"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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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?
 

"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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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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