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I would recommend hiring a photographer or go out with a buddy if one of you has a good phone and getting great pictures done for dating apps. Dating apps don't work for most men until they get the right pictures. They didn't work for me until I did properly. I remember I used Tinder for like 2 years and had 14 matches and 0 dates. I became a photographer in 2020 and did constant photoshoots for myself and others and got up to 750 matches and slept with like 15 women on it in 2 years. This is a good video on the type of pictures to take The angle you want is especially the badass shots, shots at trendy spots in your city, shots working out/martial arts if you're fit and one that's sleeper OP the having fun wide smile picture. You will find the most DTF women on dating apps and the process to bed them is the most simple. You meet them at a spot near your house, get 1 drink then ask if they want to come over. That worked in about 75% of cases for me. Having a personal brand is the evolution to that. Your dating strategy(life/business as well but that's another topic) should rely on being able to meet people globally and building status. Who gets laid the most in society? Musicians, athletes, celebrities and overall dudes that have a global audience. Why is that? Both because they reach millions of women so even if only a few % want to fuck them that's still thousands. It also elevates them above the masses of random dudes. Most women look for value but also for novelty when picking men. Most dudes are cardboard copies of each other if not in appearance in how they interact with the world and the value they provide. What type of bad boy is popular with women? Club promoters, drug dealers, starving artist archetype, etc in all those cases there is a unique emotional experience linked with the man. Also remember that even if you're in a conservative country, women are horny. If you stand out from the sea of hundreds of timid and stuck up men your dick will literally be the lightning rod they flock to. This strategy would work in India, in Georgia, in Indonesia, in Russia, etc. There are nuances to each place and how to pull it off but the principles are the same and tested across many different men. If you do all this you will not need to lie to women to get laid, you will find plenty of women down to fuck you and date you. It's also quite fun to level up in this manner, I haven't found it to be a chore at all. To me it feels like getting laid with my brain which is more rewarding than just hammering out approaches pretending to be an extrovert.

Not true. You can disagree with women all you want. I do it with Natasha and Emerald all the time. Having an anti-woman sentiment while displaying a complaining and victimizing mindset is what screams low value coping behaviour to me.

See? You just did it again. Are you working on a business or project that you're invested in at the moment? Sometimes I find myself also getting into this butthurt mindset when I subconsciously feel myself stagnating in life. Don't worry about who wants attention lol, be like the sun. Provide so much value that your cup overflows and you're not in scarcity.

@Monster Energy You're very reactive bro. You gotta learn to be more grounded and be more at the cause and not the effect. Getting triggered by women left and right shows you're not in abundance. Feel free to ask more questions instead of stating opinions, and we can work on unlocking it for you.

Brother, where is this coming from? The idea is not to pretend to be an infallible master of reality; it's to seize what agency we have and maximize it to help ourselves and others. Clearly action is possible in this reality, where on earth did you get this learned helplessness from?

Where are you from? Are you on dating apps? Do you practice social circle game? Are you building a personal brand? There are always options to build more leverage and value. Don't resort to lying to get your wants met; that's low value behaviour.

You can get laid plenty telling women you only want casual sex. What are you on about? Have you tried this or are these your insecurities rearing their head? Women also want casual sex, this is some insanity being spread that they're all desperate for a relationship at every point in their lives.

And that brings the whole thing full circle. That fundamental contrast is why I'm such an advocate for social dynamics, game, and proactive network building. It leaves you with the power to deliberately dictate your reality, instead of being stuck in a passive, reactive state hoping the world delivers what you want. Two totally different approaches to life.

I think that philosophy makes sense if you don't run any projects. Try hiring people or running events, and you'll see the average man is a liability to himself and others. The average dude can barely get somewhere on time, let alone provide any sort of utility to the environment once he does. Also mate you can connect to any human being on earth, connection is not exactly scarce. If you want high quality connections in your life, in my experience the best way to achieve that is to find out what you truly value and set firm boundaries that naturally raise your standards for who you spend your time with.

@Joshe To me I find new ways to benefit from social dynamics continuously. It's helped me do business deals as well as throw events and build my communities. I don't share that same jaded view of PUA as the average person. It's helped me get the romantic and social life that I wanted and thus I will keep vouching for it. I also think it helps with building an intentional high quality dating life. To summarize it as being able to sleep with random women left and right is not a true summary of the potential of it. A lot of dating strategy revolves around identifying your insecurities that lead to emotional triggers and point towards deficiencies in your overall esteem as a human. Solving this leads to you engaging with women and others in your full potential and being able to create the relationships that you want. Both with attractive women but also with high value men.

