Fuck it, be a self defeatist, I’m done.

There are no rules, there are no guarantees, there is only respect, that’s the only thing you need to bring to the table. Stop listening to antiquated sexist bullshit and just treat people like people, drop this incel bullshit, approach them the way you would feel comfortable being approached and get rid of any expectations, both for yourself and the other person. It’s really nowhere near as complicated as you’re trying to make it out to be.

Playing hard to get is a red flag, those people are fucked up and ego driven, don’t play games with people and don’t let people play games with you.

Coffee. First date is always coffee.

How would you define “pursue”? Because it sounds like a predatory tactic to me.

It’s not. It’s super basic.

All of those things, like all of 40K, are great things.

I just like being fists/chainswords with jump packs and dead guy robots, I get it.

I also love melee deep strikes into artillery armies, chef’s kiss.

Also, shooting? Who the fuck has time for that? Guns are for show, chain swords are for pros.

I’ll stick with my face punching, pissed off, genocidal, flying, fascist space vampires, thank you very much. No brainwashing involved with them, no sir. Not one bit.

I’d bring up giant robot coffins, too, but crisis suits are fuckin’ rad, even if you can’t shove a dead wizard in there.

Only if you’re cool with psychic brainwashing and a pseudo hive mind.

Online dating still ends up with the requirement of asking or being asked the question “so, you want to go out sometime?” in order to get a date. Nobody in an online dating app is any more or less obligated to say yes or no than they would be in person.

Edit: and a matchmaker is just having someone else ask for you.

That’s still just asking someone out.

Not ethically, and I wouldn’t qualify the results as a date.

What other tactic is there to get a date? Being told no doesn’t mean it’s a bad strategy, it just means that person isn’t interested in dating you, at which point you move on and ask the next person you feel attracted enough to want to date and if they are interested then they’ll say yes and if not they’ll say no and you move on and repeat. Nobody owes you a yes, regardless of who you are, and I guarantee you Cavill has been turned down before.

He’s not wrong.

Neat! Thanks for sharing, that’s cool to know!

I dated someone in high school whose family was all Irish levels of white and their brother looked like he popped straight out of Puerto Rico. He otherwise looked like everyone else in the family, to the point there was no doubt he was a child of both parents. There were a few other people throughout their family with the same deal. When they introduced me to him they said, “This is Collin, he’s not adopted or anything, he just got lucky.”

“I should really do chores, I’ll just put on a YouTube to listen to in the background… hmm… the entire history of Mega Man, a game and IP I’ve never thought about, you say? Four hours you say?”

Yeah. I was not expecting it to involve that much conversation about eugenics and the nature of artificial intelligence and where we draw the line of consciousness and what qualifies as sentience and free will, but, damn, that Dr. Wily sure is a cunt. I still haven’t done the dishes…