Critique my game, or, how to pick up girls
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Japanrocks12
tired of being a man
dude aneesh, you need to move over to the U.S.A. Girls would fall for you, left and right 
angrybellsprout
Prince
Which explains the interest that was there before returning it?
To say that you lose them the moment that you start to give them interest is saying that you had them before you started giving interst back, as opposed to just treating them as anyother person.
Bugfatty300
Buddha Squirrel
Lots of guys perceive any attention from a female as a sign of interests. Then When the guy makes his move she says no and, lo and behold, the guy goes of cursing and whining about her coming on to him and crap. That explains most of it.
Of course sometimes I forget that I am giving advice to teenagers to whom dating is nothing more than a nonsensical machismo-hormone driven soap opera fest.
angrybellsprout
Prince
I kinda miss the teenage years.
Damnyankee
Honest Abe
I'd like people skilled in social interaction to critique my game:
I was attending a robotics-related event organised by the electronics department of my college. It was open to students from other colleges. A 5-set from a girls' engineering college was seated opposite us. All of them were between seven and nine on the scale.
I broke the three-second rule by around one and a half days (two-day workshop), because I couldn't work up the courage.
Note that all the canned openers are useless in this scenario, because of the different social norms prevalent here. I had to improvise, and use a situational.
I had it all planned out - walk by and ask over the shoulder if $ACTIVITY was going on (I knew it wasn't, so that I could stop there), continue that thread for a few seconds, and then ask to see their circuit board (I knew they had completed it correctly) to compare it against mine so I could check for correctness, thus prolonging the conversation (I'm quite decent at fluff talk) (comparing it would have been a long process, because there were a hell of a lot of connections), all the while injecting small demonstration of high social value spikes, sitting down for the sake of convenience (smoothly), putting a time constraint by saying that I had to return to my friends so that there was no fear of overcarry (which was true), and finally trying to close by finding out the name of the college they attended, and their year and branch. I had a target in mind, too, who I would try to isolate and get the number of if I did it well enough.
I went and opened the target directly, with an over-the shoulder question, facing in such a manner as to give the impression that I was going to walk away any minute, but without appearing restless (I can control my body language to a great extent) so as not to telegraph interest, with the intention of then implicitly playing the cat-and-string game by ignoring her after the opener, and focussing on the rest of the group instead. I did that. But my approach anxiety got the better of me - I simply FORGOT the self-canned material for the next stage. There was a pause of around a second, which started to become awkward, and as I realised that I was losing social value and that there was no way to regain it, because it would take too long to remember the next step, I ejected. Not very gracefully, I must admit, but at least I did it instead of standing there like an idiot.
Also, I found that I could easily get everyone's interest. In fact, the group opened up to me immediately. I had succeeded in building initial/hook interest, and breaking the initial barrier (it appears I shattered it to smoking smithereens, actually, from my post-field analysis). Even without any trying, the girls were qualifying themselves to me. In fact, they were looking expectantly to me to go to the next stage, and that was probably what did me in - the expectant eyes and faces all turned towards me, all waiting. Scrambled my brain.
Hell, they appeared positively disappointed that I didn't progress to the next stage, so it appears that I left with quite some social value intact.
This was the first time in my life, by the way, that I have tried anything like this. I have NEVER approached a set before in my entire life, much less one of such high value. So please keep that in mind before mocking me mercilessly.
Not to be a dick, but, why are you asking for a girl critique in a civilization forum?
aneeshm
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How, precisely?
silver 2039
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Word of advice. Don't go for Indian girls. They just won't do it. Besides they might not even know what to do...far too naive ...
ParadigmShifter
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Correct, I award you +1 nerd point.
aneeshm
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What a ridiculous assumption.
silver 2039
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Its not an assumption. Its expirence. The average Indian girl doesn't know anything. Hell that applies to the average Indian guy too.
Then why are there so many Indians?
aneeshm
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Bleh. Matador is an Indian.
silver 2039
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Because they haven't discovered contraception yet.
Matador?
Okay, but the fact that is even an issue just goes to show that as awkward as they may be around the opposite sex, they must have at least grasped the basics. So to speak.
silver 2039
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Honestly no.... I know an Indian guy my age who didn't even know what cum was until I enlightened him. And another different guy who didn't know what tampons were....and the year before that there was someone who thought masturbation caused blindness. And someone else who thought that by hearing about sex he would fall ill with fever apparently. The ignorance about sex is astounding....there are little to no sex ed classes or anything.
Aneeshm, my impression is that you are little of a misogynist (this is from other posts), probably because you're bugged by the power women have over men in mating rituals. You must learn to like girls before they like you. Also you don't have to trick girls, they like boys too.
aneeshm
Deity
Not really. I simply dislike some behaviours women have displayed throughout my life.
Now, however, I realise that it's not their fault - this behaviour is hardwired into their brains, the same way that there are a lot of things hardwired into my brain. It's female instinct to find and mate with the tribal leader. I was not that tribal leader. However, I can almost trivially become one.
Also, I am learning how the female mind evaluates things, and I'll probably be able to have the desired degree of control within a few months of practice.
Fifty
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So aneeshm are you doing the requisite massive amount of neuroscience and social psych research (actual journal articles and whatnot rather than just popularized books) required for this little project of yours to even be remotely serious or is this just one of those delusions of grandeur I-can-do-it-all-by-myself sorts of things?
