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My best contest moment was coming 10th in the best year in gaming contest, though my 2001 > 1997 successful pick in the semi final was basically shat on and seen as super lucky/invalid or something by people here. I forget if there was a rally or not, or just everyone was mad that they didn't get it right.

I was one match off a perfect bracket that year, just screwed up the 03/05 early round match

I remember at a school camp being forced to shower naked (like the whole grade, 100 kids or so) while teachers supervised or whatever. Even at the time I felt like it was wrong

SHUT UP

Good episode.

viewmaster_pi posted...

you can tell when the cop just... loses his patience i guess? and decides to slam him for no reason. there's no way to frame this as anything but a cop gets annoyed, puts a dude in the hospital for it

He's resisting, break his collarbone

Jesus I hate them.

Looking back it's not a big deal, she probably didn't consider it a big deal, but I lost my virginity at 28 and was very grateful the girl didn't judge me or really care about my lack of experience

I'd convinced myself all girls wouldn't wanna touch a virgin my age with a ten foot pole. Felt kinda silly afterwards

I've just put a pony on Liverpool

We're gonna need a bigger park

Dan_Haren- posted...

Bunch of virgins in this topic.

Once you have sex you radiate a new aura of confidence that is clearly noticable by those around you. Thats literally the difference.

For a short time maybe. It's easy to fall back into depression lol. It's not a magic key to happiness

I withhold all my sexual encounters with prostitutes whenever the subject of my sexual history is brought up. I've only been with 3 girls not including paid sex, that number jumps to like 20 when you include paid sex(along with most of my acquired experience, they were way kinkier encounters generally) but it feels like such a turn off so I just pretend I've never paid

Heartomaton posted...

I had to take a break from them. They are soooo psychologically damaging to a guy like me.

I'll eventually go back and endure more torture because I don't have a choice, but for now I need to recover a bit more.

I'm just jumping back in after a year long break. I figure I can't "work on myself" forever lol.

But yeah just being reminded how tough it can be out there

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While I haven't had anything that bad, I have received some pretty brutal feedback online

I remember I was going through an issue with my housemate and opened up(only a few sentences) about it because the person asked me how my day was going, and they just replied "sounds like baggage" and instantly unmatched

That nastiness just wouldn't happen I suspect offline

Glob posted...

I dont think the issues are with online dating, just with dating in general.

Maybe yeah, I guess I wouldn't really know. I know that I felt so much less pressure connecting with girls when I used to work with them before I changed jobs and with female housemates I've lived with, but maybe that's just because I wasn't trying to date them

Glob posted...

I see lots of people say stuff like that as if its an objective fact. Why dont you have a choice? It seems to me that everybody has a choice.

To some people getting somewhere with strangers in person feels impossible

I4NRulez posted...

Then just dont do that then. If you feel like your questions feel like a job interview then you're forcing conversation.

Online dating is risk free so ask questions you'd ask your friends. It makes you stand out.

Dont be like "so whats your favorite color" "whats your favorite food".

If you want to know those things instead say like "Me and my friends just went to this restaurant. Have you ever tried random italian restaurant?" or whatever.

I met my girl by telling her that she had really nice teeth. I think my line was something like "Why the hell are your teeth so white lol" and she responded about how thats a new one and how most men ask about her feet. Then we joked about starting an onlyfans to sell our feet pics.

I've met a bunch of people and had a couple of relationships off bumble and hinge, I understand the basics and stuff like that. I still think there's a certain toxic aspect to the whole thing, but maybe I just met the wrong people

I4NRulez posted...

Toxic how?

I used hinge for a while. Met some cool people and met my gf who i've been dating for a few years.

I get how it could be toxic for women but i feel like as a man its pretty low risk

I think people treat others nicer when they know them a bit, but the whole thing encourages rapid connection and judgement. There's not a lot of empathy and patience out there

Online sourced first dates can feel like job interviews.

