"If I am in the zone on a project or planning a project"
I would say... there is self-justification / self-legitimization with something "external" (the zone).
eh, the guy would need something intrinsic and positive for him to be proud of so not depending that much on a very low low spec of some consumerist stuff.
I have no clue what "the zone" is!
In any case I can barely see some default mode, I had this too. Part of growing in the years 2000. Beliefs, shine, eye powder. "What the society promises", some "part of the cake" concept.
The zone seems to express something external to be tied to for automatically-justifying value. This is problematic as society is more destructive than positive, for humans, and until we get heavily redpilled ("that world out there is really intending to kill you"), then the idea "society is good and positive" will keep first hand. There is some problem in the sense that there are really good people in great need of help. This is because of psychopaths. people don't know.
But then back to it:
"on a project" >> well if society intends to kill you why would you brag about "doing a project"?
I suppose there are two types of people: those not in the know and getting "eaten alive" and those who spread such problematic behaviors as "valid".
Do you have any valid technique for discerning both? Thank you!
But well it seems more or less about it, some (wrong/artificial) extra confidence tied to the fantastic neoliberal world. The society. that's because people still believe in the perenity of the institutions, but thoses have been hijacked by psychopaths (or they were since the start).
This reminds me of a guy who said "now it's time to move on. Old models are not valid any more, and old models are not applicable any more. Proffess. carrier, etc."
hack mode: n. 1. What one is in when hacking, of course. 2. More specifically, a Zen-like state of total focus on The Problem which may be achieved when one is hacking (this is why every good hacker is part mystic). Ability to enter such concentration at will correlates strongly with wizardliness; it is one of the most important skills learned during {larval stage}. Sometimes amplified as `deep hack mode'.
Being yanked out of hack mode (see {priority interrupt}) may be experienced as an physical shock, and the sensation of being in it is more than a little habituating. The intensity of this experience is probably by itself sufficient explanation for the existence of hackers, and explains why many resist being promoted out of positions where they can code. See also cyberspace} (sense #2).
Some aspects of hackish etiquette will appear quite odd to an observer unaware of the high value placed on hack mode. For example, if someone appears at your door, it is perfectly okay to hold up a hand (without turning one's eyes away from the screen) to avoid being interrupted. One may read, type, and interact with the computer for quite some time before further acknowledging the other's presence (of course, he or she is reciprocally free to leave without a word). The understanding is that you might be in {hack mode} with a lot of delicate {state} (sense #2) in your head, and you dare not {swap} that context out until you have reached a good point to pause.
Note that this sort of thing applies only to people who do deeply technical work. And it's not even say, programming in general. If you're working on a small bug or developing a short algorithm that might be 30, or 50 lines long, that's not what is being referenced. If you're working on a 10,000 line program that simulates the operation of a proposed CPU hardware design, AND microcode (long strings of 0's and 1's) INSIDE of that CPU hardware, such that the proposed hardware should implement a particular machine code instruction set --- THEN you MUST be in "hack mode"... which can take up to 30 minutes to re-attain (re-familiarizing oneself with dozens upon dozens of details, including what is not yet working correctly, the current state of the simulator code and/or the microcode (which together execute samples of machine code from the target instruction set).
