Finding Inspiration in Others

On October 05 2014 02:02 Joeingram1 wrote: I think after hearing it so many times I started believing that maybe it was a negative thing to want to really look GOOD when it comes to being in shape, how you dress, tan, etc... Now I think I've come to the realization that if you have interest in attracting a higher quality of person in a potential partner then you should also.

Lol thank you for the insight Loco


It sounds like you are taking my statement to mean I'm suggesting this is all that matters to me but I wouldn't know because of your troll reply

i listened to your podcast with WCGRider a few days ago, it was really inspirational. made me hella crave playing poker. the way WCG said the phrase "countering your opponent" was interesting and true, esp from a starcrafty POV. and listening to your guys' story was really quite awesome. and da top 5 list :D

im not sure what the blogpost is supposed to be about but i started jacking off halfway through since it reminded me of when slutty teenage girls posts show up on my facebook feed.

On October 05 2014 05:05 bigredhoss wrote: im not sure what the blogpost is supposed to be about but i started jacking off halfway through since it reminded me of when slutty teenage girls posts show up on my facebook feed.

lol ok

On October 05 2014 04:58 fira wrote: i listened to your podcast with WCGRider a few days ago, it was really inspirational. made me hella crave playing poker. the way WCG said the phrase "countering your opponent" was interesting and true, esp from a starcrafty POV. and listening to your guys' story was really quite awesome. and da top 5 list :D

Good to hear If you felt that way about that episode, you probably will feel the same about many of the other episodes I've recorded with various people so far

On October 05 2014 03:19 Joeingram1 wrote: Lol thank you for the insight Loco It sounds like you are taking my statement to mean I'm suggesting this is all that matters to me but I wouldn't know because of your troll reply

There is a reason why both relevant parts are in bold AND underlined... it's explicit enough, you don't have to start imagining what I meant. I just thought it was particularly funny to associate a person who tans with a higher likelihood of being great. But I'm not saying you're wrong, it might be true that you're probably more likely to find your match if she's/he's into tanning and hair-styling just as you are. Anyway, feel free to ignore me, I am not your target audience.

I felt inspired to make this though.

Yeah i think you are taking my general statement and really overstating it lol


It was just a couple examples that are related to looking better, obviously i don't care much about tanning. For some it shows that they want to make an effort to look the best they can and/or they take care of themselves, compared to many people who put in no effort to be there best anything. You seem like the 2nd type. I don't think your making much of an effort to even understand what I wrote, you just see TANNING AND HAIR AND OMG LOL HIGHER QUALITY PERSON= TANNING?? WTF


You def aren't my target anything. I don't really wish to argue with randoms on the internet

"obviously i don't care much about tanning."

You cared enough to mention it. On a public forum.

"For some it shows that they want to make an effort to look the best they can and/or they take care of themselves, compared to many people who put in no effort to be there best anything. "

That's quite the jump you're making there. People who are not vain don't care about being their "best anything"? Maybe they just have different priorities and are improving themselves on deeper level while the vain person is more concerned about the surface.

"I don't think your making much of an effort to even understand"

Sorry, it's extremely intricate stuff. I might need to read a few books on the subject first in order to grasp it.

"I don't really wish to argue with randoms on the internet"

It's a bit too late for that, big shot.

To each their own. We have been conditioned to love tan skin in the U.S, I understand that fact, yet i always call my girl out if she is looking too pale. I cant really control my surface level thoughts. It just looks infinitely better to me.

lol ffs loco stfu


wtf are you even commenting on here for

but it's true you're not making any effort to understand what the other guy is saying, you're just taking one thing and blowing it up because it's fun to be combative I guess.

the reason appearance is important is it's hard to rapidly communicate that you care about yourself and being successful/good/virtuous/happy so you have to leave some clues like visual ones for the other apes and they will do the same for you

what's with all the hate LP? Joe is just trying to motivate the grey mindless mass out there lol

personally I know you're talking about, I always watch the podcast and it motivates me in poker and helps me grind more. I'm playing 200nl and I'll be taking some 400nl shots soon if I can get some of that podcast rungood going. I might make a blogpost of my success in poker so far, but it's always so hard to find the time to make a blogpost. I wonder how you find the time to make blogposts on a somewhat consistent basis?

