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RedNeck

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This is a general question about the game. I know calibration is an essential part of the game. My question here is about how much percentage calibration contributes to the game vs. textbook game.

For example:

In each interaction, does the game contain 80% standard game plus only 20% calibration? or more or less?

I am trying to understand how fluid the game is. And how much should I deviate from the standard game procedures?

For example, Mystery mentioned in his book that while he advises the newbs not to buy her drink, many seducers pay girls drinks and still bed them. Mystery adds it is about the frame.
 

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It looks and reads like English? But what the fuck does this say?

When you start sounding like ChatGPT trained on google searches you know you're on the wrong track.

Q: Should I buy a woman a drink?
A: There is no answer to this question.

There is no answer because that question is just floating out there in space with no context. What question is really being asked?

Q: Does buying a woman a drink help me fuck her? Or date her?
A: Sometimes.

I think the danger here is the thought pattern of... 'can I do nice things for other people, and get them to like me, that way they do things I want because I'm so great.' Not a good pattern, and if you are in it, get out.

'I am interested in creating a courteous experience for someone else. No reciprocation is required, but I am leading this interaction, and presenting an example of the kind of interaction I'd like to have.' <- ok, buy her a fuckin drink.

No one here is going to agree with me probably, but I don't think there's such a thing as 'game.' There are communication skills, shared creativity, relationship skills, human nature, emotional health and wisdom, etc... and there are also manipulative used car salesman tactics, but I vote you skip those.

Go get you some of the rest, though, and quit talking like a robot.
 

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Like @HoofHearted said this is really a pointless question. Because calibration, tactics, game and everything else about seduction is all really the same thing - seducing her. Consider this sentence: I calibrate using tactics from my knowledge of game. See what I mean?

It's very hard to talk about seduction without using some form of logical framework, otherwise it is hard for guys to 'get' it when they don't have much experience. Hence game and techniques and all the accompanying terminology. But the true value is the effect on her and her experience of you. If that effect is achievable another way, a more 'natural' or intuitive way, that other way is just as valuable.

Calibration is something that I think is often misunderstood. It is 90% perception and 10% action. The action part is usually a very minor and easy thing to do, the perception part is what is difficult when you don't have much experience with women. That's why so many of the materials on seduction emphasize being curious and interested in everything about women. Because then you realise important things that are very hard to describe.

So to pit calibration versus textbook game is not a true polarity. Textbook game can only be applied with perception and understanding i.e. calibration. Like music, seduction requires timing and control of the power of each note otherwise it becomes a cacophony of noise.

It would be more true to pit intuition vs textbook game, and the ratio of that is something that varies greatly between people.
 

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For example, Mystery mentioned in his book that while he advises the newbs not to buy her drink, many seducers pay girls drinks and still bed them. Mystery adds it is about the frame.
Buying drinks is about timing and motive watch my video on buying drinks calibration has to always be there... A lot of pua advice seems contradicting cause pick up has nuances and context...... You are confusing nuances, context, contradictions with calibration.....
 

RedNeck

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It looks and reads like English? But what the fuck does this say?

When you start sounding like ChatGPT trained on google searches you know you're on the wrong track.

Q: Should I buy a woman a drink?
A: There is no answer to this question.

There is no answer because that question is just floating out there in space with no context. What question is really being asked?

Q: Does buying a woman a drink help me fuck her? Or date her?
A: Sometimes.

I think the danger here is the thought pattern of... 'can I do nice things for other people, and get them to like me, that way they do things I want because I'm so great.' Not a good pattern, and if you are in it, get out.

'I am interested in creating a courteous experience for someone else. No reciprocation is required, but I am leading this interaction, and presenting an example of the kind of interaction I'd like to have.' <- ok, buy her a fuckin drink.

No one here is going to agree with me probably, but I don't think there's such a thing as 'game.' There are communication skills, shared creativity, relationship skills, human nature, emotional health and wisdom, etc... and there are also manipulative used car salesman tactics, but I vote you skip those.

Go get you some of the rest, though, and quit talking like a robot.
Dude, chill the fuck out. If you do not like the question or the way it is written, you do not have to reply. You wanted to appear smart ass; this is a different story.
 

RedNeck

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Buying drinks is about timing and motive watch my video on buying drinks calibration has to always be there... A lot of pua advice seems contradicting cause pick up has nuances and context...... You are confusing nuances, context, contradictions with calibration.....
Thanks,@Skills. Actually, this is what I meant but maybe calibration is the wrong word for it. I will explain more once I have a chance.
 
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HoofHearted

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Put him on ignore like I did long time ago

At your own peril.

You may be able to follow a clever rat through the dump to find a piece of cheese. You may even learn a few clever whiskery tricks, good for tunneling.

But I am here telling you that you don't have to love the garbage.

