I did an experiment years ago... I took an online version of the dark triad and tucked the results away. A couple months later I drank a half rack of IPA and took the test again with all the questions sorted differently. In my mind before hand, I figured I would be 10-15 percent, but certainly not over 20 percent more evil when under the influence of alcohol... The actual results socked me, I was 50 percent more evil when I had an alcohol buzz... And that is why I don't drink.

I've always noticed that most people love getting the chance to be mean as long as they have a perceived moral justification. They get off on it and relish the opportunity to humiliate or damage someone as long as they're not judged by their peers.

People are misrepresenting the man. He didn't say anything about video games causing anything. He was talking about the attraction to violence that is seemingly inherent in humans and that violent video games, just like violent books, shows and blood sports all invite that side of humanity to indulge in sadism.

Delroy made an interesting point about how the crowd cheers for the violence in the hockey fight, but once someone is clearly hurt they hush, their enjoyment turning to empathy. I think this is similar to how normal people can enjoy the sadism contained within fiction (Mortal Kombat, Game of Thrones, etc.), yet be repulsed by real life violence. There's a "safe zone" of violence, a line where our innate sadism ends and our empathy begins. Personally, I love gory movies yet I can't stomach the local evening news.

I've met a few REAL psycho/socio paths in my life. I'm telling you, they cannot be helped. I'm sorry, but it's best to just leave them be. I'm talking about a person who is genuinely incapable of empathy or sympathy, and sometimes they don't even know anything is wrong with their behavior. Yeah, they excel in business and administrative positions, but that's only because they don't hesitate to run over others.

"Always be prepared for the worst in people" Niccola Machiavelli

The scary thing is the way that social media can corale these types of people into these pathological communities.

I sat on the sidewalk with a homeless older black man one Saturday night in a busy area of town and it was a shocking experience; multiple people that walked by throughout the night hurled vicious curses and threats at this man with absolutely no provocation. The man wasn’t begging, blocking the path, saying anything to anyone, or doing anything at all other than merely existing. It was utterly horrifying, gut-wrenching, and awful to witness. It nearly brings me to tears to this day when I think about it. The man told me that it was a normal every day part of life for him. Sadism, and evil, are very real. When your gut tells you that someone is evil, I would listen to your gut. There are some people that just almost have no soul for lack of a better term. They’re almost not fully human; more like a reptile; no feeling or warmth behind their eyes. They’re incapable of doing anything that’s truly altruistic. They’re too primitive for that. They’re constantly looking to obtain and/or protect things, experiences, influence, and statuses that satiate their appetites. Simply avoid these people at all costs and pour all your energy into the opposite kind of people.

I'm a veteran and unfortunately have been diagnosed with severe PTSD. What is most frightening is knowing I have killed thousands either by my physical hands or a bomb loaded by my crew and finding rest in the midst of the moral distaste. At times I indulge the thought of their bodies being burned and torn limb from limb and fantasize about being more morally bankrupt than I already am. I hate that about myself. I tell myself that isn't me and I can overcome the evil thoughts. Thankfully, I have God. Without Him, there is no help innocent people. As Paul said " I do the things I do not want to do, and the things I want to do, I do not do. It is no longer I, but the sin that is in me. " When Paul asked for the thorn to be removed, God said no, His grace is sufficient. Thank God it is, for my own soul and the innocent, thank God.