I know that feeling about other people inspiring you to look more into other things aside from poker. I'll try to have some of that more into my life soon enough. But I think it's hard to do anything poker without being somewhat obsessive in the start.

On October 05 2014 12:13 Joeingram1 wrote: lol ffs loco stfu wtf are you even commenting on here for

lol

I'm just a random on the internet, wtf you taking my posts so seriously?

you must be so well liked

On October 05 2014 12:14 Santafairy wrote: but it's true you're not making any effort to understand what the other guy is saying, you're just taking one thing and blowing it up because it's fun to be combative I guess. the reason appearance is important is it's hard to rapidly communicate that you care about yourself and being successful/good/virtuous/happy so you have to leave some clues like visual ones for the other apes and they will do the same for you

On October 05 2014 12:29 aernout wrote: what's with all the hate LP? Joe is just trying to motivate the grey mindless mass out there lol personally I know you're talking about, I always watch the podcast and it motivates me in poker and helps me grind more. I'm playing 200nl and I'll be taking some 400nl shots soon if I can get some of that podcast rungood going. I might make a blogpost of my success in poker so far, but it's always so hard to find the time to make a blogpost. I wonder how you find the time to make blogposts on a somewhat consistent basis? I know that feeling about other people inspiring you to look more into other things aside from poker. I'll try to have some of that more into my life soon enough. But I think it's hard to do anything poker without being somewhat obsessive in the start.

I've barely been able to make more than a couple blog posts per year using that same thinking. Always seems so hard to find the time to make any post. The podcast run good should be on your side

I didn't really start becoming aware of it until I got out of my 100 percent obsessed with poker stage of life and started becoming more aware of other things not poker related

On October 05 2014 12:33 Joeingram1 wrote: you must be so well liked

I much prefer being disliked for being honest than being liked for all the wrong reasons. It's funny how you expect to get no criticism at all just because this is your blog. I get it, you're a really important person in the poker world and you don't want somebody shitting on your teenage diary kind of posts. I'm sorry I indulged. My bad.

On October 05 2014 12:14 Santafairy wrote: but it's true you're not making any effort to understand what the other guy is saying, you're just taking one thing and blowing it up because it's fun to be combative I guess.

sorry, I guess I should have talked about the inspiration porn part and also how he likes his hair to be sorta short/bit spikyish on the top. Upon further inspection there were indeed some valuable life lessons and some thought-provoking material to be found in there.

On October 05 2014 12:36 Joeingram1 wrote: I've barely been able to make more than a couple blog posts per year using that same thinking. Always seems so hard to find the time to make any post. The podcast run good should be on your side I didn't really start becoming aware of it until I got out of my 100 percent obsessed with poker stage of life and started becoming more aware of other things not poker related

thanks. I also think it's really hard to be motivated to make any blogposts because of the amount of hate you instantly get once you hit that post button. It's not like people making blogs have any intentions to add anything negative to the community (most of them anyway), so I don't really understand why people post such hateful comments. I guess people like loco just have nothing in their life going on, and they're just mad that you do. I suppose it's just jealousy. It might be just variance in regards of hateful comments in this blogpost.

