Thanks, buddy, but I'm retired.Originally posted by Eternal
*Tosses you your trident*
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.
Thanks, buddy, but I'm retired.Originally posted by Eternal
*Tosses you your trident*
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.
Aww... that's unfortunate.Originally posted by Demon
Thanks, buddy, but I'm retired.![]()
Yeah, I've been reading posts lately... it's rough.Now we've got 10 PUAs maybe and 700 AFCS. We need shock collars.
Oh right...Originally posted by JC Jerkson
Don't forget the guy with the iron fist. :trouble:
JC
When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.
Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.
Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.
The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.
Iron fist? That's it? Eternal can have that one. This is me.Originally posted by JC Jerkson
Don't forget the guy with the iron fist.
"It snowed everyday...Even in June!"Originally posted by syncmaster
LOL we sound like old war vets.... "when i was your age i had to march uphill to school... both ways! In 4 feet of snow!"
LOL
Originally posted by The Antichrist_Star
Aww... that's unfortunate.![]()
Demon... haha, it's actually good to see you back.![]()
I've considered being really 'hardass' but honestly... three forths of all of the posts would probably be gone if that was the case.
****... I've been here so long I actually forgot how I stumbled upon this place... haha
*Shrugs*
Yeah, I've been reading posts lately... it's rough.![]()
AS
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.
you would never be a mod here. you're a flaming AFCOriginally posted by JC Jerkson
If only I was mod...
You'd come here and think it was 2001 again.
JC
All right... but if I do it... I mean really, really do it.Originally posted by BrotherAP
Three fourths might be gone, and that would be a great thing. There's no reason to miss something so useless anyway.
Try being a hardass. Do it for the entire month of January. See if anyone wants to go back (other than the exhausted mods who need a day off).
When I was your age, the Christian god was just a minor Mesopotamian diety named "El."Originally posted by syncmaster
LOL we sound like old war vets.... "when i was your age i had to march uphill to school... both ways! In 4 feet of snow!"
LOL
Originally posted by The Antichrist_Star
All right... but if I do it... I mean really, really do it.
I don't want to hear it.
AS
Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.
I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.
Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules. Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.
I talked to JC and I told him that I would do it.Originally posted by syncmaster
Do it pls... go back to the hardfast rule of post something useful, or ask a question that hasn't been asked or STFU.
We need to do some weeding.
"Thumbs up, let's do this. THE VIRTUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIND!"Originally posted by The Antichrist_Star
All right... but if I do it... I mean really, really do it.
I don't want to hear it.
AS
All right man... if you're in... I'm in.Originally posted by TheVirtualMind
"Thumbs up, let's do this. THE VIRTUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIND!"
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.