Someone else was burned one too many times. It's fine and dandy until you notice a pattern: others who lack conscience will always work your convictions against you. Though the religion admits as much - it eschews 'worldly wisdom' - i.e. what you need to make anything of a life in this world.
I mean it's empty because you deny people that love you to do nice things for you (I don't care (and it shows!), what do you want to do?). Keep it up long enough and you don't even know what you like anymore. And then you aren't really a fun person anymore.
Didn’t need to read that! I’ve often thought I will truly feel my age when they start calling the Xbox 360 ‘retro’. Not far off if we’re not already there.
I live in a region of the UK where rhoticity is alive and well. It actually means I've an easier time understanding some words when Americans speak them, compared to the English.
On the broader point I'd agree up until I notice that you'd write 'defense' yet also 'fence', and ponder why the verb 'got' is so overused.
I'll just say that I sometimes use defense because the Firefox spellchecker seems to prefer UK spellings even when US English is set in the language settings and the red squiggly lines bother me.
When I was using dating apps I kept a spreadsheet to track the response to like ratio, and indeed, the amount of women who liked me back in any given month was exactly 5% of those whom I liked.
Much as I wish that ratio was higher, data is data. The Tinder style matchmaking will always bring out this behaviour.
I didn’t run the numbers but I also quickly figured that the only chance to make progress is to like a lot of profiles. For a while i liked only profiles which i thought are a really good fit but got no responses. Turns out spamming works better. Once a woman likes you back, then you can take a closer look.
What's the alternative? Complain that you never get a match? The recommendation to only contact people you think are a perfect match and then send a customized message doesn't work.
When people match with me, then read my profile, get mad about what's in my profile, send me a message expressing said anger, and then unmatch, it's a big waste of time. And that's actually the best case scenario. Worst case they don't read the profile at all and keep stringing me along.
The first time I joined a dating website I got a like from a person who I would have thought was way out of my league. I was really confused. Am I actually super hot and didn't know?
No. It's that EVERYONE on dating sites is playing this stupid game that wastes women's time. Some people are doing it with spamming likes, other people are doing it with more active gamification and pretending they have beliefs they don't actually hold. This is why most of the women left on dating apps are bots trying to direct you to their onlyfans.
If I didn't know the game men are playing, that first interaction and subsequent interactions on dating websites would have given me an inflated sense of importance, like, damn, maybe I've actually been dating below my league this whole time? I think that's where this article gets the impression that women only like 5% even if all the contenders shown are attractive.
Like seriously, I'm angry enough about this that I want dating apps to have something that's the opposite of a super like, where you can pay them money to penalize people not using the apps in a genuine manner.
