Rolling the dice exactly once has more chance of getting double crits(I’m assuming he has disadvantage) than never rolling at all
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blarghly@lemmy.world 2 days ago
For anyone who might feel similarly to anon - no. No it would not have been a turning point.
Why? Because dating is a matchmaking problem. Whether you are looking to hook up or get hitched, you need to sort out the partners who are a good match for you from those which aren’t. So if all anon wanted was any girl to be romantic with him for the rest of his life, and if this girl happened to be his perfect match, then sure, maybe his life would be different. But if anything goes wrong in this plan - which it almost certainly will - then even if this girl kisses him, blows him, fucks his brains out, or dates him for a while, once she peaces, he is right back where he started. No bitches, and no idea how to get them.
The turning point in anon’s life can’t be when someone else just hands him what he wants by sheer chance. A real turning point can only happen if anon makes the choice to change his life of his own accord. Because when anon makes a choice to do something - like learn to dress better, or go to therapy, or politely introduce himself to an attractive stranger - then he is creating a repeatable strategy for improving his life.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 days ago
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nerds ignoring confidence.
In my experience, 25 year old virgin usually means they’ll typically start to embrace that desperate/needy persona.
blarghly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean, we can imagine a counterfactual where the girl was even more insistant.
“No, anon, you’re taking me on a date! I won’t take no for an answer”
And then they go on a date. Anon is very awkward and has no idea what to do. But at the end of the date, she gives him a bj. Now what?
Well from her perspective, maybe, she did a good deed. She gave him some experience and confidence and set him on his way - hooray!
But from anon’s perspective - being anon - he is in the same position, only worse. After all, for some reason he can’t possibly understand, a girl went on a date with him and blew him, practically handed herself to him on a silver platter, and yet he still managed to fuck it up and didn’t lose his virginity. What a hopeless loser he is (he thinks to himself) - even if he is just given the perfect chance, he must be so repulsive and terrible at sex that no woman will want to touch him once they get close enough.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
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tanisnikana@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean, I’m a 40-year-old virgin, but being asexual and sex-repulsed means I’m not desperate and needy.
However, the asexuality sadly disqualifies me for the wizard powers.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sure, I’m dragging a wide net.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
how can you feel bad about not having sex if you don’t want to have sex?
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The world puts an unbelievable amount of emphasis on having sex as a mandatory aspiration. Most advertising is coded for either sex or hunger or fear. Most people are sexual people who frame things sexually, even subtly. Douglas Adams even once wrote that the basis of literally every construction and technology and artistic work on the planet was to impress someone of the opposite sex.
Needless to say, it’s hard to keep from internalizing some of this in some way. If you’d look at r/asexuality and the Lemmy asexual communities, you’d see a lot of people realizing “oh shit, I’m not broken!” after spending whole-ass years thinking they were.
There is still a small voice inside me that says I’m an idiot for not chasing sex. I can’t help it. Society is pervasive.
essell@lemmy.world 2 days ago
One of the things that stops people making changes and choices of their own accord is fear.
Fear of the unknown, the uncertainty. Anon had a choice to make, they made it.
If they’d made a different choice, their life would have been different. Maybe better maybe not, certainly different.
snooggums@piefed.world 1 day ago
I thought the point is that anon realized they were the one who was turning opportunities down, and accepting an opportunity where success seemed to be likely would have been the turning point.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Eh, if your problem is that you incorrectly assume you’re undesirable, then it might break you out of that. But if your problem is that you’re shit at picking who’s into you and who’s compatible with you then it won’t.
That said, this is 4chan. They don’t let a little thing spark a process of improvement, they wait for perfect to fall into their laps.
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Tldr: Anon is doomed
regdog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The turning point in anons life is not the realization that he could have turned his life around at an earlier point. But if anon believed that in the past they the had the power to turn their life around, then that is true for the present as well.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Everything is temporary - some relationships last longer than others but they all end, at least from old age. If there can’t be worth in a temporary relationship, there can’t be worth in any relationship.
blarghly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Certainly anon could hypothetically value any temporary relationship he had. But he won’t. We can tell because of the way he told this story - not as a story of proof that he is desireable and worthy of love, but instead as a story of how he missed an opportunity that will never again come in his life.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
so basically you want anon to become gay?
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 days ago
He would learn, get experience, be less afraid and maybe unfuck himself.
But nope, he choose videogames in typical anoncel fashion.