• TerribleHands [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I remember once seeing a bit of standup comedy where a comedian was talking about going over to a guys place on a date and he shows off his elaborate pirate movie set-up. She’s like “I’m not unimpressed, but I’d be more impressed by a guy who can just afford to pay for Netflix”. Anyway I think about that a lot in my dating life.

    • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]@hexbear.net
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      who can just afford to pay for Netflix

      ok the $10,000 raid server might be impressive, but who wants to wait 10 minutes for the first episode to download?

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        Finding a show worth watching takes way longer then that anyway - if you want to watch now you’ll need to have started like an hour ago.

        If your torrent client supports sequential download then you can start in half a minute.

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      She’s like “I’m not unimpressed, but I’d be more impressed by a guy who can just afford to pay for Netflix”

      she can speak for herself. my wife loads all the game consoles and pcs up with pirated games because we’re fucking poor. if she could just buy them…cool I guess? wow someone has money. epic. i know which one i think is more impressive.

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        That’s fair, but to be honest I think you might be a bit of an exception. I haven’t found many people who find overfrugality to be particularly attractive.

        Personally I pirate everything, but I’m glad I’ve got a borrowed Netflix account because I do think it implies a level of maturity or something.

        Dating is a show and I’m just trying to be the best actor I can be.

    • TheDeed [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      I’ve had dates where I showed off my pirate setup, some women have been turned off but idc I’d rather date someone who values resourcefulness and creative solutions. Some women have been impressed.

      Mostly dudes I that I had over didn’t care either way bc they just want to get right down to fucking lol.