Birthday Cat Game is a tried and true flirt-over-text technique. But generic Cat Game is an all-purpose, any-time, any-place pickup ploy. Your Cat doesn’t have to be diving into a birthday cake to make an impression on a girl.
A reader gives an example of Random Cat Game,
I met a Korean smokeshow the other day at the mall, instant boner but I knew that there would be an element of flakiness over the phone.
She dodged an attempt at date setup, so I deployed a non sequitur as per CH teachings, worked a charm.. and this one is combined with a cutie pie element and some qualification.
I’m trying to balance out game with this kind of thing, since many women are intimidated by me in person (scar on my forehead).
The exchange:
This was a stalled out text convo (note the time stamps between the cat text and the previous text), which was rescued by the cat in the bread pic. The follow-up Game was tight, too, disqualifying the girl by asking her if she could best a cat in the cuteness and fun departments.
This isn’t Jerkboy Game, unless you want to call it the mildest form of jerkiness. It’s really just a form of teasing and light-hearted self-amusement that tragically escapes most beta males when they’re interacting with women, who take them far too seriously. Levity isn’t in the beta male’s playbook, which is unfortunate because levity is a social cue of a man’s sexual abundance. A well-fed man is attractive to women because he is a proven commodity; no need to wonder if he’s a beta under the hood.
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PS I agree with some commenters that this guy’s text game, other than the cat pic, is pretty bad. But the power of the non sequitur is evident in its ability to distract a “smokeshow” from otherwise bad text game.
PPS You don’t need much jerkboy game to flirt with waifu material. Asian chicks tingle at a different frequency than White girls; asians generally prefer, or at least better tolerate, niceguy beta courting, and can be intimitaded by the type of jerkboyishness that White girls love.
PPPS If you’re wondering why I’ve focused on Cat Game so much, it’s because 1. it works and 2. it adopts the primary symbol of spinsterhood — the cat — and turns it against the bitter cat ladies who despise men aiming to date and fuck a higher class of women. Cat Game is about #LoveWins and #LonelySpinstersLose.
Almost all pre-Wall women who haven’t surrendered to The Fattening are natural exhibitionists, to a lesser or greater degree of commitment and intensity. It’s in their meat robot wiring, because women have to exhibit themselves to capture men’s attention. They certainly won’t attract male attention with their math skills or stand-up routines.
HB exhibitionism is therefore a rhythm of female life that is best tolerated, or even eagerly welcomed as part of the richness of passionate seduction. However, a man will, in the course of a full dating life, occasionally tangle with a pathological exhibitionist. You know the type: standard BPD operating system, crazy eyes from either too little or too much alpha cock, a whimsical GUI that hides a devious sociopathic core processor, and most notably a propensity for shoving her blatant sexuality in a man’s face and then accusing him (in so many words) of objectifying her. Paging PoundMeToo…
On the topic of gaming exhibitionists (who will Game the Gamer?), Turd Ferguson asks,
What’s the best way to game the Exhibitionist?
Story: Last night at the gym, strong HB8.5 wearing spandex shorts & sports bra. Must have really been worried about her upper back bc she did only bent-rows for 30 minutes. [ed: she was presenting] I approached, she seemed enjoy my teasing & smiled a lot, but rejected the # close. What do?
The strategy is a simple one. Exhibitionists expect male slobbering. Defy that expectation. Don’t be a StepinFelchIt. Exhibitionists are gamed by deflating their expectation of thirsty betas noticing them. Very subtle negs insinuating that you know what they’re up to are usually gold. For example, in Turd’s scenario above: “Are two mirrors enough for you? Minimum, three, to get your form right.”
What the implementation of the counter-exhibitionist strategy entails is a. acting like you don’t notice her flagrant displays of attention or b. noticing her display, but only to make fun of her for it. A really good tactic I’ve found is to call the exhibitionist an amateur, along the lines of “flaunting your cleavage is so derivative”*.
*please do not use the word derivative. i used it here for humorous effect. off this blog, use a normiejerk line such as, “does that cleavage act work for you?”.
There are other tacts. You could accuse the exhibitionist of not living up to your standards for clear and evident displays of female sexual interest. Or you could completely flip the script and chide her for being a prude in dress or behavior. This really mindfucks the psychobitionists, especially if she’s hiking her skirt up and you tell her she should try showing more leg if she wants a man to notice her.
If you have what you think is a smoothasfuck line or routine to try on girls you hit on, first practice it by saying it aloud to yourself. Not kidding. Every idea we have sounds better in our heads than it usually does IRL. It may seem gay to you chadwicks, but speaking aloud a thought in private is excellent practice for refining one’s Game. When you hear (and see) yourself as others hear and see you, the biofeedback loop between your mind and body is exposed to tinkering, and by making slight adjustments in your voice and body language you will coax adjustments in your mental state and self-conception. You’ve just rejiggered your biofeedback mind-body axis into a positively reinforced SMV signal boost.
