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If there ever was a "golden era", I never got to experience it. I entered the mating environment in the late 1990s as a teen. I detailed 1997-2003 (ages 14-20) earlier in this thread.

Since my 18th birthday, 9/11, The Great Recession, and COVID have happened. That's a lot to happen between ages 18-late 30s. At least 9/11 and The Great Recession didn't affect the general social atmosphere as much as COVID. Think about 2008-09. Even if you had employment and/or money issues then, you could still at least go to a bar or a grocery store without a mask on. That was an advantage. I want to steer the conversation away from macro level topics, but those macro level topics can affect the mating environment and can affect one's experience of the mating environment. I graduated from grad school in the 2007-08 school year, just as the worst recession since the Great Depression was going on. That affected my employment getting outcomes, which affected my SMV and experience of the sexual marketplace. For someone that had a job on January 1, 2008 and didn't face unemployment at all from 2008-2012, their experience of the sexual marketplace of that era would differ from mine.

I would say that the mating environment is worse now than it was in 2001 when I finished high school. I don't think the late 1990s/early 2000s was any great time overall. It's possible me for personally to look back on 2001-2006 with some fondness. I miss fewer women wearing earbuds in the gym. Swipe apps came into the equation in 2012, but dating websites were a thing in the 2000s. In the 2000s, women's inboxes on PlentyofFish and OkCupid were getting flooded. It wasn't unusual in 2009 for a woman to receive hundreds of messages in a week on those sites. That was essentially the precursor to what happened on swipe apps.

The smartphone invention made the mating environment worse in so many ways. The worst thing it did was make people not present in the moment. Women outdoors on walking/hiking paths have the smartphone and earbuds in. Women walking the streets even without earbuds are often immersed in their phones. Many times in the 2010s and beyond, there have been women in bars immersed in their smartphones. This makes approaches more difficult. That's not complaining, that is factual.
BS, complete BS.
Girls are wearing earbuds? So are guys. Girls are on the their phones in the club? So is the 10/10 high value man. Both genders are enjoying the benefits of mobile technology. What’s your point? There is no ‘sexual marketplace’ in reality, there is just people. That concept only exists on the internet; which is also not a real place.

The same amount of girls are getting a man’s name tatt’d on their ass in 2021 as 2001 irregardless of technological changes.
Most of my friends don’t any have difficulty finding girlfriends.

I’m honestly done with this forum.
 

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BS, complete BS.
Girls are wearing earbuds? So are guys.
It's like you've never been inside of a gym.

Go to nearly any gym. 85-95% of women will be wearing earbuds. 10-15% of men will be wearing them.
 

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It's like you've never been inside of a gym.

Go to nearly any gym. 85-95% of women will be wearing earbuds. 10-15% of men will be wearing them.
and you think the only plausible reason is because of the ‘online sexual market place’? LOL
 

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and you think the only plausible reason is because of the ‘online sexual market place’? LOL
I never said "online". Tell me why 85-95% of women and only 10-15% men wear earbuds in a gym.

A big reason for it is for women to discourage in-person approaching.
 

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I never said "online". Tell me why 85-95% of women and only 10-15% men wear earbuds in a gym.

A big reason for it is for women to discourage in-person approaching.
Or maybe girls crave more external stimulation? Have a lower propensity to focus on a task? Go to the gym for lighter and more flexible work outs than most guys? Value entertainment and selfies more than gains?
I guess the girls at work that always put the radio on are also trying to discourage approaching! LOL
Not everything revolves around ‘the sexual marketplace’ my man
Most people have never ever heard of game or cold approach or Pua’s. They don’t leave the house expecting to meet a new sexual partner. They leave for a specific purpose.
 

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As someone that spent half their teenage years in the late 70's and the other half early 80's (I'm actually 57) I'll comment.

It's true that the dreaded phone call with the father picking up was a hassle. This was also a time when cordless house phones were yet common. This meant that at any moment (unless you had a phone in your room) any family member could walk in on your conversation (and the girl could experience this as well).

Although in this day and age, we may have more conveniences, we also have too many substitutions. In a world where we can rub one out within minutes with an internet connection... or a female can get her emotional fix with a few computer button clicks, the angst, energy and drive are just not what they used to be for most.

On Christmas day (when I was growing up) the kids would go outside and either show off their new presents or they'd be outside enjoying and sharing their gifts. Pre-covid, I took a 10 minute drive to a gal's house on Christmas day. I saw one kid (yes, just one) that was outside and skateboarding.

In other words, not matter the age, most people are getting their 'fix's indoors. If a woman gets her emotional high off of social media, she's less likely to be driven as much in the outside world. If we men rub one out via the internet, then afterward, we may be less likely to be 'starved' to the point of aggressively pursuing as before.

