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Stenzek gets a ton of abuse from the emulation community that is undeserved. I remember when he made PlayStation 2 emulation on Android possible with AetherSX2 under another username/alias, a massive technological leap, and the community treated him like trash. Moves like this are just in response to the entitlement and poor behaviour that some people directed towards Stenzek. Yes it sucks for the rest of us who behave appropriately online, but none of this would be happening if others treated the guy with respect in the first place.

Missed opportunity for a handshake joke

“Xtreme programming practices”.

Lmao what!

In my first programming class in what Americans would call middle school (I was in grade 9), we got introduced to scratch and used it to draw penises lol.

I only use it for sports discussion, as the third party app I use still works with a patched version. If the third party app stops working, I’ll stop. It’s not like the discussion on Reddit is high quality anyways.

In a lot of irl spaces where I live, women can enter on discounted prices or for free, and this is done by the ownership to prevent the bar or club from becoming a sausage fest. Online dating doesn’t have that, so it ends up with 80% of the userbase being guys, and all the issues that causes.

I’m not saying that online dating needs to copy that model and start getting gross/sleazy promoters, I’m just saying there’s a reason why it’s used at clubs and bars. A more equal gender split would do a lot to improve the online dating experience.

It’s definitely getting worse across the board with everything lately, that’s true. 5-10 years ago online dating was probably a ton better.

Yeah I hate the commodification of every aspect of our lives. I’ll hold out from using the dating apps for as long as possible

Same, I agree mostly. Though I find being able to date offline and in real life, for lack of better terms, to be worth it. It also puts you ahead of all the people who just use online dating in a way, because you have a real connection with the person you are talking to.

But the profit motive is inherent to all the online dating apps. It’s what decides how the algorithms work. There is no app for just meeting people seperate from that.

Are they though? Isn’t loneliness at an all time high among young people in industrialised nations? Could the commodification of relationships though apps be a possible reason for that?

Because I find the idea of letting some profit driven algorithm decide who you date, and the commodification of dating, a bit sad.

You can adjust the age filter in tinder I think. Never used the app though, but my friends say there is a setting for that.

That is super depressing

Johannesburg lmao. The disorganization and urban sprawl there, that also connects Joburg to Pretoria should be a crime against urban planning. The East Rand, Midrand, Wits, all of it. Apartheid spacial planning and our failure to address it has really messed us up.