Schadenfreud is

[achpsident]

reading "The Game", Neil Strauss' book about his time as a premiere pickup artist, which finishes by him settling down with the (apparently splendifirous) guitarist from "Hole" and declaring her "The One", and then reading on Wikipedia that they broke up six months later.

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[adagioweapon]

I'll always remember the line "I had seen more men cry in the past three months than the entire rest of my life."