SmooveMooves
Master Don Juan
And the PUA community was originated from cosmo magazine's "10 things to do to drive him crazy because you are too insecure to talk to him directly."
Things like creating jealousy plotlines, DHV'ing yourself to make yourself look good, negging, it all came from cosmo.
Real high status men are entitled, don't try to prove themselves to anyone, and talk to women directly.
People forget, but "game" is essentially techniques basement dwellers use to put on an impression that they are high value.
PUA's are social rejects who aren't alpha enough in their social circles to get laid. So they go off into the wild and put on a mask. It is easier for a low status guy to get rejected left and right by women who don't know him. Every now and then, he might be able to fool a bar fly he is actually alpha.
Hell, even in the book "The Game," Neil Strauss talked about how alpha males aren't the only ones getting laid anymore. Now with "game," any dweeb can put on a hat, do magic tricks, and appear high status to women who don't really know he's a social reject. And if the magic tricks aren't enough, he can create jelousy plotlines, have wing girls as social proof (to demonstrate he is wanted by women), or neg the living hell out of the woman just in case she is insecure enough to fall into his frame.
Real high value people act from their baseline personalities and have no insecurities. High value people are actually a lot nicer and more upfront than low value overcompensating game players.
Some of the "game" advocates on this board mistake "calibration" for game. Calibration is the sum of all your experiences with women. It is the knowledge that lets you know to never supplicate to women, have a higher purpose in life so that you come across as a challenge, be emotionally unreactive at tests women throw at you, etc. That's all calibration, aka experience. It's not "game."
Game is the act of overcompensating for being a low status guy.
Every genuinely high status guy I know in real life acts entitled around women. They act as if women should be happy they showed up. They have no need for game, aka crutches to their personality. In fact, the notion that their baseline personality isn't good enough offends their egos. They have no need to hide behind any masks. Their real selves are dominant and high status enough.
If you are dominant enough in your social environment, there is no need for negging or any tactics. You are an alpha male and natured designed human females to be attracted to you. It's not that complex.
It is the overcompensating seduction community (founded by social rejects) that makes everything seem complex.
This is single-handedly the best analysis on the subject. This is something I knew always knew naturally but could not quite describe accurately. This also resonates, seeing as I consider myself "high value" & never actually used game per say with women. The only issue I have with it is that I think it may be wrong to classify game as reserved for basement dwellers. Being a bit low in value doesn't automatically make you some pimple faced mmo player who lives in a basement nor a social reject. Game or displaying social cues of value is used by anyone who may be a bit below value.