Online Dating Game à la 2048

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Game is unrealistic: a nonzero number of matches appear.

I started playing without reading the instructions, and I was thinking this would be a lot more depressing, as in, ghosted blocks can never go away so you’ll almost always inevitably lose.

Depressingly formulaic courtship! Fun game to see what labels it comes up with next.

Does anyone here follow that progression of dating? I know of many women that would wish to, especially with wanting a video date, but do any other cishet men like that “to get comfortable with someone”? Like does that requirement really go both ways with these kind of steps

I have to be in a very patient place to want to tolerate a video chat before meeting, like 5 months of social distancing place

Maybe penny loafers will make a comeback? Women will wear their buckles on the left when available? Everything old is new again…

I don't understand your point here... what's that got to do with video dates as validation?

Video date?!? Please tell me that's not a thing...

I've done it if someone lives farther away and you want to make sure you're not being Catfished, or checking to make sure the person isn't crazy. Sometimes women do it for the same reasons, or feel more comfortable after being able to look for red flags.

It's kinda crazy to think about how you would go from picture to texting to a date, VS meeting, smalltalk, date.

Not sure I would consider this a date. Still it's superior to a phone call and more personal than a long texting session. With people who live say in a different city travelling to meet for say a walk is a time investement.

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