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2024.05.22 05:13 Junk-Sequence--- 42F looking for people to vibe with

Hello, just posting to see if anyone wants to chat for a bit and see if we hit it off to possibly be friends. Happy to talk about whatever with whomever, just be an adult and don't come with the NSFW.
If you think we've chatted before and it fizzled for whatever reason, feel free to ping me again if you want to. It's kind of hard to keep up especially with time zones and if one is trying to chat with multiple people so if I didn't reply to you, it probably wasn't anything personal.
I've got the usual types of hobbies. I like comedy, horror, bad movies, good movies, reading, writing. Trying to improve myself and all that jazz.
You can tell m about an annoying problem you're having, a piece of media's that's really blown you away in the last year or five, a conspiracy theory, whatever.
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2024.05.22 05:08 lnArcadiaEgo 24 Australian looking for mates from anywhere to chat with

I usually keep to myself so thought I'd get out of my comfort zone where I'm usually brooding and see if I can find some mates I may be able to do it with. Anyways my name is Eren I'm born and raised in Australia in Victoria and have travelled a bit for work but would like to travel a bit more freely before I get old and see some more of the world. Also I don't mind the company male or female of anyone who messages since this is just going to be platonic anyways.
So some of the stuff I'm into are Gaming on pc, recently some of those things have been Helldivers 2, Darktide, Destiny, Cyberpunk and Monster hunter
I also enjoy drawing and do some rough sketches, anime, anything horror, philosophy and poetry so feel free to ask me your deeper questions. I also used to do HEMA sword fighting but work usually gets in the way of that.
Anyways I've left some hobbies out or left some vague so it could be a topic to talk about but if any of this sounds interesting then feel free to send a message and I'll be looking forward to having a chat.
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2024.05.22 05:04 sunn_vaeide 22 [F4F] Asia/Online - Nerdy Asian looking for friendship maybe more

Hello! Like most other people here I am trying to make so friends though if things go a different direction I'm open to the idea of a relationship but friendship is the priority. Ideally something long term not just for a short chat or anything. I want to meet people who like to vc as well, on discord specifically, and if you play games on pc that is even better! But anyways on to me :p
I am Japanese born and raised however due to certain world events I am located in Poland temporarily before I go back to Japan but anyways! When I have time to myself I spend a lot of it online, not much of a social butterfly, but still I want to meet some people to keep my company in my free, maybe play with, and voice chat with since I far better at speaking than writing 😅
You could call me a pretty massive nerd and also kind of antisocial, outside of work at least, though if I am drinking a bit I warm up a little easier :p I love anything to with games, tech, and science. I guess I sort of collect games, I have over 600+ games on steam. If you want more specifics I mostly play strategy, 4X, simulators, and FPS's. Recently most of my time has been taken up by Squad, Assetto Corsa, Gray Zone Warfare, and Helldivers!
If games are not your thing though that is okay too! I love the outdoors too and working out. Snowboarding, surfing, and spearfishing are some of the things I like to do whenever I can get myself outside of the house though of course cannot really do many of those things here in Poland at the moment 😅.
I am active military as well though currently working voluntarily with the international legion teaching paramedics and combat medics. So if you are also feel free to say hi as well! always cool meeting others in the same career as me.
But of course I am much more comfy just sitting in my room playing games, watching, anime, or reading so that is where you will most often find me. I love talking about anything really especially learning about other people and how it is where they live.
If any of this sounded interesting to you feel free to message me, and of course please actually tell me something about yourself, "Hi" or "Hey" does not really tell me much about you. Also Reddit sort of hates me and does not give me notifications so if I am slow to respond so sorry! But anyways have a good day/evening!
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2024.05.22 04:43 Business-Break-8668 Trade

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2024.05.22 04:32 Patleibs Am I showing signs of D.I.D/OSDD?

