Pat Martone Appreciation Station

 

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"BS and creativity are one and the same. It's sad we disparage it."

So I recently deactivated my Facebook.  The reasoning behind this move was because I felt deeply annoyed by having to bear witness to the facades put forth by all my "friends".  I realized that everyone's profile was a joke;  the only information that they contained was that which the owner wanted others to see.  By looking at someone's profile, you knew nothing more about the 'real' them than you would looking at someone on the street.  If anything, you could get more information from someone by seeing them in person, as body language, appearance and posture can reveal a lot about a person.

When discussing this at Sudwerks on Wednesday, Thomas' girlfriend said in response to this something to the effect of 'Yes, thats true. But you can tell a lot about someone by seeing what they want other people to see about themselves.'  I was surprised at first, but I realized this was the truth. Oftentimes so much (banal) information is available about certain people that it is easy to see that they are full of themselves and otherwise uninteresting (in my opinion). But then I realized it wasn't so much the facades that bothered me, but having to deal with the images instead of the people themselves. I felt annoyed that so much extrapolation was necessary to know get to know "the real" versions of people, and felt that this was so much easier to do in person. The whole concept of the social network was a sham in this respect; it was supposed to make people feel more connected to each other but I felt like Facebook was doing the opposite, at least for myself.  My true friends, who I value highly, have very little activity on Facebook, and I rarely interact with them via Facebook.

Upon further reflection, I came to the conclusion that it was naive of me to get frustrated at sifting through the bullshit.  Regardless of my personal feelings towards facades, they still are (and will always be) a big part of life.  I can bitch and moan about it and remark about how much I like real talk, but some people really like the bullshit, and I'll always have to deal with it.  It's easier to hide oneself behind a false personality; that way any personality traits or quirks one has that they are ashamed of can be effectively masked and the rejection of their true selves by others can be avoided. Among friends, it's pathetic and I don't condone it, but I acknowledge that it makes things easier in making new ones.  Deactivating facebook won't make these projected personalities of people magically go away, and besides, facebook isn't really the problem anyways.  So I will be reactivating facebook again in the next couple of days, not that anyone cares. 

Offtopic:  Tobey Maguire checking out Natalie Portman's ass.

Also I'm not a good writer and often have trouble articulating my thoughts, but I'll be damned if I don't try to work on it.

I've been getting back my roots (not really) and playing Marvel vs Capcom 2.  After playing MvC3, I found that I really like MvC2 more, so I'm sticking with it for now.  I've been trying to get Magneto's rom infinite down, and just recently have got the hang of it.  Pretty cool stuff.  I also am planning on uploading some videos of ranked matches I play in MvC2 to my Youtube channel, mostly for my own benefit so I can see what I did wrong or just try to cut down on scrubby tactics. Enjoy

James, why are you writing about yourself?

Oh and don't ask how I stumbled across this.

I heard this song playing Just Dance 2 this weekend.  I think its pretty catchy. Oh and fun fact about this group, Kayne West was pissed off when Justice won some music video award over him and crashed the stage(again) then proceeded to go on a tirade about how he spent a million dollars on his video and Pam Anderson was in it.

I was recently discussing with Maggie the subject of a "beta male", and I was surprised to see that we had some very different views on what qualities a beta male had.

In her mind, Beta males were just a slight step down from Alpha males.  They were quiet and unconfrontational, yet smart, confident and not bad looking.  She said that in her opinion, the quintessential beta male was Jim Halpert from The Office. Let just say right off that bat, I really dislike Jim Halpert.  First of all, I'm not a fan of the Office, but second, I hate the portrayal of his character in the office.  A beta male does not get a hot girlfriend/wife. 

 

In my opinion, the beta male has to wait until he's in his thirties and well off before one of the aging Alpha females gets tired of being used and discarded by the alpha males and wants to be treated right. Why I don't buy the character Jim Halpert(or whatever the actors name is) plays on the Office is that every (young and attractive) woman cameo on the show seems to have the hots for him.  He gets so much female attention on the show its not even funny, from what I've seen.  Beta males do not get lots of female attention.  Jim is also pretty suave with the ladies; beta males are not suave, they do not pick up women easily.  Maggie then said that she thought I was a beta male, to which I was slightly offended.

I personally believe that Beta males are the males who are inferior to Alpha males in every way.  When I think beta male, I think of the chubby guys with neckbeards in my CS courses who either won't even look at a woman or view them with contempt (defense mechanism). I thought of beta males as males that had absolutely none of the qualities that make up an alpha male, unlike Maggie's defintion, in which beta males had some qualities, but not all.  My definition considers Beta males as the unquestionable lesser species than the alphas, hence the classification. 

 

I guess the difference in semantics here is that I take the classification 'beta' as 'undeniably substandard' as opposed to 'slightly substandard'.  After listening to Maggie's definition, I agreed with her classification of the beta male, but I still disagreed with her saying the Jim Halpert was a beta male, let alone the archetype. Urban Dictionary also supported her definition.  But then I thought to myself, "Then where do the neckbeards fit in?".  Is there another tier of males, the Gamma tier in which these poor souls belong to? It's kind of a moot point however, as I don't believe these classifications have enough depth in them to really standardize the worth of a man.

(Cue melancholy Scrubs music) But I guess at the end of the day, all males have some alpha, beta, and gamma qualities in them.  We're all only as Alpha as we want to be.  Anyone could work out, dress nicely, get rid of that acne, start being a bigger asshole and fabricate confidence from that.  The first step into fooling other people that you're an Alpha male is fooling yourself. 

Oh and I feel I should qualify this by stating that I don't see myself as an alpha, beta, or gamma male.  Stay tuned for next week's riveting post along the same lines as this one regarding beta females and why they're dumbasses!

 

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GIF - Hype dog from BlazBlue: Continuum Shift

Dear Capcom, I hope
that Marvel 3 does not suck
Shotos, suck my balls

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I found this old screenshot of me griefing some guy for trying to cannonrush me. But I can't believe how good my record was back then. What the fuck happened?  Oh yeah, school.

lol? Guess what I didn't replace in my new system.