Sigma balls
BarrelAgedBoredom 84 points 3 years ago
blanketswithsmallpox 9 points 3 years ago
Gotten Males on the rise! Invest invest invest!
Kusimulkku 8 points 3 years ago
First sighting in the wild of a true sigma male (2024)
Potatos_are_not_friends 113 points 3 years ago
My 27yo incel nephew during the holidays had a hissy fit and called me a beta and really put himself in the alpha seat.
Which was weird, because I picked him up from my sister's house, drove him here, and also had to drop him back off as a favor to my sister.
I dunno what internet or what he thinks alphas are but oooof.
Delphia 77 points 3 years ago
No... there just isnt a next time.
"Hey can you..."
"Nah, Ive got too much Beta shit going on. Buying soy candles, yoga... tell him to find an Alpha way home. Tame a wild horse, Run with a wolf pack or some shit. NMFP."
doppelgangmember 0 points 3 years ago
This 😆
Potatos_are_not_friends 19 points 3 years ago
I am a beta to my sister because I love her and will fulfill favors for her unconditionally.
wildginger 6 points 3 years ago
Next time you give him a ride, make a pit stop.
"Yeah Ill get you where your mom asked me to get you, but you sit here in the car while I go grab some groceries I need. You can have the windows down a little if you like."
Turns the power dynamic around real quick.
HappycamperNZ 24 points 3 years ago
Apparently the concept of alpha male in wolves came from those observed in captivity.
Sure there's a link there
maniclucky 7 points 3 years ago
I'm not sure about the captivity thing, but I do know that what were originally asserted to be 'alphas' were the breeding pairs. They were parents leading their children.
seaweedsheep 9 points 3 years ago
There was a very flawed study years ago where a biologist observed wolves in captivity and determined that they fight for dominance within the pack. Later, he realized that in a natural setting, a pack is a breeding pair and their pups, as you stated. A natural pack is much more cohesive and doesn't have a strict hierarchy, but the ridiculous myth of "alpha wolves" won't go away completely, despite the same biologist's efforts.
EmergMemeHologram 10 points 3 years ago path: 0 6571408 6583572, hotness: undefined, score: 10, children: 0
carl_dungeon 83 points 3 years ago
No they literally did that already too, that’s why you hear other Greek letters like sigma males and all that bullshit.
carl_dungeon 13 points 3 years ago
“We go full cock diesel in this club!”
MisterFrog 5 points 3 years ago
How is sigma higher than alpha?
chatokun 14 points 3 years ago
I'm not sure, but these two things may be part of it:
- They think being sigma means you're out of the whole hierarchy. You're a noble lone sole, above all this alpha and beta stuff (so just lone wolf renamed)
- In Anime and some other similar media, including some games, the scale is S at top, then A, B, C, D, E, F, etc. S-rank is better than A, and is usually only surpassed by more Ss(SS rank, SSS Rank, etc). Sometimes there's stuff like U rank etc.
MisterFrog 1 point 3 years ago
Or 18 letters lower. The start is usually "better", getting an A on a paper is better than C, or being 1st in the world, rather than 18th.
I guess alphanumerically, sigma corresponds to a higher number, but I'm not sure if I've ever seen things ordered like that before. You start a list a α, not σ.
That's my take anyway.
Scew 2 points 3 years ago
You start a list however you need given the context. It's arbitrary.
As an example when doing time calculations in programming, UNIX time is the number of seconds that have passed since January 1st, 1970. If you needed a list ordered most recent to oldest, the highest number would be first.
To bring it back to you, a 100 is a better numerical grade than a 1. The alphabetical identifiers attached to grades are in reverse order to their numerical counterparts, which is even more fun because the person with the highest number and the earliest letter are considered "best." However, in some card games (Uno for example) having the lowest number is best when determining score.
emergencyfood 2 points 3 years ago
In many Asian countries, 'S' is a grade higher than 'A'. The idea is that it should be given rarely, to those who are off the scales good. But due to inflation, now there can be SS / S+ and even SSS / S++.
HiddenLayer5 81 points 3 years ago
Alpha male is the most unstable and failure prone male.
Beta male is a little better, since the developers would have tested it more.
Release Candidate male is probably the safest bet if you want a fairly reliable male while still having early access to new features.
Stable Release male is the one most non male enthusiasts would use though.
If you're running males in a server or enterprise environment, you probably want Long Term Support male.
