{"id":173,"date":"2008-09-02T10:16:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T18:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2008-09-02T10:27:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T18:27:04","slug":"what-i-learned-at-roflcon-numa-numa-and-too-many-puas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/02\/what-i-learned-at-roflcon-numa-numa-and-too-many-puas\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Learned at ROFLCon: Numa Numa and Too Many Wannabe PUAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad News:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m pretty much done with tech events with too many dudes pretending to be Pick-up Artists. Tech Events with 80% dudes was cool in 2005 before the book,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Game-Penetrating-Secret-Society-Artists\"> The Game<\/a>, came out. But now that all these chumps have a license to be douche bags, I think it&#8217;s kinda silly that all these guys are AMOG&#8217;ing guys in their own industry. Douchebags being negative towards their industry peers just for the attention of a random 20 year old.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/persistentillusion.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/pua.png?w=202&#038;h=296\" alt=\"Pic of Mystery\" \/><br \/>\n<i>If you act like this guy at a tech event I will kick your ass.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Picking up&#8221; women is not some video game, or like Dungeons and Dragons. There are some real life consequences to being a player. One of them is me kicking your ass if you interrupt me with the intent of tooling me while I&#8217;m talking to someone.<\/p>\n<h2>WARNING: If you pull any of that game or player bullshit, when I am talking to someone; if you tool me, I will drop you to the floor and frog walk you out of the tech event we are at. You have been warned!<\/h2>\n<p>Good News:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ben Huh of <a href=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.com\/\">I Can Has Cheezburger<\/a> put on a pretty cool discussion on the types of jokes out there. I&#8217;m gonna try to find the slides for that.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KmtzQCSh6xk\">Numa Numa<\/a> is my favorite viral video. I still laugh when I watch it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KmtzQCSh6xk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KmtzQCSh6xk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad News: I&#8217;m pretty much done with tech events with too many dudes pretending to be Pick-up Artists. Tech Events with 80% dudes was cool in 2005 before the book, The Game, came out. But now that all these chumps have a license to be douche bags, I think it&#8217;s kinda silly that all these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-techbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}