Tinder is Now My Main Source of Lays Nowadays; Alternately, is Night Game Dying?
07-12-2018, 12:30 PM
Hello gents,
Some of you may remember me from my 100 lay thread: thread-60113.html
Basically, I hit 100 lays and the majority of it was from night game cold approach. I would have the odd bang from Tinder here and there but for the most part all my meat and potatoes was from night game.
I stopped updating / counting my notch count since hitting 100. That was almost 2 years ago back in fall of 2016. If i were to take a guess I'd say I'm somewhere in the neighbourhood of 200 lays, possibly more.
The funny thing is this: the next 100 or so lays came almost exclusively from Tinder. I have had only the odd night game cold approach lay here and there.
I have been out night gaming since I turned 18 years old (technically I even went when I was 17 using my older brothers passport to get into bars and clubs). This was circa 2011 and so so much has changed. Night clubs seem to be dying. Many are closing down or struggling to keep a basic level of patronage on a given weekend night. Some are desperately trying to rebrand as something new and cool but it seems almost every venue is turning into a sinking ship. There used to be way more groups of girls, or two sets of girls going out looking to have a good time and get laid. Now, it's mostly mixed sets of friends going out to celebrate a friends birthday or chill with other mutual friends and not be bothered by any "random creepers." Not saying that dynamic didn't exist before, but it just seems much more rampant now. Girls are not open to being chatted up by strangers. Their "curve game strong" as they like to brag to their friends. Curving guys harshly or in a try-hard witty way seems to be what this girls want to do in front of their friends. There's simply less girls going out with the purpose of finding dick.
And this leads to Tinder. I think Tinder is what has changed night game, for better or for worse. If a girl wants dick, it can be delivered to her front door a la "skip the dishes." In this case it's "skip getting dressed and going out and finding a ride to the club and waiting in line and paying cover etc etc." The convenience factor is huge. So the need for dick is easily satiated and she has many options. Going out to clubs to find dick is just antiquated. Clubs are now for special events like birthdays and whatnot. Not a weekly place to got to get stretched out by a new stranger. Tinder is much better for that.
So anyways, I've been grinding Tinder hard, putting my best pictures up. Paying for Tinder Gold so I don't have to bother swiping through much people. I get about 2-8 new girls liking me a day, of which maybe 3-4 I'll like back. Out of 4 matches maybe 1 will reply. Out of maybe 5 girls that reply maybe 1 of them will end up legit talking to me. From there I just chat and flirt and like lightly sext with them until we decide it's time to meet up. I am averaging 2-5 new lays a month and it's almost ALL from Tinder. Odd night game pull or social circle pull here and there but nothing notable at all numbers wise. That being said, I have had weeks where I would absolutely grind hard on tinder and put in full effort on every match. On my fall reading week break in November of 2017 I banged 5 new tinder girls over a 9 day period.
What are your thoughts on the way things are going, gents?
Here's my thoughts:
- The best looking guys are going to reap the benefits . 80:20 rule will become closer to 95:5 rule. Think about it, your ELO score is a snowball effect. The higher your ELO, the more sooner you will be shown to girls and to hotter girls, which leads to more right swipes from them further raising your ELO. Positive feedback loop for the top X% of guys while everyone else gets a back seat. This is ideal for women as they have to swipe through less losers (i.e. average guy that is not Chad Thundercock).
- Bars will see sinking patronage and will most be a bottle service / events type ordeal. The other uses of bars or night clubs are taken care of quite nicely by Tinder.
- Your dating / sex life is going to be controlled by an app (or more precisely, an app's algorithm). That can be scary. Especially if Tinder starts to have an agenda and wants to punish certain sorts of users. A bad ELO score can be the modern day death sentence similar to having a bad credit score. The one answer to this is day game. However I am a huge pussy when it comes to day game and I personally don't like harassing people going about their day (if they aren't interested in you, it's mildly harassing / annoying) and I don't like panhandling the streets for pussy. That last comment is going to get me some flak but it has a tiny bit of truth to it. Again, I will admit a big portion of it though is just that I am a giant pussy and I don't like approaching in day time. I have no issue doing it in a bar or nightclub where it's socially acceptable to do so.