Considering the current climate, I think that it was easier during your father's time. In addition, female attitudes were healthier (or at least more beneficial to men) in past decades.
 

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I was having a Conversation with my father this morning, he mentioned that today's men have it much easier when it comes to dating and That i have no excuse not to be bringing home a new girl every week.

He said back in the day they didn't have smartphones so they had to memorise girls numbers and when they called them up it was a 50/50 gamble on wether or not their father would be the one to pick up. He said he always had to think fast and get the fathers permission to ask his daughter out.

He mentioned that with online dating it should be super easy for men today, my father hasn't dated for a while since he hot married in the 80s.

I'm just wondering if the older players here can shed some light, was it really harder back then or the same or easier?
Your father has no clue at all.
 

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On Christmas day (when I was growing up) the kids would go outside and either show off their new presents or they'd be outside enjoying and sharing their gifts. Pre-covid, I took a 10 minute drive to a gal's house on Christmas day. I saw one kid (yes, just one) that was outside and skateboarding.

In other words, not matter the age, most people are getting their 'fix's indoors. If a woman gets her emotional high off of social media, she's less likely to be driven as much in the outside world. If we men rub one out via the internet, then afterward, we may be less likely to be 'starved' to the point of aggressively pursuing as before.

Considering the current climate, I think that it was easier during your father's time. In addition, female attitudes were healthier (or at least more beneficial to men) in past decades.
I agree that people get more fixes indoors. I could see this as far back as my freshman year of college in 2001-02. There was a greater contingent using the high speed internet in the dorms to instant message on AOL Instant Messanger (a pre-cursor to texting) or watch internet porn.

People got more exercise in the 1980s vs 2010s. Also, in the 1980s, there was no way to show off your gifts unless you saw other people in person. You could take pictures then, have them developed, and then show a photo album to some people in person or relatives at a future dates. That whole effort would take weeks to months. Since the mid to late 2000s, that process has changed into minutes from weeks-months.
 

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I remember when I was like 10, I would have guys in high school approach me and befriend me over video games which was a mutual platitude at that time, guys would tell me secrets about Legend of Zelda for N64 lmfao but later on I learned these guys were after my sister and leveraged her social circle against her to get her attention. Today this could be saw as Creepy or even stalkerish so I'd say in this way the game has changed.
 

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I remember when I was like 10, I would have guys in high school approach me and befriend me over video games which was a mutual platitude at that time, guys would tell me secrets about Legend of Zelda for N64 lmfao but later on I learned these guys were after my sister and leveraged her social circle against her to get her attention. Today this could be saw as Creepy or even stalkerish so I'd say in this way the game has changed.
20 years ago that would have been considered creepy.
 

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20 years ago that would have been considered creepy.
But the consequences today are sharply different is what I'm saying, sure it may of been Creepy but there was also room for redemption, today you can take that action online and create a whole narrative around it just from that event alone, a guy had a form of damage control through being personable that today can quickly be overshadowed
 

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I remember even in the 90's in high school just cruisin around and having girls yell out the window at you for your attention. Now anytime you pass a woman on the road, a lot of them have their heads buried in their phones yikes and don't even acknowledge people around them whether on the road are really anywhere else. Women used to have to leave the house for attention or to meet men, now they can just stay home and post on the internet and get all kinds of ego boosts from their phones. I'm certainly glad I grew up in the era that I did. I'm 40 now.
 

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So they went from getting ego boosts in person to on their phones?
Why does it matter where they get their ego boosts? Do you like being used as an ego boost? They were yelling at you for attention from their cars - is that a point of merit? You like being used for attention? They weren’t yelling for sex. They just wanted attention.

FYI I was yelled at by a girl from her car about a month ago. Led to nowhere.

The underlying dynamics are the exact same.
 

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I was having a Conversation with my father this morning, he mentioned that today's men have it much easier when it comes to dating and That i have no excuse not to be bringing home a new girl every week.

He said back in the day they didn't have smartphones so they had to memorise girls numbers and when they called them up it was a 50/50 gamble on wether or not their father would be the one to pick up. He said he always had to think fast and get the fathers permission to ask his daughter out.

He mentioned that with online dating it should be super easy for men today, my father hasn't dated for a while since he hot married in the 80s.

I'm just wondering if the older players here can shed some light, was it really harder back then or the same or easier?
I think it it delusional boomer talk. Similar to red pill marriage dating coaches. No skin in the game but got a program to shill from their man cave and an opinion on how easy it is. No recripts of course.

@SW15 nailed it in another thread. Pickup a decade ago was ramped. This is before tinder and only fans. The game has changed. I can't bench mark specific time lines but I know **** got wackkkk around the Julien media scandal. Got a media hack moralizing in a interview only for the family to get caught with their pants down years later. #metoo and false rape accusations accuse rampid. Women don't hide being run through. Hypergamy has gone full retard. It's so bad here Tusk and Troy go abroad cause of body positivity, ran through hags, modern women, feminism, single mom's etc is the norm here. This is what men compete for?

