Why "Whatever You Want" Keeps You Single

She says the movie looks dumb; you suddenly agree. She tests you with a little attitude; you apologize for nothing.

You think you're being easy to get along with. She reads something else entirely: a man with no edges. Nothing to hold on to. No friction, no tension, no reason to wonder what he really thinks.

The "22 Rules" taught me to push back — playfully, calmly, without needing her approval. Strange things happened after that.

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Bad experience, good lesson

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Okay so I was 'dating' some girl in a computer game, called World of Warcraft. You may have all kinds of thoughts about that, but it was realistic enough to teach me something.

First date almost went bad but i saved it.
Second date went very well.
Today was third date.

I was in a bit of a bad position because our characters couldn't meet up due to some bug, and we ended up meeting up with me being level 5 and she being level 85, which made her like being the one who has the car.

I ended up making two mistakes.

First, I called my character jokingly "5 years old" which implied that she was 85 years old. There was a bit like that in the movie Groundhog Day, where she says "I studied 19th century french poetry" and he says "ha, what a waste of time." Then he tries to save it, which doesn't work, so he says something different the next day. Well, after that remark, she started making my life a bit miserable.

And then I made the mistake of calling her helmet unsexy. She was wearing some hideous thing that hid her face for the most part, but apparently she liked it very much.

After that, she started making fat jokes about me. She turned negative. Then I virtually slapped her, and she threw a fit about that, disbanding the group, telling me not to talk to her. She came back to me, but started giving me those "why?" questions. Wanting to know the reason behind everything.

It ended with "Well, see you sometime..." "Yeah..."

So from what I understand, I killed her attraction for me by making her feel bad in my company. From what I understand also, there is no way to salvage that.

Maybe the helmet remark hit so hard because I hadn't complimented her on her outfit yet, while I knew she had chosen that outfit for the occasion. In truth, while the basis of her outfit was very sexy, she wore some hideous helmet and shoulderpiece which made it hard to compliment on it.

All of this may sound fake and unreal, but it could have happened in real life as well. Glad to learn from it.

What are your thoughts, in general? Please treat it as some real life thing. My chances are gone, right?
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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Whatever. From the position I am in, it was a good experience to have.
 

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Thoughts: Uninstall the game, go date girls IRL. It's more fun, promise. The fact that you're even contemplating a video game experience like it matters is sad.

And yea, I can relate, I played that god awful lifesucker for 4 years. NEVER had to resort to WoW dates though. It always came second to anything IRL.

Final thought: Don't touch WoW chicks with a 10 foot pole, they radiate BPD like a nuclear meltdown.
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

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.

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VladPatton said:
:crackup:


Ok so you learned that slapping a girl across the face isn't really a good idea ? Go figure.



Seriously...what the hell man ?

My chances are gone right ?
Chances to...have world of warcraft sex ? this topic made my night.
 

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Haha dude :crackup:

Yeah, I mean you compared it to real life pretty well, but seriously :crackup:
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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Dryden

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Well, there were at least some serious posts ;-).

My chances at what? At nothing. I was just treating it as a training thing. You have no grounds for arguing that I should go date girls IRL (of course I should, that's not the point) without knowing the details of my personal life, which I here won't disclose.

Incidentally, I know of many people who met their spouse through WoW.
 

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Constructively though, you can, in fact, date girls irl, and you will be happier for it. Read the DJ Bible, read the book of pook, figure it out. I don't think this forum encourages the lowest possible denominator ala wrecked girls pickin up dudes in video games.
 

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Zarky said:
I think I'm going to kill myself now
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

This is the saddest but funniest post on SS ever!!

+1 to the OP!!

don't forget to get protection for your keyboard and mouse.....

:crackup: :crackup: :crackup:

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:
 

“The 22 Psychological Triggers That Make Women Chase You… Starting Tonight”

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.

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