized her girl-boss friend as Cate.
The girl-boss got a 4-year journalism degree, came out as a non-binary pansexual about a month after marrying her husband, who is straight. Her goal is now to be "an advocate for trans children". The system hooked this one, BAD.
My wife particularly liked the boomer mice wanting to hear more about the standard vs. deluxe "end-of-life" sales pitch. Reminds her of her father.
Gamma males are more frustrating than having a colonoscope and finding out that you might be pre cancer. Example my life:
On Wednesday I had a colonscope where they found stuff and I might be precancer. On Thursday I was back working from home. I wrote a series of marketing letters that I needed one of my coworkers to put into our email system. He and I don't like each other & we've butted heads in the past. So he wasn't inclined to be helpful and I knew that getting the letters into the system was going to be like pulling teeth.
I sent him the letters to put into the system. His first email back to me was they didn't have headers for the emails. Ok, I should've thought of that one but still it is his job to get the emails out and he could've done the headers in less time than it took to tell me about it, me do them and send them back. He's supposed to be our email marketing guy after all and it is his job to get them out.
After getting him the titles then it was the test email. That took multiple emails back and forth to get set up. I knew that he was dragging his feet, mucking up the process and dragging it out just to be difficult, like a US district court judge when he makes national injunctions. So tiresome. Finally we got the test done. Then it was what list are we sending it to? A couple more emails and it was to our complete list of everybody who accepts our emails. So tiresome.
Then as a parting shot, he told me to be ready for tons of bounce back emails of people who've been laid off since our last blast and tons of emails letting me know that the recipient was out of town. By Thursday night I was exhausted.
Today my 2 oldest kids were playing with 2 of their cousins at my parent's house out at their pool and my gamma male brother showed up. Now my brother is outwardly high social status but once you interact with him, he's totally gamma. First he walked into his mother's house and started talking about how it smelled like dog piss. It doesn't. Of course there's a rug that my mom's dog and my brother's dog pee on. If the house reeks, his dog is partially responsible. I'm taking that rug to the dump this week. Of course his house reeks of dirty laundry and dog, so who is he to talk?
Then he started talking/bragging about his most recent round of golf. He was telling us about how there was this group that had some karen lady playing before him. They were going slow and they were at the other end of the hole. My brother figured that he could't get the ball to them so he just went ahead and tee'd off. The brag was that this was the best shot of his life so far and nearly hit their group. Then like 2 holes later they were going slow and he shot again and this time hit the ball even farther and almost hit the karen lady. I noticed the humble brag. Of course I didn't point out that my brother was literally terrorizing the group in front of him and maybe the karen was on to something.
Then one of his sons got hold of a water hose with the attached sprayer and started running around spraying the kids. My daughter and oldest son were playing with 2 of my sister's kids. My brother's son was going to wherever they were playing and spraying them. The group then started migrating around the yard trying to get away from their cousin with the sprayer. I was just sitting there watching this whole mess wondering when my brother was going to do some parenting and get his bratty son under control.
My dad said something about my nephew with the sprayer. My brother just said, "He's doing what he loves to do. . . terrorize people" and promptly did nothing. Of course with my kids if one of them has a dirty face, or if our 2 year old twins get a poopy diaper and my wife and I don't notice it, he will make sure that we know all about how we are failing as parents. Of course our children don't go around terrorizing other children and are pleasant to be with but my brother has nothing to say about that.
I know from personal experience that having a colonoscope, having parts of your innards cut off and finding out that you are possibly pre cancer is literally less unpleasant than dealing with gamma coworkers and gamma family members. It's all so tiresome.
The gamma co-worker's anti-cooperation with regard to the explicit duties of his position:
cc: all e-mail to higher ups tends to solve this foot-dragging problem.
With perpetual problem coworkers, bcc; everything to your supervisor and the other person's supervisor.
"My brother's son was going to wherever they were playing and spraying them. The group then started migrating around the yard trying to get away from their cousin with the sprayer. I was just sitting there watching this whole mess wondering when my brother was going to do some parenting and get his bratty son under control."
You should have just turned the water off. And then taken the nozzle off of the hose.
Then tell your brother, "If you fail to instill discipline in your kids, others will. And in increasingly drastic and unpleasant ways. Fix the problem before they end up in prison."
That sounds very unpleasant and I wish you and your health well. Despite the large amount of gamma I found your story to contain many lessons being taught primarily on how not to behave. It also made me chuckle although I'm not sure if that was your intention.
I think that the last 4 days of my life are very darkly humorous. Thanks for the best wishes.
Thankfully a lot of people predicted a positive outcome for the Hypergamouse book. Mine just arrived and it is excellent. My wife enjoyed it too. Well worth the money and the wait. Thanks!
My book arrived two days ago and I was delighted with how beautiful it is.
Got my copy and the quality is excellent. Exceeded my expectations.
Got our hard cover and paperback. I wish Lacey every success! Congratulations, you have a book.
Got my copy. Looks awesome! The edge banding details is a nice touch. Great work, everyone involved!
Thank you, Lacey, for the excellent artistry, and Vox, for the continued efforts in the field! Looking forward to Sigma Game in a book.
I got my copy with the variant hardcover a few days ago. Marcelio Sousa did really well with the artwork! Mari and Jami are hot, and the interior of the book looks fantastic.
Proverbs 26:13 - The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! There is a lion in the streets!”
In the gamma's mind, never losing = winning. If you never try you never lose.
Secret king wins again.
To add to the gamma mindset:
If you lose it's proof I was right
If you win it was a total fluke you didn't deserve it why couldn't it happen to me??
Yup.
A ship that never leaves the Harbor has little chance of sinking.
It also has zero chance of doing what it was intended to do - transporting people and materials around the world. Defeating other ships in battle.
Ships are meant to be used.
People are meant to risk things. To live.
But oh noes, he says. Not me. Not the gamma.
Far preferable simply to live, get by, and imagine being the winner, because I can project what I can do, how I could do it better than everyone else, because theory trumps all.
But you can't theorize a happy life or salvation.
Which is how it ends, in the end.
If you never take a shot on goal, then you never miss. If you never miss, then you're perfect and never have to be honest about your comparative skill level.
Exactly.
The like button is not quite enough. A button that says Vox is right again, damn him would be more appropriate, at least to me. As I wrote on my one other post I am D.O.G. and the G took a hit from this entry. I've never commented on another person's mating choices but I see disaster everywhere, but I have learned to shut up about it.
What do you mean by DOG?
Delta, Omega, Gamma
“Low-SMV” gets the point across if you’re not sure which of the three.
You are probably just a gamma
That's not a thing.
My copy of Hypergamouse arrived Thursday. It is really well done. Top notch stuff, folks.
Great scripts by both Vox and Lacey, but Lacey’s illustrations bring it across home plate.
Me too! I love the little mouse characters on the page edges. Super cute detail!
Of course he will predict disaster. The average gamma has lost all his few friends to women by the age of 25. Plus gammas can't wait to gloat that they have girlfriends in front of other gammas that don't. Once we found a girl for one gamma just so he can rile up his gamma circle jerk. It was hilarious.
I got my copy of Hypergamouse yesterday.
Woot!
Well done Lacey, Vox, and the team.