Dakryn's Batshit Theory of the Week

[The Ozzman]

This worries me more than nukes and is much likelier to happen

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-could-wipe-out-america-democracy-world-order

 

[rms]

not going to happen dude

 

[The Ozzman]

not going to happen dude

Whatever you say

 

[Dak]

https://quillette.com/2018/12/14/video-games-and-the-male-meaning-of-life/

Solid writeup.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

yo @Dak, i heard you calculated and made up an IQ score for yourself in the 160's(lmao) and then got called out on in later when you said that you never actually took an IQ test. Is this true?

 

[CiG]

TB in UM GMDS

1. See Posts
2. Roid Rage
3. ????
4. Repeat

 

[Dak]

yo @Dak, i heard you calculated and made up an IQ score for yourself in the 160's(lmao) and then got called out on in later when you said that you never actually took an IQ test. Is this true?

Not to my knowledge. Unless I drunk posted some bullshit like 8-10 years ago. It's true I have not taken an IQ test, but I have taken other tests with high correlations with IQ test results and I also give IQ tests, and my best informed estimate is in the range of 125-130.

Edit: I think I posted about GRE correlations, and I have a super high IQ correlation with the verbal subtest, but not with the quantitative, and I explained that. If someone wants to run with a single sentence and ignore everything else that's on them.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Not to my knowledge. Unless I drunk posted some bullshit like 8-10 years ago. It's true I have not taken an IQ test, but I have taken other tests with high correlations with IQ test results and I also give IQ tests, and my best informed estimate is in the range of 125-130.

so you're saying you never made up an IQ score for yourself? Or at least you don't remember doing so?

 

[Dak]

so you're saying you never made up an IQ score for yourself? Or at least you don't remember doing so?

I never made any unequivocal statements. I've only ever made estimations, and I'm pretty sure they are in the 125-135 range.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

oh "estimations", i see. Are you sure you didn't make up an "estimate" in the 160s?

 

[rms]

he's got a quote dak just end this fucking week long stupidity

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

he's probably searching for it right now

He just basically admitted to making up a score for himself anyway, i'll just save this one for another day.

 

[rms]

fucking deranged man

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

fucking dyslexic man

"I estimated an IQ score for myself"

 

[Einherjar86]

https://quillette.com/2018/12/14/video-games-and-the-male-meaning-of-life/

Solid writeup.

I don't intend to make this into a politicized gender discussion, but I can't help but wonder about the masculine dimension(s) of video games. I know there are women who play video games, but I can't but feel that most of them appeal to a "masculine" audience.

oh "estimations", i see. Are you sure you didn't make up an "estimate" in the 160s?

Do you have nothing better to do?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Do you have nothing better to do?

Sure, i can start making fun of you too again. What do you say? You want in? I have plenty of material.

 

[Einherjar86]

Again--do you have nothing better to do?

 

[rms]

I don't intend to make this into a politicized gender discussion, but I can't help but wonder about the masculine dimension(s) of video games. I know there are women who play video games, but I can't but feel that most of them appeal to a "masculine" audience.

not sure there's a societal reason for women to play video games, if we're going to gender this (even more)

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Again--do you have nothing better to do?

like come to a metal forum and pretend to me some kind of smart ass in the social section like you and dak? Are you also "fairly sure" of your IQ score based on some calculation you drew up in your own head?

 

[CiG]

Most video games deal with violence, whether direct (shmups, hack and slash, fighting games etc) or indirect (sports) and that alone probably discourages a ton of women. Adventure games (and RPGs) do well with the female demo though, probably because it does its best to balance story and decision-making, in a social sense, with violence.

I think JP also made a good point when he said for women, reaching maturity is less nebulous because the biological implications are more in-their-face. Men without some kind of guidance can take their whole lives to "grow up" (big part of why they abandon pregnant s/o's) and so maybe women just realize the futility of playing video games all day much earlier on?