Dean's mean ranting machine

Dean's mean ranting machine

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Dean's mean ranting machine episodes

  • 064_Single and why you should not care

    We men sometimes worry too much about what the person in front of us is thinking about our selves. Especially when we are on a date.


    "Just be yourself" is an advice, that most people tell to build up someones self esteem. But most people don't even know what that means. It's nearly impossible for someone to be themselves, when there is something at stake, like the woman we are trying to impress somehow.

    It's rather more helpful to make someone understand, that they should not care too much about the outcome of any conversation or date.


    That's the main topic in a nutshell, but much more ranting about other things around this issue.

    Enjoy and stay tuned.


    Dean

    54 min
  • 63_Immature Friends

    A friend of mine from work, is behaving a bit like a jealous big baby, because I have spent a bit more time with a different person.

    We are talking about grown men here, and this phenomenon is something I have experienced more often, with this level of educated people, this level of social competence.

    Troubling, what there is SOMETIMES... not that much you can do about it :/.

    I use this experience to connect it to people choosing A.I. as their personal human/friend replacement, which is already starting as we speak... Interesting times ahead!


    Cheers ;-)

    43 min
  • 062_Counter Strike 2 is disappointing

    There, I said it. CS2 is a huge disappointment.

    While the fix for latency issues have been quite good so far, problems with hitboxes being out of sync remain. Not to much thankfully, but they have not been removed entirely.

    Aside from those miner flaws, the game looks terrible. Visually it feels like no one at Valve had a fucking clue what they were doing. Far too bright, far too pale and poor colors making maps look awful and weapon skins washed out with little to no appeal.


    Gameplay remains the same, no real change there, except for the smoke, but I don't find it to be that impressive. The changes to the loadout is mindblowingly useless. God only knows what they tried to achieve there...


    All in all, not really a good game and just very very boring. Same concept, same garbage, same toxic community.

    Where is the innovation?

    Where? Is this what we have been waiting for after so many years? They must be joking... :-)

    28 min
  • 061_New Home and updates

    Time to get back to this podcast and report on my new home, the moving experience, hobbies and videos games, as well as other random things in my life. But hey, things are moving forward, things are looking good, even though I still have a ton of work ahead of me. But I'm doing it for myself, just like this podcast, as therapy.


    Stay tuned!

    1 hr 1 min
  • 060_Wedding Party

    I was attending a wedding two weeks ago and met a woman there. Nothing came out of it, aside from the fact that I did not want to get involved in her private life, which you will soon understand here in this episode.

    There are enough red flags to look out fore in life and this girl presented me something rather disturbing. Nice lady though overall. Friendly and sympathetic, but no girlfriend material.


    That's just me though, Dean playing his game as usual ;-)

    38 min
  • 059_ clichés and stereotyping women

    There is an article about persistent and present clichés of how many men still see women these days.

    It was published/posted by the "Stern" magazine in Germany earlier this year. While some points are quite valid, not everything is that simple. You can't always bring the 1950's into an argument, as if all men have inherited the same dogma since this time period. Further more I don't think the 50's were really THAT bad to all women in society. The 80's and 90's were by far worse, but who cares about facts these days.

    Do not be surprised about the article, because it has been written rather poorly and without much substance. It actually just illustrates the frustration in current times, rather then teaching anything new.


    I have left out and over read one topic or claim in this article, where the author mentions: "beautiful women equal dumb and easy."

    You can decide how relevant and accurate that statement still is for yourself.

    The article can be read (maybe use google translate) right here below.


    https://www.stern.de/lifestyle/liebe-sex/dating---schoene-muessen-dumm-sein----die-schlimmsten-klischees-ueber-frauen-33214962.html


    Cheers :-)

    1 hr 1 min
  • 058_Peter Gabriel in Cologne 2023

    YES! I've been there and I have seen and heard the show. How truely fantastic it was and I whole heartedly recommend that you watch this tour.

    Starts listening and enjoying. At least I hope that you do.


    hear you next time


    Dean

    58 min
  • 057_New Home and Peter Gabriel

    Greetings listeners. I have found a new place to stay and hopefully everything will just work out. Not yet moving, but I will in 2 months.

    talking about my thoughts on this, issues and doubts.

    Later in this episode I'll be talking about Peters new I/O tour and my excitement towards it, his new material and the unfortunately complaining "fans" who do not understand what an artist truely is. Yet alone the fact, why Peter does what he does, and does not owe anybody anything.

    But hey, some people never learn I guess..


    Stay tuned


    Dean

    48 min
  • 056_ElitePartner Studies about Singles in Germany

    Well Hello again to another great ranting of nonsense in German society.

    The rather (by my opinion) not so trustworthy online dating Site ElitePartner.de has posted results of their studies targtting singles in Germany.

    From the amount of singles withing certain age groups, to problems as to why some are single (or still single) and the infamous expectations people have.

    I'm going through vertain points that either make sense and could probably be true, to points that sound fabricated or infalted to sound "better" or more hopeful, to invite users to their site.


    A word of caution though, never trust a dating site, no matter what. They make money from your misery on every occasion and are not interested to make everyone happy. Your desperation to find "the one" is their bread and butter. So don't be fooled.

    Check our their report here:

    https://www.elitepartner.de/magazin/finden/singles-in-deutschland/


    The report is in German, but you can let Google translate that for you.


    Peace, over and out ;-)

    1 hr 14 min
  • 055_Incident_in_my_Childhood

    I remember being a little kid in Canada and at some point getting attacked by a teenager on his BMX bicycle, while sitting in a sandbox. My mom was present on a park bench near by, but didn't notice any of it happening.

    In case I have told this story before in an older episode, I'm really sorry. But I just don't remember anymore. I do get some flashbacks of that time, with all the pain and panic I had of the attack, including gasping for air. But for many years this memory just got hidden perhaps by my subconscious.


    Interesting story, maybe you will like it :-)

    30 min

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