"Steamitis" is a common disease among PC gamers who use the service Steam by Valve.
The disease was first discovered when a player of 13 had acquired his Mother's credit card number during one of the first Holiday Sales. The child had purchased 437 games and only spent 39.00 USD. Since this event, anyone who purchases 15 games or more during a Steam sale of any kind has the disease Steamitis.
Symptoms include:
Loss of money Limiting hard drive space
Sore eyes
Sleep deprivation
An 8 Steam rating or higher
AIDS
Steam User 1: Man, there went my pay check already. And my hard drive is already low on space! What the hell happened?
Steam User 2: It's the Holiday Sale, man! I just bought five games for 55 cents.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”