Steve Keaton adds,
Record it and play it back.
Less is more, and think of the words as being a carrier signal for the real communication: Your face, your voice, your body language.
Self-recording is also a good idea. Everyone is a little shocked when they first hear a playback of their own voices (we all think in our heads that we sound like a Hollywoodian Zeus or Aphrodite). A man can work on his tone and delivery speed this way, training himself to sound sexier to women. Generally, you want a lower pitch, slower delivery, and fewer words. Almost all beta males in their natural conversational style speak at too high a pitch, too fast, and too loquaciously.
If you want a good rule of thumb governing vocal delivery, shorter is sweeter. Anything you say to a girl will come across sexier and manlier if you can say it with fewer words. Exegeses are never sexy. Quips are sexy.
Quips and teases and taunts are the meat and potatoes of the beginning of a seduction, which is when attraction is created. Storytelling and value sharing — the longer-winded stuff — comes later, during the comfort stage.
There is a notable exception to this rule: storytelling (and embedded DHVs). If you have a nimble tongue, you can pull a lot of ass by flaunting your talent. But even a silver-tongued devil can bore a woman in an ocean of voluble smoothtalk. The best approach is a balanced diet of jerkboy quips sprinkled with intimate sit-close-togethers sharing deepest dankest thoughts.
This clip is from a British dating show. Like all reality shows, it’s likely staged and scripted (in full or in part). However, if there’s any ad libbing going on, and the participants’ reactions look unrehearsed, then there’s a nugget of life lessons we can extract for our benefit.
I’ll admit I laughed. The whole way through. Good writers, or this guy is funny af.
So much great jerkboy Game on display. In before the “only looks matter” loser crü, yes I know /ourGreek/ is handsome. Which is why operators paired him off with a hard 9. But before you lament your droopy jawline, console yourself that the jerkish charm of the Greek would work just as well for any man. If you’re like most men and you have average looks, you could parrot the Greek’s patter to similar effect on girls — doggy dinner bowl face. Now I’m not claiming an ugly man can nab a 9 by talking like this (and with the same ZFG confidence); instead I’m telling you that an ugly man can nab better looking girls with “Cucumber in her tailpipe” Game than the girls he would normally attract just being his anxious uglyman self.
A quick rundown of Greek’s Game:
0:00 — Greek follows the “two in the kitty” Poon Commandment.
0:18 — “You look nice tonight,” while picking his nose. Very rare verbal-nonverbal mixed signal neg.
0:24-0:29 — She drops her first shit test. “Up here please”. He passes it with flying colors. (A betadroid would have apologized for his impudence.)
0:30-0:47 — She hits him with her second shit test, and it’s a doozy (calling him stupid). Again, he passes it easily by resorting (in so many words) to the classic CH Game technique Agree&Amplify. At 0:46, you see the effect his ZFG insouciance it has on her (it lights up her face).
0:48 — He flips the script and challenges her to a battle of wits. Now she has to qualify herself to him. (Remember a key Game concept: when a girl feels like she’s chasing, she’s tingling.)
0:52 — He plays a childish word game. She eagerly complies. That’s our hero’s first compliance hoop, which she jumped through no questions asked. Chicks dig children’s games.
1:10 — she thinks she’s zinged him, but he turns the tables on her when he teases her for “ruining” the game. At this point, you can practically hear the splooge coleecting on her seat.
1:14 — HER: “cause I’m just cleveeeeerrr” HIM: “hmm”. Nuclear Neg. (You don’t have to say much to get your neg across.)
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A pause to remind the studio audience that hard 8s and above require at least two solid negs and preferably three or more to sufficiently lower their bitch shields and open their limbic lobes to the romantic possibilities with you. Plain Janes would wilt under an assault of negs, and ugly girls would cry. This is Mystery style Game 101, and you can see it in action here.
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1:22 — Aaaaand Neg #3! She tells him she’s a beauty contest winner, and he asks how many women entered that competition, (implying that her win wouldn’t be impressive if there were two other girls).
1:30 — She spends some time trying to DHV him with her plans to become Miss England. Instead of groveling before her beauty like a beta would do, he (figuring out quickly what she was up to) simply alters the subject to be about her surname.
1:45 — Him, describing his surname, “stands for seaman”. He says it with a straight face, too, which makes it funnier. Best part is the follow-up; without losing a beat, he describes in detail the confusion that she might be feeling about the meaning of “seaman”. This is a critical juncture of the date, because what he’s done here is akin to NLP (subliminal language): he’s planted sex thoughts in her mind and now she won’t stop thinking about sex with him.