Hello, I have been looking everywhere for somewhere to post this because I wanted more opinions, so this is my first time here. I’ve been having some symptoms going on for almost a year now. I was wondering if people on here could help me & I didn’t get any objections to this idea from my other friends, so here we go.
About last year I was talking to a friend who I’m no longer in contact with about some childhood stories, my first day in preschool, a hospital trip, and something that happened during middle school where I heard some sort of very faint voice in my head that didn’t sound exactly like me (I talked to my therapist about it, she suggested it was probably a depression voice since I was hearing thoughts as if I was overthinking or having anxiety.) All three times I started to feel incredibly zoned out, feverish, & it was hard to think. It felt very intense and I’m unsure why, a few days later I was with some friends on VR Chat, I start complaining about how I feel like I’m dreaming, and my friend asks if I’m dissociating, I ask them to clarify if feeling like you’re dreaming can count as dissociation, and they said yes to an extent, I ask my other friends who experience dissociation a lot and they say yes overall.
A few days after that, me and my family go somewhere for my dad’s birthday, it went fine but my mom started talking to me about how I always had a high pain tolerance since I was younger, while we’re eating she asked me if something in my childhood felt normal to me (I won't specify what it was, but it was something medical related to helping me eat) I said yes, so this and my friend asking if I was dissociating made me want to talk to my therapist about it both dissociation and my childhood.
I had a therapy appointment shortly after that and I ask my therapist what counts as dissociation (my other friends have explained it to me, I just never thought to myself “hey I feel like that a lot.”) and she explained to me what does count as dissociation and then I realize “hey I’ve felt like this a lot, maybe even every other day.” I ask her if next time we can talk more about my childhood since I was in and out of hospitals a lot and experienced a lot of other things related to that, and she says yes.
Around now is when I start feeling a pressure in my head a lot, or just a slight pushing feeling in my head feeling like somethings pushing my forehead forward, that or something trying to pull me away.
Next appointment we talk more about my childhood and some other things like middle school, and dissociation, and how I probably do have a lower level of trauma mostly revolving around my medical history, (I don’t recall any abuse or yelling besides my father grabbing my arm sometimes and raising his voice a good amount, he’s better now, just issues with tone.) Like I said earlier I will not specify what it is entirely but up till I was around 3-4 I was horribly sick, vomited a bunch, and had needles poked in me a lot for blood draws, needed a good amount of surgery, was constantly severely swollen most of the time, & suffered a lot of severe pneumonia (though I was still in and out of the hospital a bit till up to 5-6 I believe.)
More context is that I’m in a smallish sized friend group (more than 7-8 people at least.) About 3 people of them were systems, at this point, all 3 said systems told me they suspected me being a system and have been saying a lot of the symptoms seem very suspicious, & my descriptions sound similar to their experiences before they themselves found out they were systems, another 2 systems joined our group later on and they thought the same thing, so that’s 5.
Sometimes when I wake up, I do hear something like “Hey (my name).” quite often (when I hear things it also seems most common when I’m with friends.) I start feeling like I’m losing control of my body, sometimes (an example is I remember playing another game and suddenly I felt incredibly zoned out and I had to “hold on” Is how I’d put it.) Very rarely I do hear things during the day even now (though I thought I’ve been hearing my name get called down as I mentioned earlier, hearing things more commonly I feel like when I’m around others, when nobody did call me in reality, or in a call I hear someone in my head speak sometimes I’ve felt like.) another example is when I was in a voice chat on Discord with my other friends and we were all jokingly arguing about how Maria was said and I swear I heard a faint “Mari-uh.”
There’s not much else, besides constantly feeling a bit disconnected from reality, my therapist doesn’t know too much about the topic of dissociation unfortunately so she can’t be too reliable, my family is trying to look for a psychologist for me, here are some other notes.
-I am genderfluid, sometimes it feels like when I shift genders I feel like my head is melting and there’s a bunch of pressure on it - when I change genders sometimes it feels like it’s triggered by looking at other certain characters from other media (for an example, one makes me feel masculine, one makes me feel feminine, and one makes me feel non binary.)
-Talking to other systems most times triggers my head to flare up, most of the time feeling like something is sitting there (my other friends have suggested it is dissociative barriers.)
I have tried talking to “Maria” a bunch of times before, but it seems more responsive to other people (people saying “hello maria” jokingly, other systems speaking, etc, & flares up at things like me being mean lightheartedly towards my friends, talking to certain other friends, & sometimes when I’m around my dad the pain/pushing feeling flares up.)
-I am very likely autistic, if that is important.
-I have been having elevated blood pressure for over two years now (my therapist has suggested it might be why some symptoms are happening, though I have been on a light dose of medication for a bit, soon to move to a higher dose.)
-I have maybe heard voices when I was younger than 8 though I only feel like that has happened, I’m not too sure about the memory itself.
-I am pretty sure I remember a few instances where I was younger and I have randomly blacked out (mainly during dangerous situations) to wake up somewhere completely different, I have also shut down a lot mentally when I was young and zoned out a bunch - though it is probably due to a bunch of sensory overloads but still thought I’d mention it.
Forever I’ve felt like I’ve gotten these short, small rushing feelings in my head, like something is rushing towards the front of my head (sometimes my vision gets a bit blurry) the short moments of that rushing feeling might’ve been spiking up with how often it has been happening lately.
-Another friend who is a system has suggested things could be active at night because other alters could be feeling safer at that time.
-While I did say "Maria" is more responsive to others rather than me, the pain does sometimes go away when I type out "Please make my head stop hurting" or if I ask for my head to stop hurting. It seems more consistent when I type it out rather than saying it aloud, and if it does work, then I feel like I zone back in a little, even if I didn't feel too zoned out to begin with. It feels more consistent if I use name “Maria” or sometimes other names too.
-I have spoken to my therapist about how my memory of my childhood feels jumbled, as if I can only remember random certain events and small pieces, it still feels like a lot of my memory is missing (an example would be I cannot remember 2nd-4th grade for the most part.) Though my therapist did say missing gaps like that was normal but I’m still not sure.
-If my age is important, I am a 19.
-I’ve always felt a small struggle with who I am as a person, or my identity (I am able to say I am myself, but I’ve always felt a slight struggle at the same time, or I guess an off feeling when seeing myself in a mirror.)
-Sometimes it feels like I’m able to change my emotions as if it’s on command, I’d be breaking down terribly and sometimes I can snap myself into feeling mostly okay, though I am unsure If this is just me repressing those emotions or not.
-The head pain or pushing/pulling feeling in my head sometimes starts when I wake up and is pretty bad for a while.
-Sometimes the pain or pushing/pulling feeling goes away when I'm around others or outside.
I am aware nobody on here can diagnose me as none of you are likely a professional, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to get secondary opinions. I believe that’s all, I just want more opinions. Whoever has read this and made it this far, thank you and please put your own input if you have any thoughts. I am aware I should get a professional for this kind of thing but as I said earlier, my family is currently looking for a psychologist for me, and my therapist doesn’t know too much about these things unfortunately, so I just want more opinions on it to see if I can get more help.
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2024.05.22 04:14 Lorathexplora13 30sF looking for Fortnite players to join my Fortnite discord server

Hello! We are a small group so far but I’m looking to expand our server and find more players to add to the melting pot đŸ„° our server is 18+, open to all genders, and will accept no mic players as well! The goal of the server is to find people who are interested in team based game play, and people who are supportive to others. The server has a range of OGs to newer players. Since my goal is to add positive supportive players I would like to chat/ play a few first, you can start with messaging me age, time zone and how often you like to play fortnite . New season in a few days, will be nice to start with some new friends
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2024.05.22 04:08 TheMintyLeaf Should I have more faith in my company, or leave?

