So you meet a chick, you’re trying to make the connection, and in the meantime she starts talking about the lame dudes that she’s messed with.

What do you do?

https://youtu.be/EgpHsPshaxY

This was the problem on the forum.

This is something I’ve faced when I’m at a venue and aiming to get into a girl’s good graces, but also after I’ve gotten into the good graces and we’re on our way out.

The instance of the forum happens in the electronic context – but the issues are very much the same.

On the forum

• Boy matches with girl on dating site.
• Initial conversation ensues over text and messaging apps.
• The conversation turns to sex
• Girl complains about some two minute man.

https://youtu.be/1cy22Woq_Ls

For a lot of guys, this is a problem.

“I’m trying to talk to you, but you’re talking about someone else.”

What does a guy do?  Let’s break this down into 3 guys.

1. Square – The guy who’s never heard of game.
2. Young Gun – The guy who’s new to the game, a little bit of experience, intermediate with the game.
3. The Veteran – Not only has the veteran internalized the game, he understands the idea behind the responses.

What does the Square do?

1. Because his manhood is threatened, because his chances are threatened – he aims to shut the girl down asap. He wants to dictate what kind of topics she can talk to him about.
2. Say nothing in the moment, but ruminate on why the girl “disrespected” him.
3. Go along with it.
4. Make a joke about it and change the subject

What does the Young Gun Do?

1. First, he assigns a malicious motive to the chick, and thinks that she’s trying to test him
2. Then he uses one of the patented 5 responses to a test
   1. Ignore
   2. Mishear and purposefully misinterpret
   3. Blame Her
   4. Try to body language/sub-communicate silence
   5. Agree and Amplify
3. Restart with more attraction material

In both cases, the Square and the Young Gun – both go with solutions before they understand the nature of the problem.  They get this stimulus, and now they must respond.  They are reacting, not acting.

So What’s the Problem?

https://youtu.be/RPoBE-E8VOc

Why does some random girl making some throwaway comment put him on tilt, shakes his confidence so much that he goes into a fight or flight response?

It’s a few things in my mind

• He’s not used to how girls talk
• He expects a certain level of respect that MUST be afforded to him
• The whole connection has to be controlled.

Classic PUA (Mystery Method and all the derivatives) and Contemporary Game (Red Pill plus being Alpha) don’t ask the man to investigate why he is feeling a certain way.

If the man were to stop and ask himself

Why am I running around like a chicken with its head cut off because this random girl who means nothing to me mentioned some random guy don’t know?

Then he’ll start to understand what to do pro-actively, instead of reacting. After you get down the techniques – game then becomes something of “self” control, as opposed to trying to control the girl or every situation.  Gaining self control is one of the benefits that can be employed in the rest of your life.

The Girl’s Response

Whether or not the girl realizes that he’s reacting poorly, and doesn’t have a “solid frame” at the moment she makes this comment is not really the issue.  She could actually notice through body language that the man gets weak when she talks about other men.  His weakness shows a lack of deep confidence.  In general, I think most of us veterans believe that in order to pull a chick but also to keep her – you need 100% confidence at all times.

If he falters, the lioness who eats beta chumps for breakfast, will crush the guy and keep it moving. The considerate girl, initially, she’ll tone that part of her self down.  She wants to get with this guy and doesn’t want to scare her away. Deep down the “nice” girl is a lioness too.  If she has to tiptoe around trying not to her her guy’s feelings – she’s constrained.  That will not last.

Feelings

Q. Why don’t guys “get in touch” with their feelings?

A. Because in the world of men, we have no feelings beyond sleep, wanting to fuck, hunger, and aggression. Elsewise, we are robots.

Because we aspire to be robots, or at least emotionally consistent in our dealings – we don’t see when the code of manhood gets in the way of what we’re trying to accomplish.

But sometimes the code doesn’t help.

One of the problems dudes from rough hoods deal with when they start to mingle with the rest of society, is their survival strategy doesn’t fit the environment. He dresses tough and acts tough in places where there is only loss for that behavior. You might be a pitbull at Westminster kennel club, but these poodles aren’t trying to fight.

https://youtu.be/4rMyiMnpuAg

The new guy dealing with this situation is applying defense mechanisms in a situation that does not call for it.

So what’s happening here

Let’s take it a level deeper, why is he defensive, why is he threatened or hurt?

In the PUA days, the thought was that by letting her talk about other guys, he was becoming her best friend, entering the dreaded friend zone. Because she was talking to him like she would talk to a girlfriend. She was so comfortable and NOT sexually intrigued that she did not need to edit herself.

In the modern era, where guys are even less likely to think things through – this was a shit test and without saying a word he has communicated to the girl that he is a beta. “No way dude, I’m an alpha! I’m gonna put this bitch in her place!”

So an angry reaction happens, and the girl might tamp down, or she might get offended. In the case of the chick shutting herself off but still hanging – she now knows how to get under his skin. That’s not something she asked for, but it is a gift.

Why do old school guys and modern guys do this?

The old school PUA guy didn’t think of alpha/beta. Instead he thought he was losing a chance to get with the girl.  It’s a retread for him on all of those sad sack years of being the girlfriend with a dick. The “emotional tampon”

The new guy from the modern era, hopped up on being a macho man, has it worse – his sense of self, his ego is at stake.

On her side

Keep in mind, this chick is 105 lbs soaking wet, and just relays a funny (to her) anecdote as a way of keeping the conversation going.  She’s actually trying to connect.  So in this “getting to know one another” scenario, she is not thinking about boundaries.

