“Limiting belief” is the most overused/incorrectly used term in game.
Here’s a sample conversation I see over and over:
Dude: “so I approached this girl and she said she was married, I looked over and she had a wedding ring on so I ejected”
MPUA Idiot: “BRO! That’s a limiting belief! My bald 5’3″ Indian friend fucked three hot white married women last year! with game anything is possible!!!”
Rinse and repeat. Whenever you attempt to make an optimal, rational decision in Game that results in not pursuing a certain angle, some jagoff will pipe in with a critique about how you didn’t push yourself hard enough and you just need to correct your “limiting beliefs”.
The traditional, and correct definition of a limiting belief is “a model of the world you hold that is actually incorrect and limits your progress”.
“I’m not confident enough to invite girls directly to my pad for a date” is a limiting belief.
“It’s impossible for an Asian guy to fuck white girls” is a limiting belief.
”Girls walking fast and looking at their phones while smiling are always on the way to meet their boyfriends.” is a limiting belief.
The following are not limiting beliefs:
“Inviting this girl directly to my gaff for a date increases the chances of a flake, so I’ll take her out instead”
”I could approach this white girl, but I’m an Asian guy, so I know I’ll have less chance with her. There’s an equally hot Asian girl over there, I’ll approach her instead”
“Girls walking fast and looking at their phones while smiling in daygame are usually on the way to meet their boyfriends, so I’m going to focus on other girls instead of approaching these ones.
This game is about optimization. For a limited amount of time X spent on Game, we need to get results Y. Focusing our time on moonshots is a non-optimal way of achieving results Y.
Chicago has some of the hottest women I’ve ever seen in my life. I’ve always heard good things, but this city exceeded my expectations. For one, it’s one of the only US cities with the actual density required to do cold approach: women are taking public transit, walking, and biking everywhere in the warmer months.
I was there in August for two and a half weeks and during that time, it firmly cemented its status in the “Player’s Six”, along with NYC, Vegas, Nashville, Miami, and Phoenix.
Nightgame in Chicago
I went out in two places, Old Town and Wrigleyville.
Old Town had the hottest girls I’ve ever seen in one nightgame district, including Vegas. If you like basic bitches, this is the place for you. The problem was that all the bars had insane lines, so I didn’t end up gaming anywhere. Then some broad called me from daygame and I went out with her instead.
Wrigleyville is a nice post-college scene, a little trashier and more acceptable. Still plenty of hot girls. Old Crow was a decent venue for approaching but the live music made it too loud to use more than about half the venue. The Dugout was a good place with no line and four different levels. I’ve also heard good things about Sluggers.
River North is also an option, but word around the campfire is it’s on another level – some seriously rich people go out here, and it draws kind of an older crowd, so your game has to be tight.
Daygame in Chicago
Chicago is incredible for daygame. Instead of there being just one daygame district like most places, Chicago has about a dozen neighborhoods to game in.
Virtually any major street in the areas circled in red are daygame-able, though as always, I recommend a bike for maximum mobility. The best area I found was from Old Town to River North – some seriously insane density and quality.
The left side of town is going to have more hipster/alternative girls that are going to be more open to daygame than the basic girls in Wrigleyville, River North, and Old Town.
Guys will recommend the Magnificent Mile, but I think it’s overrated. Too many tourists and groups.
Online Game in Chicago
Online is poppin’ in Chicago. In two and a half weeks, I had 66 matches, got four numbers, and met (and banged) two girls.
I can call out Happy Camper in Wrigleyville and the Blue Line Lounge in Wicker Park as good date venues.
After two weeks spent in Nashville in early July, I’ve concluded that it’s one of the most underrated American cities for game.
The first thing you’ll notice when you touch down is that the average girl is about a point hotter than any comparable city of its size (~2 million metro area). Nashville is a destination city – a place where hot girls come post-college and on vacation to enjoy the attention they so crave. The women are looksmaxed, take care of themselves, and are very feminine. If you like basic bitches, this is probably the nation’s capital.
Nashville also has a thriving tourist scene. On weekends, both downtown and The Gulch are filled with teeming packs of outsiders, meaning you also have a shot at girls who are coming to “Nashvegas” to have fun.
So let’s get into it.
