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KJ Francis

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Give Spike his due!

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But only if there is no archetype talk or focus on fashion, venue selection, etc. - we're talking "Hidden Secrets - Behind the Vampire's Fangs: Spike's Verbal Game" - opening, hooking, flirting, qualifying, date topics, etc.

Otherwise, POB, Bismarck, or Will
 

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Give Spike his due!

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But only if there is no archetype talk or focus on fashion, venue selection, etc. - we're talking "Hidden Secrets - Behind the Vampire's Fangs: Spike's Verbal Game" - opening, hooking, flirting, qualifying, date topics, etc.

Otherwise, POB, Bismarck, or Will
Why you keep trolling spike??? i don't get it... Let the man be, though people think he is a tool(his own fault), dude gets laid with hot women and has helped other dudes get laid with hot women as well (one of them seducer of the month)... So anyways, i Know he is been a subject to ridicule and trolling but he does get laid from cold approach... You guys look weak when you go around targeting him or others (weak behavior), the first time ok, second time cute, 3 time too much, 50 th time you are looking like a tool yourself....
 

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It is because he says he is the best, but will not talk about his verbal game, and it seems because he only engages with girls who are smitten from his fundamentals alone and have the confidence to actively engage him.

Picture this movie scene:

Varsity athlete has been in monk mode training, but wants to get laid.

So he says, "I know... Let me put on my varsity jacket and go to the bar at 1am"

A tipsy girl comes up to him and says "omg... You look so good".

Our hero replies "I know. Let's go fuck".

Cut to the next morning, he posts online " I AM THE GREATEST SEDUCER ALIVE!"

He then goes to the local lair meeting and draws an X and O on a whiteboard like a football play. Cue "This is How We Do It" in the background. "OK listen up nerds!"

He then walks back to his apartment through the park and sees an extremely beautiful girl reading a book, and walks right past her.

End scene.
 
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Unironically Spike has been giving great value, losers just love to hate. I guarantee that 90% of this board need to take Spike's advice before they start obsessing over whatever acronym people are using right now to pretend they're improving, "IF I JUST UH- ESTABLISH SIMILARITY AND UHHHH- ATTAINABILITY! THEN I'LL GET LAID. Wait, I didn't check where on her menstrual cycle she is FUCK I was meant to run Skills' ovulating game!"

I'd like to hear from Spike. Too many guys not even dressed like they get laid or acting cool, thinking they can seduce some 10 with their expert pooay skillz.

Second nomination goes to the hero of the board today who says it as it is, no bullshit, tells us what we need to hear. I am, of course, speaking about average_daygamer, who has really pushed my boundaries and exposed me to some thinking that just wasn't before in my reality.
 

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Unironically Spike has been giving great value, losers just love to hate. I guarantee that 90% of this board need to take Spike's advice before they start obsessing over whatever acronym people are using right now to pretend they're improving, "IF I JUST UH- ESTABLISH SIMILARITY AND UHHHH- ATTAINABILITY! THEN I'LL GET LAID. Wait, I didn't check where on her menstrual cycle she is FUCK I was meant to run Skills' ovulating game!"

I'd like to hear from Spike. Too many guys not even dressed like they get laid or acting cool, thinking they can seduce some 10 with their expert pooay skillz.

Second nomination goes to the hero of the board today who says it as it is, no bullshit, tells us what we need to hear. I am, of course, speaking about average_daygamer, who has really pushed my boundaries and exposed me to some thinking that just wasn't before in my reality.
Skills ovulating game???
 

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Sheesh, Spike's on here 4 months and we've already gone from "hate on Spike's material, listen to Chase and the other senior dudes" to "hate on Chase's material, listen to Spike!"

(in all seriousness, Lesson 1 in One Date is fundamentals. Chapter 1 in HTMGC is fundamentals. Body, voice, normal/cool social behavior, and fashion are all groundwork stuff. If any guy is using SAC or VAC without developing his fundamentals at all he is putting the cart before the horse -- also, he is not following the system)
No hate to you chase, I have to admit complete unfamiliarity with your work; I never read GC. I don't know what SAC/VAC are but I'm sure they're great methods, I'm just saying, as you well know and teach, that style matters and is far simpler/easier than fiddling with whatever new system... SS, FMAC, FMAQC, 13 steps, 9 steps. 6 steps, back to 9 steps, GM, GMM, "natural" "game", RSDStyle, Annihilation Method, [...],[...], SAC, VAC. All with far more in common than apart, and many of them just rephrasing the exact same ideas but organised differently.
 

