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PaperclipPerfector  1d ago (text post)   1156 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 18, 2026

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You (least) favorite thot has launched a new site where you rate people's photographs, and it determines who you are attracted to. I rated enough pictures to get a detailed profile and it's not surprising at all. What was surprising is how many women it showed me were fat, trans and/or had septum piercings. And that were, I assume, their most flattering pictures.

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This needs a "not interested in either" So many of these I feel forced to chose between two horrible options.

I think that's kinda the point. There's no alpha in showing you obvious choices (other than to keep you engaged or to calibrate new images), I think it often deliberately tries to pick two photos that have a similar preference rate, but differ along a different axis, like age or BMI or basedness. So sometimes you get one of these "would you rather have sex with a dog that is alive or dead" choices in picture format.

I'm enjoying the political face one, I have like an 86% success rate with guessing the more leftist woman by picture. Sometimes its hard to determine which one is the MOST leftist though.

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