My first response was a little abrasive. That's on me, and clearly not the best way to communicate with you @RedNeck so that's my mistake (but do note, it was about the content, not you yourself).

Whatever the case, good luck with it.
 

RedNeck

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Like @HoofHearted said this is really a pointless question. Because calibration, tactics, game and everything else about seduction is all really the same thing - seducing her. Consider this sentence: I calibrate using tactics from my knowledge of game. See what I mean?

It's very hard to talk about seduction without using some form of logical framework, otherwise it is hard for guys to 'get' it when they don't have much experience. Hence game and techniques and all the accompanying terminology. But the true value is the effect on her and her experience of you. If that effect is achievable another way, a more 'natural' or intuitive way, that other way is just as valuable.

Calibration is something that I think is often misunderstood. It is 90% perception and 10% action. The action part is usually a very minor and easy thing to do, the perception part is what is difficult when you don't have much experience with women. That's why so many of the materials on seduction emphasize being curious and interested in everything about women. Because then you realise important things that are very hard to describe.

So to pit calibration versus textbook game is not a true polarity. Textbook game can only be applied with perception and understanding i.e. calibration. Like music, seduction requires timing and control of the power of each note otherwise it becomes a cacophony of noise.

It would be more true to pit intuition vs textbook game, and the ratio of that is something that varies greatly between people.
Exactly, this is what I meant, @Will_V. The reason behind me asking this question is that I had multiple successes without adhering to "the game rules". So, I was trying to understand if it was just a stroke of luck, or given everything I have ( race, look, fashion, .....etc..) I can seduce women without adhering strictly to the rules.

Another example, I am an ethnic minority where I am. Some women are attracted to my race and accent. For these women, my room for error is just so large. I literally can get away with most of breaking the game rules.

What confuses me is :

1- I do what I consider it to be a mistake.
2- I assume she lost attraction.
3- To my surprise, she is either more attracted or at the same level like before.
4- Now, she gives me all the positive responses but I am telling myself. " Hey, I broke those rules. Now, she is giving me all the positive responses. There has to be something off here" Then, I start doubting myself.

Hope this makes sense to you @Will_V
 

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Exactly, this is what I meant, @Will_V. The reason behind me asking this question is that I had multiple successes without adhering to "the game rules". So, I was trying to understand if it was just a stroke of luck, or given everything I have ( race, look, fashion, .....etc..) I can seduce women without adhering strictly to the rules.

Another example, I am an ethnic minority where I am. Some women are attracted to my race and accent. For these women, my room for error is just so large. I literally can get away with most of breaking the game rules.

What confuses me is :

1- I do what I consider it to be a mistake.
2- I assume she lost attraction.
3- To my surprise, she is either more attracted or at the same level like before.
4- Now, she gives me all the positive responses but I am telling myself. " Hey, I broke those rules. Now, she is giving me all the positive responses. There has to be something off here" Then, I start doubting myself.

Hope this makes sense to you @Will_V
yeah we have a dominant interpretation of behaviors from ourselves and others. but guess what. you can actually seduce more women and have more strategic flexibility by also being able to play to the secondary interpretation of the behavior! this requires calibration and to go off your textbook game that was learned
 

RedNeck

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Thanks,@Skills. Actually, this is what I meant but maybe calibration is the wrong word for it. I will explain more once I have a chance.
Thanks, again Skills. It is not about buying her a drink per se. It was just an example. It is about going against conventional seduction advice on some occasions. Do you trust your intuition even if it contradicts the conventional seduction advice?

I guess Will_V nailed it when he mentioned game community had to have a logical framework to start off with. You can't just tell guys with zero experience, to trust his tuition and calibrate on the fly. For seduction to be explainable and written in books, it has to have some structure to it. Even if this structure does not work every time, but at least it can be taught and explained.
 

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yeah we have a dominant interpretation of behaviors from ourselves and others. but guess what. you can actually seduce more women and have more strategic flexibility by also being able to play to the secondary interpretation of the behavior! this requires calibration and to go off your textbook game that was learned
Thanks, @fog.
 

Will_V

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Exactly, this is what I meant, @Will_V. The reason behind me asking this question is that I had multiple successes without adhering to "the game rules". So, I was trying to understand if it was just a stroke of luck, or given everything I have ( race, look, fashion, .....etc..) I can seduce women without adhering strictly to the rules.

Another example, I am an ethnic minority where I am. Some women are attracted to my race and accent. For these women, my room for error is just so large. I literally can get away with most of breaking the game rules.

What confuses me is :

1- I do what I consider it to be a mistake.
2- I assume she lost attraction.
3- To my surprise, she is either more attracted or at the same level like before.
4- Now, she gives me all the positive responses but I am telling myself. " Hey, I broke those rules. Now, she is giving me all the positive responses. There has to be something off here" Then, I start doubting myself.

