I don’t want to know shit about this motherfucker until he’s dead and even then just the fact that he is will be sufficient, unless he dies in some hilariously awful way. Then I’d like to know that too.

Well, I’d say you’re right, but I don’t know how you could have enough information about me to make such a determination just from this short conversation.

Saying something is sad isn’t shaming it. It’s saying it makes you sad. Which can be caused by whatever depending on the purpose. You wouldn’t say someone expressing that at a funeral was shaming the deceased would you?

Don’t worry soon no one will be able to afford their own memory and then piracy will be solved forever!

They didn’t shame anyone, they said they didn’t understand their reasoning for doing it.

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to keep corporations out of your stuff. Everything ran by them is constantly enshittifying. It’s their nature to do so. What happens when cloudflare rugpulls you?

Okay fine I’ll play factorio all weekend

I’ve also used them for years without issue.

Your brain stops and your body rots.

Okay bud, wire yourself for video and sound and stream it online 24/7 then. Being seen can always cost you something. Doesn’t mean you’re doing something wrong. Sometimes what you’re doing is just embarrassing and you’d rather it not be recorded for posterity. People need to start getting their asses beat for voicing shitty opinions like this.

Deadwood, Justified, and various Gundam series are the ones I always come back to.

I didn’t put it there but when I was in college sharing an apartment with my brother and his wife they got a dog and when they got it home the instant it got through the door it beelined for my lap and slipped it’s tongue ALL the way along the roof of my mouth. Decades ago and I can still feel it.

They also don’t create jobs. At least not locally. Both the data centers my employer has are practically unmanned. They have half the NOC guys working from there just to have someone in the building in the rare chance something happens. There’s zero reason anyone should be giving out incentives to have one of these fucking things put in near them. If they’re going to allow it at all charge the absolute fuck out of the company building it so that the locals benefit.

“But that corporation gave me so much money! I thought I was doing a good job…”

Yeah, fuck that. I’ll wait a month or so if they want to get to know each other first and make sure I’m not crazy but much longer than that and I’m out. Everyone of my partners has been way more sexually aggressive at the begging of the relationship and then cooled off after a few months so they’re basically advising everyone to skip the best part…

That hasn’t been my experience at all. I do shit for people all the time and never had a woman get pissed at me or assume I wanted something in return nor did I expect anything in return. Women aren’t so judgemental as you’re imagining. The only scenario where I’ve seen what you’re describing happen was because the guy doing it used the offer of help to try to get his foot in the door and constantly nose around and bother her afterwards which made her very uncomfortable. He then went around behind her back at our workplace talking about how she rejected him when he was only trying to be nice and so on. Which is why I was cautioning OP to set things straight with this guy (in whatever way straight happens to be) before he was too invested. IF he happens to be that kind of guy then there hopefully won’t be as much fallout for her to deal with. If not then they can move forward and base their relationship on actual things that matter rather than just him buying her shit all the time.

I didn’t expect that you would be able to reuse games these days anyway. That surprises me that you can still do that. Thanks for explaining what the actual problem with this is.

There’s a pretty big difference between holding a door for someone or buying them a drink and paying for their movie, popcorn, dinner, and gifts all when you literally just met them and then again one day later.

I didn’t say he was a creep. I said he’s throwing too much money at her for this situation. That implies there’s something off, which could be a number of reasons. That’s why I asked how old he was. If he’s a young guy then he could just be inexperienced and not have a great idea of how to express his interest other than bombarding her with attention and gifts. I think most dudes have been there more or less, but it can sometimes lead to some shitty outcomes with some guys, especially immature ones that haven’t got a lot of experience dealing with these emotions, if the subject of this attention doesn’t meet their expectations. It’s why I suggested having a conversation with him about what those expectations are and where she is at in her own feelings towards him to clear the air before he gets too invested. If he’s an older guy than it becomes more suspicious as they should know better than to buy affection with gifts.

Most people don’t consume alcohol to the same level of intoxication that hard drugs provide.

Yeah if it’s going allow me to relax enough to have a good time on the weekends then it is what it is. No point in living anyway if I’m not able to have a good time.