• StellarTabi [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    I went on a date with a dude who was the same 30+ age bracket as me. He showed me he was following 8,000 people on tiktok. He showed me his feed and it was just a deluge of pointless random gimmicky shit. I'd seriously much rather hang out with a gamer than a tiktok watcher.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I'd much prefer being around someone who plays video games over someone who pretends to be friends and sends money to rich asshole influencers making soypoint-1 faces and screaming while playing games with a camera pointed at them.

    • Acer@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Why the fuck do people have partners who have so little in common with them to be point they deride their interests? lol That's so dysfunctional. It's almost always straight relationships like that, and usually the same pattern: the guy gaming or doing nerdy stuff and the girl doing social media stuff. I've never seen a non straight relationship fall into the same pattern, it's just baffling.

      • Mossy Feathers@pawb.social
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        1 year ago

        It's like the straight millennial equivalent of the boomer "wife bad" meme. I'm halfway convinced that A) the straights are not okay B) people are still letting social pressure push them into unwanted relationships, C) people don't know how to control their dicks and so they wind up in toxic relationships because "she make my peepee hard" and that's all that matters.

        • trudge [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          Not just social pressure, but economic pressure these days as well.

      • Default_Defect@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        If the people in my town are any indication, its because they keep raw dogging random chicks until one gets pregnant and marries that one.

      • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Confirmation bias. My relationship is super healthy, I'm free to hang-out with friends as much as a want both in person and over video games. I also have a 12" dick that causes my SO to have an orgasm every time I touch her. Why would I make a post about that? Even if I wanted random internet strangers to upvote my post, I would absolutely change the story.

    • Mossy Feathers@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      The constant barrage of stories like this is part of the reason I have no interest in forging a romantic relationship with anyone. Stories like this make it sound like it fucking sucks and will drag you down. I know they aren't really the norm, but damn they're fuckin' everywhere. Why would I willingly subject myself to that kind of treatment? 'cause he/she/they are hot? Bitch, control your fucking dick/vagina, it's not that hard.

      Edit: to clarify, this post is engaging in some light hyperbole. It's not the only reason I have no interest in a relationship, and I know there are plenty of healthy, loving relationships out there; however, the fact that people keep entering into toxic relationships and then seemingly try to pretend that relationships are just like that is mind-blowing to me.

    • Psythik@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      It's a dumb story too cause if you're under 40, just about every girl your age plays video games. Even if they say they don't, they all play The Sims, and owned a DS or a Wii at some point.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        The games feeemales often play don't count because they're not about a grizzled middle aged man avenging his fridged wife and/or rescuing/protecting some daughter figure from dehumanized others. wojak-nooo

  • DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    I swear men and women aren't evolved to live in apartments together.

    I wonder what divorce rates are like for couples living in apartments vs homesteaders.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      One of my only pleasant roommate situations was with a woman. I-was-saying

    • somename [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Are you one of those Return to Tradition types? An Assassin's Creed one purist?

      Altair is the only true homesteader assassin.

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      We both work from home and don't get out a lot after work either, so... No. I game, she watches tiktoks or plays with the cats, sometimes we see shows on the TV... Idk, it's not hard.

      I tell her about the new anime girl I'm simping, she tell me about the evil edgy vampire boy she's simping. It's great.