jtrek

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 29 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Half your age plus 7 is an okay rule for finding the floor. Don't aim for the floor. Plus 10 is less eyebrow raising.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 8 points 2 months ago

If I'm not playing something fun in a few minutes, I'm probably going to bounce off. I'm not here to watch a movie.

I don't want to watch a long intro. I don't want a lot of cut scenes and exposition up front.

The dark souls games have a little cut scene that you can skip, and then you're off to playing. Perfect.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

I would be surprised if there were a lot of indie games that didn't run via proton or wine on Linux.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 8 points 2 months ago

Evangelicals aren't known for being smart, critical thinkers well versed in theology (theirs or otherwise).

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

People make money on it. People don't care enough to organize around stopping it.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

This is the only penny arcade comic I remember, but I liked it.

I tried to use it as a clue and prop in a tabletop RPG once, and one of the players unironically said "I'm not reading all of that". She was not a great player.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bandcamp new and notable

Bands I like touring with other bands

Record labels I like put out new stuff

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 24 points 2 months ago

Ars is weirdly pro-windows sometimes , in the comments. I don't read them as much as I used to.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if it's like different learning styles or what but some people just need to have a whole ass call. I'm like, I'll just write you a nice message you can refer back to. Nope.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

yeah, clearly a random stranger on the internet knows more about my own life and my own life experiences than I do.

You sound absolutely delusional, so, yeah maybe.

It’s the same story in any major USA coastal city.

I don't know what city you're in, but the median income in NYC is like $85k and there is a wide range of people here.

I make 150K a year, own a modest condo, and I am considered ‘poor’ because the expected income for a desirable man is 300-500K a year.

Don't try to date the kind of person who expects $400k/year? In all my years of dating I don't think I've ever met someone with that expectation, and that's probably for the best.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The attractive people involved are already coupled.

It is also extremely implausible that this is 100% true. Unless you were going to events that select for couples, you're going to find a mix of relationship states.

physical fitness has nothing to do with attractiveness. lots of unattractive people are super fit, and lots of attractive people are unfit.

People generally find healthiness attractive. Fitness is correlated with healthiness, and this somewhat correlated with attractiveness. Tastes differ. But generally, people are not going to find "can't run up the stairs without wheezing" more attractive than "can run"

I live in a city full of wealthy entitled people, who think they are superior to others by birthright and what college they went to, and who won’t talk to you if you don’t work for a fortune 500 company.

Very few cities are so homogeneous. Don't dox yourself but what do you feel comfortable sharing about what city this is? I find it extremely unlikely that the entire city is full of people who only talk to fortune 500 people. Do all the wait staff and service workers exist in silence and depart the city at dusk?

Sounds like you're putting up barriers blocking your own success, mostly.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I’ve never met an attractive woman in any meetup, sports even, hobby, or volunteering thing I have ever done.

This sounds extremely implausible. Those activities should have a wide, fairly random, selection of attractiveness. Sports might favor people more physically fit, which is positively correlated with common ideas of attractiveness.

Maybe you're using some non-standard or idiosyncratic standard of attractive?

I get absolutely nothing except the occasional random weirdo woman who approaches me at a bar and starts telling me what stupid jerk I am for reading books or having a cat

On the other hand, maybe you live in hell?

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