As a long time player of Magic the Gathering, I've noticed over time that those who play strictly control decks have sadistic tendencies. I'm talking about people that only run control cards and have no other win conditions built in. Literally they play MTG for the sole purpose of not letting their opponents play or do anything (absolute control). They take pleasure in the fact that their opponents are wallowing in misery as they endure 40 or 50 turns of not getting to do anything, but wish the game was over, while also having hope that the game can somehow be won. Only to eventually lose by running out of cards. It is my opinion that those who hold their opponents hostage in a match to watch them try to do anything and stopping all attempts at ending the game. These people have sadistic tendencies. Esper control in particular is especially egregious. It is built specifically to do these things in a match: destroy all creatures, counter spells, gain life, look at opponents hand and discard before they can play anything. Let's make some connections: (destroy all creatures) in other words bring down everything the opponent has worked to achieve, (counter spells) denying them any chance of building themselves back up, (gain life) gaining so much life advantage over their opponents that they lose hope, (hand peeking/discard) when you're willing to go as far as invading someone's privacy and stealing or destroying their belongings in order to gain advantage over them. These type of people lack creativity and are sadistic. I don't know... maybe I'm just a very sore loser 🤣.

Yes. I am enjoying it. Thank you for asking.

Raymond W. Novaco coined the phrase Anger Management. "We all experience anger; anger only becomes a serious concern when an individual is angry too frequently, too intensely, and for too long." ~ Raymond W. Novaco, 1984

Interesting conversation. We are not to rejoice in others misfortunes. We offer assistance and prayers. Thank you Jordan ✝️❤️

Great interview and very true!!! ❤❤❤

I did my undergrad in Psych in the Vancouver area. All of my Professors talked about Dr. Robert Hare as if they were talking about a rock star. He was the Elvis of the Vancouver Psychology scene.

I think the violence in video games and movies could be due to the fact that people need to vent. Some people cannot put into words as eloquently as others, so this type of violence to pixels on a screen is a good outlet. I also think that it shows just how much these people understand that such violence is not acceptable in real life, they are aware that it is a bad thing. That's why they only do it in a safe, controlled environment. It's because they're civilized and in need of such an outlet. Or it can be chalked to a simpler explanation: morbid curiosity.

It's cool how Dr Delroy is eager to share his concise take on all that. Jordan Peterson as usual shows great elegance in directing the flow of information, and positively adding in his own experience. About what has not been said here : I would be interested in learning about the usefulness of noticing the emotional response to nostalgic evocations when someone is too knowledgeable in psychology to resist (probably without malice) misdirecting the clinician...

I remember years ago reading Dr. M. Scott Peck's book, "People of the Lie" where he argued that there needed to be a new personality disorder, as in Evil Personality Disorder. Being raised by an evil parent, maybe I'm biased, but he convinced me.

Interesting as always and educational

Educative so much ❤

Very interesting. I was already a follower of Peterson. I like Dr Delroy’s sensitivity and intelligence. I will see what he has written.

For some reason, I'm imagining these two scholars as medieval monks in the 8th century meeting and sharing their findings on demonic possession by candlelight. Each eagerly listens to the other as they discuss the laborious translation of old, weathered tomes, and the challenge of ascertaining applicable nuance from the very general and poetic descriptions of different spiritual disorders.

Wow. Great insight both gentlemen. Never heard of Dr. Delroy, his take on sports and games. Excellent.

I cannot fully rationalize this, but I think it's very important that often, likely even in most cases- satisfaction in brutally murdering your opponent in a competitive video game has nothing to do with sadism and most of these people would never want to hurt a mouse.

Most psychopaths simply do not care about punishment and simply don't fear any possible punishment. Many psychopaths tend to relish the chaos and disruptive effects of their actions. I've known a few of them in my lifetime, mostly in my own family. It's not that they don't learn from the punishment they receive, it's more like they don't fear what can be handed down as a punishment. Most people that are psychopaths know what they are and usually take pride in being the evil of the world... Just our take on it.

I believe the attraction stemming from many video games or a show such as Game of Thrones has more to do with a desire for adventure and a longing for contact with the harsh reality of life. There's something about the gore that makes it all more realistic, it adds to the shock when you get to see a beloved main character perish.

Excellent speaker Delroy

Beat me beat me cried the masochist. No, no said the sadist. On a more serious note, power strongly attracts sociopaths, which is why we get so many bad politicians. Most of us just want to live out our lives in peace.

2:30 "I moved on and got a real job." Great self-awareness.

