I’d check if there were any cameras nearby, hopefully there weren’t, because I didn’t see anyone

If your complaint is “this business won’t give me their services for free”, then that’s not a real complaint.

No, my complaint is that they were doing all they could to force me to pay up, possibly because I’ve been a free user for too long. Yes, I get they’re a company intent on making money, but they already severely limit free users to 50 likes a day while dropping ads between profiles.

Since I’ve used them a couple of times between 2015-2018, I did see firsthand how it enshittified

Nah, match group has been using fake accounts to lure mostly men into their sites for decades. Make a free account, get a message within 30 minutes, pay 5 bucks to read it.

Last time I used tinder, in early 2023, the app was actively hiding any of the “49+” profiles that had swiped right on me. I’d get, at best, 1 match a week. I mean, 300 (yes, I counted) swipes left and not a single “you missed a match”?? They probably had fingerprinted my device and knew I was a returning user, even if I was on a different phone number, so I was a better target for them to sell their subscriptions. Either that or the algo caught how I was just going left without a thought and kept showing all their fakes and bots.

hell, tinder is so awful that the vast majority of brazilian users there just leave their instagram handle on their profile, with a few also asking to “only message if we match”

By 5, I’ll be wishing I didn’t have any more. By 10, I’ll be wondering how I’m even alive

Not quite what I was asking

That sounds counterproductive, but I’m not a company exec, so what do I know

Yeah, I excluded romhacks because the sheer amount of pokemon ones would dominate the comments, either them, Super Mario or Mega Man

I also saw from Pokemon Unbound’s release post that they use “FireRed Upgrade” which is a considerable work on top of the original

It’s one of the rare cases of a fangame that actually gets finished and is good. The soundtrack alone is worth a playthrough. If you enjoyed Undertale, UTY will feel like a game that fits perfectly in. It works as a prequel and you’re the yellow soul kid (fully non canon, though the pacifist ending could work as canon)

I’ll take the new life+, thank you. Gonna be trivial to become a child prodigy, earn money off that and then have a very smooth adult life

This just in: Andrew’s name will be legally changed to Bernie, in order to better conform to his new beta status in prison

Back in 2013 or 2014 I think.

I was going out with a woman slightly older than me (me 23, she 27), we had already had sex twice. I don’t recall the exact details of this date of ours, but we met around 19h, later I took her home and we sat in the car, getting hot and stuff, when my hand went down on her, where I noticed something weird. She pulls her panty aside and there’s a male condom sticking out of her. I bust my ass laughing while she desperately tries to not die from shame. We weren’t having anything serious and we both knew the other “might be meeting others”, so I really didn’t mind the fact she fucked another guy before meeting up with me that day. I found it so absurd that she somehow didn’t notice the condom was left inside her that I just couldn’t help myself but laugh.

She started ghosting me after that day, no big loss 😆

Keep in mind that social media is the easy way out of boredom. Doing literally anything else requires more effort. Don’t get me wrong, I also feel the need to talk about my interests with other people that i know also share whatever specific thing I’m on about at the moment, reddit’s size makes it much better than lemmy - but that’s the trap, unfortunately.

Case in point, sometimes I spend way too much time here on lemmy of all things, time that I should be spending on better non productive activities, like actually playing my backlog of games. Sometimes I end up reading some reddit posts because there are no lemmy equivalents (and often the lemmy is just a repost from reddit), but I do avoid commenting and interacting there.

You’re extremely unlikely to find the perfect partner or even someone “who understands your tastes perfectly”. The algorithms can do that to a point, but interacting with people requires effort and also helps us understand that keeping ourselves inside our niche bubbles isn’t good for our social health. I share some interests with my girlfriend, but not several others - I’m lucky she enjoys boardgames and videogames, we can play some stuff together, but not some heavy or hard stuff that I personally enjoy a lot. Sometimes I just want to be left alone and play all day long, other times I suck it up and don’t do that in order to keep our relationship going - she understands why I want some “me time” and doesn’t judge me. Trust is important and luckily, we both trust each other a lot.

So tldr I guess is try again and fill that boredom with other stuff. If possible, set up an hour a day to be completely off the internet, at least. Avoid social media mostly because, although you can get some nice conversations on topics of your interest, you’re mostly dealing with faceless names, and this isn’t good for us if it’s the most social we get.

The whole culture seems sexually repressed, if you look at it. The internet loves to joke about holding hands being the culmination of porn, but it feels like they treat anything beyond touching hands as sexual

Might as well rename lemmy into crossings

“If a girl losing virginity before marriage and marrying someone else is normal, then why not a girl falling in love with someone who raped her”

The first thing that comes to mind is because women are fucking human beings and not objects whose value is inversely proportional to how much dick she’s taken.

Ugh, this tutorial takes forever to complete! >:(

Ah, the good old days of PS1 and 2.

On PC, it was insert the disc, install (takes a while), keep disc in, run game, crash, troubleshoot, give up.

Money (power) corrupts and people with lots of money rarely want to part with it. Also, money protects money, so the rich often deal in the shadows to protect themselves from us.

Who’s the equivalent of FIFA’s dude back in Reagan’s terms?

It’s almost like most crypto currencies