lots of people i meet brag they don't read either dude.

usually after they see that I'm reading a book or if I tell them I like to read. they seem to find this very offensive and upsetting.

i notice this especially with like, tech and medical workers? I also met quite a few english teachers who flexed how they don't read and think reading is dumb.

Cannot stand this shit. I have two younger sisters, and my extended family loves to go on and on about how they're bad at math, or how they were not good at math in school because it's hard. Okay, but you don't have to seed it into their very impressionable minds that math is hard, because it really shouldn't be.

In my experience that's not at all a brag in Europe, quite the contrary.

Made me think of a documentary I saw, on some Americans working in Norway, where an American guy was asked what the biggest difference was between Americans and Norwegians, and he proudly proclaimed "Norwegians work to live, Americans live to work".

yeah people in my city are insufferable about this shit.

i work 35-40 hour weeks. i like that. but people flip out at me and tell me how 'lazy' I am for that, and then go on and on about how they 'work harder' than me, even though they are making the same money per hour if you do some basic napkin math, or often less than I do, given i have better benefits than they do and you adjust for those as income.

but hey, what do i know, i'm just a unambitious 'loser' who works 35 hours a week for six figures, meanwhile they work 60-80 per week for an extra 25K a year...

Most people don't know that 'dumb' is spelled with a B...

I definitely qualify for Mensa, but I've never applied because only losers brag about their IQ score, and only idiots are impressed by it. I'm seriously considering it now though, just to pull out my card when right wing idiots call me stupid for being a leftist.

When their store application was new, it was caught doing spyware-like actions scanning through users' computers without consent or notice. Their "Free" games might come with another price you don't see. I wouldn't install it.

This is where I'm at. I refuse to give Epic a cent due to their anticompetitive practices and trash store/library UX (why the fuck does the android app not even have a library view‽ You have to just know what you've purchased and find it in the store), but I'll claim their giveaways all day long. AFAIK, they use those download numbers to budget for future giveaways, so this artificially inflates those numbers. If I'm interested, I'll treat the free game as a demo and then buy the game on Steam if I like it.

I don't think that makes me better than anyone, it's just my way of getting back at Epic for their bullshit.

I don't see it as a flex I do redeem them and try out games with heroic as I know the devs still get paid by epic when you redeem them. If I like the game. I most of the time buy on gog or steam for the convenience.

Yeah, as a father of four this always baffled me. As if changing a diaper makes you less of a man. WTF, it's literally your biological instinct to care for your offspring, all I'm hearing is people bragging about how they're an evolutionary dead end.

Same with people who boast about never reading a book

I'm not a father at all, and I've changed diapers.

Fucking useless parasites proud of being parasites.

Which makes Kim Kardashian important. She does less than a floor lamp.

You were literally proudly proclaiming how you would never care about any non-American life ever again to the point that when you reported me for calling you fascist, Jordan fucking Lund replied with 'If the jackboot fits'.

I literally have you tagged as a Nazi because of this interaction.

You don't hate fascism, you just don't like being the marginalized party in fascism.

Hah, I run neither!

The next thing you're going to tell us is that people don't love to hear about how you run Arch. I don't believe it! :D

I play most games with mouse and keyboard. But there are games that just play better with controllers especially casual ones. Also good luck couch gaming with keyboards and mice. :)

Yeah, I hate this shit.

I like people who are really good at their jobs, but don't give a fuck about it otherwise. these are the same folks, who don't lecture other folks about shit and their pride is in their work, not in their sense of superiority to other folks.

@MutantTailThing @Soulifix like, yes, but every time I saw someone use a Windows Phone I felt very judgemental

you don't, but they do.

i have an iphone and an android. it freaks most people out because you have to be ONE OR THE OTHER.

freaks them out even more when I tell them I'm bisexual.

Reminds me of the console wars, when one kid would tout the power of their console, while the other would tout how it had better games.

Yea, if your identity is solely based on your heritage, instead of personal merit and accomplishments, you're a loser. Like people visiting about how they're 4th gen American, you look down on immigrants, meanwhile you on welfare...

Yeah its not a brag at all... ive been suffering a miserable existence since before I can remember and on top of that most people think I should just snap out of it and be happy like its all my fault for not trying hard enough

Aaacktually my life is so much fucking effort to just exist let alone function and then on top of that deal with not fitting in, being misunderstood, all while being forced to contribute the very society that gave rise to me and excludes me

Neurotypicals using depression and anxiety like theyre moods... irksome. If you really suffered you would know its a curse.

Branded anything!

The "see, I can afford branded stuff" flex of being better because having money for it right alongside the "easier to just walk around with 'I'm stupid' tatooed on my forehead" because of being dumb enough to spend 5x more money just for a label.

It's maybe the biggest poor/low-middle-class person's "look, I have money" flex there is.

(It's even more hilarious when one actually knows people from Old Money: those with lots of money and who were born into it actually wear simple but high quality stuff with no visible labels, whilst the ones trying to flaunt their wealth are either not wealthy at all or are Nouveau Riche and hence feel to need to flaunt their wealth whilst not being experienced enough at having lots of money to use it the way old wealth does)