I am quite sure that there is a similar sort of thing (and terminology) in chemical engineering and nuclear engineering. Less so, to nonexistent, in analog electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and civil engineering, due to more complete modularity and isolation of structures and processes)
(Disclaimer: Autistic 23 year old female guessing here lol)
1. Thinking a pretty girl would kiss him while he is presumably typing at a computer
2. Fantasizing about turning down a pretty girl, perhaps vindictively, as though turned down by many pretty girls
3. Emphasis on oneself "Do not bother me when I am in the zone"
4. Bragging about ones own social status (sigmas don't care about social status that much)
5. "All about concentration on your work and thoughts" implies that ones own thoughts are super important
6. "The zone" is something my dad says a lot, and he's a gamma
7. He had to say that he's not a fag
1. "Way touchier than in your dark stream days" implies having argued in the past
2. The immediate personal insults
3. "Is something off with your life" reminds me of my dad (a gamma) saying I might be bipolar because I wanted out of the US Naval Sea Cadets Corps as a teenage girl. Call it a girl's intuition
1. Implying that a friend got sick of Vox Day may imply that friends get sick of the gamma
2. Insecurity being an insult. People usually attack with their own wounded areas, implying insecurity
3. "I wonder why" also sounds like something my dad said a lot when he was angry and being mean to me as a kid
Slightly off topic but I'd like to point out that his first line, "Sigma is all about concentration on your work and your thoughts," is such a brutal tell that everything else is just confirmation. Gammas treat mind over matter as their core mantra to the point that everything the Gamma offers is hypothetical and "I've thought about . . ." and I think it's the worst Gamma tell.
That's why I think Xian Xia [cultivation fantasy] might be the most Gamma genre in existence. It's a genre where the protagonist literally thinks their way to becoming stronger instead of doing real work, what could be more Gamma than that?
For post A: 1) redefines Sigma to match Gamma behaviors, 2) is focused on internal thoughts above action, 3) goes into solipsistic hypotheticals, 4) creepy fantasy about a woman, 5) secret king somehow rules with a single frown, 6) comma abuse, and 7) it's a wall of text.
Post B: 1) Doesn't directly respond to what was said, 2) implied in-group posturing, and 3) is attempting to redirect all attacks back to Vox Day.
Post C: 1) Appeals to a 3rd party to attack, 2) asks and answers their own rhetorical question and, 3) attacks via projection.
Is the socio-sexual hierarchy applicable to all races and cultures? Does the proportion of alphas, bravos, deltas, gammas, and omegas change across races and cultures?
On a related note, I have either read or been told by a Jew that in Jewish culture, masculinity is about quietly reading and arguing. If true, lots and lots of gammas in that culture.
Spoken like a man who's never had a 5 drive by kiss him for some lovin' in his life, let alone a 10.
I watch Owen's streams, Owen and The Bears have the upmost respect for Vox and trust him and the team he has made. We look forward to the re-launch of UATV.
Let me see what I can find!
First entry: Projection onto Sigmas, passive aggression, example of 'merit' that requires fantasizing/hypothetical scenario, insecurity (not that I'm a fag bro trust me!) bitchiness, cattiness. The apparent need to assert a higher rank over women and men, by declaring he is too special to accept the advances of a hypothetical attractive woman, when women do not rank in the SSH.
Third: The assumption that you give a shit what Owen thinks of you as a Sigma, because he would give a shit, so more projection. This leads into more passive aggression and bitchiness.
"If I am in the zone on a project or planning a project"
I would say... there is self-justification / self-legitimization with something "external" (the zone).
eh, the guy would need something intrinsic and positive for him to be proud of so not depending that much on a very low low spec of some consumerist stuff.
I have no clue what "the zone" is!
In any case I can barely see some default mode, I had this too. Part of growing in the years 2000. Beliefs, shine, eye powder. "What the society promises", some "part of the cake" concept.
The zone seems to express something external to be tied to for automatically-justifying value. This is problematic as society is more destructive than positive, for humans, and until we get heavily redpilled ("that world out there is really intending to kill you"), then the idea "society is good and positive" will keep first hand. There is some problem in the sense that there are really good people in great need of help. This is because of psychopaths. people don't know.
But then back to it:
"on a project" >> well if society intends to kill you why would you brag about "doing a project"?
I suppose there are two types of people: those not in the know and getting "eaten alive" and those who spread such problematic behaviors as "valid".
Do you have any valid technique for discerning both? Thank you!
But well it seems more or less about it, some (wrong/artificial) extra confidence tied to the fantastic neoliberal world. The society. that's because people still believe in the perenity of the institutions, but thoses have been hijacked by psychopaths (or they were since the start).
This reminds me of a guy who said "now it's time to move on. Old models are not valid any more, and old models are not applicable any more. Proffess. carrier, etc."