EDIT: after seeing loco post a reply again, I want to also give a tip. I think the best way to deal with these kind of people is to just ignore them. And pretend they're not even there. I know that's easier said then done, but nothing positive will come out of arguing with people like this. Again people like this are just jealous because they have nothing going on in their own life, so they just go and vent online. The guy is probably on welfare grinding 2nl, and having a bigger postcount than his bankroll lol

On October 05 2014 13:03 aernout wrote: Show nested quote + On October 05 2014 12:36 Joeingram1 wrote: I've barely been able to make more than a couple blog posts per year using that same thinking. Always seems so hard to find the time to make any post. The podcast run good should be on your side I didn't really start becoming aware of it until I got out of my 100 percent obsessed with poker stage of life and started becoming more aware of other things not poker related thanks. I also think it's really hard to be motivated to make any blogposts because of the amount of hate you instantly get once you hit that post button. It's not like people making blogs have any intentions to add anything negative to the community (most of them anyway), so I don't really understand why people post such hateful comments. I guess people like loco just have nothing in their life going on, and they're just mad that you do. I suppose it's just jealousy. It might be just variance in regards of hateful comments in this blogpost. EDIT: after seeing loco post a reply again, I want to also give a tip. I think the best way to deal with these kind of people is to just ignore them. I know that's easier said then done, but nothing positive will come out of arguing with people like this. Again people like this are just jealous because they have nothing going on in their own life, so they just go and vent online. The guy is probably on welfare grinding 2nl, and having a bigger postcount than his bankroll lol

"It's not like people making blogs have any intentions to add anything negative to the community"

lol "the community", says the guy with ~150 posts. I'm sure you really care about it. If you knew anything at all about this site and this community you'd probably know that your assumptions about me are all wrong since I've been here for a long time. There is a lot more hatred in your post than in anything I've posted here btw.

On October 05 2014 12:57 Loco wrote: Show nested quote + On October 05 2014 12:33 Joeingram1 wrote: you must be so well liked I much prefer being disliked for being honest than being liked for all the wrong reasons. It's funny how you expect to get no criticism at all just because this is your blog. I get it, you're a really important person in the poker world and you don't want somebody shitting on your teenage diary kind of posts. I'm sorry I indulged. My bad.

haha you call posting some random photo criticism


we get it man, you always have to be right, you are right here, welfare 2nl grinder like aernout said. you are right you are right, you know it all, etc etc


Thanks for taking the time to read my teenage diary and spend time to keep coming back to respond

"welfare 2nl grinder like aernout said"

Classy. It didn't take much time before you took out the poker ego. Your self-esteem is quite fragile if you have to resort to lies and petty insults like that when people are just poking fun of you. I guess tanning and smelling good aren't that great for your self-esteem after all.

lololololololololololol this is actually getting fun

aernout suggested it, but it does make sense

maybe you should have put more time into poker instead of commenting on peoples blogs over the years


fragile teenage diary with low self esteem, I know you don't watch my podcasts so I am happy about that

lets do a livestream together loco

if i shittalk you can i do a livestream

sure

Here i was expecting a blogpost how you summon insipration, and encourage others to do so, making propbets and playing insane amounts of PLO.

I suppose if you did your "mirror mirror on the wall.." routine in front of a real mirror instead of your intelligence-deprived peers it could reveal that while there are no wrinkles in your tank top there is a serious chink in your ego armor. We get it, you aspire to be the fairest of them all, hence all the attentionwhoring online and apparently offline. Admitting to it wont send you to purgatory.

On October 05 2014 15:04 cariadon wrote: Here i was expecting a blogpost how you summon insipration, and encourage others to do so, making propbets and playing insane amounts of PLO. I suppose if you did your "mirror mirror on the wall.." routine in front of a real mirror instead of your intelligence-deprived peers it could reveal that while there are no wrinkles in your tank top there is a serious chink in your ego armor. We get it, you aspire to be the fairest of them all, hence all the attentionwhoring online and apparently offline. Admitting to it wont send you to purgatory.

You expect so much from joe, yet all you bring into this thread is another hateful comment.

On October 05 2014 15:28 aernout wrote: Show nested quote + On October 05 2014 15:04 cariadon wrote: Here i was expecting a blogpost how you summon insipration, and encourage others to do so, making propbets and playing insane amounts of PLO. I suppose if you did your "mirror mirror on the wall.." routine in front of a real mirror instead of your intelligence-deprived peers it could reveal that while there are no wrinkles in your tank top there is a serious chink in your ego armor. We get it, you aspire to be the fairest of them all, hence all the attentionwhoring online and apparently offline. Admitting to it wont send you to purgatory. You expect so much from joe, yet all you bring into this thread is another hateful comment.