EmergMemeHologram 8 points 3 years ago path: 0 6611137 6620367 6627872, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 0
SomethingBurger 13 points 3 years ago
I'm a "feature branch that's been abandoned for 4 years" male.
ook_the_librarian 65 points 3 years ago
I'm a turbo dude. It's like an alpha male, but women like me.
MaxVoltage 23 points 3 years ago
i respect women and they look at me in return
EmergMemeHologram 15 points 3 years ago path: 0 6577896 6583498, hotness: undefined, score: 15, children: 6
ook_the_librarian 9 points 3 years ago
Tell him I said women like me. Not females.
EmergMemeHologram 1 point 3 years ago path: 0 6577896 6583498 6585886 6587533, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
Twelve20two 5 points 3 years ago
Heh, you omicron males will never understand us Π-boiz 😎
EmergMemeHologram 1 point 3 years ago path: 0 6577896 6583498 6584307 6584704, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
EdibleFriend 14 points 3 years ago
Except the like 27 times he got killed.
starman2112 8 points 3 years ago
He got better
EdibleFriend 2 points 3 years ago
Salt tablet.
RandomVideos 54 points 3 years ago
Ah yes, a paper about wolves following a leader which was disproven by the same person that made it obviously applies to humans
The average pack size in North America is eight wolves and in Europe 5.5 wolves, with the biggest being 42
The largest human "pack" size is 37800000
i couldnt find the average size of a city, only the largest
42 is sightly smaller than 37800000 so studies on wolves about social structure might be wrong if you replaces wolves with humans
danielbln 27 points 3 years ago
I hear you, but you counter is a little disingenuous. A city isn't your pack, your social circle is. And that's probably smaller than 42. Just because you're in a city of millions doesn't mean you directly interact with them in a social way, we are still animals of small social groups, even if we live in a global space of billions. The alpha male stuff is still bunk science trash of course.
SkyeHarith 12 points 3 years ago
It’s half a wolf in Europe and half a wolf in the Atlantic Ocean. Duh
RandomVideos 4 points 3 years ago
There are actually 6 0.8(3) wolves
RandomVideos 1 point 3 years ago
There are 6 wolves, but the alpha counts as 0.5
UnderpantsWeevil 12 points 3 years ago
The largest human “pack” size is 37800000
Dunbar's number would suggest otherwise. Human "pack" size is closer to 150. Past that, you really don't recognize or interact with people to consider them peers.
But the rise of "Alpha Male" psychology seems to be paired with the gamification of dating, particularly via for-profit web apps. There's all this meta-psychology blossoming around a simple mathematical problem of too-many-dudes for too-few-women in a setting that rewards aggressiveness.
What we have is a totally artificial environment lauded by bunch of NEET libertarian techbros who are then forced to rationalize why they can't use it to get laid. In some sense, its like that scene from "A Beautiful Mind" except replace John Nash with Andrew Tate, and he's telling everyone at the table to fight to the death over the one blonde girl.
But the heart of the problem isn't simple that humans aren't wolves. It is that you have made of yourself a pack of caged animals and tried to explain the resulting social dysfunction by appealing to naturalism. Even if you were right and there was a chicken-like peaking order rather than a giant dog orgy instilled in the human psyche, you couldn't take advantage of it because you have become locked in a hen house overwhelmingly composed of roosters.
Incidentally, gay dating apps have an entirely different dynamic. There's no "gay alpha male" theory to contend with because they're all in the pile and having the time of their lives.
SuddenDownpour 9 points 3 years ago
and he’s telling everyone at the table to fight to the death over the one blonde girl.
And to make it even worse, he thinks no man actually likes the girl, or would enjoy being intimate with her. In his mind, "the girl" is only an object of status, something you ought to get to place yourself above other men, either because he's always been a psychopath or because it's been so long since he ever experienced connection with another human being that he doesn't even remember what it is.
wildginger 4 points 3 years ago
Its cause he is a sex trafficker, and that mindset is where his clients come from.
22decembre 47 points 3 years ago
Remember what an alpha is ? In video games, it's the first release, extra rough, not yet full clean of a game. It's the test version.
So I propose that we call "alpha males" ... "the test version".
extraowl 25 points 3 years ago
The reality is even better:
The wolves in the studies that produced an alpha were in captivity with foreign wolves. Meaning that their natural pack social hierarchies didn't exist. It's only when a bunch of random wolves are captured together that they act like this.
