Lvxferre [he/him]

nyaa.si has a bunch. Just be careful to not download the manga instead. (Both are under the same section, “Literature”.)

Not really assumptions, but how it sounds like, in the context of a social setting. Or, if you want: that’s how people “read” it.

Because he spoke to a stranger that didn’t want him to speak to them.

Don’t be disingenuous. That is not even remotely close to what I said.

Not bothering further with you.

If you’re trying to say something like “you have connections, unlike all of the dating people”: that is not what I said. Everybody has at least some connections; it’s all about how you use them to know more people.

If you mean something else, please explain - I’m genuinely struggling to parse your sentence.

Paying too much attention on the others’ conversations, even in a public environment, is creepy.

I get your reasoning, but personally I never interpreted it as a transaction fee. It’s more like a token of good will; I do something similar when I find friends in a bar, too.

The main gender problematic I see is:

1. If a woman approaches a man with a drink, society immediately labels both sides as bad.
2. In some cases she’d be better off approaching a bear, but she won’t know it until it’s too late.

I’ve seen it plenty, plenty times. Because I was looking for it. That was my “plan A” strategy when I still bothered dating; it works great as long as you know to be assertive without being pushy. (Some people want to be left alone, some only want to chitchat, both things are fine and you should respect that.)

My “plan B” was relying on connections, but that relies on luck. For example:

• you go to the bar with A
• A is acquainted with B, who’s drinking with C
• You say “hey, what if we all drink together?”

Then you have some room to at least know B and/or C better. And potentially ask one of them out.

Odds are my “plan B” is not viable for Anon, though - does he even have friends to go to the bar with?

Asking her out would be fine; the problem, as I already explained, is how. However I do agree with you that her answer was over the top, a simple “No.” would be the best.

Whole thing is no issue.

It was clearly an issue to the Anon, check the last paragraph.

If you are gonna randomly strike up conversations you will get cooked sometimes.

He wasn’t just striking up a conversation.

Additionally (and that’s neither side’s fault), mob mentality is a plague. She was in a group of four people; people typically behave worse in groups than alone.

What he says boils down to “I was eavesdropping your conversation, and I assume you’re desperate. You might as well lower your standards — date someone random you have no connections with, like me.” It’s bad; not bad enough to deserve that rude reply, but still bad.

A better approach would be to try to pick up a woman who’s alone, offer her a drink*, chitchat a bit, and then ask her for a date. With no references to what she said to other people. Creating some connection between him and her, before he asks her out.

*always ask the bar workers to bring it. Don’t bring it yourself.

The issue with Anon is not where he decided to pick the woman up, but how. What he said is basically “hey, I’m creepy enough to eavesdrop your conversation for three whole hours. Since you’re desperate you might as well lower your standards and date someone random, like me.” Of course she’d reject him.

Guy’s a creepo, gal puts people down unnecessarily. Both will unwillingly die alone.

I’m not sure if gold would be a good fit for the Fediverse forums. As problematic as the voting system is, tying visibility to popularity is less worse than tying it to money spent.

Instead I think the current approach (donations) should be improved. I expect the same type of people who’d buy gold to finance their instances to be OK with donations, as long as they know it’ll be well used.

Yeah, but what constitutes vote manipulation is an issue that pops up here, too. I bet most instances would ban someone acting like this, too.

As others highlighted:

This only helps the bots. It’s useless against stalking, since you can still find a list of the person’s post/comments by searching their username in Google or even Reddit itself. And a stalker, unlike someone trying to denounce bots, will do it.

If anything this harms users. A false sense of security is worse than accurately feeling unsafe.

And the motivation for that is clearly to hide the bots. Bots give you metrics. Metrics give you ad views. Ad views give you money.

Probably easy. However, anyone using such extension would be banned for voting manipulation. YMMV on how justified the later is.

The bots know what is bot content and what is not.

Probably not. It’s way easier to generate bot content than to detect it. Unless they’re coming from the same group, but I find this unlikely.

There used to be a site called Reddit, where you were your post history. Now that site is dead - the URL still works, I guess, but it links to some weird Twitter with an alien logo.

It’s possible. For example, the quality assurance department finds 9001 critical bugs, but whoever is in charge says “ship it lol” regardless of those bugs. In fact I think this might be the problem with CS2, I wouldn’t be surprised if Paradox was the one doing the QA for Colossal Order.

Still a bad QA matter, though. And it’ll get worse.

Relevant to note the publisher (Paradox Interactive) is also known for extremely poor in-house QA. Both game and DLC releases are known to be extremely buggy.

[Hallikainen] We’re confident that the franchise will continue to thrive under Paradox’s leadership

That’s corpo speech for “we lost the franchise, PI has it under its direct control now”. Note Iceflake Studios is “part of Paradox Interactive”.

The series is dead. Nothing to see here. Move on, gentle folks.

Yup, that’s part of the deal: cat shit is preferable over elephant shit. The other part is that cat shit is still shit, and it’s still undesirable.

Now look at the discussion in this thread. Gabe Newell is cat shit; some comments are trying to defend him as not shit, some trying to pretend his behaviour is exactly as bad as elephant shit (your typical billionaire). Between a billionaire like Newell spending money on a research yacht versus one like Musk fuelling some random dictatorship, Newell is preferable. And he’s still undesirable as any of those money-hoarding psychopaths.