Nightgame in Nashville
Broadway is overrated. Granted, I was only there for July 4, but everyone was in big social circle groups and/or with their families. It reminded me of the logistical hurdles of Vegas, without the “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” mentality. If you go out here, you need at least one wing, preferably two, to infiltrate the group sets.
Supposedly the locals go out in Midtown, but this also seemed quite touristy and I didn’t explore it.
The best bar I went to was actually in East Nashville, called Rosemary and Beauty Queen. On a Thursday night, there were about two girls to every guy, and most of them were legit HOT. I don’t think I’ve ever seen quality like that in my life, not in that type of venue.
Daygame in Nashville
Daygame is somewhat viable in Nashville, which is not something that can be said about every American city. Volume isn’t high, so I recommend a bike or a scooter. Here’s the route you’ll want to follow:
The Gulch is your best bet – it’s the hot girl neighborhood, and with 30% of the buildings under construction, it’s only going to get better in the next few years. There’s a Whole Foods there that’s worth popping into as often as possible. There’s a seating area near the back of the store you can rest your legs at, and if you don’t feel like approaching in-store, you can follow girls outside or down into the parking garage and do a moving approach.
Continuing up the Gulch, you’ll hit Midtown, which is halfway touristy, but with enough locals to get your money’s worth. There’s a Chipotle/Starbucks combination near Vanderbilt which is pretty money.
Up 21st towards Belmont University, there’s a small shopping district called Hillsboro which is gold. Belmont has the hottest and sluttiest girls in the city, so make sure to walk around campus when school’s in session.
Vanderbilt’s campus is beautiful and worth many walkthroughs as well. I’ve used a lighter color for the backside of campus because there’s less volume, but probably better during the school year. Centennial Park is cool to check out but I didn’t see many viable sets there.
Online Game in Nashville
You know the drill. Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, all are popping. You’ll see a lot of girls in bachelor parties and two girls that have created a group profile better. Best to ignore, their logistics generally suck and they’re just looking for attention.
I’ve Tindered in 30+ cities and never gotten better results than in Nashville. You’ll find that you’ll be able to match with much hotter girls than you normally do, and they’re down to clown as well.
Community Resources
Game Global’s Nashville Telegram group is your best bet for finding a wing, though during the two weeks I was there, I found it was mostly talk, little action (I will admit I had a wing lined up one night and was too tired to go out – sorry, brah!)
The Red Quest also wrote up a post about his experiences gaming in Nashville.
Much ado has been made about gender ratios and how they affect sexual markets in various cities. While I believe that the gender ratio is a somewhat useful number in determining the “difficulty” of a given market, there’s a lot more at play.
https://singlesatlas.com is a fantastic site that gives detailed gender ratio information for every geographic locale in the US (and around the world, though I’m just going to be focusing on the US).
The most basic mistake most people make is not taking age into account. For example, if we just look at gender ratio with no other factors:
We get this list:
Age and Marital Status
Filtering by age gets us a bit closer. Suffice it to say that anyone reading this blog is probably not targeting older women, so let’s look at only women aged 18-34.
Our competition matters, too. No matter how many women there are in that age range, if there’s a ton more men competing with us, it’s not good news. We’ll choose 18-44 as our competition.
Finally, we obviously don’t care about anyone who’s married. It would be great if we could actually see what percentage of people are single, but to my knowledge there’s no source of survey data for that, so the least we can do is filter out those who are married.
Unmarried women aged 18-34, with our competition being unmarried men aged 18-44, gives us this:
Body Mass Index
This doesn’t take attractiveness into account, though. Obviously, there’s no great way to get data on attractiveness, but we can at least filter out overweight and obese women.
Taking the above filters and filtering out anyone over a BMI of 30 gives us:
I don’t know how Massachusetts snuck in there, so consider Provo our 10th ranked city.
Does this list pass the smell test? Well… maybe. If you look down the list, you’ll notice that a commonality among the top cities is that they have a high percentage of African-American women, due to societal factors causing a surplus (high numbers of African-American men incarcerated or dead). African-American women don’t tend to date outside their race (just like women of all races) and/or socioeconomic status, so if you’re a median Pancake Mouse reader, a young white, college-educated male, it’s probably not the most ideal list.