She is not thinking that I’ve got the perfect double bind statement to emasculate this guy and use him for my entertainment.

So, this is not a test? Right?

And this is where being a veteran comes in to play.  It’s not an explicit conscious test on her part.  It’s not that kind of test. She’s not trying to uncover a flaw in the guy on purpose. But if he reacts poorly, she will take note of that.

Women and Testing

This is a key thing to understand about women in general. Some women will consciously and intentionally put you in a no win situation.  This is the chick that flirts with a guy that you don’t like to see what you’re gonna do about it, to get you jealous.

That happens, but is not the norm.  What happens more often, is that the guy finds himself in a situation where he doesn’t know what to do, reacts poorly, and the woman will take an emotional note of the guy.   He’s in stress, so now she’s in stress.

The classic one is the pornstar on a date with a regular guy.

• They’re at a restaurant
• The waiter brings him the wrong dish.
• The guy doesn’t make a fuss.
• He doesn’t stand up for himself.
• She hates this
• So she makes a big deal out of it on social media.

The key to this story was that she didn’t engineer the missing steak. But when he didn’t act the way that she thought he should, she went ballistic.

She reacted to his actions, but she didn’t test him.

Lemme push this idea even further. What you say when you make your approaches doesn’t matter that much. How she reacts doesn’t matter either that much either. But getting control over the pull comes down to how you handle her reactions.

Let’s get back to this problem of the chick bringing up sex with guys before you.

What does the Veteran Think?

She’s not testing him
She’s just making conversation.
She’s not editing herself, because really, who the fuck are you?

• I am just one dick in a line of many.
• I’m literally nobody to her.
• I have some inherent value, but because if this is online dating, and she’s cute (even when she isn’t) – her inbox is full of guys that want to take her out in chances of fucking her.

If anything, she likes you and feels comfortable.

From the vet’s perspective, there’s nothing about her behavior to be alarmed about. This is typical behavior. These green boys going to inner Azerbaijan to find a virgin will have you convinced that this chick is some secret porn star slut that’s going to emasculate you and then steal all your money….

In my view they just don’t *censored* enough chicks.  Not enough hot young ones that just run on at the mouth and say whatever the fuck they feel at the time.

The Vet realizes that what’s really happening to him is that his is testing him.
That somehow his self image is being attacked.  But this attack comes from within.  She’s not trying to undermine him, but she

“This chick thinks you’re some little beta bitch boy that she can flaunt her sexuality at you, and you’ll never gonna get it.”

That’s some Newbie type thinking.

She’s not really testing a dude when she does this, it’s just her being her.

BUT IT IS A TEST.

It’s 2 tests in a way.

Test #1 – a test for you – Can you always keep your emotions in check when you deal with a chick?

Test #2 – If you don’t get your emotions in check, she will see how much random comments will fuck with you. She not only sees this as you not being able to handle her, to handle chicks, but to handle LIFE.

If a chick that’s 105 lbs soaking wet can unsettle you with a comment – how strong are you really?

That’s what she’s thinking if you get butt hurt.

That might turn her off right then and there. If you have other positive qualities and she stays in your orbit – she now has a tool that she can use to control you. This broad ain’t getting all Dr. Doom and shit, making plans on plans – but if you react with negative emotions, she will reflect that. Bitches rarely recall the substance of fights, they do recall how your emotions and how they felt.

That’s where the game is always played.

To go a bit deeper.

A submissive chick will buckle before you see the full range of her personality. A lot of the dudes nowadays like a weak ass chick that rolls over at anything. You will end up having to live her life for her. You don’t want a chick that is afraid to show you (and the world) who she really is.

But a typical chick will just see you as weak.
An evil chick will use you.

And they get this from your reaction to some nonsense.

If a chick really wants to fuck with you, TRUST ME, she can.

You know how a dude can say some shit to start a fight at the drop of a hat, a chick can say some shit to you that will make Steve Urkle turn into War Machine.

What are you supposed to do?

Step #1 – Stay Non Reactive

For guys thinking that all hope is lost, and he’s in the friend zone

• Stop defeating yourself
• Start seeing it as her trying to relate, be funny, communicate

Why? Because you cannot lose the idea that this thing is going to happen.

For the guys who’s egos are greatly threatened – the new school guys that must put down any sort of behavior that is not entirely submissive

• Don’t wrap your ego into this
• Expect that the chick will talk about BS

You have to view her behavior as typical.

Step #2 – What do I want?

1) Admonish – He could go all Super cartoonish Roissy esque alpha and correct her. If you have other positive qualities that she’s digging, she might just take the correction and never bring up those topics again.  For the veteran, this is more about how he wants to run his life and affairs, more so than getting at one chick in particular.

2) Withdraw – He could play the aloof alpha and withdraw the emotional warmth every time she fucks up, and give her the warmth every time she does something right. Let her figure out how to behave based on how he reacts to her behavior. A lot of guys like this, but that’s something he does with a chick when she’s in his presence, or after they’ve made that connection.

In our situation, you can’t just play some waiting game over Text. there just isn’t enough sub-communication being sent like that.  In person, where the girl is constantly taking his temperature, her own, and the room’s – this is much easier to accomplish.  Over text – there’s not nuance.

 

These are two veteran options from the Alpha side of things.  Lots of naturals and accomplished players don’t get into the “mind game”/social engineering/applied psychology thing that I’m trying to teach you guys.

Lemme just say that the difference between a new guy or a square getting all huffy about a chick’s comments vs a Vet – is that the Vet is making a choice versus the Newbie reacting to the situation.  The Vet has no problems dropping a chick for the slightest of infractions.

