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Well, people get attached to the charm and style of fictional animated characters, which is not really that different. If some dude in his mother's basement can get deeply attached to a hentai cat girl, he can get attached to an AI generated human-like woman and watch every movie "she's" in and that would cost a production company a lot less than hiring Scarlett Johansson If you created a ridiculously hot 'actress' who was completely AI generated (but looked and sounded completely lifelike) that would still grab a lot of guy's attention and loyalty just like real actresses do. Same would prob go for a lot of women and a hot AI generated male actress. This would really just be AI enhanced animation so advanced that it looks like real life. It's not that crazy. I wouldn't be that surprised if production companies were at least looking into these kinds of options with the AI tech that's available now. It has the potential to save them a lot of money. They could even do a mixture. Pay for expensive actors who will garner you attention and then fill the minor roles with AI generated people to save money.

In theory, we could even have movies filled with completely fictional actors that look perfectly human. Completely false people that don't exist in the real world and have never existed in the real world. Actors could be replaced entirely. It would become much cheaper to use a fake AI generated actor who looks exactly how you need them to look instead of paying a real actor $20 million.

I've heard stories from a fair few girls about how they are in 'relationships' with rich guys where they basically exchange attention for money. Not even sex or nudes or anything. Just attention and companionship over the internet, in exchange for effortless money. So if you have an endless supply of money as a billionaire it doesn't seem that crazy to me to just give a girl a free car and not really expect anything. The thing is, being a decent guy on its own is kinda boring. Most guys are decent guys. Being decent doesn't evoke that much emotion in a woman, though. Being a decent, good guy is obviously positive and girls will appreciate it a lot once they're attracted to you and you're in a relationship. But you also need to have some extra pazazz to actually spike that initial emotional attraction in a woman. You can do that without being a player or a dickhead, there are lots of ways to do it.

The red flag is that you keep telling everyone how you are stage yellow. And it's especially bad because say that you are SD yellow in order to place yourself above others. For example, you frequently say "I'm stage yellow" and "this forum is a stage green bubble". That is coming from you trying to convince yourself internally that you're above everyone here. If you are stage yellow, it should be obvious from how you act and write. Your development, ideas, and speech should stand for themselves without requiring the credentials of "I'm stage yellow" and also without putting everyone else down with "you're part of a stage green bubble." But the fact you feel compelled to tell everyone your supposed superior credentials all the time indicates that even you feel insecure about how truly stage yellow you are, and people can sense that insecurity within you.

It's also possible that the stress and misery you enact upon yourself by being so uptight about food has its own fair share of negative effects. I notice you don't mention what kind of food it is she's eating that you think is unhealthy. If it's like oily, greasy takeaway every night, tons of sugar, and no veggies or anything with nutrients you might have a point. But if it's a somewhat reasonably balanced diet with some junk food thrown in here and there, that's not going to kill her, and if she's focusing on other areas of her life right now it's probably a worthwhile trade-off.

Generally the only reason you find attractive women on dating apps is because they're exceptionally picky, or because they want the ego boost. Maybe also if they're shy. As a guy, you are rarely ever getting a good deal on a dating app. I know it sounds very cold and mechanical, but it's kind of true. There are up to 10 men for every women depending on your country so it's going to be hard for you to get exposure even if you look good and have cool pics. Your best outcome from OLD is going to be a cute and shy woman if you're into that because any attractive and healthy women who's sociable doesn't stand to gain much from a dating app.

I've taken acid a lot of times now, maybe 10-12 trips. Doses ranging from 50ug to 400-450ug. I never seem to remember that much from my trips. Most of it seems like it's lost to the void. I write down a reasonable amount, but the actual experiences do not stay in my mind after the trip. How normal is this? I wonder, because I see people write really detailed trip reports as though they remember so much more than I feel like I remember. It's just something I'm curious about, does anyone else feel this way?

Leo seems like the kinda guy that if he says he tried everything, he's probably actually tried everything you could reasonably try to fix it Unlike you or I, it's essentially his job to operate at peak efficiency as a human being.

Honestly, I am convinced you can't gain much from watching pickup people online. To me it seems kind of like trying to learn how to play basketball by watching YouTube videos. It's just kinda pointless. You get more from going out with friends who are good with women, or even just going out and trial and erroring it yourself. You can learn just by talking to lots of women and learning what works and what doesn't for you. You don't need these grifty online content creators. People will recommend RSD to you but RSD is now a giant grifty marketing company for shitty courses, as are lots of pickup content producers.

They think he's talking about standing on a high street and approaching every girl who goes by, because that's more or less what cold approach traditionally meant.

This just reads to me like a cop out to avoid explaining yourself Just because something doesn’t resonate with you doesn’t mean it’s falsehood and should be cancelled/deleted from the internet. It just means you should follow other teachers.

Ironically, you are accusing someone of being arrogant/narcistic whilst being very arrogant yourself. This style of criticism is not productive at all. You're basically just saying "you're bad, wrong, and you should delete everything you've every created but I can't actually tell you why in detail, you're just wrong" Notice that your criticism here is exceptionally surface level.

