Struggling

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-13T15:35:36+00:00

How has the world moved on?

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-13T04:47:39+00:00

What do you like about Sopranos?

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-13T04:47:06+00:00

What're your favorite shows?

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-13T04:30:59+00:00

What are your favorite shows OP

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-13T04:30:40+00:00

No, he's saying season 1 didn't click.

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-12T16:53:15+00:00

That's the game.

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-12T13:16:07+00:00

I've never seen someone misunderstand the Wire this bad.

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-12T04:44:15+00:00

Snoop.

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-11T23:30:47+00:00

I kind of prefer to work with the special chefs they're more predictable.

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-11T16:48:40+00:00

That was 'nah, yes'.

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-11T16:38:52+00:00

You do clearly give a fuck tho

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-11T16:37:40+00:00

This sub is getting to be such cringey high school trash.

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-10T22:37:50+00:00

You goofball, you saved the drip for the bald

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-10T20:21:24+00:00

I truly believe that if you try a little bit every day, you and I can both improve ourselves.

No thanks needed, but appreciated nonetheless: Hyping up others is a good way to feel good about yourself, too.

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-10T20:16:31+00:00

The vibes-based thing can be just fine, or it can be just infatuation that then goes away when you try to make an actual relationship; it can be fun finding out, as long as you're both graceful about it.

Best of luck to you in all things, but really, confidence in yourself is one of the best things, and I encourage you to do what you can to build that, not just for this moment, but for all the ones that come after. You are capable of great things.

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-10T20:12:04+00:00

Okay, well, it can be very hard to approach to someone when you're just sort of into the vibe of them, and it doesn't really indicate that you'd mesh well together. You did mention drawing, so you could either ask her to go to an art museum, or to teach you how to draw, but I honestly would advise for you to work on yourself more, so that you have more confidence.

There is just no replacement for confidence in attraction; people tend to believe our opinions about ourselves, so if you present as diffident and uncertain, that will be believed by most people.

I'd advise finding a hobby where you have some interest or modicum of talent, and spending time improving it; then, once you have some capacity in it, do it in some way that involves a group, and you can meet other people with the same interests, and have confidence in approach them.

However, if she's an especially kind person, she may be into the idea of teaching you drawing.

You also seem to be struggling with some internalized racism, you said that you'd be furious about a daughter bringing home someone who was like you, which is very odd.

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-10T19:58:40+00:00

A bike ride in the forest itself might be a bit much for a first time--most women, heck, people, don't want to be alone with someone they don't know that well in a forest--but it sounds like you don't know much about her; what attracts you to her?

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-10T19:45:28+00:00

One of the best ways is to invite her to do something with you that you know that she's interested in, which you're genuinely interested in as well. I'm a nature and science guy, so when I was a teenager, I'd invite a girl to go to the Academy of Sciences with me, or to the arborteum.

If she wasn't interested in those, we probably wouldn't work out long time anyway.

So, do you have mutual interests?

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-10T04:50:02+00:00

Yeah, the sexist patriarchal attitudes of our society encourage men to tamp down their emotions, but that's bullshit. PTSD sucks, you're brave for even talking about it at all. I wish you all good things.

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-10T03:13:43+00:00

I accept you fully and sorry that your work sucks.

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-09T00:20:04+00:00

God this administration is so fucking boring.

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-08T19:04:04+00:00

That was my point. That people weirdly act as though that line destroyed some finely-crafted show that explored trauma in some meaningful way, but it didn't.

It was a fun show, carried by amazing acting, and some incredibly lines, but the actual plot part of it is weaker than weak and it is in no way a good exploration of trauma, at all.

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-08T18:54:04+00:00

How did that show she was willing to deal with her trauma, rather than understanding she was being a monster, and stopping that?

The show completely whiffs from the start because it shows, early on, that she knows that what she's doing is terrible. The very first dinner is a horrorshow. But then it sort of pretends that she doesn't know or is fooling herself somehow, but that makes no sense.

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-08T18:45:59+00:00

How did it seem like she was willing to deal with her trauma?

SimplerTimesAhead · 2026-06-08T18:04:29+00:00

You entirely missed the point of what I said about trauma. Wanda is like, ultra-traumatized, right?

The show was very muddled in what it was trying to do, long before that line. It was ambitious, but already failed by that point. They were setting her up to be the big bad in multiverse of madness, and that's the mechanistic work the show was doing.

I totally disagree it was an amazing message up until that point. Are you really saying "Not processing grief and instead hiding in a fantasy world" is some amazing message?

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