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[โ€“] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 days ago (10 children)

While OP is obviously made up, and definitively loves others of the same gender, that is not a bad metric for compatibility.

If it's your favorite song, ever. Something that just brings you great joy, and the prospective partner isn't at least able to jam with it, the chances of being on the same wavelength about other things get smaller.

I don't really have a favorite song because how the fuck am I going to pick just one. But let's pretend that I managed to and it was Master of Puppets (which would be on the final list no matter how that list got decided). If my lady can't at least smile and throw the horns in solidarity, how the fuck we gonna handle that big a gap in tastes? Not saying it has to be her favorite too, but there's gotta be at least a friendly neutrality or it means our tastes in music are radically different.

If tastes in music are far apart, chances are that other things like movies, tv, books, are almost guaranteed to be similarly apart. That wipes out big chunks of conversation and leisure time. And, how the fuck you gonna handle road trips? Stuck in a car with music you can't at least tap a foot along with isn't gonna be fun. It's going to be stressful as fuck after an hour or so. Trust me on that one, I've been stuck in a vehicle for work purposes for long trips without realizing exactly how horrible the people I was with were. And I'm one of those people that doesn't entirely reject any actual genre. Even the stuff I avoid, it isn't because of the genre, it's tangential stuff.

But after two hours of shitty contemporary christian bullshit I was ready to strangle someone.

Imagine that, but you hate Taylor Swift, and the date you're with is a swifty. Or, imagine your poor date just can't tolerate death metal, and you're blasting some Behemoth. The fuck? You're doomed. And that's what long term relationships bring: hours in the same place frequently. You gotta be able to find common ground.

So, anon up there making the right choice for the wrong reasons, what with the fictional nature of their same sex lifestyle

[โ€“] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I hate the "what's your favorite song/game/etc" because like.. even though I have literally 9,000 hours of gaming on steam and probably 15000 total and have like devoted my entire life to it because I'm antisocial
I STILL CANT CHOOSE ๐Ÿ˜ญ I LOVE ALL MY BABIES

edit: holy shit I'm at 9,995 hours now. I should make a cake or something when I get to 10,000


https://steamplaytime.com/profile/triflingtoad

[โ€“] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Same. Even though it's generally consider myself a metalhead, I also love some rap, some techno, some classic... I love plenty of music! "Favourite" is an idiotic concept to me. My heart has plenty of room for all my music. Love isn't a zero-sum game!

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