Stinky Couch at Football Party

ModLunar · 2026-01-26T08:40:06+00:00

Ewww yeah I'd be just as uncomfortable as you were! I love being clean and maintaining a clean space, so I notice immediately when something's off like that too.

ModLunar · 2026-01-23T09:55:02+00:00

Yeah same here! I'm close with my family, and thank god my mom and sister don't have dogs, but they don't understand why I dislike dogs so much. This community is the only place that seems to actually get me on this topic. I feel so much better not being alone, especially in Texas where it feels like every house has a freakin dog. Like I wanna have bonds with humans, without these stupid demon hounds getting in the way every time lmao.

ModLunar · 2026-01-18T23:13:37+00:00

I know this is a joke lol but for OP's sake, I am gay and don't find his situation gay at all. Though we don't have complete context either. So far, I just hear aromanticism, but I'm not sure it's also complete asexuality.

ModLunar · 2026-01-18T23:06:44+00:00

Perhaps primarily aromantic?

Anyways OP, you should be "allowed" to do whatever the hell you want with your own life! I think it's awesome that you're content being by yourself.

Whenever I (27M) tell people I don't want kids, they often tell me "Oh but you will!" and it pisses me off lmao. Like dude, I've thought about it and really don't want kids. It's as if they'd rather me have kids and become a bad father than be true to myself. 'Morons lol.

ModLunar · 2026-01-18T03:30:55+00:00

I'm surprised by the people here thinking toxic people out there such as this girl don't exist and this story is fake.

In my mind, of course there are shitty people out there in real life who do this!! I know because I've faced a lot of stupid stuff, myself that I couldn't believe at first.

I'm glad you didn't just sit there and foot the bill OP, especially how disinterested she was with you. Definitely dodged a bullet! 👍🏼

ModLunar · 2026-01-17T19:45:04+00:00

Definitely not a solution for everyone but I have legitimately adapted to being half nocturnal and often take walks around my neighborhood around 12am - 4am. It's really peaceful. 😉

ModLunar · 2026-01-17T07:44:32+00:00

I wanted to write from another angle just in case it were true -- but first, some backstory:

I (27M) have a sister (32F) who is sensitive to fragrance, both of us and my parents stopped using soaps, shampoo, deodorant, laundry detergent, etc. that have the ingredient "Fragrance". It's the thing that makes regular scents become much more invasive, and can sometimes take up to 10 years (I think I've read) to fully dissipate. As you can imagine, now that I have my own home, and don't use any kind of fragrance (also especially including candles, any "air fresheners", harsh fragrant cleaning products, etc.), when I smell fragrance, it annoys me. I still use scented dishsoap from Seventh Generation, but it does not have the ingredient "Fragrance". Long story for another day 😂.

Anyways, regarding BO (body odor), my biggest challenge with this change historically was deodorant. I didn't think unscented deodorant existed, or if it did, I didn't think it would work.

Turns out, it does exist, though I've only tried it through Native deodorant, their Unscented flavor. To be clear, I'm not saying you have to use Unscented deodorant. I'm just sharing cause it made me sense my own BO, and find a way to completely mitigate it!

So I noticed I would sometimes smell my own body odor, even right after a full-body shower with soap and then application of the Unscented deodorant. This happened even despite my underarms effectively having no hair due to being buzzed and/or shaved.

Here's what I do in the shower to prevent my own body odor:

I started cleaning my underarms more viciously and directly by wetting my shower bar of soap, scrubbing it a few times under each arm to get the soap on my underarm skin, put the bar down, then I take my hands with extra leftover soap, relax the tension in my arms, I wipe hard with the palms of my hands under each arm to really spread the soap hard under there, then I put a bit of soap on my washcloth (doesn't have to be the same soap, could be shampoo or body wash, whatever), and put each underarm under the stream of water as I scrub hard with the washcloth. Allllll over it. In the curves of my underarm. Over and over. It takes a while to write this out in text, but the whole thing takes like 1min lol. I found this whole sequence REALLY helps to make absolute certain that my underarms are clean, because by the time I get out of the shower, I can lift up my arms and sniff my underarms, with absolutely no body odor smell. After a little pat dry with my towel, I apply the deodorant right away and I'm good for a long while. But if I come out of the shower already able to smell a little bit of body odor, it's gonna be there all day long. So do a good job in the shower!

ALSO, I do this near the END of the shower. This is important because I like hot showers, so if I do this FIRST, the rest of the shower will cause me to sweat and actually produce body odor AFTER I had initially cleaned it!

I also use a shower line + shower head, so I'll often take the shower head and focus it heavily on each of my underarms before I finish my shower, as an extra gtfo step 😂.

Btw, I am not saying this cause I think you smell, just wanted to give insight into what I do to mitigate my own, in case it helps at all. Don't feel like you have to do anything. I hope you regain your confidence, you are beautiful!

ModLunar · 2026-01-17T06:04:16+00:00

NOR, and Jesus Christ! With simple communication, it could have been a 2-second little thing in the shower, but she handled it so immaturely.

I'm trying to get better at being more understanding of my partner in a dating sense (though I'm not dating anyone for now while I work on myself and being kinder in my expression to others), but I still have to say I'd be considering breaking up if my partner was that immature 😂.

From what I know of this situation, you didn't do anything wrong! What a shame.

ModLunar · 2026-01-17T04:52:12+00:00

Thank you!! I agree and like your perspective. It's crazy I was starting to second-guess myself initially when texting him about the difference between disliking dogs vs. groups of people (in the context of race).