The Veteran is trying to do 2 things

• Keep his ego intact
• Keep the chick on track to “Connection”

 

Vets know that chicks run off at the mouth 24/7.  It’s typical female behavior that you can observe anywhere.  You see it at work, at home, with your family, in school, on social media.  And it getting risque is not so beyond the pale that it doesn’t happen.

If she ain’t talking about guys she’s fucked, she’s gonna have a funny story about getting the runs, or how she hates her dad, how she tricked her boss at work, or “those fucking black guys, Oh I don’t mean you”

For newbs and guys that don’t fuck young hot girls – think that these chicks are on their P’s and Q’s when they deal with “A true alpha”.  I don’t really deal with the under 23 set that much (proxy for young and hot), but this type of behavior is normal.

Now I know that there are some RED PILL MOUTH BREATHERS out there saying – “She wouldn’t say that to George Clooney…” (Y’all know how much I hate this line of logic)

So what the vet does when the chick says some bullshit

• Does Not React
• Does Take Note
• Uses what she says to get him closer to his goal.

 

So if the chick starts talking about the two minute man, the Vet runs with that idea of inadequate sex partners.   The new guy might try to one-up the girl, but what the Vet is trying to sub-communicate is that he’s okay with the girl’s sexuality.  He doesn’t need to verbalize it, but he takes what she says and goes either a level deeper, or to something adjacent.

So an adjacent topic would be getting her to talk about crazy internet hook up experiences, and he would have one in the databank that will lead to the right directions.  He wants to take some random comment from a chick and DIG DEEP, get her to go through all of the emotions just on this one topic.  Personally, I’ll dig into the sensuality of french fries if she starts talking about McDonald’s.

Going a level deeper is trying to figure out what makes the girl tick.  So the vet will cold read, or present a topic that gets her to explore her OWN feelings.

The reason the Vet does this is not necessarily to get her all hot and bothered and pull her libido by a string.  Instead, the Vet does these things to KEEP HIMSELF in check and keeps the conversation lively.

Now if she does get a “randy” from texting it becomes a tight rope if you can’t close.    This is similar to making out with a girl at the club and not being able to make the logistics easy for you to get her home in order to read the first chapter in Corinthians.

Keeping a chick warm over text is a topic for another time.

To recap

The Vet

1. Does not react
2. He takes notce
3. He acts to move the conversation in a direction that gets him closer to connection

-Archie

[Editor – @ crdr – if you’re reading hit me up in the comments]

From a discussion over at Rollo’s

Can you teach game?

 

In a seminar/class room setting?

Wouldn’t you have to codify the game?

Panic! OMG, the art is going to become a science.

I don’t mind the “codification” so much.

Before Mystery, it was FMAC, find, meet, attract, close.

Mystery was Attract, Comfort, Seduce.  And that evolved into routines with the idea of group theory (itself borrowing from their read of evolutionary psychology and my man Robert Cialdini- whom we have not discussed but shall this week). And since then there have been further refinements.

But nowadays the environment has changed. Online game is so important to the market of 18-30 year olds, that just being systematic about profiles, messages, and your date funnel – is likely to garner more “bible study” than hitting the clubs.

So you have this really weird situation where you can get girls to come straight to your apartment through Tinder and Uber for Netflix and Chill – but you don’t actually know what this chick’s personality is like outside of your smartphone interactions.

I digress.

To me, guys really should follow the recipe to the letter at first.

https://youtu.be/Nylw1l6mhuE

That’s why they codified the game in the first place.  Build a base so you understand how things vary.

Use routines so you understand that a routine statement can get your a bunch of predictable routine responses.

The use of codified/regimented almost robotic game basically demystifies how “complicated” girls are.  I say this, she does A, B, or C. I follow up with X,Y,Z, and she only goes in a few directions.

People really aren’t that complicated.  But that’s something that we intuitively know, but seem to forget with women.

In American culture we have scripts already.

• “Hello, how are you doing?”
• “Do you want fries with that”
• “Paper or plastic”
• “I just got engaged”
• “My dog just died.

All of us know (or should know) what the responses are from a content perspective and from an emotional one. Just adapting that to meeting girls should be straight forward.

But there are a significant amount of guys that either don’t have basic human socialization skills, or they don’t know how to pay attention to detail. There’s a general lack of self-awareness, and overall empathy with others. The guys that are too sympathetic, they eventually learn to put themselves first for a change. The guys that lack it – only do the minimum.

The Importance of Basic Social Skills..Knowing the Line

After meeting Tyler, it’s clear that he did a shit ton of work on himself – not just spiritually and all that jazz – but learning basic human interactions. He’s hyper attuned to body language shifts and sub-communication. The sort of thing top salesman and good strippers learn how to do.  Incidentally, I’m always surprised when the peanut gallery folks say that he doesn’t have a game. Not saying he doesn’t have 99 other problems, but game ain’t one of em.

Even now, I see that Tyler’s Aspie tendencies show if you know what to look for. He likes to “riff” and keep the joke going past when it stops being funny. Like Family Guy in real life, but not meta, more for self-amusement.  But that’s him.  He’s got 7 figures, runs his own biz, travels the world, and has a ridiculous lay count

On video, Tyler and Julien do a “push it over the line, and then apologize and walk it back” interaction style. That’s a useful training wheel for shy guys, not so much for the Bulls in China shops.

I’m sure they’ve bagged a ton of chicks with that, probably 100’s more than me, but an actual cool guy either knows where the line is, or he doesn’t care where the line is.

