"Russian Daredevil" rooftop walking

This is just attention-whoring taken to a new level, no ?

Thou, it was kinda exciting to watch the first time i saw it a long time ago

On September 09 2015 00:23 Spitfiree wrote: the chances of him falling are close to the chances of you giving cancer to someone cause of the CO2 emissions from your car

Indeed. Wait, what?

On September 09 2015 18:26 VanDerMeyde wrote: This is just attention-whoring taken to a new level, no ? Thou, it was kinda exciting to watch the first time i saw it a long time ago

It isnt attenting whoring nor cheap thrills, if you talked to these guys I bet they would tell you that its the best feeling and thing in their lives

Is there a collection of videos of ppl doing the same stuff but falling to their deaths? I'm kinda curious

I'm not entirely convinced that it's not cheap thrills. Sure it's the best thing in their lives, but a heroin addict will tell you the same about heroin. I remember reading about this in a Finnish newspaper some years ago, in Russia there's a whole subculture of young people who refuse alcohol and do stunts like these (kinda like straight edge, except that instead of fighting they do this). I couldn't help but wonder if getting drunk with alcohol instead of adrenalin was after all the more healthy choice.

On September 12 2015 05:03 Baalim wrote: Show nested quote + On September 09 2015 18:26 VanDerMeyde wrote: This is just attention-whoring taken to a new level, no ? Thou, it was kinda exciting to watch the first time i saw it a long time ago It isnt attenting whoring nor cheap thrills, if you talked to these guys I bet they would tell you that its the best feeling and thing in their lives

Heroine addicts will tell you the same thing right up to the gutter. With these guys prob more like......down to the splatter ? badumm tsss

It's not that hard to pull it off. Unless you're afraid of heights. I've done more stupid than this when I was younger. But now I don't feel the need to prove anything by doing that. It's their way of life just let them do whatever the fuck they want. If they're confident, then they're nothing wrong with that. Either way it's way better than getting addicted to drugs.

video plz

They should build public structures far away from the crowded cities for these guys, just like skate parks, but only for suicidal morons just so that they don't hurt anybody else physically and otherwise.

On September 14 2015 22:03 Liquid`Drone wrote: video plz

Believe what you want but I won't do any stupid shit anymore. You also have to consider the older you get the less bolder you will be. It's a fact.
I may have exaggerated about doing the same shit but doing something more stupid ? Hell yes. I'm glad I've survived though.

On September 09 2015 10:40 lebowski wrote: Show nested quote + On September 08 2015 13:39 Loco wrote: Lebowski, have you read Kafka's "A Hunger Artist"? If not, I recommend you do. It's a very short read. I think that there is a point to be made that these guys might, after all, be much like the hunger artist in that story. I just read it. Interesting read, I'm still not sure of what the story's main allegory is. It should have to do with a sarcastic take on the artistic world in general. I suppose the parallel you make to the russian daredevils has to do with the hunger artist's final words that he shouldn't be admired because in reality he just couldn't find food that he enjoyed (so he had no choice)? I'm not really sure of the analogy here.

Sorry, I forgot about this thread. Yes, I was thinking about his last words. Essentially, while some people might think what he's doing is really hard and brave, and that it's a genuine challenge for him, in reality, and because of his nature, it was easy for him to do. In the same way, to the normal person it might look like those daredevils are overcoming their fear of death, but in reality, it may simply be that they are anomalies and don't have one. Just a thought.

so those guys are idiots attention whores looking for cheap thrills but this guy is amazing..... riiiiight:

no actually I don't think mr. Maddison is amazing, and I'm generally not that impressed by people who do insanely dangerous yet ultimately pointless things, for example mountaineers who climb Everest (mortality risk on single climb being about 10%). I don't think such people are idiots (I met one Everest climber once, seemed pretty high IQ) or attention whores, but they surely are not balanced people with healthy life goals imo. Sure everyone plays with his own money as he pleases but I maintain that cheap thrills (or actually too expensive thrills) is what it comes down to. Youtube videos of these stunts are more fun to watch than watching someone shoot up heroin, and probably the stunts have utility for signalling purposes in mating unlike drug addiction, but those are probably the only advantages over heroin I'm willing to admit.

to clarify I think that dangerous stunts that are instrumental in reaching something useful (e.g. money) are not really a sign of a unbalanced person with unhealthy life goals, even if those stunts are as such arbitrary and pointless. On the other hand stunts whose only value is the adrenalin are about cheap thrills.

my #1 fear is by far heights.

this was amazing to me.

im quite sure these guys don't do risk assestment.

one of them most likely worked on rooftops or has been up high his whole life, if u spend the majority of ur time up in the air like this, then this would be a much more comfortable thing to do.

to me it seems like they are just normal guys havin fun, prolly went super safe at first and saw no fear and took off the harnesses n restraints

Pretty sure they didn't put restraints or harness or anything when they first started doing this. It's just something you can do on the whim (not sure of the word) simply because you have enough confidence.

On September 15 2015 10:56 auffenpuffer wrote: no actually I don't think mr. Maddison is amazing, and I'm generally not that impressed by people who do insanely dangerous yet ultimately pointless things, for example mountaineers who climb Everest (mortality risk on single climb being about 10%). I don't think such people are idiots (I met one Everest climber once, seemed pretty high IQ) or attention whores, but they surely are not balanced people with healthy life goals imo. Sure everyone plays with his own money as he pleases but I maintain that cheap thrills (or actually too expensive thrills) is what it comes down to. Youtube videos of these stunts are more fun to watch than watching someone shoot up heroin, and probably the stunts have utility for signalling purposes in mating unlike drug addiction, but those are probably the only advantages over heroin I'm willing to admit. to clarify I think that dangerous stunts that are instrumental in reaching something useful (e.g. money) are not really a sign of a unbalanced person with unhealthy life goals, even if those stunts are as such arbitrary and pointless. On the other hand stunts whose only value is the adrenalin are about cheap thrills.

Everytying is pointless, dangerous or not, what is a healthy life goal? get a fucking job, raise some kids and rot in the ground like everyone else?

There no such things as life goals.. the only goal in life is to be happy and if possible help others be happy too.

Its ridiculous to believe that if they get money out of it its not a sign of an imbalanced mind but if they dont get money they are unbalanced, that is only indicative of maybe how business smart they are or how money driven.

I race cars and its very dangerous too (I nearly kill myself once) I dont do it because its a chip thrill, and I dont think im imbalanced, I do it because I love the feeling, to handle the car as fast as you can pushing your own fear to its limits, the concentration etc, nothing matches that, and its probably how mountain climbers feel on the summit too and its kind of sad that you dont understand nor know this feeling.



There are a couple of relevant quotes there (besides the beautiful video), that woman at the beginning is the wife of a dead driver, somehow how got what I mean.

On September 15 2015 01:53 Baalim wrote: so those guys are idiots attention whores looking for cheap thrills but this guy is amazing..... riiiiight:

the russian daredevils are doing it for the pure attention whoreness factor (yeah I just made that a word)

people like the motocross guy doing that insane jump and you doing rally are completely different imo for the reasons you just listed as to why you race rally. you are doing it purely for the love

these russians are brainless idiots that do this to impress people and get more instagram followers. maybe I'm not understanding your point but I see a clear difference between what they're doing and what the motocross guy does...

So what exactly is the difference ?
Won't these dudes say similar stuff about what they do?