We can look at this list more in context by factoring in the percentage of African-American population in each city and mentally adjusting our score accordingly:
Durham (39% black)
DC (45% black)
Winston-Salem (35% black)
Boston (25% black)
Syracuse (30% black)
Denton (9.4% black)
Madison (7% black)
Bridgeport (35% black)
New Haven (33% black)
Provo (1% black)
Springfield (21% black)
Albany (29% black)
Buffalo (37% black)
Grand Rapids (19% black)
Atlanta (34% black)
Hartford (38% black)
Philadelphia (44% black)
What does this tell us? Boston, Denton, Madison, Provo, and Grand Rapids may be closer to our ideals.
Our mentally-weighted list looks a bit closer to what happens when we just look at White people, irrespective of marital status:
Notably, Greenville and Reno jump up as potential options here.
Of course, our data-driven analysis neglects the qualitative intangibles, which at the end of the day far outweigh our data.
General attractiveness of female population – how hot is the average woman? Is this city a “hot girl destination” (e.g. Vegas, LA, Nashville, Miami, NYC?)
General attractiveness of male population – how good is your competition? NYC looks great until you take a look at the guys you’re competing against.
Total population – in singles matching, total volume is important. Given two populations, one with 100 single women and 100 single men, and another with 1000 single women and 1100 single men, it’s better to be in the latter. Potentially because the markets aren’t efficient so as a seasoned player you have more chances of getting to the remaining single women before the competition. Also volume = anonymity = more casual sex, and makes daygame sessions easier so you don’t have to rely on swipe apps.
Sexual orientation – does a city have a higher number of lesbians than normal? If so, your potential female population just got a lot smaller. Does your city have more gay men than normal? Less competition!
In conclusion, our ideal city should have the highest percentage of attractive, single, non-lesbian women compared to the percentage of attractive, single, non-gay men, with some multiplier for total population. If only it were possible to get statistics on this!
How do our favorable gender ratio cities stack up?
Here’s our rough list again (I removed Provo because, come on, it’s Provo):
Durham
DC
Madison
Boston
Springfield
Greenville
Grand Rapids
New Haven
Reno
Winston-Salem
Bridgeport
One note: if you look at the raw ratios between many of the cities above, there’s actually not that much difference in them. Most of the decent cities have 56-59 unmarried, <30 BMI, 18-34yo women for every man of the same category. This makes qualitative attributes and anecdotal data much more important than ratios for evaluating cities.
Let’s compare this to the “Player’s 6”, the six cities I qualitatively consider the best for Game, based on my own personal experience and reports from others
NYC
Miami
Phoenix
Nashville
Chicago
Vegas
Clearly, attractiveness of the top-tier girls is the disconnect not measured by our algorithm. The above cities are going to have much-hotter-than-average girls available, as well as generally larger populations.
How do our algorithm cities stack up? I’m not sure, but I’d love to find out. I hope to visit each one of these cities within the next few years and put this theory to the test.
Seemingly every woman saw it and said “Perfect, now I can get validation from men in popular cities that I’m not even in… and not even have to meet them in real life!” and within hours, popular destinations like Los Angeles, NYC, Miami, London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Paris were flooded, making finding locals nearly impossible.
Luckily, the majority of people using Passport simply type in a city name instead of choosing a point within that city manually. When this is done, Tinder locates those users in the exact center of the city.
Given this fact, the workaround was fairly obvious (to me, at least), but I’ll document it here for posterity:
Select a swipe distance that you’re comfortable with under “Radius Miles”, and click a point on the outskirts of your city such that your radius excludes the city center.
Go to Tinder, open the now-free Passport, manually choose the center of this radius, and set your distance to match it.
There you go! Now you can swipe in a very specific radius while avoiding most of the Passport timewasters, who are all clustered in the center of your city.
Once you exhaust all the profiles in this radius, simply repeat the process until you’ve worked your way around the city, avoiding the center (by that time, April should be over, anyway).
For a company that’s completely based around images, Tinder has some arcane, unwritten rules around image uploading and compression, which, if not followed, will lead to your photos looking like complete trash, even if they’re high quality.
Luckily, I’ve spent quite a bit of time running my own tests to determine what does and does not trigger the compression. I haven’t seen anyone else on the internet writing about this, so if this advice spreads, remember you heard it here first!