I’ve met tons of legit cool dudes.  The cool dudes don’t go to places where there is gonna be some bullshit.  And the other half really don’t give a fuck what anyone else thinks – AND they have enough going on to back it up.

There is a chicken and egg situation with this, obviously.  If you come on strong, the chick barks at you, and you don’t back down – many a chick will assume that based on your behavior towards you – you are the man that you say you are.  The man that doesn’t take shit from anyone, least of all her.

I’m not mad at the RSD camp by any means. I think I’ve learned something from everyone who’s ever been in the game. Either what to do/what to say and what NOT to do/say.

I I do like the idea of immersion, basically getting a personal trainer for pick up – but to get muscles you gotta eat right, rest, and hit the gym religiously. On top of that, you have to be very mindful of your workouts and keep track to get top results.

A good commercial immersion plan is probably the ideal way to learn game.

How I learned the game?
– I read some stuff online
– I had faith in it, because it made logical sense to me
– At first, I went out a bunch and did nothing, too much Approach Anxiety
– Then I got serious.  (I got my mind right)
– I went out and tried the stuff I read

– When the words didn’t work, I changed the delivery. I changed the delivery because I had faith in the words and in the logic. I didn’t change the words.

– Once I had the delivery down (what to emphasize, when to pause, when to communicate NON-verbally), I was off to the races.

– Certain stories/routines/ideas would get predictable responses. They called it “chick crack” back in the day. For example, any sort of story that is “boys vs girls” – the girl is going to take the girl side, and she’s going to know what boys always say.

– Once I knew which directions a chick would turn, I could then have the right secondary response. I knew how to respond to her reaction. So I was playing the game 2 levels deep. Knowing how to handle her somewhat predictable reaction is basically what makes a conversation look good from the outside. Because then it looks back and forth. (because it is truly back and forth).

Like playing Ping Pong, beginners aim to keep the ball on the table because that’s fun and a challenge.. You hit the ball to where the other person can hit it. Because if you keep slamming it, the other person has to go chase the ball. Making it less fun for the other person, and ending the game.

Anyway, more and more reference experiences of my own + reading the experiences of others doing a lot of the same stuff, and finding that they had some of the same issues and came up with solutions – that built into knowing how to handle many more situations.

To me, if you learned of game from the internet – this was basically the path.

Now, i’m not so sure if people learn this way.

I’m pretty sure the PUA boot camp model doesn’t work because the Army Boot Camp is 9 weeks long, 24 hours a day. – 1,512 hours to break down your Civilian (blue pill) thinking and turn you into a member of the military (red pill) And then to become a true soldier the government forces you to live like a soldier and do what a soldier does. Carrot and stick, Pleasure and Pain. And even with that, guys wash out even before they hit combat. Guys that go to combat deal with even more that all the training in the world can’t seem to prepare them for.

So to bring this back together

You can break down the game to it’s parts. You can teach it as a system of interaction, and basically do mini-missions or small chunk your game.

The real learning isn’t going to come from the books, but from your own real world feedback.

-Archie

 

So the scenario presented was that a guy really down on his luck had these qualities
– Early to mid 30’s
– Fat, Poor Physical fitness
– Career not going where he wants
– No ladies
– Spends too much time online
– No good friends
– Smoking, drinking, etc

Honestly, this isn’t really a nightmare scenario.  This is pretty typical.  Most of America is obese, and all of us are slowly sliding into poverty.  Given how much porn, video games, online, food, and alcohol is out there to not make you think about your own situation – this is DEFAULT.

So if a dude like that was looking for game advice, what would you say?

The comments on the thread were the standard Red Pill advice. Mainly that he needs to get in shape in order to get girls.  Always remember that PUA did that already.  PUA already figured out that getting ripped, jacked, shredded, etc was not the promised land.  You can go to various body building forums and find all sorts of forever alone posts and lots of guys who generate attraction but don’t know how to handle women.

BUT…let’s not throw out health and physical fitness as being unimportant.  Far from it.  As I get older, health and physical fitness is far more important to me than it is to get girls.  Chicks are easy though not straight forward.  Health is straight forward, but not easy.

In terms of the game, I’ve seen guys basically transform themselves thoroughly by picking up a physical activity that was a little bit competitive and a little bit social.  The competitive aspect keeps them going when other guys who go to the gym for vanity purposes give up.  It’s not about looking good, but about performance.  It’s part of the reason that Cross Fit was so popular initially. (Now, if you talk to some people, it’s basically a cult.  It’s female cousin is Soul Cycle)

The social aspect is really about talking to people you don’t know, but have this artificial common bond with. That develops your social skills in a good environment.  (It’s not a good idea to try to pull from this nascent social circle because you have no skills.  But friends of friends are fair game)

Training for a 100 mile bike ride, or a Tough Mudder, marathon.. etc. This would knock out a lot of the lifestyle aspects of game and optimize everything that most guys are looking for.

Though physical fitness doesn’t solve the women problem directly, it does build a good base upon which to make the next move.

Indeed, metamorphosis can give you the sense of potency to really try at the game.

So what’s the problem here?

It’s not like your proverbial couch potato couldn’t come up with this plan. In fact a lot of guys that “have it all together” have done this. The next step of meeting a few hundred women, scores of dates, a dozen relationships – is really just going out and opening your trap.  That’s all this ends up being anyway.  Going out and talking to women, and getting used to their pattern responses, and coming back with a better response that they aren’t expecting.

So all the information is out there. There are definitely more elegant and comprehensive solutions (personal trainer, bar tender, etc)

What needs to happen first before you go from chump to champ.

