1. The three Chinese-American roommates were killed since he had to get them "out of the way" in order to accomplish his main goal, so they were not primary targets. One of them was from my high school!Rock wrote:This really contributed to a down and depressed mood in me during the last few days. Watching this guy's vids personalized to me what so many here have been complaining about for so long. Many of us including myself have gone through somewhat different versions of what this guy has suffered. But I didn't realize its that bad or perhaps I've been in comfortable selfish denial. After all, it's not my problem and hasn't been for a long time. A certain small but significant percentage of the population has latent psychotic potential. It just takes certain extreme catalysts to push person to act out. Elliot Rodger it seems was one such individual. Those of us who don't fall into that intersection just suffer. If we are lucky, we find a solution or at least comforter. Myself, Falcon, Winston, Monkro and others fall into that camp.
It's starting to hit home just how sick and twisted things in the USA have become. The bad news is that the poison is being transmitted to all corners of the earth. It's take-up rate depends on a lot of things. But more or less it's making an impact and penetrating in much of the world. It's deeply depressing.
Some things about this particular case that I don't get and some general questions:
1. The guy was deeply resentful and jealous of the Alpha Phi blond all American college girl prototype and the assortment of white douche bags these girls gave their attention to. That's the element he talked about exacting revenge on in his last vid. So why is it the first three people he killed were Chinese guys who he lived with? If I heard correctly, he actually looked down on pure Asians and blacks as unable to attract hot girls the way certain white guys were able to. So that would put those first guys he killed in the same boat that he was in. Could it be he resented them cus he blamed his own Chinese half for his failures? If so, why was he not resentful of his Chinese blooded mom and why is it that he has such fond memories of his A-Ma? What about his Moroccan step mom who he so resented?
2. How tall did he become?
3. Why is it that clever methodical people like this one never seem to manage to pull off something a lot more extreme and targeted like killing dozens or even hundreds in some sort of huge crowd sorority party venue with automatic weapons or suicide bomb? This guy just stabbed his roomies, hit a sorority house which he did not even manage to enter, by chance shot a couple tri Delts outside, and then went around in his car executing a few random drive-bys before taking himself out. I think the large majority of his victims were males. But wasn't the deepest source of his hatred those blond women who chose to ignore him and go for arrogant and cocky guys?
His actions aren't exactly consistent with what he obsessed about. I guess deeply disturbed people tend to act erratically. It's all very sad and depressing.
2. 5'7" I believe. Not too tall but he did realize he's good-looking and stylish.
3. Seung-hui Cho did though. I'd say Rodger was successful too in that he sped around in his car to 10 different locations. Spreading the violence created more terror. Still quite impressive considering that these guys have never spent time in the military.
Mguy, Monkro, I, and many other HA members all went to University of California campuses. Deasil875 works at one. Winston went to California State University, which is lower-tier and commuting but still has a similar social environment. We are all too familiar with why it can be near impossible to date women in those colleges, although Momopi and the older-generation guys don't really get it.
Now you might understand a bit more about why Winston, Monkro, and I had complained so much about the social scene in California universities. I can imagine how it makes totally no sense for the older guys who have found college to be a dating paradise, including even Jamesbond. But it's over for us and we've moved on to better things. Winston now has Dianne, Monkro is happy with his Taiwanese pearls, and I'm being swarmed by Indonesian ladies.
So many of us did ask the same question Elliot was asking, "Why won't girls like us? What exactly is wrong with us even though we've tried everything?" But, physically wounding people would be way beyond us, as the more natural thing to do would be to help out others who are willing to listen. Most of us would flee, not fight, since fighting the system would be futile.
Additionally, most of us had other hobbies and projects as well and did not spend all of our lives brooding over involuntary celibacy. I was quite occupied learning at the library all the time, and that turned out to be one of the most satisfying things during my college years. We also had various friends, whereas Elliot Rodger had literally zero. That's the second factor that had pushed him off the edge. He had no support network.
Having said all of this, I would still like to condemn this act of violence and offer my condolences to all those affected by this tragedy.
