Welcome to the Online Friend Simulator. Because everyone could use a friend, even online. I’m Francis aka The Other Guy.
How are you doing? I hope you’re doing well. It’s Valentine’s Day, and I deice to talk about love. Because, of course? We get into the romance and the changes in dating in the 21st century, and I thought I had so much to say about it, but I just run through it all, like a bat out of hell. Then we talk about the weirdness of romance, some of the struggles, and keeping the faith. Come join me as I share some conversation hearts with you all, on episode of the Simulator.
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LOVE SUCKS!!!!
Sure, at times. Sometimes in a good way? If existence and how we experience it, as is suggested by some scientists/theorists suggest, a wave form, than love or anything else for that matter will “suck”. For without the wave form being in a state one would designate as being “suck” the same wave form cannot be in a state one would consider the opposite of “suck” or states in between those to extremes. I think there was a song in the MLP: The Movie by Sai that alludes to that? https://youtu.be/paXOkGMyG8M
First listened on 15Feb22, relistening on 18&19Feb22
This clip sounds like something Samwise would say.
Alone together, separated by time and geography. This medium provides for individuals to experience the same sound at different times, in different locations, and if one wants multiple times. Different mediums will lead towards different end products.
Time is money friend, or so goes the quote of an NPC on World of Warcraft. How true that is. When one gives someone their time, they give the most precious resource anyone can give, as our lives our finite, and time moves but one direction, and time passed cannot be time redone. Yet, time is relative. How we experience time, how quickly it passes or the perception of it passing changes with each individual’s experience.
I think it was said in Star Trek Generations, if one considers something important, one will make the time to focus on what they consider important. If one can see a spreadsheet on what we spend our time on, with the categories which have the most time spent, really be what one values? If not, is it time to reorganize one’s life?
Clip for Moulon Rouge, and the beginning of a musical number. Not a classic movie, but surely for a generation, the movie will have a place in their collective memory. And when that generation have great grandchildren, what will that generation think of what was once considered popular?
Serendipity. The Cusack movie. Thoughts?
For those not yet with a significant other, other than being open to the possibility of being with another, what advice do you have to others in their search to find someone to spend their life romantically with? What worked for you? What didn’t work? What is the worst advice you received when you were single? The best?
Does our disconnected connection of social media environment make it easier or harder to find a meaningful significant other?
The smallest minority is the individual. Can any two individuals share all the same intersectionalities, especially when one can have multiple?
In regards to politics, outside of small moments, was the entire populace fully United and not divided in some way? Or do we look into the more distant pass with rose colored glasses? Does holding one’s tongue in an attempt to maintain civility, even when another espouses views one finds adhorant a virtue or a weakness?
Is your view of relationships shaped by your upbringing? With younger generations views on relationships, what is considered tolerant or acceptable, changing and different from your own views, is that for better or for worse for the society around you?
How important are non-romantic relationships compared to romantic relationships? How much effort should each be given, given that one has a finite amount of time to live?
Is it important to know how to live as a non coupled individual to be able to successfully live as a couples individual? What of those who became involved young, stayed in that coupling without the difficulties of growing older and changing personality, and becoming well seasoned without being alone until one’s partner expires?
In 2004 Robin Williams was in the movie “Final Cut”, would you want to see the remembrance video one would create from such a technology? Would there be multiple themes of different videos? For instance one about romance? One about sorrow? One about regrets? One about successes?
In that clip from Moulon Rouge, is it true? Is all one needs is love?