• Asafum@feddit.nl
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      8 months ago

      This is me too. That and there is this stupid goddamn idea of “caring too much.” Like responding quickly is a bad thing because it makes you seem desperate… Ffs I wouldn’t be messaging you if I wasn’t interested, but now I need to wait and play a stupid mind game so I don’t lose the persons interest because they might assume that stupid thing about quick replies being a bad thing…

      I hate mental games so freaking much…

      • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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        8 months ago

        If the other person cares about silly games like this, they might not be that interested in taking to you.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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        8 months ago

        There’s a Deathbulge comic for that, I just can’t find it. Basically a dude taking forever to reply to get “cool points” and accidentally replying immediately a second time, immediately losing all his cool