MPDG is wish-fulfillment for the loser male protagonist. MPDG’s are one-dimensional and quirky in just such a way to make the messy, aimless, socially inept male lead somehow attractive to them. The male is possibly on the spectrum (more likely just an asshole), the MPDG is void of real personality.
A male protagonist dating a MPDG is like him dating his imaginary friend.
No, I live relatively lean already. 65% would mean cutting down to rice-and-beans type diet, no Internet, no investment into hobbies, no travel.
Also, there’s inflation. At 30 years old I could expect to live another 40+ years. And 65% of today’s dollars is going to get less and less valuable as the years go on.
I’m going to skip over the “find a hobby that gets you outside the house” because I assume you will have thought of this and/or others will elaborate in the comments.
So my attempt at novel advice is not to sleep on online relationships. If your rural community is too small to support a group in your niche interest, find a group online. Be active in the group, asking and contributing, joining and volunteering. You may find it’s still 100:1 people you interact with to people you form any sort of lasting relationship with, but that’s not really any different than IRL.
One of my sister’s longest lasting friendships is with someone she met playing an online Horse Girl^TM game in the 00s. The game has been defunct for a decade, but they stayed friends. They only met in person for the first time when the friend was getting married. You never know when our weirdness vibes with someone else’s weird; it’s a beautiful thing. She values that online-origin friendship just as much as any IRL-origin friendship.
From my days modding an outdoor hobby subreddit, the only “risk” I saw wasn’t direct where I was fearful of being sued or anything.
We would get posts about missing hikers, if you have info please call/email these personal contact numbers. It was the type of post I was quickest to lock down. I would pin a mod comment telling people with info to contact law enforcement, NOT the poster and definitely NOT to put details on reddit anywhere. It’s not unheard of for an abusive person to post a “help me find my loved one victim” request.
Second most urgent type of post I locked down where the “hey, I found these mushrooms/berries/animal remains on the trail, I can eat them, right?”. Sweet baby jeebus, trusting Internet strangers on something like that is almost as bad as trusting an LLM.
When I lived in the Midwest one of the clearest signals (aside from the obvious signage) was the college football team swag on cars and in front of houses.
My parents will give advice if I ask for it. It’s been that way since I was about 14 or 15. If they tried to treat me like you are describing, especially in public, I would shut it down.
The only time I can imagine them giving unsolicited advice would be if I were in a romantic relationship they thought was bad. I don’t agree with a lot of their perspectives on relationships, but I would at least hear them out. They would have the good sense to do it in private though and would be able to explain their thoughts, no “I don’t have to justify myself to you” nonsense.
I would say they were a little too uninvolved at times, but I would take that over the scenario you are describing with them over involved at 30+.
Synesthetic vibes, I dig it. Your comment is very forest -> olive green. Which is good, FYI.
From the very first one I saw in person, the wildly variable steps and gaps between panels was a big “nope”. The very long single wiper blade on the windshield also tickled my engineer brain as “nightmare to maintain”.
Mildly offended I’ve only gotten one Nicole spam experience to date. What am I, chopped liver?
Not that many, just obvious bots/scams. The app I use has user tagging so I can assign a color tag and text tag per user. Red = for me, do not engage and yellow = for me, engage with caution.
I tend not to block real humans, even the trolls, because often times the responses are interesting to me. I’ve learned some real facts about my trans peeps here on Lemmy because some people took the time to give informative responses to the community’s benefit, despite the question being an obvious troll attempt.
Some of my tags include yellow for “AI slop spreader” and red for “TERFy troll”.
AS = Australian?
I know AS as = Aerospace, as in AS9100, AS9102, AS9145, AS13100, and more. The first at least is fairly easy to get a copy of via basic torrenting; current rev is D.
The “easiest” way to get a copy is to be in industry and use your company’s resources to obtain a copy.
AS9100 is the “base” and it is just ISO9001 + some extra aerospace-specific additions.
Australian cattle dogs… in NYC? People are so dumb when it comes to dog breeds. What poor dogs.
Lots of dog breeds with anything but the lowest of maintenance needs. I would love to have one but know the fur in my house would drive me up the wall.
A sip of red wine the adults said was the blood of a man who lived about 2,000 years ago.
First sip aside from magic ceremonies, a cold beer alongside a ham sandwich while working outside. Probably an american lager like Coors or Bud Light.
My college roommate freshman year was very book smart. One of those kids that never had to study in high school. Well, college was more difficult for them and they found they had to read textbooks and work on homework outside of class time. I sat and listened to them describe studying to me as if it were a new concept. Life hack! Actually study to get better grades.
Danger, Will Robinson. Years of reddit and scads of “I don’t get why she dumped me, I only (did an f-ing horrible thing that was not at all funny)” posts has taught me just no. Shoot for making your partner laugh, not be embarrassment.
If a person has a house they are paying a monthly mortgage payment towards, no one in America would consider them “broke”.
I was in debt for several years from college tuition, but would not have been considered “broke” because I managed a job that met my essentials plus enough to pay down my tuition loans.
Debt isn’t seen as bad so long as it’s being managed. Exceptions for Dave Ramsey fan types.
You could say college and housing and medical stuff should never out a person into debt and I would agree. But that wasn’t the question, it was about general perspective in the US.
I don’t like him because he is the dictionary definition of a method actor. Robert Pattinson was too polite but got close,
“I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they’re playing an a–holes. You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they’re really deep in character.”
I recently got to convince a person of same by showing them Dream Scenario followed by Renfield.
Just change your input to HDMI or whatever from the computer and ignore the Roku part.