Actual Pick Up is Headed Back to the Underground

He told Jezebel that “many of the women in the seduction courses are paid actresses or models who were paid to be on camera.” Bradicus said he is leaving Mexico and is discontinuing his seduction courses, although an email promoting Online Seduction was sent out a few hours after his statement to Jezebel.

You know the drill.

    • PUA tries to get a following on YouTube.
    • “Secretly” films pickups.
    • Gets exposed.
    • Then disappears.

The primary lesson for Youtube Seduction consumers is to download any Seduction Video that you watch.  I used Internet Download Manager, currently version 6.38.  (No link cause no sponsorship)

To save face, he’s going to fall on his sword.  “They’re all actresses…” LOL.  “It was all a scam…”

The current new crop of seducers, PlayingWithFire, KarismaKing, TaySocial, all need to take the L and use the talking head model (AMS, Entrepreneurs with Cars).  Maybe sell infields on their own site, but….the tide has changed when it comes to infield footage. (There was never a time when everyone broke down the infield footage – which is the most important part of infield footage)

*pours out some liquor*

The Ret Con of Pickup Artistry

It’s fairly obvious to those of us who practice the forbidden Crimson Arts that a lot of PUA knowledge is ending up in the mainstream as generic “charisma” advice.

This is telling because more often than not the advice is “universal” but it mostly applies to men. (incidentially, Charisma University features far more charismatic men than women)

Last 24 videos all feature men, and the one featuring Ellen is about not being charismatic.

Women have trillions of dollars of R&D and products to make themselves instantly attractive – but all of that is focused on the visuals – specifically making themselves more attractive.

Very little of the millennia old female equivalent of PUA (some combination of Cosmo and The Rules and I guess Twitter Feminism nowadays) talks about changing female behavior.

Hmm, I wonder why that is?

So keep this in mind as you consume more Game material.

Lot of stealth PUAs effectively rebranding.

Archie

The Eyes Have It

Nice little channel that features some of what I would call “hard skills”.

I recommend a lot of things to dudes on how to improve their game, but two things stand out to me.

Reading the Faces of Others and The Face The Man Shows the World.

Reading faces (and other body language) is a key tool in everyday life.  A lot of people that struggle with general socialization often have an issue with knowing how to read faces and micro-expressions.

It is said that women are better at reading faces – and they expect men to be just as adept.  With that in mind, one must remember that women’s ability to discern truth from body language is really a myth.  Otherwise, no one would have gotten into Ted’s van.

That said, when it comes to making connections with females, reading her pleasure/displeasure is important.  We want to know if we have affected her, positive or negative.  Experience tells us whether we want to continue with either depending on the style that we want.  (If she feels disrespected, good, I meant to).

The more useful part of the game, the offensive part, is using our own faces to telegraph our communications.

Pick Up Guys gravitate to these types of videos

When they should be thinking about these types of video

 

Is the Male Gaze a Myth?

This is what I would consider conversation fodder during the attraction phase.

In feminist theory, the male gaze is the act of depicting women and the world, in the visual arts[1] and in literature,[2] from a masculine, heterosexual perspective that presents and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the male viewer.[3] In the visual and aesthetic presentations of narrative cinema, the male gaze has three perspectives: (i) that of the man behind the camera, (ii) that of the male characters within the film’s cinematic representations; and (iii) that of the spectator gazing at the image.[4][5]

Simply, men depict women as sex objects.

This currently the hottest song right now, featuring two of “top mcs” according to “the streets”

Call me a misogynist if you must, but I don’t see the typical hip hop head running to the interwebz to buy this material – especially not based off this video.

If females talking about sex sold rap music to dudes, these chicks would have blown up.

Hell if female empowerment sold records, these chicks would have been huge

For the non-hip hop heads out there, Hoes with Attitude and Bytches with Problems weren’t even one hit wonders, more like curiosities.  (Like the one white guy in Wu Tang)

That said, how do we use these “talking points” when we’re trying to chat chicks up in these times of plague.

The knee jerk reaction of a lot of rookies is to essentially interrogate chicks about these “contradictions”.  Many a would-be-player is ruled out by his willingness to “speak truth to power”.