Hope this makes sense to you @Will_V

Seduction is about emotions, the emotions that she feels around you. Your actions are less important than those emotions, and while your actions have some influence over those emotions, it is far less than the influence of your self expression.

Seduction is really about contagious self-expression. Girls are attracted to any instance of a guy whose inherent drive to express himself overcomes the social forces that seek to control him. Not only because of what it says about him, but because girls themselves feel repressed in terms of what they are or aren't allowed to experience or express.

Guys who come into seduction are often overwhelmingly controlled by forces outside of their self expression - it seems to me it is typically either a) social repressive forces or b) fear and desperation. To deal with this it is useful to create a set of behaviours for them to follow that roughly expresses self-confidence, willingness to lead, and a more-or-less balance of investment, which are markers of successful men with high self esteem and boundaries.

These are generally very good behaviors to follow in life as a rule - but since seduction is emotional, following them isn't enough. And sometimes breaking them in ways that express a higher level of freedom of action, rather than because of a desire to please or chase, helps to stimulate emotion and spontaneity.

In seduction as in social interactions, people begin to identify you as a person by your fundamentals, and then by your actions. But as the interaction progresses, if you still don't easily fit into a category, they take you as a whole, opening up their perception toward you and losing focus on the details. At this point, as long as you are stimulating emotions and have a strong frame, you have a lot more freedom of expression. Whereas there are other guys who come in and are instantly treated as a stereotype of some category that is known and understood, and therefore have very little room to maneuver and create very little excitement (because excitement is about change, about self-expression against the backdrop of normality).

When you are clearly in a minority group, such as an ethnic minority, it is understood that you are much more of a wildcard than someone who fits right into the herd. Everything about you may be different, and you are not readily categorized. Not to mention that people who don't fit well into society often become extremely pragmatic, adaptable, and more risk-taking, out of necessity, compared to those for whom the rules have been prepared. This means that, as long as you are stimulating emotions and have a strong frame, your actions do much less to send you into any specific category compared to other guys and you remain compelling and exciting for her. If you appear downtrodden and beaten by your circumstances though, you are again categorized, this time simply as a failure.

A lot of what seducers do in terms of fundamentals is about quickly separating themselves from known categories of men, or at least the typical ones. Pretty much any known category is fundamentally boring for women. They are interested in what is different, what is operating to effect change, what is self-expressing in contrast to the norm. As long as that difference is not so much as to create confusion and anxiety in her, and appears to be operating in some kind of successful manner, she is curious and her attention is captured.

The thing about self-expression though is, it doesn't ultimately require being different from anything else, what it does require is being true to itself and satisfied within itself. Because most guys are, as I mentioned earlier, either compelled by social forces or by fear and desperation, everything they do is a negotiation, an outcome-dependent behavior, regardless of how much they try to mask it otherwise. People instinctively know, especially women who have a higher level of social intuition, when someone is doing something as a negotiation or when it is an action done for its own sake and pleasure. The more that you differentiate and convey that you are someone who operates out of self expression rather than negotiation from a known position within the social hierarchy, the more that women transfer attention away from your actions and toward your presence and its effect upon her.
 

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This is a general question about the game. I know calibration is an essential part of the game. My question here is about how much percentage calibration contributes to the game vs. textbook game.

For example:

In each interaction, does the game contain 80% standard game plus only 20% calibration? or more or less?

I am trying to understand how fluid the game is. And how much should I deviate from the standard game procedures?

For example, Mystery mentioned in his book that while he advises the newbs not to buy her drink, many seducers pay girls drinks and still bed them. Mystery adds it is about the frame.

As a STEM guy, my natural inclination is to reduce game to calculated risks and Gaussian distribution. Want to maximize advantages and minimize disadvantages.

But after enough time in the field, the patterns happen at a high level or in the aggregate and rarely moment to moment with a specific girl.

Nearly everything is contextual.

The Mystery advice holds true for rookies in the early 00s, because the average guy who was not getting laid "like a rockstar" had been socialized to buy things to get a woman's time and attention.

The rookie was buying time and hoping the girl likes him for him, but also for what he can provide material wise.

As a result, American girls and the American hospitality industry took full advantage of this behavior. In those days buying a drink, on her demand or to meet social expectations was SUPPLICATION. If she's already calling the shots, making you react, getting you to do her bidding, especially without her asking - the game was already lost.

But at the very same time this was happening, men that were accomplished with women have ZERO problem buying a girl a drink. They knew how to tap open, how to flirt and get the conversation started. The alcohol in many cases was part of the social custom, but the girl wasn't milking the player for a drink. The player of old had already hit all of the right notes - attraction, enough trust, and arousal. If anything alcohol facilitated what would come naturally anyway.

It's not your fault for not knowing this, because no matter how well written a book is, or how good a particular video course is, there are a lot of things that are assumed.
 
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