/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4639090]

> be on okcupid
> see grills literature section
> infinite jest

[Anonymous No.4639116]

>talk to female graduate students in the liberal arts
>know more than all of them as a second year english student

[Anonymous No.4639121]

>>4639116
That feel

[Anonymous No.4639125]

You'll figure this out in due time, but I want to give you a heads-up:

Nobody of any quality has to look for dates/partners on Okcupid. What you'll encounter are people (you're likely one of them, judging by your OP) that evaluate and judge quite rigidly and opt not to meet or even send a message to someone based entirely on two eyesore words in their profile.

Women on Okcupid are especially bad because they're looking for "the One" who already contains a laundry list of attributes they want, and they'll scan your profile for them. They've already mentally assembled their future lives with Mr. Right like a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle and the only piece missing is the guy-in-the-flesh.

>inb4 someone says I'm okcupid butthurt from rejections
Happily married and only know Okcupid through friends.

It's bad news, but if you're on the site to begin with you're probably used to bad news and disappointment.

[Anonymous No.4639128]

>>4639116

>talk to female graduate students in the liberal arts
>know more than all of them as a second year liberal arts student

What?

[Anonymous No.4639129]

>>4639125
>Women on Okcupid are especially bad because they're looking for "the One" who already contains a laundry list of attributes they want

No, women on Okcupid are especially bad because either they're looking for a cheap fuck with a hot guy or they're there to get their egos boosted from hundreds of shitty men

[Anonymous No.4639130]

>>4639125
I've talked to a lot of girls, from average to pretty, who use OKC, and they all say the same fucking thing:
1: it's nice to get the ego boost of 500 messages per day
2: there's always a 0.1% chance James Bond McRichasfuck will be messaging them

They're there to absorb the mundane energies of billions of identical betas while waiting for God himself to reveal that he wants to bang them. If the latter never happens it doesn't matter because the former + fantasising about the latter is good enough.

[Anonymous No.4639138]

>>4639125

Everyone knows that only bottom feeders and the chronically unfortunate participate in online dating.

[Anonymous No.4639147]

>>4639125
OP here, I have two dates scheduled in the next week actually.

The op was just a joke because le jest meme.

The trick is this: (assuming you want a gf and not just a quick fuck, that is with another method but fuck those normalfags anyways)
> send out a fuck ton of messages to account for all the other guys doing the same making it harder to get noticed
> keep messages fairly short
> identify common ground quickly, if there is none then move on
> keep your own profile short, tl;dr is the number one way to scare em off
> get a good profile picture with good lighting, it can be a selfie nobody cares everybody does it

[Anonymous No.4639152]

>>4639138
Or the autistic and socially awkward who don't go out so need the internet to do it for us

I know like 5 people irl who've used successfully

[Anonymous No.4639156]

>>4639152

>Everyone knows that only bottom feeders and the chronically unfortunate participate in online dating

Guess which one you are.

[Anonymous No.4639159]

>>4639130
Pretty much this.

Ironically the guy I know who's done best on OKCupid literally had nothing on his profile, one shirtless mirror picture, and would message girls sexist shit

[Anonymous No.4639163]

naked lunch, if i'm to be sincere here.

[Anonymous No.4639165]

>>4639116
You're really claiming you know more about every liberal arts subject than any female graduate student?

[Anonymous No.4639169]

>>4639159
>Ironically the guy I know who's done best on OKCupid literally had nothing on his profile, one shirtless mirror picture, and would message girls sexist shit

Nothing ironic about that. Unless by "ironically" you mean "predictably".

[Anonymous No.4639172]

>>4639156
Normalfags are both the unfortunate ones and the bottom feeders, that are doomed to forever live a half life without truly experiencing the wonders of existence.

Please the fuck off my /lit/ fucking normalfag fucking faggot.

[Anonymous No.4639176]

>be on okcupid
>write girl a message
>she actually wants to talk

wait what? h-h-help

[Anonymous No.4639178]

>>4639169
I assume he's using ironically to mean coincidentally.

[Anonymous No.4639179]

>>4639172

>I'm a loser but I don't want to admit it so I'll insult him with my insecurities

This is why you need internet dating. Nobody likes a defensive asshole.

[Anonymous No.4639272]

Who settles for the first person of the opposite gender that walks up to them in meatspace and demands their attention? Seems much easier to be less cynical about people who meet because of a psychometric algorithm, their shared interests and the congeniality of their temperaments and personalities.

[Anonymous No.4639289]

>>4639272
but algorithms

[Anonymous No.4639373]

>>4639272
Exactly

Plebs will be plebs however

[Anonymous No.4639377]

>>4639090
Don't worry, she probably hasn't read it

[Anonymous No.4639441]

Those dating sites are like fucking meat markets, but they're full of all of the people who can't succeed on first impressions in a bar or club. Seems kinda backwards.

[Anonymous No.4639449]

>>4639441
>Those dating sites
Sounds like you've never been on okcupid

[Anonymous No.4639497]

So i'm pretty new here, is IJ hated cause people think it's bad, or cause it's entry-level 'complex literature' for people who want to seem smarter/more cultural than they are?

[Anonymous No.4639530]

>>4639497
Imagine someone writes a hard but good book, and then people read it but don't understand it and then talk about how deep and smart it is. Then you have IJ

[Anonymous No.4639533]

>>4639530
I see, i should probably read it. How exactly is it hard?

[Anonymous No.4639558]

>>4639533
>How exactly is it hard?

It's laughably bad and long. Both in and of themselves are "difficult", but in conjunction it's a hard pill to swallow.

[Anonymous No.4639559]

>>4639533
google it

[Anonymous No.4639579]

>>4639533
It's lacking discernible talent.

[Anonymous No.4639715]

>>4639165

Seems like you're overreaching in terms of interpreting what he meant. You could aruge what he said was arrogant, but I really don't think he was saying that.

[Anonymous No.4639756]

talk to her about it. maybe she has a better idea of what she's talking about than you.

[Anonymous No.4639932]

any other places to meet lit girls?

[Anonymous No.4640105]

>>4639932
Uh... Luck and more luck. I've met some chicks in interpals. But we could only talk (and send letters) because well, 11k km separating brland from ukraine, lithuania, poland and the likes.

[Anonymous No.4640127]

>be on okc
>use the search function to find people who have listed authors I approve of
>tell them they're awesome
>delete account

[Anonymous No.4640226]

>>4640127

wow you must be lonely

[Anonymous No.4640235]

>>4640226

Yup.

[Anonymous No.4640272]

>>4639116
>talk to masters degree student on american literature
>know more than him on my third year in liberal arts

[Anonymous No.4640292]

>>4640272
>talk to some nobel prize winner about his profession
>know more than him whilst in kindergarten

[Anonymous No.4640327]

>>4640272
Why do you feel like you know more than him? Did the internet really teach you everything?

[Anonymous No.4640355]

>>4639138
nah my normalfag friends use online dating to take advantage of and bang vulnerable girls

[Anonymous No.4640359]

>>4640355
>bottom feeders

[Anonymous No.4640411]

>>4639116
>>4640272

>>4640292
But, of course, in second and third year, liberal arts students became omniscient. Coincidentally, these same sages believe that Infinite Jest is trivial, and they see how much of a sham it would have been if DFW had been awarded a nobel prize, had he continued writing and allowed himself to die of old age.

[Anonymous No.4641774]

>>4639715
That's why it was a question. And a little bit of a challenge.