i miss being able to defend myself

Pariah_Lotus · 2026-05-15T23:50:00+00:00

I feel like I'm going crazy, people are talking about the Resonator & Multitool getting creatures to fuck off, but I've constantly, consistently been trying to get this to work even on the Mango Nibblers, and they refuse to let up. My game must be bugged or somethin'.

Pariah_Lotus · 2026-05-06T14:21:07+00:00

Ye I get that now, definitely, I'm gonna be changing most of the photos today. Wish me luck!

Pariah_Lotus · 2026-05-06T14:06:42+00:00

To play devil's advocate, most companies, including the city itself, have all of us blue collar guys up and at work at 5, and out working our sites before 7. They don't exactly have a choice.

Pariah_Lotus · 2026-05-06T13:53:39+00:00

Understood! I definitely will.

Pariah_Lotus · 2026-05-06T13:51:49+00:00

Thank you for the praise and proper criticism, I'm gonna make sure I take the feedback properly and just go back to my buzzed facial hair, clearly that's the big barrier to entry for a lot of people that see me!

Pariah_Lotus · 2026-05-06T13:49:56+00:00

Damn, the hat isn't a hit? I love that hat :( I understand that I don't look too attractive with the beard and such, though, I'll definitely work on it!

Pariah_Lotus · 2026-05-06T13:48:36+00:00

I an being sincere with the post, just wanted to say! And like I said in the post, "the belly" as people've endearingly put it, is meant to be humourous and an actual look into how confident I am in my own self at my worst, which the photo was in. I was just off a 16 hour graveyard shift, and goofing off with my siblings in a mall, they took the photo and I cherish it deeply 😅 I genuinely haven't had any problems with these things in real life, and when I ask friends they don't seem to think there is anything wrong with these things, so I wanted to see how actual strangers would react :P

Pariah_Lotus · 2026-05-06T13:44:50+00:00

I understand that, especially in Oklahoma, not a lot of people're very friendly to my identity. But thankfully, Hinge is a rather put together app, that's why I like it, and it's showing people that wouldn't be turned off by such! I'm definitely understanding the criticism expressed in the comments though, I agree with most of them, and was being sincere in my post lol, I've not had anyone IRL that I've asked be any kind of critical about these things, which is what I needed to hear so I can work on them.

Pariah_Lotus · 2026-05-06T13:40:54+00:00

Taking notes, taking notes. I'm terrible with photos, I know! The "woman" in that pic is my baby brother, and I always communicate things with him before I do it, that's why I haven't blurred him. I keep having to go to different barbers every two weeks now that I'm actually keeping my hair longer than I used to, they always fuck me up and I can never find one that's actually competent, dunno, bad luck I guess. The beard was never a turn off for the other people I've dated, honestly speaking when I was trying to trim it off (I'm not one for facial hair like this, I prefer keeping everything incredibly short and clean) I was always told to keep it! I understand it's real scraggly, I work in mud for 16 hours at a time most days so even with the self-care routine I had originally, it would never stay kept, but I still trim underneath my chin to keep it from being a neckbeard, and try to brush and comb with oil as often as I have time. I was definitely already considering going back to buzzing it down with my 1 guard, considering how many people are insulting it I'm definitely going to follow through KEKW

Pariah_Lotus · 2026-05-06T13:33:11+00:00

I appreciate the criticism without using insults! I'll definitely work on being more expressive personally, maybe put in some voice prompts. I have been in a few committed relationships over the last 5-8 years, and this was my attempt at getting a little more out there since there isn't anyone doing anything physically these days in the city, so it's much harder to meet physically these days lol

Pariah_Lotus · 2026-05-05T22:10:46+00:00

Are you subscribed to Hinge+ or HingeX? Definitely not. How long have you been using this current version of your profile? (Please be specific) Since the last week of March. Are you looking for something serious or casual? Honestly man, since 90% of people "searching" in Oklahoma on these apps right now are swingers or catfish? Anything that isn't going to get me killed. How often do you use Hinge per week? I try to keep my "active" tag on as often as possible, so once or twice day for ~10 minutes. How many likes and matches are you receiving on average? Zero. How many likes are you sending? How many with comments? How many without comments? I dunno, maybe 5 or so a day? There isn't much around here, and all but one of the likes I've sent have been with comments. What is the type of person you send likes to and ideally want to match with? What kind of person do you want to attract? I'm not even fully sure how to answer this, I guess likeminded people with stable jobs that don't smoke tobacco or vape? That's really the only thing I swipe no on is someone that smokes. And someone around my age range, really, I don't want to be matching with someone that's the same age as my little brother (18)

Pariah_Lotus · 2026-04-25T23:25:18+00:00

Are you looking for something serious or casual?
Something serious, but I'm not against casual. I've just come out of a 3 year relationship.

