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[MrRoboto75]

I had the demo to that game from jampack or something.  Only had the third level.

Game's hard as balls.

[Empiricist]

...I mean, at the time, I had been awake 28+ hours straight with no caffeine, which explains why it seemed to just.. appear.

Maybe it's related to your Madness Talent?

[SOLDIER First]

Ha

[miauw62]

I feel like I should insert something about expectations coming true here.

Yeah...

i really don't have a reason to be optimistic about my chances. i dont see how assuming anybody is attracted to me would help me apart from giving me false hope and then feeling like shit when nothing happens

i just assume nobody is attracted to me, which hasn't failed me yet

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=48718.msg5695556#msg5695556

Amusing filter aside, you look good.  And you're a cool guy who volunteered a shitton to make other people happy.  I don't know if you need to lower your standards, or just get out there more. 

I know how it is to be trapped in a negative self-confidence loop.  But it didn't go away by wallowing, it only got worse!  It's a vicious cycle, you have to break out.  You need motivation.  I wanted financial freedom.  Apparently you want to sex people - great, use that!

I assuaged my social awkwardness by forcing myself to talk to strangers at every opportunity.  Yeah it was awkward and uncomfortable.  But it helps, particularly once I realized that people like to talk about themselves.  Listening is the most attractive social skill...  So grind that skill!  Learn how to casually encourage someone to keep talking.  People LOVE that.  It helps a lot if you actually follow what they're saying, of course.

And while my expectations were super low, I was actually pleasantly surprised...  A lot (maybe not most) people say some interesting things when given an ear.  And in my experience, the successes are worth it...  And the skill of listening is incredibly useful when you need to flatter someone, like for work.

Uh I don't know how much of this applies to you specifically, I just went on a tangent.  What'd you say... Oh, yeah that's bs.
I'm a better listener in person I swear.

i try to get "out there" more, it's why i decided to start playing mtg. except everybody at my lgs is a dude so it basically didn't help me at all. yay. what the fuck am i even supposed to do when all of my interests are massive sausage fests.

and i try to be a good listener, but people don't actually seem to want to say anything to me.

also, i just look like shit usually

[i2amroy]

also, i just look like shit usually

That one, at least, is easy to fix. Wake up 10 minutes earlier and go to bed 10 minutes later, and use those 10 minutes before and after sleeping to do some little steps towards making yourself look better (shower, shave, push ups, whatever you feel will push you towards looking better). Force yourself to hold that habit without ever breaking it for at least 2 weeks (a month is preferable) to establish it as a habit. Then stop worrying about it (or at least don't go out of your way to do so), and over time if you hold that habit you will eventually start to look better. Change is slow, but as long as you're moving towards the goal then you're winning.

i try to get "out there" more, it's why i decided to start playing mtg. except everybody at my lgs is a dude so it basically didn't help me at all. yay. what the fuck am i even supposed to do when all of my interests are massive sausage fests.

On the other hand really the only answer to something like this is "find a hobby that isn't a massive sausage fest", sadly. Find something that sounds somewhat interesting and that is a bit more gender neutral and start looking into it. If you look hard enough there is usually at least something that you can find somewhat interesting and has both genders. That said it is worth mentioning that even talking with members of the same sex is still good social practice; maybe not quite as good at obtaining your eventual goal, but still helpful at least in some ways.

[Itnetlolor]

I feel like I should insert something about expectations coming true here.

Yeah...

i really don't have a reason to be optimistic about my chances. i dont see how assuming anybody is attracted to me would help me apart from giving me false hope and then feeling like shit when nothing happens

Think that's bad? Have that, along with constant/consistent statements from all kinds of people, family and friends (and associates/strangers) alike, saying all kinds of positive reinforcement of that kind of stuff, like "You'll be fighting women off of you (because you'll be attracting all kinds), you have nothing to worry about." and other bullshit like that, and still have the same predictable crappy results, and... well, you get the idea. All that being uplifted by such things does is makes your landing that much harder when you meet the cold hard ground of reality of the real world at terminal velocity. Sometimes, I wonder who is more delusional: Myself, or everyone else. Needle still points to everyone else, given consistent results.

[Yoink]

Was Yoink's NYR "Party harder"?
'Cos that sounds like him.

...It took me half the goddamn morning just to find that post. >.>

[Graknorke]

TBF me partying twice as hard would be dead easy. In fact it's almost inevitable at this point in time.

[Orange Wizard]

Two times zero is zero

[RedKing]

Was Yoink's NYR "Party harder"?
'Cos that sounds like him.

...It took me half the goddamn morning just to find that post. >.>

Recovering from a night of partying, eh?

[TheBiggerFish]

Two times zero is zero

...Yup...

[TD1]

I could party.

I just don't want to, and find the entire thing both disturbing and discomforting.

[Akura]

New phone, new problems . My new phone is saying it needs to be activated, and my old phone is saying it's no longer registered. I can't use either one. The new phone has my phone number on it, so something transferred.

[Loud Whispers]

I could party.
I just don't want to, and find the entire thing both disturbing and discomforting.

To be fair there is something sincere about drifting through the urban jungle with alcohol appearing in your hand from sources unknown to you into lovely nights of grungy love, in that order. Everything afterwards less so

[Yoink]

Recovering from a night of partying, eh?

Naw, I just foolishly tried to use the search feature to find it.
Then I realised that it was just an image, so I grabbed it off Imgur and did a Google reverse image search, but that didn't help either. Finally, I did what I should have done to start with and went back through my posts to the start of the year.

Also, partying is great. I used to think I didn't want to party. Party seemed like a bad idea. Then I tried party.
Now I have seen the light. And I don't mean the light beer.