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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 3 months ago

https://bsky.app/profile/jonpennington.bsky.social/post/3kxqkmezcwe2o

I went to college with him. Yarvin is curdled nerd rage personified. He also lies about his age. He's older than me & claims a birth date that would make him younger than me.

I was on a Quiz Bowl team with him & whenever he would buzz in for an answer, he would jerk his body spasmodically, which the other people on the team called "Yarvinating."

He's the kind of player that other Quiz Bowl players hate, known in the subculture as a "pickoff lord." That is to say, he's the kind of guy who would pad his stats by diving in to buzz on easy questions, make wild guesses on intros so he could get more points than teammates, etc.

Hand to God. If anybody disputes me, I've got at least one other person who would remember the "Yarvinating" anecdote. I've got legit Quiz Bowl cred. I used to play against Ken Jennings before he was even a Jeopardy! contestant, let alone host.

I connected on Facebook with a former classmate, somebody else from that team who once appeared in a College Jeopardy! tournament. We're both kind of just gobsmacked that we were there for somebody else's Lex Luthor origin story.

Another bit of tea... He lies about his age. He was an upperclassman at Brown when I was a freshman & he claims to be younger than me.

see also https://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

Yarvin played on the College Bowl-only team for Brown from 1989 to 1992. In 2021 he published a poem[2] stating that "No one can fucking touch me / In College Bowl." Brown failed to advance out of the Region 1 tournament for all four years of Yarvin's participation, making his lifetime record at intercollegiate tournaments 0-4 and demonstrating that, at a minimum, the Brandeis, MIT, and Williams teams were capable of "touching" his performance.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago

I'd never looked into how old the clown is, but

He also lies about his age. He’s older than me & claims a birth date that would make him younger than me.

wait what? what does he claim? is the indicated year on wikipedia accurate? why the hell?

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

wikipedia date is 25 June 1973, presumably that's the false one

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

huh, just showed year here. did you get that from talk?

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

He also lies about his age.

I also knew somebody who did that, but it was done as a joke, he obv picked an age much much younger and everybody new he was older, it was just a funny joke. (With a small layer of disliking getting older, which is understandable) From the way this is written, it seems to me this isn't like that at all.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago

I like answering ludicrously old whenever this stupid shit comes up

or picking timestamps that make devs wonder whether they had a value handling bug (such as 1/1/1970, the asp.net default 0, etc ec)

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

Just be careful you never pick very young. iirc Twitter permbans you if you ever pick a date which means you were under 13 when you registered.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

I'm 12 years old and what is this?

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago

Don't worry if you get banned just tell them you were banned for expressing your conservative ideas.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

I've only been on the internet a year, that mistake will happen quite soon ;)

[-] ibt3321@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

A funny coincidence: https://gameshows.fandom.com/wiki/Curtis_Warren Another guy named Curtis that buzzes in early at game shows. And he's from CATHEDRAL City. It's all connected

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