Ok, listen. A great attitude (what the meme calls ‘confidence’) will definitely improve your chances. This doesn’t detract from the fact that if you were to randomly ask a lot of people out, the vast majority of them would still say no because either they’re not looking for a partner or you’re not their type. The hard part is accepting that fact and continue trying without getting so emotionally exhausted that you no longer even want to try. Tinder makes this even worse, because it condenses dozens of rejections in a short amount of time, in a context that makes looks far more important than other worthwhile traits of yours.
Of course, having an ugly face, being poor and even having bad genetics will make things harder. But there are plenty of fat, ugly dudes and gals in happy relationships. If you see yourself in the meme, your worst enemy is not knowing how to get out of a pit of hurt and self-doubt, but it’s an enemy you can beat.
The EU has politicians that manage to legislate against the interests of gigantic tech corporations because European tech corporations are far smaller, and thus have much less leverage. Even if the US political system was significantly less corrupt, they’d probably still have issues to legislate against them.
Wait until you hear about Latin American colonizers taking inspiration in the cities of “Granada”, “Córdoba” and “Santiago” to name their cities “Granada”, “Córdoba” and “Santiago”. At least Venezuela changed a couple letters from Venezia.
If your only issue is that modern games suck, rather than A) Being too exhausted after work, B) Having social media-induced attention deficit, C) Being overwhelmed with other responsibilities or anxiety, or D) Simply just not having enough time, you just have to find games that are actually good. Not AAA grindfests that aim at keeping you glued to the screen getting collectibles for 80 hours, but games that are actually trying to provide you with a worthwhile experience.
Some suggestions: Subnautica, Outer Wilds (not The Outer Worlds), Disco Elysium, Pathologic 2 (mind you, this one is extremely stressful, it’s a masterpiece but most people will not enjoy it), The Forgotten City, Hades and Omori.
Except when you’re playing Victoria and the capitalists decide it’s time to build the 34th arts academy with the building capacity it took you sweat and blood to build.
Humans are rationalizing creatures, much more than rational ones. Our first gut reaction is trying to make sense of why we think what we think and why we behave how we behave, rather than trying to figure out if it does actually make sense. If this natural tendency could be changed, the world would be far less of a shithole.
There’s a Tory cabal of Communist sleeper agents set to destroy British imperialism in all their forms, including the very country of Britain. Liz Truss was too ambitious and was taken off from power as a result, but I’m glad to see Boris was up to finish the task o7
It happens to neurotypical people, but in very different degrees. It is like one guy telling another: “I hate it when a place doesn’t have elevators”, and the other replies “I know, it gets me so tired to climb all the stairs!”, quite oblivious to the fact that the first one is on a wheelchair.
We hit one third of boomers being dead in the last few days. (lemmy.world)
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Why the hell did that stop (lemmy.world)
So that's it, huh? We're some kind of Suicide Squad? (startrek.website)
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I wish sleep wasn't so appealing now. (startrek.website)
Lemmy about to implode. (lemmy.world)
Yeah, well... (lemmy.world)
Go into the woods and fight some strangers, son. (lemmy.world)
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Trying to lose weight? (lemmy.today)
They hated him, for he spoke the truth (lemmy.today)
Making Friends 101 (lemmy.today)
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Sorry guys (lemmy.world)
Oh no… (sh.itjust.works)
Don't read classical philosophers, they're cringe (sh.itjust.works)
I will take no questions, thank you.
Video games are a worse influence than I thought! (startrek.website)
Radically different (lemmy.world)
Cross posted from bocchitherock@sopuli.xyz
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