Random Talk

[Nintex]

Got the Hinge profile going, I like this app a lot better. You can actually see who was active on the app and the voice thing is a nice bonus.
The algorithm is also better in showing you people interested in the same kind of relationship as you and it more quickly caught on to my preferences.

It is also easier to 'like' certain aspects of a profile, like a joke or interest.

Bit pricier though, $50 for 3 months for this one, for Bumble it was $35 but that's a waste of money given how poorly curated it is.

Hinge is more generally for people who are looking for relationships and aren't chumps. The bar is higher but it seems more genuinely geared for creating relationships instead of pump and dump situations.

I'm seeing some overlap in profiles between Bumble and Hinge but overall I like Hinge better. You can more easily like certain things about someone and their profile. Today a cute nerd that wanted to cuddle popped up and I could lean into that very easily. Although less so in Hinge, both apps rely on these 'boosters' that give you more visibility and those are clearly exploited by the influencer/OnlyFans types to reel in $$$.

What Cauliflower said about 'How wet you get each other' and what you said about most guys being simpletons also got me thinking about the rejection I got from the redhead, where she said that she didn't feel the same romantic connection as I did but appreciated the effort etc. and was later happy that I wasn't one of 'those guys' that would make her life hell just because she rejected me. 

So I tuned my profiles to highlight my romantic side better because that was really missing, especially in the voice message. With the "don't date me if" template as a starting point I basically highlighted that they shouldn't date me if they don't want to do all these romantic things after returning home from work. And this time I decided not to end it with a witty comment like "but first I gotta save" or "in that case have fun at McDonalds" or anything like that so it was more sincere. I do need better pictures though so that's the first thing after the weather improves.
 
Just like with the red stuff I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing. I've been walking through an historic 16th century city center daily because my office is there. Tourists stand outside my window to take pictures of the buildings and streets, it is often blocked for fashion shoots and even wedding ceremonies (that's how ROMANTIC it is) and yet it never occured to me to snap a few photos of myself there, same with all the times I walked to the beach to look at the sunset. So romance is the other piece of the puzzle I was missing. Yet from Tales of Symphonia to Casablanca it was pretty damn obvious in the media I consume. 

So today I had another epiphany when I realized that Fire Emblem: Echoes is my favorite FE, because A) Celica is a redhead and B) it is essentially a love story about an impossible relationship.