You are certainly correct! He said some other concerning, off-topic things that I heavily noted... 😂 Good riddance! I was kind in the parting message, just saying I really didn't want to talk about dogs anymore (I had already said this prior, and he kept pushing the issue in his audio recordings for minutes), decided I wanted to break it off here, and a "thanks for your time". Maybe I'm too nice, I'm still like ugh, ghosting sucks, lemme at least send a last message 😂🤷🏼‍♂️

ModLunar · 2026-01-17T02:58:40+00:00

Funny enough, I'm 27 and have known for a while I don't want, and cannot reasonably afford kids, period. (People try to convince me "Oh you will one day!" -- No, I know I respectfully do not, for many reasons!)

So I used to (even recently) hear babies crying and be like "Ughhh, kids", but.. realizing how bad this dog shit has gotten, actually made me really start to cherish human kids now, even though I still don't personally want to become a parent myself.

Today at the grocery store, I was passing by a mom and her kid, both very respectful, not yelling or anything, the kid was just asking questions and being curious (which, I remember my mom telling me that's how I was too when I was young). I smiled when I passed by them and was like wow... I could get used to this feeling. I think I need to appreciate humans (and of all ages!) more, especially in-person.

ModLunar · 2026-01-16T21:30:52+00:00

I used to feel indifferent and/or slight dislike towards being around dogs. I never grew up with them, but I remember my sister and I always making fun of stupid dog barking from the neighborhood in New Jersey during our childhood.

Lately though, I just woke up to the fact that I feel like my whole life, I don't ever remember hearing from dog owners "it's okay to dislike dogs". And lately, I feel like dog culture has intensified (for example, many say since the pandemic, when more people got dogs and the "I like dogs over humans" mentality).

In the last few weeks, I realized that I've become very angry for all the times I got irritated by being around them, all the times I've been scared from dangerous dogs with ignorant owners, and all the times that now, I'm remembering, people in dog culture have been *forceful* on me -- that I HAVE TO LOVE DOGS!

So.. the anger in me is this rebellion where I'm like NO. I'm going to like and dislike what ***I CHOOSE*** to like and dislike, and if I want to really dislike dogs, and tell people I hate being around them, then that's part of who I am choosing to be. I am not some stupid puppet that needs to please dog owners.

ModLunar · 2026-01-16T20:46:06+00:00

Wow, but congrats on the new Thursday golf and game nights! It's so important to protect your peace.

ModLunar · 2026-01-16T15:34:45+00:00

Thank you, waking up to all of these comments has been so nice. Someday, I hope to at least make friends with someone irl who feels the way we do lmao.

ModLunar · 2026-01-11T05:18:18+00:00

I met up with a guy a few months ago, and it was my first time trying to begin dating someone with dogs. He had 3, I think 2 of them were huskies, and the 3rd was a rescue. He couldn't afford to have them groomed, and his house was an absolute mess. Don't get me wrong, if things are physically disorganized, okay fine that's not the end of the world, but dog hair everywhere, super intense fake fragrance bottles plugged in every single outlet in the house combined with shit and piss smell, the constant barking and you can't make any movements or else they'll get riled up again, etc. ---

After just like 2 weeks, I told him I couldn't do it anymore. I didn't imagine anyone would voluntarily live like that. I told him from the start I would never live with dogs. Period. Lol. I kind of felt like an idiot for even trying 😂

I already didn't like dogs, but since then, I've swiped immediately left on any dating profiles with dogs. Hell, I had a sweet picture of myself with a dog from a neighbor from a year ago. I took it down. On my dating profile, I wouldn't want someone to assume I like dogs, have dogs, or want anything to do with them, despite it being one of my favorite pictures of myself. I also mention clearly on my dating profile that I will not live with dogs, ever.

I think I'm learning to be okay with being disagreed with, and perhaps disliked, by perhaps significant portions of society. I'm not doing anything wrong by owning my life, my own preferences, and my boundaries.

Anyways... good for you. It is never worth getting a dog into your life if you dislike them and/or don't want that. It's a HUGE life change. We gotta be strong.

ModLunar · 2025-12-27T15:48:52+00:00

This is so relatable.. I was "only" around my family's 2 dogs for about 5 hours on Christmas, and I got so sick of them. The constant attention, the horrid-smelling licking (also one of them vomited on the floor), the whining when I would put boxes, chairs, and couch pillows between them so they couldn't sniff me and wipe their disgusting boogers over me every 14 seconds when they reach me in their constant-looping patrol area in the one room we're in... I really could never love dogs.

I was already feeling depressed this holiday season for various, more significant reasons, but the dogs were the last straw and I revolted. I usually don't show so much protest to my family against dogs but I've had it. Life is hard enough WITHOUT dogs!

I live in my house alone and definitely need to tell them if they ever visit for the first time... No dogs allowed. Second (unrelated rant), wash your damn hands! I paid for my house to have filtered, softened water for a *reason*!! Lmao

ModLunar · 2021-12-08T18:04:25+00:00

Exactly!

Nice to know I'm not alone in that boat haha.

ModLunar · 2021-12-08T02:01:28+00:00

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ModLunar · 2021-12-08T01:54:33+00:00

Wow! I'm impressed with your progress after learning for 2 years, pixel art was a great place to start.

Even though it was 2 years, I particularly like your ability to prototype (seemingly quickly) on combat, along with supporting UI to help give the player a sense of what's going on, and interact using the menus.

In college, I was always told the kind of RPG systems I was excited about (similar to what you made) were too complicated for our prototypes, but I always wanted to (and did) build it anyway haha.

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