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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

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[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Remeber when greentext was something interesting or toughtfull? Instead of fariytales for incels?

[–] some_random_nick@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

Not in the last 15 years.

[–] aquinteros@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 15 points 9 hours ago

ELO is a term used in ranked competitive video games. Part of this author's sense of humor is that tinder is a ranked game

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Can women message people on Tinder they haven't matched with?

And if this was effective wouldn't it lower all women's Elo scores? Unless he only ignored one group and catfished everybody else. Sounds like a lot of work.

[–] dai@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

No, only tinder premium can do so IIRC.

Bumble? From memory women can only message first, men must wait to be messaged before they can.

It's been a while since I used those platforms so my information could be incorrect.

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 3 points 54 minutes ago (3 children)

Bumble is moving away from having women message first as apparently it was too much of a burden for the women on that app (According to https://www.npr.org/2024/05/06/1249296671/bumble-dating-apps-women-opening-moves )

Understandable as I find having to generate an opener hard too. Kinda a shame though as the point was to give them a place to have some more control with the interactions.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 38 minutes ago (1 children)

Wasn't that the whole point of bumble?

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 1 points 30 minutes ago

Yeah, pretty much haha, otherwise its just tinder. I used it briefly a while back and usually the first message would be "." so that I could start the actual conversation. So I supposed it's never been all that different to begin with

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 31 minutes ago

Yeah, the old Bumble model was better (in my opinion as a man). It creates incentive to have an interesting profile with stuff people can comment on. The newer "opening move" thing incentivizes generic responses. Bumble (in my experience) still has women message first far more often than Tinder though. You may just have to wait and not message immediately.

Creating an opening message is only really difficult if someone has a generic boring profile, so if it's an issue for anyone maybe that's why.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 40 minutes ago
[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 15 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I think this is an unrealized thought experiment by op. I don't believe the Chad he imagines has any relation to the man most woman are looking for.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Op creates profile that makes him look rich and stupid.

Gets targeted by bots using ai generated images of mildly attractive women.

Thinks he’s actually attracting human beings.

Anon still has never willingly gotten the attention of a human woman besides his mother

[–] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

And I'm telling ya his momma is a nice lady.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 101 points 1 day ago (5 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 35 minutes ago

'ello mate!

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 164 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 4 points 14 hours ago

It's not often I actually laugh when reading a comment. This was one of those times

[–] tkohldesac@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 50 points 1 day ago

Hi dying, I'm dad.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 day ago

Sorry for your loss.

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (12 children)
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Personally, I don't like the fact that every team-based video game uses ELO, a system designed for a 1 on 1 game, to determine an individual's skill.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

While Elo (and side note: it's a person's name, not an acronym) isn't perfect and systems like Glicko-2 are better even for 1v1s, is there a better system than Elo that could be used to rate players in team games? Especially if there's a mix of pre-made teams and random teams thrown together by matchmaking?

Edit: extra bonus if it can be applicable in games that have both 1v1 and team game components where there might be a desire for some form of bleed between the two. (e.g. AoE2 where your starting Elo in one of them is based on your Elo in the other, if you've played a lot of one type of game before trying the other.)

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I suspect games tinker with the formula behind the scenes, to accurately place people faster if nothing else. The more players the longer it could take for the skill of any one to show up in the numbers, so I bet they factor in other game specific metrics at least at first. There would be some risk of this being abused, but that's less if they keep it a secret and maybe the progress numbers shown to players aren't quite the same as the real numbers used to decide who to match them against.

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[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 99 points 1 day ago (8 children)

It stands for female humanoid and is exactly as dehumanizing as it sounds

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 day ago

It was femoid originally but anon got even lazier.

I think that the part being dehumanized is the one that uses that word.

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[–] SPRUNTnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 25 points 1 day ago (12 children)

I think it's supposed to be some kind of derogatory label for women, but is really just an identifier that the person using it is a worthless being whose opinion is as relevant as a gnats thoughts on the economy.

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