Pescador de Hombres, I really liked this podcast. Very helpful in understanding how violent video games are so popular. I am not suggesting that people- who in my opinion are mostly male- that play violent video games are violent people or bad people, but, it is noticeable that these video games sell more than any other. Candy Crush, although I don't consider it violent at all, is also a video game, and does have to do, however, with "crushing" or eliminating or destroying to get to the next level. It is highly addictive, in my opinion. It's just food for thought- my comment. I'm so grateful to learn more with your podcasts. Thanks for your help. Te amo! The Gates of Hades shall not prevail.

Thank You.

Very interesting information because unfortunately I have had two of the personalities in my life through three individuals since I was 23. I am now 57 and one of those people still exists in my daughter, the narcissist. This toxic relationship, no matter how much it breaks my heart, is going to be now in God's hands as it always should have been. This is a great tragedy in my life. My two granddaughters, 2 and 7, will suffer greatly. Especially the oldest who spends every weekend with me and I take to church. The Psychopath died one and a half years ago. Therapy has taught me much although I don't go anymore. Listening to Dr. Peterson has been an intrinsic value. Please listen to all he has to say. You will learn much. Keep these Toxic relationships out of your life. Thank you God for getting me through.

This is some high level of observation, its so hard to see the difference between normal and non-normal because of the sneaky mutation of non-normal things into normal things. I think the new generations will have a difficult time dealing with this kind of global psychological change, the more i get to know or in this case notice and take note of it, the more i worry about the future.

Love it THXs for your video God bless THXs Mr J Peterson Share comments below

Thanks!

As a male who came of age around the time of Mortal Kombat, the attraction for me personally wasn't the gore, but that the fatalities were a secret code that not everybody knew. As a longtime advocate of GTA rampages as a therapeutic vent, I can say that there is NO animal torture in the games. Hunting pigeons in a new York city type setting is not torture, it's culling an overgrown flock. The only torture that happens is to human people and as a comprehensive player of the series I will guarantee that only nasty criminal characters get that treatment. But you can also run over pedestrians randomly, just like in real life. Only a psychopath wouldn't be able to discern the difference and not know that is a bad idea.

A darker humor seems to be growing as well, abstracting pain to absurdity is a way of bypassing the empathy of the situation. e.g. A man loses his eye sight, that's ok cause..... It's always in the last place you look.

Thankyou jordan Peterson

Yes, next question.

Well, some of what he mentioned as examples of “sadism,” I believe is much more closely related to and explained by tribalism and mating/ sociological instinct. Football teams for example, you want YOUR tribe to win and to exert dominance. The dominance factor can come in the form of violence, like many other animals. However, the silence that he mentioned, which typically occurs when a player gets really injured, I believe that is a deeply human trait. Especially amongst a wealthy nation whose baseline needs are mostly satisfied and beyond. That is the empathy. Very few in the crowd are reveling in a visceral and immediately serious injury. Those select few who are would be your true Sadists.

I believe we trend toward the dark side in the virtual world because we are seeking that which is out of reach in reality. I don't necessarily fear it or see it as a bad thing. Once upon a time we could only see the world through direct experience, one side of one story at a time, now we see through each others eyes in ways never before achievable. We have direct and unlimited access to all the stories and their outcomes at will. Through virtualization we can experience the lives and lessons of both the victims and the perpetrators without ever actually living either path. It allows us to communicate the lessons of good and evil from entire lifetimes within mere minutes. Instead of trial and error, we have references to draw upon. The experiences make us better, more complete people, not monsters.

Has there been any new developments regarding successful treatment of any of those disorders? Should there be more emphasis on combining treatment and recovery with documentation of both as an overall plan to improve well being?

Lack of empathy (emotional) and Sadism are by far the most important and revealing ones.

The whole interview of this is pretty awesome. Just know that if you have these traits, there is widespread agreement that you can change your personality, sometimes in as little as a few weeks, and the first step is to simple act the way you wish to be, and find role models/friends who act the way you wish to be.