You have to get your mind right.

The first problem with guys learning game is that they go into it half way

It’s not just clearing out your fridge or getting a new hair cut.  Joining a gym and going to happy hour does not a player make.

The new guy already knows what needs to happen.

He just has to prepare himself to do it.  He has to get his brain behind his actions.

-Archie

SPOILERS

[Ed – This will be a long, pic heavy post.  Best to be read on lap or desk top]

Let’s pour out some Dornish Red for a fallen pimp.

Petyr Baelish (Puh-tire in the audiobooks, Peter to everyone else) was a young square (not a squire yet) out of the Finger Islands.  He was short and slight and from the smallest island, so Pimpin P became Little Finger.  Not a name he was actually feeling.

As a scrub he had a thing for Catelyn Stark, who was older than him and not interested.  She friend zoned him. Her little sis (the ugly one – not pictured for a reason) was feeling him.  Cat, gets promised to one of them Stark Boys.  LF was not having it.  Challenged Brandon Stark to a fair one, and got beat so bad that Cat had to beg  Brandon not to kill him.

But he learned.

The start of a player.

I most definitely identify with P. Beezy here.  I think if you’re on the periphery of folks, you realize you can’t “out tall” some of these dudes, you can’t “out muscle” them, you can “out bank” them.  What you can do is, is out think them.

And that’s one of the keys to the game.   Petey B was always one step ahead of men that were “better” than him.  He rose from a low place to almost winning the game by understanding people.

And this is the key insight of game.  At the abstract and at the on set, when you’re talking to a nice young lady – you have an idea of what she wants.  Not just what she says she wants, but what truly gets her to react.  This is not just her true self, but her hidden self.  A lot has been said on what women truly desire, most instructively by women themselves. My Secret Garden WAS a classic read by player’s in the 90’s, that for reasons many a player 20 years later has dropped. The inadequate modern equivalent is the 50 Shades of Grey series.  But understanding romance novels and reading those types of reviews used to be something players would kill some time with.  Cosmo as well.  Even if the “surface” stuff isn’t true – what these things do is focus a woman’s attention.  Too many folks even on my side of the game think that they can force a woman to think a certain way.  That’s not how it works.  What media does is get them to think about certain things.  While everyone is yelling about this political gaffe or some environmental horror – no one is watching as their pocket books get fleeced.

So let’s get into some lessons of Little Finger and how he rose, before he fell.

Look to the future.

One of the most valuable things you can learn on the journey.  Men that never were reminisce on what they might have been.

Lemme switch gears a second and talk about my favorite movie of all time.  No Country for Old Men.  This is one of the 2 scenes that make it my favorite of all time.

“ All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it”

Flight not Might

Petyr is counseling Sansa to be agile, like he is.  In terms of game, your secondary competition are other guys. (Your primary competition is your mind)…  So the best part of besting the Whales in VIP and the Bulls on the dance floor is outmaneuvering them.  Be it by physically blocking them out, by getting a lock in from the girl, or piquing her interest and then taking her out for a smoke.

Stop Playing a Victim and Take Action

In terms of life advice, this is always solid.  At this point in the story, Sansa has been on a downswing. LF is not just trying to raise her spirits, he’s trying to get her to channel that pain into action.  He’s actually giving her GAME, whether or not she (or GRRM) recognizes it.

Never Suffer Fools

Be they at the club, or your “wing man”, this is solid game advice.  When I was learning the game, I stayed away from anything mind altering.  Furthermore, a drunken kiss on the dance floor is one thing, but anything more I want a sober person to share that with.  Have the chick high on lust and desire, not MDMA.  I’m not trying to moralize you guys, but as a black man that has dipped in and out of the vanilla – don’t expose yourself to risk that is unnecessary.

Play Your Game

A little bit of an echo of above, but I know some of my biggest supporters aren’t really with all the mental stuff that I focus on.  If you’ve got money, if you’ve got height, if you’ve got muscles – you can play to those strengths.  The money guy uses his cash judiciously.  He doesn’t do VIP, he rents a place closer the action.  The tall guy might show up at NBA all star weekend (where he might get mistaken for someone, lol), but he doesn’t spend a lot of time at the Hip Hop nights (where he’s another tall dude amongst other tall dudes).

The man with muscles goes to a whisky/wine tasting showing off the guns through a dress shirt.  As Arnold said, when you drive a Ferrari you don’t need to speed, because everyone knows your fast.

If it Ain’t Broke…

Petyr has always been bullish on men’s boorish tendencies.  Men have certain desires, and he supplies them.  It’s rarely for the price that others bargain. This particular aphorism is that you can trust in men’s lust.

It Ain’t Where You From, It’s Where Ya At

Genetics isn’t destiny.  Of course this is self serving for a social climber – but there is an absolute truth of it.

Smarten Up Nas

In this scene Sansa is trying to play the straight ahead game, the Stark game. She wants to be virtuous and true – but everyone around her is lying.  They’re leading her by her lack of game.

Reputation Matters

Petyr is being cheeky with this one, but his rep for being slimy is something he actively cultivates.

^And this is a perfect example of it.  Earlier in the series Petey tries to get Ned to take the reins of power to start his reign.  Instead, Ned takes the high road and pays for it eventually with his life.

Staying Unpredictable by being Predictable

This is one of the keys to indirect.  If you go with the full court press from the second you meet a girl – the girl knows what you want and she can move accordingly.  Now when you fit her profile, it’s all groovy.  But it’s up to her.