You have already been called out for your hypocrisy, you can stop acting like the paragon of tolerance. When you personally attacked someone you don't know you lost all credibility.

Joe can either admit to being shallow when rightfully accused as such or scramble for words and try to turn this into something/someone else, which it isn't.

Exactly. He lost his sense of humor and targeted me instead of dealing with it, which can only be because he felt threatened somehow, which directly informs us of his self-esteem needs and his denial of them. He even sent me angry PMs claiming that I have a miserable life and spamming 'lololol'. I assume he isn't sober because he seemed very tilted. Also, if his fanboy here saw that joeingram threatened to punch me in the face in PM he would know what hatred really is.

On October 05 2014 15:56 Loco wrote: Show nested quote + On October 05 2014 15:28 aernout wrote:   On October 05 2014 15:04 cariadon wrote: Here i was expecting a blogpost how you summon insipration, and encourage others to do so, making propbets and playing insane amounts of PLO. I suppose if you did your "mirror mirror on the wall.." routine in front of a real mirror instead of your intelligence-deprived peers it could reveal that while there are no wrinkles in your tank top there is a serious chink in your ego armor. We get it, you aspire to be the fairest of them all, hence all the attentionwhoring online and apparently offline. Admitting to it wont send you to purgatory. You expect so much from joe, yet all you bring into this thread is another hateful comment. You have already been called out for your hypocrisy, you can stop acting like the paragon of tolerance. When you personally attacked someone you don't know you lost all credibility.

are you trolling me? you're calling me a hypocrite and after that you say that I have lost all of my credibility because I attack someone I don't know. dude you're all in this thread talking about joe and attacking him, and I suppose you don't know him IRL, so just stfu.

On October 05 2014 15:57 cariadon wrote: Joe can either admit to being shallow when rightfully accused as such or scramble for words and try to turn this into something/someone else, which it isn't.

Joe doesn't have to admit fucking anything lol

On October 05 2014 16:10 Loco wrote: Exactly. He lost his sense of humor and targeted me instead of dealing with it, which can only be because he felt threatened somehow, which directly informs us of his self-esteem needs and his denial of them. He even sent me angry PMs claiming that I have a miserable life and spamming 'lololol'. I assume he isn't sober because he seemed very tilted. Also, if his fanboy here saw that joeingram threatened to punch me in the face in PM he would know what hatred really is.

I would say that seems like a fair response. and how am I a fanboy out of the sudden? I just don't like your attitude that's why I'm participating in the conversation. you just need to stfu you freaking 2nl scrub

You either have some reading comprehension issues or you are clearly intellectually dishonest. Yes, you are a hypocrite. Turning criticism back on me doesn't help your case, it makes you look even more dishonest. That's called a tu quoque fallacy. You are a hypocrite because you complain about people being negative and hateful while you make negative and hateful posts. You don't get to complain about people's behavior if you can't behave any differently (not that I was hateful, but you claimed I was). Even someone as simple-minded as you should be able to understand that, but it seems the best you can come up with as a response is about as intelligent as "bu.. bu.. but... mommy, he started it!"

You're not even intelligent enough to browse my hands and see the stakes that I played, you keep throwing this 2 nl shit around, despite the fact that it would have taken literally 5 seconds for you to see the reality. It's pathetic. You've done nothing here except flatter joe and ad hominem other people, and you can't even follow your own advice of "ignoring dem haterz!". You fail. You keep giving me more ammunition to demonstrate that you're a worthless flatterer with nothing relevant to say.

"Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery." - Dostoevsky

in summary:

-joe makes blog with "finding inspiration" in the title, which makes its shallow content kind of awkward.

-loco points this out and joe refutes his points by pointing out he probably plays low poker stakes, or something. he also decides loco doesn't care about his appearance, or being good at anything at all, which is a perfectly logical and not at all retarded.

