SuperSpruce
@SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Proton 1 day ago:
Stopped posting on Mastodon while continuing to post on X
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 2 days ago:
Definitely boycott paying real money for lootboxes or games with real money lootboxes.
If you’re not paying, then it’s just a factor to consider, the companies won’t care about you much
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 week ago:
Thank you so much for your advice! With how little experience I have, it is really tough to not trigger a mine in the dating minefield.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 week ago:
Which is why if I had one moment to change my decision on, it would 100% be this. I f*cked up big-time, and it cost me my heart and lots of hot make out sessions for a stupid lesson.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 week ago:
Sure, I’ll give more details.
I matched with her on Tinder and waited a few hours and she messaged me first, and not something generic but something about my profile. We started chatting over text and I suggested a short first “piano practice” date in a few days (we both play piano).
The next day we had a 2+ hour call where we played video games (Fortnite, don’t judge, I don’t play that unless I play with someone else) together and just chatted. Everything was going great.
The following days she was sending me super flirty texts (“my skirt will distract you”, and suggestive stuff about touching each other all over). I’ve never gotten texts like this in my life so I was slightly reserved but still flirty.
The date went well, we both got along with each other and we sat real close to each other. I even sent her a flower, and she told me that made her feel so special. There was one point where our faces were close to each other and she might have wanted a kiss, but I chickened our and just hugged her.
We planned a 2nd date as a movie date at my place. All the while we were feverently texting each other lots of things, from platonic to romantic to sexually suggestive. We even had a call meant to be a half hour but it lasted 1.5 hours. It reached a boiling point where we agreed on an “inter-date” study session the day before Valentine’s Day.
It was just about half an hour and we were both trying to get work done in a very public place so I wasn’t touchy at all. She also brought up more somber topics like politics (we have the same political views for the most part). At the end, because Valentine’s Day was near, I asked her to be my Valentine (as per the suggestion of a female friend) and got an unenthusiastic “sure.”
10 minutes later she texted that we’d be better off as friends because there was “no romantic physical chemistry” and cancelled the 2nd date.
I really wanted to explain that I had little experience and that the 2nd date was where the “action” would truly begin. By this point I had developed a huge crush on her and my heart was broken. Heck, I’m crying as I write this right now.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 week ago:
$200 for 1 night out is crazy. Can’t you just pregame a bit (courtesy of public transit), then go to some bars and get some cheap drinks for $5 or less each?
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 week ago:
$50 or less in 2019? I live in a more urban area of the US than this and if you pregame and go with friends, you can get the equivalent of 5 drinks at 3 bars for well under $20. In 2025.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 week ago:
There aren’t even speed dating events for people under 25 in my area.
- Comment on Anon is worried about men 1 week ago:
I’ve tried and I’m still trying. As someone who is a bit shorter than average and is socially awkward, it’s tough. Recently I’ve been able to get dates with 3 girls from dating apps (due to me being better at flirting and getting a few more matches than before), but they all went nowhere.
1 girl didn’t seem to want any touching or flirty things on the first date and the conversation wasn’t smooth, so I friendzoned her.
The other 2 girls immediately started with a flirty text conversation.
I hit it off with first one over text, we were having long phone calls and sending raunchy stuff over text. I had one short date with and was planning a spicier 2nd date with but she cancelled because I asked her to be my Valentine on Valentine’s Day.
The 2nd one wanted to take things slower, and friendzoned me after 2 longer dates. She also wasn’t that into touching.
I never kissed any of these girls. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, especially with the first flirty girl.
- Comment on Motorcycle knowledge 1 week ago:
This is the clutch lever I think? I’ve been riding for 20 months so it would be embarrassing to get this wrong
- Comment on I wonder if the "money can't buy you happiness" people ever lived in a car. 4 weeks ago:
I do have some friends but no relationship. I don’t just want a relationship because others have one, I want one because I have an innate desire for a relationship. I want to love and be loved, and make love too.
- Comment on I wonder if the "money can't buy you happiness" people ever lived in a car. 4 weeks ago:
This is off topic of the main thread but the chart was eye-opening to me about the order of love/belonging and esteem. Much of my insecurity drives from not having a girlfriend or any intimacy, but the only way to get that is be socially adept, but I’m not because being socially adept is a lower priority on the hierarchy of needs than intimacy.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Pokémon 1 month ago:
Oh boy. I got into Pokémon when I was 8 and I still love the format. It has a great progression system (at least in my mind) and can be used in easy and super challenging ways, like Nuzlockes. I have way too much nostalgia for the series and I like the music way too much.
My short opinions of the each game:
R/B/Y: Unbalanced, seriously exploitable glitchy games. At least there’s no cutscenes.
G/S/C: Terrible level curve, ruins the games.
R/S/E: The first games to really nail the format.