Photos must be under 800px max width. If you upload a photo over this width, it will automatically trigger Tinder’s compression.
Photos must be under 100kb in size. If you upload a photo over this size, it will automatically trigger Tinder’s compression. In order to limit the filesize, use a photo editor that lets you control the JPEG quality. I recommend Adobe Photoshop for the PC.
You must never zoom in on your photo with Tinder’s built in photo “cropper”. Moving the reticules around to center it is fine, but if you pinch to zoom in on the image, even just a little bit, it will trigger the compression. This means you need to upload photos that are already precropped to Tinder’s intended ratio of 1:1.
Over the past year+, many male Hinge users here have reported an unfortunate bug where they only see Hinge’s lowest-rated users in their Discover section.
Here are a few examples from the Hinge subreddit. I’ve also seen other examples in Game Facebook and Telegram groups:
Because of the sensitive nature of this topic, these users will frequently been told that they are conceited/rude/unattractive/mean, et cetera, and/or that they need to work on their profiles and take better photos and so on.
I’m here to tell you that this is all untrue, and that there is indeed a bug with Hinge that has been going on for years. I haven’t seen anyone post about this bug publicly, so I figured I’d start one as a centralized place where we can all discuss commonalities and solutions.
It first happened to me in 2018, and has persisted despite multiple resets. I first pointed it out on the Hinge subreddit in May 2019 (and of course was promptly shellacked by offended users, instead of people acknowledging there might be an issue with Hinge).
About a month ago, recreated a Hinge profile again after a year and a half. New email address, new phone, maybe only the number was the same — same behavior, except this time, it’s all unattractive profiles, not broken up by the odd superattractive profile like before.
Luckily, there’s a way to get around this:
Workaround
What we know about how to fix this so far is to set your age and distance settings to very constrained, and then swipe through all the unattractive profiles quickly in that setting, whereupon you’ll finally be shown profiles that are attractive.
For example, set your age range to 26-27 and distance to 1 mile. The least attractive profiles will still be shown first, but you can swipe through them faster and use up your daily likes on the attractive ones quicker.
Many guys have reported that the bug has subsided after they started matching with girls they liked using the workaround method. Personally, I haven’t noticed this after a couple months of swiping and liking, despite matching with a number of attractive women, but it’s possible it takes a while.
Will Hinge fix the bug?
I first let Hinge know about this bug in 2018 through their Zendesk support form. I did not receive a response. I encourage anyone reading this post to send them an email and link them to the post. They can’t ignore us for long.
These may or may not have been inspired by a trip to <American city near you> this past week.
Law 1: No matter how far in advance you set your Tinder location to your new city, all matches you gain during that time will turn out to be worthless upon arrival.
Law 2: All of your hot, DTF matches will be 50 miles away.
Law 3: If you do find a girl that’s game for one night of fun, when you ask for her Instagram she’ll be have gained 30 pounds since her most recent photos.
Law 4: If you’re unable to bring girls back to wherever you’re staying, the only girls who are down to hook up inevitably won’t be able to host, either.
Law 5: Your most viable matches will come on the last day of your trip. As if fate wasn’t cruel enough, the hottest of these will come as you’re sitting in the airport on the way home, or, god forbid, after you’ve already flown far, far away.
Remember when Tinder was a spontaneous hookup app? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Required reading for this blog post: 29 Truths About Game from Sonny Arvado’s blog, Strength by Sonny. At this point, I’ve probably read it five times through, and I can definitively say it is the best article I have ever seen about Game. No bullshit, just pure truth.
I’m an extremely independent learner, and I had never, ever paid money to any coach, but late last year, I started to read through Sonny Arvado’s blog, Strength by Sonny. I had previously only read a few posts of his, but the more I started to read, the more I started to think: “Goddamn, this guy gets it.”
Reading his posts, it became clear that he is an expert on something I had been struggling with all of last year: image. I knew he was able to give me some perspective, so I bit my ego bullet and reached out to Sonny about getting consulting. What follows is my review of that process, of Sonny’s game in general, and what guys can take away from his outlook.
Why should you listen to Sonny?
