"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.
Why did I sell it?!
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"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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Spent far too much time on it, to the point where it was destroying my life. I love video games, but until I mature enough to use them in moderation, I can't have them in my life.
Da Realist
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"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.
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But - video games are good deal in terms of getting lots of entertainment for a cheap price
Better than spending $10 on a 3 hour movie or $15 on a 3 hour DVD
Cheaper and way smarter than buying drinks for girls - which no one on this board should do
A lot cheaper than buying a fancy car to play with
Bible_Belt
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Video games are not necessarily evil, but guys who want to have a better social life or get laid more need to be careful of them. Unless you find a way to make your video game play a social thing, which is possible with effort, they will just waste away your life. At least books make you a more interesting person. No one cares about which video games you have beaten.
"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
I do love wasting some time with pacman or oregon trail on my phone during class.
Good decision. I was once a bit like that. I occasionally play some games but it is not a problem.Quiksilver said:Hah, I got rid of mine a month ago as well, though for entirely different reasons.
Spent far too much time on it, to the point where it was destroying my life. I love video games, but until I mature enough to use them in moderation, I can't have them in my life.
"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.
PRMoon
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I take back what I said, MW2 is sh1t for PC too. I thought it was like COD:WAW where the console games had sh1tty 6v6 and no dedicated servers but they made the PC version of MW2 like that as well. 9v9 maximum players and no dedicated servers. The gameplay is still awesome but they ruined multiplayer with those 2 aspects. I'm not playing above 50 ping in an FPS, it's terrible.Alle_Gory said: