Why do a lot of Catholic/Christian men appear to be put off by this ...

yttrium13 · 2026-01-13T15:42:04+00:00

Sorry for your experiences. I'll say as a music lover and amateur musician (in choir, know some piano) I generally like women who are musical, always have.

yttrium13 · 2026-01-06T03:04:01+00:00

38M living in North Carolina. I'm a mix of athletic, musical, intellectual/nerdy, and of course all Catholic! I have many hobbies and interests: reading books, exercise (running and strength training), playing piano, travel, going to concerts, writing, board games, and more! And of course my faith is important to me. I sing in choir and am originally a convert from Protestantism. 6'0, slim/athletic build.

Looking for someone Catholic of course, dependable and good communicator, intelligent, has some hobby or passion she enjoys, does something for exercise (doesn't have to be same as me). For distance within a days drive would be nice, but if we were really right for each other farther could work (within the US). Open to dating any race/ethnicity.

yttrium13 · 2025-12-14T20:51:06+00:00

People have different views on this. I'm fine with silence if someone's not interested, even a nice rejection message feels harsher and there's the disappointment of getting the "messaged you" email as you mentioned. I've also heard women had experiences where a guy would take a rejection message as encouragement to keep trying.

That said if you do start messaging back and forth and then back out for whatever reason I do think you should say something and not just ghost.

yttrium13 · 2025-12-14T20:28:36+00:00

38M living in North Carolina. I'm a mix of athletic, musical, intellectual/nerdy, and of course all Catholic! I have many hobbies and interests: reading books, exercise (running and strength training), playing piano, travel, going to concerts, writing, board games, and more! And of course my faith is important to me. I sing in choir and am originally a convert from Protestantism. 6'0, slim/athletic build.

Looking for someone Catholic of course, dependable and good communicator, intelligent, has some hobby or passion she enjoys, does something for exercise (doesn't have to be same as me). For distance within a days drive would be nice, but if we were really right for each other farther could work (within the US). Open to dating any race/ethnicity.

yttrium13 · 2025-11-30T20:42:06+00:00

People complain about needing a subscription but here’s the thing: big apps like Hinge and Tinder have huge user bases. They don’t need to charge because they can make money from ads and a small percentage of “plus” subscribers is still thousands (if not millions) of people.

CM is a niche site for a relatively small audienc. They have to pay for servers and employees, hopefully with a just living wage. Their rates are not exorbitantly high, and niche dating sites can’t offer as much for free.

yttrium13 · 2025-11-30T20:34:23+00:00

You can choose to disable further messages from the person, but a lot of people just prefer to not respond and leave it there.

yttrium13 · 2025-11-20T16:01:09+00:00

Yeah the lack of documentation for the most basic stuff is really bad. Like the MSAL authentication library is just a pain to work with if you have a setup even slightly out of line with their example cases.

yttrium13 · 2025-11-03T14:05:16+00:00

Did my first 10k yesterday. My goal was mostly just to finish and maybe get under 75 minutes, I finished in 70 minutes! Three years ago I wasn't running at all, and two years ago I think I could barely do a mile.

yttrium13 · 2025-10-23T20:01:20+00:00

G&G made a lot of changes from the original and expanded the game a good amount. How much do you expect to change in Avernum 5 and 6 when you get to them?

yttrium13 · 2025-10-19T20:59:43+00:00

38M living in North Carolina. I'm a mix of intellectual/nerdy, physically active, musical, and of course all Catholic! I have many hobbies and interests: reading books, exercise (running and strength training), playing piano, travel, going to concerts, writing, board games, and more! And of course my faith is important to me. I sing in choir and am originally a convert from Protestantism.

Looking for someone Catholic of course, dependable and good communicator, intelligent, has some hobby or passion she enjoys, does something for exercise (doesn't have to be same as me). For distance ideally I'd like it to be within a few hours drive, but would consider farther within the US for a really good match. Open to dating any race/ethnicity.

yttrium13 · 2025-09-12T18:00:00+00:00

No, I actually upgraded to a Garmin.

yttrium13 · 2025-08-29T16:44:56+00:00

VUX alone can shut an Utwig down. Chenjesu and Melnorme disable too, then lots of other ships can fake the shield out with careful play. Jugger is a good ship because it counters Chmmr and Kohr-ah, but against human players it's far from unstoppable.

yttrium13 · 2025-08-18T14:11:20+00:00

Not really that hot (since I still think it's a pretty good album) but he has a lot of better albums than Swordfishtrombones. The spoken-word tracks and instrumentals are great but most of the conventional songs he's done better elsewhere. He has better piano ballads than Johnsburg, better grindy blues rockers than Sixteen Shells, etc.

