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Pontificating Ass
Aug 2, 2002

What Doth Life?
goons may be filthy pathetic creatures

but we aint no goddamn simps

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Elentor
Dec 14, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:

The 4th Simpire

I laughed

ChubbyChecker
Mar 25, 2018

BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:

Turn off your monitor op

BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009

You never meet simps irl because they're too busy simping, OP.

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

If they ever went outside they wouldn't be simps anymore ,wouldn't they? Think, op, think

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:

The 4th Simpire

Radio Paranoia
Jun 27, 2010

It is now safe to turn off your computer.
Simpin' ain't easy

numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

SimpLife44: plz bb ill treat you nice bb not like those other guys

*sends $15*

CamGirl: Thanks SimpLife44!!!!!

*continues playing farm ville or whatever*

bloodysabbath
May 1, 2004

OH NO!

Dixville posted:

It is kinda sad to me that there is this growing number of women who go on dating apps and the like and recruit people for their onlyfans instead of actually meeting people and going on dates. Maybe they are happy and if so then good for them, I have no problem with women making a living from sex. I just know deep down I would be left looking for that emotional connection more than the money or whatever.

I guess if you really think about it is kinda similar to going to strip clubs. Just from the internet instead of in person. Guys usually aren't ashamed of going to strip clubs though so I don't know I guess it is different somehow.

It’s because when you go into a strip club you inherently know what the deal is. Unless you’re completely inept, deluded, and/or a psychopath, you know that it’s a transactional thing, and most crucially of all it’s also entertainment. You don’t walk out of a movie theater having watched a Star War and expect spaceships to be real.

Online is different because you’re having intimate one on one discussions with someone in your own home. It’s an inherently more vulnerable situation. If it’s a paysite I guess at least the transactional exchange cue is there, though I still maintain that online parasocial relationships of any kind are still just an example of people shamelessly and largely unethically exploiting the loneliness of modern existence to make bank.

However, TBQH going on dating apps and treating people looking for emotional connections as marks is basically going to an AA/NA meeting to sell drugs. It’s a bit sociopathic behavior and the apps shouldn’t allow it but I’m not in charge of any of these things so..

Alls I know is that I’m grateful to have married before relationships became another thing we turned into Uber.

Tokelau All Star
Feb 23, 2008

THE TAXES! THE FINGER THING MEANS THE TAXES!

There's a tricked out Acura parked on the street in my neighborhood with the license plate "SIMP4U". So I guess the simps live a couple blocks away from my house.

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

They've got The Simpsons on Disney Plus

Poohs Packin
Jan 13, 2019

serious answer I worked with weird dude named Damo who very proudly proclaimed that he was a simp. And I was like "oh you mean you subscribe to like, girls on only fans and beat off while they talk you to completion and stuff?!" and he was like

"well in actuality its a bit more comp-"

and I kinda blacked out

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

Tokelau All Star posted:

There's a tricked out Acura parked on the street in my neighborhood with the license plate "SIMP4U". So I guess the simps live a couple blocks away from my house.

Entirely more likely a camgirl lives a couple blocks away from your house and a simp bought that car for her.

Costco Meatballs
Oct 21, 2022

by Pragmatica
I'm trying to be a simp over here but the girls keep trying to date me, what do i do

TrashMammal
Nov 10, 2022

Costco Meatballs posted:

I'm trying to be a simp over here but the girls keep trying to date me, what do i do

Shower less, spend more, don’t give up on your dreams

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER
amai told me one time how to set up a used panties business via craigslist and a jpg and some copy and like you just buy the panties in bulk and run em through the washer and dryer once and the ROI is really good.

roomtone
Jul 1, 2021

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 17 days!)

the thing that gets me about the whole onlyfans thing is that, i get being a lonely straight guy who just wants to see a naked woman, thinks about women too much in general, etc. that's all part of the bullshit, but it is like - these guys take that feeling, throw all self-respect and proportion out the window, and start throwing huge amounts of money, which they earn via the crushing routine of life, to get...what? naked pics and a dm? thsoe things are all free bud.

it seems like you really need to not understand that profit seeking is inherently exploitative and needs to be kept in check, to feel like that transaction is getting you anything.

if there weren't all kinds of parasocial relationships and porn everywhere online, i'd get paying a few bucks for the price of entry. yeah it would mean your life needed fixing but i would understand. but there are, it's easy to hit the centers in the brain for that stuff. and the whales are throwing thousands. so what the gently caress. i suppose i think in the end it's just business exploiting mental illness because that's the only explanation i've got for it. a totally broken or non-existent sense of cost vs reward.

it's that thing of putting a price tag on something makes it feel more valuable when it actually isn't, applied to social deprivation. if that's not hosed up i dunno what is.

roomtone fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Dec 19, 2022

numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

kntfkr posted:

amai told me one time how to set up a used panties business via craigslist and a jpg and some copy and like you just buy the panties in bulk and run em through the washer and dryer once and the ROI is really good.
drat bro, what a time saver hack, ive been wearing the panties to get em looking properly worn in and i tell yeah its a bit of a grind for the panty scam

Szyznyk
Mar 4, 2008

Dixville posted:

Guys usually aren't ashamed of going to strip clubs though so I don't know I guess it is different somehow.

When that last dollar is spent and you’re standing in the parking lot at the end of the night there’s shame all right.

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
:downs:

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


LENIN.
STILL.
WON'T.
FUCK.
ME.

Szyznyk posted:

When that last dollar is spent and you’re standing in the parking lot at the end of the night there’s shame all right.

you're doing it wrong

Szyznyk
Mar 4, 2008

olives black posted:

you're doing it wrong

You mean I wasn’t supposed to have a conversation with the stripper with the prayer hands tattoo about how she got it to honor her three year old daughter who passed away?

