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I'm binge-watching The Last of Us this weekend.

I avoided it because it was based on a video game. I was wrong to.

Because he is wrong. It's that simple, that stark.

His misery comes from within and, worse, it defends itself from ending by insisting he can't be anything but miserable. He needs professional help, not the help of random people on the Internet.

Good point. I just spotted the name. I should stop engaging.

Joining with the other sex and reproduction is literally the main purpose of all living beings...

This reductive view doesn't help you and, indeed, probably hurts your chances of getting what you so desperately want.

Drop this focus on sex and, ironically, you'll have a better chance of having it. We can generally tell when a guy wants us only for orificial insertion; that's a bigger turn-off than almost anything.

As others have said (that you didn't bother to respond to) work on yourself before you start working on getting others. And in your case I would strongly recommend getting professional evaluation for possible clinical depression before it literally kills you.

AliExpress' "weird delivery system" is THE FUCKING POST OFFICE YOU IDIOT!

Well, I kind of think blaming the right people is important. But it's easier to blame people literally half a world away from you, isn't it?

It's not "their" delivery system, though. Their logistics system ends at the border. After that it's in the hands of whoever did the local delivery.

I should have known better than order from AliExpress...

There are secure lockers but they were not used.

I fail to see how this is in any way, shape, or form AliExpress' failure. I mean aside from the knee-jerk "CHYNA BADD!" shit that Americans always spew.

I've started a new hobby of carving 印章 (yìnzhāng or seals or so-called "chops"). They're those red things that you see on Chinese calligraphy and paintings. I got a beginner's set of tools and practice stones on Sunday, and found time today to make my first attempt.

Which I naturally botched.

But it's easy to undo your mistakes with a very coarse grit grinding pad followed by a fine grit sandpaper, so I'm all set up to try again possibly tomorrow. I expect to have my first chop that's not a complete embarrassment ready to photograph by the end of the weekend.

There's a good explanation from the Light Colonel here.

It's FAR better to be in the eye of the storm than in the part that has all the winds and rain and stuff.

You didn't say it. You showed it. Of all the things you could mention about meeting people you got along with and enjoyed spending time with, you complained they wouldn't sex you up.

That tells me where your focus is.

You know what? Women can tell when the guy sitting across from us is thinking about us as chiefly a pile of meat that they want to fuck.