Skulldrinker
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Skulldrinker
2hr ago
I thought it was a novel enough scenario, since usually it's men talking themselves out of getting laid by saying something that's a Red Flag or an Ick. And it's frustrating because this is the closest I get to someone acting as if they like me, and they still seem to hate me.
I guess the question goes back to: "are women being intentionally unpleasant and political as some sort of ideological test, or do they just think this is how people talk? Because it mostly felt like argument bait."
Skulldrinker
1d ago
Pretty sure if I had tried anything like that, I would have gotten an affronted "how dare you" reaction.
(Reposted because it's obviously still bugging me, since it was the last time a woman expressed fondness for me, and my one Hinge match unmatched me after agreeing to a date this week)
The other week, a woman managed to talk her way out of getting laid.
Cute, curvy, African-American, hair with the double-buns and side curlies, sitting at a cocktail bar, reading a book. I went in with no expectations, just asked her about her book. Initially the conversation was just fine. Good, even. Then she turned out to be a sociology grad student, and I got a bit worried I was gonna be subjected to Academic language. And I was, she said White Supremacy three times over the course of five sentences.
Then she said I "sounded Conservative." I can only guess she was referring to my wisconsin accent (or sperg accent).
Other choice quotes from her:
I'm not going home with you tonight
Why are you sitting so close to me? [She scooches closer to me]
Why haven't you kissed me yet? [I kiss her] Hey! You didn't ask to kiss me before kissing me [she keeps kissing me]
I think to myself "waaaaait a minute, am I being ...shit-tested? I thought that was made up by internet misogynists."
I'm sure she thought she was being cute and playful, but I just found it all tiresome and off-putting. I'm too old for this tsundere schtick, and this isn't one of my Japanese animes. The next topics of conversation all seem to center on men and what trash they all are. Something about catcalling and 16-year-olds.
By the end of the night, I'm walking her to her corner, then it turns out her place is just down the block, so we're at her doorstep. I'm still making out with her, it's getting hot and heavy, and I realize...this isn't worth it. This chick is super-reactive to every little thing, I've only gotten this far by nodding and smiling, eventually I'm going to say something that she'll twist into being offensive. I don't want to just get laid, I want to interact socially with someone I like AND fuck them, regularly. Also, I frankly think there's some weird racial/ideological component to her attraction to me, which I don't appreciate. It's ironic that, in practice, black women seem to hate white men less than white women do.
So instead of asking to come in, as she obviously wants me to, I take my leave, send her the "home safe" text, and nothing further. She did say earlier "I'm not going home with you" so obviously I was misinterpreting the situation and would have been accused of something-or-other. She wouldn't have lied, right?
Do women know how much they actively repel men? If they think they're trying to filter out "Conservatives", they're not, they're selecting for guys who nod and smile and wait for their pants to come off. Or is this just what they're like all the time and they forget to turn it off around guys they want to fuck? Obviously I have issues and resentments with women, but at least I can keep it to myself briefly when I'm in front of someone who I want to like me.
"She's a really nice girl and super-sexy, but...I just wish she cared about Social Justice more" -- no guy, anywhere, ever.
Skulldrinker
1d ago
But the Bush administration squandered a lot of that will, and the Left took full advantage of it. Pretty soon I saw teenagers putting "No Enemy" stickers everywhere and when the Dixie Chicks said America had 9/11 coming I noticed that while some people were outraged a whole lot more were not.
The Bush administration made it cool to hate America. Then during the Obama administration everyone still habitually hated America and had to reach for increasingly tenuous reasons to keep doing so, and that's how we got to today.
Skulldrinker
5d ago
She has a point, Christianity is a spooky religion; you drink blood and the priests wear black and especially holy people bleed from their palms
Skulldrinker
6d ago
How did Astrology become a Thing again? Since 2020, I've encountered it more and more IRL among the general population, even in people with undergrad degrees. I checked Tinder the other week before re-un-installing, and at least 1/3rd of the profiles had birth sign front-and-center. I honestly thought this was a slain beast.
Someone talking about capricorns really riles up my inner fedora.
Skulldrinker
8d ago
I really want to ignore all the defenders as idiots amplified by Tik-Tok. But the astrology stuff brings out my inner fedora.
Skulldrinker
9d ago
Back in OG red/blue, move types were dumb. Most attacks were "normal" type. Psychic Pokemon were only weak to bug and ghost, but no ghost-type move used weakness/resistance, they were arbitrarily immune to Lick, Dream Eater was Psychic, and all the ghost types were Ghost/Poison, along with most of the bug types, who rarely had a bug-type move anyways.