Indirect game is getting into the conversation, and having the girl not entirely sure of when the standard approach behavior is going to come.  But as you get into the conversation – she gets involved in the conversation and loses track of “whatever “move” this guy has planned”.

Knowns vs Unknowns

This is sort of where I tend to shine in the game, and where I’m trying to get you guys to shine.  For Petyr, the element of surprise is THE element.  You think you know him, but he gets what he wants from directions you cannot expect.

It Ain’t All Good

Another lesson of tough love, but Sansa is clinging to her blue pill version of life, where the good guys win. Where the people that are supposed to win do.  Such is not the case.

No Half Measures

Got to torture the idea to get some game out of this, but when you deal with guys in your set trying to either blow up your spot, or steal the girl, you can’t always appease – sometimes you have to cut out their legs underneath them.

An easy way to answer an alpha test is to agree, “yes, and”, take it to the next level.  A young player can usually get past a dude trying to throw salt or a chick trying to see if he’s worthy.  But one of the elements that few are prepared to go along with is when you lay bare their intention in front of the girl

You – “yeah, and after I rescued the school bus of babies…”

Hater – ” Yeah whatever dude, blah blah blah”

You – “Hey man, you don’t need to try to so hard, just tell the girl you like her…”

^”Exposing” him – a lot of guys don’t know how to ride with that.

Don’t Count Me Out

Again, LF has to keep his spirits up and his eye on the ball through affirmation. But these aren’t self affirmations, but knowledge he drops on people he comes in to contact with.  Jewels is what the hip hop generation calls them, but the point of the jewel is not only that saying them to yourself increases your own potency, or that spreading it to others helps.  When they react to what you say in a positive manner – that makes you double down on what you’re talking about.

The “second order” effect is often stronger than what you say.   If you tell a chick you’re the man, that’s whatever.  If she learns about it from other people (social proof, reputation, pre-selection), that’s stronger.  But when she witnesses greatness – that supercharges whatever you’re doing.  We’ll talk about second order game later on.

Paranoia as a Tool

To an extent this scene is about LF gaslighting Sansa.  He’s getting her to fear everyone BUT him. In terms of the game, this is when you take the chick away from her friends and have her chilling with your cronies.  When a chick is not with her people, by herself, a lot of guys will press their advantage.  On unfamiliar with ground or in new situations, the girl relies on you.  This is a FALSE trust.  This will actually be part of LF’s fall, because he’s trying to isolate the girl in her own environment.

A girl’s reverse game, how she uncovers guy’s who aren’t actually good dudes, is that she brings you into her world and gets you to fail.

We’ll come back to this as well.  Social Isolation by telling Sansa to trust no one and only trust him backfires. It can be a good strategy – but here is LF not playing the game well.

A few more lessons from LF, and how he fell (on the show.  Book Petyr is alive and kicking it)

-Archie

 

*Note to my long time readers – just found out we got some ladies checking this blog out.  I’m not gonna tone anything down, but I’m not gonna go out of my way to offend either.

Let’s start with the basic ones using the language of Pick Up/Game 201*

Raw Physical Attraction – She finds you attractive on a primal/genetic level.  Chick gets drunk, you look like a stud, she tries to get your attention.

Primal + Social – you’re cool and popular, and a hunk of beef.

Provisioning – You can make sure that she lives a nice life.

So the way that the modern game is set up, you need to hit this trifecta.  Make as much money as possible, look as good as possible – specifically muscles, and then also be a popular guy.

This sounds like common sense – and it is pretty much what society teaches men to do.

So why are you here?

Because it doesn’t work.  I know it.  You are unsure about it.  But it hasn’t worked for you yet.  And in your mind, it’s because you haven’t buckled down and gone 100% monk mode where you are lifting every day and running an e-commerce site at night.

Lemme rephrase, this path is not available to everyone.  The people who can fully take advantage of the “mainstream” strategy are small in number.  You need the right amount of height.  You need to be in the right social position to make serious money easily.   And popularity…haha..

The reason I know this is because, not only have I done it – with middling success, this was the same advice that players got in the 90’s.  PUA is the result of guys going out and trying a lot of this stuff out, and realizing that the vague script for success didn’t really work.

Breaking apart the components – there are rich guys not getting any, guys that are shredded, ripped, cut, and jacked that are forever alone, and guys that are popular/famous that are not able to tap into that resource and use it for their purposes.   Not everyone can be Screech.

So what guys realized was that all those things are “nice to have’s” but not must haves.   It was figured out (again) in the late 90’s.

Black dudes realized this a long time ago.  I’m pretty sure this is a theme I’ve touched on before – but for the most part – Black Americans/Canadians/Brits have a hard time making the same amount of coin as their mainstream counterparts.  But black women still have the same material desires and need for provisioning that other women do.

What’s a Brohemian to do?

Somebody figured out that you can provide a mental/spiritual/emotional experience as a substitute for material goods.

Trickery!

As time went on, the idea of “game” made many realize that a lot of what we do in life was actually about that mental/spiritual/emotional experience – and we’ve been getting that instead of actual resources.

How many of you guys have given your blood, sweat, and tears to a job on the promise that you’ll get paid 2-3 weeks later?   Usually the employer comes through – but they have you convinced that they shouldn’t pay you the day of.   In fact, they haven’t said a word.  It’s just accepted that they can profit from your labor now and pay you 1/10th of the value later.

You’ve been sold.  You’ve been played.  They have you convinced that paying you for a day’s work (like a waitstaff) is impractical.

Impractical for who you might ask?

I digress.  I hope you guys are starting to see how game is really just how people interact with each other on a day to day basis – and we’re merely rethinking our daily interactions with our eye on the ball.

