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Match group 100% should be broken up.

I think a lot of people, of all genders, are surprisingly bad at the skills needed to use a dating app successfully. People dead end conversations and then are like "why aren't I having fun conversations?"

Like, a profile says "I love SomeBand". You write "hey! SomeBand is my favorite. Did you see their new music video? I don't know how they got those cats to act!" And then respond with "no", end of message. I'm just like my friend, that is not how you use this tool. What do you think is going to happen next?

But yeah, women refusing to take initiative probably isn't helping. But the roots of that are pretty deep in our sexist society, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

I think the dating app model that's currently popular kind of can't work well for users. They're all set up so they benefit from users paying a subscription for a long time, but users want to find a match and get out. Those are contradictory.

I think a match making model would be better. Pay a single fee and they try to set you up with someone. They already got your money so their incentive would be to set you up happily so they don't have to work on you anymore. But users don't want to pay for anything, so we'll continue having garbage and garbage incentives.

I think feeld recently was revealed to have all of their information and apis public. Like anyone could find any message and photos, and do CRUD operations on them.

https://fortbridge.co.uk/research/feeld-dating-app-nudes-data-publicly-available/

Also the app kind of sucks, at least as a free user. It does the same bullshit as all the others where it doesn't actually connect you with people. And some classes of users (eg: women) get bombarded with low quality content while others get nothing.

Hinge also kind of sucks for the same capitalism reasons, but it's better than the others I tried.

Return to office mandates are some combination of management failure, class warfare, and maybe some real estate valuation nonsense. There's no good reason for it.

I'd really like people to unionize so they can say "no" as a unified group.

teenager who acts like a dick all the time would be equally annoying.

Was Morrigan popular when da:o was new? She's an extremely edgy teenager.

This topic would be great for a dontnod game that could appropriatly handle that topic - not an RPG.

I really don't think queer stuff needs to be banished from the realm of RPGs.

Several times I've set the max warnings to whatever the current warning count is, and then decreased that over time.

This can't be real, can it?

Most people I talked to have refunded the game on steam. Nobody really had fun with it, except for one person that was completely new to dragon age. However, I don’t think she finished it either.

Meanwhile, the 3 people I know who played it all enjoyed it. Anecdotes!

I don’t think so. The writing of Taash was so bad and uncomfortable for the most part that I genuinely didn’t know if they were trying to mock trans-people with this representation. It felt like they were just looking at a terminally online twitter user and modeled the character after that. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that taash is the worst character I’ve ever experienced in a triple A production.

Taash's scenes seemed okay to me. The storyline with their mother is pretty close to what a friend of mine is going through now.

I don't know how to solve this problem, but I kind of don't believe what people say. I mean, I think sometimes they dislike a thing for reason A, but the words that come out are reason B. They say a character is badly written (B), but really they find the queer subject matter uncomfortable (A). This may or may not be the case, but fundamentally I do not believe the average internet video game fan has the introspection and honesty to say "A" here. There's no way to know.

Veilguard, on the other hand, doesn’t get better. It just stays bad and even confusing at times.

My problem with Veilguard is the difficulty fell off a cliff and never climbed back up. Other than that it was fine.

If the players want to do something I don't feel ready to do (either because it's not prepped or I don't feel up to winging it), I'll tell them.

"That's cool you want to go to so-and-so, but I haven't given it any thought. We can end early, or I can try to improv it with no quality guarantee"

There are some kinds of planning I don't do, like making specific maps and stat blocks, so some kinds of "going off script" don't hinder me much.

Sometimes I'll ask the players for input. "Ok, what sort of rites happen at this midnight ritual [that we just made up] that you decided to crash?". I don't really like the player mode where they just want to sit back and be told a story, nor do I much like the mode where they're super zoomed in on their character without engaging with any other level. I've had players like that, where they want to really immerse in their character and feel like answering setting details takes them out of it, but that's not really how I like it.

The great(est) club in dark souls 3. Simple. Effective. Surprisingly effective at catching dodge rolls. It's not bad in the other games, but it really was my jam in ds3

In Elden Ring, the antspur rapier is stupid basic and fun. Poke, poke, poke, bleed, poke, rot.

My old computer took to Mint without much of a problem. My newer one... many things didn't work. The mint discord was very helpful though!

It's a shame more manufacturers don't sell machines that are already set up with Linux, so you don't have to worry about like "oh WiFi doesn't work for some esoteric reason?" as much

A solid black.