1:55 — She asks him twice if he speaks Greek, first time in English, second time in Greek. This is a challenge, and he knows it. Instead of a direct response (aka the dancing monkey response), he replies with his own question, asking her if she speaks Greek. She says yes. and this gives him the opening (heh) to showcase a truly stellar example of pure uncaring ZFG asshole Game — watch his face for what amused mastery looks like in action — and he asks her in Greek if she’d want a cucumber up her bum.
2:04 — POOF goes the hamster. Her face at this moment is that perfect mix of anger and arousal. Remember the CH maxim: The opposite of love isn’t hate; it’s indifference. She calls him a wanker. That’s when he knows he has her.
2:07 — If a beta male was called a wanker by a girl, he would turtle and either beg forgiveness or try to save face by excusing his behavior as the fault of his waning sobriety or the fault of her not getting the joke. HAHA JUST KIDDING. No no no, this is why betas fail with beautiful women. /ourGreek/ knows the score; instead of getting trapped in a recursive loop of betafying behavior, he quickly and unceremoniously announces he’s ready to go and she’d better hurry and down her drink. This accomplishes three objectives: it shows he cares not a whit for her opinion (which raises his SMV relative to hers), it disrupts her thought process (she thinks she has hand, but now she doesn’t), and it reinforces the dynamic he wants which is her chasing his approval and his momentum instead of the usual way these things go.
2:16 — “I’m gonna play Flappy Bird while you drink that”. Silly non sequiturs are an integral part of pickup, best used right at the moment you’ve brought a girl up to the line of genuine anger. The sudden and unpredictable humor of this non sequitur completely deflates her previous ire over his demands on her to hurry up and finish drinking.
2:25 — It just gets better. /ourGreek/ is putting on a Game clinic. Sensing her anti-slut defense system gearing up for duty (which is understandable given that he basically told her to wrap it up so they can get home and bang), he disqualifies himself as a sexual possibility when he tells her she’s drunk and he “doesn’t want to take advantage of her” so he’ll call her a cab. What does this do to a girl’s frame of reference? For one, it rejiggers her self-identification from “I’m a hottie every man wants to fuck” to “This guy wants to send me home and he’s been teasing me all night…am I not hot enough for him?”
2:37 — Final shit test. She tells him she’s going home after the date. He replies “No I’m not, you are.” Not exactly a reply that makes sense with a second thought, but it works because it again takes the decision-making ball away from her. If there’s to be sex, he’s implying, it’ll be him who decides.
2:40 — “Are you ready [to leave together]?” He can tell from her face that she won’t turn down his final offer.
2:45 — She says goodbye. He continues following her as if he didn’t hear her. Bold move.
End scene, he softens her up with conventional chit chat just before the timing is right to execute a simultaneous leaning-in and kiss close.
In the “A Test Of Your Game: The Lonesome Threesome” post, readers stepped up and provided myriad solutions, some effective some not so much, to the problem of a girl devoting more of her attention to her phone than to her date.
I promised I would recap the best responses, so here they are in no particular order of pickup artistry or date management skill.
Many readers suggests that our meek beta male being upstaged by an iPhag should “flirt with the cute girl behind the counter”.
This is basically Dread Game, and it works because it taps into women’s irresistible need to be with men whom other women want to be with, and their fear of losing those kind of men to other women. It’s a perfectly fine catch-all answer, but it’s neither immediate nor direct (given that it relies on a cute girl being present who will accept your flirtations and banter with you in front of your date), so a lot has to be in place for it to have the desired effect on your date.
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Many other readers opted for a more aggressive response — variations on the pimp hand, ultimatums, leaving her with a huge check, grabbing her phone and passing it to a stranger/tossing it in the trash/shoving it under your crotch, buying a donut and placing it on her head while saying “a crown fit for a princess”, pulling a Stone Cold Steve Austin move (hi, whorefinder), taking a dump in front of her, etc etc — which, while personally satisfying, aren’t good Game. Use only if you want to go home smiling without her.
A general rule is that the best responses to a iPhag whore will be from a place of amused mastery rather than anger or butthurtiness.
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“Ghost” was the most frequent suggestion.
This is an understandable reaction, and probably the best bet for men who lack the skill to jump-start a bad date but don’t like being so publicly humiliated by a woman. As a reader wrote, ““Just get up and walk out” is a perfectly good option if you already failed hard enough for it to end up like this.”
Ghosting is easy and time-saving, and there’s a small chance it refocuses the girl’s attention after the fact. However, there are better resolutions with much higher odds of closing the deal. Imagine you have time to burn and love a challenge, and you can see why ghosting isn’t an inviting option.
CH Maxim #92: Almost every bad date scenario is salvageable.
It’s just a question of how much effort you’re willing to spend to turn it around, (which itself is a question of how many plates you have concurrently spinning).
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Sentient has one of the best variations on the “take her phone away from her” theme:
“Cool phone!!! Let me see…
Put in pocket.
