Staring Into The Abyss
I have never been a person to utilize dating or match up sites. I personally find most of my success with the ladies to be in places like nightclubs or art shows, both places where women are too intoxicated to realize what a horrible mistake they're making (whether it be from alcohol or an inflated sense of intellectual might). However, I'm not going to simply write off the success of such places or make fun of someone because of they're participation, or at least not for the last 5 minutes or so. Dating sites have their niche, and while some of you might think that niche is people too awkward to function in meatspace, I'm of the high minded opinion that some people are simply too busy to interact with your viscera. I solve this problem by avoiding people and interpersonal relationships, quietly crying myself to sleep at night, clutching my pillow not because I'm busy but because I chose to be a lonely, spiteful, jerk.
Now while I won't bash dating sites as a whole, there is a trend of specialization among dating sites that is ripe for ridicule. J-Date is one of them, but considering I'm the only moderately Jewish staffer at Chez Geek ridiculing them won't garner me very much hate mail. Nor would it provide me with the satisfaction of having alienated yet another peer group.
Today I bring you riches from a dark cavern otherwise known as Soul Geek, a site providing an opportunity for self proclaimed geeks to meet one another and eventually sit awkwardly across from each other at a dinner which the male counterpart will request going dutch for. But not until halfway through the meal and only after regaling his date with epic tales of shenanigans in the A/V closet of his high school. If everything works as it should then she'll eat this up with a spoon and happily split the meal. Anything to get out of the house with a guy that doesn't affectionately refer to you as a "fruitfly" right?
Click this here clicky bit for a disturbing look at some of the denizens of Soul Geek and some running commentary from me that only barely disguises my self esteem issues.
I'd like to apologize in advance for these images being a tad on the small side, Soul Geek doesn't believe in close ups I guess.
Keep in mind I'm not the type to dish out unjustified snark. There are a bunch of folks on Soul Geek that appear to bathe regularly, abstain from taking pictures with totally badass swords, and do not in fact wear button down shirts with flames. To those fine people, I salute you. To the rest, a shave and a bath when combined with a head full of obscure D&D rules can result in an unstoppable wave of geek love, you are warned.
