MyNameIsAtticus

I (20 Year Old Male for context) tried a few except Tinder (I’ve always been told Tinder is just for Hookups).

Did you find a partner using it? Nope. I met my current partner after ditching the apps, while looking for people to play Stardew with of all things.

How long did you use it? About a week for each.

What did you think about it? It struck me as exploitative of people’s loneliness and very reductionist with reducing the process down to something with no human interaction. I’d almost go as far to say it’s dehumanizing.

How many matches did you get? 1.

What problems did you see? There’s the aforementioned exploitation. It kind of makes it harder in my opinion to get to know anyone like you would traditionally.

Do you think it’s a good way to meet other people? I don’t think so. I wouldn’t say it never works, but I don’t think chances are high.

What did you use it for / what was your intention? I was looking for a long term partner and relationship.

US, been all over but currently west coast. My parents grew up slightly Christian/Catholic (By elementary school they became Pagan though). I had never heard of these really

For some people it kind of seems like just shouting at an empty room. I recently found a (now ex)friend’s Bluesky, which opened a whole can of worms.

But his whole thing was basically complaining about whatever he could with no one listening. Then complaining that no one was interacting.

It was like the equivalent of him having a stage in an empty room and just yelling about random shit. Then yelling that there’s no one else in the room. I don’t get it

40-70 GBs is the sweet spot for me. My Wi-Fi can download it within a day usually and I can fit a bunch of them onto my 1 TB SSD

I’d say I was? I got along with most everyone and it wasn’t uncommon for me to walk around during lunch break and most people to recognize me

I just suck at remembering names. I’ve started remembering people by their Profile picture more than their username

I’m not sure what it’s called, buy I love the trope of where a large party gets split off into two smaller parties who eventually reunite. This split could be forced through physical events or it could just be a relationship split between friends.

Lord the Rings is a great example of what I mean. Frodo is forced to leave after seeing what the Ring does and Sam goes with him, while Mary and Pippin get kidnapped and have their own adventure, and finally Aragorn and his merry trio go help the war effort in Rohan. They all end up reunited in the end though.

I’d kill to be able to help teach my peers just once. Department politics have been a blight on clubs though

I’m Vice President of a computer science club for my Community College and i feel this exact same issue. The people above me run it like it’s a training center for a job. There’s no aspect behind it besides business and business connections. It’s something i desperately wish i could change

Fuck it, 30 second sketch too.

Sadly I’ve tried googling the answers to the online assignments and idk if they’re too new or what but I can’t find them anywhere

Right now specifically? I have it out for Pearson. I bought a eTextbook from them that I need for a data structures class because of the bs online assignments. I only need it for a semester, had to pay $120 for a whole year.

The built in Java IDE? Completely busted. Returns the same failed to compile error for every single assignment. I even went and tested it in IntelliJ to make sure it works. It’s not my code. It’s a problem with Pearson’s IDE.

Then, I raise the issue to tech support, only, tech support is just an AI that goes through the usual “Clear Cookies, try a different web browser”. Finally it says it will “raise it higher” since none of those things worked. I’m gonna have to be higher after dealing with this BS. Anyways, right now they’re high up on my personal shit list since they took my money and can’t even deliver a functional product

Watching Doctor Who is such a treat. Where are you at? The 12th is one of my favorite runs

Growing up I struggled for so long on LittleBigPlanet’s Negativitron boss fight, most recently though I spent days struggling with Uncharted 4’s final boss fight (though somehow I had an easier time on Crushing difficulty on my second play through) and Halo 2’s Prophet Boss Fight.

I had a friend who was in the same boat. I know this ignores what you’re saying, but I’m going to share this in hopes that somehow this can help you anyways. the best way we got him off of them was by getting him out of the house and just interacting with the world. Taking him to group activities, introducing him to new people, stuff like that. However you get through this, i wish you luck though

California here. We’re being raided by fires right now

It’s hard for me to do that too. I found setting regular reminders for it on my phone helped, at least once I get over that initial hump of forming a pattern, then it just becomes a simple “oh. Today’s my day to run laundry”. Of course, if I break that habit it becomes hard again, but it does help a lot. But also I’m no psychologist, so for all I know it could be a case by case basis