ITT: Times you forgot to hide your power level

ITT: Times you forgot to hide your power level

>accidentally say Harry Potter wont be remembered in 100 years
>get laughed at
>stutter Blooms meme argument by they just argue over it without saying anything
>almost cry

>Mum is confused when I mention Macbeth and asks what part
>quote whole multitudinous seas part to her
>she is surprised but semi patrician so used to be able to do most of Hamlet and Macbeth herself

>get blackout drunk steal friends phone and ranted about Jude the Obscure and Bataille to a load of his friends in a chat they had

this is just pure autism

I don't know what this means. What's a power level?

Hello my new friend welcome to Veeky Forums
Power level has to do with knowing a lot more than the average person about a topic and being way into it
I don't really see a lot of it happening with Veeky Forumsstuff unless you're autistic, but I see it happen a lot with /co/ and /v/vp/stuff

I've been on Veeky Forums for 6 years now, I've seen the term used a lot before but never bothered to check what it means. So thanks.

I once talked to a barkeeper about Albert Camus and James Joyce after realizing we were both interested in literature. I don't remember how it came up in the first place though.

It's also about unnecessarily sharing personal information on message boards and forums for attention.

I'm a Veeky Forums level otaku.

I don’t talk with you chumps in anime club.
I don’t read your «anime magazine» with new releases I saw two years ago.
I don’t need to go to a club full of fat smelly people to watch Full Metal Alchemist all over again.
I’ve got fuckin' live feed torrents of the newest animes you haven’t even heard of, and figures from said anime being shipped to my house so I can masturbate on them.
Go read your «yowie» on fanfiction.net, I’m downloading loli dojinshi and reading the fucking raws.
You keep wearing your Naruto headbands and shit, socializing with your weeaboo friends. I’ll be walking by, anonymous. You’ll never know that the master of anime had passed you by. Because I suppress my power level.

>have mom read the trial
>"so what was he guilty of?"
>call her a pleb

I was once getting along well with this girl at a bar who was like the hot girl there that everyone wanted, until somehow the conversation turned to the Ukraine crisis(this was in 2014), and within a few minutes I was yelling about geo-political propaganda networks and the entire patio including the girl were literally laughing at me. I realized entirely that what I was doing was autistic but the smug self-assurance of these fucking people with their spoonfed opinions that they regurgitate from the headlines of the three newspapers they read overwhelmed any desire I had to try to get the girl or really display any social graces whatsoever.

At one point I decided to treat people like they weren't worth talking to seriously and my social life got a lot better

every time I bring a woman home

You're a total newfag.

>reading book
>girl I like asks what I'm reading
>I tell her
>"oh, sounds cool"
It was brutal man.

That one time I masturbated. It was a strange encounter I had with the man in the public restroom. My recreation and what we did to each other was unlike anything I've ever heard of. I don't think this has ever happened to anyone else. But I promised my father to keep it a secret to the grave.

>You get every lolita related question on Jeopardy right

>Reading in the barber shop waiting room
>QT barber lady asks me what I was reading
>Try in vain to explain Book of the New Sun without seeming like a mega sperg

>loli doujins
pedo fag

> reading Selected Poems of WS Merwin
> girl asks me what I'm reading
> I explain and say why I love poetry so much and kinda get a bit carried away and start losing my train of thought
> realized I embarsed myself but she asks to read a poem
> she gives me her number and a huge at the end of class

Either I was advanced upon or made a token gay friend. Probably the latter which is fine because I am unironically a fag. The former would've flattered me though at the time when I was dealing with such self esteem problems.

*hug, not huge

Anyways she looked okay to me, but what do I know. She wasn't repulsive for sure.

>ITT times you were a faggot

Isn't that p much the point of the thread

Holy fucking shit

yeah it's really hard to cope with this fucking insane world sometimes. just regurgitating bullshit according to social norms, which i guess makes sense from an evolutionary perspective, but really, if your going to live like that, why live at all? and they say i'm the crazy one

I suggested Tarkovsky to my family for a movie and they agreed. Watching Stalker with a group of people who only watch superhero movies was really annoying.