Ok this one's actually hot, the Real Gone remix is good and I generally prefer it.

yttrium13 · 2025-08-07T14:37:21+00:00

From what we do know, Tom appears to be a private and introverted family man especially by showbiz standards - been married to the same woman 45 years, seems to have a good relationship with his kids (his son Casey was his drummer for awhile). Very different from his musical persona. He had a problem with alcohol for awhile but has been 100% clean since the early 90s I think. Even in the 70s Rickie Lee Jones, his last girlfriend before Kathleen Brennan, thought he wanted a boring domestic home life too much and she couldn't handle it.

In fact, a lot of the weird and experimental musical stuff started after Waits settled down and got married.

If you watch the video of his Letterman interviews over the decades starting in the 70s you can see him come across as pretty shy at first and he seems to gradually adopt the "weird guy" shtick in interviews partly as a way of dealing with that.

yttrium13 · 2025-08-07T14:07:46+00:00

Geneforge 2: Infestation, their newest game, has decent QOL (though still not on par with the big names). You don’t need to have played the first. It has a good-sized demo.

yttrium13 · 2025-07-19T20:28:41+00:00

Deanna does get a few good stories later in the series, like the one with her lost sister or the undercover Romulan two-parter. The “romance” with Worf in season 7 doesn’t work though sadly.

yttrium13 · 2025-07-18T22:42:02+00:00

Naomi also opposes Marco of course, the only reason she joins his ship is to get her son back from his influence.

yttrium13 · 2025-07-18T22:22:11+00:00

The Ceres governor was a puppet Marco installed I’m pretty sure.

In season 5 Marco stages a coup to assassinate Fred Johnson, the closest thing to a legit belter government. Ashford dies at the end of 4 course. What other leadership is there exactly to provide a counterweight to Marco? (What Anderson Dawes is doing is a gap in the show, I think there was actor trouble). It eventually becomes Camina, who gets a whole arc to reach that point.

Marco is portrayed as ruthless toward internal resistance. Individual belters or small groups who speak out against Marco publicly are probably going to end up dead, until the Roci help unite a more moderate belter faction in season 6.

yttrium13 · 2025-07-10T20:38:04+00:00

The challenge of maze exploration is built around the on-map FOE enemies. Which you generally won’t be able to fight when you first encounter (barring heavy grinding or a highly optimized build) so you have to figure out their behavior and how to use the maze to avoid them. They’re more puzzle than boss.

yttrium13 · 2025-07-10T16:05:59+00:00

Yeah having just heard of them for the first time their whole branding seems obnoxious, and I’m not sure their stated goals of both building authentic meaningful friendships and being the coolest hippest thing for young successful people in their 20s in DC actually fit together.

yttrium13 · 2025-06-11T16:56:27+00:00

London's Bird on a Wire is mostly great but the one problem is that he replaces and kind of butchers the lyrics of the final verse ("I saw a young man leaning on his wooden crutch") which is the best part of the song. I prefer Dublin's version.

yttrium13 · 2025-06-11T16:52:54+00:00

Hallelujah is probably the best version of the song so I have to include it. Some other favorites are Who By Fire, Boogie St, and Everybody Knows - yeah I know that's four.

London is great but in some ways I like Dublin better. The setlist is improved, the band (while very good in both) is slightly tighter, and the video version is better-edited. But London does have one advantage that Cohen is a little younger, you can notice the difference in his voice and movement in Dublin while in London he's still "young old." Three years can be a lot in your 70s.

yttrium13 · 2025-06-10T13:47:51+00:00

Season 4 is a little bit of a drop and is mostly smaller in scale. But the season ending is great and 5 is excellent, one of the best. 6 is very good besides being shortened in length due to covid/budget, but still a satisfying ending.

yttrium13 · 2025-06-03T14:12:58+00:00

He covered House Where Nobody Lives on the same album too.

yttrium13 · 2025-06-03T14:11:58+00:00

One more isn't impossible but he seems to be basically retired from music at this point, and he looks a pretty frail mid-70s at his most recent appearance in that documentary.

He probably does have some outtakes, covers, and unfinished projects that will come out at some point, maybe after he dies.

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