Computers and music instruments are ridiculously cheap compared to the eighties and nineties. I had to build stuff with broken parts I found in trash (like everybody else who wasn't rich so the majority of users) and still managed to make much better music with all that Frankenstein equipment than the average young AI slop "artist" of today. And you're also proving my point regarding philosophy and psychology or anything else that needs more than a few seconds to process. Fits perfectly with studies about declining attention spans.

I rather throw those lemons back & watch you make lemonade.

Yeah, I know. I've been called a rapist for refusing to have sex with women several times. Because that's what predators do.

Reminds me of a story. Four scientists, all male, on an expedition in Antarctica, far from any other human being. They set up camp, establish the data link to sync their email, and one of them gets an email spam of the sort "hot women in your area". The next human female was several hundred kilometers away...

That makes people fun?

Yes, talking to people about something deeper than "lol, look at this meme" is fun.

I think you should take a look at yourself before you call a generation that is experiencing the highest cost of living in modern history, boring.

WTF does one have to do with the other...? Are you suggesting that people have zero interests outside of social media because of high cost of living?

You do realise that libraries are free? That getting a used guitar will cost you all of $50? That getting a pencil and a notebook to start drawing will be, what, $5? Oh yeah, you can even get a pencil for free at an Ikea.

But hey to add my two cents: I think that fear is marketable, so women are over fed on paranoia.

This is the case with literally everything.

Used to hear about "no-go zones" in Stockholm in my local news a lot, areas where even the Swedish police were afraid to go in to. Then a friend of mine moved to Stockholm and started going to "the worst no-go zone" every weekend to get fresh produce. The only time he felt in danger was when he stumbled upon a drunk countryman.

We didn't have much better haircuts back then either. But we had more diversity. This is also one of those things I miss, the countless subcultures which led to interesting social dynamics. When was the last time you saw punks and hip hop enjoyers partying together in a park?

I'm not trying to take space away from young people by any means. I actually tried the opposite. It didn't work and I moved on.

I wholeheartedly refute the assertion this comic makes that the word 'lock' is onomatopoeic.

There is no god, only Zuul.

So to meet women, never talk to them or look at them or even think about them, got it, sounds effective.

When was the last time you saw punks and hip hop enjoyers partying together in a park?

Never, but that's because I spent most of my youth playing video games, or running around in the woods hitting my siblings with sticks.

i think lock is an onomatopoeia and I vote

Calling bears predictable is something an overconfident documentary actor would do. A bear can at any moment decide to just rip you apart. Any "docile" zoo bear can still decide to just shred their keeper at some point.

But that's enough about the metaphor.
The point was choosing between certain death and a human with all the possibilities that entails.

It wouldn't just be caution to choose death in that situation. It's paranoia to assume that any random man will just do horrible things to you. Going through life with that paranoia is nothing a mentally healthy person would do.
I would definitely blame a woman who really thinks like that. It's not just crazy but also insulting on a personal level. But the good thing is that I don't have to be near any like that either.

Well what defines going out? There are plenty of board game meet ups, even if you don’t especially like board games I would posit that it’s not an objectively negative experience; so if you must hold you nose and go anyway, do so.

Secondly, although this is coming from my experience in America, so your millage may vary, there’s tons of outdoor activities and groups: go for a hike, go backpacking.

You don’t need special equipment, you don’t need to buy anything. Just a water bottle, backpack, tent/tarp, and some non perishable foods and you’re good to go.

It’s true that the convenient third places of yesterday have seemingly vanished; but people are still out there.

Give women space and limit yourself to reactions if they approach you. Always assume they're not interested. Do not approach them, that's predatory behavior.

I used to hike a lot but these days it's incredibly difficult to find people to hike with, they're usually at least twenty years older than me and not in the best shape anymore which rules out difficult routes. And everywhere else there are masses of stupid tourists and influencers stumbling around in their flip-flops (Because of course you wear flip-flops in the alps!), throwing trash everywhere and yelling into their smartphones when filming themselves which ruins the experience. Board and card game groups also died out in the early 2010s, that was just a short hype. A lot of things disappeared without replacement.

Be seen but not heard, got it.

Oh yes, women being cautious because they are afraid of being raped is the same as your fee fees getting hurt.

I know it's hard to read with your fragile masculinity, but please do try.

It's not hard to be normal. Be respectful to people and their boundaries. Y'all act like this is something complicated like doing taxes, it's not hard.