What a man must recognize is that these ladies enjoy feeling sexy.

Anything that can facilitate “feeling sexy” is useful in the game.  Keep in mind, feeling sexy is much like the act of sex – it’s not about the pleasure of sex, but POWER.

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” – Oscar Wilde

When she’s putting her look together for the night, running to the dance floor to twerk to this

So my framework starts with recognizing WAP is about her feeling sexy, and her feeling sexy is essentially her POWER.  It’s her power to rule men and to gain resources.

Looking sexy is feeling sexy, but that’s feint for guys that can not control themselves.

Putting her in scenarios where she can feel sexy, and get attention for that, but otherwise has no type of obligation is piece of leverage.

It’s a shame that Weinstein never figured it out.

Game Aware Billionaire?

This from a piece about the rise and fall of Electric Vehicles.  But

In a 2008 appearance on Charlie Rose, the host asked Warren Buffett: “Should wise people should have known better” during the financial crisis? Buffett responded:

“People always should know better. People don’t get — they don’t get smarter about things that get as basic as greed. You can’t stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you’re smarter than he is and he’s doing these things and he’s getting rich. And your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren’t doing. Pretty soon, you start doing it. 

So you get what I call the natural progression, the three I’s, the innovators, the imitators and the idiots. Everybody just kind of goes along and you look kind of silly if you disagree. You can have these crazy Internet valuations in the late 1990’s, but they proved themselves out in the market. I mean, the next day, they were selling for more than they were the day before. And people said, you’re crazy if you don’t get in on this. It’s very human.”

^The piece is focused on why people do dumb stuff, mass hysteria, mob buying, etc.  Interesting read generally speaking.

Munger and W. Beezy are known to not only be shrewd investors and readers of 10-K’s, looking for competitive advantages – but they are Students of the Game.  Or rather, they use mental models to analyze the world, and take advantages of discrepancies.

Looking at my own finances, I do okay for myself, but this ain’t a stock tips kinda blog.  Let’s focus on the good stuff.

You can’t stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you’re smarter than he is and he’s doing these things and he’s getting rich. And your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren’t doing. Pretty soon, you start doing it. 

*hits trading curb button*

Random Dude – What?  Is Warren secretly bankrolling the Red Pill Movement?  He spinning plates?  What’s is 1RM on the Bench Press?

Archie – Slow your roll their Poverty P!

His understanding of the human mind, and in particular the female mind has allowed him to stack G’s.  Did he take those powers and apply them to the liability field of females?

Not sure, I’m assuming The Don of Omaha does his dirt on the low. But we do know that his PIMP HAND WAS STRONG.

While Will Smith, Dr. Dre, and Jeff Bezos getting have their “business all in the street” and getting run for their pockets, meanwhile Warren B got that Betty White and keeping his Benjamin’s Green.

From the Pimp Archives

-Archie

Most Bang for your Buck Improvements

It’s the new year, and there are a lot of things you can do to increase your screen/conversion ratio.

Face Time

Obviously the biggest factor in connection is time meeting and communicating with girls.  Nothing will increase your skills, conversion, body count, whatever than talking to girls in real life.  For you guys just starting to get your feet wet, 3 months of 4-6 nights out a week will do a lot more for your game than watching Youtube videos and reading books.

  • More situations and scenarios and problems to encounter
  • More practice with the content
  • More practice with the delivery
  • More experience in dealing with stress.
  • More chances to increase your frame control

Mind Set/Game Plan/Inner Game

I sort of see these things as related, a smarter person could tease them out a little better.  But getting in front of chicks and saying/doing the necessary things is a dance.

You need a little courage to step up.  You need a little more courage to say your first words.  You need a little more to keep going when she doesn’t give you that instant positive feedback.  And you might need a well of strength to keep going out, night after night, and getting indifference.

Part of getting past the lack of feedback is the mindset.

The mindset will come from reading good material, good music, good videos.  What am I supposed to think? How is this supposed to go.  A man just getting into this has to reset his mind as to what is supposed to happen, and what is possible.  And this resetting never stops.  The more I learn, the more I unlearn.  I question assumptions that have gotten me to previous success.