I work for a high-rep company that everyone competes for and I am lucky to start off from right after college. My pay went from 60k to 65k, to now 69k. I have been here almost 3 years. I am still a meekly analyst and since it is a large company, they do 1 promotion per team each year. According to my manager, I excel at many things but my coworkers got promoted each year due to slight seniority by a few months. I am now next in line for promotion, according to my manager, so he told me to keep doing what I am doing.
1 of my promoted coworkers left awhile back for a better opportunity. Before he left, he told me with wide eyes that his new position offered WAY MORE pay and we are not being paid enough to do what we do. As of right now my other promoted coworker is considered an "associate" and told me her pay is 70k. Meanwhile, we had new hires coming in, all associates. I'm the only one who's still "entry level", yet.......I manage everyone's work and projects (besides the other promoted associate). It has been over a year now and I am still holding hands with everyone. One person particularly sucks so bad at his job, he ask me for help and takes all the credit. But since he was originally so bad, everyone knows this by now that every time he turns in something, he did not do it on his own.
Several times I have met with my manager with frustration and near tears that I have done NOTHING because of one guy. I used to love the job too until this guy came along to 1) throw my name under the bus any chance he gets to make himself look good and 2) ask me privately for help but then takes credit and makes me sound dumb on group chats. All his attempts failed miserable and my manager knows the truth, but I'm still tired of the fake attacks and consistent hand holdings. And I cannot just say no because I'm the only SME here for particular topics.
I currently lead 3 team projects and work out of normal hours to meet with people from different time zones. No one else seems to care enough to do so (except the current promoted associated but she is an SME in a different topic and handles different tasks from me). Everyone else does the bare minimum. They dont care enough to understand the concept behind their tasks fully. Basically, I am Google to everyone, yet I am just a meekly analyst.
I have started applying to other jobs internally and externally. So far some internal jobs denied me :(. I really love this company AND PEOPLE FIGHT FOR THIS REPUTATION. But idk if I should leave or stick around to build myself up here.
I had a call from an external recruiter and he asked how much I am being paid now and LAUGHED at my 69k. He was shock that such a high reputable company pays me so low. I am currently applying for a 108k job that he thinks I'm a fit. No interviews has happened yet, so I'm not going to say this job will be it (especially since I just got rejected a few times already with the same salary range :( ).
Idk if I am making enough or have high expectations. All I know is I used to love the job that I do but people are tiring me out. I love the company still and would like to stay.....but if we're all sacrificing pay for reputation, then idk. Espexially since next promotion is around 70-80k.
What do you think? Stick it out or no?
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2024.05.22 03:57 JonnyBlee Want to make a ranked team??

Looking for some people to run some ranked with, & make a consistent schedule to play!
Heres a few things about how i play:
lets chat
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2024.05.22 02:59 ThatGuyDownTheStreet 31 [M4F] - US/Online - Gaming, music, and movies together?

Heya! I'm looking for that someone who's excited to hear from me and I'm excited to hear from, someone I can talk to casually and be good friends with and also tell lots of sweet nothings to and build a forever relationship.
I just recently turned 31 and started a new job last year that I moved for, the job has the option for relocation eventually but I'm probably stuck where I'm currently at for about 4-5 years. My primary hobby is gaming. I play lots of different games but my most frequented games are probably ARPGs, but I'm playing an old MMO right now too. I'm open to playing most any co-op game and I'm always open to suggestions. I love listening to music and I'm almost always listening to something, my music tastes vary quite drastically but my favourite genres are trance, house, I love indie/folk rock, liquid drum and bass, and really most anything. Not the biggest rap fan, but I'll listen to it occasionally depending on the mood I'm in. Some of my favourite artists are Tinlicker, Above & Beyond, Porter Robinson, Young the Giant, The Strokes, Glass Animals, I've recently been listening to a bunch of Post Malone, Of Monsters and Men, Foster the People, Two Door Cinema Club, Phoenix, a youtube channel called MrSuicideSheep that makes tons of mixes and probably a lot of other stuff I can't think of right now. As the summer approaches I'm looking at going out and doing a bit more camping in the area I live in and I'm thinking about investing into a telescope I can take out on the go and look at the different stars, galaxies, and whatever else the night sky has to offer. I have a pretty open mind and am willing to try most things at least once. I love lots of other nerdy things too, my favourite movie series are any of the studio ghibli films, Spirited Away specifically being probably my number one. I've played DnD a number of times and always have fun doing it, I love board games and other tabletop experiences with friends when I can get together with people! I'm open to calls occasionally, online movie dates, just hanging out and enjoying each others company while we either do something together or are just around one another really whatever happens! I'm pretty flexible.
I'm looking forward to hearing from whoever, you don't have to be in the same time zone or anything, although I am in MST! Let me know your favourite pokemon, mine is Jigglypuff. Here's a few pictures of me, you don't have to send a picture right away but I'd love to see who I'm chatting with eventually. https://imgur.com/a/fHDaN58
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2024.05.22 02:13 iLuvDarkHumor 25[M4F] #NJ/Online - I don't even know what i'm looking for at this point

Nowadays, I am trying out things to find my forever hobby. I made mead and it turned out pretty good for a first timer in my opinion.
I am so excited bcs summer is almost here and i can finally go to garage sales. I LOVE Garage Sales and Thrift Shops because you never know what you can find. If you do as well, please send me your best find.
I have also decided that I want to learn Latin so if anyone speaks Latin, i'd appreciate any advice.
Couple of my interests:
-Metal, rock, house kinda music
-Anime, movies, and shitty reality tv shows (Kitchen nightmares, 90 day fiance, my 600lb life, extreme cheapskates etc.)
-For anime genre; isekai, action, or anything with magic basically
-Recently started reading manga&manhwa. My first manhwa was solo leveling and it was the best (still couldn't find anything as good as that).
-I like photography as in, i basically take pics of anything i like (it is usually buildings, nature, or anything i think it looks cool).
-I also love Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, Star Wars (recently started).
-I love random photo trade like things you took pics of, random junks you found at a store etc etc.
-I have weird curiosities like how do wizards make galleons in Harry Potter? (I know they work but how does that economy run etc.)
-I have a small humanmade skull collection such as skull rings, candles, globe etc.
I know my profile looks like NSFW but i got that when r4r went NSFW for a while and i was posting so thats why.
I live in EST time zone so similar time zones would be better.
Please send a chat request with introducing yourself a little.
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2024.05.22 02:12 iLuvDarkHumor 25 EST "If my Grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike"

