Dr_Cleanser

Yeah honestly man thank you for sharing your experience. I’m also a shorter Hispanic man and I struggle with dating just like you. It feels incredibly comforting and validating to see it’s not just me.

It’s not like I don’t put in the effort.

I’ve been in therapy for several years, dropped a good 60-70 pounds, started going out more, dressing better, started volunteering, and currently planning to get a 2nd masters.

None of it has translated to actual dating success and sometimes it honestly feels like a lost cause. It’s nice to know that it’s not just us and to realize that plenty of other people struggle with modern dating.

It’s just how dating is nowadays, unless you’re in the top 1%. Now that doesn’t mean we can’t find stuff to improve about ourselves or that we shouldn’t try. It does mean we shouldn’t spend time needlessly blaming ourselves for things beyond our control.

In the end all it does it make us feel worse and demotivate us to continue doing the right things. You seem like a good dude and I wish you luck + success.

I guess I don’t understand how a Superman game is perceived as a bigger risk than any other kind of game.

Even taking into account Superman’s terrible track record in gaming, it doesn’t make sense to me. Batman wasn’t as bad as Superman in this regard but prior to the Arkham series he also had quite a few stinkers before he made it big.

Batman Forever, Batman on the Gameboy, and Batman: The Rise of Sun Tzu were all terrible games. In spite of that, Batman continued to get more video games and eventually he got the one that changed the superhero genre forever.

It bugs me that Superman has never been given that chance to do the same.

There’s plenty of interesting gameplay that can be gained from Superman. He is not an inherently boring character just because of his powerset and it’s a tired criticism tbh. This is like asking how the Wonder Woman game could be fun because of how powerful she is.

Just because they’re powerful doesn’t mean they’re invincible and there’s plenty of ways to make gameplay feel fun. I feel like people forget that a large portion of Superman’s rogues gallery is made up of people just as powerful. Or people who have a much easier time countering his powers than most.

Superman has had games that weren’t absolute stinkers and they can easily serve as good starting point. Shadow of Apokolips let you fly across a fully realized Metropolis in various levels complete with your full powerset. It wasn’t hard to find enemies to give Superman trouble.

By putting in enemies like Intergang, Metallo, and Parasite, they found viable ways to weaken Superman without completely neutering him. It’s not like there wasn’t some variety, there were stealth levels where you’d have to be Clark Kent.

It’s truly not hard to find compelling ideas for a good Superman game. I mean the dude just had an amazing arc where he was in space or on Warworld fighting aliens. Yet people still think a potential video game would only consist of him flying through Metropolis and fightings goons. I personally don’t get it.

In my opinion it’s really not hard to find compelling ideas for a Superman game. But it seems no one is confident enough to even try to make one.

Meanwhile, this will be like the 6th or 7th Batman game since the first Arkham Asylum game was released. Personally I’m super bored of Batman games and I’m desperate for other heroes to get a turn in the video game limelight.

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