In my opinion, Sonny Arvado, out of all the “coach/instructor/guru” (or whatever you want to call them) types, has the best combination of the major factors of Game:
Looks (“Image”)
Social Acuity
Game
Mindset
Many guys do this for ten years and manage one or two out of four. Sonny is extremely strong in all of the above areas:
Looks (“Image”) – he has spent his entire adult life improving on his naturally good looks to make the game as easy for himself as possible. Most importantly, he has improved his physique to be top-tier, meaning that he is instantly polarizing anywhere he goes.
Social Acuity – Sonny is essentially a “true natural”. He self-describes as always having been part of the “in crowd”. This is not something that most coaches can say about themselves (because if they were, why would they need to study social skills and be good enough at it to start teaching guys?)
Game – he is the rare natural who is actually trained in “technical game”, through being involved in the Las Vegas “pickup community” doing cold approach and being associated with other coaches and instructors. This means he can break things down using terms familiar to guys with a community background.
Mindset – Sonny gets it. This is evident when you talk to him for an extended period of time. He’s red- and looks- pilled in all the right places, but with zero hint of bitterness. One line from his 29 Truths about Game article stuck out to me: “Most guys are searching for purpose. They want to find their place in the world. Relevancy and belonging is what they are really going after. They want to find their place and they want that place to be a relevant one”. Deep down, he understands that every man’s true goal in life is to be happy and fulfilled.
Sonny Arvado Game
That aside, what can we learn from Sonny, game-wise? The following is a basic summary of his game, without giving away too many secrets. The full details can be cleaned from his blog post: Sonny Arvado Game.
His game relies on being “sexually dimorphic”. As big, brawny, masculine, and muscular as possible. The idea is that the bigger you are, the more polarizing you are, and the less roadblocks will be put in your way (LMR, anti-slut defense, cockblocks, AMOGs, etc.)
He screens girls aggressively in social situations by asking a simple question: “What’s this chick’s deal?” He uses any possible information he can to suss this out, including the girl’s Instagram account, and even her phone background (for example: does it have a photo of her boyfriend? Probably not a great target.)
When he goes out at night, he classifies interactions into one of four categories:
Probable Flakes – he takes the number, but expects it to flake anyway.
Interest to the Point of Agreeing to a Date – the girl seems interested, but something is logistically preventing the pull that night. In that case, he asks what her schedule is like and seeds the date right away.
Hail Marys – she’s down to clown, but can’t leave with you due to some logistical standpoint (her friends won’t let her leave, etc.). He takes the number and then calls her (not texting, very important) later in the night after the clubs close and has her Uber over to his place.
Good to Go – she’s down to clown and you need to work logistics to pull her.
Objections when going for the pull can be overcome with two frames:
– time/distance: “My place is close”
– secrecy: “No one has to know, it will be our little secret” (this includes changing vocal tonality and whispering dirty talk to a girl in the club)
At some point in every nightgame interaction, he will attempt to isolate the girl, either by moving her a couple feet away, or by buying her a drink at the bar.
He’s a big fan of hired gun game, which he uses on bartenders, hooters girls, or bottle service girls. This is the only part of his game where he uses a canned line: “I’m sure you get this all the time, but I think you’re very beautiful and I’d love to take you out some time.”
Philosophy
“This is the image-building business”
By far the biggest aspect of Sonny’s philosophy that appealed to me is a set phrase which he uses often: “This is the image-building business”. Guys worry constantly about their “game”, when really, their struggles in their dating/social lives are actually due to their image, which he defines as:
Face (or head) – hair, bones, skin, jawline, etc.
Body – including tattoos and piercings
Tangible extensions of identity and wealth – clothes and accessories, car, neighborhood and housing
Social media profiles
Associations – who are your friends? Are you part of a certain “scene”? What is your archetype?
Communication skills – voice, eye contact, body language, communication style
Societal feedback – How does society treat you?
One of my favorite quotes from Sonny about image: “People are very distracted and low conscious. Not only do they not have the time to sift through your golden intangibles but they oftentimes do not even have the capacity to do so.”
Pretty much every guy wants the same type of girl: desirable, sexually dimorphic girls in their prime, but these type of girls respond much more strongly to a man’s image than to his game. In 2019, with the rise of Instagram and online dating, superficial image is more important than ever. Thus, guys should be focusing on their image first and their game second. The problem with the community, according to Sonny, is that men don’t want to do the hard work, and fall back on game as a coping mechanism for their image inadequacies.