Game Plan – a lot of your initial confidence will be from knowing what’s supposed to happen.  The textbook hook up is rare.

For me, at this point in my game career, I can see subtle signs of interest before I speak, and additional signs when I do speak.  So my aim is to convert, a lot of my actual connections are about seeing that initial spark and blowing it into a flame.  More screening than conversion.

And that’s where we get into inner game.

Inner game is more than “I’m the shit” or “I’m enough”.  Most of us have dialogues in our mind.  It’s the negative voice that usually keeps us from harm, but also stops us from trying things that we want to try, things that might get us to the next level.

Inner game also goes to “in the moment” reactivity.  That’s why guys into pick up get into Zen or other forms of meditation.  If the chick hits you with a test or some other emotional jab, meditation allows you the inner self to not react, but the outer self to ACT.  Ideally, it appears like a reaction to others, but you know that it’s more than trained response to stimuli.

Fat Loss/Lifting/Muscle Gain

I remember CMQ poised this question about diminishing returns on working out.  I know I had strong feelings on the subject then, but in the context of that creatine fog, I don’t know if the message was clear.

https://youtu.be/Q1sTG7Pg8IQ

^Overkill.

Fight Club Lean?

It’s like dudes didn’t even watch the movie.

https://youtu.be/xoohIZTGoRY

But getting to about 12-15% body fat, at the cusp of where the 6 pack shows is good enough.  Guys with 6 packs are skinny, and a chick can’t see the washboard in the club or during day game.  Vegas Pool Party?  Venice Beach?  Different story.

In terms of bulk?

Do girls prefer the Football Player or the Football player?

It depends on the girl.  Everyone can be my man on the right.  It takes a shit ton of work, eating, rest, and genetics to be my  man on the left.

What are your best bang for the buck improvements?

Self Sufficient

Re: Cameron Diaz
Again, we pay attention to the musings of “high status” women because they give us insight on how women think, in particular women trying to be high status.
I’m assuming Cammie D is a multi-millionaire from her acting gigs.  But Hollywood tends to chew up actresses and then throw them out.  Who knows how long Margot Robbie has left?
So what would a man do to weaponize this undercurrent in female thought.
He would talk about his own self-sufficiency of course, but he’d imply that her being with him, he could show her how, so she wouldn’t need a man ever again. (lol)
My favorite Cameron Scene
https://youtu.be/1FukF0CTq1M
-Archie

If I was 18 Again?

https://youtu.be/n1nTuUFGc9g

I didn’t really learn game until i was 25.  Finished with college, had my own place, had a car, had a job.  I’d already had 2 girlfriends at that point.  I actually had not been on a ton of dates.   It was the 2nd girlfriend that pushed me into improving my social skills.

If I could go back to those days, I’d get my diet and exercise together, make it a part of my life.  I’d go to a higher ranked college and double major in computer science and finance.  I’d also join the drama club/theater arts and learn how to act, comedy, and improvisation.

In terms of game?  Day game as a college student talking to another college student isn’t particularly difficult.  Girls are open to talking to guys their own age. And there’s a new girl ever 30 seconds.   Night game is not an option.  Online game didn’t exist.  Texting didn’t exist.

Passport game?  Maybe if you did a semester or 2 abroad.  And that would have been my other big change to my college life – becoming fluent in a different language.  I probably would have picked Japanese at that age.  But Spanish would have been much more useful, even if Japanese proved to be more lucrative.

That was the 90’s.  When bad cold approach wasn’t really subject to arrest. When people were much better at offline interaction.

If I was 18 now?

