Go on a sub like r/SkincareAddiction or r/AsianBeauty, read their wikis and threads, maybe search up your specific skin concerns on there. If you're interested in a product or brand, maybe cross-reference with those subs to see how people found them. (And then do your wallet a favor and unsub once you've learned everything you can).

my basic understanding of a solid skincare routine is:
1. cleanser
2. the weird stuff (serums/toners/mystery goop)
3. moisturizer
4. sunscreen

I highly recommend getting a product with a really nice smell or texture or fun packaging, as encouragement to keep up with your routine!

You gotta overperform the positivity and the kindness. It will feel weird and unnatural and maybe a little bit inauthentic to you, but if you are already the reserved/introverted type, chances are it will just come off as normal to other people. When you make a conscious effort over and over, it will eventually just become the way you do things naturally.
I relate to a lot of the things you're saying, and I feel like social stuff still doesn't come as naturally to me as to other people, but I put in a lot of effort and now I can match that sorta positive energy instinctively. I also used this tactic to train myself out of self-deprecating talk lol.

I feel like I would enjoy dating games more if I found one where the microtransactions didn't make it unplayable and annoying. Commenting so I can come back later and see people's recs.

I remember I enjoyed Mystic Messenger when I played it several years ago, but that's all I've got for you, unfortunately.

Putting in effort to explain my lack of care for gender to cis people would defeat the purpose.

I wouldn't say its a man thing, it just depends on the specific person. I play a ton of ttrpgs, and some of my biggest flakes are women (including my own sister lmao). I've got some games where every single participant shows up like clockwork with their sheets memorized down to the letter, and others where sessions fall through more often than not.

Its rough trying to find a game that actually sticks for more than a few sessions, but the only thing you can do is keep trying! Over the years I've fallen in with a slowly-expanding group of ttrpg-loving people, and now I have the opposite problem, somehow. We'll want to try out new campaign ideas and systems, but our schedules are all too packed with preexisting games we're in.

1 because I love sleeping right next to a window and the bed location feels nice and cozy. But I think if the bedframe has hardware sticking out at the foot like in the picture you might hurt yourself trying to get to the shelves in a hurry.

You might like having a weighted blanket.

Also yeah you are fine nothing to be embarrassed about. Even married people hug pillows/blankets when they sleep.

Yes, I see this pattern all the time! A lot of characters apparently have no idea they are gay until they meet the love interest well into adulthood.
To me it feels very arospec, but I could also see it as being a symptom of comphet, perhaps?