Back to what I was saying.

What is game doing for the girl?  What happens when you get her wrapped up in a conversation about whether Jay really cheated on Beyonce?  Why is she so invested in proving YOU wrong?  Why is she talking to you, and not that random 6’5″ guy at the venue holding the wall, beer to his chest?

She wants that guy, but is “wasting time” with you.  Why?

You intrigue her.

When you intrigue her, your behavior is that of a “good looking guy.”  I use quotes because “Good Looking Guys” don’t actually have set behavior.

There is this vague ideal out there about how a great guy is supposed to make her feel.  She’s not supposed to feel a certain way when she deals with regular guys.  That feeling is reserved for “Good looking Guys”.

 

So what does she do?  When your behavior matches that of an “attractive man” but you don’t fit her ideal?

She tests you.  It’s not even conscious and deliberate.   It’s unconscious and a reaction.   Can she rattle you? As YaReally has said, when a chick tests you, that’s her subconscious at the beginning levels of attraction.

If a chick that weighs 105 lbs soaking wet can shake the confidence of a man twice her weight and a foot taller, is he really The Man?   And when you go out, you’ll see these so-called Alphas get some success but also fail horribly.  His behavior towards the chick, the interaction he creates, doesn’t jive with how she actually feels.

So that’s why she wants to go home with you to eat Ben and Jerry’s

I have no idea, but what I can tell you what happened to me every time

• Started out by juggling a few chicks
• This girl stood out from the rest
• Looks and personality, habits
• Let’s try monogamy
• Let’s move in
• Let’s meet each other’s family
• Let’s get comfortable

If you’re old like me, this is familiar territory.

So why am I still writing a game blog?
This should be a Dad’s guide to coaching soccer or something suburban.

Did I get soft?
1st time, yes
2nd and 3rd? No, hell no.

What does this even mean?  The life cycle of the relationship is lust, then domestic bliss, and then there is a plateau until the man takes it up a notch.  The relationship requires more and more of your time and effort, and you lose more and more of your flexibility and freedom.  The gain?  You get closer to your partner and build a better bond.  More tangibly, you have someone that you can trust to pick you up at the airport, and you don’t come home to a lonely apartment every day.

To be honest, a lot of you guys are bachelors or you’ve never had a relationship POST LEARNING THE GAME.  So it’s actually a hard sell to be honest.  If you’re out there, talking to new women on a regular basis, getting to go out and try new things – the real choices are New Chick vs Sleep.   To have a chick next to you when you’re watching the Fight or trying to fix a driver issue with your video card is not really that appealing.   By the same token, the chick wants you there for romance and to fix stuff, but she also doesn’t want you underfoot sniffing at her every time the wind blows.

The tension in every relationship

She wants you to change, and you don’t want to change.
You want her to stay the same and she can’t.

The entire relationship is a repeat of the first pull in many ways. You get her by subverting her expectations. You can of course do this actively and consciously. But that gets old. You’re doing new tricks for the same old chick. She’s not increasing her value to you in *obvious* ways. You can get to the point of internalization of the game – where teasing and pleasing become 2nd nature, that takes the conscious effort on your part away. And internalization is a hop, skip, and a jump away from true character change. As the guys like to say, my external game is an expression of my internal game.

But what to do?

For me the game has essentially been giving people what they want in exchange for what I want.  But there comes a time when you no longer want what they have to offer.  So you stop giving them the emotions they need.  Sooner or later, she’s going to be looking for that fix from someone else, or something else.

I’ve been here.  When I didn’t understand dynamics, I was just unaware.  Then the next time around, I would placate.  The next time, and pretty much since then – I just let the chick go. The next dude will be more than happy to chase after her and please her with whatever she wants.

No real advice in this one Sport.

Might come back to it…

This is the link

https://www.gq.com/story/sweater-makes-you-look-stronger

“Not only are stripes always timeless, but the horizontal, chest-centered placement of this style makes your torso look a little broader and bigger. Even former teen wolf Lautner, who doesn’t need to rely on styling optical illusions, benefits from the move. Flattering is flattering, whether you’ve got a six pack or not.”

There’s not much to say here other than these people are engaged in mental warfare.  First, they try to appeal to people that are self conscious.  Second, they appeal to the worse impulses of men.  Third, why would you want to appear broader and bigger?

But finally – this is game.  Trying to get people to react to something that’s not really tangible.

-Archie

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Dudes who put women on a pedestal have the greatest thirst but the hardest time connecting with them.

But society, culture, media, teaches men to honor and respect women OVER themselves. We’re willing to degrade and debase ourselves for women, when the answer is often in the other direction.

When cats are in the early stages of learning game, they often go from zero to 100 on expressing their misogyny. Misogyny is built into our culture, but if you’ve been getting ignored by broads for the first few decades, even after you’ve done everything that you’ve been told to do – you’re going to be furious. Couple that with raging hormones…

And that is the essence of the red pill, what you’ve been taught about women by both your good mother and Hollywood and confirmation bias is WRONG.

What about Black, Asian, Indian, and Latino dudes?

In our society nothing is prized more than a young preferably blonde white girl.

The upper class prefers a svelte version, the lower class big tits, fake or not. But both prefer white.  It’s everywhere.

To sell products, to sell ideas, we are saturated with those images.

Farrakhan once said something like if you continually show a black man a Lexus, you don’t think that eventually he’s going to want it, and that he’s going to do whatever it takes to get it?

It’s the same thing with white women. And most men of color get caught up in that. Some more than others, but mostly products of their environment.