  1. Get Body Right – Diet, Exercise, Stretch, Rest Game on lock.
  2. Get Your Mind Right – Meditation and Emotional Wellness.
  3. Who are you hanging out with? – Building a crew of guys to really talk to about things is good for mental health
  4. Life Skills – Learn 2 languages, because that opens up the mind, job possibilities, and adventures with the ladies. I managed to learn how to cook, clean, fix a car, and fix a computer.  If a man doesn’t know how to do that these days…
  5. Computer/Net skills – Building a PC is very similar to building a stereo system.  Just plug things in.  Finding information online, operational security, social media, etc – that’s where all of society is headed.  Hard skills might be good for a job, but the soft skills and understanding psychology, herd mentality, mob mentality will be increasingly important.
  6. Money Skills – Personal finance is a must. Saving, Risky investments in tech while young, etc.  But the real money skill is learning how Bezos starts an online bookstore and is on the way to becoming a trillionaire.  Buffet picked stocks.  But Bezos is a much better allocator of capital.  Bringing that down to the “make money online” level and other “get rich quick” schemes, it’s understanding how Bezos put the money he made into something that made a bit more money, but how the imagination of the investing public extrapolated his moves to make him worth billions.
  7. Social Skills and Game – The body, the mind, specific skills, all build a man’s long term attractive qualities.  We’ve always been “good catches”.  That’s not what motivates people to act in the NOW.  You want the college cheerleader while you’re in college, not 15 years later when she connects with you at an alumni bar having done well for yourself.

Archie

 

The Lipstick Index

Female Author calls for an end to the Lipstick Index.

Alternate link.

What is the Lipstick Index?

In times of economic crisis, lipstick sales often increase.

Hmm, wonder why that is?

Obviously it’s not because women desire to attract mates with resources!

A 2012 study corroborated the idea, though its authors attested the phenomenon to “women’s desire to attract mates with resources.”

That can’t be it!

Sexist rationales aside, the lipstick index seems real—or, at least, maybe it did at the time of its creation. But in recent years, journalists and economists have debunked the metric: The data simply didn’t corroborate it. In 2009, the year after the start of the Great Recession, lipstick sales declined by nearly 10%, according to Fortune, instead of rising as the index might have predicted.

Here’s the author’s characterization.

When more extravagant luxuries seem out of reach, the index suggests, lipstick is an affordable treat.

and also

Some analyses have suggested that nail polish, or mascara, or face masks, or candles, have become more popular as inexpensive pick-me-ups during an economic downturn

So with those purchases in mind, she then states

The money people use to indulge in self-care are now too varied to offer a single indicator of economic health

The game lesson here is that women people will often use external purchases to alter their internal state.

  • “Affordable treat”
  • “Pick-me ups”
  • Self Care is an indulgence (Wait, that’s not what she said! Not in that way)

In terms of weaponizi using this information in tryna f connecting with these ladies, these characterizations of behavior are nice little narratives that a man can offer when a woman is at an impasse.

  • “Baby, it’s just a little fun”
  • “Don’t you need a pick-me up every once in a while”
  • “I like to call it self care”

Some of my readers may use these nudges in nefarious ways!  To thee I say Nay!  These observations are strictly for defensive purposes!

-Archie

The Macro Game of Women

Aka the Feminine Imperative.

Rollo has done more than enough to put regular readers on to this.  And me trying to summarize what he’s said would be folly.

Here’s the main idea.  When you give them broads the mic, when you give them broads a pen, when you put them in front of the camera – they’re gonna give you their world view.  And if you notice patterns, if the topic is love, relationships, or children – the author/sponsor of said material is more often than not, a woman.  And she’s gonna give her view on things.  (I guess fair is fair, men decide abortion rights…)

Right now, these women are proving to be profitable on some levels.  So we’re seeing more women-centered shows.

Though for some reason Women’s Soccer or Women’s Basketball never seems to catch on with a certain 50% of the population.  Meanwhile dating reality shows and aspirational reality shows are the core diet of a good chunk of women.  Somehow I am to blame for this, and by extension all of you men.  I digress.

To keep my game sharp, I’m always looking for insight into the female mind. Either by what they do, what they say, what they consume, who they listen to – but also who tries to convince them, who tries to persuade them, and most of all who tries to sell them.

To that end, let’s take a quick look at The Take.

The take is the feminist take on pop  culture.  They do video essays on TV shows and Films, breaking them down.  I love this video essays, and ideally I’d make some in the future.

Hmm, wonder what they mean to say here?