"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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Squid Game

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I'm not a big fan of TV, but you guys should watch Squid Game on Netflix. It's South Korean, but you can turn on English translation. It's pretty good and I can see this happening in the coming decades. Reason being, money now runs the world and people are heavily in debt.
 

"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 see this show has generated allot of hype and has been no.1 viewing on the streamer. I already put it on my like list but will try to look at the first 3 episodes. South Korea is definately getting awards here and there for these types of social films. For example Parasite, Burning and Minari are just a few recent examples. That country has some talent.
 

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I haven't seen it but it reminds me a lot of similar shows and movies.

The Long Walk (short story by Stephen King)

The Running Man (movie version)

Battle Royale (Original Japanese version of Hunger Games)

Even Jai Courtney's character on Spartacus joined a gladiator team to hopefully pay off his debt before he would be killed.
 

“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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I haven't seen it but it reminds me a lot of similar shows and movies.

The Long Walk (short story by Stephen King)

The Running Man (movie version)

Battle Royale (Original Japanese version of Hunger Games)

Even Jai Courtney's character on Spartacus joined a gladiator team to hopefully pay off his debt before he would be killed.
It's also extremely similar to the Japanese Amime Kaiji, even the season finale seems like a straight 1:1 rip off of one of the Kaiji episodes.
 
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