I did that and got my dad to watch Welles' The Trial. We had to watch it in 2 sittings but afterwards he said after thinking about it he thought it was actually kinda interesting.

Then we watched ghostbusters after and had fun because The Trial is a real mood killer.

> It's true. This man has no dick.

oh maybe, I thought the power level meme was a term of endearment on 4chins. my bad i guess

your dad just said that to you so that you would shut the fuck up and stop being such an embarrassing offspring

I mean it sounds it in my post, but he kept asking questions about it after and seemed moderately impressed. I know he was somewhat interested because very often when I was younger I would act pretentious or overly passionate about something of little importance and would make it clear he thought I was doing so. This was the rare time he bought it

This whole board seems to be autism. Now I'm going back to /pol/

>from the frying pan to the fire

Hit me up when you figure out how to, I've been in the same trouble myself.

I went off on a Russian kid with a handlebar mustache when he said his favorite book was on the road and identified Gertrude Stein as some lady who helped Hemingway, ranting about the brilliance of her writing and how Hemingway was a derivative hack.

Only guy who was a decent reader in my high school tried talking to me about literature after I've been leveling up in uni and he's studying business, and I was just rattling off modernists and acclaimed contemporary books I had recently read and he couldn't follow at all.

My two trigger movies are Shawshank Redemption and Dark Knight Rises, there was a time where if anyone professed love for those films I would launch into an eviscerating tirade about why they're overrated garbage.

My father is scarred from seeing the Paul Giamatti arthouse film Cold Souls with me, though truth be told it was not very good.

My mother is scarred from seeing The Kids Aren't Alright with me, particularly due to the scene where the lesbian couple watches male gay porn.

>>a huge
Was it Orson Welles? I think it was just crossdressing Orson Welles, given your description.

Faganon, you may not have been disappointed. Welles was QUITE the man. And a lot of one, two. [swoons]

You're a real piece of shit, you know that? You and your fuckbuddy Hemingway can penetrate each other eternally in your Hell of Vapidness.

Shawshank's great so you must be a doucher.

>be me
>aged 21
>maintain funny and nihilistic aesthetic and lifestyle
>hang out with artist and musician types all over my area
>read, not for pleasure or for spite, but to enlighten my own intelligence
>nephew picks up harry potter
>degenerate genretrash
>take the cover off and put it on a copy of Infinite Jest, a masterpiece of sincere post-irony and engaged reflection
>feel proud of myself for enlightening this young man who was led astray

I was pro-Stein, anti-Hemingway, see how the syntax I used is unclear though.

It's not as terrible as I make it out to be, but it is definitely not great. That film is like peak Morgan Freeman, and the Brooks scene is excellent, but Tim Robbins is shit and the entire aesthetic is basically Disney Channel prison film.

Thinking there are any "great" films in the first place, not to mention actually wasting your time watching movies, makes you a pleb. The sense of superiority you seem to derive from poisoning yourself with different Jewish mind-control waves than your peers is amusing.

This was the wrong way to reply. Do not give away answers. Never answer anything but "lurk moar" because there is no other correct answer on Veeky Forums.

Giving information away freely makes people think they belong here, when they actually don't.

In west Philadelphia born and raised

Check it out guys this guy has been here six years. Any words of wisdom for us? Or as we cool guys say on four chan (an imageboard based on Japanese originals) image macros?

I accidentally wore my trench coat to school and then me and my friend shot 13 people to death after our propane bombs in the cafeteria failed to detonate lol awkward moment

>get laughed at
Appropriate response tbph. Harry Potter will be remembered. Not as great literature, of course, but then nobody thinks that now.

As much as I find that the notion of "power levels" makes you lot feel good about yourself more than is good for you, I will indulge:

I usually read philosophy, it's very awkward when someone asks me what a book is about (if you don't get me, imagine you're reading Wittgenstein, how do you answer that question WITHOUT coming off as a pretentious turd?).

I've gotten quite talented at completely brushing it off though, saying "it's by x" or "oh I found this at y" completely changing the topic, you get what I mean.