All of these dangerous traits being described begin to be commonly expressed by multiple individuals within a group once the social construct of tribalism is achieved founded on the rudimentary ideology of "us versus them" as apart of their success/survival. "Wokness" seems to fit the criteria given . . .

You must learn to be a monster then learn to control it! That’s what I’m teaching my son. He is a gently soul, and a great kid but I’m afraid he’s not going to stand up for himself then fall into depression like his mother so I truly hope he takes after me in his teenage years and becomes strong and isn’t afraid to fight even if it’s a losing fight. Defend yourself and defend those weaker than you! That’s how I grew up.

I love how Dr.Peterson dresses!

"GTA, kill bystanders, torture animals - people are paying for that stuff" same BS as rocknroll in the 60s, metal in the 70s, 80s, etc. Not one bit of violence indicators went up since people played games like this. BTW the goal in GTA is not to kill bystanders and torture animals...

Mortal Kombat didn't plant the seed, it simply appealed to something that's inside of all of us.

"Overlap of definitions" is a good way of saying that the definitions of these words are vague, and in turn, so are the words.

Well, this just blew my mind

Outstanding take. Human dichotomy is baffling, the love for violence seems to be entrenched in the human psyche.

This gave me an insight thank you. Yes it is horrifying. PTSD level horrifying. Praise God for his love and able hands

This is incredible, I just read and watched a lot about psychopathy today and now this video gets uploaded

The "silly little Mario Brothers... Stuff" was also a much simpler game with worse graphics and sound, it had much simpler rules and the skill floor was right at your feet. Pretty sure the gore and shock factor was more of an advertising tool to be honest, fighting games in general have been arcade favorites ever since they came out because of the competitive aspect, and that turned them into a spectator sport as well. You want to see the best player win.

I am an avid gamer and objectively speaking based on my experience, I do not think of any morality when I play games and I am hurting the "bad guys". But, of the story introduces characters that affects me, morality comes into play. Child, women, elderly, and hurt people who are hurting people; when I encounter them in the games, my morality sets in. Most of the time, there are times that I just hurt and shoot who I want since I know that it is not reality. I am interested to understand the Psyche on this.

Wow thanks!

Interesting study in the nature of the conditioned mind, aka dark traits of psychology. It definitely takes a sensitive being to detect these phenomena. Interesting.

Interesting. I loved mortal Kombat when it first came out on NES, my friend and I would play for hours. We never got into any physically violent confrontations or anything, even though I had taken martial arts for years. GOT disgusted me on so many levels I'll never watch it again, but I have friends that absolutely love it. I switched my focus from Kenpo to Escrima twenty years ago because all Kenpo had left to teach me was 101 ways to kill a man. I don't need that information rattling around inside my head so I focused more on FMA after that. I don't even practice the knife techniques or tactical moves because they focus solely on killing your opponent. I don't want that in my life. I also don't own a gun which, nearly every friend I have that doesn't practice martial arts, has at least one. Now at 51, it's about stand up, physical chess, basically. It's fun and at 51, it's hard to find things that are actually fun that I have any interest in.

Thank you. As a game developer, this is an incredibly useful interview.

Time to anxiously watch this video worrying that I'm a psychopath. Edit: I took the MACH-IV and scored a 58/100. I'm slightly bothered, but I do believe in honesty, I am callous and distrusting of others, and (not that I'm interested in doing so) do believe, especially in this day and age, that people are manipulable.

Brilliant

Facinating!!!

If he thinks people cheering at hockey fights is sadistic, I'd hate to hear his assessment of combat sports like boxing or MMA...