If you’re lucky enough to grow up in a middle class neighborhood, chances are high that you have been soaked in whiteness. Sexual adolescence hits, and most of the cheerleaders and cute girls by exposure are white. If that’s all you’ve been around, all you’ve been told is good, but never given the tools and understanding of women, of yourself – of course you’re heavily into white girls or the closest thing to it.

Why do black women straighten their hair?
They are not stupid, they see what you like, what you respond to. We not only see it in potential partners, but in our female family members.

But for a lot of us, why would I get the bootleg version of a white girl instead of the real thing?

Look at suburban bred Kanye.

As his fame grew, his chicks went from normal to exotic. He transformed Amber Rose from bisexual stripper to as close to white as you can get with a Cape Verdean. Kim went from vaguely ethnic to a Vogue Model

Keep in mind His mother was woke af. She went under the knife for bigger tits, arguably something that would make her feel better about herself, but also bringer her closer to a white ideal. She died for vanity.

And plenty of brothers that have gone vanilla or anything non chocolate, have realized that it’s not what it’s cracked up to be. Oddly the same conclusion that many a white guy has come to, and the white guy has unfettered access to white chicks.

I did all this bull shit for this?
This is my prize?

Try to switch back to black, and often the mountain is harder to climb. But getting your Kitoy Jackson, you realize that this ain’t the promised land either – and a man comes back to the idea that women as a whole have been oversold. White girls are whatever, Black ones are maddening in their own way. Non binary options lean white (i.e Latina, Asian, Middle Eastern, Indian) when you least expect but get ethnic in ways you can’t understand.

No options after that, once the trick is explained, the magic is gone.

Then you realize it’s never been about you.  No one really cares for your wants, desires, and needs.  From a high enough viewpoint – the supposed feminine conspiracy seems dumb as well.   She’s trying to get the best out of her life too, and frequently falls short.  She falls madly in love with a guy that doesn’t love her, and settles for the “good life” with a guy that she doesn’t love.

Why?

Kids.

What is good for society, what makes you feel good right now, is usually not the best thing for you and your mind in the long term.

This isn’t to warn you off of white chicks or chicks in general.  But it’s important to keep a healthy understanding of things that are bigger than you.

-Archie

 

 

IQ, at least the way common people think about it is your ability to recognize patterns, and then extrapolate from those patterns.

So the scenario is very simple

You’re at the gym.  You notice that the girl at the front desk is cute.  Maybe she says “Have a good work out” a little TOO earnestly.

So now your nose is open.

What do most people tell you to do?

They tell you to ask for her # or ask her out on the spot.

And most guys do just that, come hell or high water.

Next time they go in or out of the gym, they just ask the girl out, or ask for her #.

Do I really need to explain why this is a bad idea?

• How do you smell?
• What do you look like
• What’s your competition?
• Who’s watching you and her?
• What will her manager think?
• If she says no, can you deal?
• If she says yes, you hit and it quit, can you ghost?

This is where having an academic mind, book learning, High IQ, and nerd’s point of view is actually helpful.  Not so much that you can come up with every possible contingency and have your Love Kryptonite Arrow ready to go. It’s because you have thought of the angles

• I look good
• I smell good
• I’ve been working out
• I’m going to bust a move so other guys, customers, and management can’t get in OUR business.

So you go into a situation with knowledge.  I have assessed the social dynamics of this.  How can I maximize my upside, and minimize my downside?

What a high IQ guy looks like in the game?

It’s not this cartoonish – where you’re wearing a fedora and suspenders, and the cool you is in a sportscoat with a nice pocket square.   Steve Urkel (if you recall) would hit on Laura (why i’ll never know) and basically show off his intelligence in the most nerdish of ways.   Stephan Urquelle was smart, but not trying to impress her with intelligence – but trying to reach the chick where she lived (emotionally).  The way this played out in the show, as that Stefan was so “narcissistic” that he drove Laura away. (yeah right)

But in Stefan’s case – IQ was in the service of his game, not his game.

-Archie

How Chicks Get Turned Out Generally

If you read enough about the pimp game, you undoubtedly come across how they get their first chick.

Usually his first chick is a girl that loves him to pieces, and he convinces her to sleep with a guy they meet for money. She’s unsure, but she trusts his confidence in him. After the act she feels horrible, like she’s done something terrible. So the pimp who used to be her boyfriend comes into the picture to console her. Bring her spirits back up, convince her that selling her value is okay, and he doesn’t think less of her. It was a good thing, *they* needed the money.

This turns my stomach, but I understand the psychology.

The Americans Get Into the Pimp Game?

So I’m watching the Americans, a show primarily about manipulating people in order to get them to do something against their country and against their personal interest.  This particular episode tickled my player bone.

In a metaphorical sense, the people that they manipulate are whores. Instead of a pimp’s love, they get to get revenge against employers, against their parents, against their corrupt government

But the first person turned on the show is a blonde white wife of a State Department official. The male spy (Matthew Rhys’s character) sleeps with her. She falls in love with him, and he starts her doing small things. This is his m.o. and sleeps with women for mother Russia throughout the series. (So does his Russian spy wife)

The blonde knows him as an agent of Sweden intelligence. He finally gets her to the point where he convinces her to sleep with a Pakistani spy.

In a weird moment her character tells Matthew Rhys that

YOU TURNED ME OUT

Color me surprised.

We’ll return to this series as there is a fair amount of game in it

• The meta Game that TV runs on the watcher.
• The Characters using each other
• The internal dynamics of the central character’s relationship

-Archie