"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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The Bat

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It just looks like a coke can floating in water surrounded by blue light while somebody with a blue pinstripe shirt is in the back.

Although I do like the Energize font.

Is this for recreation or are you working for somebody?
 

"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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Yotsuya-san

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An even better program for making planets is...

Bryce 5.5

manual


Photoshop is good but you have to also do wraparound texture. Bryce does it for you. Your planet is awesome though. There's no sense of a just a dull flat circle filled with texture which is what I usually get when I try to do planets. And you also got the lighting right too. You'll love Bryce even better. You basically start with a primitive sphere and then put the texture of your choice on it then work with environmental lighting and BAM! Best of all, Bryce is free and you can get tons of free textures online. Happy rendering!
 

HandyAndy

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Hey man I appreciate the link, PS took me forever to learn, I guess Bryce will be a new experience, and there are tuts for it too, so thanks again this is awesome
 
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