bro why is this man so freaking creative with his titles lmao underappreciated talent, like he really summarizes the funniest parts in such few words and you can immediately tell when a video is his bc of the language 😭😭
I feel like people don't understand that playing games is that man's full-time job and it's not easy to maintain that kind of passion/energy for something you've been doing almost every single day (like seriously every single damn day- that's finding a new fun game, recording a playthrough, and editing everything, all over again every single day) for 10+ years, and also maintaining his loud personality/humor. We should be grateful Jay can be as consistent as he is because he's playing the games he likes/wants to.
If he isn't enjoying a game why would he play it? By constantly asking/criticizing we only risk him burning out so we have less videos to watch and no one wins. Again, it's his JOB. It takes an insane amount of mental fortitude to genuinely maintain the love of the game. Also, he doesn't owe us anything. We watch his videos for free and have been for 10+ years.
If you don't like his current series, go rewatch something old instead of criticising what he wants to do with his life and his channel. Especially on a sub where you know the majority appreciate him. He is a rarity of a youtuber.
After years of social outcasting I've come to realise that men genuinely don't even see women as human unless they're pretty, a fact proven time and time again through personal anecdotes, social experiments, and even just simple observation.
Women have to work their asses off to look good for a mediocre man, pretty girls have to get prettier and average/ugly girls have to go out of their way just to be visible to them.
It's always infuriated me that men never have to go out of their way to be seen but women go through all sorts of ends and means just to exist as if we don't deserve to exist otherwise.
Also, this is so conditioned among us that even when uplifting other girls we always say "nooo you're so pretty" like IT SHOULD BE FINE TO BE NOT PRETTY. Why does every woman have to be pretty? We end up becoming our own voyeurs.
Girls who are above average in looks don't even realise this is a problem other girls have. That you're given side-eyes or looks of disgust by men if you don't look good, or just simply outcast socially. Men won't even think you're worthy of help if not for looks. And they have the audacity to say they're the ones unlucky with love after acting the way they do.
Do you know why I liked this meme enough to post it? It's because it's actually an example of a garden-path sentence. That's a literary term for a sentence where the reader is lured in one direction which eventually turns out to be a misdirect. It's a special kind of sentence, that creates a momentarily ambiguous interpretation (the reader believes that a phrase will mean one thing when in reality it means something else). Another example is "The old man the boat." which is grammatically correct ("old" being the subject here, referring to the elderly).
It's also a minor example of syntactic rebracketing, which means the actual structure of a phrase itself is reinterpreted without changing the words. A funny example of this is the word "apron". Did you know it was originally called "napron"? Because of frequent mishearing, "a napron" became "an apron", the word we know today. In this case, we don't even need to change spoken output to change the meaning. In this context, this change looks something like this:
Initial - Hold the | fuck | up
Reanalyzed - Hold | the fuck up |
English is cool.
"So, Mr. Rockwell. What brings you here today?"
"My wife asked me to close our open marriage, and I said no."
"I imagine that's why you're here."
"I'm here because I don't know if I'm making the right decision."
"Start from the beginning."
"Right. So, Noelle and I have been married for six years. I love her more than anything, and we were doing well until about a year ago, when she sat me down and asked for an open marriage. I like to think I was a good husband, so I had no idea why she would ever want such a thing."
"What did you say then?"
"I told her I wasn't interested in seeing anyone else and that the idea made me sick to my stomach. I even asked if she'd already met someone, which she completely denied and just said that she felt she hadn't 'explored enough'."
"And you believed her?"
"I didn't have much choice. We argued for weeks, and eventually she told me we'd either open the marriage or get divorced."
"So you agreed."
"I had to. I can't bear the thought of losing her."
"What happened after that?"
"She started going on late-night dates almost immediately, while I couldn't even bring myself to download a dating app. We stopped sleeping together, but she didn't seem to mind. Most nights she'd come home just before sunrise and head straight for the shower."
"You assumed there was another man?"
"Multiple, probably."
"Hm. And now?"
"For the last few weeks, she's been different. She started asking where I was, making my favorite meals, acting affectionate again. Last night she tried to sleep with me for the first time in almost a year. So I asked her what the hell happened, and that's when she told me she wanted to be monogamous again."
"What did you say?"
"I asked her why, and she said that she'd made a mistake. That she'd realized I was the only man she ever wanted."
"And you said no?"
"I love her, Doc, but I do have some self-respect. How am I supposed to forget a whole year of this?"
"Hm. Do you feel like she's taking you for granted?"
"Absolutely. I mean, does she really think I don't know that she only wants me back because they've installed cameras at the morgue?"