Just wanted to vent a bit about my older brother after I was at his son birthday party. We do not talk much so I decided to catch up with his life.
- He got offended when I told him that he is the whitest guy I know. Apparently calling him white was somehow bad. I only said that because without lotion he burns in the sun, full red in a minute.
- We talked about what books he reads now since it is his favorite hobby. Apparently he only reads books with harems in them and lesbians which is fine by me of-course but then he took time to educate me about "the spectrum" which by the way is retarded.
- He only watches movies with a lesbian or at least a bisexual chick as main role
- He told me how good it is to change D&D dark elves and orcs - he does not play it and knows I am a fan - think he only mentioned to piss me off
- He like socialism for some unknown reason, people under socialism worked hard as fuck without having a choice in the matter (parents are from Romania) and he is at a level of lazy that I can not describe.
- Very pro putting social political messages in games/movies and books.
- Totally ignores his son education, the boy was hurting my grandmas dog and he did not care - I mean take him to a doctor behavior not just pull her by the tail. Luckily his wife is a huge capitalist fan, conservative, daughter of an ortodox priest so the kid will be fine.
- Hates J.K. Rowling now :)) I wonder why as he used to be a fan. I chuckled at this one.
- And the worst part he apparently hates me for not being miserable - not kidding. Just because I like what I do (although the company is "progressive"), I love my beautiful wife and I watch my health apparently is somehow privilege although we are brothers and had the same start.
Conclusion: He apparently developed some kind of kinks I do not want to know. He is doing poorly at his job because he is lazy and would rather read then do his work. Hates society and anyone who is happy. Hates being a white male. And wants everyone to be miserable and remove the opportunity to be successful from others. How high does this rank on a SJW scale?
Bonus: What my grandma has to say about socialism: If you are in a point in life where someone else tells you what to do and what to think then you are the same as dead. (is a rough translation from Romanian)
Is not exactly SJW but trying to tell me about the spectrum and where his characters are on it does seem a bit SJW. Sadly he used to have great taste in books, my favorite books have been recommended to me by him. In his deference he does say the books are not well written he just likes the subject.
Based on his old book recommendations if you haven't read anything by Brandon Sanderson I can guarantee you're in for a treat. His Mistborn trilogy or Stormlight Archives (ongoing) are the top of the list there.
I read Mistborn and it was fine. The problem I had with the books was the endings, it was rushed and always seemed forced. I wrote Brandon Sanderson to tell him I did not like the endings of the first 2 (at the time I had only read the first 2) but liked his books :)) and he actually answered. Cool guy.
That's a fair point, there were a few points that were conspicuously ignored in the endings of the first two, but in retrospect were probably left omitted to help keep the sense of mystery until the 3rd book. It definitely seems like he doesn't write his series books as well contained single stories, just episodes in an arc. His standalone books are better for that, but also a little less characterful.
But yeah he's also just a nice dude who likes what he does and likes his readers. Which is depressingly rare these days.