During my PhD candidacy and the nature of it, that being multi disciplinary, I had a unique look into some of the subject matter here. My primary area being computer science but i had two supervisors, one from computer science and one from film, culture and media. So I had to read through droves of published papers that drew conclusions about people who play computer games of a violent nature. There is an overwhelming number that implies those who play violent games have some inherent intent to carry out violent acts on people in the real world. Without protracting the foundation of my assertion any further, one does not have to look very far to find a history of real world violence being used as a form of entertainment. Even capital punishments such as hangings in the dark ages would be a public spectacle. We are drawn to scandal, people in general focus on the negatives, the news and what it covers shows a very tailored approach at how this is delivered. If we had a natural tendency towards tranquility the highest paid televised sport wouldn't be boxing. In short, games and their content do not correlate with anything meaningful with regard to violent intent. Yes, there are a large number of people who have played computer games that have carried out violent acts, but they are typically not ultra violent games such as man hunt but role playing games such as world of war craft. The former has been banned and unbanned a number of times. It has never been attributed to any violent acts carried out. Religion on the other hand, that's a violent affair if there ever was one!

Thanks

My mother was sadistic. I would watch her smile when she would do a little bit of working on my dad’s back and he would yell when she got too rough. She absolutely loved causing him pain. She loved to humiliate me by doing or saying things in front of my friends or others and once started tearing my shorts off of me in front of two neighborhood boys. Her excuse was that if I wanted to show myself by wearing my clothes tighter than she saw fit then she was going to help me do so. It’s taken me my entire life of 74 years to try and heal from the many forms of abuse that I experienced at her hands!

What I find interesting about this clip is that you can really tell when someone is a true scientist, by which I mean someone who is genuinely interested in finding out how and why things are what they are, regardless of whatever it might be. As opposed to people who have an opinion and are seeking to confirm it. Regarding stuff like violent video games: I think that everybody has a little bit of bloodlust in us. It's what makes us able to hunt, to defend our homes and families, and when sublimated, to compete in the world. Some people have more of it than others, and in some people it rises to the level of the unacceptable. But I don't think it's a horrible thing that you can play these impulses out in video games knowing that you're not really hurting anything but a cluster of pixels.

I am an empath. My first conscious awareness of this was in 3rd grade. I was the new kid in the school at the time, and didn’t have any personal relationships with any of the students or with the teacher. One day the teacher harshly criticized a boy in the class, and suddenly I had to put my face down on the desk, as I felt completely humiliated and devastated. On a conscious level I knew the teacher had targeted someone else not me, but somehow I became him and felt his humiliation for him! Have had many experiences with taking on other people’s pain since then. One example was my younger sister, who was my opposite and enjoyed hurting others, and we had very little to do with each other as adults. But out of the blue, I began to feel like something was upsetting her, and she needed support. I drove several hours to see her at her house, and it turned out her husband of a year had just left her for a man. (This was over 40 years ago, when this was quite shocking.). She had not told anyone in the family yet. As we talked, she suddenly changed, and seemed much happier, while I started feeling terrible. I took on her pain without any conscious effort to do so. Interestingly, this experience did not result in any improvement in our relationship. She seemed to take it completely for granted, and remained very cold towards me. She used to physically push me around a bit when we were little (we’re only 18 months apart), and then tell me how weak she considered me to be since I wasn’t interested in pushing back. I do remember how shocked I was when she starting torturing our cat for her amusement. I was so young that I wasn’t making any moral judgements, it just made no sense to me. I couldn’t understand it. She ended up manipulating my mother into rejecting my 2 other siblings and myself so she could inherit all her money. Our mother’s will stipulated sending the 3 of us each a registered letter from her when she died, telling each one of us how much she hated us. So my sister is very wealthy, and won the game she was playing. It never occurred to the three of us to try to “win” all the $. Point is she was a manipulative person at a very young age, and I was an empath without any conscious effort...and it started very early, it wasn’t learned behavior. She is also very dependent on alcohol, and I don’t drink, and never have. She is now a big believer in a cult in spite of the fact the leader’s various prophecies of a devastating Madrid fault earthquake fail to come true, and she claims that flying saucers are repeatedly directly hovering over her house for hours at a time, as the zeta aliens are eager to communicate with her personally. No one else where she resides has ever seen any of these events occur. It doesn’t appear to me that her personality orientation has worked out that well for her, in spite of her wealth. I have no idea if she plays video games, or enjoys violent professional sports, but I do know she enjoys making others suffer. She clearly has a narcissistic personality disorder, but I lack the data to link her personal traits into this bigger picture of how these various personality disorders converge with striking similarities. On the other hand, I have never played a video game, dislike movies, and never attend or watch any sporting events. So my empath wiring seems to fit the psychological research, no surprise there. But I NEVER would have predicted my sister would become obsessed with a cult, and become delusional. How does that fit into the predator pattern?