Coffee? Yea, just pay, or at least offer to pay. If it's a meal and she gets turned off by you not offering to pay $40+ for someone you know barely anything about, you probably dodged a bullet.

Is there not an export button somewhere? Its ages since I’ve used OneNote but all software like this almost always has an “Export” button somewhere that lets you save it to a file which you can backup wherever you want

If you have good social skills, it isn't unethical to talk to girls you see out and about occasionally who you think are cute. You should not feel bad about that. The problem is with really spammy daygame where you are going out intending to approach a whole bunch of girls in a single day. That's what reddit thinks you are referring to when you say "cold approach" and that's what they don't like. If you frame it specifically about cold approach when you're out at night, there is nothing wrong with that and I suspect reddit would agree. If someone shames you for that, they're thick as mince and probably never go outside. The important differentiating factor with cold approach during the day is your intent: Did you leave your house intending to go and approach a whole bunch of girls who are just going about their day? That's at best ethically questionable, and most people are going to view that as creepy or weird. Did you see a girl you think is cute while you are out getting groceries and you want to go and ask her out? That's totally fine and most people will not see this as creepy if you possess the social skills to talk to her without being creepy.

Yea I thought that might be the case. It’s just very clinical, and reallllyyy popular term to use in incel communities so it’s best avoided in anything other than scientific/statistic contexts

It kinda depends on the grappling. A lot of positions taught in BJJ are only effective because they assume the opponent can’t strike, but that doesn’t mean all techniques are useless. If you can get someone in mount in a street fight they’re pretty fucked for example. The biggest risk is someone knowing how to stop you taking them to the ground really, like a wrestler or something, or multiple opponents. A lot of fights end up in a scramble or on the ground. Some stats put it at like 85-90%. That’s a high enough percentage I’d take BJJ over a striking martial art because something like boxing is pretty unhelpful on the ground. Also I don’t like the idea of frequently being bashed in the head when training or smashing the fuck out of my hands, both of which I need to make a living. Grappling also gives you the tools to end a fight without seriously injuring someone which is advantageous to avoid being prosecuted. If you punch someone out cold they might die when their head hits the curb. Happened to a dude outside my flat.

Kind of unrelated but just so you know, it’s pretty cringy when guys refer to women as ‘females’ all the time. It’s a very ‘inecely’ thing to do even if you aren’t one, so it’s a bad habit to have. It’s not a huge deal I suppose, but you might find it doesn’t help you with women much. Younger women especially. I had a discussion with some girls about this recently and they told me nothing makes them dry up faster than being referred to as ‘females’ by guys. It’s somewhat dehumanising even if you don’t mean it that way.

Pre 18ish relationships are usually pretty fuckin weird anyway. I wouldn’t use that as a basis for the rest of your relationships. No one knows what they’re doing at that age. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself once you’re actually in your first proper relationship. Just do whatever feels right for you. You’ll learn what works and what doesn’t for both of you. It sounds like you have some drive to get a GF now and explore that part of your life so it might be worth making it a bit of a priority

It’s quite easy to draw conclusions from this. But if you think about it from the perspective of someone who works for the govt, is confident vaccines work, and that they were the solution to COVID: from their perspective it makes perfect logical sense to attempt to censor people who are causing others to feel hesitant to take the vaccine. Most people working for the govt are not conspiracy theorists, nor would they be privy to an actual government conspiracy going on behind the scenes on that kind of scale. They are just trying to do their job which with the common viewpoint of “vaccines work and help solve the problem” could easily lead to this behaviour without any conspiracy required. Especially when you are facing a pandemic causing millions to die, such action would seem like a pretty reasonable thing to do for a person with that viewpoint.

A lot of time, flirting can involve teasing or playful mocking. It could be them showing interest. It's hard to judge without knowing exactly what they said, however.

My mum works in sales for an IT company. She's pretty good at her job, and it's not really manipulation because she works for a high quality company that provides high quality service. Her job is to skillfully show that to clients in the best way possible. But my ex used to work for a dodgy gas and electric sales company that went door to door, and the best salespeople at that company were all the stereotypical sleezy, scummy manipulative salespeople. Because what they were selling was essentially bullshit which they had to manipulate people into thinking was valuable. So it depends on what you are selling. If you are selling a high quality product it isn't manipulation. If you are selling something valueless then it very often is.

Natural is one of those words that is very vague, almost to the point of being meaningless. There is no obvious line that defines what is natural and what is not, especially for humans. My only point was that just because you have to work for something doesn't make it 'unnatural' as you said. There are plenty of other examples. Walking a mile to your closest river to get water required a lot of work, was that unnatural? War with other tribes required a lot of work, was that unnatural? What about building houses and huts? These are all things our ancestors did by their nature which required lots of determination and work. Maintaining complex and subtle social relationships is one of the core aspects of humanity. We have been doing for millions of years. If anything, it is more unnatural not to.

I guess hunting and foraging was unnatural for our ancestors then.

How many of the girls you had success with knew you were doing cold approach to lots of other girls during the day? How many of them knew you were leaving your house specifically to talk to girls?