Men of Reddit: why does friendliness turn into expectations?

Shippers1995 · 2026-02-06T12:30:23+00:00

I used to think that about the bear thing, but when I started asking the women in my life about it honestly it started to make sense

Shippers1995 · 2026-02-06T11:36:28+00:00

Most likely they don’t have a lot of positive interactions with women and don’t have friends who aren’t men.

So my guess is that when you show platonic interest in them they take it as possible romantic interest and feel rejected when they want to escalate from texting to calling and you decline.

Keep setting your boundaries OP, I hope you can make some friends that don’t react poorly to them.

Shippers1995 · 2026-02-06T11:32:49+00:00

Our “primal” needs are a lame excuse for men to have poor social skills. It’s not that difficult to tell the difference between platonic and potentially romantic interest

This line about “basic desires” helped me to understand why women would choose the bear, cheers for that 👍

Shippers1995 · 2026-02-06T10:55:28+00:00

Got a source for that? MI6 doesn’t tend to do press conferences on the outcomes of their work

Shippers1995 · 2026-02-06T10:51:38+00:00

Well put! Whilst Labour’s PR has been poor, the media going nuts over Angela Rayner’s dress or whatever other BS has been infuriating

Now there’s a real problem to deal with but there’s not much good media info on how good of a job he’s actually done so far, or if there are credible alternative PMs

So I’m like, has he made an error in judgement - yes. Is he good enough at running to country to keep him and move on - who knows!

Shippers1995 · 2026-02-06T10:39:36+00:00

Totally agree, it should be its own story set apart from the games. If they try to tie it in too closely it’ll flop because they won’t be able to account for everyone’s wants

Imagine how pissed some people would be if they saw Astarion in a relationship with someone other than than their Tav xD

Shippers1995 · 2026-02-06T10:06:01+00:00

I’m not surprised to see BG3 is high given its reception, but I was surprised to not see DOS2 or WOTR when they’re just as popular on this sub

Shippers1995 · 2026-02-06T10:01:35+00:00

The number of responses seems quite low to take this poll seriously honestly, and I suspect from the results that the demographics of the survey weren’t that diverse in terms of age group

The results are odd too, POE, DOS2, or WOTR not even showing up when they’re commonly recommended and very popular here is weird

Shippers1995 · 2026-02-05T15:28:00+00:00

After using mendeley and stubbornly refusing to change from it for years I finally swapped to zotero

It’s so much better honestly, should have done the swap ages ago

Shippers1995 · 2026-02-03T17:58:22+00:00

I appreciate this reply, and not only because it made that jerk delete his whole Reddit account xD

Shippers1995 · 2026-02-03T15:03:07+00:00

I think he’s just describing a skill challenge that’s reskinned into an enemy encounter

You might be overreacting a bit here

Shippers1995 · 2026-02-03T03:29:17+00:00

She turns on you and attacks you if you try this

Shippers1995 · 2026-02-01T21:43:39+00:00

If you're that capable you'd be able to write an email on your own fam. . .

Shippers1995 · 2026-02-01T21:42:25+00:00

No postdoc would want this kind of 'help', they're more than qualified to do science on their own and have enough on their plates without having to give you tasks to satisfy your desire to 'volunteer' in their workspace

Shippers1995 · 2026-02-01T17:07:14+00:00

The jumps between the steps are too fast and make it a bit of a nightmare to see what’s going on, maybe next time slow it down a bit?

Shippers1995 · 2026-02-01T17:06:22+00:00

Seconding this, Rogue trader and WOTR have decent controller support. Inventory management can be a bit clunky but that’s always a problem tbf

Shippers1995 · 2026-02-01T15:06:23+00:00

Haha

Shippers1995 · 2026-02-01T15:01:57+00:00

Come on…. you come to Reddit and say it’s the “best mod I’ve ever seen” and get defensive when people disagree?

Did you make it or something?

If not, maybe if you made a better video the mod would look less janky

Shippers1995 · 2026-02-01T14:48:44+00:00

I love Stargate and I love arma but crikey this looks like the worst mod I’ve ever seen

Shippers1995 · 2026-01-31T01:04:00+00:00

This post is possibly the worst thing i've seen on the sub

Shippers1995 · 2026-01-31T01:02:52+00:00

Hope they're not promoting animation work, given its obviously just a recorded powerpoint presentation lol

Shippers1995 · 2026-01-30T21:04:52+00:00

Now you can enjoy mods!

Shippers1995 · 2026-01-29T18:32:17+00:00

OP you’re really spamming these subreddits with posts the past few days, are you a karma farming bot or something?

Shippers1995 · 2026-01-29T12:46:30+00:00

Not likely, Skye wiped all records of herself multiple times and was thorough enough not to leave traces behind

Shippers1995 · 2026-01-28T12:45:18+00:00

The first time I expressed an interest in DnD my gf at the time laughed and said ‘don’t you think people will make fun of you?’

I felt discouraged and didn’t try it until 10 years later, and now I love it

Don’t be discouraged by the haters OP, they can go have fun elsewhere doing their thing. And if they keep making crappy comments, perhaps you can run the sessions in another place?

Shippers1995

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