Nowadays, I am trying out things to find my forever hobby. I made mead and it turned out pretty good for a first timer in my opinion.
I am so excited bcs summer is almost here and i can finally go to garage sales. I LOVE Garage Sales and Thrift Shops because you never know what you can find. If you do as well, please send me your best find.
I have also decided that I want to learn Latin so if anyone speaks Latin, i'd appreciate any advice.
So my interests are:
I love metal, rock, house kinda music
I also love anime, movies, and shitty reality tv shows
I love isekai genre animes or anything with magic/fantasy
Just recently started reading manga&manhwa
I watched couple of shitty reality shows as well
Like Kitchen Nightmares, 90 day fiance, my 600lbs life, extreme cheapskates etc.
I also love Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, Star Wars (recently started).
I have weird curiosities like how do wizards make money in Harry Potter?
I also love photography as in, i basically take pics of anything.
Fun fact about me, i'm obsessed with skulls. I just love skull rings and other things. (Not human or animal skulls)
I live in EST time zone so similar time zones would be better.
Please send a chat request with introducing yourself a little
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2024.05.22 02:12 iLuvDarkHumor 25M “There’s enough garlic in here to kill every vampire in Europe."

Nowadays, I am trying out things to find my forever hobby. I made mead and it turned out pretty good for a first timer in my opinion.
I am so excited bcs summer is almost here and i can finally go to garage sales. I LOVE Garage Sales and Thrift Shops because you never know what you can find. If you do as well, please send me your best find.
I have also decided that I want to learn Latin so if anyone speaks Latin, i'd appreciate any advice.
So my interests are:
I love metal, rock, house kinda music
I also love anime, movies, and shitty reality tv shows
I love isekai genre animes or anything with magic/fantasy
Just recently started reading manga&manhwa
I watched couple of shitty reality shows as well
Like Kitchen Nightmares, 90 day fiance, my 600lbs life, extreme cheapskates etc.
I also love Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, Star Wars (recently started).
I have weird curiosities like how do wizards make money in Harry Potter?
I also love photography as in, i basically take pics of anything.
Fun fact about me, i'm obsessed with skulls. I just love skull rings and other things. (Not human or animal skulls)
I live in EST time zone so similar time zones would be better.
Please send a chat request with introducing yourself a little
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2024.05.22 02:12 iLuvDarkHumor [25/M] “This lamb is so undercooked, it’s following Mary to school!”

Nowadays, I am trying out things to find my forever hobby. I made mead and it turned out pretty good for a first timer in my opinion.
I am so excited bcs summer is almost here and i can finally go to garage sales. I LOVE Garage Sales and Thrift Shops because you never know what you can find. If you do as well, please send me your best find.
I have also decided that I want to learn Latin so if anyone speaks Latin, i'd appreciate any advice.
So my interests are:
I love metal, rock, house kinda music
I also love anime, movies, and shitty reality tv shows
I love isekai genre animes or anything with magic/fantasy
Just recently started reading manga&manhwa
I watched couple of shitty reality shows as well
Like Kitchen Nightmares, 90 day fiance, my 600lbs life, extreme cheapskates etc.
I also love Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, Star Wars (recently started).
I have weird curiosities like how do wizards make money in Harry Potter?
I also love photography as in, i basically take pics of anything.
Fun fact about me, i'm obsessed with skulls. I just love skull rings and other things. (Not human or animal skulls)
I live in EST time zone so similar time zones would be better.
Please send a chat request with introducing yourself a little
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2024.05.22 02:12 iLuvDarkHumor [25/M] “You put so much ginger in this, it’s a Weasley.”

Nowadays, I am trying out things to find my forever hobby. I made mead and it turned out pretty good for a first timer in my opinion.
I am so excited bcs summer is almost here and i can finally go to garage sales. I LOVE Garage Sales and Thrift Shops because you never know what you can find. If you do as well, please send me your best find.
I have also decided that I want to learn Latin so if anyone speaks Latin, i'd appreciate any advice.
So my interests are:
I love metal, rock, house kinda music
I also love anime, movies, and shitty reality tv shows
I love isekai genre animes or anything with magic/fantasy
Just recently started reading manga&manhwa
I watched couple of shitty reality shows as well
Like Kitchen Nightmares, 90 day fiance, my 600lbs life, extreme cheapskates etc.
I also love Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, Star Wars (recently started).
I have weird curiosities like how do wizards make money in Harry Potter?
I also love photography as in, i basically take pics of anything.
Fun fact about me, i'm obsessed with skulls. I just love skull rings and other things. (Not human or animal skulls)
I live in EST time zone so similar time zones would be better.
Please send a chat request with introducing yourself a little
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2024.05.22 02:12 iLuvDarkHumor [25/M] Looking for friends so lets give this a try again

Nowadays, I am trying out things to find my forever hobby. I made mead and it turned out pretty good for a first timer in my opinion.
I am so excited bcs summer is almost here and i can finally go to garage sales. I LOVE Garage Sales and Thrift Shops because you never know what you can find. If you do as well, please send me your best find.
I have also decided that I want to learn Latin so if anyone speaks Latin, i'd appreciate any advice.
So my interests are:
I love metal, rock, house kinda music
I also love anime, movies, and shitty reality tv shows
I love isekai genre animes or anything with magic/fantasy
Just recently started reading manga&manhwa
I watched couple of shitty reality shows as well
Like Kitchen Nightmares, 90 day fiance, my 600lbs life, extreme cheapskates etc.
I also love Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, Star Wars (recently started).
I have weird curiosities like how do wizards make money in Harry Potter?
I also love photography as in, i basically take pics of anything.
Fun fact about me, i'm obsessed with skulls. I just love skull rings and other things. (Not human or animal skulls)
I live in EST time zone so similar time zones would be better.
Please send a chat request with introducing yourself a little
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2024.05.22 02:12 iLuvDarkHumor 25M4F "The Freshest Thing In This Kitchen Is That Pigeon."

