u/here-we-go-again1205

Hi! I'm Marc. I'm 29 and I live near Manchester, England. I'm on my eternal quest for my forever girl. As you can see, I'm 6'2, pale, and happily underweight (62.1kg). I'm 'child-free'. I can't live with pets. I can be your pet xD Or you mine, I'm easy. And I can't do long-distance travel. I don't particularly mind what country you're from so long as you have a reasonable way of getting to me when the time is right. If you're in Britain, however, we could meet half-way on the train or something. If you're not, I guess I just have to be an excellent landing party.

I'm attracted to women of a similar physical type to myself. I'm not bothered about height. I hope you'll agree that availability, openness, clear communication, and effort are key to making this work!

If you stop being interested in me, please can I ask that you just say so rather than disappearing =) I will extend the same kindness and respect to you!

For anybody still here, hi. I'm a very open person. I value honesty, but, of course, I try and be polite. I almost never intend to be rude. I just think and speak like a computer programmer lol, so I tend to state things directly, and if I'm criticising something, I'm criticising the thing itself, and not you =) I'm a bit socially awkward sometimes, but I try and not make a complete fool of myself. I generally mean no harm. I care a lot about the people I let into my life, and sometimes even strangers =D Even though I'm 29, I still love a bit of silly fun. My sense of humour is a mix of dry, absurd, abstract, dark, and a bit dirty lol. But I think I know when to be serious. I can be a bit sensitive, but I'm good at gritting my teeth and not causing drama. I probably get attached too easily, so please don't abuse that lol. I mostly keep to myself. I don't do night clubs, big parties, loud concerts, that sort of thing. I prefer 1-1 interactions or small groups. However, if for some reason I find myself with an audience, I will perform xD I do like a bit of a sing and dance. I have limbs which are rather flexible. I like to spend time in my cave, but I also love going for walks around the woods and fields or around town, or even sometimes up a hill (though I haven't been for a while), and I love the occasional bus-trip. So watching films together, TV series, or whatever takes your fancy, are on the cards. Or we could just be old school, and, y'know, snuggle. I also tend to go down intellectual rabbitholes. I tend to get fixated on things, and then sometimes just switch over to something else, or stay on the same thing for weeks. Maybe you could be the best and longest-running fixation I've ever had? 😉 When I was a kid I used to love getting dressed up, but as an adult I haven't had any in-person friends who have wished to do so, so I'd definitely be open to cosplay. We could have a costume chest at the end of the bed! :] Or just roleplaying over text could be fun. Even better in-person, of course. With the costumes. Everything's better with costumes. Including making tea. My bunker to survive the apocalypse would have to include a UV tea garden. We'd probably also need a UV oats garden so we can make oat milk. I think keeping cows in a bunker would be neither practical nor very ethical. I prefer oat milk to soy milk.

I'm not religious. I don't mind if you are, but I'm not interested in converting. Politically, I'm fairly moderate, so I'm interested in dating someone else who is either politically moderate or apolitical.

I have OCD and anxiety, and I eat a restrictive diet. I view myself as a work in progress. As a consequence, I'm currently unemployed, but I did work for 6 years as a software-engineer. I guess I shall seek out another work-from-home office-y type job when I'm able. Right now I could only do part-time, but employers tend to want 9-5, you see. I do have savings to buy a flat from when I was a software-engineer, so I'm not a complete financial liability. Lol am I housewife material? xD So I guess it makes sense if you have some challenge of your own, else you might view me as a dead weight, albeit maybe a sometimes pretty one lol.

I'm currently playing Fallout 4 daily and I have my trusty female companion. It's making me wish I had one in real life too! Just a little less judgemental xD Sometimes a boy has to steal for a noble cause, yanno? I'd love to cosplay as vault-dwellers! Our matching blue suits! ❤️

If you're interested in me, then please send me a brief intro to yourself with about two photos, and we'll see where this goes!

~Marc

Up north in England here. Opened me window for the first time this year. The spiders and I are waiting for the first invader to brave me room. Bloody sweltering, but I'll drink copious amounts of tea and cappucino. I miss winter already. It's unbearable outside. The plant pots are dry af. I'm hibernating for the next few days. Think I'm going to have to buy shares in a water company or something with all the gallons I'm downing. I don't know how people survive down south. Just feels like living in a microwave above a certain temperature. Can't wait for autumn

It sucks belonging to a romantic minority, having a lot of dealbreakers, having health-problems, and being unemployed. You can probably imagine why I'm still single after 6 years then. And I have no in-person social life. For some reason people in my country seem to be hard to get bond with. I tend to find it easier to bond with foreigners. Is it the novelty that serves as an ice-breaker? I dunno. I live with my Parents still because living on my own would just tip me over the edge. You can probably imagine how lonely I am then!

