"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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Tao Of Steve

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Its good to be back after months.

I wanted to share my opinion on this amazing, yet underrated movie called "Tao of Steve". It showed a fat underachieving kindergarten teacher who smokes pot all day utilise the three laws he called the Tao of Steve.

I was impressed how close it came to modern PUA considering its nearly 2 decades old.
I see a lot of desperate guys around, who even after taking the red pill do not ultimately understand the essence of how to get laid.

Tao of Steve perfectly encompassed redpill for beginners.

I found it rather refreshing that it revolves around just 3 basic laws and none of the complex routines all these mushrooming PUA artists created and draws from the teachings of Lao Tzu amongst others historical authors.

Tao of Steve says:
-Be Desireless
-Be Excellent
-Be Gone

It also explicity states that humans chase that which retreats.

I would recommend anyone looking for a visual foothold onto the redpill to see this movie even though it becomes blue-pill at the end.

Have fun.
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

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.

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I was impressed how close it came to modern PUA considering its nearly 2 decades old.
There's nothing new under the sun. I've always said that I've heard most of the PUA ideas when I was growing up back in the 60s and 70s. They may have been expressed in a slightly different form, but they were there. What the community did was gather them all into one place. I don't recall hearing anything about "negs" though.

As for the movie, I've seen it, not bad, not great. The thing that sticks in my mind about it was on the end credits they sing this incredibly corny song which includes the line "It's time to give up the Tao of Steve" or something like that. Because he had found love and didn't need it anymore - the "blue pill" ending you were talking about.
 

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I've seen it too, heard about it on this forum. It has been mentioned here a few times in the past. It does indeed display several PUA principles.
 

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It's a fun movie. Interestingly it was directed and co-written by a woman.
Why is it that some of the most redpill movies and series are written by women? I'm especially thinking of "Mad Men".
 
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