Nowadays, I am trying out things to find my forever hobby. I made mead and it turned out pretty good for a first timer in my opinion.
I am so excited bcs summer is almost here and i can finally go to garage sales. I LOVE Garage Sales and Thrift Shops because you never know what you can find. If you do as well, please send me your best find.
I have also decided that I want to learn Latin so if anyone speaks Latin, i'd appreciate any advice.
So my interests are:
I love metal, rock, house kinda music
I also love anime, movies, and shitty reality tv shows
I love isekai genre animes or anything with magic/fantasy
Just recently started reading manga&manhwa
I watched couple of shitty reality shows as well
Like Kitchen Nightmares, 90 day fiance, my 600lbs life, extreme cheapskates etc.
I also love Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, Star Wars (recently started).
I have weird curiosities like how do wizards make money in Harry Potter?
I also love photography as in, i basically take pics of anything.
Fun fact about me, i'm obsessed with skulls. I just love skull rings and other things. (Not human or animal skulls)
I live in EST time zone so similar time zones would be better.
Please send a chat request with introducing yourself a little
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2024.05.22 02:12 iLuvDarkHumor [Friendship] 25M "You Cook Like Old People F--k"

Nowadays, I am trying out things to find my forever hobby. I made mead and it turned out pretty good for a first timer in my opinion.
I am so excited bcs summer is almost here and i can finally go to garage sales. I LOVE Garage Sales and Thrift Shops because you never know what you can find. If you do as well, please send me your best find.
I have also decided that I want to learn Latin so if anyone speaks Latin, i'd appreciate any advice.
So my interests are:
I love metal, rock, house kinda music
I also love anime, movies, and shitty reality tv shows
I love isekai genre animes or anything with magic/fantasy
Just recently started reading manga&manhwa
I watched couple of shitty reality shows as well
Like Kitchen Nightmares, 90 day fiance, my 600lbs life, extreme cheapskates etc.
I also love Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, Star Wars (recently started).
I have weird curiosities like how do wizards make money in Harry Potter?
I also love photography as in, i basically take pics of anything.
Fun fact about me, i'm obsessed with skulls. I just love skull rings and other things. (Not human or animal skulls)
I live in EST time zone so similar time zones would be better.
Please send a chat request with introducing yourself a little
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2024.05.22 01:57 cosmickaylaa 23/F Looking for fellow lonely folks

Hey there, my name is Kayla! I have had far too much free time recently, and the summer is also looking pretty sparse in terms of social interaction. I've been struggling pretty badly with loneliness after the end of a 3 year relationship, so having some new people around to talk with would be pretty exciting! Ideally, you would at least be in the same or similar time zone (EST) to make communication easier, but it is not a necessity. Here's a little to know about me: I enjoy texting throughout the day with the occasional voice chat throughout the week, my favorite food recently is asparagus, I have lots of random trinkets, I will send you LOTS of links (Youtube, Spotify, TikTok), and I'm always down to talk about whatever is interesting to you or I at the moment. I just graduated with my associates degree in human services in December, and will be beginning my bachelors in psychology and neuroscience in the fall, so bonus points if you're interested in those fields. I have compiled a few bullet points including a few of my general interests and music taste below.
Interests
Music taste (general)
If you made it this far and think we'll hit it off, go ahead and shoot me a message. We all know that reddit chat sucks, so feel free to ask for my discord or snapchat. Let me know something interesting or send me a song... it's very much appreciated!
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2024.05.22 01:48 Vegetable-Ear-9731 When And How Did Content Creation Change?

