Maximus Optimus
Banned
- Joined
- Feb 16, 2021
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- Age
- 45
Which site do you think is best or where you have had the most success?
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.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
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.
Makes sense. I'd been wondering why my results were so much better on Hinge.Hinge is the only one worthwhile in my area.
Important to note again: The Match Group owns POF,Tinder, OKC, Match so they are all run by a predominantly female board of directors and thus do not favor males in the OLD process. Both Match Group and Bumble are publically traded companies that will do anything to bolster their bottom line at the expense of thirsty/desperate males.
Hinge is a separate company that works off a different matching algorithm that better favors the males vs other apps. Plus it only allows males/females to "like" a very limited number of people per day. This filters and reduces the amount of options presented to females at any given time, leading to better organization and more focus and communication.
The Match group DO own Hinge as well as Plenty Of Fish, OKCupid and Tinder.Hinge is the only one worthwhile in my area.
Important to note again: The Match Group owns POF,Tinder, OKC, Match so they are all run by a predominantly female board of directors and thus do not favor males in the OLD process. Both Match Group and Bumble are publically traded companies that will do anything to bolster their bottom line at the expense of thirsty/desperate males.
Hinge is a separate company that works off a different matching algorithm that better favors the males vs other apps. Plus it only allows males/females to "like" a very limited number of people per day. This filters and reduces the amount of options presented to females at any given time, leading to better organization and more focus and communication.
Hinge is the only one worthwhile in my area.
Important to note again: The Match Group owns POF,Tinder, OKC, Match so they are all run by a predominantly female board of directors and thus do not favor males in the OLD process. Both Match Group and Bumble are publically traded companies that will do anything to bolster their bottom line at the expense of thirsty/desperate males.
Hinge is a separate company that works off a different matching algorithm that better favors the males vs other apps. Plus it only allows males/females to "like" a very limited number of people per day. This filters and reduces the amount of options presented to females at any given time, leading to better organization and more focus and communication.
The looks part matters more than the size of the metro area. If you're not a top 10% man in a big city, you're wasting time. I'd argue that smaller towns might be a little bit better for swipe apps since smaller town women do not have the absurd numbers of choices that big city women have.Dating apps only make sense if you are living in a big city and look like the rock . Otherwise you will be waisting time .
live in a smaller town and can confirm this is not the case ended up deleting everything after a fortnight complete waste of time , even if chicks in smaller towns don't have the options they seem to firmly believe they deserve them and will just mess around until they actually want sexThe looks part matters more than the size of the metro area. If you're not a top 10% man in a big city, you're wasting time. I'd argue that smaller towns might be a little bit better for swipe apps since smaller town women do not have the absurd numbers of choices that big city women have.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
I stand corrected. I guess Match Group took over a 51% stake in Hinge since 2018. I haven't really kept up with acquisitions over time for this company.The Match group DO own Hinge as well as Plenty Of Fish, OKCupid and Tinder.
FaceTime before the meetup. I’ve had girls insist on that.Here and there you might catch a good one. This also happened. But it's not worth the investment.
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.