The archetype guys should be going after should be “cool, attractive insider”. Every guy may define this differently, but a quick glance through a girl’s Instagram feed should give some pretty strong clues as to what type of guys are currently deemed “cool, attractive insiders” by society.
“You attract who you are”
One of Sonny’s other philosophies that was a gamechanger for me was the idea of “you attract who you are”. Good people attract other good people. Bad people attract other bad people. People tend to form relationships, platonic or romantic, with their looks- and image match. Men and women on a similar level in the eyes of society tend to date each other.
Since I’ve internalized this belief, I can’t stop seeing it over and over:
Sociopaths attract girls with other personality disorders.
“Hood” black guys attract hood black girls, latinas, and Instagram “thots”.
Raver/EDM type guys attract raver/EDM type girls.
All of the above are not just attracting girls of their archetype, but also their looksmatch and personality match.
There are no hacks to this shit. Barring crazy anomalies, every guy is going to attract the type of girl that his personality and image dictate.
Consulting
Before my Skype call with Sonny, I did a bunch of research and prepared notes. I was reticent at first because his rates aren’t cheap, but I was pleasantly surprised at his passion and dedication to coaching. Not only did he call me to figure out what my goals are before setting up our session, where we had a great 45-minute conversation about philosophies, the community, and more, during our Skype call he also set aside the entire evening to talk to me to make sure I was on the right track. It helped that we have similar mindsets, are around the same age, and share a lot of the same tastes in humor (he, too, recognizes early Adam Sandler as a comedy genius).
Our conversation covered a bunch of topics, like his nightgame method, tangible steps I can take to improve my image, approaching girls at the gym, the best cities in America for me to move to if I wanted to take the show on the road, and what I should be doing to improve my physique.
Overall, the biggest takeaway I walked away with from the call was that of image. Talking to Sonny was a valuable insight into a “true natural” that has mastered the art of image-building and is attracting the types of girls I want to attract.
This year, I will be putting a primary focus on changing and improving my image. I will have details about this in my next blog post, including what my image is now, and what I will be doing to improve it.
Should you work with Sonny?
It depends. Sonny’s advice will work for almost everyone, but the problem is that many guys simply won’t be ready to see it. They’re zoomed in too far — stuck gutter gaming 6s outside of their favorite nightgame venue at 3:30 AM.
For anyone truly willing to swallow the image pill, Sonny is a great place to turn.
There’s nothing truly groundbreaking about Sonny’s advice, and there doesn’t need to be. It’s simple, logical, and straightforward. And that’s what makes it so valuable.
Sonny isn’t going to give his students that ONE WEIRD TRICK to hack the system. Rather, he’s going to pull back the curtain and show them that most community advice misses the bigger picture, and the answers (be attractive and go for it) were in front of their noses the entire time.
I did nightgame maybe 30 nights this year. I pulled three times and closed once (one girl gave LMR, and the other girl I couldn’t get hard because I had just fucked a girl a couple hours before). I mostly experimented with number farming, but of the 45 nightgame numbers I got (there were actually many more I didn’t keep track of), zero of them panned out for a date.
I did 324 daygame approaches, got 108 numbers, had 9 dates, but for the second year in a row, I had zero notches from daygame.
Overall, outside of online, I had almost zero results for all the effort I put in. There are many external reasons for my lack of closes, but at the end of the day, the responsibility lies with myself.
Notch Quality
Disclaimer: I have one of the “harshest” and most accurate rating systems that I know of in the community (nearly ever guy overrates).
One 5, Three 5.5s, Four 6s, Eight 6.5s, Four 7s, One 7.5
Average notch rating: 6.33 (2017: 6.03, 2016: 5.725)
Looks like my quality is moving up a steady third of a point a year. I expect to top out around a 7 average, as I don’t believe I can possibly improve my looks beyond that of a male 6.5/7 without plastic surgery (as we know, it is impossible for a man to outkick his looksmatch average via cold approach).
Conversion Rate (Notches/First Dates)
An important metric that tracks how good my “date game”, as well as my screening, is. Note that this means new notches per each girl I saw, not multiple dates with the same girl.
67% or 6/9 while traveling (2017: 53%).
