I said this years ago!
I devowered everything under the sun about game. Read and tested.
Initially once I started to get laid a fair bit I gave credit to the things i'd 'learned' but there was always a niggling feeling that she simply chose me because I was her type. That she essentially decided 'yes' before i'd even finished my opener. Sometimes they'd even confirm this in bed in the morning!
I was getting laid a tonne but it started to dawn on me that it was due to the amount of approaches I was putting in. (as well as looksmaxxing)
And comparing how my nights went vs the nights of a few exceptionally good looking wingmen I had really seemed to confirm it all. They did everything 'wrong' but it didn't matter. The girls were simply extremely attracted to them and they'd have needed to throw up on her to wreck their chances!
But I still tried to hang my hat on these 'PUA's I'd been reading/watching
But, after essentially studying infields (premium infields mostly that weren't on youtube etc) the patterns became clear
i.e; Even these 'PROS' with all of their 'knowledge' were doing exactly the same as me
They were banging the girls who were clearly receptive to the approach, and they were getting rejected when a girl clearly wasn't into him. And she seemingly made her mind up in about 2 seconds. All of their 'techniques' on these 'no girls' didn't cut any ice at all. Just delaying the rejection.
For game to be real (in the sense it was sold) we should have seen a huge percentage of infields (so maybe 1000?!) where the PUA 'turned around' a hard no into a yes. But in, perhaps, 2000+ infields that have been relseased I don't believe i've ever seen it done!
It is extremely obvious that it's not really a matter of skill or game. It's out of your control. Cold approach is, and always has been, tinder in person, essentially (when we're talking about hot young girls. Not old men trying to find a 'life partner' of equal age or whatever. Different game
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These days women dont smash the " maybe guys". So trying to convince her to like you with "game" is pointless.
i'd say there's a tiny percentage of the time when you are perhaps a 'strong maybe' where you have a shot. But in general, it's a yes or a no, and it's decided before you've delivered your opening line.
I wish I had know this in my teens and early 20s.
I did know it! But then I kind of bought into the PUA koolaid and began to question myself! haha. This lead too a lot of 'research' essentially. So I wasted a lot of time confirming what I always knew to be true. My bad! I've always said I need to trust myself more. I'm kind of always right in hindsight!