"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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spider_007

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i need to make it smaller, haw do i do it.

it's little too big to be used as a Avatar.
 

"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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We don't have avatars here.

But try Adobe Imageready. Not photoshop, the OTHER one that comes with it.
 

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Originally posted by brucevangeorge
Not photoshop,
Why not Photoshop? All you have to do is open it up, then resize it...

Image > Image Size

Avatars for most forums are around 80-90 pixels wide and long.
 
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Imageready is made to handle animations. While you can use photoshop, you have to take the gif apart and resize and then put it back together. And photoshop only reads the first frame (static picture). So you can see the problem. I'm not sure whether CS2 (newest version) still does this, but I tried it in elements 2 and 7.0 and it didnt work.
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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