44% or 11/25 in San Francisco (2017: 39%)
It’s good to see an improvement from last year, but these numbers are still not where I want them to be. I’ve gotten better at screening, but I don’t think my date game is that much better than it was last year.
Fun Stories
I fucked a pregnant 18-year-old in Indianapolis. She remarked “That was so fun. Is this what it’s supposed to be like?” She had never had good sex in her life. I gave her a lesson on avoiding STDs and sent her on her way. Really enjoyed that interaction.
I diagnosed a girl’s anorexia while cuddling with her in her dorm room. She was 4’11”, 95 pounds, but when I got her clothes off, I noticed a bunch of stretch marks. Turns out she had rapidly lost like 50 pounds in a semester. Afterwards, she texted me that our conversation gave her the strength to tell her roommate and get treatment.
Recurring revenue: I hooked up with two girls that I ended up seeing again in different cities. It pays to keep in contact with girls via social media.
Over the summer, I pulled from nightgame for the first time ever. An off-duty stripper on her last night in town. She had incredible frame and gave ridiculous amounts of LMR. The sex was awful. I think I got the wrong stripper.
I took Amtrak to a small town to bang a single mother. New adventures are one of the ways I keep Tinder fun.
Went to Vegas for the first time. One of the nights, I fucked a girl from Tinder, then went to a club two hours later, pulled a girl, and while waiting outside the club for an Uber, ran into the Tinder girl I had fucked. Naturally, I introduced the two girls and we had a laugh. Vegas is not real life.
I had two girls that wanted to meet up the one night I was in Vancouver. I chose wrong and had a failed date with a Kiwi girl in Vancouver. As soon as it was clear she wasn’t going to hook up with me, I called my backup, had her get out of bed, put clothes on, pick me up from the date location and take me straight back to my AirBnB. Always have a backup plan!
Analysis of My Game in 2018
Satisfying the Notch Hyena
2018 was about expanding from online game. I remember a specific date in late January from Tinder, where I matched this liberal arts, social justice-y 6, and having nothing to do, basically DTF pitched her that night and met her at a local bar. She wasn’t very talkative and there wasn’t really a spark, but as the sex was “pre-ordained”, I invited her back anyway. When I went to put the condom on to fuck her, I lost my erection. I realized that I wasn’t even attracted to this girl — why was I trying to bang her? After she left, I took the night to reflect on what it was I really wanted.
That was the beginning of the end for the Tinder notch hyena. As of now, I can say it’s pretty much satisfied. I let Tinder plus lapse at the beginning of the summer and haven’t bought it again. With pay-to-play becoming more of a trend on Tinder, as well as massively increased male competition, the playing field is again leveled and I have a tough time even matching girls I’m actually attracted to.
With all this in mind, I began to invest in daygame and nightgame cold approach as possible markets I could play to niches in and shoot above my level.
Unfortunately, the learning curve for these is much steeper than online game. I got two nightgame lays and zero daygame lays in 2018, despite my efforts.
Overall, I think I have calmed the notch hyena. I am no longer going after notches, but instead after consistency (ongoing casual relationships) and quality.
Mastery
I feel like I am close to becoming an expert on texting. I used to have questions about how to respond to every little text a girl sent, now I’m only stumped a half dozen times a year.
I have truly mastered online game. There is no aspect of online game I cannot speak confidently about. I know exactly what is required to achieve complete success with online game — the only question mark is execution.
New Techniques
I learned the following new technical game techniques in 2018. I am not an expert at any of them yet, but I use them at least some of the time now:
Open loops
Compliance ladders (hoops)
Recognizing social and sexual hook points
Qualification (“I have standards”)
Laser eye contact
Image
The biggest breakthrough I made in 2018 was that of image. I realized that my game had improved to the point where my image was actually my limiting factor. Interestingly, I predicted this back in January of last year in the post: How My Game Will — or Won’t — Evolve in 2018.
The most impactful quote from that article: “I will reach a point in 2018 where I cannot get to where I want to be without changing my lifestyle.”
It is now January 2019, and I have reached that point, but I have not made any significant changes to my lifestyle and image. As such, I have not truly begun to attract the types of girls I want to attract.
2019 will be about grappling with that fact.
I’ve had some very productive conversations with Sonny Arvado about how I can overhaul my image to attract the girls I want to attract, of which I will be going into more detail in my next blog post.