Game is easier today to lay pipe with apps and female promiscuity but the women are fatter, krass, ran through and the price of admission ain't worth it (more often than not ). Note that the game and pickup industry was spear headed by two insane guys which is hilarious. More was done by the insanity of pickup than the mental masturbation that perpetuates society.

The west is dead. The caliber is trash. The idea of procreation with the idea of bringing a child to life is the height of stupidity here in the west. The caliber today is abysmal. People are lazy, fat, and socially inept. Picking up girls at a park or in a grocery store is Second nature due to the Era I am from and years spent on game. It's not the norm. Furthermore women are glued to their phones, selfish as ****, and it's comical anybody would dare start a family with such low quality. Far better exists elsewhere. Act accordingly.
 

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I actually never got on social media and never did OLD. I refuse to move on from my glory days. I think the “old” days were slightly harsher. You had to meet the girl in person... usually cold approach... and impress her enough to keep things moving. I still memorize phone numbers ...it actually blows peoples minds when I tell them their number.

the irony is when I meet a younger girl now. They always ask if I’m on Facebook, Instagram, tinder... whatever... and when I say no it usually garners an insane amount of interest.
Do you ever get suspicion? A girl asked me for ig. I said what's your number? She was taken a back by this but was a tell tale sign of modern women. I catch intrigue but modern women are perplexed.
 

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@SW15 nailed it in another thread. Pickup a decade ago was ramped. This is before tinder and only fans. The game has changed. I can't bench mark specific time lines but I know **** got wackkkk around the Julien media scandal. Got a media hack moralizing in a interview only for the family to get caught with their pants down years later. #metoo and false rape accusations accuse rampid. Women don't hide being run through. Hypergamy has gone full retard. It's so bad here Tusk and Troy go abroad cause of body positivity, ran through hags, modern women, feminism, single mom's etc is the norm here. This is what men compete for?
Men are thirstier than ever so it is not at all surprising that men compete to have sex with and even commit to single moms.

Game is easier today to lay pipe with apps and female promiscuity but the women are fatter, krass, ran through and the price of admission ain't worth it (more often than not ). Note that the game and pickup industry was spear headed by two insane guys which is hilarious. More was done by the insanity of pickup than the mental masturbation that perpetuates society.
I don't think game is easier today than it was in the early 2000s to mid 2000s (when Mystery, Matador, Strauss were coming up or first becoming mainstream). If it were easier, why are MGTOW, incel, and blackpill growing?

The west is dead. The caliber is trash. The idea of procreation with the idea of bringing a child to life is the height of stupidity here in the west. The caliber today is abysmal. People are lazy, fat, and socially inept. Picking up girls at a park or in a grocery store is Second nature due to the Era I am from and years spent on game. It's not the norm. Furthermore women are glued to their phones, selfish as ****, and it's comical anybody would dare start a family with such low quality. Far better exists elsewhere. Act accordingly.
Picking up at parks is the way to go now with too much indoor masking affecting the grocery stores.

The West is dead.
 

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I think it it delusional boomer talk. Similar to red pill marriage dating coaches. No skin in the game but got a program to shill from their man cave and an opinion on how easy it is. No recripts of course.

@SW15 nailed it in another thread. Pickup a decade ago was ramped. This is before tinder and only fans. The game has changed. I can't bench mark specific time lines but I know **** got wackkkk around the Julien media scandal. Got a media hack moralizing in a interview only for the family to get caught with their pants down years later. #metoo and false rape accusations accuse rampid. Women don't hide being run through. Hypergamy has gone full retard. It's so bad here Tusk and Troy go abroad cause of body positivity, ran through hags, modern women, feminism, single mom's etc is the norm here. This is what men compete for?

Game is easier today to lay pipe with apps and female promiscuity but the women are fatter, krass, ran through and the price of admission ain't worth it (more often than not ). Note that the game and pickup industry was spear headed by two insane guys which is hilarious. More was done by the insanity of pickup than the mental masturbation that perpetuates society.