But this one time:
>in class
>reading Kripke
>got pretty into it
>someone (very impolitely) stuck their nose in >what it's about?
>didn't bother to beat around the bush
>told them exactly what Naming and Necessity is about
>didn't realize how much everyone around me was judging me
>Continue reading, never get asked that question again

It's not that people judge you negatively as such, it's more that they inadvertently develop this sort of inferiority complex along the lines of "oh you're smart I don't want to discuss my opinions with you out of fear of sounding like a pleb" to which the only good reply is "DON'T BE A WEAK FUCKING RETARD YOU SPINELESS RAT, JUST SPEAK YOUR MIND, HAVE SOME BLOODY BACKBONE".

/cruisecontrol

>tfw

i thought i was the only one

>they inadvertently develop this sort of inferiority complex along the lines of "oh you're smart I don't want to discuss my opinions with you out of fear of sounding like a pleb"

uh lol

more like 'who cares about that imma leave this autist be'

t. autist

Eric?

This pasta is like 10 years old

>mentioned Veeky Forums
/thread

>reading Japanese lit in public (it's an LN about high school girls)
>girl comes up and asks me language the book is in
>I tell her
>she acts impressed
>"but I heard Japanese is really hard!"
>In a dead serious tone of voice I say: "not if you approach it in a scientific way" and then start an autistic rant about how terrible North America JFL pedagogy is and basically regurgitating Steven Krashen at her
>she's obviously taken aback, she asks me what my book is about
>I stutter something about "O-oh i-it's just a t-typical Japanese novel, hehe"
>At that very moment I turn the page and there's an illustration of a bunch of blushing girls in school uniforms
>start sweating
>she ends the conversation

>these fucking people with their spoonfed opinions that they regurgitate from the headlines of the three newspapers they read
Unlike your own that you get from the headlines of the three websites you visit

kek

Post the outer cover of the book. I have never read a lewd light novel that doesn't have a lewd cover. Sex sells.

It was one of the marimite books, I think the second one. Not actually a lewd novel, and I removed the dust jacket obviously.

I know of them. Its yuribait right?

Pretty much, yeah.

>riding a train with my family
>pleb sister asks what is my book about
>it's The Magic Mountain
>uh, it's about a guy who goes to the sanatorium to visit his cousin
>ah, ok

actually I hid my power level, but it was as awkward as revealing it

>reading IJ on the subway
>Guy laughs smugly and throws a tomato in my face

Why did you show him Welles' The Trial? It's trash.

>I went off on a Russian kid with a handlebar mustache when he said his favorite book was on the road and identified Gertrude Stein as some lady who helped Hemingway, ranting about the brilliance of her writing and how Hemingway was a derivative hack.
>gets into tirades because of mainstream flicks

What a try-hard pseud, lel. Have you considered to stop being a parrot, me man? You're embarrassing people who have a genuine affection for the arts and do not abuse to bolster their ego

My issue is that I'm actually really good at hiding my power level. Too good:

>Dating some 7/10 girl, just want to get into her pants
>Stereotypical 'nerd' girl who likes Marvel/GoT/etc, and also a pretty shitty Xbox 'gamer'
>Lie about everything on our 1st date: Claim I like GoT, even though I never got past the 2nd book as it bored me to death and have never watched more than Series 1. Claim I like Marvel, even though I prefer DC for Man of Steel and a couple of Batman movies. Claim I like gaming, even though I only fuck around on WoW nowadays (ruining RP/etc)
>We go back to her place and fuck
>She actually seems into me, texts me daily
>Realize I'm being pursued by someone with whom I don't have anything in common, but can't stop lying about my interests for sex
>We end up dating, just because the sex is good
>This is still happening

And that, kids, is why a large part of my life is now devoted to the fucking Avengers/etc. In my spare time, or rather, reality, I actually read Plato/Nietzsche/Schopenhauer/Hegel/etc, alongside Goethe/Ibsen and others, but I never bring this up because modern plebeians don't know who these people are and would probably be triggered if they did (or knew what some of them wrote).