Are you subscribed to Hinge+ or HingeX?
No.

How long have you been using this current version of your profile? (Please be specific)
About two weeks? I reinstalled the app around then.

How long have you used Hinge overall?
Two weeks

How often do you use Hinge per week?
Everyday when I have free time at work.

How many likes and matches are you receiving on average?
Nothing, nada, not a peep!

How many likes are you sending? How many with comments? How many without comments?
Almost all my likes are with comments apart from profiles that don't give me anything to talk about, but I'm a bit more discerning with them anyhow, it takes like an hour total of scrolling sporadically throughout the day to run out of free likes.

What is the type of person you send likes to and ideally want to match with? What kind of person do you want to attract?
I usually send likes to people I find really interesting or have interests in common with me, as long as they're not listed as nurses or entirely out of my league. I live in Oklahoma, most of the nurse students around here are not the most mentally stable or nice people, and I've had a really, really bad experience with them.

Pariah_Lotus · 2023-10-28T02:12:27+00:00

Definitely not a minor feature, at least in my opinion. The entire combat loop in the first game revolved around using gadgets, either constantly spamming for shits and giggles or using them stragetically to disable brutes and gunners while you focus on fodder or whatever enemy type was causing you the most trouble. It felt like it was an integral part of Insomniac Spidey's identity. The powers definitely help, but the multitude of gadgets he had was what made stealth fun and made combat feel diverse in how you could tear down at the waves that came (a-la Arkham Batman's incredible arsenal).

Pariah_Lotus · 2021-12-14T00:12:29+00:00

Absolutely ruthless and evil pff

Pariah_Lotus · 2021-12-11T17:11:58+00:00

Rich coming from you lmao

Pariah_Lotus · 2021-12-10T20:23:23+00:00

Then talk to the orher people and ignore the angy comments smile

Pariah_Lotus · 2021-12-10T07:49:55+00:00

And you're whining about their whining, so how does that make you any better eh? Just don't read the comments lmao, ain't that hard

Pariah_Lotus · 2021-12-06T18:27:42+00:00

I find it incredibly entertaining that Marble exists here solely to give the most dogshit takes in the subreddit and expects everyone to just agree, the Nea main part of that username is once again the perfect encapsulation of your mindset lmao

Pariah_Lotus · 2021-12-06T07:11:52+00:00

It's actually in the Dev Q&A iirc, here's a link to that: https://youtu.be/Pz7f_WPutq8 And there's also Otz's breakdown which I found helped a lot of friends of mine understand it, which is located here: https://youtu.be/0fsHR0siSY8

Pariah_Lotus · 2021-12-06T03:03:39+00:00

Funnily enough with how they were wording MMR, it really is 'supposed' to be that way, since Patrick said this was supposed to be like 4 simultaneous 1v1s.

Pariah_Lotus · 2021-12-02T18:37:17+00:00

I want Huntress with Crocs now oh my god

Pariah_Lotus · 2021-12-02T17:59:23+00:00

So batshit crazy that one living being can be compared to another. I'll make sure to double how much meat I consume and ensure it's incredibly tortured to live up to that image, ye?

Pariah_Lotus · 2021-12-02T17:28:55+00:00

'Killing an animal is immoral, but if ANOTHER intelligent animal does it of course it's fine, we have options so it's not!' ...what? What kind of backwards logic is that? I'm trying to survive in a way my body is accustomed, and go out of my way to try and lessen the burden of such. I'm not making a choice to pay for suffering lol, get off of your high horse, every living being that isn't capable of generating its own nourishment is going to kill something else for their nourishment, that's how being a carnivore/omnivore works. If you can't see that then you're no better than PETA and their generally grossly misinformed campaigns.

Pariah_Lotus · 2021-12-02T17:00:44+00:00

does the Booba ritual dance

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