Basman

Relationships and pick-up are different skillsets, but it's funny going "adress me 🐘" to the former pick-up guy. They won't let you get away with going normie.

It's a PC dude. It's expensive but considering the current market the price is relatively reasonable. New consoles aren't going to be much cheaper. We live in a post-AI world.

It's finally got a price and release date (about a stack). https://store.steampowered.com/hardware/steammachine I'd really want one but it's a little expensive to justify when I already have a decent PC. For once a PC that isn't a giant RGB monster. Really bad timing with AI though, hence the price. Power users (Redditors) will scoff at the performance but it's statistically an upgrade for what the average gamer actually has.

Looks like something an extra in a Mortal Kombat movie would wear. Like some sort of shady underground night club where a fight breaks out between the main characters and the dude wearing this gets beheaded by Scorpion or something.

I'm not against billionaires existing in principle. They provide a lot of value to society and enable the survival of thousands, but they also tend distort politics and acidify the pond so only they can survive. A lot of wealth is squandered after certain point too, so I'm generally in favor of heavy taxation of the wealthiest people. Give back to the society that enabled them to flourish in the first place. It's only fair. In an ideal world, it should be harder than it is now to become a billionaire/millionaire but easier to be average.

I have culture war fatigue. Make it stop...

There's already a thread about this I think.

It clearly does. No one saying it's binary.

Even babies can recognize when someone is attractive. It's largely genetic. Humans don't find other species sexually attractive, like horses or lions, even if they have good genes for that reason (outside of weird fetishes).

I don't understand this urge to relativize something which is fairly objective and obvious. And well documented. Even babies like attractive faces.

The most extreme version of this polarity is harems. A bunch of women who don't work a day in their life and who's only purpose is to be sex objects for some king, a peak status male. Literal bird cage shit. Granted, they where mostly slaves and didn't have a choice in the matter, but you could argue that proves the point of women not being valued for material survival. If they where it wouldn't make sense to lock them up. You'd make your sex slaves till the fields, fish and build houses in between cheek busting.

When Trump starts a pointless war you can atleast least vote him out. When Putin starts an insane war, nothing short of a miracle or old age will remove him from power. Power tends to corrupt and make people lose touch with reality. The best thing about democracy is arguably that it puts checks on power.

In my experience, when people talk of an intellectual gap in a relationship it's tends to be a justification for a general lack of passion and maybe other frustrations.

You'de be hard pressed to find a relationship that meets every need you have. The risk is that it won't necesarilly get better than this. Be careful chasing the dragon. Is it not possible to cultivate a love of philosophy in her over time? It could be a great experience to be part of that. Don't be too binary or hasty in your thinking.

I remember going out once and this girl with a hunchback was aggressively approaching guys, like going up and hugging their arm and shit, and they would just ignoring her awkwardly. They would freeze like in Jurassic Park. Brutal stuff. You have to feel sorry for someone like that.