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Pogrom brunch

we are so back

the fucking comments are the deeper cognitohazard here, jesus fucking christ

I've never seen a higher percentage of "as a gay/black/latino/muslim" comments

I've been watching Yahtzee's reviews for more than a decade pretty much every week, and that has been literally the only reason I've ever gone to the Escapist website... these guys are toast without him, this time for good

Maybe your experience of dating apps is a reflection of the fact that you're more aware of your own needs and you figured out that dating apps are bad for you, where someone who is more persistent would have continued to persevere despite the negative impacts on them?

I think this makes sense. What makes me feel particularly bad about Tinder is how you were treated as a huge weirdo (at least a couple years back, but still a bit now) if you were not actively swiping away, trying to get laid. I suppose this is a general feeling that I have, as someone with very low libido and who no longer drinks. If you're not drinking and/or fucking, you're doing things wrong.

This is why I said I didn't know whether or not I should be glad that the popularity of Tinder is fading. For me, that's one less expectation that other people put on me (or maybe that's just my own twisted perception). For others, it's probably the end of something that actually brought them positive, meaningful relationships - I have two friends who have married their Tinder dates.

I don't know if I should be glad or not that people are dropping this hell app. To me, Tinder was always a horrible, horrible app, simply radioactive. A swiping session always felt to me like an equal amount of time spent chilling next to the Elephant's Foot in fucking Chernobyl.

I suppose some people knew better than me and were able to use Tinder in a way that did not corrode their sanity. Maybe people with more confidence and self-esteem. To me, though, it was always a horrible thing that did quite a number on my mental health.

"Heard joke once: Woman goes to doctor. Says she's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says she feels all alone in an anti-semitic world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great journalist Eve Fartlow is in town tonight. Go and see her. That should pick you up." Woman bursts into tears."

apparently its training data is twitter, so I'm actually looking forward to it because it'll be very funny when all the elon musk sycophants are surprised by the fact that Grok speaks in Maoist Standard English and calls them a kkkrakkka

I really like Otherworld, listening to spooky stories is always fun, Jack is very respectful of his guests and always does a ton of research

having said that, one of my favorite things about the podcast is that the theme song is an absolute banger

it's "posting" in Greek

phew, good thing I'm 乇乂丅尺卂 丅卄工匚匚 and have butt cells to spare