This entry from the Computer Jargon File (aka Hacker's Dictionary) http://www.catb.org/esr/jargon/oldversions/jarg271.txt might be instructive:
hack mode: n. 1. What one is in when hacking, of course. 2. More specifically, a Zen-like state of total focus on The Problem which may be achieved when one is hacking (this is why every good hacker is part mystic). Ability to enter such concentration at will correlates strongly with wizardliness; it is one of the most important skills learned during {larval stage}. Sometimes amplified as `deep hack mode'.
Being yanked out of hack mode (see {priority interrupt}) may be experienced as an physical shock, and the sensation of being in it is more than a little habituating. The intensity of this experience is probably by itself sufficient explanation for the existence of hackers, and explains why many resist being promoted out of positions where they can code. See also cyberspace} (sense #2).
Some aspects of hackish etiquette will appear quite odd to an observer unaware of the high value placed on hack mode. For example, if someone appears at your door, it is perfectly okay to hold up a hand (without turning one's eyes away from the screen) to avoid being interrupted. One may read, type, and interact with the computer for quite some time before further acknowledging the other's presence (of course, he or she is reciprocally free to leave without a word). The understanding is that you might be in {hack mode} with a lot of delicate {state} (sense #2) in your head, and you dare not {swap} that context out until you have reached a good point to pause.
Note that this sort of thing applies only to people who do deeply technical work. And it's not even say, programming in general. If you're working on a small bug or developing a short algorithm that might be 30, or 50 lines long, that's not what is being referenced. If you're working on a 10,000 line program that simulates the operation of a proposed CPU hardware design, AND microcode (long strings of 0's and 1's) INSIDE of that CPU hardware, such that the proposed hardware should implement a particular machine code instruction set --- THEN you MUST be in "hack mode"... which can take up to 30 minutes to re-attain (re-familiarizing oneself with dozens upon dozens of details, including what is not yet working correctly, the current state of the simulator code and/or the microcode (which together execute samples of machine code from the target instruction set).
I am quite sure that there is a similar sort of thing (and terminology) in chemical engineering and nuclear engineering. Less so, to nonexistent, in analog electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and civil engineering, due to more complete modularity and isolation of structures and processes)
I'm not sure this guy is a gamma, he might just be gay and autistic.
Overuse of commas in the first one.
(Disclaimer: Autistic 23 year old female guessing here lol)
1. Thinking a pretty girl would kiss him while he is presumably typing at a computer
2. Fantasizing about turning down a pretty girl, perhaps vindictively, as though turned down by many pretty girls
3. Emphasis on oneself "Do not bother me when I am in the zone"
4. Bragging about ones own social status (sigmas don't care about social status that much)
5. "All about concentration on your work and thoughts" implies that ones own thoughts are super important
6. "The zone" is something my dad says a lot, and he's a gamma
7. He had to say that he's not a fag
1. "Way touchier than in your dark stream days" implies having argued in the past
2. The immediate personal insults
3. "Is something off with your life" reminds me of my dad (a gamma) saying I might be bipolar because I wanted out of the US Naval Sea Cadets Corps as a teenage girl. Call it a girl's intuition
1. Implying that a friend got sick of Vox Day may imply that friends get sick of the gamma
2. Insecurity being an insult. People usually attack with their own wounded areas, implying insecurity
3. "I wonder why" also sounds like something my dad said a lot when he was angry and being mean to me as a kid
Slightly off topic but I'd like to point out that his first line, "Sigma is all about concentration on your work and your thoughts," is such a brutal tell that everything else is just confirmation. Gammas treat mind over matter as their core mantra to the point that everything the Gamma offers is hypothetical and "I've thought about . . ." and I think it's the worst Gamma tell.
That's why I think Xian Xia [cultivation fantasy] might be the most Gamma genre in existence. It's a genre where the protagonist literally thinks their way to becoming stronger instead of doing real work, what could be more Gamma than that?