Something I was thinking about when I watched the final moments of the most recent EFAP was Mauler’s observation that the internet content creator landscape used to be different when AVGN clones ruled Youtube and his question of how that shifted into video essayists and commentary channels. I thought about that for a while and I thought of some reasons why the landscape changed that I would like to share.
Managers
Something that people might not be aware of is how many Youtubers have people managing their content in the form of things like setting up brand deals and other services that I am not familiar with. Some of them are very public about what they do, some of them are more private. The important thing is how managers worked in the past.
One thing that I liked about Machinima, ScrewAttack, and Channel Awesome that the creators probably didn’t like is that they forced the older creators to stick to a set schedule of uploads and some of them forced creators to follow a set formula. This meant that the manager would make sure that if a creator uploaded a video every Friday at 2pm, they would have an upload every single Friday at 2pm.
How would this work if the creator wanted to take a week off? Well, the creator would have to have a video to upload in advance. What if the creator wanted to spend 3 weeks on a super-duper big video? Well, they could absolutely do that, but it would be a passion project and they’d still have to follow the set schedule for regular uploads.
This created a content landscape that I actually enjoyed a lot as a consumer because it’s probably the way it should be for reviewers. Every week, or every day in rare cases, a movie reviewer would need to review a different movie, which meant that a reviewer might have to force themselves to sit through a movie they don’t want to see like Fifty Shades Of Grey to give it a chance to subvert their expectations and earn a glowing review, or dig deep to find a new indie movie to review to fill that quota if they really didn’t want to sit through Fifty Shades Of Grey.
The promise of Patreon and creators becoming more independent was that creators would exclusively make videos on topics they wanted to do, but I personally think that was the wrong way to go. I’ve maintained a position that I prefer it when content creators are encouraged, or even forced, to talk about things that they don’t want to talk about because oftentimes that’s when reviewers are most interesting. Some of my favorite Roger Ebert reviews were when he reviewed a children’s movie like Space Jam or Pokemon: The First Movie, and some of my favorite Zero Punctuation reviews are when he has to pick out a random indie game and commit to reviewing it regardless of what the indie game turned out to be, like when he reviewed Hell Pie.
What I think has happened is that the lack of managers has encouraged content creators to upload whatever they want, whenever they want, which has usually translated to videos about ‘easy’ topics, like videos about Disney movies, being uploaded weeks, or even months, apart, which has made the content creation landscape, at least for reviewers, a lot less interesting, and a lot less engaging.
It’s actually one of the reasons why EFAP has been losing my interest lately, because although they upload a stream every week the topics they choose are generally ‘easy’ topics because I genuinely think the hosts don’t have the ability to make an EFAP on something more obscure, or even just ‘difficult’ like Baby Reindeer, very interesting, or they just won’t do streams on those topics because, as Rags said: “This is our show, and we can do whatever the fuck we want.”
Honestly, my hot take is that I liked you better when you couldn’t do whatever the fuck you wanted all of the time. In fact, one of my favorite Rags moments on EFAP was when he clearly didn’t want to be involved with the debate with Twin Perfect.
Sponsors
I remember the Adpocalypse and how Youtubers transitioned to sponsors over relying heavily on ad-revenue. What that event transpired into is that audiences were far more accepting of basically any form of making money that Youtubers would use. Patreon became a very dominant part of Youtube, but sponsors also became extremely common and audiences would even cheer in the comment sections when creators would have their first Raid: Shadow Legends sponsorship.
Sponsors are what I want to talk about because I have seen Youtubers show that they have a bunch of videos on their computer that they simply aren’t releasing to the public because they don’t want to upload a single video without a sponsor on their main channel, as well as Youtubers having a second channel where they upload ‘slop’ content without sponsors that most of their audience is usually unaware of or isn’t interested in.
The problem is that the appeal for pretty much all content on Youtube is the personalities of the people creating the content, which is less about the actual personalities and more like “That’s an actual person doing what they actually want to do, that’s so cool,” but that is usually undercut by the presence of sponsors. The fact that Youtubers will sit on a video they made and not upload it unless they can get a sponsor to pay for it always seemed strange to me, especially for Youtubers where the image they present is “I’m just a normal, chill guy who makes Youtube videos for fun,” which needs the caveat of “Uhhhh, I’m actually really poor and if I don’t take this BetterHelp sponsor I can’t afford my rent this month. Please understand, I’m barely making any money on Youtube,” when a sponsor is included in the video.
As weird as this sounds, there are communities of creatives online that don’t expect to ever make any money putting hours, days, weeks, months, and years of work into a project. There are modding communities, bloggers, game developers, fanfiction writers, and artists that only want comments saying “You did a good job,” and Youtubers used to be that way, or they used to present themselves that way before sponsors became as common as they are now.
I don’t say this often enough, but I remember when Youtubers would make videos about not just random pictures on Deviantart, but on fanfictions and pornographic videos. They’d do those videos for things like clout, which is something that I don’t see too often on Youtube.
People might say that there are a bunch of Youtubers that talk about obscure media and Youtubers that make things without any expectation of earning money, which I say “Well, yeah, but that’s not what I’m talking about,” and then I’d point to things like AVGN’s Atari Porn video, and old videos where commentary Youtubers would branch out from their niche to say “Hey, just for fun, we’re going to check out this weird fanfiction story,” or how Yahtzee would include fun projects he created at the end of his Zero Punctuation videos, like how he’d dub over scenes in video games like Half-Life and Painkiller, or how he made a slideshow with Garry’s Mod that depicted a love story between Heavy and Medic.
What I’m saying is that a large part of what made Youtube fun was that not every video from an established creator with 100k subscribers needed to be monetized, or even created with the expectation of being successful or well-received by the community. There was a time when the expectations people had for, say, Jim Sterling was for a high-quality Jimquisition video to be produced and uploaded to the main channel once a week, and for the other days to feature a minimally-edited video where he showed himself trying out a game or reacting to a trailer on his main channel.
In the past I said that I would like it if EFAP would talk about comments and read fanfictions on-stream and I was mocked for it, but I stand by that statement because, although EFAP clearly doesn’t want to do it regularly, when they do read comments on-stream it tends to result in some of the best content because it showcases a side to them that I like. Instead of being totally normal dudes talking to each other about a movie they saw or reacting to a video, they have to use text-to-speech or read the comment using a silly voice or, well, use just a little bit of creativity when reading those comments out-loud.
What I’m kinda saying is that, yes, I think we all like professionally-produced content, and we all accept that sponsors for videos are necessary. But, like, I don’t like how for most successful Youtubers only the monetizable content, often with sponsors, is presented on the main channel, while the other content doesn’t exist, is uploaded to a secondary channel, or is locked behind some kind of paywall.
It just feels strange that these normal, chill, relatable people have gotten themselves into a position where they can earn real money, in some cases a lot of money, to stand in front of a webcam for 10 minutes talking about their favorite movies, chat with a group of friends, or even just play their favorite video game, and in quite a few cases they won’t do any of those things unless there’s a way to monetize it. Imagine how it looks to say “Well, I can’t talk about this cool fanfiction story I read on my main channel to my audience that enjoys my content about that franchise because I can’t get a sponsor for it.”
I wonder if Rags, a regular host of EFAP, appreciates the irony of him criticizing Chris Stuckmann for advocating that filmmakers “Get as much time and money as possible to make their films in the ideal circumstances and for the process to be easy,” when he’s in the position that he’s in where, on EFAP, he has as much freedom as he wants in the ideal circumstances to make money with EFAP, and it’s easy, yet he still will complain if he’s asked to step out of his comfort zone, even a little bit, on stream.
Insecurity
A while ago I had a theory about Cancel Culture which was that usually Cancel Culture is incredibly exaggerated by the audience of the people being canceled, and that most of the people being canceled are perfectly fine. The go-to example is the poor lady who made a joke about AIDS before going to Africa that got off the flight and got fired from her job due to her joke going viral. What people often don’t mention is that she got fired because it’s a terrible look for the company’s PR person to be involved with such a massive PR disaster, and that she got hired at another company a very short time later. Plus, like, she made a racist joke and people were calling her a racist, it wasn’t like she was targeted for absolutely no reason.
My theory is that people think that Cancel Culture absolutely ruins the lives of celebrities and influencers online because of their intense reactions to being canceled. An early example being Seth Macfarlane, who was mocked for his poorly-received hosting of the Oscars and who seemed incredibly bitter about it, making Cancel Culture a plot point in multiple episodes of Family Guy, talking about how bitter he was about it in interviews for years, and even apparently getting emotional support from his friends and family after the ordeal, even going as far as to ask celebrities to say “I liked what he did and I thought he was hilarious, and very handsome.”
What I’m saying is that I think that in the early days of content creation on Youtube the people making videos were more willing to appear on camera and embarrass themselves, like with Spoony screaming at a big gaming event on camera, because even though they were aware of Cancel Culture being a thing they weren’t going to be reduced to tears by someone saying “You’re totally cringe and annoying,” and even went as far as to incorporate those kinds of comments into their video because it was extremely easy content to create. You probably know what I’m talking about, where a creator would read out “This content creator is SOOOOOOO CRINGE,” in a video in a silly voice which you can’t really do as easily with “OMG, I love your content,” and make it entertaining.
That’s changed a lot today with content creators seeming to project an extreme amount of insecurity in every video they’re a part of, which gets even worse in formats like podcasts. It feels like every commentary creator is a chill dude that isn’t offended by anything and only wants to have a good time talking about things they like because, well, that’s what they need to be to avoid being criticized too severely, but they constantly allude to being a very immature and thin-skinned person that is mainly concerned about earning money, to the point where they’ll say “I’m not even having fun producing content at all.”
In college I remember one of my professors saying: “When you were high school kids you were insecure and weren’t confident in your abilities enough to volunteer when you were asked. You’re adults now, and when you graduate you can’t do that at a real job. Part of growing up is being confident in yourself, and if you don’t want to do that, you can always work in fast food where you never need to grow up, while the other adults in your friend group are becoming doctors and construction workers.”
It’s something that I realized with Youtubers which is that a decent amount of them started their careers young and never had to ‘grow up’ the way that my professor said that we needed to. Even with millions of subscribers you still see a lot of Youtubers struggle to commit to any statement they make, and I hear “I’m just a dumb Youtuber who doesn’t know anything and is stupid and socially-awkward and is fat and smells bad,” too many times from rich and successful people.
The thing is, when you’re a teenager, or you’re in your 20s, that insecurity is charming and relatable because you're trying to find a place in the world and discovering the role that you will fill in society. But, when you’re 30 and your role is “I tell people about the latest internet drama and make references to Spongebob,” or “I talk about Star Wars for hours at a time,” even if you make $2 million every day there’s likely a part of you that says: “I don’t like who I am. I don’t like what I do for a living. Yes, I’m rich, but I don’t like why I’m rich, and I don’t like my audience.”
I think that this insecurity leads to people trying to make their content more ‘mature’, but the way they do it isn’t by presenting themselves as a more confident person, or by making a clear separation between the personality in their content and their actual personality so that they can have a good work/life balance, it’s by creating the same content with very superficially mature elements. So, you end up with the video essayists of the past that gained fame by describing the events of a movie and then giving their opinion on whether they liked or disliked it doing the same thing but with quotes from smart people, like Socrates, and making conclusions like “Some people are gonna like this movie, some people are going to hate it. The important thing is that everyone involved with this movie tried really hard and had fun.”
The thing is, teenagers and 20-year-olds get value from a relatable person that comes across as an insecure loser who is too afraid to take a proper stance on anything to commit to a statement. When someone is actually mature they find more value in someone who is willing to do a good job and defend the job that they did, even if they’re like Neil Breen who thinks they did a good job but clearly did a terrible job. A 20-year-old might declare that Twin Perfect’s debate with EFAP wasn’t embarrassing because he was just being himself or something, but a 40-year-old might not tell Twin Perfect that the debate was embarrassing, but they would no longer respect him, and I imagine a lot of 40-year-olds don’t respect a lot of Youtube video essayists because of how eager they seem to be to engage in self-deprecation.
Conclusion
Despite everything that I’ve said, I do think that the content landscape on Youtube is generally ‘better’ than it was in, say, 2010. We weren’t getting a 4+ hour video by The Little Platoon about Rebel Moon, for instance, in 2010.
What I would compare modern Youtube and classic Youtube to is the 1970s movie scene vs. the 1980s movie scene, which Quentin Tarantino has labeled as “The worst period in movie history,” which the EFAP crew have pushed back on.
The thing is, in the early 80s we got Blade Runner, in the same way that nowadays we got the 4+ hour Little Platoon video, but the theatrical release of that film was famously sabotaged by the company that wanted Harrison Ford to provide voiceovers for the film that ‘ruined’ it, or at least, ruined the ending of the movie.
Throughout the 80s films were made which satisfied audiences more than films from the 70s did because Spielberg was producing hugely successful films that are still highly regarded, but there was also a bunch of shady practices going on and a bunch of notoriously poor studio decisions made in order to appeal to a wide demographic, such as the fiasco with Supergirl and Masters Of The Universe, or changing the ending of Brazil.
In the 1970s we not only got more challenging films, but there was also a thriving independent cinema scene that gave us Death Race 2000, Eraserhead, THX-1138, and Duel. There was also Jaws, Star Wars, and A Clockwork Orange, which were big-budget movies that took serious creative risks that paid off immensely which just wouldn’t happen in the 1980s, or would happen very rarely.
I think that I do prefer Youtube back in, say, 2015-2017 when it seemed like we generally got the best of both worlds, challenging content about a diverse range of subjects with production values comparable to what we have now.
To close this, I would like to include a paraphrased interaction I saw on a podcast featuring a pretty big Youtuber that I think illustrates why Youtube has changed in the way that it has.
Youtuber: Look, I don’t need to work as hard on my videos now because not every video needs to be an event. I just want to take it easy now, pump out a video whenever I feel like it, get paid by the sponsors, and then spend time with my family, is that so wrong?
Host: It kind of is. I know your audience of teenagers will be like “He just wants to spend time with his family, dude, have a heart,” but a lot of Youtubers, especially younger Youtubers look up to you for inspiration. If you’re in that position and your attitude is “I’m going to half-ass every video that I make from now on and if anyone calls my content lazy I’ll use my 8-year-old daughter as a shield against criticism,” that’s the attitude that a lot of young Youtubers are going to have. They’re going to half-ass their content and when criticized, they’re going to find their own excuse, like “I have a kid now,” or “I have to eat,” or something.
Youtuber: That’s not my fault, though. I never asked to be a role model.
Host: That’s not how that works. You don’t get to decide whether or not people look up to you, have expectations of you, and emulate your approach to content creation. You only release 2-3 videos a year, and with your status every video should be a major event, but instead every video is half-assed, as you admitted, and then you use your daughter as an excuse for why you don’t put as much effort into your content as you used to. I think you need to have someone in your life, like a friend, that actually makes you feel some shame for your content and encourages you to do better, rather than your social circle being composed of supportive people like your family and the people who pay you through Patreon.
Host 2: He did have that. He fired him two years ago, remember?
Host: Oh, yeah, you fired your friend, or made him quit, whatever the story was. Did that not make you feel bad at all?
Youtuber: Friendships end, that’s just life.
Host: That’s the attitude that I hate that comes across in your content. You can’t just brush aside everything and bumble through life, except if you’re an internet personality, apparently.
Host 2: It worked for the MCU.
Host: It’s not working for the MCU anymore, though, and it isn’t working as well for this Youtuber. It’s probably going to get worse and when he decides to do more work and make better videos, like he used to do, it’s probably going to be too late, or he’ll need to make really good videos to get the views he once did.
Youtuber: My videos are really good, though.
Host: You admitted to half-assing them.
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2024.05.22 01:38 Next-Onion-2503 31 [M4F] Ontario/Online: Tall Nerdy Cat Dad Seeking Partner

