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(10-17-2018 12:43 PM)TheFinalEpic Wrote:  

Online dating is a cesspool, and has only gone downhill since it's inception about a decade ago. I still remember the heyday of POF where there were hot girls messaging me 6 years ago.

Since then, online dating has become a way for girls to gain instagram followers and to simply gain a little hit of dopamine when they match with 1000 guys. I was on Tinder in recent months, and matched with well over 200 girls in the span of 1.5 months. The response rate would have put me among the batting averages of the worst MLB players to ever play in the league - and I wasn't sending generic stuff they've heard 100 times before.

Keep in mind that I can go out on any given night, approach 5 girls, and at least one of those will be a warm lead. The ROI on my time is far better spent in real life, where I can get instantaneous feedback, pull, and socially calibrate. Not only that, but it makes me better at life in general, being able to talk to people of all types, and gain relationships that go beyond that of only sexual satisfaction (I've made good friends while out and about, you can't do that on Tinder).

Most guys that only online date are insulating fragile egos. They don't want to face rejection head on. They don't want to make an effort or learn something that will make them a better man. They think that it is a way to "practice" game, even though it's really not. The number one complaint I get from girls about men today is that they are not the same in person as they are on a phone. So, when they meet me they are pleasantly surprised that I'm the same in person as when I am texting them the next time I want to see her.

If you only online date, you are a weak man, and when I meet (in person) the girl that you've been talking to on tinder for 3 weeks, trying to get her out on a date, I will make her forget about you. That's how it goes. You differentiate yourself by meeting a girl in real life now, what a novel concept. She will be excited for the man that has "the balls" to talk to her in real life, even though it's really a minor thing for us, because we've been doing it for years. You become her muse, her real life guy from that novel she's been wetting her panties to.

If you want to make dating fun, then go out two times a week, talk to people, and learn real game. Real game is fun, and is a lifestyle unto itself. If you want to burn out, then simply continue to swipe 1000's of girls, match with one of them, and have her promptly ghost you, or not reply at all. In case you didn't realize, girls in real life will give you feedback as to your approach and will allow you to actually get better at a tangible skill.

Online game was never meant to be the only way to meet women, and I'm glad that we as a forum agree that it should only be used as an addition to real life game, as opposed to a singular pursuit. The only benefit of online dating is that I can do it while taking a shit. In the words of the immortal gmanifesto: Real life, the original online dating app.