FR/LG: What R/B/Y should’ve been.
D/P: Great potential but please play on emulator because they’re so slow. Play platinum instead and don’t bother with the remakes.
HG/SS: Best for a grand Pokémon Game, but still retains some of the bad progression from G/S/C. Still a great game overall
B/W: I have way too much nostalgia for these games but they’re some of the best.
B2W2: Less nostalgia but objectively better than even B/W in multiple ways.
XY: Mediocre
OR/AS: Good remake on a great base.
S/M/US/UM: If you like playing Pokemon instead of watching cutscenes, don’t play these games. Seriously, don’t.
LGPE: Gimmicky games. FR/LG is better unless you really enjoy the Let’s Go gimmicks.
SwSh: Mediocre I believe
BDSP: See D/P
PLA: I still need to get around to playing it, gah the backlog is too long
S/V: Actually really great games if you hate how linear other Pokemon games are like I do, and you can look past the performance issues
If you have any questions or comments please reply lol.
- Comment on Mr. Grey, can I go to the bathroom? 1 month ago:
“Ooh I love a good sub! My favorite part is when I get to eat the insides”
- Comment on What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM? 1 month ago:
Keep it and wait for the applications to bloat up. You won’t feel like you have an excessive amount of RAM in a few years.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I don’t think it was the thrill, I think it was the lack thereof. She told me that there wasn’t a physical romantic chemistry between us in person. On my short morning date we touched a lot but never kissed, better than my other dates which had basically zero touching.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This is the worst Valentine’s Day in my life. I just got brutally friend zoned from a cute Tinder match yesterday after going on the best date of my life and having so much in common.
- Comment on New social experiment 3 months ago:
google-chrome-installer.exe
- Comment on New social experiment 3 months ago:
/Spreadsheets
- Comment on Not enough people buying Premium, eh? 3 months ago:
More like $126, if you know what I mean
- Comment on Not enough people buying Premium, eh? 3 months ago:
I don’t care that enhanced Bitrate is premium only. I do care that you still need to click “advanced resolution settings” to access this even for premium users on mobile.
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 3 months ago:
Take what I say with a big grain of salt because I’m just an onlooker, but from what I’ve heard housing is incredibly unaffordable in the desireable cities like Beijing and Shanghai, like $600000 for a 2bdrm when the median salary is $20000. It’s a speculative investment whose bubble has burst but prices are still super inflated.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 4 months ago:
Pro-developer never needs to be anti-consumer. They are staunchly both right now.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 4 months ago:
When was the last time you used it?
Also use Heroic launcher to bypass the bloat.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 4 months ago:
I’m gonna have to agree. It used to be about the most slow and bloated thing in existence, but they actually fixed a lot of performance issues last time I checked. It’s still slow, but in the same time period Steam on Windows decided to add a pointless splash screen increasing the load time by 4x, letting Epic take the W by a wide margin in load times, while responsiveness is a draw.
Yes, I know that Steam is more feature complete and consumer friendly which is why I still prefer to buy from Steam when possible.
- Comment on Do Not Buy NZXT | Predatory, Evil Rental Computer Scam Investigated - Gamers Nexus 4 months ago:
$259/mo??? I expected the price of a couple streaming services, but this is more like car payment territory.
- Comment on BeReal 5 months ago:
I stopped using BeReal a few months ago after they kept adding unwanted features (the entire point of this app was its simplicity) and my friends were leaving the app. Sad to see it has these kind of ads now.
- Comment on There you go little guy 6 months ago:
I’m sorry driving isn’t fun, it was never meant to be once we obliterated mass transit in the US. It’s meant to get you to the destination, preferably safely.
You’ve never been in a fun car on a fun twisty back road. This is what driving should be, as we should not be dependent on driving to get everywhere.
- Comment on Gacha games are out of control. Gambling shouldn't be so widespread 6 months ago:
The interesting thing is that although I’ve almost never spent money on a gacha system and haven’t played much gacha systems recently, my brain subconsciously craved for more but in a safer way.
That’s why I created the JavaScript weighted playlist for myself: A random selection of songs from my music library where some songs play (much) more than others. Getting a super rare song is akin to getting a top tier drop. Additionally, the playback rate is randomized to a normal distribution, giving the tiny chance that a rare song can play with a wild playback rate. And if that wasn’t enough, some Geometry Dash related songs can randomly skip to the next song, simulating watching someone try to beat some demon level.
I’ve created a skinner box for my brain that sometimes causes me to waste hours just clicking on the “next song” button to see what shows up next. My wallet was not harmed in the process (although it might soon be because I want it to work on a portable device, but that money would go to some niche open source hardware thing rather than a greedy gacha publisher).
- Comment on Bread 6 months ago:
I bounce between lawful neutral and chaotic neutral. Huh.