Necessary for certain people I guess anyway, like me. All my friends are coupled up, I don't have any coworkers in my job, it's either approach strangers in public or use the internet to meet people for me. Without it my dating and romantic experience would be basically zero due to my shyness. It's allowed me to actually have a decent chance at a happy relationship

But of course there's the counter point of fickle behaviour, emotionally turbulent situations, and getting saddled with confidence and trust issues I didn't even realise I had

I'm so torn on it

It can't compare to the original but it still rules

I'm a full time carer for a man with MS, it's a fucked up thing. I don't even like talking about it to people who haven't experienced what it's like. My heart goes out to you TC

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I only really saw the post above mine I didn't see yours. I understand where you're coming from but people have different tolerance levels for emotional pain (and there's usually a reason for that which is often ignored)

You might think someone's weak or doesn't know real pain for sweating being ghosted, maybe they have abandonment issues dating back to childhood, maybe they've never experienced being cared for ever

Basically everyone's shaped by their own personal history and everyone turns out different. It's pretty shallow to demean other's pain

DrizztLink posted...

The event itself, not necessarily the underlying circumstances.

But at the end of the day the client is the expert in their own lives. If something is self-identified as traumatic it's not productive to argue, that just short circuits the entire therapeutic process.

Good way of putting it. People who try to gatekeep what trauma is are fucked up

Mislead and abused my trust. We literally agreed to be exclusive(her idea) then she changed her mind later that night.. then changed back the next day before finally dumping me a couple of weeks later after a holiday where I drove her around everywhere. She would also make a big deal out of nothing (called me a yes man just because I would usually take her changes of mind as a granted without pushback, often I just didn't care to argue)

Fuck she ruined dating for me lol

I actually love piercings everywhere on a girl included the face but think most tattoos are cringe as fuck

Could be something to do with the permenant factor I guess

FigureOfSpeech posted...

same, but I've never really seen anyone mix them up before, so I've had no opportunity to be bothered by it >_>

Really? I find it's one of the more common mix-ups

Some do some don't

I've been deep in the why bother phase and then got back out of it. There's so many different people out there, you'll gel with someone eventually

I was 29, she was 22. It lasted a couple of months but ended horribly

She had all this projected maturity and was constantly trying to educate me on issues I'd already dealt with when I was her age (such as mental health)

Never again will I go that big a gap I think

Dakimakura posted...

NES won its generation, N64 got crushed its generation

Answer is easy

They were up against very different competition

PlayStation shits on Sega

Is the assumption here SNES is better than both? Surprised it wasn't a 3 way poll

I dislike how much theft is downplayed as a nothing crime often on here, but also it's clearly not death penalty worthy.

The 12 year old part, well I'm going to assume the car owner probably thought he was a lot older because why wouldn't you

I enjoy the cheesy melodrama

My main interaction with her was her mocking me/making insults in a few threads I made where I discussed personal problems

With limited information she would jump to a conclusion and proceed to mock based on that assumption that was now fact in her mind

It's like, attack the users who attack you not random people who've never spoke to you

In health industry it's dispatch/rostering management (at least at the two companies I've been at)

San Andreas for sure. One of my favourite games ever

wackyteen posted...

Yeah but storming a well defended beach is basically suicide.

Unless we're talking rolling the dice and possibly not winding up on Normandy

Even if you have to land at Normandy, wasn't only one of the five beaches (Omaha) the total slaughterhouse shown in Saving Private Ryan?

Jim Ross and King were the perfect commentary combination. They felt authentic and passionate

Today's commentators feel so, so fake

Listen to their debut album. It's amazing

Violent Femmes don't deserve to be here if nothing else for the fact they're an 80s band

It's a real doozy. Is he still saying he didn't even pull the trigger?

pfh1001 posted...

Pinkerton was a great album.

This was blue album

No other one, the sister song of No one else, was Pinkerton

Original incel anthem

I love strawberry cheesecake but wouldn't describe it as savoury

Garioshi posted...

Slay The Spire makes all other roguelites irrelevant

Amen. One of the greatest games ever

Unsuprised_Pika posted...

Unironically should face life in prison for this video alone.

Why? He's just a nutcase

As a kid I loved Debra from Raymond

Pity she's a conservative nut

Nah... Just not a thing that matters to me at all

Twice on dating apps somebody asked me what my house was and twice I got told "wrong answer" and was unmatched lol

First time I said ravenclaw and second time Gryiffindoor

Next time I'll say I don't know does it matter

True neutral