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Comment by tetrisgm | Hacker News Reader

“I was not entertaining at a show, here’s what I didn’t learn”.

I kept waiting for the guy to share some lesson that was learned, and it never came. The self-satisfied writing was less interesting than his complete disinterest in two other humans and the entire event.

What a sad existence he leads. It's as if he's stuck in the 1990s, and proud of it.

And the date wasn't even "stolen" - though smooth guy probably did steal that girl after the exceedingly low bar set by this dude.

He “learned” long ago that if people don’t celebrate you for putting down someone else (or themselves), you can just remind yourself how big of an intellectual you are to give yourself that ego boost, and rationalize everything as you experiencing a more authentic life than others.

Perhaps the saddest part of this extremely sad post was when he was actually validated by the loser who praised him at the end, rather than taking the complete rejection by the entire room as an opportunity to self-reflect.

You do realize that everyone (especially the hosts) was in on the joke, right? I did chat to the hosts afterwards!

What joke? You presented this all as a completely factual thing that happened, and that you were the sole guardian of... non-cringe authenticity?... in the place, and that some loser thanked you for your service.

Now you're saying that the whole article was a lie?

Congrats, you're now even more disappointing of a person than originally presented.

The entire article is true. And if joke isn't clear to you, I won't be explaining it.

You have a tremendous amount to learn about writing, and communication in general. Good luck

I’m looking forward to his “I posted on HN, but some other posts stole upvotes from me”!

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