Which actually makes this a much better metaphor for people who identify themselves as "Alphas", feeling trapped, lashing out at your neighbours trying desperately to be the one who comes out on top.
wildginger 6 points 3 years ago
So a prison hierarchy.
gardylou 36 points 3 years ago
In nature the 'alpha' wolves are actually just the parents.
The original study that this term came from was based on wolves in captivity and the original author has spent decades reputitating the common interpretation of wolves being hierarchical and following an alpha leader like the common interpretation imagines that term to mean.
rekabis 35 points 3 years ago
Those “alpha” wolves were just a bunch of strangers thrown together and operating off of fear. They were just trying to build a pecking order to have some interpersonal security.
So any “alpha male” is just a frightened, insecure stranger who is out of their depth in scary circumstances and operating in a reactionary manner.
echodot 14 points 3 years ago
Except in their case this frightening situation exists purely on the inside of their skulls. Usually there isn't really anything happening.
Mostly it's just the existence of other people that worries them.
yetAnotherUser 3 points 3 years ago
Looks like I might be an alpha male after all
CADmonkey 1 point 3 years ago
So any “alpha male” is just a frightened, insecure stranger who is out of their depth in scary circumstances and operating in a reactionary manner.
As can be easily observed when dealing with one.
databender 31 points 3 years ago
How could you write this and not go for "Turbro"?
Kolanaki 30 points 3 years ago
"...and then they start jumping up and down on the sofa yelling 'it's turbo time!' And then they start runnin' around the house? And when you try to join in they yell at you and say 'YOU’RE NOT PART OF THE TURBO TEAM! DON’T RUN! YOU DON’T RUN WITH US! WE’RE THE ONES THAT RUN! UNTIL YOU’RE PART OF THIS TURBO TEAM, WALK SLOWLY!' Has that ever happened to you?"
SecretSauces 10 points 3 years ago
LiGmA? WhAt Is ThAt?
SecretSauces 11 points 3 years ago
niktemadur 1 point 3 years ago
Gott in himmel!
jordanlund 28 points 3 years ago
S-Rank. Everyone knows it's above A-Class. ;)
kippinitreal 3 points 3 years ago
Wasn't that one YouTube douche who kept talking about "snoozer male (very rare)", " sigma male (super rare)"... or are they all memes now?
feedum_sneedson 1 point 3 years ago
shrigma, somehow mushroom-based
6mementomori 4 points 3 years ago
even better: P rank tenebre rosso sangue intensifies
WilloftheWest 3 points 3 years ago
Let’s hope the incel top brass don’t discover Devil May Cry or we’ll soon have an SS-male and an SSS-male above sigma.
formergijoe 24 points 3 years ago
As a ligma male, I feel attacked.
Roflmasterbigpimp 21 points 3 years ago
The highest Flex is when your are just happy.
Twelve20two 16 points 3 years ago
And then "sigmas" tried to set themselves apart by saying that they really, really, really don't care and they're just focusing on themselves*
*By putting themselves into their own strata with a label that they definitely, totally don't care about. And no, it's definitely, definitely not a grift that influencers can use
driving_crooner 8 points 3 years ago
This gifs dosen't charge of jerboa :/
HotsauceHurricane 9 points 3 years ago
“This isn’t even my final form” —Males.
DessertStorms 7 points 3 years ago
That's what all social constructs and the bigotry based around them are, and a good example of why hierarchies are destructive.
Emerald 6 points 3 years ago
Image Transcription: Twitter Post
Ron Iver, @ronnui_
The idea of alpha males is so funny bc guys really made up an upper class and then put themselves in it. Ok if you're an alpha male then I'm a turbo dude. That's on level higher. You wouldn't understand bc you're just an alpha, sorry.
Aggravationstation 3 points 3 years ago
Alpha Males Do Not Exist:
feedum_sneedson 2 points 3 years ago
I think you mean sigma.
Hackerman_uwu -4 points 3 years ago
“Ron Iver” sounds like a boomer indie artist.
CrowAirbrush -4 points 3 years ago
The internet has so much to offer, yet we use it to be lazy and dumb.
Getting worked up over unimportant nonsense some nobody typed out just to get a reaction.
It's fun to watch tbh, especially knowing i spend 20 minutes every other day watching chronically online dumbasses who lost control over their self.
ohitsbreadley 0 points 3 years ago
Tell me you're compensating for a tiny dick without telling me you're compensating for a tiny dick.
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That is literally how 'sigma' males came to be.
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