I didn't say he wants to be popular, I said he's mainly interested in popularity... namely, other people's popularity, which is why so many of his articles mention how popular the game is. Is that really relevant to the game's value?
It's worth it if you're also interested in a picking a few bones with the community surrounding the game, which icycalm tends to do. If he posts about the disgusting behavior of artfags in one essay, and then talks about how artfags are being disgusting concerning the game he's talking about, it seems like a worthwhile endeavor. It's considering how other people valued the game and then purposing your own. It's golden calf toppling, what he seems to be doing at the moment.
Just read his own words, Ashford. But I think he does want to be popular, in a sense - the fact that you're repeating his lines about "burning bridges" just proves that the line worked on you. Going for the "anti-hero" angle doesn't make it any less about popularity.
All I'm saying is that if he really was vying for popularity, he certainly made a lot of mistakes. Compare him to someone like Tim Rogers, who makes ever effort to saturate what must be over a dozen outlets where he can communicate with people over the internet.
As for the last part: "a select few people he feels are intelligent enough to understand them"... do you realize how pathetic that sounds?
A little, actually, if provided with enough implications to frame me as some icycalm cultist. I don't agree with icycalm to sound smart, I agree with him because the things he thinks sync up with the things I think.
He's patronizing you to try and make you feel special for not being "subhuman".
He's literally calling one group of people "subhuman" and appealing to your low sense of self worth by separating you artificially from that group.
Ouch.
Well, I really never felt like I identified myself with icycalm. I never really tend to mention him, and I certainly don't think I'm parroting anything he says. If anything, I'm parroting Anarkex. I don't have a lot to gain by agreeing with a stranger on the internet, Derek. In fact, after I post in one of these threads, I'm more concerned with how stupid icycalm probably thinks half of the things I said are rather than how he's so eager to congratulate my triumphant victory over da homos. We have the sort of relationship any strangers over the internet can have, we read what each other have to say and react to them. You guys are the ones that keep trying to align me with icycalm, which is true, but I certainly don't go about flaunting it unless pressed.
Don't kid yourself that he actually thinks you're intelligent for regurgitating what he says. You are not in the storied line of philosopher-kings... but it serves him that you think you might be.
I'll never meet the guy, and I'll probably never have direct contact with him again. The best I can hope is that I say something new that he's impressed with. Anarkex managed this a few times, I'm still trying to get a piece of that hot icycalm cock.
I'm honestly not the best advocate for maturity,
I never would've guessed.
Why don't you just ask me, in text, if I have any friends, and I'll either ignore you or address why it's not true/unimportant. An erect cock is porn and would be scrubbed as porn. The reason a single line of text was scrubbed was because it makes him look bad.
Derek do you have friends?
If yes, turn to page 145, where I will tell you that you are obviously lying to try to cover up the fact that you are a lonely loser. This also may invalidate everything you have ever said, who knows?
If no, turn to page 68, where you don't have any friends.
If you choose to ignore my post, turn to page 79, where my post was so scathing and biting that you were unable to properly coordinate any sort of response that wouldn't make you seem like a desperate loser trying to cover up the fact that you don't have any friends.
If you choose to delete my post, turn to page 13, where the comment left you so butthurt that the very fact that it still exists on your forum serves as a constant reminder of the harsh reality you are forced to exist in.
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