I have never considered myself a practitioner of ”Game”.  When searching for a good bad time, I consider sex more a consequence than a goal.

Whatever happens, I am not going out of my way for a woman I’ve just met.

In fact, I generally refuse to go out of my way for women I know. Experience has left me wanting in the “Trust” Department.  If someone is merely an acquaintance, much different than a friend, I’ll sooner spill a drink on the floor than go out of my way for them.

I read about Game for amusement more than anything.  There is something sad about grown men who privately worship women as sexual objects, but then whine about “pedestallers”.  For misogynists, they draw an awful lot of validation from the women they seek to conquer.  It’s like a hetero ‘Broken Hearts Club‘.

If you follow the Mystery Method to the letter and spend four hours a night out “working your game”, reconsider your priorities.  I don’t care if it works.  Get a gym membership.

On lunch I browsed a  tongue-in-cheek breakdown of various styles of Game.  I thought about it, but no one style (or combination of styles) matches what I pass off as “Game”.

It isn’t strictly Asshole Game.  It certainly isn’t Cool Guy Game.

It’s Max Game.  It’s Bastard Game.

I’ve decided to break down  my style by parts – Macro and Micro - to better explain it.  Think of it as Strategy and Tactics.

First, the Rules:

Rule 1: Be Indifferent

With the exception of your mother, no woman is special.  The only
reason a man treats a woman special is if he wants something from her.
She will assume that what you ‘want’ is her ass.  She will be right.
This puts her in charge.

If this happens, you have just lost.   At this point, you may as well
ask for her permission to fuck her.  Asking is begging.  Begging is
contemptible.

Rule 2: Proffer No Excuse

Do not apologise.  You do not need a woman’s approval.  She needs
yours.  She wants your validation.  If you apologise, you are asking
for her approval.  See Rule 1.

Rule 3: Work the Help

If you are in any place for more than a night, get familiar with
the local color.  Go out early, talk to waitresses, bartenders and
bouncers.  Don’t look for favors, just act friendly.  Tip well.

When you can walk in a place and shake hands with the employees on your way to the bar, you don’t need to know the owner.  This is Social Proof.

Rule 4: Never Let ‘em See You Sweat

Always maintain your bearing.  Everything you do is easy, even when it isn’t.  Swagger.  You’ve heard it, seen it, and done it.  Treat everything and everyone with mild amusement, mild curiosity, or mild disgust.  No one needs to know your limits.

Rule 5: Never Compete With Women

Darts.  Pool.  Conversation.  Never let them see you try.  If you win, you did it with one hand tied behind your back.  If they win, it is because you let them.

Never try to impress a woman.  Be impressive.  The difference is in the effort.  If it looks like approval seeking behavior, it is.  See Rule 1.

Never mind the fact that there is No Honor in it.

Rule 6: Men Are More Important Than Women

Treat other guys with respect.  You may be competing for the same resource, but you’re still on the same team.  Treating other men well acts as Social Proof.

Treat Betas like your kid brother and you’ll earn Alpha credit.  Treat other Alphas respectfully, as equals, and you can avoid unnecessary conflict.  If you’re trying to knock over some ass, fighting* is counter-productive. ( * see below)

Being unnecessarily aggressive toward other men in front of women is bad form.  It’s negative Social Proof.  You’ll either look a) intimidated, and therefore approval seeking (see Rule 1) or b) you’ll appear dangerous.  Women will ignore the obvious monster in front of them as long as they don’t have to see its teeth.  Bad boy charm goes out the window if women think you will actually throw them in your trunk.

Rule 7: Never Humiliate

Long before I’d ever heard of Game, the use of Negs was natural to me.  Negging is a normative part of male behavior.  Men bust balls constantly.  Women think they understand this practice, but they don’t.  They cannot tell the difference between ball busting and an insult.

Ball busting is a sign of trust.  ”Look at me, I can insult you (within certain limits) because you and I understand that I mean no offense.”

Negging exists very near the event horizon of a slippery slope.  Negging a girl, particularly if she is part of a group, and especially if that group includes any males, can blow up in your face.  Females occasionally take negging as ball busting, and counter as such.  Females are adept at picking out weaknesses – they set at each other like a murder of crows at carrion – and will sometimes up the ante with particularly vicious comments.

Be wary of how you Neg.  You might be able to read a girl’s nine abortions and her “Weird Uncle” story in her eyes, but calling her on it will invariably lead to violence.

Regardless of a person’s race, rank, or gender, Humiliation is the fastest way to spark a brawl.

This covers the Macro-Strategy section of my Bastard Game.  7 is a perfect number for rules.  Any more or less and I will invariably get drunk and completely forget them.  As it is, I will invariably get drunk and completely forget them.

Fairly standard stuff, from a Gaming perspective.  The real Devil is in the details.

* On Fighting: If you’re looking for a way to poison your “inner game”, go out in public itching for a fight.  As I said in Rule 6, females will gladly ignore any amount of danger right in front of them as long as you disguise it with a smile.

Just ask Ted Bundy.