You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
Nicholas Robert Rekieta / Rekieta "Law" / Actually Criminal / @NickRekieta - Polysubstance enthusiast, "Lawtuber" turned Dabbleverse streamer, swinger, "whitebread ass nigga", snuffs animals for fun, visits 🇯🇲 BBC resorts. Legally a cuckold who lost his license to practice law. Wife's bod worth $50. The normies even know.
It's probably coming mostly from his father figure, that seems consistent with his inability to accept any positive guidance ever (i.e. refusing to "pull up" because it was said in a "faggy way").
From the horse's own mouth, Rackets has said his dad was absent a lot when he was very young, as dad was working at Cray in the Twin Cities while the family was still down in Houston. (His dad tried to compensate for this with gifts, including Balldoman's infamous teacher stole his Transformer preschool story.) I could make inferences based on the info we have of the parents publicly, but it'd just be guesses.
Nick would be better off taking his channel into some total left field like vegetable gardening or aquariums than doing what he did. Something that is still somewhat on brand like 40k or other nerd shit would be a down right good idea. Nick kind of left the aimes behind after the vick thing but IDK why, the outcome of the case changed very few people's positions. And he got a lot of money from them.
I think Balldoman has said he never really was into anime- like a lot of things in Nick's life, it's just ironic grift. The only series he seemed to have watched in the last 5 years was Redo of Healer? A meme series in its own right. Maybe there were some others but nothing else stuck.
As for other interests, I don't think he has the depth of knowledge to speak on 40k, as compared to some of the existing lore channels. I know Manning disagrees on the 40k, but my feel is Rackets' interests are like his careers, he hops from one to another without ever becoming an expert or putting in the time.
I think it depends on how his appeal does. If he wins his appeal, he's fine. If he loses his appeal, I expect him to settle.
He's already spunked a small fortune. I don't think he completely lacks all capacity for rational thought. When he figures out how much more it's going to cost him, I think he'll settle.
Sean is having an engagement party stream and he has a bunch of guests on. The woman top center is his fiancee. Below her is the janny that nick performed a strip dance for when he went to that live show and rented an BnB with a stripper pole, I think? Bottom left if meme copium, japanese travel streamer that is friends with mindset and is aware of nick's lolcow behavior. Gosney is probably aware of Nick's antics so far too. No idea on Runkle and Dani.
Think Nick will show up? Or did he already say he won't?
They're talking about wedding venue or honeymoon spot, I'm not sure but Sean joked about picking Jaimaica View attachment 5617363
Nick did not make an appearance.
There were Jamaica and Dan-dy jokes. Most instigated by the chat. Runkle and Dani seemed genuinely confused by those, but they were able to chime in (sometimes uncomfortably in Dani's case) on a few Balldo jokes.
ValhallaAwaits is a goat farmer that is a retired veteran. He also buys batches of baby chick's at the farmer market as 'cannon fodder' for the coyotes that plague his farm. Dani was horrified.
Doesn't he make a big show of liking warhammer, and iirc used to talk about painting the minis and playing the game? Or was that just for show as a way to signal "look how much money I have" (warhammer can be notoriously expensive)?
He claims he likes warhammer, painting the minis that he's self admittedly awful at. He does not play the game. Someone here, I think @Captain Manning said it sounded like he did actually know warhammer lore.
He likes the lore and has a level deeper than normal familiarity with it. He used to watch lore videos in his free time. He has read a few of the books and paints a few minis with Az and Sargon on stream. Nothing is done. He leaned aways from that content and vidya once the weeb audience shifted away.
I had been planning to; but after his downfall I'd prefer second opinions. I suppose if there is an audio book, I've nothing else to listen to at work.
Joe is watching Nick V Destiny; if anyone is interested.
I know for a fact that Audible has it. I remember looking into it after one of the times he recommended it, it sounded fine.
Here, have a phonefag screengrab of it.
Idk it just sounds like a guy who really likes Sci-Fi and Greek mythology a little too much smushed them together. But I've not read it either, so I'm not one to talk.
