Comment on Plummeting interest rate

0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ViscloReader@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People hook up everywhere, plus if you meet through a game you already have a common interest and a lot of stuff to chitchat about Win/win

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  • queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    • Mutual interest
    • Games often require talking and supporting each other well to beat the task at hand
    • Probably into more games and hobbies together

    Indeed, it’s a win/win

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  • ExLisper@linux.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do people hook up on lemmy?

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    • jagungal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lemmy is like Reddit, but with an even greater concentration of Linux and FOSS nerds, so the likelihood is extremely low.

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      • Pregnenolone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Open source relationships it is then

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      • asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Hey there 😏

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      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Any pic from a Reddit meetup was enough to convince me that trying to date via Reddit was a no-go zone.

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      • Ibex0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        😐

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    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, because lemmy is actually just me, and then six dogs pretending to be like 400 other active users.

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      • Llewellyn@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Woof, I mean yeah

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hey cutie 😏

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      • ExLisper@linux.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m a 40 year old man.

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    • felykiosa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I would relly appreciate to hook up on Lemmy because you have to be a nerd to be there. But I m French so I suppose its unlikely

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      • UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeewww…

        Jk I’m French Canadian even worse.

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      • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        We can certainly make this work. I’m a couple swims into France.

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      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I m French

        Well there is your problem

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  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But it’s only a booty call, a hookup, and he/she is upfront about it, why does it matter if we have common interests or not.

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    • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Republicans don’t get orgasm assistance from me.

      I invest a little extra effort to make sure I’m not misallocating my sex.

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      • riskable@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is sage advice: Sex misallocations often lead to extensive long term losses.

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• corrupts_absolutely@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  countless families started in wow clans

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  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was talking about hookups, cuz clearly that’s the case in the pic.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If people can find true love in WoW, they can find hookups

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• ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In runescape you can buy gf, in dating app you no can buy gf, do the maffs

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Runescape.com is not a dating site.

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    • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Then explain this

      Image

      Checkmate atheists 😎

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    • Nepenthe@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      11yr old me would have disagreed

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  • Aggravationstation@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Depend on app friend

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• verysoft@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It's an instant common demoninator. What's the difference than meeting at another hobby?

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  • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You know if someone is a 40 year old man or not

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    • verysoft@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      ₊‧.°.⋆˚₊‧⋆. communication ₊‧.°.⋆˚₊‧⋆.

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      • Kase@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Commun… Communica…- you must have misspelled communism, cause I’ve never heard this word in my life. Fellas! I found a commie!! /j

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  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This was clearly about a hookup only, why does it matter what she’s into… or what you’re into?

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• wafflez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Dating apps are not optimised to help u find a partner, they’re made to keep u on the app

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  • ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I met my fiancée at a training thing for work. Everyone canceled except her her, me, and the teacher, so we had a lot of time to talk lol. We are getting married in a year and a half.

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    • wafflez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Congratulations I am glad it worked out well for you two /pos

      I know some people have luck with them, that’s invevitable. I was just saying they aren’t great for most people and more so often are really bad for men’s self-esteem. Some great statistic videos go into depth with the dating pool ratios etc. to explain this.

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  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And games are made to keep you playing, not find parters.

    Regardless, this was just a booty call, my experience is that they’re great for that.

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• hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Cause those apps suck unfortunately.

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  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I would say the exact opposite, they’re great for hookups.

    Maybe it’s the thing about some people being shy IRL (which I’m not), so making conversation is difficult for them.

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    • flicker@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There was this mean thing people would say back in like the 90s, that the people complaining online win every argument because everyone who had success was busy being in a relationship.

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      • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Maybe… that may hold some thruth as well. Or maybe just doing things IRL that people that were more engaged online, didn’t.

        It is a fact that our online lives take much of our every day time.

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• queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Man, I’ve met partners I dated for years because of random shit. Reddit, random interactions on discord, and a few more. My parents met because of a convention my dad organized for a show that was off the air for a few years at that point.

  Humans are social creatures and they do be socializing.

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  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, but the pic is clearly about a hookup only. Dating apps are great for that, you just specify what exactly it is you’re looking for and you’re golden within a week or two.

    I have this friend, he litelarly didn’t go out with us for 2 straight years because of dating apps. He once did some math on how many different hookups he had over those 2 years, it was over well over 200. He’s not handsome or anything, not particularly anyway, or hung or anything like that. He’s just friendly, funny and outgoing. Women sink into that, just be friendly and funny and that’s basically it.

    It’s not that hard really, even if you are not as outgoing and funny as him, you could still score once every 2 weeks or so… if sex is what you’re looking for.

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    • 31337@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah, I don’t think that’s common. A lot of men swipe right on every woman, get a match with something like 1% of those, get a chat response with 0.1%, arrange a date with 0.01%, and have 100% back out of the date. At least that was my experience for a couple months of using dating apps, lol.

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      • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That is true, but only if you’re looking for a relationship. Yes, women are picky when it comes to relationships (well, men as well, now that I think about it). If you’re honest upfront and just state that you’re not looking for something serious, just fun, trust me, women are a lot more open to those one night stands than relationships. Why? There are no strings attached. She gets off, you get off, hell, you don’t even have to buy her dinner or anything, just go over to her place or a motel, whatever, and just have a few drinks, smoke some weed, whatever, to get in the mood. After that, you/she leaves and that’s that. The idea is that there are no strings attached from the start, and that’s what’s attracting about this scneario. You don’t put too much effort into it. After that, she can go about her dating as if nothing happened. You bump into her at the store, you pretend you don’t know her… she gives you scared look maybe, like “please, I’m with my bf here, don’t ruin it 😬” and of course, you don’t. Why? Cuz she might break up with him and give you another booty call. Plus, it’s not fair, she was just trying to blow off some steam, so were you, what’s done is done, no need for everyone to know that.

        Oh, and don’t mangle with married women… unless they’re some cockold couple or something like that. In any other case, married women are off the table. They usually have jelous/controlling husbands and you’re just asking for trouble fixing up a hookup with that woman. Always ask upfront if she’s married. She might lie, but hell, at least you asked and if you ever get that late night call from her hubby, you can always say that - I asked, she said she wasn’t married 🤷.

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    • Kase@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What’s a picker?

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      • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You pick too much, so you’re a picker.

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    • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      cum in bum

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My parents met because of a convention my dad organized for a show that was off the air for a few years at that point.

    Alf?

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    • queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Doctor Who

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• Vibi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I personally connect with people easier through games. For me, it removes the feeling that I have to entertain someone through some branching conversation. There’s less pressure knowing we’re focusing on the same task or goal and conversations feel more natural based on what we’re doing or observing. It’s also helpful to see how people approach obstacles and how they handle/display their emotions.

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  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, but none of that matters for a booty call, and it was just that on the pic, nothing more. She/he wanted a sex partner and asked the first person that was online in the game/app she/he was currently on.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I haven’t played online games in literally decades, but in the 90s, when I used to play MUDs, people used them to hook up (or just do the cybersex thing) all the time. I’m guessing the only big difference now is voice and video are in the mix.

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  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Really? Had no idea to be honest.

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