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Lesson 1 in One Date is fundamentals. Chapter 1 in HTMGC is fundamentals. Body, voice, normal/cool social behavior, and fashion are all groundwork stuff
To me fundementals is strictly skin care, hair, and fashion. Whenever I’m talking with @Skills privately on fundamentals, it’s never on body language, voice or normal social behavior. It’s what hairstyles/shoes are trending. What skincare product we are using to target specific deficiencies, and where to buy specific clothing items.

A lot of guys neglect the things me and skills talk about.

I noticed there was a lot of pushback when this guy shared the discoveries that originated from our private group to the forum:


Comments such as I don’t need any of that bs. I do just fine with girls.

And then when I hear comments like that, my follow up question would be to share what the girls you’re getting look like.

Because I can promise you, the top of the line 18-20 year old girls aren’t sleeping with Chelsea boots, skinny jeans wearing PUAs in 2025.

No matter how incredible your body language, voice or normal/cool your social behavior is.
 

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No hate to you chase, I have to admit complete unfamiliarity with your work; I never read GC. I don't know what SAC/VAC are but I'm sure they're great methods, I'm just saying, as you well know and teach, that style matters and is far simpler/easier than fiddling with whatever new system... SS, FMAC, FMAQC, 13 steps, 9 steps. 6 steps, back to 9 steps, GM, GMM, "natural" "game", RSDStyle, Annihilation Method, [...],[...], SAC, VAC. All with far more in common than apart, and many of them just rephrasing the exact same ideas but organised differently.
Teaching style and fitness has always been part of the community...i teach this as well, agayis we have a fashion forum selection... Is not practical to spent 200 forum post on this, it becomes narrow casting, not even puahate did that the original anti community look maxers, the most active forum was called shitty advice... you could start writing threads on how to get laid with your style suggestions like i have, again there is just so many posts you can make talking about the subject... My latest student was going to take a break to focus on fundamentals...i told him, not to got laid next day... This is exactly what happens cause @KJ Francis trolling... Now we got a go in circles
 

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To me fundementals is strictly skin care, hair, and fashion. Whenever I’m talking with @Skills privately on fundamentals, it’s never on body language, voice or normal social behavior. It’s what hairstyles/shoes are trending. What skincare product we are using to target specific deficiencies, and where to buy specific clothing items.

A lot of guys neglect the things me and skills talk about.

I noticed there was a lot of pushback when this guy shared the discoveries that originated from our private group to the forum:


Comments such as I don’t need any of that bs. I do just fine with girls.

And then when I hear comments like that, my follow up question would be to share what the girls you’re getting look like.

Because I can promise you, the top of the line 18-20 year old girls aren’t sleeping with Chelsea boots, skinny jeans wearing PUAs in 2025.

No matter how incredible your body language, voice or normal/cool your social behavior is.
I talked to you a lot about this privately cause you are good at this...i talk to other guys privately about different this with dreamer a lot about relationships with teevester about comunity with chase about the forum... I mean come on.. with fastlane about venues, i talke to about venues and social trends..i can go on and on
 

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I talked to you a lot about this privately cause you are good at this...i talk to other guys privately about different this with dreamer a lot about relationships with teevester about comunity with chase about the forum
Again. When you and I talk about fundamentals. We talk about fashion, hairstyle or skin care. We do not ever discuss body language or voice when the topic is fundamentals.
 

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bruh you've been here for over a year wtf
I used the forums briefly this time last year, then fell off. Came back recently. Never read GC beyond like 10 articles; I got all my PU knowledge from ASF archives.

Teaching style and fitness has always been part of the community...i teach this as well, agayis we have a fashion forum selection... Is not practical to spent 200 forum post on this, it becomes narrow casting, not even puahate did that the original anti community look maxers, the most active forum was called shitty advice... you could start writing threads on how to get laid with your style suggestions like i have, again there is just so many posts you can make talking about the subject... My latest student was going to take a break to focus on fundamentals...i told him, not to got laid next day... This is exactly what happens cause @KJ Francis trolling... Now we got a go in circles
Too boring and too obvious for me to write about. Yes, I have lots of thoughts on this, and I enjoy discussing style/fashion/fundamentals with other PUAs. But as you say, it's already been beaten to death. If people aren't reading and applying it, that's their own problem. I want to offer help to newbies, but I don't want to write the same old BEGINNER advice again and again.

Very very often, I start writing a well thought out thread, or a lay report about how I personally got a threesome and how I think people can learn from what I did, or I start writing an essay on some topic that I think is of grave importance and overlooked. But then what?

Skills/Spike write ad infinitum on style/fashion/fundies: 100 people read it, all replies are arguing/denying obvious truth, 10 threads pop up "HOW DO I GET NUMBERS FROM DAYGAME???" If these guys read and applied what has been thoughtfully written and what is very easily applied, they would get more than 1/30 numbers in daygame.

