"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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My old lady has used AI to help her with work, and i've read about students using it to write papers, but it didn’t really hit me until i saw it on sosuave.
 

"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 reckon i've become the old guy, refusing to accept new technology.

Then again, the world of internet forums and social media advertising is easy to avoid

Just go outside
 

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Web forums like sosuave will soon go extinct, as bots become indistinguishable from actual humans. The purpose of the bots is to spam, and eventually that will be 100% of the forum content, similar to the rest of the Internet.
 

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I reckon i've become the old guy, refusing to accept new technology
10 000 BC we had a revolution, people went from hunter gatherers to sedetary lives and started civilizations and one god religions.

Last century we had industrial revolution that changed our lives forever.

Then in 90s we had computer revolution.

In 2010's we had personal smart phone revolution.

This now is a big one, as big as what we had 10 000 BC. Ai revolution. Just think of it as a thing that makes you smarter, much smarter.
 
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Web forums like sosuave will soon go extinct, as bots become indistinguishable from actual humans. The purpose of the bots is to spam, and eventually that will be 100% of the forum content, similar to the rest of the Internet.
I've read half-way through several posts on sosuave before it hit me. And i only noticed because i've seen the generic output before.

You're right. Reddit is a good place to find niche communities, but if you look at the site in the macro, it's mostly bots generating content to increase views.

I knew it was a thing

But seeing it here really bothered me
 

"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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10 000 BC we had a revolution, people went from hunter gatherers to sedetary lives and started civilizations and one god religions.

Last century we had industrial revolution that changed our lives forever.

Then in 90s we had computer revolution.

In 2010's we had personal smart phone revolution.

This now is a big one, as big as what we had 10 000 BC. Ai revolution. Just think of it as a thing that makes you smarter, much smarter.
People learning to cooperate and live together made us smarter.

The industrial revolution made us more affluent

The internet made us dumber, some how

AI will probabaly make us obsolete
 

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I like reddit, but a lot of the mods are corrupt and take bribes from vendors to promote their product and bully the competition off the site. When you see everyone in a discussion seeming to agree that one brand is best, it's all been set up that way.
 
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I like reddit, but a lot of the mods are corrupt and take bribes from vendors to promote their product and bully the competition off the site. When you see everyone in a discussion seeming to agree that one brand is best, it's all been set up that way.
Reddit monopolized the forum market, money took over, money shows you who people are.

Most people are horrible.
 

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Web forums like sosuave will soon go extinct, as bots become indistinguishable from actual humans. The purpose of the bots is to spam, and eventually that will be 100% of the forum content, similar to the rest of the Internet.
Apparently Reddit is full of Russian bots :/
 

"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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I've read half-way through several posts on sosuave before it hit me. And i only noticed because i've seen the generic output before.

You're right. Reddit is a good place to find niche communities, but if you look at the site in the macro, it's mostly bots generating content to increase views.

I knew it was a thing

But seeing it here really bothered me
Can you show an example of where you saw it on SS?
 

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How can you tell which members are bots? How does a bot create and authenticate an account? I must be getting old. Most AI tools I've used sound rote and generic.
 

"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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@taiyuu_otoko, you used to make an effort, you tried to get your point across

Eventually, you realized it was useless and gave up...poor guy

You must not know that your thoughts made me what i am!

I'm the man i am because of your trivial thoughts!

So when you think again of being meager, remember to be strong, for there are more behind you

Who will one day be strong!
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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