Edit: also it's almost 30 hours long. The Iliad and Odyssey combo audio book is only 25 hours and Fellowship of the Ring is a little over 19 hours, as a comparison. View attachment 5617765
It is a long duology that is a bit of an 'art house' Sci-fi read. It is in the vein of Epic Fantasy Sci-fi rather than Techno or Military Sci-fi. I see shades if Orson Scott Card and Asimov's and 70-80's writing with casual attitudes toward sex, sexual identity, and nudity. Various bodily fluids are described in detail. The Hyperion Cantos is in the same vein as well.
While the technical execution is impressive for interleaving various literary sources (Shalespeare, Proust, Greek Mythology, Homer, and even obscure Russian literature) and melding them into a coherent narrative, the narrative aspect suffers for it. Characters are named for things related to their literary source (Some of the Trojan War characters are named for somewhat known Illiad critics) and their character development stops about halfway through as they became static chess pieces to tell the story the author had in mind.
Overall, the 'art house' label was chose because it reminded me of films tailored specifically to win awards--they hit checkboxes for critics and snobs while being self-aggrandising and trying to be clever. With Nick's Creative Writing degree, I am not surprised he raves about it--it pulls of a complex writing feat that appeals to the intelligentsia, but on a entertainment value level, it is lacking.
The ending was somewhat abrupt and non-satisfying because it was an end to the epic story--not the individual character stories ans I prefer chatacter stories.
Ilium/Olympus involves Shakespeare and Prost quoting robots from Jupiter investigating post-human gods on Mars re-enacting the Trojan war. Then it gets weird.
Don't let Balldo ruin it for you, it's a wild read and may be my favorite scifi book series ever. My only real complaint is it's got some immediate post-9/11 messaging that's pretty dated at this point. Still very much worth checking out.
Simmons' Hyperion Cantos is also very good, although the sequel Endymion series is not nearly as enjoyable.
Man, that summary makes it sound...eh. The way Nick talked about it I figured it'd be more. Guess I'll grab an audible sub; assuming that's the best thing for audio books these days.
No, that is Sparrowhawk or something. I read Illium ans Olympos, and I have no interest in the other. It seems further down the degenerate Sci-Fi (like late Heinlein) slope than than Hyperion or Illium/Olympos.
The more literary side of the scifi/fantasy genre always sounds like a shaky proposition to me because combining fart huffing with jetpackshit or magicshit almost has to lead to cringe by default. Though I'm guilty of various literary crimes myself including this so I suppose I have no room to judge Nicki for his taste inOlympus.
Simmons is trying to prove how clever he is the whole way through the book by tying together literary references--some obscure and that do give a little thrill when you recognise them--but objectivily is a cheap thrill for literature snobs like myself.
The good point is that he does come up with novel ideas through the whole book that kept me interested enough to read on--dspite sub-par narrative. It is like he dumped a bunch of interesting and novel ideas into one story on creativity overload. He could have taken the ideas and concepts and made 2-3 other stories.
Add in the final wrinkle that even while he maintained that upstanding Christian schoolboy life, he was admittedly addicted to pornography. Instead of seeking help or guidance, it's far more likely he kept it close to his chest. Whether that's because he didn't see it as a problem, he thought he could beat it on his own (no pun intended), or he was simply scared that admitting he had this flaw would further alienate his father from him, it hardly matters now.
I don't think he should be taken seriously when he says he "struggles" with porn "addiction" if only because he's the exact kind of fag who would spin it that way for pity from the drooling retards still giving him money rather than actually thinking of such a thing as a problem in his life and trying to fix it.
Sexual sin in the Church is highly stigmatised and has poor support avenues. Part of the issue (if real) is institutional, but I agree Nick pontificating on it is some cringe on the level of people who proudly proclaim their EX-Christian status and atheism. It js an attack on the Chirch they feel failes them, and ego boost and pity forming for them.
Simmons is trying to prove how clever he is the whole way through the book by tying together literary references--some obscure and that do give a little thrill when you recognise them--but objectivily is a cheap thrill for literature snobs like myself.
The good point is that he does come up with novel ideas through the whole book that kept me interested enough to read on--dspite sub-par narrative. It is like he dumped a bunch of interesting and novel ideas into one story on creativity overload. He could have taken the ideas and concepts and made 2-3 other stories.
