"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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age of empires 3

"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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I thought Age of Empires III was Age of Mythology? Age of Empires, Age of Kings (plus expansions), Age of Mythlogy, this.

Eh, whatever...Haven't touched the series in a long time, but back in like 8th grade or so I had two other buddies who I played the original Age of Empires online with...We'd get into a 4 person game and form an alliance and rape the other player. Ahh, good times :)
 

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dammm..,. i might need to get a new computer.. this one cant play good games for sh1t.. what kind of requirments would a comp need to run all the new games ? (half life 2, doom 3, this?)

soemthing like 512 ram, 128 video card?
 

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Yeah, nowadays you need something powerful enough to monitor a water-cooling plant to play solitare.

Probably want something like a 3 Ghz processor or better, 256+ RAM (minimum), 64+ MB Video card (64 is probably minimum too), plus around 2 GB or more free space just to install the game itself. Then, you'll probably need to MSconfig your system so it's around 96% free or better so it'll run smoothly, even with all the big hardware installed.

Technooollllogy!
 

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Yeah, you'll need a NASA comp to play this without any glitches. The computer i got right now lags when i get above 500 units in AOE2,cant even imagine how badly this new game will run(though i'll probly miss minimum reqs by a mile anyway).
 

"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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Originally posted by Oxide
dammm..,. i might need to get a new computer.. this one cant play good games for sh1t.. what kind of requirments would a comp need to run all the new games ? (half life 2, doom 3, this?)

soemthing like 512 ram, 128 video card?
No, for HL2 and all the new games you're gonna want 1GB ram...probably a 256 video card too. I'd suggest an AMD 64 processor also. 512 and 128 are the minimums, but trust me, you'll want more. They're meant to be played with awesome graphics like in those pics. :D
 

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Ehh, give me the old, early-90's IBM "Box of Sh!t" computers and Lunar Lander any day! Include "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego" and I'm set! :D
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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Still have another year to go, from the looks of it... end of 2005 according to that post in the prior link.
 
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