Got it. If dating is not an important part of your life then yeah I think spending time on it is not that useful. For me, it unlocked incredible adventures, great FWBs, and real abundance that I wouldn't trade for anything. A lot of times when I have conversations with other people it seems like their scarcity impacts their judgement in very obvious ways and they come to conclusions that are obviously false from the perspective of someone that's had more sex and dating experience.

The idea is to get guiding principles for it, not to follow it A to Z. There is a right or wrong to it, that's the idea. Every guy thinks he can get women; very few can do it consistently. Some principles work consistently no matter which man uses them. Push-pull for example, being cocky funny, having good logistics, building a cool social circle with attractive women or getting big on social media, etc.

Pickup artists rarely rely on looksmaxxing, they rely on charisma, boldness and understanding social dynamics to a high enough level that you can subvert expectations in a calibrated way to end up charming as a result. Two dating coaches that come to mind are RSD Todd and Michael Sartain that basically boil down all of fashion for men as "wear black jeans and a black t-shirt".

@Olaf That reminds me of Thai women. They are known to cut off the penis of cheating partners. Thailand has had world-leading expertise in penile reconstruction surgery from the 1980s to today. Careful boys!

Here is a scene I just wrote. As I've talked about one of the main narratives of the story will be exploring how magic affects the scientific revolution of the early modern period. One of the concepts that I wanna write into the narrative are basically magic crystals that store massive amounts of energy. Think somehow a crystal that's even more advanced than the batteries we have today. The idea is to create insane levels of technology for the post conquest era that aren't even possible in our world today and that will turn the world from classic 17th century to high fantasy pretty quickly. One of my master creations is the Dreadnought ships, inspired by Imperial Star Destroyers This project will be ready about halfway through the show and comes about from the marriage of Nerathar to his 3rd wife, who is based on a real historical noble lady: Amalia van Nassau-Dietz They will meet in 1672 when historically the Dutch Republic was assaulted on all sides by the French and the English that ended up in a disaster year known as Rampjaar in Dutch history. The Dutch were the #1 ship builders in the world at that time and this conflict will lead Nerathar to stumble upon their kingdom in the middle of a siege, help save them, bargain for a marriage alliance with Amalia, take over their shipyards and their naval fleet and eventually both build this flying armada as well as conquer the Royal Navy and England entirely through naval and aerial dominance. I don't know if I like this colored manga style yet, I'm playing around with it. Might release both a black and white manga and a color one since it does make the characters come to life quite well.

Usually you should mostly keep theory and debriefs for after game sessions, not during. It indeed ruins your flow. As you progress through your game journey it's normal to have more thoughts around it and not just be a wild man talking to every woman he sees. Sometimes there is value to a spray and pray method and seeing what sticks but once you've learned what you need to from that then you can start to build a more complex strategy around your dating life.

Got it, in that case I agree with much of your perspective. I think it's such a shame the hold that sexual shame has on society. There are valid reasons why that was the case historically and even today being a max hedonist has it's drawbacks but it still swings too far into the shame polarity IMO. When you study frame control you start seeing very clearly why a lot of religions, cultures and governments have defaulted to it. When you got people by the balls basically literally, it's way easier to get them to comply to your will in all kinds of other ways. It's also great marketing, if the church can get you to think about them every time you touch your dick or pussy then they'll stay imprinted deep in your psyche for the rest of your existence.

That's lame. The best characters are unarguably Vader or the female villains. Obi-Wan, I could see. People that love Master Yoda have not thought about the plot enough, that guy is an imbecile that caused a lot of the negative elements of the plot. That's pretty cool. I liked that he decided to showcase works from other artists as well, it's a good indication of the potential staying power it's gonna have. I hope they will have props from the movies to show how they managed to make it come to life. The video only showed stuff that seems made for the museum and not the original movie props. The force awakens is not bad, that's the only one I've watched from the Disney movies. I'll watch episode 8 and 9 in the next couple months and update this thread with my thoughts. Next on my list is watching The Acolyte episode 1!

I think you're overemphasizing negative behaviour and discounting the value that FWB relationships have for both parties. Why this cynical take? Have you had women blow up on you for leading them on or are you internalizing the anti-sex sentiment that's common on the internet lately? My FWBs pretty much all thanked me for the time we had together except 1. She didn't like me telling her I wanted to keep seeing other women on top of her but that one also proves my point. You can have your cake and eat it too. I've never had to lie to women to sleep with them, nor to keep them.

