I declare that the girls voted to do nothing, and the boys did not notice that the vote took place and gave a bunch of views to videos that do not fall in the region of "somewhat important, but not too important" that has the potential to be funny.
The girls can now either accept that what I said is true, that "if you don't <redacted>, it's because you're stupid", or they can continue to pretend that the boys are smart.
The question: "are girls being honest when they say they don't want people to be sexist?"
"tv tropes successful plan"
Missing Steps Plan - TV Tropes
no . . . "tv tropes plan all outcomes lead to success"
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XanatosGambit
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnspokenPlanGuarantee
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Update 17 Jul 2026, 01:46
The last seven posts, including this one, have one recorded view each. I apologize to that reader (if not bot views). I don't apologize to anyone else for acting like what I said above isn't important. Just as anyone could give me $0.01 to allow me to talk about this idea, anyone who has access to the Internet could make me feel like someone is reading this weblog. I don't know how views work, like if clicking on a post actually gives it a view, but anyone could comment.
The following thoughts are, probably, ultimately because my random song picker selected this:
Wed Jul 8 10:14:43 AM MDT 2026
skip 56: sleep/T-ara - Bo Peep Bo Peep 티 아라 ＊ MV [9403-9CptH8]-audio.webm
-20.527908 dB -loop 1 [57]: sleep/The Four Seasons - Summer in G Minor, RV. 315 - III. Presto [NVc1bg6Omeo].webm
When I was choosing music to listen to on YouTube a few days ago, I scrolled up in the terminal, saw this, and decided to instead listen to the version of this song found in Naxx Heroic Military Wing soloed Mage by Pai.
This may have been why I decided to randomly check today (a few hours ago, could be called yesterday) whether Mione's solo of the last boss of Siege of Orgrimmar was still on YouTube. I thought of watching it, and then remembered that I said I wouldn't engage with any content from anyone who might be interested in me. When I said this, I was thinking of new content (old content isn't competitive in the algorithm and so giving old videos watchtime doesn't really matter), but it's what I said. I have never watched Mione's video.
I have seen a few clips of the encounter, I think. Like, there is a giant wheel? I thought it was ridiculous how large the boss is (both because of conservation of mass, and because of physical scaling laws like ants being really strong only because they're small). I hope that the reduced maximum camera distance, changed ~10 years ago, has allowed WoW to have smaller bosses.
And so it was that when I was thinking sad thoughts about being alone, I thought of Maydie's PvP video and considered watching it just to make a point. And then I remembered the Naxx solo video by Pai, as well as the original 'soloing a raid boss' video: Paladin solos Lord Kazzak. (Aka Why Reckoning Got Nerfed. More info in The Unedited Kazzak Solo Video; I think the complaint in its description, "I'm also admittedly frustrated that whoever uploaded this video decided to strip the words "Do It For the Lobster" from the end", was the result of a YouTube bug where the end of a video could be clipped if audio ended early. The other two videos both have those words at the end now, but might not have in 2007.)
Also, the fight at the end of the first half of Toaru Kagaku no Railgun season 1 (before the theme song switches in the second half).
So it's like a complaint: "these things don't require talking to other people." But it's implying that if something didn't require talking to other people, I could do it. This might not be true. Some somewhat difficult things that I have done: getting a good score on the game that Jared Bernstein, chief economic advisor to US Vice President Joe Biden, linked on his site in 2011. This involved like swinging balls in a pyramid-themed game, and some levels required precise cuts of multiple ropes. I ended up having to actually use a mouse, which I didn't do when PvPing on the first World of Warcraft arena tournament realm in 2008 (but that might also have been because the mini-sized mouse I had caused my hand to cramp).
I did solo various bosses in Aion, but it probably wasn't too impressive.
Example: in Aion, spreading wings to fly when standing on the ground was a specific animation. It was faster to do a normal jump, and then spread wings in the air. Flying had a combat advantage, as it was faster. I never really got good at this technique. Gliding also had an advantage: a certain ability, maybe the fear spell, didn't work on a gliding opponent? Or maybe you wouldn't move around when feared if you were sitting; this might have been in WoW? I just sort of remember that I was aware that either gliding or sitting could have an advantage, but I was never really able to pull it off in a fight.
I remember that I tried to solo a mini-boss guarding an artifact or something on a floating rock next to a fortress in the Abyss, and survived for a while doing it, but never got a kill. I might have been interrupted by PvP, or maybe I just couldn't do it.
Minor point: during the last few months that I was playing, I was saving up a lot of resources (like enough for 10~20k potions) for certain crafting recipes that required taking the Divine Fortress in the Abyss. This was the potions that restored both health and mana. It was cheaper to make one potion that restored both resources than it was to make two potions that restored them separately. Although I played the healing class, with potions on a 30-sec cooldown the healing from the combined potion would be significant when soloing a boss. After servers merged, my faction was finally able to take the Divine Fortress for the first time, and I got the crafting recipes. But I stopped playing shortly after that, and so I was never able to try soloing bosses with the better potions.
So this might be a case of "if I only had X", gets X, "well if I only had Y as well". Actually not like "Airman ga Taosenai", which I'm again linking as the Hatsune Miku cover with 764k views, rather than the original video with 3.8m views and English translation. In that song, it's "if I only had X" and then "I could get X if I had Y, but I can't get Y either".
(I'm not talking about the artifact boss. I think it is likely that I didn't try that more because of PvP. My class was probably best for soloing bosses, as the other healing class had lower healing throughput and simply outhealing the boss's dps was difficult even with infinite mana from potions, but other classes scaled better in PvP. I was not interested in PvPing against someone who picked the strongest class, bought expensive gear to boost their chances of winning, and then spent all of their AP to stay at Rank 9 so that they would get 600 or 900 points for killing me but I would only get 120 points for killing them, which is less than I would lose for a death. Also there were some kind of quests for killing people with a certain rank, which I never learned about. Note that this situation, of 'dedicated PvPers being much stronger than a typical player but also worth less points than a typical player', is the exact opposite of good PvP reward design, and basically the reason why Aion died.)
If no one talks to me, and no one does anything as a result of what I say, what is the point of saying anything at all?
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Update 17 Jul 2026, 04:57
If a group of people are all affected by a change, and the average benefit to the group is positive, then at least one person must have a positive benefit. If no persons have a positive benefit, then the average benefit cannot be positive.
If I said more, I'd have to be unreasonably vague with <redacted> so I'll just stop here.