You don't even have to read the whole comment exchange; just look at his profile photo.
1. The really big insight, shared, via a sort of written montage.
2. The hot chick moves in.
3. The hot chick curtly told to wait.
4. The surprised reaction to the host’s reply.
5. The feigned concern about the host.
6. The suggestion that the host has lost his mojo.
7. The see-even-others-can’t-handle-you wedge.
8. The self-appointed service to others.
9. Always, always, the flounce.
YouTube throwback - but does anyone remember the “My New Haircut” video making fun of Jersey Bros? This Gamma sounds exactly like the caricature.
Practically indistinguishable from satire.
First Comment
1. The journey from “biggest fan” to “inveterate hater dedicated to exposing the fraud”
2. Grandiosity - Sigma is all about concentration on your work and your thoughts.
3. Self reference - He is on top of the food chain.
4. Incoherence and use of commas between sentences.
5. Delusional - a 10 could come and brush her lips against my cheek.
6. If I display toughness then I am the Sigma/Alpha - I'd give her an annoyed face frown
7. Unrequested explanation - Not because I am a fag, but because, do not bother me, when I am in the zone.
Second Comment
1. Projection of his own fear - Tackle the man and not the argument.
2. Rage volcano
3. Use of rhetorical question
Third Comment
1. Value judgement
2. Insecure
3. Snark
If it doesn’t force multiply it is my enemy
This is a great exercise.
First comment:
1. Uncalled for "expert commentary" on the topic
2. Which was incorrect ("Sigma is all about...")
3. Obviously fabulist scenario (10 face brushing)
4. Low SSH word use ("annoyed face frown")
5. Implied parenthesis ("I'm not a fag")
6. Comma misuse
7. A general display of neediness (wanting to demonstrate expertise and manliness)
Second comment:
1. Takes it personally, makes it personal (the supressed rage is palpable)
2. Says he's a fan (thus implying betrayal)
3. And is calling you out because he's concerned
Third comment
1. Demonstrable lie (about Owen getting sick of you)
2. Snark (you can almost hear his sneer in "I wonder why?")
3. Ends with Secret King I-Know-You-Better-Than-You-Know-Yourself flourish ("insecurity perhaps?").
For post A: 1) redefines Sigma to match Gamma behaviors, 2) is focused on internal thoughts above action, 3) goes into solipsistic hypotheticals, 4) creepy fantasy about a woman, 5) secret king somehow rules with a single frown, 6) comma abuse, and 7) it's a wall of text.
Post B: 1) Doesn't directly respond to what was said, 2) implied in-group posturing, and 3) is attempting to redirect all attacks back to Vox Day.
Post C: 1) Appeals to a 3rd party to attack, 2) asks and answers their own rhetorical question and, 3) attacks via projection.
Is the socio-sexual hierarchy applicable to all races and cultures? Does the proportion of alphas, bravos, deltas, gammas, and omegas change across races and cultures?
On a related note, I have either read or been told by a Jew that in Jewish culture, masculinity is about quietly reading and arguing. If true, lots and lots of gammas in that culture.
Spoken like a man who's never had a 5 drive by kiss him for some lovin' in his life, let alone a 10.
I watch Owen's streams, Owen and The Bears have the upmost respect for Vox and trust him and the team he has made. We look forward to the re-launch of UATV.
Let me see what I can find!
First entry: Projection onto Sigmas, passive aggression, example of 'merit' that requires fantasizing/hypothetical scenario, insecurity (not that I'm a fag bro trust me!) bitchiness, cattiness. The apparent need to assert a higher rank over women and men, by declaring he is too special to accept the advances of a hypothetical attractive woman, when women do not rank in the SSH.
Second: Passive aggression, bitchiness, projection.
Third: The assumption that you give a shit what Owen thinks of you as a Sigma, because he would give a shit, so more projection. This leads into more passive aggression and bitchiness.
How'd I do?
Does anyone notice this behavior in public? I only really see it online.
Gammas are more sneaky in the workplace so if you don't look for it you can miss it.