A distinction should be made between reveling in others pain, and reveling for others reasons, while pain happens to also be occurring.

11:45 a lot of people who cheer for that violence, once seeing the severe negative outcomes, will change their views over time. I was one of them. I enjoy mma and hockey these days but the respect level is much higher than when I was a kid, and it isn’t the blood shed that gets me. Also, I personally enjoyed the smash bros series much more than mortal combat. It was a high speed chess of sorts, with no time limits or turns on moves, in the form of mostly but not limited to human combat, and the lack of consequences though if not simulated and done in real life, the consequences would be dire. Enjoy the thought provoking content. All the best!

The torture of Trevor in GTA V repulsed a lot more people than pleased. Idk about any animal torture.

Interesting story.. however about the Game of Thrones...everyone can have an opinion about how to categorize things into this or that. And especially experts like to think within the box. But the real question is here about ethics itself. Do we consider reading or watching a story where murder is one of the main tension drivers unethical? Is my lovely and old mum who loves reading crime books unethical? I don't think so...

Fascinating...

An academic in a creaking leather jacket is unsettling, as is his demeanor in general, in particular the unusual way that he micro-flings his head from side to side and backwards.

My husband brought up a good point about the necessity of old style bullies. They bring people back to reality. Think about it. Bullies often picked on the kid escaping in a novel, or a videogame. Just anyone escaping reality. Think of the jock knocking the kids book out of his hand. Helped keep people grounded in reality. Now we don't have those kinds of bullies. We have bullies keeping people out of reality.

Very interesting. I want to point out also as a sadistic trait that the reason why car accidents increase the traffic of the road is generally not because of the presence of the cars itself, but because people slow down when they are close to the accident in order to see better if "anything interesting" happened.

I think it's important to note that in circumstances like hockey fights, there are 2 willing combatants 1on1 in a seemingly fair fight. They both want what's taking place and there are no weapons involved. I think I have the mind of a researcher because I'm curious to see how people respond when you change the variables and then let them view and have them tell you their thoughts. Ask if they would want to watch a willing combatant beat on an unwilling individual. Or ask if they would enjoy watching 4 people hurt a woman, etc. I think most would not take pleasure in watching. But perhaps more would than I think. I don't know.

good idea

I thought the key difference between Machiavellian / psychopaths vs narcissists is the former act with intent while the latter act subconsciously

THANK GOD . I AM A PSYCHOPATH. I WAS WORRIED I MIGHT NOT BE

Yes, Jordan is.

Yes. Next question. Also these are easy.

I'd say video games are not a great way to judge sadism. For the vast majority of people that play them, well, they know everything they are doing in the game is not real, it has literally zero impact on reality and there are no actual consequences (except spending your own time sitting there). When you make your pixels harm other pixels, all you are doing is triggering a visual representation of code reacting to code in a scripted manner. I think a great example of this is how some people play FPS games but are terrified to pickup and use a firearm at a range. Even though they know that they aren't going to discharge the firearm at someone and just at a piece of paper or metal down range, they still fear the sound and recoil and the very slim chance (with proper instruction) that they might harm themselves or someone, or some animal.