I just don't agree with this at all. I think the female dating agenda leaking through your thoughts makes it not good advice for any man reading them. We're gonna have to be more specific to get to the truth of the matter. Every time I made myself more attractive and this led to more casual sex, it also led to women wanting to date me more seriously. Cold approach made me more social and less anxious with women and during the times I was doing it the most, I got two separate long term relationships out of it. Where I'm usually more in my head and anxious around women, I was talking to so many of them that I was able to be more present and direct with women in a platonic social setting and it led to them making moves on me both times. Learning photography and social media led me to tons of hookups through dating apps and having a strong Instagram brand has ended up in me meeting a lot of high quality women and building social circles through which I now have female friends. I went on a date with a really sexy model last year that I don't think I would've been able to get out without this. I don't workout but I also think that if you got more fit you would in general increase your odds of casual sex and also getting a long term relationship if that was your goal. The female dating strategy and the male one are a bit conflicting in that regard where a woman wants her desired males to not be that attractive to other women since that increases her competition and makes her have to expend more energy to keep that male if he's willing to be monogamous at all. There were some really cool girls that seemed to want to date me monogamously but I'm now on a quest towards being able to date 5 women at the same time. That's the last quest the average woman wants her male crushes to embark on lol. When I had less options in my early 20s I would've loved to date one of them but now that thought doesn't really satisfy me anymore.

@Xonas Pitfall Okay when phrased like that, I mostly agree. I think lying to get laid is a fundamentally a scarcity based move and you can be purely honest and get tons of sex.

Really cool video I wasn't that familiar with Riot Forge before. It was a division of Riot Games that existed for 5 years from 2019-2024 that published 6 games made through indie studios. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Forge The endeavor was ultimately considered a failure since 5 of the single player games probably didn't recoup their cost and overall didn't really make a splash compared to the current 5 live service titles: League of Legends, Valorant, Wild Rift (LoL mobile), Teamfight Tactics and Legends of Runeterra. Such great knowledge for me to study this debacle as it highlights the importance of product market fit. The games were all rated quite well, they just didn't make sense for a company the size of Riot Games. It's great for me to understand how that works since I'm looking to surpass them one day. What they've accomplished alongside Epic Games with Fortnite and more story-based companies like LucasFilm with Star Wars are my current goal in terms of multimedia empires.

It's important to understand the deeper mechanisms at play in attraction and not just the surface level tactics. Some dating coaches talk about never simping or appearing high value. I like the definition of simping that says operating in a framework where you're getting less value than you're giving out in a relationship with a woman. So that could be simping for IG models that don't acknowledge your existence, being the beta orbiter that does a ton of favors for a girl that doesn't do much for you, or even these dynamics can exist in a toxic one-sided marriage. The greater lesson is to understand social dynamics and awareness of the world so you can recognize when you're taken advantage of. When your "simping" is reciprocated, that's not a bad thing that's called an awesome relationship. It's also why it's important to offer a lot of value to others. People that simp usually don't offer much and think their interest in women is gonna be enough.

@Xonas Pitfall What both of you said leads to casual sex being good for women though. How else are you supposed to get to know yourself and what you like in a partner? Surely you're not implying that marrying the first guy they date is the right option? Finding cool guys to have FWB situations and explore what they like in a relationship and sexually seems like the best option. One of my FWBs basically broke up with me a few months into us seeing each other because she got a boyfriend and wanted to see how things go. I think they dated long term and are perhaps still together. About 1 week before this happened she came to my place, brought me a bubble tea, blew me until I came in her mouth and then went to her graphic design class. You see how both of your perspectives are sex negative and lack an abundance mindset? I think I probably helped this girl a bit find her boyfriend by hanging out with her for months so she could tell which characteristics she liked in a man and when she found one that more closely aligned with her she went for it. We were not compatible people for a long term relationship but we could hangout casually and have a good time. I was also happy for her, I can find women to date pretty easily so I wasn't butthurt over her leaving. Both parties were enriched by the experience.

@Emerald Thanks for sharing, you touched on some good points here. That's why I believe in social circle game so strongly. If a man develops a community around his interest that has women in it, his dating life will be pretty much taken care of for the next 20 years. Casual sex is a concept that should be understood separately from this and can work in tandem or separately from the social circle strategy. I think it's important to separate the gimmicks and game tactics from deep self-development. Both have their importance but if you build your identity around gimmicks then you will turn off developed women that have been there done that. Tactics are very important if you want to get laid though, it will make the difference on a 5 year window between sleeping with dozens of women and 1-2, with no bearing on your ability to find a long term partner. So might as well learn them if you want to get laid. An example of a tactic would be to schedule dates near your place so you can invite them over. I do believe it's a good move to try to sleep with a woman as early as you can but also not to be pushy if she wants to wait longer. One of my favorite FWBs I've had made me wait 7 dates to fuck. Each time we got a bit further and on the 7th time I told her I felt like I was wasting my time and I did like hanging out with her but I'm a sexual being and if she's not looking for that then it's best we go our separate ways. She respected the honesty and we fucked that night.