The west is dead. The caliber is trash. The idea of procreation with the idea of bringing a child to life is the height of stupidity here in the west. The caliber today is abysmal. People are lazy, fat, and socially inept. Picking up girls at a park or in a grocery store is Second nature due to the Era I am from and years spent on game. It's not the norm. Furthermore women are glued to their phones, selfish as ****, and it's comical anybody would dare start a family with such low quality. Far better exists elsewhere. Act accordingly.
Tusk and Troy don’t have game though. They suck and can’t attract high caliber women in London. Both those guys have low social status (work as youtube pickup artists, probably earn much less than most established guys their age) and weird/thirsty mannerisms when interacting with women, so they actually underperform relative to what you’d expect. They oversexualise their interactions with complete strangers and show way too much interest and come across as scripted. Girls don’t find it attractive when a 35-45 year old RUNS up to them in the middle of the street; women don’t want a guy that literally chases them in the street, they want an established high status man who is a challenge. A 30+ year old guy shouldn’t be overtly chasing *****, or telling strangers they are hot ; it just looks sad. If you’re going to approach, you need nuance and calibration and make it look like you aren’t trying to get *****.

Newsflash - the behaviour/mannerisms of rsd Julian isn’t attractive, neither is rsd Tyler, just because a guy calls himself a pickup artist doesn’t mean women find him attractive.
Most these guys have really weird social mannerisms, Tyler RSD acts like he’s on cocaine; Tusk and Mystery may look good facially but dress like retards (looks aren’t everything to a girl), I once saw a video of tusk doing an approach in cargo shorts…mystery dresses like a circus clown…rsd julien and rsd Tyler dress like they shop at tj maxx…seriously don’t make these guys your idols when it comes to seduction. If these guys had any experience with women they’d have figured out style is 50% of the game. Can you imagine Leo Di Caprio or P diddy running up behind a girl in the street in cargo shorts to say how hot she is and then make scripted, generic conversation guessing what country she’s from?
There is literally an over abundance of PUA’s in areas like London and these guys still won’t switch up their routine.

All these guys have been hiring actresses since the early 2000s. Why do you think Tusk, Mystery etc are still doing street approaches? If they could get hot girls; they would have quit along time. They’d have found their 10s, found a little rotation and been able to focus on other more interesting things. Leo Dicaprio isn’t spending 6 hours walking around the city looking for girls to open. If you get girls, you just don’t need to do that.

plenty of guys I know are banging hot women. I know guys with 10 girl rotations. Those guys have never heard of pick up in their life. Once you reach a certain age with a certain amount of money/a decent job, just acting normal is enough to get you girls.

the problem is many of you are doing really weird things try to get girls. You are using dating apps, or running up to girls in the street. Both of these approaches are seen as thirsty and will just get you rinsed for attention/validation.
Women never really respected men on websites like Match or POF 10 years ago; so what makes you think tinder would be any different now? Tinder is just easier to make an account and use; so more girls use it and it’s a bigger brand. But girl use it for attention; and rarely to meet guys.
Look you just need a decent job, great style, good body language and social skills. Don’t be thirsty and meet people in authentic ways and you’ll do well.
By over-thinking the game and using PUA advice; you actually end up paradoxically pedestalizing/romanticising women…by using scripts and techniques you end up viewing them like mystical mythical creatures from a different world…which is NOT how a player (like Leo etc) sees them.
 
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Tusk and Troy don’t have game though. They suck and can’t attract high caliber women in London. Both those guys have low social status (work as youtube pickup artists, probably earn much less than most established guys their age) and weird/thirsty mannerisms when interacting with women, so they actually underperform relative to what you’d expect.
Hmm. Maybe they should take your alpha male advice and start mouthing off to Uber drivers, waitstaff, etc. to be more alpha. Girls find that really impressive.

I’m honestly done with this forum.
Then please, keep posting.
 

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Hmm. Maybe they should take your alpha male advice and start mouthing off to Uber drivers, waitstaff, etc. to be more alpha. Girls find that really impressive.


Then please, keep posting.
Nah I didn’t say mouthing off…having a quick tongue and being a little bit of a smart a** can be attractive in healthy doses…just my experience

what most men lack imo is boundaries, not seduction advice. Do you think Tus/Troy come across as having a backbone when they literally throw themselves at women’s feet? Without literally even knowing the women; they are willing to bang them lol.

game has never been easier. don’t chase; reciprocate the energy you’re given. And you need a good job to be respected as a man in any society, any time. A good job will translate to respect in dating too and in how you carry yourself (as long as you’re not a simp)

do you think any guy with a backbone would be using online dating when it’s clearly and explicitly known that the OLD algorithm penalises men?
 
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Nah I didn’t say mouthing off…having a quick tongue and being a little bit of a smart a** can be attractive in healthy doses…just my experience
It's never attractive to use a hapless service person, someone who is there to take care of you in some way, to be the victim of your snark. You're here writing essays on how to be an alpha male, telling us we need to look and act like fvcking douchebags -- let me give you some advice.

"Alpha males" treat service people warmly, courteously, and take care of them. He says "please" and "thank you" and tips generously. An "alpha male" does not need to demean, one-up, degrade, or use a service person as the butt of his wit to make himself appear bigger and impress anyone.

You've got a lot to learn.
 
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