I scored a 30 when I did an online one for myself and 33-35 when done my members of my family on my behalf. I can’t say I am surprised I have pretty much known I was off ever since I kicked a kid in the 2nd grade just so I could stay inside during recess and read, while also establishing myself as an honest remorseful character because I’m the one who told on myself. Teacher was very proud of me. I did this intuitively lol, yikes.

Yes im And a proud one to

Pac-Man is a one player game and Mortal Combat is a two player game, so a destination also needs to be made between people interested in human on human competition and/or the interest in the violence. Also, Mortal Combat was one of the first photo-realistic games, opposed to cartoon style games. Another factor that might be involved.

I score 0 percentile on Compassion and 5 percentile on Agreeableness (Politeness is a bit higher). I don't think I'm a psychopath, but I'm for example very egocentric. My high Orderliness, Neuroticism and low Extraversion keeps me a bit in check. I can be extreme harsh towards people when I'm backed in a corner.

I definitely agree that sadism is completely normal and seen in normal people. I'm not saying it's a positive thing, but sadism has been a part of almost every single human society, even when it comes to sadism for one's enemies. I am pretty confident that it's just part of the human condition.

I would say that being entertained by violence and video games and being entertained by actual videos of people, being killed and enjoying it, are very two different things. The sadist get enjoyment out of people being tormented. Actual people. I’m also indifference to the hockey analogy because they aren’t cheering because they want to see somebody get hurt, they are cheering because of the competitiveness of the fight.

Of course!

This is a skit right. The Reverend Jim "Iggy" Ignatowski from Taxi 1970s reprised.

That was good. He (in the way I think) is on point and the examples he chose were perfect. Even people who have no problem having others think for them would see and agree with what this man said. Now I don't like most video games, especially in today's world. However, I love Mortal Kombat because I am a button smasher. That is the only game where you can win by just pushing buttons over and over again. I also have to admit, I love Game of Throwing out the end show because of its psychology of it. How, well suppose to all connect stories throughout the show.

Game of Thrones was gruesome and evil in many ways but it appealed to both sides as there were lovable characters and also some not so lovable ones that did display some kind qualities that you could grab onto and hope for them to develop in a positive way. I think for me, I have a hard time not finishing things once I start them as well. I need that conclusion. There was always a hope that “good” would prevail. In the end though, you’re kind of just left wondering if anyone was ever really good to start with. It definitely makes you ponder human nature and what people are capable of when pushed to the brink. Also…the dragons were a huge draw in for me lol!

I moved school a lot when I was young and kids can be cruel and as a result I hate bullies I would never allow it though I found the best was a quick violent response to violence on me, a kid tried to bully me over a game of cricket, I honestly thought he was joking until he hit me in the face so I grabbed his arm and twisted it up his back, he fell to the floor screaming for his mum, I could have jumped on him and kicked his head in but that's not me he was down that'll do. years later I saw him trying to bully my friend who was terrified but it says a lot about bullies even though he was bigger than me he was still scared of me so I was able to put a stop to that with some words. I hate bullies.

As someone who has played a lot of games where you "hurt" and "kill" pieces of code, I've never thought it'd be fun to just go kill or torture someone or something. It's ok precisely because I realize they're not animals or people. He doesn't understand violent video game players, he doesn't like violent video games players, and then slanders them. Vilifying people who aren't villains is very irresponsible and evil. If he wants to see who's being villainous in all of this, he should look in the mirror.

Game of Throwns is a great series. I personally enjoyed watching the evil people being brought to justice

Only few hours ago while talking to a coworker about narcissism and namely some of my experiences with them and remembering horrific things they have done… made me realise and say “there must be an element of sadism in every narcissist, as they draw so much satisfaction out of it… Then i came home and came across this mind blowing conversation… I still feel ants crawling on my scalp…

This guest speaker is an absolute genius

Psychopaths are cold hearted, cold, calculating people, sociopaths are hot headed people and can’t control their own emotions and actions. So there’s that