• JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    This is the type of person to say things like “Why can other men pick up females and I can’t?” It’s so over the top I think it’s satire.

  • Glytch@lemmy.world
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    what is he doing that I’m not?

    Having self confidence about his passions and being willing to talk about them with someone who might get it the first time. Believe it or not a lot of women like to listen to guys gush about their passions.

  • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
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    When someone genuinely likes you they will listen to you talk for hours about anything just because they like hearing you be passionate about something.

  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
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    I dated a woman much taller than me, and received an unnatural amount of glances at my crotch when we were out in public together.

    People are so ridiculous.

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      also it’s probably more important to not be too unattractive - people are focusing too much on the ceiling but they need to focus on the floor

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        Nah. You can’t do much about how you look, beyond basic hygene and self care.

        You can easily do something about being interested in other people’s lives, and being happy for them being happy and commiserating with them when they’re sad. The bonus with this focus is it also makes you feel better about yourself in the long run.

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          You can’t do much about how you look, beyond basic hygene and self care.

          That was exactly how I read their comment. Don’t worry about trying to reach the ceiling, focus on staying off the floor. Basic hygiene, grooming, caring about yourself.

        • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          I think there is so much you can do for how you look - skin care, hydration, diet, exercise, etc. can radically change the way a person looks - but I tend to agree that personality matters much more. My point is that most people seem to get lost trying to make themselves physically attractive, and incel culture like looksmaxxing seem to fall into that logic as well, but they miss that the bar is lower than they expect. And of course, your point is missed by this community as well - that looks are even less important overall than how you hold yourself and interact, etc. - the mental stuff is the most important. Luckily good diet, hydration, and exercise help with that too!

      • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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        I think that they just need to look like they didn’t just pick themselves off the floor, realistically.

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      Being emotionally balanced and secure about something at all in your life goes a long way to building a character that other people want to be around.

      If these terms are meaningless to you and you don’t get it, you’re not ready for dating.

      • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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        You know I am honestly not so sure. I have seen people who definitely aren’t healthy, and probably not emotionally secure who get and sometimes keep relationships. It’s a lot more complex than you think. Some part of this is because obviously people with similar issues want to be together, but I think as well that things like physical attractiveness do have a role. It’s also the case that being a nice person and being emotionally stable aren’t actually the same thing, and often don’t go together. In fact to me it seems like people who have issues are actually less judgemental. Some of the worst people are those who have never struggled with anything.

        It’s like how people have this concept that they either are or aren’t worthy of love. I don’t think that’s even a valid idea to begin with as there is no universal standard for what people want in a partner. Someone either wants you or they don’t, worthiness just isn’t a large factor.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      It’s really be nice to be around. If people enjoy being near you they’ll want to do it more and some will want to date you

    • NaevaTheRat [she/her]@vegantheoryclub.org
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      All the blokes I’ve met that are happy in love are just gentle and respectful, especially of consent.

      Turns out, and I know this is a shocker, we’re not fucking aliens we just want to be treated as equally valuable and interesting people.

    • rabber@lemmy.ca
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      But do not confuse being a nice person with being a ‘nice guy’.

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        Attempting to avoid triggering negative feelings (e.g. disgust) in the people around you is part of #1.

        That generally requires #2, but might not depending other actions and niche situations.

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            Many people share their home with others. They would still shower to the nice.

            While a daily shower is overkill, and there are other ways to deal with it, most people need some sort of bathing routine as part of basic skin care: removing accumulated dust, dorr, sebumb, sweat, etc. from the skin, particularly joints/folds/crevices.

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              in any tropical area, daily showers are a requirement. in colder places they might be overkill, but idk

    • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Eh, that one is a bad take.

      Assuming that getting stoner supplies implies he’s a stoner and that if he is a stoner, that is the reason he’s unpartnered is as myopic as him assuming she’s not into video games and that he’s got her ‘whipped’.

  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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    My wife played way more fallout than me. I didn’t even play New Vegas and she wrapped that shit like three times. Girls liking video games isn’t that abnormal, idk why all these gamer nerds have been lead to believe that video gaming is unilaterally a male hobby and that women who like games are unicorn levels of rare. Like at least a solid third of the girls I know are more into video games than I am. Given I’m no hardcore gamer, but this attitude is always silly to me.

    • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
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      Women just don’t thrive on competition the way we do. They will absolutely nerd out on most other shit though, anything from Pokemon party builds to Fallout lore to puzzles.

      The only other girl filter I’ve seen besides competition is the hardcore autistic stuff like logistics and simulators; not nearly as many women playing Factorio, Mudrunner, Elite, etc… They’re out there though, and there are exceptions like Wurm Online that attract more women than you would otherwise expect.

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        As a girl, my experience is even the particularly competitive women basically get harassed out of competitive gaming. My exes and I used to play overwatch together and I have an all female friend group that sometimes plays valorant together and yeah the misogyny has guaranteed we all stay casuals.

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          I mean everyone gets harassed by the small amount of shitheads online. I used to get death threats at least once a day in World of Tanks. People would pick whatever they thought would offend me, throwing racial epithets, ableist terms… Name it, I got it. That’s how shitheads work: they throw stuff at you, see what sticks, and start digging where they see the marks.

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        Yeah, I can agree with that. My wife likes playing smash bros with me and my friends, but she’s nowhere near the levels of me and my two buddies who are really good. She’s getting there slowly tho.

  • ace_of_based@sh.itjust.works
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    Women actually like vg yo. I would know, i got my wife into them when we met (she hadn’t played games since she was a kid) and now, while i still take the crown in side-scrollin platformers and fighters? she whips my ass in shooters and it’s not actually close.

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        My wife beat me at MarioKart at a party in my apt. And well, that’s where it started lmao.

        Bitch didn’t even know how to drift and just snaked that victory out from under me.

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      My wife destroys me in puzzle games, farm management sims and difficult platformers that make me rage like Spelunky. Any shooter however, she is a bit lost but she happily loots away and explores while I’m demolishing everything. It’s nice having a shared activity we can nerd out about.

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      My wife would casually watch me play games until she saw me playing Rust with the bros. She shyly asked if I could build her a computer.

      Brother I had been building, fixing, and overclocking PCs for like 20 years by that point, a few a month even. I slapped one together from spare parts and got her in the game.

      She immediately used the fact that she is a girl to work her way into the good graces of other factions and made us friends I couldn’t have imagined. She would change her name and kill sleepers to make our enemies think they had been raided by other enemies. She would make friends with the resident assholes and then map out their base layout for us.

      My group has people in it like a top 10k solo no-build Fortnite player, a guy who regularly airdisked people 300m away in Tribes, and two top World of Tanks NA players: we are a force to be reckoned with on any day. She was armed with nothing but kindness and help for good people, and wrath for those who wronged good people.

      She fit right in.

    • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.works
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      Being a not as short person that’s into taller people but lives in a short country. All the same problems but I don’t even get to say I’m tall. I was recently in Budapest and a guy dropped a beer on me because he turned around and literally didn’t even register me existing around 20cm below his eye line. He was very nice about the whole thing and even bought me a beer but man…