-aernout really loves him some joeingram.

-anyone with half a brain realizes this blog is a tool for joe to promote his podcast/internet persona/brand/whatever and any other content that happens to be included is incidental since he obviously puts <10 seconds of thought into it.

-loco cogently articulates his point, gaining some intellectual satisfaction. joeingram gets more viewers and attention, and presumably revenue either now or in the future. overall i think everyone got what was important to them

On October 05 2014 19:15 bigredhoss wrote: in summary: -joe makes blog with "finding inspiration" in the title, which makes its shallow content kind of awkward. -loco points this out and joe refutes his points by pointing out he probably plays low poker stakes, or something. he also decides loco doesn't care about his appearance, or being good at anything at all, which is a perfectly logical and not at all retarded. -aernout really loves him some joeingram. -anyone with half a brain realizes this blog is a tool for joe to promote his podcast/internet persona/brand/whatever and any other content that happens to be included is incidental since he obviously puts <10 seconds of thought into it. -loco cogently articulates his point, gaining some intellectual satisfaction. joeingram gets more viewers and attention, and presumably revenue either now or in the future. overall i think everyone got what was important to them

A+

Nothing against Joe, he seems stand up. Its obv hes trying to get something going with this. Why he is choosing completely dead LP is beyond me. (2+2 people love joe from what i remember)

I wasn't really trying to get anything going, I just felt like writing something

On October 05 2014 19:15 bigredhoss wrote: in summary: -joe makes blog with "finding inspiration" in the title, which makes its shallow content kind of awkward. -loco points this out and joe refutes his points by pointing out he probably plays low poker stakes, or something. he also decides loco doesn't care about his appearance, or being good at anything at all, which is a perfectly logical and not at all retarded. -aernout really loves him some joeingram. -anyone with half a brain realizes this blog is a tool for joe to promote his podcast/internet persona/brand/whatever and any other content that happens to be included is incidental since he obviously puts <10 seconds of thought into it. -loco cogently articulates his point, gaining some intellectual satisfaction. joeingram gets more viewers and attention, and presumably revenue either now or in the future. overall i think everyone got what was important to them

I wasn't the one to point out he probably plays low stakes poker and if someone is going to say things that aren't true about me on my blog, i can't say things that might be true/untrue about them back? lol


A blog is a blog, you can post whatever you want to post on it. If people have any interest to read it they will. None of you guys have to click on it or read anything. I've been writing on here for 6 years

You are a good friend

On October 05 2014 19:15 bigredhoss wrote: in summary: -joe makes blog with "finding inspiration" in the title, which makes its shallow content kind of awkward. -loco points this out and joe refutes his points by pointing out he probably plays low poker stakes, or something. he also decides loco doesn't care about his appearance, or being good at anything at all, which is a perfectly logical and not at all retarded. -aernout really loves him some joeingram. -anyone with half a brain realizes this blog is a tool for joe to promote his podcast/internet persona/brand/whatever and any other content that happens to be included is incidental since he obviously puts <10 seconds of thought into it. -loco cogently articulates his point, gaining some intellectual satisfaction. joeingram gets more viewers and attention, and presumably revenue either now or in the future. overall i think everyone got what was important to them

That's about as accurate as it can be. Good summary detective! But most of my satisfaction came from making that Gandhi picture. I laughed for 5 minutes straight. :D

When it comes to marketing your name I guess every little bit helps. Even dead LP is better than nothing. He can get a YouToube subscriber or two every time he makes a new blog, or a follower on twitter. I imagine he sort of lives for that stuff, it complements smelling good and looking good. Gotta get that meaningfulness in there somehow since robotic poker grinding doesn't offer very much meaning.

i thought it was funny that the pic tacitly assumed gandhi is morally laudable (otherwise what's the joke)

Came in to say that pale girls > tanned

On October 06 2014 13:09 uiCk wrote: Came in to say that pale girls > tanned

truth

hah i expected something 100% different when i read the title of this blog post