My point was that making people feel worse about their situation likely won’t improve the outcome. People either would be happy without a partner or they won’t and those who won’t don’t need an external push to try to find a partner and both groups might feel worse if they are publicly branded a failure for not having a partner.

That only works if you would consider the kind of person who likes to spend time at bars as a potential mate though.

One more reason to consider suburbia a dystopian hellscape.

Unless the person you respond to is trans the fact that they describe themselves as being referred to as a “chinese boy” would suggest that they are likely not a girl.

Might be a good time to downplay the importance of a relationship for a happy life then instead of trying to push the message that your life sucks if you don’t have one.

I think the effect of other societal changes not immediately associated with relationships might be underestimated here too, such as the commercialization of any and all free time activities where one might casually meet people of the preferred gender on a regular basis combined with the limited disposable income. Or (in the US at least) the elimination of sidewalks and other public places where one might encounter people from your own neighborhood outside of a car. More customized media consumption leading to fewer guaranteed shared topics to discuss compared to the time when generally everyone watched the same things on TV and read the same news at a similar time. I could probably come up with other examples but the point is that a lot of things changed that make just meeting people to consider to ask out much more difficult than it used to be a few decades ago.

I sometimes wonder why so many people consider negative effects of porn on relationships obvious while completely disregarding negative effects of romance fiction on relationships (among other things the concept of a soulmate you have to just find and then everything in the relationship is effortless afterwards).

Works fine on PC with an ad blocker and at least there you aren’t relying on YouTube keep any promises.

On the other hand exclusives really just make everyone else who isn’t so easy to manipulate hate your platform.

Name one category of tasks that you would feel confident it can perform with at least a 90% success rate.

So good in fact that apple spawned a whole new category of memes making fun of how badly that works.

I mean they literally came out and said that they hate empathy.

Well, at 2 years it is probably older than at least one other game.

“easily”, I guess console players are used to the pain.

Not sure about Lemmy but I think on Reddit it used to be called 13 or 30, not 14 or 40.

Dwarf Fortress (old style ASCII mode) is a good one after buying a new graphics card.

It has become a sort of tradition for me to play some sort of game that really doesn’t need the performance as the first game on any new computer I get.

Would you rather doom scroll on a device that can’t even run Doom or doom scroll wearing Doctor Doom’s mask?

Maybe but I don’t see that as an argument that will be compelling to many of the less involved parents. Most people don’t even see how their own data can be used to harm them, much less data on how their kids behave in games.

Considering how much control Apple tries to exert over how you use your devices that does seem pretty close to the truth.