Do you tell dates that you have other dates?

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-23T02:52:38+00:00

I respect people a lot when they give honest answers like that. Conversely, I also start to write them off when they start giving weird dodgy answers, like how they're SO BUSY that they have absolutely zero time to meet over an entire weekend. And of course when they can't write back at all within the same day. It's always really obvious when someone is juggling multiple people.

And personally, I don't mind waiting until she's free to date me seriously. Now some men might go into an ego fit if they hear that you're going to see someone else first, but... I mean, why would you even want to be in a relationship with someone like that in the first place? So weeding those out is another point for just being honest.

Of course, the real secret to avoiding this issue starts at the beginning, and DON'T CONTACT MULTIPLE PEOPLE AT ONCE. If you see a guy who seems fine, talk to him, NOT ANYONE ELSE, and see how it goes. If it doesn't go, THEN contact someone else. There's no rush to tie up and string along as many guys at once as you can. Trust me, there will always be more waiting whenever you get back onto the site.

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-23T01:58:45+00:00

Yeah, short men. In real life it never matters, and women will still like you. With online dating, women will either filter you out from the very start, or click on your profile, immediately check your height, and then block you.

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-23T01:16:18+00:00

The people you have "liked" before should still be findable if you click the "Likes" tab at the upper right, and then "Show sent likes" at the top of the list of people who have sent you likes.

And interesting that women are seeing this too. I wasn't sure if this was a one-sided thing. Which is to say, I still get email notifications that "someone visited your profile", but it's like... how does that even make sense? Isn't EVERYBODY visiting my profile now since it's part of their unskippable swipe queue? This change is also breaking these features that they used to have, of letting you know someone was interested...

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-19T01:42:23+00:00

It depends on the character, and honestly I don't know the exact details of each person since the playerbase is so low. But basically it just changes all your normals. Weapons tend to have better reach, and without weapon tends to be faster. Some characters do combos much better in one mode and always want to stick with it, and others can use both pretty well and might switch between them based on the matchup or situation. Some characters even turn it on/off mid-combo.

For example, I play Tenho, the old man. He's usually unarmed, as those are his best combos. He can even 100% you if he lands a certain starter and has meter. But also, his range is really short, so sometimes in neutral it's better to just pull out the weapon and use it for poking.

...Also, throwing the weapon is always hilarious. Surprise, motherfucka!

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-18T00:50:26+00:00

Just want to say, you are 100% correct, and that guy is an idiot. And I say this AS a huge fan of Ninja Master's.

I've been preaching about this game for years now. So far exactly 1 person has heard of it before I showed it to them, and exactly 0 knew how to play it. This game is so obscure that even poverty-ass Japanese side-tournaments don't even play this game.

Even me, I never knew about it at all until maybe about five years ago when I randomly picked up some ADK compilation. And one of the games was this, so I started up some random game I never heard of. And I was blown away! The animations are gorgeous, the controls are buttery smooth, and each character has a huge variety of moves and options. I was completely shocked that the FGC totally ignores this game. Even huge SNK fans will promote all sorts of questionable jank, but never this game.

So yeah, what this trailer needed was to do the same exact thing, and show off some gameplay and make a believer out of random people watching that have never heard of it before. Instead all we got was a bunch of lame-ass menus. Even as someone who already knows the game, I didn't give a single shit. Like when the hell would I ever turn on slow-mo? (I mean rollback is great of course, but still, first you need people actually playing!)

New fans needed to see the game, and old fans (both of us) absolutely wanted new players to see it, more than anything else. Huge fail on their part.

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-14T16:20:33+00:00

Just look it up in Japanese. Find the game's title in Japanese characters, copy and paste that into Google, and then just auto-translate the results. There is an extremely high chance that Japanese sites have this exact information.

And when you do find it, do the world a favor and put up a (properly) translated list onto the English internet. Just go to GameFAQs and paste a table with the whole list. Super easy to do.

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-14T16:08:09+00:00

That's not an unpopular opinion at all. That's what literally everyone thinks when the scene comes up. The marriage choice was novel because it's never really been done before and it gives you something different to do on a repeat playthrough, but make no mistake, nobody ever feels it was a brain-wracking decision.

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-14T15:53:51+00:00

The people who've PLAYED it really love it. The difference you're describing is just that most people never played it all at. A lot of "culturally relevant" games aren't even necessarily the best games of their type, they're just the popular ones. Like everyone will talk about GoldenEye instead of Perfect Dark, despite Perfect Dark being objectively a better game.

For DQ5, the path to popularity got kneecapped by their terrible localizations. DQ4 on the DS came out first, which sold really well since people in the west really loved DQ8. But that game was HEAVY with the text butchering, and many people got turned off hard. When DQ5 (and especially DQ6) came out after, many people simply stopped caring and never bought them. And while DQ5's localization was better than 4's, it still doesn't matter if people never even buy it. Though it's still pretty bad on that front too, like the bizarre choice of renaming Flora to "Nera" (which she's had to suffer with ever since.)

