Day 9 - The Dating Game

[kentucky_mcgiygas]

ICly, this game is played on your tablet, and can only be activated when you're alone in your dressing room. You can play vocally or text-based, but either way they come out on the other end as pure text and/or read by a computerized voice.

FIRST DAY (until 7:00PM PST tomorrow; an extra day since I got it up late):

ETA NAH LET'S EXTEND IT INTO THE NIGHT. Second half is just reveals anyway! I'll get it around noonish tomorrow.

🍔  Make a toplevel for your character, starting off with some kind of open-ended question. Your tablet provides some example questions, and you are free to steal one or invent your own.

🍔  Everyone else replies to the toplevel anonymously! Lying, kissing ass, or pretending to be someone else are allowed and frankly ENCOURAGED.

🍔  While there are no hard rules against any sort of questions, for the part of the questioner, trying to suss out identities goes against the principle of the thing and will be looked upon harshly by Ronald and the King. This is a dating game, so relax and try to find your perfect romantic match!

🍔  After someone replies, the questioner can ask up to three more questions to each anon. Anons, stay in your threads.

SECOND DAY (until 6:00PM PST Sunday)

🍔  I'll make a new thread, where everybody can announce which of their anons they would most want to date!

🍔  Winning anon, reveal yourself!

🍔  You don't actually have to go on a date (it will not count against you), but if you'd like to, a ~romantic, off-menu dinner~ will be provided

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

At home with the people I love, but with a way to contact the people I've come to care about here.

[unexpectedboner]

That sounds really nice. So if you're at home, what're you doing? Just watching TV? Taking a hike? Grocery shopping? What do you like to do?

[(Anonymous)]

If it's what I like to do rather than duties, I really like chess and logic puzzles. I love spending time with my family, too.

[unexpectedboner]

Huh. Quiet, but just chilling out can be nice, too. And all that puzzle practice can come in handy, just in case...

Let's say you could go back in time and make one change to your life. Tell me about what you do, or why. ...Uh, you don't have to be too specific, obviously.

[(Anonymous)]

There was a man I loved more than anything, but he was a real womaniser. I was too complacent though and basically rolled out the red carpet for someone else to come along and take him. I would go back and make myself take more notice of his emotional needs, so he wouldn't turn to someone else.

[unexpectedboner]

Oh man, that sucks... Though if he was already a womanizer, maybe he should've taken notice of your needs to not be cheated on. I don't think you can blame yourself for something like that. If you don't mind me saying.

[(Anonymous)]

That's true, ideally. But you can't just change a person. That's a mistake a lot of people make too, trying to change their significant other to be closer to what they're after, rather than accepting them for who they are, good and bad.

[unexpectedboner]

Yeah... You have to accept yourself, too, though. Sometimes you can't completely change yourself to match someone else, and you shouldn't expect yourself to--much like someone else shouldn't be expected to completely change themselves for you.

[(Anonymous)]

It might sound a bit dramatic but it's more like I was just developing a personality at that point so I wouldn't call it changing myself exactly, just growing to match a certain need.

[unexpectedboner]

Yeah, but... It just sounds like a double-standard. I think it's important to value yourself--you're partners, right? What sorts of...philosophies, I guess, do you try to follow?

[(Anonymous)]

What are you talking about? Why would I be partners with someone who cheated?

[You don't know who this is, quiet Junpei!!]

I guess my relationship philosophies would be along the lines of 'commitment is key'. I won't let something go just because it gets tough, that would mean it didn't really matter in the first place, or that I didn't deserve it. Mutual trust and respect are important too.

[unexpectedboner]

You were partners when the cheating happened, right? I dunno about afterwards. I guess it's not any of my business whether his commitment was key to breaking up, or your commitment was key to holding things together.

But yeah, all that stuff about trust and respect totally make sense to me. If you really care about someone, if you think of them as a part of you, you've gotta treat them right. Otherwise you're disrespecting yourself as well as them.

[(Anonymous)]

That's right! Not to mention that it can't be much fun to always be looking over your shoulder. A relationship is where you should be most comfortable and able to be yourself.

[unexpectedboner]

Exactly! I mean, they were initially attracted to you because of who you are. So if you change, you're not the same anymore, right? You should talk about it together, at least...