BoostedArrow
Don Juan
If you play.
And how often do you play?
Do you get any benefits from it?
And how often do you play?
Do you get any benefits from it?
"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
What video games do u play?
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"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
Doctor Europeo
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Fortnite and Fall Guys
Red Dead Redemption 2
Grand Theft Auto 5
Honorable mention of Alien Isolation and Madden NFL 2024.
But I almost never, very rarely play, because I'm a busy guy.
I'm not sure about the future of GTA 6, because it's my understanding they're getting rid of comedy and doing a more serious straight-up game. Comedy was the heart of the GTA games. GTA started as a technical glitch. Originally called Race'n'Cheese, it was originally to be your ordinary racing game, but a technical bug caused the police to go crazy, and the developers Rockstar Games found the bug so funny that they changed the design of the game.
Grand Theft Auto 5
Honorable mention of Alien Isolation and Madden NFL 2024.
But I almost never, very rarely play, because I'm a busy guy.
I'm not sure about the future of GTA 6, because it's my understanding they're getting rid of comedy and doing a more serious straight-up game. Comedy was the heart of the GTA games. GTA started as a technical glitch. Originally called Race'n'Cheese, it was originally to be your ordinary racing game, but a technical bug caused the police to go crazy, and the developers Rockstar Games found the bug so funny that they changed the design of the game.
FlexpertHamilton
Master Don Juan
Was playing a fair bit of pvp FPS games over the years, (L4D2, Halo 3, Valorant, Overwatch, Modern Warfare/Warzone) but now I have decided to stop them all and don't plan on touching them again. Too addicting. In the case of Valorant/OW I went as far as deleting my entire account.
Single player games are more enjoyable. I enjoy short, linear games with strong atmosphere or story. Not generally into open world games or RPGs, with exceptions like Fire Emblem, Dark Souls 1 or STALKER. I enjoy the Resident Evil games immensely, as well as other horror games. The GOAT for me though is easily Dishonored, which I have put nearly 200 hours into.
Lately trying to get into some of the classics that I missed out on mostly (SNES and PS1 games) by way of emulation, which has come a loooooong way. Some games have even been straight up fan remade for the PC such as Silent Hill or Ocarina of Time.
Single player games are more enjoyable. I enjoy short, linear games with strong atmosphere or story. Not generally into open world games or RPGs, with exceptions like Fire Emblem, Dark Souls 1 or STALKER. I enjoy the Resident Evil games immensely, as well as other horror games. The GOAT for me though is easily Dishonored, which I have put nearly 200 hours into.
Lately trying to get into some of the classics that I missed out on mostly (SNES and PS1 games) by way of emulation, which has come a loooooong way. Some games have even been straight up fan remade for the PC such as Silent Hill or Ocarina of Time.
Redwood
Senior Don Juan
Played the Resident Evil 2 remake and I've been hooked ever since 
"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
FlexpertHamilton
Master Don Juan
Play the original it's even betterPlayed the Resident Evil 2 remake and I've been hooked ever since
Redwood
Senior Don Juan
Is it because of the cut content?
FlexpertHamilton
Master Don Juan
No, it's just a completely different game. The classic RE games are better because of their atmosphere/ambience/soundtrack and they're more tense as well.
Redwood
Senior Don Juan
Noted. I'll check it out sometime soon.
"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
FlexpertHamilton
Master Don Juan
PM me if you want to know how to play it. There's an amazing Dolphin-based mod for the originals that have upscaled the textures with machine learning.
Redwood
Senior Don Juan
Cool.
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The old lady is relatively boring in the video game dept.
Chess. On chess.com you're playing others from around the world so its pretty cool. And I have a different handle there so I'm incognito, lol.
Chess. On chess.com you're playing others from around the world so its pretty cool. And I have a different handle there so I'm incognito, lol.
Doctor Europeo
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Buy an Xbox Series or a Ps5 (They are chump change for you) and download Fall Guys. Its very simple, the game only uses like 3 buttons. Look some gameplay trailers on Youtube, I think you could like it.
Its like the Squid Game Tv series but without the violence. A number of players get eliminated each round until the Last one standing wins the Crown. Its a lot of fun.