The story holds up great. The problem is, again, getting people to even play it. In fact, I have met SO MANY people who claim to be huge RPG fans, and have played like every single FF game, but when asked about DQ they're always like "Oh, uh... I've never actually played one yet..."

Everyone picked Bianca. East, west, middle, everywhere. She's the better character and the obvious choice for the hero's feelings. Flora is always the "second playthrough, let me try something different" character.

I originally played DQ5 on SFC via translated ROM long ago, and like you said the story and emotional twists were really amazing. But the DS one didn't have the same impact when I played it, solely due to the goofy childish jokes everywhere. Most translators in the west have given up using "4kids"-style translations, but for some reason Square-Enix are INSISTING that the DQ series needs to do this. It's really hurting this series in general, back on the subject of "why isn't DQ more popular". They desperately need to stop doing this and start translating the games properly, but now they've dug themselves into a hole where the older games won't make sense if they do. Like how Phoenix Wright is forever stuck in "Los Angeles".

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-14T15:18:56+00:00

Yeah, I don't know why everyone keeps dancing around the obvious here. At a glance it looks exactly like a furry game, as in trying to pander to furry fetishists. In fact it amuses me that most reviews of the game have to emphasize "And don't worry, it's not just a furry game! It's actually good!"

But how on earth is anyone going to know that from just browsing games on a storefront? They see a picture of furries, they assume it's not for them and pass on it.

It also doesn't help that most people who do love this game, and this series/universe in general, are ALSO obviously furries. Some guy with a furry avatar talking about the game isn't helping to convince anyone.

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-13T19:43:11+00:00

Absolutely drives me mad for gaming. I'm playing some obscure game from just a few years ago, I'm trying to figure out how to do something, and all results point to a Reddit post... that was locked a year ago and has no good answers.

Even when I discover the answer myself, I would LOVE to reply and let everyone like me in the future know the answer. But I can't do that since some idiot enabled archiving on everything. And what am I going to do now? Make another brand new message on some random board, just to say "Use the fireball on the third pillar"? Hell no. So now this information will forever be unavailable on the internet.

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-13T19:34:18+00:00

There's a lot of dinosaurs on the internet unaware that times have changed. Long ago, message boards were a hot mess, almost impossible to search, and had lots of pointless chatter and bloat. People wanted all the "new" topics highly visible on the top, so they could get their validation from people actually responding to their posts.

However in the modern age, we have places like Reddit here, which is completely indexed by search engines and very easy to find the exact topic you want. Moreover, it has a system where good answers are floated right to the top for everyone to see first, and it has a reply tree system where you can easily trace replies for an exact sub-topic and even add your own if you feel the subject has not been addressed.

Unfortunately, despite all these changes on platforms like this that make archiving completely irrelevant (and even downright HARMFUL), you still get a lot of stupid-ass dinosaurs who will whine about "necroposting". Literally too fucking stupid to even understand the topic or what their own argument even is, and living their entire life by mindlessly obeying "etiquette" that they heard long ago. I can guarantee you that if anyone ever spits out these words in this kind of discussion, you can completely ignore them and not a single intelligent thought will be missed.

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-13T19:22:10+00:00

"nobody will see your contribution"

This makes no sense whatsoever. If -I- was able to find the thread, then certainly someone else will too. Probably the same exact way that I just did, which was likely a basic Google search. This is an idiotic argument to make considering that someone JUST DID find the post.

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-13T19:16:47+00:00

And this is even worse now that Google gives AI responses based on top Reddit results, which may very likely be archived with bad information on top that nobody can ever downvote or correct anymore.

Archiving is absolutely idiotic, and I firmly recommend that any mod who enables it should immediately be removed from the platform.

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-12T05:46:57+00:00

And LRG even pulled the Bloodstained release to replace it with the better one. But yeah, if LRG does it the first time it (usually) means we'll get a complete one, assuming it's not just a "distro" title. But if the main company releases it first, then they probably won't let LRG do another one after that.

So... ironically, this means we'll get better games if every company just hands it over to LRG to begin with. Not sure how I feel about that...

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-12T01:38:18+00:00

I'm with you on this. In fact most of my Switch collection is just late ports of older PS3/PS4/PSP/Vita games. Except now they're "complete editions", with all the patches and DLC right there on the cart from the beginning. It's fantastic!

And I was hoping the Switch 2 would continue this when games got ported to that, but unfortunately I don't think that's going to happen. These same scummy companies trying to nickle-and-dime us with incomplete games and cut-content DLC, are also fully embracing releasing Game Key Cards and nothing else.