As I was saying…”
Yes I’ve done it. Solid move. If she balks tell her “it’s grown up time”.
You’re living dangerously once you make a #MeToo move on a girl’s phone, so be prepared for her to bitch you out or scream and alert any nearby white knights. Mostly I liked Sentient’s response for the line “it’s grown up time”.
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A Student of the Game,
Take a photo of her and text it to her with the caption, “I’m about to walk out on this shitty date.”
Haha. That’s funny-aggressive, which is better than just aggressive.
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Schockenheimer,
“Hey! Eyes up here, not on my dick pic.”
“What?”
“Put your porn away.”
Frame locked in. Banter away…
Funny, jerkish, assumes the sale. “You can stop pretending to look at your phone while checking out my crotch.” Good stuff.
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Steve Silver,
Stand up. Grab her phone. Start dancing whilst making a Snapchat story. Go take selfies with other ppl at the restaurant. Say, “okay okay, you can have your phone back.” Start to hand it to her, “but not yet.” Make another snap of you thrusting your pelvis into the phone. “Ok, here you go.” Start to hand her the phone, but as she puts her hand out, pull the phone back, lick it, then hand it to her.
You can’t go wrong with “children’s games” Game, (because women are in fact overgrown children).
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Phelps gets ahed of me and suggests the table-turning response that I prefer,
Move my chair around to her side to read over her shoulder, giving jerkboy commentary the entire time.
If she tries to playfully hide it, wrestle with her to see. If she gets pissy, leave.
I did this once with a girl…
“hmm interesting….haven’t met too many girls who browse Playgirl on their phones….”
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Anonymous, similar to the above,
“Are you googling what to say when your nervous on a first date with a hunk?”
I would’ve said “serial killer” instead of “hunk” for the xxxtra lulz (and tingles).
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O Patriarca writes,
It begins way before the video. First he should take his hands off his vagina, and learn to sit like a man and not like a neutered lap dog.
True.
I’d throw crumbs or pieces of napkin at her if I was feeling playful. Dripped in saliva for extra fun.
Playfulness is a guaranteed winner.
I actually don’t mind when my woman is on the phone. Gives some respite from the chatterbox, one can just survey the room and think about my own stuff.
This is fine when with a girlfriend, not so much when on a first or second date.
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Hawk has a good comment about calibrating your response to the type of girl who’s with you and the type of reaction you expect to provoke in her,
The ability to correct the behavior is proportional to the frame you can hold.
Butt hurt: order everything on the menu and leave for her to pay. She’ll look down on you failing the shit test.
Ghost: walkout and say nothing. More neutral but won’t be able to generate tingles.
Tease: variations on taking the phone away and playfully negging her. Thus combines physical and verbal. The taking of the phone is an alpha male entitled response but the verbal play has to be THOT appropriate. The more she’s acting like a brat the more kid sister is your response. The more she’s acting like a bitch, the meaner and more ZFG is your response.
Nuclear: grab phone and point at your own groin and yell: “does this have a wide angle lens?” Audience laughs and social proof is gained. She’ll blush and look at your groin. Seed planted in her mind.
LOL at the Nuclear Frame option. This is a great general insight about Game that applies to all situations, not just iPhagged first dates. Jerkboy Game and assholery should be tailored to the bitchiness of the girl; a real bitch deserves…no, NEEDS….a real asshole to make her feel anything other than boredom and inflated self-regard. Less bitchy but equally annoying girls will respond better to playfulness and teasing.
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One other table-turner I do is a tried and true Game stand-by: I’ll text her a big, beautiful, “8===D~~~”. She’ll get the idea, and either put her phone away and play nice or act pissed that I invaded her iPhag space, (which would be my cue to leave without saying goodbye, satisfied that I avoided further entanglement with a yuge kunt).
Reader Abc123 has a Game question about girls texting at predictable times of day,
First time posting here. What does it mean if a girl never replies to you, waits a day and texts you at a specific hour. I’m noticing a pattern here. For example:
I text or initiate
she replies 10:12 am I reply later on in the day then 24 hrs later her reply is at 10:22 am or same exact time.
I met this girl during the day she opened me and we sparked up a convo, during our convo she got all chipper and asked to exchange numbers
Ive only interacted with her via text twice to say hi etc and to meet up. She texted me saying she couldn’t said she’s free to meet up Thursday and if that good for me. Am I being gamed?
Maybe. Girls have their own text strategies (and courtship strategies in general), so never assume girls are unaware of their machinations. However, girls who date a lot tend to fall into habits of mind, such as texting at a particular time each day (so they can text all their suitors at once)….take that for what it is. My advice? Ignore her games. Don’t breathe life into your suspicions because the last impression you want to leave is one of a butthurt man over-analyzing her actions.
