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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Can women message people on Tinder they haven't matched with?

And if this was effective wouldn't it lower all women's Elo scores? Unless he only ignored one group and catfished everybody else. Sounds like a lot of work.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I think this is an unrealized thought experiment by op. I don't believe the Chad he imagines has any relation to the man most woman are looking for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Op creates profile that makes him look rich and stupid.

Gets targeted by bots using ai generated images of mildly attractive women.

Thinks he’s actually attracting human beings.

Anon still has never willingly gotten the attention of a human woman besides his mother

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

And I'm telling ya his momma is a nice lady.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 21 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 95 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

It stands for female humanoid and is exactly as dehumanizing as it sounds

[–] [email protected] 12 points 18 hours ago

I think that the part being dehumanized is the one that uses that word.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 19 hours ago

It was femoid originally but anon got even lazier.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's supposed to be some kind of derogatory label for women, but is really just an identifier that the person using it is a worthless being whose opinion is as relevant as a gnats thoughts on the economy.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 22 hours ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 146 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

It's not often I actually laugh when reading a comment. This was one of those times

[–] [email protected] 38 points 21 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago

This interaction may have made my night

[–] [email protected] 47 points 21 hours ago

Hi dying, I'm dad.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 21 hours ago

Sorry for your loss.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 21 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

What a great rabbit hole, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I thought it was common knowledge that the pickier you are on Tinder, the better your matches will be. Swipe right on everyone and you won't have much luck on that app.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Like when they discriminated against users because of their age...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

A quick Google shows that they charged over thirties in the UK double for a premium account.

Devils advocate says that is because older people are more like to have money (people are probably getting a bit more desperate at that age too).

It looks like the policy is revoked tho.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Personally, I don't like the fact that every team-based video game uses ELO, a system designed for a 1 on 1 game, to determine an individual's skill.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

While Elo (and side note: it's a person's name, not an acronym) isn't perfect and systems like Glicko-2 are better even for 1v1s, is there a better system than Elo that could be used to rate players in team games? Especially if there's a mix of pre-made teams and random teams thrown together by matchmaking?

Edit: extra bonus if it can be applicable in games that have both 1v1 and team game components where there might be a desire for some form of bleed between the two. (e.g. AoE2 where your starting Elo in one of them is based on your Elo in the other, if you've played a lot of one type of game before trying the other.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I suspect games tinker with the formula behind the scenes, to accurately place people faster if nothing else. The more players the longer it could take for the skill of any one to show up in the numbers, so I bet they factor in other game specific metrics at least at first. There would be some risk of this being abused, but that's less if they keep it a secret and maybe the progress numbers shown to players aren't quite the same as the real numbers used to decide who to match them against.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Plenty of developers of competitive games with SBMM have said they actually make it more about keeping the player playing than actually giving a shit about their skill. They don't use straight up elo, but everything they do does derive from it. They also don't really disclose how they come to the numbers it assigns you; probably because they don't want to expose exactly how their skinner box works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Street Fighter 6 uses two systems. League Points are a "keep them playing" type, and Master Rate is pretty much pure Elo.

Everyone starts with LP only and initial placement matches put you into a league with progressively fewer guard rails as you live higher. Rookie league can't lose LP at all, there's a win streak bonus up to gold, and you can't demote to a lower league until platinum. Throughout it all there's very slight upward pressure on LP, you get slightly more more a win then you lose for a loss.

Finally you reach the topmost league, Master, the final guard rails fall away and you're given 1500MR to join in the net zero Elo ranking pool. You basically need to demonstrate that you have a willingness to keep playing before they will use that style of matchmaking. "Real" skill based ranking effectively begins there, with the lower ranks being made more to show dedication rather than just ability.