That's a good one, but I distinctly remember seeing one where Jim says "none of you are my friends" or something like that. Ralph chuckles at this, then he's like "but we're friends, right Jim?" And Jim replies "NO." There's a similar clip from Kumite, but Ralph isn't on that one.
That's another good "no friends" speech, but that's not the one I'm remembering. I remember he said this to Ralph. And it was funny because rejected Ralph's offer of friendship specifically. It's very similar to this clip with Failure, around 50:05:
I feel like I'm kind of shitting up the thread but here's one other "no Internet friends" speech.
You are a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you.
dont forget he used a homophobic slur
i think youre mistaking it for the one jim referenced and is often clipped where venti says "but lets be real we are all friends here" referencing what she felt was a denied but de facto true friendship among the ibs circle, everyone agreed except jim who piped up "uh no" but it was to venti not ralph i think ralph pretended that he understood until the jim stream recently.
It's close enough, if anything I like Taylor's re-enactment of it, due in part to how he empathized the whole were not friends part. I've only gotten into this circle of the internet post IBS, and from the bits and pieces I've seen, I more then understand Jim's sentiments in adamantly refusing to be friends with any of these people. It's fun to swing by the trailer park and watch shenanigans with the folks there, but by the end of the day you're there to just hang out cause it's fun, not cause you live there.
It’s not “opening up” to tell someone that undergoing relentless treatment and testing for literal cancer is a pretty fucking good reason not to want randos coughing in your face. It’s simply pointing out the goddamn obvious. Jim wasn’t getting theatrical; he was very straightforward, which made Ralph’s pants-shitting stupidity even more glaring.
It was also extremely heartless because it came across on Ralph's part as very vindictive and petty. That and his usual line of "I'll piss on your grave" is incredibly childish as well. What this demonstrates is a sign of his ego and self-centered nature but then again we all are all very aware of this. This forum has often speculated about Warski or Mundane Matt having a redemption arc. Shit, to further that I think some extended it to Kraut and Tea. With Ralph, I think there honestly is none and never will be.
Ralph can only make superchat money for his enemies, because any current friends he has will eventually become his enemies, and also he himself is his own enemy.
Right. Ralph also whined about Jim not caring he was in the hospital, after wishing death many times upon him. How fucking narcissistic and oblivious do you have to be to whine about being in the hospital to a guy who has undergone treatment for cancer for the past two years? It’s not like Ralph was even in the hospital due to some terrible misfortune or accident, just his own epic stupidity.
Accurate. I also think that Ralph really does see Jim — consciously or not — as at the very least a big brother figure, if not a father figure. I think he’s angry at himself for ever valuing Jim as a person in his life, but not as angry as he is at Jim for not being the defender and rescuer he expected.
I spent a couple of hours looking for it without success, but I'm 99% sure this does exist and I heard when I was going over old stuff in the summer. I recall it being pretty much like that, although maybe Ralph was more "well, maybe not friends but come on, we're close." I also remember that then Gator (could have been Zidan, but I don't think so) goes "well for most people that's true, but the three of us have known each other so long that we are REAL friends, not INTERNET friends," which is pretty funny in hindsight.
It exists for sure, he says that this is the Internet, none of us know one another, let's not pretend to be friends, it's pointless look what happens to Internet friends time and time again. That's the gist of it.
