Dust 2 Dust
Master Don Juan
Leisure Suit Larry was hilarious. I heard other guys talk about this game, but I never actually played it. I got the new Zelda Skyward Sword for Wii as a Christmas present so I'm off to rescue the princess haha!
"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.
Our generation was doomed from the start lol
- Thread starter backbreaker
- Start date
"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
Julius_Seizeher
Master Don Juan
The aforementioned kid in a bathtub, who struggles when his head is held under water, does not do so out of any "instinct" or otherwise supposed form of automatic knowledge; he struggles as a response to pain.Zodiac said:
Though without any contextual understanding of his experience, he feels pain, which is a barometer of one's well-being. So it is through his senses that he detects danger against his life and acts to avoid it, which means: through a process of reason.
I do not believe that man possesses any "instinctive" knowledge. Everything man can know must be acquired willfully by the effort of his mind and through his five senses.
Modern psychology and psycho-epistemology have made thorough attempts to reduce man to the level of a pre-programmed biological robot, and I can see that they have mostly succeeded.
I reject the game movement's obsession with biocentrism, you do not know how much you are stunting your own mind when you reduce the achievements of the mind to a series of chemical reactions or "reinforced behaviors".