These people are still going to be talking about GooberGob in 10 years, it's like they view it as a war they fought in and don't want people to forget about because then they got triggered over nothing.
You wasted your time and you haven't grown up since, it's time to cut your losses and fucking move on.
Let's Learn Gnomish
Lesson 6: 1000 Words For "Betrayal", None For "Goodbye"
Friendship is a fleeting thing among the Gnomish; due to the volatile nature of their society, by the time your average gnome's beard reaches his clavicles (a traditional reckoning of manhood) he will have left a years-long trail of wrecked friendships behind him. There is a taboo on referring to friendships as "over", similar to the death taboo in some preliterate Human societies. Rather, the gnome will refer to the ex-friend as "lost", "not listening", "a temporary enemy", or some such circumlocution.
Our data anthropologists examined the social network of a typical Gnomo sapiens; the results are as follows.
During the observation period (9/8/2014 to 1/21/2020), the subject received 18269 individual engagements (17536 replies and 733 mentions) on Twitter, from 4551 people. Of these, the distribution of engagement was:
# of Engagements
Frequency
1
2811
2-10
1459
11-20
140
21-30
64
31-40
24
41-50
14
51-60
10
61-70
8
71-80
4
81-90
1
91-100
1
101+
14
Note the apparent operation of a power law in this data; once you get up past the "drive-bys" in the low reply counts, each additional 10 replies approximately halves the number of respondents. In other words, the half-life of a gnomish acquaintance is about 10 replies.
The power law breaks down at about the 100-reply mark; this appears to mark the boundary between "acquaintance" and "friend".
I've attached my data here in CSV format if anyone wants to help out with the analysis.
The "raw" spreadsheet contains every single reply or mention (as of 1/21/2020), dated and categorized.
The "aggregate" one aggregates the engagements per-user and provides a few simple stats. The "Abandoned" flag is my rough measure of if a user is a friend who BETRAYED!!! Jake. The arbitrary criterion I came up with is that they have to have engaged with Jake over at least a year, at the rate of at least 20 replies per year, and currently haven't replied to him in 3 months.
Of his 14 "true friends" over the 100-reply mark, only 4 have abandoned him by this metric. And let it be noted that Zoe and Randi also triggered this flag, but they're not in this list because they never talked to Jake that much.
User
# Replies
First Reply
Last Reply
Years Engaged
Abandoned?
@KayinNasaki
409
10/6/2014
1/15/2020
5.3
No
@griffonsierra
407
6/27/2018
1/18/2020
1.6
No
@arthur_affect
334
9/26/2014
1/10/2020
5.3
No
@Kalindlara
313
9/12/2015
12/12/2019
4.3
No
@remembrancermx
277
2/20/2017
1/18/2020
2.9
No
@Delafina777
265
10/22/2014
1/20/2020
5.2
No
@icequeenerika
265
10/14/2014
7/9/2018
3.7
Yes
@NoraReed
244
3/26/2015
1/16/2020
4.8
No
@dirtbagboyfren
204
10/20/2014
8/30/2017
2.9
Yes
@Dmol8
188
12/12/2015
12/9/2018
2.9
Yes
@heroofthebeach
187
10/7/2014
7/31/2019
4.8
Yes
@RealKav_P
138
5/29/2017
1/4/2020
2.6
No
@SYXG98
112
5/28/2018
1/9/2020
1.6
No
@AmazonChique
111
11/25/2015
12/16/2019
4.0
No
EDIT: By the way, here's the list of everyone who "abandoned" Jake by my metric.
User
# Replies
First Reply
Last Reply
Years Engaged
@icequeenerika
265
10/14/2014
7/9/2018
3.736111111
@dirtbagboyfren
204
10/20/2014
8/30/2017
2.861111111
@Dmol8
188
12/12/2015
12/9/2018
2.991666667
@heroofthebeach
187
10/7/2014
7/31/2019
4.816666667
@athenahollow
68
11/2/2014
7/10/2017
2.688888889
@CanadiEnby
66
3/1/2015
4/4/2018
3.091666667
@randileeharper
65
10/2/2014
5/20/2016
1.633333333
@UnburntWitch
63
10/14/2014
12/1/2015
1.130555556
@HistorianGab
56
12/2/2015
6/19/2018
2.547222222
@bulbafren
47
10/6/2014
8/11/2016
1.847222222
@Archmortal
43
10/8/2014
8/17/2016
1.858333333
@PennyOaken
43
10/27/2017
5/21/2019
1.566666667
@spacenettle
34
4/30/2016
7/5/2017
1.180555556
My screen-scraping doesn't seem to work anymore (conked out in the middle of this article), so if some generous soul with a Twitter API account wants to hop in the saddle, I'm interested to see how many times Jake tweeted at his top conversation partners. How many tweets of his does it take to get one back? (In other words, is there a "thirst index"?)
Dmol8 was that guy who was always asking if Jake was still alive after his suicide baits and Jake would reply by basically telling him "yes! but you're not the one whose attention I wanted!"
I just found out that not all replies actually show up in the Twitter search results for "to a user" - does anyone know why this is?
Example: @SFtheWolf doesn't show up even once as replying, but you can see him talking to Jake here
“@SFtheWolf What, 1 hit kills in Goldeneye? Literally the only way any of my friends used to play it, yeah. Though to be fair, it had couch co-op only. Latency and twitchy mode are a bad bad combo.”
twitter.com
Is it something about "replies to replies" not counting? Can you get everything if you have API access?
Imagine being a poor Uber driver so horrified by having to cope with an earful of gnome wailing by this repulsive, fat fuck that you're willing to do without getting paid just not to have to deal with this piece of shit any more.
"come back to... an empty parking lot" "someone doesn't like the look of me walking out with my bags of pills"
So which is it? Do they leave before he comes back, or do they tear off when they spot the HRT pills in his bag with their x-ray vision?
"come back to... an empty parking lot" "someone doesn't like the look of me walking out with my bags of pills"
So which is it? Do they leave before he comes back, or do they tear off when they spot the HRT pills in his bag with their x-ray vision?
They're talking about coffeespoonie, a patreon leech "writer" (read: sporadic blogger) with "ptsd" (read: defer-to-me-or-I-scream syndrome) who is routinely having uber drivers fired for refusing to carry her "service dog" (read: dog)
The whole "tankies are Nazis" thing is one of my favorite Jake delusions because it's so unique. Horseshoe theory is nothing new, of course, but only Jake thinks ultra-leftists are literally the same thing as Nazis.
The whole "tankies are Nazis" thing is one of my favorite Jake delusions because it's so unique. Horseshoe theory is nothing new, of course, but only Jake thinks ultra-leftists are literally the same thing as Nazis.
Which is ironic because Jake is the living, breathing definition of an ultra-leftist. He shuns all right-leaning concepts on principle, plays at being on the oppressive stack despite being the literal rung, and constantly polices his own contacts and allies on behaviors in an attempt to prune more lefties from the left.
Which is ironic because Jake is the living, breathing definition of an ultra-leftist. He shuns all right-leaning concepts on principle, plays at being on the oppressive stack despite being the literal rung, and constantly polices his own contacts and allies on behaviors in an attempt to prune more lefties from the left.
It seems to me that he calls himself a socialist, but he also demands an authoritarian society in which dissent is not tolerated and orthodoxy is enforced by force, even through actual violence.
LOL. I hate to break it to you, Jakey, but they didn't stick around because between the Live Googleshngs and the smell of week old sweatpants, stale Hot Pockets, and kitty litter, the poor drivers though it was worth the loss of tips and a hit in their driver rating to get the fuck away from you.