Hey ladies! I’m a tall, nerdy guy looking for an equally nerdy woman to chat with and see what happens. I am open to short or long-term, but I am strictly monogamous. I don’t have kids, and don’t want any of my own. Not religious, either. Very left-leaning politically and open to women of any race. I’m hoping for nightly voice calls, movie nights, things like that. If local, even better! I want to make you smile so much your cheeks hurt, and your heart to flutter. Nothing makes me happier than making a lady giggle!
I value the simple (and nerdy!) things in life, and would rather find my person to spend my life with rather than living a life of comfort and privilege. My dream is to open an animal sanctuary or hobby farm that could double as a human therapy center. I am looking for a long-term, monogamous relationship with a woman within a few years of my age and within a few time zones of EST. Curly hair, freckles or dimples get you to the front of the line! I’ve been having a rough week, so please send me your pet pictures!
For work right now I’m in a volunteer position at a local food bank where I socialize with seniors and the food-insecure and basically serve as a ‘Johnny on the spot’ helping with odd jobs, tech support, stuff like that. I also help with a cat rescue organization where I have fostered cats and do some admin work. I do freelance editing on the side, and would love to have some of my own work published in the future!
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2024.05.22 01:38 Next-Onion-2503 31 [M4F] Ontario/Online: Tall Nerdy Cat Dad Seeking Partner

