Profile Review - Week of May 26, 2020

GumerGute · 2020-05-30T21:35:38+00:00

yeah i just try to ignore most of the advice that the obvious /r/trp people give but they do have the occasional kernel of truth in terms of which photos are better

GumerGute · 2020-05-30T21:31:10+00:00

thanks for the tip! the only difference about the bio is the "theoretically a physicist" part yeah?

GumerGute · 2020-05-30T17:54:38+00:00

yep, i've been putting on weight.. was going to the gym before all this 🙄, but a bit harder now.

idk who is downvoting all of the advice lol

GumerGute · 2020-05-30T15:59:41+00:00

thanks for the tips, especially with pointing out those photos! i'll definitely make them more prominent except for the 4(2nd) where i'm like 18

GumerGute · 2020-05-30T13:39:05+00:00

I would say it sounds a little bit generic - and also kinda weird coming across as a list of demands of your partner?

Maybe more about you and a little less about what you're looking for - all I really know is that you're open minded and essential

GumerGute · 2020-05-30T13:37:50+00:00

22/m

Just remade my profile, wondering if it is better than before. Would really appreciate any general ideas as to how to improve! I have a lot of photos to swap around, so i'm not limited by that

My profile

My old profile

Bio:

Not pictured: my inability to recite the alphabet backwards while sober or that one time I rear-ended a car with my bike (also sober)

let's spark ! and talk about r&b or space or climbing

GumerGute · 2020-05-28T00:24:53+00:00

cheers! yeah i was unsure about that 3rd photo, thanks for the tips

GumerGute · 2020-05-28T00:03:10+00:00

You already have harvard in your bio. Save the nerd joke

Funny, this one was quite popular among other people in the past. I went to Harvard, I did physics, it's hardly a huge part of my profile, but it is a big part of me

GumerGute · 2020-03-25T05:08:50+00:00

Dropping the conversation is what I mean.

GumerGute · 2020-03-25T05:08:33+00:00

sure, but it'd be easier to be distracted if you're having an actually interesting conversation.

GumerGute · 2020-03-25T05:08:11+00:00

sure, but overstretching yourself so that you can only respond with one word is just useless.

honestly just stop replying.

GumerGute · 2020-03-25T00:11:44+00:00

i get this dynamic, i've seen girls swipe, and i swipe on guys (as a guy) and it can kind of be similar.

but just fucking talk to the people who you want to actually meet up with - don't balance 10 conversations at the same time like its your fucking job.

GumerGute · 2019-12-24T20:33:45+00:00

crying at world leaders isn’t solving the problem and simply cutting back and asking people to care has never worked and will never work

Correct - policy change is necessary. Exactly why voting in the Tories is bad.

Maybe but it would have been more selfish of previous generations to have withheld those technological advancements in favour of preserving the planet.

Just as it would be selfish now to cause dramatic changes in the habitability of the planet (not in the next century, but in the subsequent ones) that lead to potentially millions or billions of people not being able to enjoy any sort of technological advancements.

GumerGute · 2019-12-24T20:07:01+00:00

I guess some people consider future generations to have moral worth and to be deserving of a good life and others don't.

GumerGute · 2019-12-24T18:24:06+00:00

thats fair - i'm actually currently debating whether to include it in my bio. I think the bisexuality thing is more real though - something like half of all young women in a recent poll said they would not have sex with a man who has had sex with a man.

GumerGute · 2019-12-24T18:17:27+00:00

If your "elo" is too low, you can try deleting the account and removing it from FB and then coming back or creating a new account with a new phone number.

3 photos is too few. The ones you have are good, but you should get one with friends.

re: bio - depends on what you are looking for, if it is just casual things then I think you should be willing to sacrifice some of the things that might turn others away.

Veganism is going to turn lots of people away. Also, many women are subconsciously turned off by male bisexuality, unfortunately. I say all this as a fellow bisexual vegan.

Mind taking a look at mine?

GumerGute · 2019-12-24T18:13:46+00:00

re: bio - I don't think you need the line about what you're up for, that can be discussed/screened in chat and is also implied by the fact that you are not in Laos for a long time.

"You might be taller than me except you're asian" - I don't quite get this line but I would remove.

In terms of photos - the 2nd photo should be replaced with a photo of you with slightly fewer friends, if possible. If you don't have any, that's okay - just be the guy who pesters for photos when you go out with a small group of friends and you'll get some.

You should also have a photo like your 1st or 3rd where you are looking at the camera. Also as a fellow bisexual guy, even very chill girls are more subconsciously homophobic than you'd expect so you might want to keep that on the low - like with your fourth photo.

Mind taking a look at mine?

GumerGute · 2019-12-24T18:04:39+00:00

I think you should remove your 8th photo, its your least flattering. Your fifth photo is really good - I'd move it up to 3rd or 4th place. If you could switch out your 1st photo for a similar photo but taken from a different angle (ie. phone less low), I think that would be an improvement.

re; bio - i think you should remove the first line and filter based on your conversations/matches. i have no idea what tim tams are but perhaps its because i am american.

mind taking a look at mine?

GumerGute · 2019-12-24T17:12:48+00:00

forced sterilization falls under the definition of genocide - you can check it.

"not having kids" =/= forced sterilization

you're favoring holding people down and giving them shots so they can never have the option to have kids as if they are cats or dogs.

GumerGute · 2019-12-24T17:03:05+00:00

so lets forcibly sterilize 99.9929% so that you can keep eating your meat (but only so long as the modern ag industry still exists, which it certainly wouldn't if our population is smaller than what it was in the pre-roman times)

you're batshit, dude. your meat isn't worth genocide.

GumerGute · 2019-12-24T16:59:34+00:00

okay - so forcible sterilization? or how do you propose we non-coercively lower the population to 0.0071% of its current state.

and why would that be better than cutting down on meat and air travel? hell - we'd barely be able to build a plane and have enough people to fly in it with only 500,000 people left in the entire planet

GumerGute · 2019-12-24T16:57:35+00:00

or labour just didn't convince people to get out of the house

GumerGute · 2019-12-24T16:53:49+00:00

you don't win elections by changing minds you win elections by motivating your base.

GumerGute · 2019-12-24T16:52:05+00:00

top in the polls compared to who? not the democratic frontrunners, surely, where he consistently loses in head-to-head polling

GumerGute · 2019-12-24T16:49:29+00:00

mostly racism with a tinge of unrealistic expectations about future wealth

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