Someone writes a high effort post/LR: 2 responses, no useful discussion from advanced guys.

"How to lay transsexuals in Bogota?": 5 pages of discussion

"Is cold approach dead??"/"Red light?": 20 pages of heated debate

So I start writing my very high effort stuff on, for example, advanced understanding of frame control, how do cool guys naturally get laid more than 90% of PUAs, negative mindsets which damage PUAs, micro/macrocalibration, social circle metagame, and then I just stop. Because if I post it, I'm gonna get two responses, 90% of people who read it won't be at the level to apply it because they don't understand basics, and the 10% of people who do understand it I've already discussed it with them in a private group. Meanwhile, someone posting a thread about their great realisation, "Establishing comfort before taking the number gets me more dates!" generates 3 pages of discussion.

So, I don't care to write about fundamentals or style because it's completely obvious and solved 20 years ago.
What I do care to write about will receive zero engagement, and won't help anyone anyway because most of the board don't understand the basics of PUA on which my new ideas are built. So I just don't bother, and watch guys argue and discover stuff that I learnt in my first 6 months of study. This board is just entertainment to me. Maybe one day the culture will shift and I'll be motivated to contribute my ideas, but until then, I'll just watch the discussion about "I have perfect game but girls from my city have something wrong with them!"

So yeah in response to you Skills, I know and agree that style and fitness has been taught in the community forever. That's why I won't bother to engage with it for the most part, and why most guys need to shut the fuck up and listen to @Spike and @Skills and actually apply what they're writing. It's literally step 1 of game.


All this is to say, I want to share my thoughts, but every time I get motivation, I just realise there's no point, and I discuss it in a private group instead, where I'll have guys give me actually useful feedback and add to my thinking. It's a shame that some guys who could have learnt/found it interesting then don't get to read my stuff, but it's disheartening watch a good thread get buried under reams of completely basic discussion/autism from trolls.

There's room for both. We have beginners who want to talk about this stuff, and that's good. Spike makes a post about Style and he gets lambasted. Skills makes a post about style and it's completely ignored, with obviously sub30 lay guys arguing against him. Why would I bother to post for the newbies? Instead of useful newb-helping discussion, it's just rot. I'd love to post for newbies if it made good discussion, but it doesn't. Posts for advanced guys are ignored. So I end up doing the opposite of what I joined this board to do, and post useless messages like this one. I think like half of my messages are just trolling/metacommentary on the board, the other half is ignored or restating obvious shit to people who just don't want to get it.

Spike and Skills are doing charity work restating the same shit over and over again to help people on this board, and the people on the board just won't listen.


I am also NOT an anti-pua guy, I love the game, I love the theory, I love all the tactics and so on. I just acknowledge that having decent fundamentals is the BARE MINIMUM BASIC requirement to game. But I can't talk about advanced, or even beginner stuff, because most of the board right now is spent arguing over the bare minimum basic stuff that is the minimum requirement for game. It's like trying to talk about multiplication with people who not only can't do addition, but are arguing over whether addition is even important.
 
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Again. When you and I talk about fundamentals. We talk about fashion, hairstyle or skin care. We do not ever discuss body language or voice when the topic is fundamentals.
brah! because would be redundant... you have an excellent voice and body language (way better than mine), so why i would i pm you about this lol.... seriously nothing burger... is like me pming chase about auto rejection or deep dive?? get it???
 

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having decent fundamentals is the BARE MINIMUM BASIC requirement to game
I actually do think a lot of guys here have decent enough style to game girls. Aren’t dressing like slobs smelling like shit. Just not at the level to get girls of this quality to do this.

From the comments section:

“I’m out here spitting game and dude just standing there”
 

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I actually do think a lot of guys here have decent enough style to game girls. Aren’t dressing like slobs smelling like shit. Just not at the level to get girls of this quality to do this.

From the comments section:

“I’m out here spitting game and dude just standing there”
I already made a reply somewhere saying that if girls are not approaching you out of nowhere, you have work to do.

Because I can promise you, the top of the line 18-20 year old girls aren’t sleeping with Chelsea boots, skinny jeans wearing PUAs in 2025.

No matter how incredible your body language, voice or normal/cool your social behavior is.
But also some nuance. Whilst I personally cannot imagine a top-notch 18-20yo sleeping with a chelsea boots skinny jeans guy, I don't think that's inherently because of bad style, but more because a guy who is dressing like it's 2015 is subcommunicating that he "just doesn't get it." I can't imagine a guy like that having the ability to properly calibrate to a 20yo - I see guys like that in a certain part of my city, and they're all late 20s/mid 30s guys who just... aren't the sort of guy who gets young women. Something like these guys all grown up.

But I also reckon that a guy who has the skills COULD dress up so, and still succeed - provided he understand young women. The clothes communicate a vibe, and chelsea boots do not communicate a good vibe, but you can game your way out of that hole, I believe. Then again I never field-tested it, but I HAVE laid 8s/9s with bad style. It is possible. So I think I'm a bit less hardline than you on this topic. Is it possible? My field experience says yes. Can it be done consistently? I don't know - if your skills can make up for your DLV clothes, why not?

It's hard to imagine, but if you take a guy who "gets it", and put him in Chelsea boots, I don't see what mystical force would prevent him from ever laying a top-notch 20yo. The clothes communicate a vibe, nothing more.
 

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Is it possible? My field experience says yes. Can it be done consistently? I don't know
It’s not a matter if something is possible (I’ve also fucked hot girls in the past when I was clueless about fashion). But if it can be replicated on a consistent basis. Which I already touched on in my archetype thread:
The second thing I’ll talk about before diving into the post is a post written last year by skills on Optimal game. He wrote it in response to people claiming to getting results despite not doing the optimal thing your supposed to do to get a lot of those results. I’ve already shared what is the true markings of an advanced seducer: the hotness of the girls your banging and how consistently you get them.

so if someone were to respond for instance, “I fucked girls while I was dressed like shit”. We’ll compare that statement to what it means to be an advanced seducer
 

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I have not read any replies to this thread since I posted, but I want to clarify that while I'm of course teasing Spike, I originally replied to a hundred percent sincerely nominate Spike for Skilled Seducer of the Month, as I did last time. I am interested like Atlas in his origin and his inner game, and If he is an advanced seducer, then it should be no problem to talk about what happens between the opener and the pull, and would probably be a very interesting interview.

@Wassupmypeepz, @Sidhrnsksijf, and @AspiringStoic would also be interesting. Though they are newer, it would be cool especially for us beginners to hear from guys going through a transformation.
 

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@Tryst,

No hate to you chase, I have to admit complete unfamiliarity with your work; I never read GC. I don't know what SAC/VAC are

...

SS, FMAC, FMAQC, 13 steps, 9 steps. 6 steps, back to 9 steps, GM, GMM, "natural" "game", RSDStyle, Annihilation Method, [...],[...], SAC, VAC. All with far more in common than apart, and many of them just rephrasing the exact same ideas but organised differently.

These are all completely different systems.

They are not "rephrasings" of the same system, anymore than geometry is algebra "rephrased."

Someone using Speed Seduction is doing something completely different from someone using the M3 model.

Gunwitch Method is has some overlap with real natural game, which has very little to do with RSD-style "natural game."

VAC and SAC both use some compliance, and there is a bit of overlap between attainability and similarity, but otherwise they have wholly different focuses (VAC: focus is upon attracting via coming across as "high value attainable"; SAC: focus is upon opening a woman up emotionally for sex).

If you're unfamiliar with game systems, that's fine.

Dismissing them as "eh, that's all a bunch of the same stuff just rehashed" is just like "eh 1970s fashion, 1940s fashion, 2020s fashion, it's all the same basic stuff. Just wear stuff that looks good, the principles are all the same."


@Spike,

To me fundementals is strictly skin care, hair, and fashion. Whenever I’m talking with @Skills privately on fundamentals, it’s never on body language, voice or normal social behavior. It’s what hairstyles/shoes are trending. What skincare product we are using to target specific deficiencies, and where to buy specific clothing items.

When I defined the term "fundamentals" as referring to "passive attractive qualities" in 2010, I broke it down into four categories. Fashion fundamentals -- the fundamental category you are talking about -- is only a quarter of that.

Almost everyone who is using the term "fundamentals" today to refer to "passive attractive qualities" in the seduction space (whether on here, on Girls Chase, on Seddit, on X, or wherever else) is talking about all four of these categories.

You are free to use the term "fundamentals", thinking in your head "I am only talking about the fashion fundamentals", but everyone else is going to hear "the four categories of fundamentals."

Because I can promise you, the top of the line 18-20 year old girls aren’t sleeping with Chelsea boots, skinny jeans wearing PUAs in 2025.

Ah.

You are going for fashionista girls.

Makes sense. Considering your ultra-focus on fashion, you would be most attracted to girls who are themselves ultra-focused on fashion, and consider these "top of the line."

For the record, while there are some genuinely beautiful fashionistas, many of them are "makeup hotties" who use clothes and fashion to amplify their looks, rather than possessing raw genetic beauty.

(fashion's great though, don't get me wrong; I quite enjoy a girl with sexy fashion!)

Funny how for some guys "top of the line" is "blond bombshells"; for some it's "fashionistas"'; for others it's "freaks"; for others still it's "bimbos"; and so on and so forth, huh!

Chase
 
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