charly4994

I went back and forth for a while in my 20s trying to find someone and feeling this crushing loneliness and despair that I'd never find a partner and then I just stopped caring. The first few dates I got were terrible.

First one we talked for hours in a dunkin' donuts and I think neither of us could figure out how to end the conversation so we kinda ended up arguing about politics. I burned the shit out of my tongue on the tea. Neither of us reached out after that.

Another we met and had lunch, ended up walking up and down the street window shopping and chatting, didn't feel like a terrible experience at the time but with hindsight it was a rather awkward mess and I just wasn't good at picking up on her subtleties.

Another one was just us chatting online for a while, she was living across the country from me and I just didn't pick up on flirting at all so I just kinda kept talking about nerd shit and it worked for a while until my suspicions got the better of me and I just ghosted her after thinking it was a romance scam because why else would someone talk to me and keep sending unsolicited risque photos.

Last one was the one that made me give up, we started chatting, had a few common interests. We had talked about what flavor of leftism we subscribed to, I said I was ML while she said she was into market socialism. We hopped into a voice call with one another to play Stellaris multiplayer a few days later, got to like 50 years in, I snaked my borders out and destroyed the infinity machine and that upset her, 10 minutes later she just quit out of nowhere, ghosted me, and then randomly every 6 months would come back and insult me the most unrelated shit imaginable until I finally just blocked her.

I'm happy to be alone. I've found enjoyment in pursuing who I am and I don't feel like I need someone else to validate that any more. Doesn't help that every time I've tried to test the waters it's so abysmally awful to even try that I have no incentive to try any more.

I the comparison to the swastika is far more apt, it was and remains a religious symbol in many parts of the world, it's just that in the west a swastika is now permanently associated with hatred and genocide. You see media getting altered for a western release because the prominence of a swastika because a general audience won't see the religious symbol, but the symbol of a genocide. It's an inevitability at this rate.

I think it's funny that the next obvious solution is that the child has two dads and everyone seems to ignore it as well.

I'd sorta agree on the literal wording of "...other people might not be mentally developed enough to make that decision until age 19 or 20." I was chatting with people in their 30s-50s when I was 16-18. I was lying about my age to them all, but when I did hit 18 and I met up with someone (and got over the crisis of identity and and cracking the egg) I came to the conclusion a few years later that I really wasn't ready to make that decision. I don't regret it at this point since experimenting ended up being a net positive for me in the end, I might have reached it in a bit less of a chaotic manner since things were already moving towards the egg cracking anyway.

Here I had conveniently forgotten all about this guy and now I'm once again aware of him and totally unsurprised.

I found a preview of the upcoming show

Ironically the company you're showing a game screenshot from went on to make two more similar stealth games, one set in the wild west and one set in the Caribbean with pirates which are both slightly rarer settings for video games.

Oh but they make for such delightful tourist destinations to see castles still inhabited by the nobility rather than some rich twat's mansion in LA.

I was curious about rent in San Diego while vacationing there recently and I ended up finding something sorta similar to what you're describing. 98 sqft, furnished with shared bathrooms and showers, no mention of a kitchen. At 650 a month it was the most affordable thing I found.

This is a modern German prison cell.

Was told over and over again that AI is so good at coding that it was replacing people already so when I tried to get it to write an algorithm for the most efficient way to smith in terrafirmacraft, it gave me this bullshit.