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Re:The game theory of seduction and marriage with Jane Austen by mettamage on Saturday February 17, 2024 @12:58PM (#39411702)
> If you have spoken to more than a half dozen people and everyone is awful, the problem is you. Figure out what you want, rinse, repeat.

I am a counter example. I liked about 1 in 20 chats. It took 300 matches. I took 100 hours to optimize my profile. I went from 5 matches per month to 150 matches per month. It took a long time to get good pictures that women found attractive. I went through 100s of different pictures and gathered a lot of feedback (there are websites).

The problem isn’t me since I am now in an amazing relationship. It’s okay to be a bit picky, as long as you put in a lot of effort yourself.

I agree with the rest.

Re:The game theory of seduction and marriage with Jane Austen by HaZeust on Saturday February 17, 2024 @04:15PM (#39413627)
Indeed. Especially when learning the lay of the dating apps land, and understanding the lowest-common denominators that the most amount of people would bite on.

"Just to look and feel like this, it took a long time"

Re:The game theory of seduction and marriage with Jane Austen by Spooky23 on Saturday February 17, 2024 @01:03PM (#39411750)
Totally. You have to do you.

I probably expressed that poorly. “Problem” was the wrong word! It’s probably better to say you’re not finding what you want… but do you know what that is?

Re:The game theory of seduction and marriage with Jane Austen by oarfish on Sunday February 18, 2024 @03:00AM (#39417124)
> It took a long time to get good pictures that women found attractive. I went through 100s of different pictures and gathered a lot of feedback (there are websites).

What exactly does that mean? There's services that "rate your profile"?

What do those "good pictures" look like then?

Re:The game theory of seduction and marriage with Jane Austen by mettamage on Sunday February 18, 2024 @05:00AM (#39417732)
I wish I could tell you. Every time I upload a picture thinking it is going to be a home run, it would always be a 5 out of 10.

Only 5 pictures made it past the 8 out of 10. I used photofeeler.com