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@Lyubov It goes the other way around too. If you are too lax, you will lose many girls. Being persistent in a non-needy way is a skillset and a result of a great inner game. There is a middle way to this.
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As a man, I test the girls all the time. I call it piss testing. Where I see how immature they are. I’m not even kidding.
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What in the world did I wake up to
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I agree. I think it has some narrow scope of value for people who have really underdeveloped social skills and need a step-by-step instruction booklet on how to flirt or banter. Beyond that it seems really bizarre and unhelpful to me. Again, I also come from a country where giving people shit is how you make friends most of the time, so maybe that contributes to my opinion on this being a dumb concept.
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Why not to get a pension fund investment where you just place it in different stocks in the world? I wouldn't place in the US, maybe except for gold.
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The trick is to learn to solve problems compatible with your specific cognition. "know thyself" "What types of problems do I like to solve?" Then look for opportunity with the same shape.
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And in memory of @UnbornTao
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It was just ChatGPT. If you want the text: "Suppose a man is already comfortable with himself, can tolerate rejection, expresses attraction without shame, reads women reasonably well, and naturally knows how to tease/flirt/play. What remaining problem is sufficiently important that he'd want to turn interaction with women into an optimization project? For most men, probably none. He'd just go interact with women. The people most likely to continue studying pickup after reaching basic competence would disproportionately be people who enjoy optimization for its own sake: highly competitive people, perfectionists, systematizers, status-driven people, people who want unusually high sexual volume, or people who experience uncertainty as something that needs to be controlled. That's somewhat broader than “high-strung Type A,” because a relaxed but highly analytical systematizer could also become fascinated by it. And I think there's a deeper distinction worth making: Learning flirting is ordinary social development. Turning flirting into an explicit system for maximizing outcomes is a particular psychological response to the problem. Consider other social domains. Most people want friends, but they don't develop friend acquisition systems. They want people to like them, but they don't spend years studying likability optimization. They want enjoyable conversations, but don't maintain spreadsheets of conversational openers. If somebody did those things obsessively, we'd immediately start wondering what psychological need was driving all that machinery. Pickup gets somewhat of a pass because heterosexual male dating presents a genuine asymmetry: men are still more often expected to initiate, rejection is common, and romantic/sexual success can be highly motivating. So some explicit learning makes perfect sense. But once you remove the underlying inhibition and incompetence, continued intensive optimization starts telling you less about what dating objectively requires and more about what the practitioner psychologically requires from dating. That's actually a sharper version of your original claim: And the remaining hardcore practitioners would likely be a psychologically selected population—men unusually interested in mastery, optimization, control, competition, validation, sexual variety, or some combination thereof."
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Can you link this? Who wrote it?
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The joy of creating.
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Chorus is the banger
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I think @CARDOZZO PM me I'll give you her number. She loves to ride big cowboys. But after that you're on your own.
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I find that people are relying on movie critics instead of just watching the movies in the theater and deciding for themselves.
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Ok, so where do you want to take it?
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An expression of infinity 😂 Dick chop awareness is possible within infinity.
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No. There is a lot to say. There's a lot to the game and we are gonna need your advice. Now..I handed @CARDOZZO my hot witch. But me and @Olaf only have so many to go around. And they're crazy broads we don't wanna push them on anyone. So there's a lot to be had here
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I liked it enough to recommend it here. Maybe it hit different with me. I try not to listen to critics of movies though. If I don't recommend it here, I don't think it rises to the level.
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There really isn't much to say aside from learn to be comfortable in your own skin and learn how to play with women. If all men came born with these things, pickup wouldn't exist and it would be seen as a neurotic strategy if it did.
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@Natasha Tori Maru I am sorry for traumatising you. This is what happens if you put guys together on one forum.
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Stop talking sides with the enemy! 😀
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Reflection 😁
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lol, thank you! It's feel good to know someone is there, just in case.
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I feel like this forum needs a bolt on IRC or MSN Messenger section for users to shit talk. Then I remember I am a moderator and why would I want to do that to myself