Hey ladies! I’m a tall, nerdy guy looking for an equally nerdy woman to chat with and see what happens. I am open to short or long-term, but I am strictly monogamous. I don’t have kids, and don’t want any of my own. Not religious, either. Very left-leaning politically and open to women of any race. I’m hoping for nightly voice calls, movie nights, things like that. If local, even better! I want to make you smile so much your cheeks hurt, and your heart to flutter. Nothing makes me happier than making a lady giggle!
I value the simple (and nerdy!) things in life, and would rather find my person to spend my life with rather than living a life of comfort and privilege. My dream is to open an animal sanctuary or hobby farm that could double as a human therapy center. I am looking for a long-term, monogamous relationship with a woman within a few years of my age and within a few time zones of EST. Curly hair, freckles or dimples get you to the front of the line! I’ve been having a rough week, so please send me your pet pictures!
For work right now I’m in a volunteer position at a local food bank where I socialize with seniors and the food-insecure and basically serve as a ‘Johnny on the spot’ helping with odd jobs, tech support, stuff like that. I also help with a cat rescue organization where I have fostered cats and do some admin work. I do freelance editing on the side, and would love to have some of my own work published in the future!
‘Hey’ is for horses!
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2024.05.22 01:38 Next-Onion-2503 31 [M4F] Ontario/Online: Tall Nerdy Cat Dad Seeking Partner

Hey ladies! I’m a tall, nerdy guy looking for an equally nerdy woman to chat with and see what happens. I am open to short or long-term, but I am strictly monogamous. I don’t have kids, and don’t want any of my own. Not religious, either. Very left-leaning politically and open to women of any race. I’m hoping for nightly voice calls, movie nights, things like that. If local, even better! I want to make you smile so much your cheeks hurt, and your heart to flutter. Nothing makes me happier than making a lady giggle!
I value the simple (and nerdy!) things in life, and would rather find my person to spend my life with rather than living a life of comfort and privilege. My dream is to open an animal sanctuary or hobby farm that could double as a human therapy center. I am looking for a long-term, monogamous relationship with a woman within a few years of my age and within a few time zones of EST. Curly hair, freckles or dimples get you to the front of the line! I’ve been having a rough week, so please send me your pet pictures!
For work right now I’m in a volunteer position at a local food bank where I socialize with seniors and the food-insecure and basically serve as a ‘Johnny on the spot’ helping with odd jobs, tech support, stuff like that. I also help with a cat rescue organization where I have fostered cats and do some admin work. I do freelance editing on the side, and would love to have some of my own work published in the future!
‘Hey’ is for horses!
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