I'm sure FireRed has fixed a lot of this; even Pokemon Yellow added Mankeys to the early game, with fighting type moves that could damage Rock types. So you can pick whatever starter you want and still breeze through gym battles.
Skulldrinker
9d ago
The models can't meaningfully evaluate the balance of a simple custom Magic, the Gathering card.
Skulldrinker
12d ago
To use just one example, if an open source AI ever gets smart enough to help someone who wouldn't otherwise be able to do it, to biohack together a new deadly virus in their garage
"Hey, the virus you made for me that you said would have a 100% kill rate didn't do anything! You said the whole concept was chef's kiss!"
You're right to push back on that.
Skulldrinker
13d ago
Same, I couldn't get over the sportsball player wanting to rent a rock because he broke some glass.
Skulldrinker
13d ago
I wish I had walked out of Terminator Genysys.
I had to leave Hunger Games part 3 early because the girl I was with flew into a rage because someone thinner than her shushed her.
You're not trotting out the really good October 7th apologia.
Hamas didn't even know about the music festival, which had its hours extended last minute, no raping happened because Palestinian men aren't that sexually confident, all those people at the festival were combatants anyways so it was a valid military target, and the israelis killed more of their own citizens than Hamas did.
Sorry, bad Gaza takes are a guilty pleasure of mine.
Skulldrinker
18d ago
There's a comedy formula from the Ricky Gervais show: two guys and an idiot. The idiot says things, one guy rips into him, and the other guy pulls the first guy back a bit to add nuance or let the idiot dig the hole deeper. I've seen this done with Let's Plays, where the (ideally janky or bad) video game serves as the idiot.
Since an AI will reliably make facile, wishy-washy statements, it makes for a good idiot. It'll also repeat the Party Line of whatever's currently PC.
Skulldrinker
18d ago
The two shopkeepers know they work in a spooky cursed curio shop and are doing a bit, let them have their fun.
Skulldrinker
24d ago
Eh, I was being a all high-handed writer-y about who should write or not write. In my defense, I really do see AI use as corrosive and distortive to creative writing, and I say this from personal experience. I got way too much of a high from having my ideas glazed.
Sorry, I suppose everyone has to reach the point of disillusionment with LLMs on their own terms. I'm being unnecessarily vociferous about it and making assumptions, my apologies.
Skulldrinker
25d ago
Get on the peptides.
Skulldrinker
25d ago
The bulk writing IS the writing. If you don't/can't enjoy the act of writing, you shouldn't be writing. I'm serious.
What you're going to get is an abomination that the AI will tell you is a masterpiece and should be shopped around to major publishers and will totally get optioned for a film adaptation, because every line is Chef's Kiss.
The only "legit" use of AI for writing fiction is personal (and ephemeral) use, so basically jerk-off material that will never be seen by any human other than you.
Skulldrinker
25d ago
What you're trying to do is bad and you shouldn't do it. Accept that you must either get better at writing, write at your current level of skill, or not write, not everyone is meant to be a writer and that's okay.
I've tried using an LLM as an editor for writing fiction and RPG adventures. It's bad at it.
Skulldrinker
27d ago
Ayn Rand?
Skulldrinker
27d ago
The film is a much better film than the book is a book, I agree that the prose is a bit Smug 2012 Redditor.
Skulldrinker
27d ago
It's full of good fantasy/sci-fi ideas and even though it's a bit ra-ra-workers-of-the-world-unite, it's well-presented/justified. You can skip everything else by that (obnoxious commie) author, but PSS is worth having read.
What I try to do these days when judging the worldview or ideology of a story is, rather than evaluating it on how much I agree with that ideology or not, I evaluate on how good a case the story makes for its ideology in the context of its own world.
Skulldrinker
29d ago
I liked the Vitiligo forming the domino mark on her face, and I'm just not attached to the canonical race of marvel E-listers. I'll save my ire for Black Aragorn.
I think a lot of the millennial dating discourse you/we personally encountered was in the nerdy/educated liberal social scene, due to IRL filters and the internet at the time being full of nerdier/educated people and the online media being liberal. There was this collective front of women writing blogs who maintained the narrative that women only want Nice guys (who are feminist), and any guy who can't get laid is insufficiently feminist and also not an actual Nice Guy but in fact a Nice guy, also something-something-male-gaze, frat party rape, wage gap, et cetera.
These days the internet is much trashier, and the ideological messaging has drifted to "must be a frothing leftist to fuck me", while lowest-common-denominatir women have let slip that actually they just want CEOs with abs. Liberal Feminism just doesn't have a monopoly on dating discourse anymore.
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