I'm something of a snob when it comes to this stuff too, but I find more overtly pretentious works like Finnegans Wake to be a lot more entertaining on a personal level than ones that only go half-in like what this Simmons guy or Gene Wolfe wrote.
I am sure this is hyperbole, but in a majority of cases( Nick's specifically) the Doctrine of Grace is mis-used in a 'too much of a good thing' Libertine/Hedonist manner.
If you could bring back the dead with no ill-effects, and use that as a justification to murder indiscriminately because 'It doesn't matter and there are no permanent consequences' people would still think you are a tosser.
This is an extreme example with hyperbole of its own, but I hope it adds some clarity to the exact heresy we see on display. I agree that this is something that turns off a lot of people about the Faith and needs to be worked on.
I am sure this is hyperbole, but in a majority of cases( Nick's specifically) the Doctrine of Grace is mis-used in a 'too much of a good thing' Libertine/Hedonist manner.
If you could bring back the dead with no ill-effects, and use that as a justification to murder indiscriminately because 'It doesn't matter and there are no permanent consequences' people would still think you are a tosser.
This is an extreme example with hyperbole of its own, but I hope it adds some clarity to the exact heresy we see on display. I agree that this is something that turns off a lot of people about the Faith and needs to be worked on.
Not hyperbole at all. Anyone on this website who says they are a Christian really needs to repent and get off here because if they are right they’ll be burning next to me in hell.
1. Fucking Siracha. I only clicked because I expected Siracha to be a troon/guy pulling the drunk's chain.
2. Siracha is so cringe. So fucking unfunny. But HE. WON'T. GET. RID. OF. HER.
3. So a stream about Greer that could've easily been about 15 to 20 minutes turns into a whole ass FIVE FUCKING HOURS
4. Because both he, and Siracha, are incapable of reading/discussing without the Chantal Sarault wheeze laughing.
5. What the fuck's so funny? It ain't that fucking funny, JESUS.
Did you not like the whole Russel book reading arc? It's up there as one of my favorites along with his Ronversation by Proxy, and him breaking down what a shitbird Ron Toye was.
I am sure this is hyperbole, but in a majority of cases( Nick's specifically) the Doctrine of Grace is mis-used in a 'too much of a good thing' Libertine/Hedonist manner.
If you could bring back the dead with no ill-effects, and use that as a justification to murder indiscriminately because 'It doesn't matter and there are no permanent consequences' people would still think you are a tosser.
This is an extreme example with hyperbole of its own, but I hope it adds some clarity to the exact heresy we see on display. I agree that this is something that turns off a lot of people about the Faith and needs to be worked on.
I think the simplest way to address it is: just because you can, does not mean you should. Just because you can replace your bodily fluids with whiskey does not mean you should. Just because your wife say it's okay if I talk to a cat fish, does not mean you should. Just because someone else has a threesome doesn't mean you should strive to do one yourself.
Not hyperbole at all. Anyone on this website who says they are a Christian really needs to repent and get off here because if they are right they’ll be burning next to me in hell.
There’s something in their head about how they “wasted” their 20s because they totally could have been partying and slaying poon instead of acting all mature.
I think it comes more from wanting to "have fun" and be "care free". I can relate in a sense. I was the well behaved kid, in my 20s I had little interest in things like that, instead I focused on school and setting up a career. After my engagement fell through, I heard the call to say fuck it all. I've tempered that like a normal person and have turned that into a "let's have more fun" but not go full drug addled degeneracy.
This is all fine and dandy, but Nick still has a wife, and they still have kids to take care of. I won't say it'd be acceptable; but it'd at least be a bit more palatable if all the kids were grown and gone. Then sure, party a bit or do w/e.
I don't know when Nick got married, but it had to be fairly early. Producing child after a child after a child would inhibit almost everyone's inner monkey. Monkey sadly demands expression ans it is tragic when it happens to grown ass people, even more tragic when kids are involved.
Nick got married to the first girl he had ever been with right at the end of college. Maybe the first girl he had gone out with. He went right from living in the dorms (as a senior) to a 9-5 married guy producing children in the suburbs. But the unique thing about Nick was that he had enough access to his parents money that he never got caught up in the adult responsibilities that go along with that life. His parents bought him a big house. He only worked a 9-5 job for three years.
