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.
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
Originally posted by Hot Ice
Brandwidth mi arse!
(I'm going to say this again)
WE WANT AVATARS!
I think I made myself clear.![]()
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.
Originally posted by Hot Ice
EDIT:
I've seen on other forums they put a limit like a 100x100 pixels image at max. and jpg of course. Well they are like 10kb size..
It's not the brandwidth.
I second.Originally posted by Demon
40x40 is a good size. 100x100 is way too big. You only see those sizes on poorly managed forums.
As for porn and flashing images, the most porn you can get on a 40x40 image is a tit and that's not even porn. It's nude art. Even so, I participate in around 8 forums at any one time, and I've yet to see a rated X avatar. A lot of people don't waste their precious avatar spot for nudity/porn.
If avatars were restricted to jpegs and non-animated image formats, there'd be no flashing images. I think .swf and .gif are the only formats that support animation.
Me too. I'd like to have an avatar, don't really care about the size...Originally posted by Hot Ice
I second.
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.
Lol, and the names don't?Originally posted by Evil-Rom
Avatars are good!
Helps recognise people easier.
They'd probably also make this place look like a damn trailer park, they're so tacky. They serve no real purpose at all: they're a diversion, they're ugly.Originally posted by Dee-Zy
not professional.
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
What if I get a real sexy one?Originally posted by Von Neuen
They'd probably also make this place look like a damn trailer park, they're so tacky. They serve no real purpose at all: they're a diversion, they're ugly.