Unpopular (?) opinion - text/IM systems are asynchronous messaging systems, and in most cases it’s totally reasonable to not immediately jump on your phone and answer a message as soon as you get the notification.
One of my friends is the sort of person who will stop mid sentence when their phone pings so they can answer whatever they’ve been sent and it drives me nuts
Can’t remember the last time I had my phone off silent.
Yeah my phone gets attention when i want, not when it wants.
I have all notifications off for all apps too, i don’t need an app saying hey we haven’t fed you crap for an hour come look
My wife is like that, and it kills me. I might leave your text unread for hours because if it was important, you’d call. I have priorities! Like the next round of Helldivers.
You’d call
Does anyone call these days? Nobody seems to pick up for fuck all.
I’ve received 158 calls in the last 7 days, and not one was a valid call. All spam and fraud.
For some reason I don’t get spam calls. I’m just had to look and the last call I received about anything was on the 18th of February. Where are all my spam calls dammit, I’m missing out.
Do you give your number out to non-mandatory anything?
I have had none in the last month. It’s the magic of not giving my number to anyone who does not absolutely require it.
I feel so disengaged when someone does that to me that I just stop communicating with them in the future
If it’s recently, its probably helldiver’s 2 in which case wait your fucking turn lady! He’s risking his life to spread liberty and force democracy on godless bugs and soulless robots. THESE ARE IMPORTANT THINGS
Rock and stone for me. Also has bugs nad robots, but more capitalist ⛏️
Orrrrrr he has social anxiety and has difficulty replying.
Sincerely, somebody with social anxiety
It could be both… PvP me!
You have my undivided attention… while I queue for the next game.
If you dont know why it takes me 25 minutes to respond, you dont know me well enough to get mad that you are only #2 on my priorities list.
For me it’s not video games, but adequacy. I found out that if I’m tired, I behave like shit and may respond with some gibberish
My wife plays way too many video games at work apparently. Or is this just a guy thing?
Oh I’m busy doing some other aspect of my life. Might possibly be that I’m working, at my job, which by the way was one of your requirements on the dating profile.
Not absolutely everything in my life is about video games.
Wait… some people immediately text back, over and over? Huh.
Yes I will have one round of video games please
25 Minute Civilization rounds are a thing. Just one more round bro
You can tell this if your man starts replying in one minuite, but gets progressively slower and slower until it’s one hour each by the end.
This is what happens when your boobs can no longer distract people from their lives and you have to fall back on your lack of a personality.
Controversial opinion, but actually all most people have to go on is their appearance/perceived wealth. It’s not a female problem though it’s people generally. They’re all completely vacuous. Take away their boobs/abs and they’re dull as fuck.
Or, alternatively, you have difficulty relating to others and so all you notice is their “appearance/perceived wealth”.
No society is to blame. People have been herded into getting excited by products and obsessed with TV shows. There are niches we fit into and we will never admit to thinking anything different than our chosen tribe. If you’ve chosen to be right wing, Jordan Peterson can do no wrong and to kill a mockingbird is trash. If you’re a swiftie, your goddess is absolute. If you’re on the left, Israel is inherently demonic. Etc etc. The price you pay for betraying your tribe is isolation, excommunication, disdain. We’ve bred obedience into the population and sacrificed free will. We’re constantly bombarded by Reddit poss and articles about how we’re supposed to act and what norms are good and which troubling behaviours are red flags.
So we adjust, rework ourselves, refine our personalities until they become acceptable to our chosen audience. I’d love to get to know other people, but the sad fact is that other people don’t want to be known, or have willingly ground down their personality until they’re just one of the cattle.
The games people play when dating is a classic example of this. You present yourself a certain way, you shave the right places, you say the right things. If you play correctly you can win a fleshlight with the right to vote.
I’m not interested in having a sex toy that repeats whatever talking points my chosen masters expect. I am a hairy, sweaty, problematic animal. I want to become close with other wretched creatures who say and do inappropriate shit. I’M NOT INTERESTED IN FUCKING CHAT GPT!
I’m actually thinking about the Roman Empire when this happens.
Me too, but that’s because I’m playing Crusader Kings
Reminds of peep show where David Mitchell injects the Battle of Stalingrad into every other conversation he has with a woman lol
If you want immediate responses, CALL THEM.
Ew. Call? Like on a phone?
Yeah, it’s weird that we’ve relegated this amazing technology that lets you communicate by voice (and now video) to the back burner in favor of a far more cumbersome one that removes so much context in terms of tone.
I hate the ringing of a phone, so I think it is a very acceptable level of cumbersome.