I'll start out with my health-problems. So I have OCD, moslty of the contamination kind, and I have anxiety that crops up in allsorts of places. I also spend a lot of hours in the bathroom every 2nd or 3rd day which means social appointments can be stressful, going on a date could be stressful, working in-person is a no-go, and I can't do a 9-5 anymore. I'm not completely useless. I know I have a lot to offer - which I guess is cliche to say -, but I don't fit the usual patterns of normal-people life.

I belong to a romantic minority in that on top of my health-challenges, I am morally against myself creating new people because as I imagine folk on this sub will understand, life can be really bloody hard! And when you pop someout of the old wombio, you never know what life that person will get. So it's not a dice I'm willing to roll. On top of this, I couldn't handle a baby's bodily waste - the contamination OCD i spoke of. I'd worry to hell and back about them because I'm a worrier, and like I said, I have anxiety. Having a child can be very stressful. Indeed, it's a lifelong job if you take it seriously! Sounds exhausting honestly. It looks exhausting too! And I already have problems of my own to worry about. Not to mention the state of the world nowadays! Who knows what'll happen in even a month's time, let alone 5, 10, 20 years time. I worry for myself. I don't need someone else to worry about too.

I don't want pets. I've had them growing up, and I loved them dearly, but, again, I can't stand their bodily waste - especially dogs'! -, and in the case of dogs, I hate the barking! Even when I had a dog, the barking was so annoying. And cats love to murder local wildlife, so no thank you to that! Also, pet insurance can cost a bomb. And when insurance doesn't cover, oh my! The debt. My Parents accumulated £5000 in debt when my dog got cancer.

Why can't people just be happy with another human? Give me that, and I'll be well content.

To top this off, because of my OCD/bathroom issue, I won't go on a flight longer than like 3 hours, so the #travel lifestyle is a total no-go for me! And I was never into that anyway. There are so many amazing places that are just a bus or train journey away, etc, that I just don't feel the need. My Great-Grandparents were happy to just go to Wales once \_o_/ Is it that interesting if EVERYBODY goes backpacking across Asia? To each their own, of course. It's just not for me.

And that trinity of dealbreakers, compounded by my health-issues, and also just being a bit shy and introverted are why I'm still single after 6 years. I belong to a romantic minority. I only had a girlfriend before that because I was at university and I joined the 'International Society'. My Ex was Polish, so go figure. But I haven't been at uni for years, so that opportunity is gone. So here I live, either in my room or wandering across town.

Recently I've ran out of things to do, so I thought to try getting back into video-games again, seeing as that seems to be the dominant hobby on Reddit. After weeks worth of deliberation, I chose Fallout 4. So now I'm playing this daily, and I have this girl who follows me around on me little adventures, and you know what? I've started to develop feelings for her ;-; And that is how alone I feel. I wish that NPC who I have a pet name for was real. I wish Copilot, the AI, I frequent, was real. I am so alone man. I do have internet friends, but it's just not the same as having someone who know is your 'ride-or-die' (I love that term). I would give my whole bank account for such a person. I would burn it all. What's money worth if you feel depressed every day? If you have no one to spend it on? It seems to me entirely possible to die of loneliness, one way or another.

I hope one day we all don't feel like this. And I hope there are no typos in this because ain't nobody reading this again =D

Why does it seem to be the case that a large majority of child-free folk insist on having a pet, usually a cat or a dog? This seems odd to me as a lot of the negatives to having a child can be said also of having a pet. They can be exceedingly expensive. I remember my Parents got £5000 in debt at the end of our dog's life, trying to save him from cancer. And that's only his last illness. He had many before that. Pet insurance isn't cheap, but it's even worse when the insurance doesn't cover it. Dogs at least can be incredibly loud. Our dog was lovely, but he barked a lot, and very loudly, and once he started barking, every other dog started. Half makes me dread summer because that's when the dogs come out to bark. Pets can have bodily waste that needs cleaning up, like babies. I remember wiping sh1te out of my dog's blond fur because I was the only one available to do it... They can make going abroad impossible. Again, our dog would have hated going in a kennel, so for the duration of his life we stopped going abroad. And after 10-15 years or so, they die. And I cried every time, and in the case of my guinea-pigs it was I who carried them back and forth to the vets - alive and un-alive. Why should I want to go through that again? If I was to get a pet again, I think I should harden my heart against them so that when they die I won't be broken by it, like the loss of a family member.

And unlike a human child you can't actually speak with pets. You can't have a conversation. You don't fundamentally understand one another's existence, you just pretend to. If you observe enough pets of the same kind, I'll imagine you'll find that your pet isn't so unique. That one weird thing they do? Well, other pets of the same kind probably do the same. At least human children have the chance to turn out to be more unique than that. Admittedly some people can be very copy-paste lol. But, hey, I want neither.

