Low Level Game – Fishing for Eye Contact

Compiling stuff for the Book 1 – and I came across this post.  Reading it, I basically left it unfinished.

So the thing about music, film, tv shows, novels – they are fiction.  But successful fiction captures real life.

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Here’s my take on the gif’s

  1. Player sees a good looking chick
  2. He makes/forces eye contact (This is the low level game part)
  3. She likes what she sees? (wants to play along, feel her own sexuality), and flirts back (?)
  4. He takes the “crossing of her legs” as a “go” signal
  5. When she leaves, he steps up behind her and goes for the inadvertent touch
  6. She seems to like it, be surprised, and is kinda feeling him

Now watch the full scene

The full scene shows a non-verbal flirtation turn into a fight or flight response.

So my point here with the “low level” game descriptor – was that even though this was all non-verbal, making signals, figuring out signals – a lot of “naturals” scan the crowd or interact with women in this way.  They look for eye contact, they fish for it, they try to make it happen – but as you can tell by Fassbender’s URGENCY – he actually scares away the cat.

So the low level part is that you can get these “false starts” – because you’re dealing with a sexual creature that will show herself to you – but not really be ready to go all the way.

It’s low level because the player doesn’t understand the chick’s social constraints.  It’s cold, they’re headed to work/home, the train is crowded – it’s not even playing poker here, it’s playing the Powerball and hoping that dude’s non-verbal signals in this chaos can actually spark something.

If this were summer?  it might be different.

If the train wasn’t as packed, he could use a few words to break the tension.

If they weren’t going to work, he could push past her and then TURN BACK and try to get something started.

But it’s clear to me at least, even though my boy has the hunger – he doesn’t have a PLAN.  He can’t turn her little flash of mischief (peep the wedding ring) into a quick tryst.

It’s not that she wasn’t sexually attracted.

Peep this next scene (or watch the movie)

-Archie