"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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3D graphics performance testing program!

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Does this sound familiar to anybody?

There are some programs used for testing 3D performance of computers.

Basically it runs a 3D movie for some time... Or does different scenes which test different rendering capabilities of the computer.

One program I've seen was a bunch of Neos (from matrix) shooting each other under different conditions.

Do you have name/link to them?
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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Try 3DMark. Just google it and you should find the website.
 

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The a bunch of Neos shooting each other was from 3DMark 2001.
Just to let everyone know how cool I am, my score on 3DMark 2005 is about 4000 or so.
 

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Holy sh1t!

What computer do u have?

Mine is... way lower than that.
 

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The score has a lot to do with your video card - most processors/boards/chipsets nowadays aren't usually the bottleneck.

The video card is usually the 'weakest link' in graphics processing, so you will see a substantially higher score by swapping in a new one.
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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I have a decent one... (far from top of the line)

What card do u have? :confused:
 

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Hehe, yeah my system is pretty new, I have a Geforce 6600 GT with an AMD 64 3000+, 1024 of PC3200 DDR RAM and about 200 gigs of disk, it runs great.
 

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ATi Radeon 9800 Pro
Pentium 4 2.4 gHz (it's a Pentium 4 'C' so I can overclock to 3+ gHz without any additional cooling - google it)
1 gig PC3200 DDR Ram
120 gig + 40 gig hard drives
 

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I am very close to what you guys describe, but only got 1800

Oh well... I'm not gaming that much anyways. :)
 
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