>>199317
>Imagination.
Which can only go so far,even if you're a 5. The next step would be stuff like lucid dreaming, astral projection, summoning of succubi etc, but i don't think i have the faculties for it.
>I also like visual novels because of the complete experience they provide (dating + sex, in ways that ease self-insertion).
Reliance on english translations results in hitting an upper limit of what you can read after a while. I've read 1000+ hours worth of VNs. I love them, but they're a poor substitute for human interaction, and intimacy.
>The zoomer variant of that would be those weird AI things, I guess.
I don't really understand your disdain for AI chatbots and the like; they're paving the way for what'll become the intimacy surrogate of the future.
Paying for such things is obviously stupid, but setting up a local chatbot and finding a GPT4 key is beyond me. Or whatever the hell is required for those things.
>What do you mean??
They actively seek me out and torment me. It may be a me problem. And I'm not talking about anything happening on the Internet.
>>199318
>How is that a bad thing?
It's a bad thing when it whittles down your dating pool down to profound retards too stupid to operate a smartphone, much less any sort of smartphone application. Trying to initiate any sort of contact with them before assessing whether they're capable of consent in the first place would be a bad idea.
Every creature (calling all of them humans might be a stretch) that has a smartphone will likely use such apps, and will excommunicate you for not using whatever apps they're using, especially an app like Spotify.
This is exactly as stupid as it sounds. I wish it were not so.