"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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Anyone played Mass Effect 2 and thought...

Huffman

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... that the "romance" character development felt completely unnatural?

Hehe, mind you it's a frickin video game, but i thought the character interaction was really awesome EXCEPT for those romance bits which had me cringing at every sentence.

I mean, you're the big battle hardened soldier, shooting people in the head every day, and then you go to that girl and say "oh hey i have feelings for you", with your face forming some weird grimace.
Those conversation options felt really wooden and didn't fit Shepard's (virtual) personality at all. Whoever wrote those is either a 40yr old virgin or a girl. Anyone else played it?

Not that I care too much - I don't really get off on space pixels.
I just thought it was a good game and if they want to please the fans they could really improve on that.
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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Mass Effect 1 was pretty cheezy with the romance. I blame the writers.
 
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