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Are The Straights OK?

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Is someone holding these poor souls hostage and forcing them to be together?

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TranscriptA tweet saying "Six Male Personalities Of Modern Men Explained: (which one are you?) Read the thread. " It has a picture of some of these, the first one is "alpha male".It has a cartoonish picture of a guy in a suit. The next is "Beta male". This shows a person wearing a blazer, with a sneer on their face. The one after this is "Delta Male". This shows a guy in a plain white t-shirt. Next is a "Gamma male" It shows a guy in a red-and-black striped tshirt, with long hair. The next one is an "Omega Male" It shows a person with short black hair, glasses and suspenders." The last one is a "Sigma male" It shows a guy with sunglasses and a leather jacket."

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[–] sthetic@lemmy.ca 86 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I know this is terrible, but I find it fascinating in a sort of juvenile, teen magazine personality quiz, collect all the dolls type of way.

We've got our Businessman, Jock, Normcore main character, Sensitive Grunge Musician, Dweeb and Rebel.

Ignoring the manosphere bullshit and blithely viewing this as a team of characters planning a heist, or potential matches in a farming game or dating sim, how is this not kind of cool?

[–] protist@mander.xyz 61 points 4 weeks ago

This is basically the Breakfast Club

[–] Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

If this was a dating sim, alpha would talk nonstop how sexy his cranium shape is while 5 others are doing a shooting on the background.

Then he'd hit you and tell you its your fault.

[–] El_Scapacabra@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 weeks ago

"Look what you made me do!"

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Well they would need to be playable characters otherwise you couldn't date them or it may be gay. We all know everyone capable of playing videogames is a straight male after all.

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 8 points 4 weeks ago

This would actually be a pretty funny premise for a heist movie. Have them stealing Lambos from a crypto conference or something.