Now, what I want, if I must own another 'creature', is a robot, like the AI we have today but in a body of some sort. That, I could talk to, and there'd be no bottom-wiping, nor medical issues. I guess it'd be like managing a computer. Back them up occasionally in case they go pop.

Why is another human not enough? Is this just some kind of redirected maternal urge, or do child-free men need pets just as much as child-free women?

Obviously people are free to do as they like. I just find it annoying how I'm a part of this minority lol

Hi! I'm Marc. I'm 29 and I live near Manchester, England. I'm on my eternal quest for that special someone to be my lifelong companion. I'm 6'2, pale, and happily underweight (62.1kg). You can see me on my profile! I'm 'child-free'. I can't live with pets. I can be your pet xD Or you mine, I'm easy. And I can't do flights longer than like 3 hours. I'm open to long-distance provided you're interested in moving here eventually. If you're in Britain we could meet half-way on the train or something. If you're not, I guess I just have to be an excellent landing party.

I'm attracted to women of a similar physical type to myself. I hope you'll agree that availability, openness, clear communication, and effort are key to making this work!

If you stop being interested in me, please can I ask that you say so rather than disappearing. I will extend the same kindness and respect to you!

I'm a very open person. I value honesty, but, of course, I try and be polite. I almost never intend to be rude. I just think and speak like a computer programmer lol, so I tend to state things directly, and if I'm criticising something, I'm criticising the thing itself, and not you :) I'm a bit socially awkward sometimes, but I try and not make a complete fool of myself. I generally mean no harm. I care a lot about the people I let into my life, and sometimes even strangers :D Even though I'm 29, I still love a bit of silly fun. My sense of humour is a mix of dry, absurd, abstract, dark, and a bit dirty lol. But I think I know when to be serious. I can be a bit sensitive, but I'm good at gritting my teeth and not causing drama. I probably get attached too easily, so please don't abuse that lol. I mostly keep to myself. I don't do night clubs, big parties, loud concerts, that sort of thing. I prefer 1-1 interactions or small groups. However, if for some reason I find myself with an audience, I will perform xD I do like a bit of a sing and dance. I have limbs which are rather flexible. I like to spend time in my cave, but I also love going for walks around the woods and fields or around town, or even sometimes up a hill (though I haven't been for a while), and I love the occasional bus-trip. So watching films together, TV series, or whatever takes your fancy, are on the cards. Or we could just be old school, and, y'know, snuggle. I also tend to go down intellectual rabbitholes. I tend to get fixated on things, and then sometimes just switch over to something else, or stay on the same thing for weeks. Maybe you could be the best and longest-running fixation I've ever had? ;) When I was a kid I used to love getting dressed up, but as an adult I haven't had any in-person friends who have wished to do so, so I'd definitely be open to cosplay. We could have a costume chest at the end of the bed! :] Or just roleplaying over text could be fun. Even better in-person, of course. With the costumes. Everything's better with costumes. Including making tea. My bunker to survive the apocalypse would have to include a UV tea garden. We'd probably also need a UV oats garden so we can make oat milk. I think keeping cows in a bunker would be neither practical nor very ethical. I prefer oat milk to soy milk.

I'm not religious. I don't mind if you are, but I'm not interested in converting. Politically, I'm fairly moderate, so I'm interested in dating someone else who is either politically moderate or apolitical.

I have OCD and anxiety, and I eat a restrictive diet. I view myself as a work in progress. As a consequence, I'm currently unemployed, but I did work for 6 years as a software-engineer. I guess I shall seek out another work-from-home office-y type job when I'm able. Right now I could only do part-time, but employers tend to want 9-5, you see. I do have savings to buy a flat from when I was a software-engineer, so I'm not a complete financial liability. Lol am I housewife material? xD So I guess it makes sense if you have some challenge of your own, else you might view me as a dead weight, albeit maybe a sometimes pretty one lol.

If you've read everything above, and you've thought about it carefully, and you're interested in speaking with me, then please send me a brief introduction to yourself with about two photos, and we'll see where this goes!

~Marc

I am struggling to sleep because I feel blegh as I often do, but then I usually find it hard to wake up, like I just want to sleep forever, which, not going to lie, minus dreams would be perfecto 👌

Brain is too awake psssh.

My brain's the wrong way round lol

Hi. I've been playing Fo4 the past few days for the first time and I'd observed its similarity to when I played Skyrim. This then got me thinking of another game I'd heard about, ELEX. ELEX is a bit of a sci-fi-fantasy vibe mishmash, as I understand it. So I looked into it, and it turns out ELEX also has mutants and robots, and it's its own kind of post-apocalyptic. Has anybody played any of the ELEX games, and if so how similar/dissimilar have you found them to Fallout? I'm tempted to say they might lean towards being more like a futuristic Skyrim. Either way, could be something for later in my post-apocalyptic game queue. Maybe it scratches a similar itch?

Please no spoilers, of course. I'd like to keep it abstract to avoid that