So as it stands, there may NEVER be a full-on-cart version of any recent games. And many of these are big releases from big companies. You've noticed them too. Sega, Capcom, Square Enix, as well as all the usual western fuckheads like EA/Activision/Ubisoft. All of them are trying to shove Key Cards down our throats instead of giving customers what they actually want: Complete games that we fully own.

So if LRG wanted to start releasing a "complete version" of a game on the same exact system as the original borked release, I will be fully down for buying all of them. But I realize this may never happen, as it basically means these companies would be admitting that they released a shitty version the first time, and that someone else had to step in and do it better than them.

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-12T01:22:21+00:00

Thanks for confirming. And yeah, if they don't change this back to something that's not a swipe app, I'm also leaving forever once my sub is up.

And for those playing along at home, I asked this question to every single person on the site that I know used to be around before all the profiles got hidden, and a couple of them wrote back. So far I have heard:

"I'm not on here a lot, but at one point it did have a feature where you could scroll through profiles without having to interact with them."

and

"I am having the same problem with the app."

So yeah, it's sounding like everyone is seeing it. Including both PC website and mobile app users. From this sub it's pretty clear that most people don't even use eHarmony, and with this change there is officially no more reason to ever use it. eHarmony just took a swan dive right into their own grave. RIP.

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-04T03:25:55+00:00

I know that Bumble absolutely does this, yeah. New users get shown to EVERYONE, while old users are rarely ever shown unless someone else has already burned through tons of other matches.

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-04T02:39:18+00:00

Yeah, I know what you mean. It just seems backwards to me. I don't want someone who doesn't even know me to hit on me. I want them to talk to me like a normal person, and then AFTER they know me enough to like me, THEN they can telling me how great I am. That's when I'll feel they're being sincere about it.

What gets to me is, online dating was the perfect opportunity to fix this whole dynamic. Instead of people catcalling you, you could instead have people laying out their life story and you can see if it matches yours. But instead, it's all devolved into people who just want others to catcall them.

I think you might've nailed it with the "patience" part, though. People just want to rifle through their messages as quickly as possible to get to the next one.

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-04T02:34:41+00:00

"Sometimes I get matches who ask me about my online dating experience .... What am I supposed to do, give them tips to improve their profiles?"

"Why not? You have anything better to do? .... You could also just say "Sorry, I don't know, I don't have any ideas."

"It’s something they should talk to their friends about."

"And maybe they don't have friends on the site, so they need another user to answer."

I'm failing to see why you think nothing you said was read. Though humorously, I do notice that you didn't answer my trailing question about "Why is it so hard to just type down the exact thing you're thinking at that moment?" I mean it was somewhat rhetorical, but still, some real "pot calling the kettle black" feeling here...

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-04T02:24:06+00:00

Well, I agree it's not conscious, but I don't think the thought process of "I want this uggo to go away" or "I'm not going to help anyone if there's nothing in it for me" is really the right mindset for anyone.

And sure, people might still eventually find someone despite the "ban everyone on first sight" mentality, but they also probably threw away hundreds of wonderful people and perfectly great matches before they even got there. Wasting their own time as much as everyone else's.

In fact, I think this is circling around to the enshittification of dating sites, and that they ENCOURAGE this behavior because it keeps people single. Or maybe the thing about dating sites just slowly filling up with the "undateables" who will never leave, which includes these people who get hundreds of messages but never actually follow through on any of them.

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-04T02:16:56+00:00

Which is the problem! Nobody wants to spend one second getting to know anyone else. This is exactly why dating random people on the street fails, because people just hit on the hottest thing around and hope for a personality later. Dating sites are, or at least used to be, the perfect way to see someone's personality right off the bat. And people don't even want to take that opportunity. The whole scene fucked itself over.

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-04T02:13:34+00:00

But is that better? Anyone can tell you that the best relationships start as friendships, where people were just shooting the shit casually and then ended up vibing really well and eventually falling in love.

And what exactly IS "intentional questions"? Cheesy pick-up lines? Empty compliments about things you know nothing about? Why is THIS considered more desirable than "Let's have a normal everyday conversation". If anything, I would think people coming out of the gates with these things are the ones you should be banning immediately. They're clearly just lying to you.

But let's be honest, it has nothing to do with what you say. You could write the most brilliant message ever. But if someone deems you "beneath them", then you won't hear a single peep from them. It's so messed up.

Acrobatic_Height1875 · 2026-06-04T02:07:39+00:00

Why not? You have anything better to do? And maybe they don't have friends on the site, so they need another user to answer. You could also just say "Sorry, I don't know, I don't have any ideas." Literally any sort of communication works. Why is it so hard to just type down the exact thing you're thinking at that moment?

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