- Pussy inequality will grow. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Tinder is really going to speed things up in that realm, as it already has quite a bit.
Some of you may remember me from my 100 lay thread: thread-60113.html
Basically, I hit 100 lays and the majority of it was from night game cold approach. I would have the odd bang from Tinder here and there but for the most part all my meat and potatoes was from night game.
I stopped updating / counting my notch count since hitting 100. That was almost 2 years ago back in fall of 2016. If i were to take a guess I'd say I'm somewhere in the neighbourhood of 200 lays, possibly more.
The funny thing is this: the next 100 or so lays came almost exclusively from Tinder. I have had only the odd night game cold approach lay here and there.
I have been out night gaming since I turned 18 years old (technically I even went when I was 17 using my older brothers passport to get into bars and clubs). This was circa 2011 and so so much has changed. Night clubs seem to be dying. Many are closing down or struggling to keep a basic level of patronage on a given weekend night. Some are desperately trying to rebrand as something new and cool but it seems almost every venue is turning into a sinking ship. There used to be way more groups of girls, or two sets of girls going out looking to have a good time and get laid. Now, it's mostly mixed sets of friends going out to celebrate a friends birthday or chill with other mutual friends and not be bothered by any "random creepers." Not saying that dynamic didn't exist before, but it just seems much more rampant now. Girls are not open to being chatted up by strangers. Their "curve game strong" as they like to brag to their friends. Curving guys harshly or in a try-hard witty way seems to be what this girls want to do in front of their friends. There's simply less girls going out with the purpose of finding dick.
And this leads to Tinder. I think Tinder is what has changed night game, for better or for worse. If a girl wants dick, it can be delivered to her front door a la "skip the dishes." In this case it's "skip getting dressed and going out and finding a ride to the club and waiting in line and paying cover etc etc." The convenience factor is huge. So the need for dick is easily satiated and she has many options. Going out to clubs to find dick is just antiquated. Clubs are now for special events like birthdays and whatnot. Not a weekly place to got to get stretched out by a new stranger. Tinder is much better for that.
So anyways, I've been grinding Tinder hard, putting my best pictures up. Paying for Tinder Gold so I don't have to bother swiping through much people. I get about 2-8 new girls liking me a day, of which maybe 3-4 I'll like back. Out of 4 matches maybe 1 will reply. Out of maybe 5 girls that reply maybe 1 of them will end up legit talking to me. From there I just chat and flirt and like lightly sext with them until we decide it's time to meet up. I am averaging 2-5 new lays a month and it's almost ALL from Tinder. Odd night game pull or social circle pull here and there but nothing notable at all numbers wise. That being said, I have had weeks where I would absolutely grind hard on tinder and put in full effort on every match. On my fall reading week break in November of 2017 I banged 5 new tinder girls over a 9 day period.
What are your thoughts on the way things are going, gents?
Here's my thoughts:
- The best looking guys are going to reap the benefits . 80:20 rule will become closer to 95:5 rule. Think about it, your ELO score is a snowball effect. The higher your ELO, the more sooner you will be shown to girls and to hotter girls, which leads to more right swipes from them further raising your ELO. Positive feedback loop for the top X% of guys while everyone else gets a back seat. This is ideal for women as they have to swipe through less losers (i.e. average guy that is not Chad Thundercock).
- Bars will see sinking patronage and will most be a bottle service / events type ordeal. The other uses of bars or night clubs are taken care of quite nicely by Tinder.
- Your dating / sex life is going to be controlled by an app (or more precisely, an app's algorithm). That can be scary. Especially if Tinder starts to have an agenda and wants to punish certain sorts of users. A bad ELO score can be the modern day death sentence similar to having a bad credit score. The one answer to this is day game. However I am a huge pussy when it comes to day game and I personally don't like harassing people going about their day (if they aren't interested in you, it's mildly harassing / annoying) and I don't like panhandling the streets for pussy. That last comment is going to get me some flak but it has a tiny bit of truth to it. Again, I will admit a big portion of it though is just that I am a giant pussy and I don't like approaching in day time. I have no issue doing it in a bar or nightclub where it's socially acceptable to do so.
- Pussy inequality will grow. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Tinder is really going to speed things up in that realm, as it already has quite a bit.
Grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference