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Fundamentals - an observation

moom

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Something I’ve noticed:

You can definitely tell when your fundamentals are on point when you start getting compliments out of the blue.

These days on any one night out, I’ll get anywhere from 1 to 10 random compliments from people coming up to me and complimenting my fashion, how im “classy”, things like you look “cool” or complimenting my personality after talking only for a few minutes.

This didnt happen to me when I was younger (and in fact 20-30 pounds lighter and fitter as well when i was younger). Right now, all my fundamentals are at a 7 or above except my body. I do hide it well though and still look like I have muscle (think after a dirty bulk).

Has anyone else had a similar experience?
 

ulrich

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Yes!!
I find people complimenting something about me on repeated occasions the most confirming way of knowing a fundamental is handled.

That’s specially true if you get complimented for something that you notice other guys never get compliments for (in my case voice and clothes).
 

trashKENNUT

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People looking for fights, will start getting common too :)

Haha.

p.s: i mean other men will be adversarial

z@c+
 

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I rarely get direct compliments. I’ll get stares from both sexes, clear nervousness when interacting with people, girls going that extra mile to get noticed, (I call them indirect compliments), but never directly complimented until i'm already sleeping with a girl. Sometimes i’ll hear girls fawn in the distance but it’s never said to me.

When I do it’s from older women, gay guys, or online. Might be the age gap.
 
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I rarely get compliments. I always wondered what was up with that until I made friends with a few legit male models (one of which was in several issues of GQ) and they told me that they NEVER get compliments from women when they go out even though they both had great bodies, looks, and style.
 

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Good point.
I do get compliments but they are few and far between.

However, you can tell the difference from getting no compliments.
Getting a few repeated compliments from different people is like a definitive proof in my opinion.
 

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People looking for fights, will start getting common too :)

Haha.

p.s: i mean other men will be adversarial

z@c+

This is so true. Especially when they see you engage women or get engaged. They get really fazed.

The ones who are more logically disqualified from your dating pool like old women tend to be quite direct with compliments.

When my fundamentals are on point I also feel more sensual and women pick up on this so hard! It is not puffing your chest, it is sensually acting demure as it is expected that you are the prize.
 
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moom

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People looking for fights, will start getting common too :)

Haha.

p.s: i mean other men will be adversarial

z@c+
Ive had people mean mug me or try to get in the middle of me talking to a girl in their group but I find my charisma disarms them quite easily
 

moom

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I rarely get compliments. I always wondered what was up with that until I made friends with a few legit male models (one of which was in several issues of GQ) and they told me that they NEVER get compliments from women when they go out even though they both had great bodies, looks, and style.
For me its always from men hahaha, 1/20 people is a woman
 

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I wanted to get back to this thread. I think it is better to look for indirect compliments. Such as girls out of the blue trying to prolong interactions, orbiting you and touching you a lot (happens when I am flying high).

Chase had this schematic somewhere about how girls act when you are on a certain fundemantal level and counterintuitive things tend to happen.

When you reach the second best tier of fundamental a lot of girls are intimidated.. I am in this level sometimes too, might be due to my current state, might be due to different social frames. But it is really annoying to be in, when girls AVOID proximity and act DISTANT because they are intimidated.. a lot of false signals there.

Then you have the top tier fundamental and occasionally I seem to slip in this as well. Either due to my current fundamentals or that I am more fit to the current social frame of the girl/group. In this scenario girls seem to think "ah screw it what the hell, I am going for him". Things tend to get more overt here (IN BEHAVIOUR, not in words)

What I am trying to get across is this whole compliments deal from women is, as with every thing with women, much more nuanced and complicated.

Hell Teevster has written a fantastic paradigm changing article called the "attraction paradox" and how high attraction doesn't necessarily translate into more lays.
 

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Indirect compliments: checking you out and staring at you .
I take those as the most honest signals of being physically attractive. Those two signals are usually at subconscious level : ( I can’t help myself but to check this guy out )
 

DarkKnight

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@uriel


Excerpt:
  • Poor fundamentals: she’s uninterested
  • Okay fundamentals: she’s conversational
  • Good fundamentals: she’s interested
  • Great fundamentals: she’s intimidated
  • Incredible fundamentals: she’s nervous but screw it, she’s going for it
 

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I hope this helps!

z@c+
 

moom

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I hope this helps!

z@c+
Thanks for this!
 

moom

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@uriel


Excerpt:
  • Poor fundamentals: she’s uninterested
  • Okay fundamentals: she’s conversational
  • Good fundamentals: she’s interested
  • Great fundamentals: she’s intimidated
  • Incredible fundamentals: she’s nervous but screw it, she’s going for it
Thank you Dark Knight!
 
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