Worse yet for him, his view of the world was informed by porn and teen sex comedy movies. He is one of those guys whose inner monkey is telling him that there is some sort of better life out there. And no matter how much experience shows him otherwise (as with drinking), he will not stop listening to the monkey. In spite of being able to see the sad reality of that life in his loser friends like Drexel and Dax, Nick still believes its a better life to aspire to.
I vaguely remember reading the Gospel of Joah before it was struck from the Canon after Pope John Paul II's death. Though I think it was more for reasons like replacing Sunday as the Sabbath with Friday (Holy Pie Day) than it's ban on Lolcow Milking. But then I've been out of the Church for a long time so what do I know.
Its a shame what happened to rackets as it was something to listen to on a second screen. First it was all the toasts because someones great great great uncles twice removed brothers friends dog died, then he became a coomer. I never understood the fascination people had to donate just so he'd take a drink.
I always had a suspicion that one of Nicks problems was the fact that he missed or rather skipped childhood/adolescent carefree jungle monkey phase so now he is regressing and compensating for being a boring young man. I had a case like that in my own family, when person decided in his 30s to behave like irresponsible stupid teenager for a couple of years, totally out of his character. But the person was extremely well behaved and responsible as a kid, a teenager and later in Uni and with work. I don't know when Nick got married, but it had to be fairly early. Producing child after a child after a child would inhibit almost everyone's inner monkey. Monkey sadly demands expression ans it is tragic when it happens to grown ass people, even more tragic when kids are involved.
It's sort of hard to imagine that Nick acted all collected and unfazed by the wordly things up until the point that his mouth married the bottle. In order to miss on the "crazy monkey phase" of life you would need to fall in one of two groups: - Hardworking nerdy type. - Outcast / Loser.
I can't for the life of me see Nick being the first not just because of his recent comments, but also because what his work history shows. For what he did whether IRL or YouTube he never went above and beyond himself in a way that would seriously hurt his his free time / social life (he was never a PewDiePie 2013-2015). Even at his peak, if you look at Johnny Depp trials, Nick had a rotating panel of guests who would fill in dead air and he would simply chime in every 5-10 minutes to give his take. In the same spirit, I cannot see him falling in the second group. Outside drinking Nick is not a social retard and our wife is not a 400 pound bean bag.
What I see with Nick is profound unhappiness with the hand that he was dealt. That itself is birthed from very deep ego issues (possibly clinical). He feels cornerned by his kids and thinks that with the fame he is/was getting, he shouldn't be burdened by peasant concepts like family life period. Let me back up my point, what has Nick talked about more: his kids or hot women? Even if you go back a year before his most recent scandals. If you look at someone like Rhett and Link from the GMM show, I used to watch them 6-7 years ago - they talked about their kids quite often, the issues they have, what is fatherhood, etc-etc.
So, from what I have observed, with Nicky it's not the issue of a "skipped monkey phase" it's a Peter-Pan-esque drive to have a non-stop monkey phase, becase he is a superstar, a monogamous flamboyant macho and he deserves it ("deserve" was the exact verb he used a few weeks ago in this context). The booze is just filling in the gaps between that ego trip and reality. The sad thing is, the booze actually widens the gap.
Gonna drop a few lines of cultural enrichment on ya'll. In Russian Orthodox tradition, more things are considered to be sinful that in Catholic view. This is largely based on the fact that our Bibile has a few different books in it and we also hold a few founder saints of the 1st-3rd century in high regard. Relating to this, we have two concepts that look and sound similar, so could be thought of as two sides of the same coin: обсуждение и осуждение. "Обсуждение" in religious context is a discussion of other people behind their backs and "осуждение" is the act of judging people in the same way. We also have other out-there sins like "пустословие" which is an old slavic word that means having empty discussions just for the sake of having them.
To be fair these sins are considered minor. We even have a term for them "грешок", literally "sinlet". And generally you could engage in such discussions if the target is either mascarading as Christian or being a serious threat to the soul of the community. In other words, if I see an obvious faggot and I call him a faggot - that is permitted.