I should just cut it off.

Why do people hide their powerlevel?

>2nd Date with girl
>"Shall i show you the roof?" (living in a metropolis)
>"Sure xd"
>On the roof i start talking about philosophy, especially critical theory and so on
>her eyes sparkling with desire
>we sit there for 1 hour exchanging our views, incorporate her more banal thoughts into philosophical perspectives as to illuminate them
>she falls in love with me

Never had a problem with my "powerlevel". I think one only needs to do it in a way that is doesn't alienate others and if one talks about serious ideas do it in a playful way, as to integrate the other into the process of coming to a conclusion.

Some people think the end goal of philosophy isn't to make stupid girls feel smart.

It isn't the end goal of philosophy for me either, but it fascinates me and so we talked about it. All i'm saying is that one can communicate these ideas, discuss them, without alienating others who don't know them - thus eliminating the need to hide one's power level.

Maybe. It will alienate most people though.

Hey guys, what if a galaxy far far away...

this.

It is still a secret if you share it on an anonymous gay cock sucking board.

I agree, some people think young Orson was a bit too pig faced to be handsome but that was bullshit. He was really really quite handsome

yeah, she was hitting on you. Too bad you are a fag. Does she know that you are a faggot. If so then she wasn't hitting on you. If she didn't know you should tell her because its a nice thing to do.

Fucking hell

What exactly is Naming and Necessity about?

This can't be real.

kekkkkkkk

she fell in love with you way before that. Otherwise she wouldn't wait 1 hour for you to fuck her.

>she fell in love with you way before that
>love

You mean lust.

She exemplifies the ideal female form

Cringed hard.

Lust is when you fuck her on the first date.

Lust is when you fuck her on any of the first three dates.

Yea, we know the ideal female form is lolis

When I said first date, I meant the first thirty minutes of the first date.

Why? That girl in the gif seems pretty amazing to me

Lust is when you fuck

Is it lust when I fap?

>an evolutionary perspective

fabrication

I guess.

>Man of Steel
You two plebs are perfect for eachother

>in class
>teacher wants to know the learning style of kids
>says it wont be graded
>the questionnaire is like 20 questions which you use to place yourself on a graph, like the political compass
>i just draw a giant pic of max stirners face on the graph and hand it in

The best part is i look like a generic chad, im 6'3, ripped, and i wear effay clothes, which means when i quote continental philosophers or any philosopher in general it surprises the fuck out of people. I dont get laughed at even if i go full autism because people want my approval so they just nod like it makes sense to them. Sometimes i just start bsing to see if they blindly agree, and sure enough they lap it up, even the teachers that are supposed to know this shit.

Genuinely good movie desu.

>Oh man 6 years seems like a long time
>Wait, that was 2010
>I was calling people newfags in 2010
I have been on this site too long.

>Sometimes i just start bsing to see if they blindly agree, and sure enough they lap it up, even the teachers that are supposed to know this shit.

>Now I'm going back to /pol/
Thank god take the rest of the creatures with you.

>big boss comes down to visit us at work
>she's talking about her trip to the baltimore aquarium
>"I couldn't believe the octopi!"
>interrupt her
>"ACtually just so you know the plural is octopodes, it's a consonant stem" with, I'm sure, this stupid fucking smug look on my face

It just slipped out, everyone looked at me and I turned red.

Then after that slight awkward pause boss-lady goes

>no user nouns that end in -us for a plural in -i, like alumnus alumni

Turn even redder because there's an internal battle whether I should correct her again or just let it go. Luckily I'm not completely autistic and I did just let it go.

Best part is you were wrong, octopuses, octopi, and octopodes are all correct

Oh right, should clarify.

Yeah, a lot of them who hear this probably think that, I don't mind that though, the people who usually ask me what I'm reading are the kind who have that sort of "patriche-plebian" bullshit mentality though, the kind that floats around a lot on this board.

Underrated post

but you have an ugly face, so you're not a chad.

How Kafkaesque!

Nice resentment, nu-male.