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Maybe spending $$$ and being humiliated is a key part of their orientation

Froghammer
Sep 8, 2012

Khajit has wares
if you have coin
I am the simps

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


LENIN.
STILL.
WON'T.
FUCK.
ME.

Szyznyk posted:

You mean I wasn’t supposed to have a conversation with the stripper with the prayer hands tattoo about how she got it to honor her three year old daughter who passed away?

yeah sometimes you get one who wants to vent but more often than not you get one who understands that the deal is 1. you give her money + a nice tip 2. she grinds on you for the length of a few nickleback or rob zombie songs 3. you leave

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
If you think about it being a landlord is just findom

Pontificating Ass
Aug 2, 2002

What Doth Life?

Costco Meatballs posted:

I'm trying to be a simp over here but the girls keep trying to date me, what do i do

It's important to establish boundaries so this sort of thing doesnt happen

bloodysabbath
May 1, 2004

OH NO!

roomtone posted:

the thing that gets me about the whole onlyfans thing is that, i get being a lonely straight guy who just wants to see a naked woman, thinks about women too much in general, etc. that's all part of the bullshit, but it is like - these guys take that feeling, throw all self-respect and proportion out the window, and start throwing huge amounts of money, which they earn via the crushing routine of life, to get...what? naked pics and a dm? thsoe things are all free bud.

it seems like you really need to not understand that profit seeking is inherently exploitative and needs to be kept in check, to feel like that transaction is getting you anything.

if there weren't all kinds of parasocial relationships and porn everywhere online, i'd get paying a few bucks for the price of entry. yeah it would mean your life needed fixing but i would understand. but there are, it's easy to hit the centers in the brain for that stuff. and the whales are throwing thousands. so what the gently caress. i suppose i think in the end it's just business exploiting mental illness because that's the only explanation i've got for it. a totally broken or non-existent sense of cost vs reward.

it's that thing of putting a price tag on something makes it feel more valuable when it actually isn't, applied to social deprivation. if that's not hosed up i dunno what is.


It absolutely is the bolded part. These people do not police their own and ideally addressing it would be part of a sex work law reform/redesign turning it into a licensed, taxed, legal profession where not only are the employees protected, but there are also rules against exploiting clients who are quite clearly mentally loving ill under the guise of sEcUre ThE bAg QuEeN!

(This law would be fought tooth and nail by providers because if the mentally ill were off limits, business would be in the toilet. Most (not all) don’t pay for artificial emotional intimacy because they’re *well.*)

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost

Dixville posted:

It is kinda sad to me that there is this growing number of women who go on dating apps and the like and recruit people for their onlyfans instead of actually meeting people and going on dates.


bloodysabbath posted:

though I still maintain that online parasocial relationships of any kind are still just an example of people shamelessly and largely unethically exploiting the loneliness of modern existence to make bank.

However, TBQH going on dating apps and treating people looking for emotional connections as marks is basically going to an AA/NA meeting to sell drugs. It’s a bit sociopathic behavior and the apps shouldn’t allow it but I’m not in charge of any of these things so..

Alls I know is that I’m grateful to have married before relationships became another thing we turned into Uber.

It's extremely hosed up how pervasive this is.

snergle
Aug 3, 2013

A kind little mouse!
ask your dad op. he simps hard

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Straight cis males think it's sociopathic not to gently caress em, lol ok

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost

quote:

treating people looking for emotional connections as marks is basically going to an AA/NA meeting to sell drugs

Colonel Cancer posted:

Straight cis males think it's sociopathic not to gently caress em, lol ok

Why deliberately go out of your way to misinterpret this? What zany gotcha are you trying to make here?

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
What you have to remember is that when you come out of simp mode and your thinkbrain begins to think thoughts again, that it’s not when YOU intellectually realize you need to be sorry that your victim needs to accept you again, but actually when the victim, if ever, wants to know you again.

Tiberius Christ
Mar 4, 2009

simpin everyday

slurm
Jul 28, 2022

by Hand Knit
Wait dating apps are full of weird parasocial ads now? I never felt old until this

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost

slurm posted:

Wait dating apps are full of weird parasocial ads now? I never felt old until this

actually yes.
It's almost entirely prostitutes advertising premium snapchat, 'influencers' advertising their instagram, or open camgirls advertising onlyfans.

Why not? The disgusting part is that it works so it's just going to continue.

wesleywillis
Dec 30, 2016

SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!

Smugworth posted:

I'm a pimp not a simp
Yeah. I hear you're like a dope fiend higher than the Goodyear blimp

slurm
Jul 28, 2022

by Hand Knit

Methanar posted:

actually yes.
It's almost entirely prostitutes advertising premium snapchat, 'influencers' advertising their instagram, or open camgirls advertising onlyfans.

I spend a lot of time in Europe and you can just like go get a prostitute in a window, this system never seemed so enlightened until now

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost

slurm posted:

I spend a lot of time in Europe and you can just like go get a prostitute in a window, this system never seemed so enlightened until now

Sometimes you might get a gamer girl twitch streamer and you should definitely sub to her so she notices you.

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olives black
Nov 24, 2017


LENIN.
STILL.
WON'T.
FUCK.
ME.

Methanar posted:

actually yes.
It's almost entirely prostitutes advertising premium snapchat, 'influencers' advertising their instagram, or open camgirls advertising onlyfans.

Why not? The disgusting part is that it works so it's just going to continue.

Most non-sex workers pre-COVID were just using the apps as an ego booster anyway. Let the serious businesspeople have them imo.

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