Solidus_77

The one you talked about in the relationship thread? Been there done that as well. In fact of the top 5 stupidest things I've ever done, 3 of them involve 3 stupid crushes on girls (worst was the kinds of girls), the two others have to do with fistfights with steep social/academic consequences. Suffice to say I don't think I'll ever do stupid things of that caliber again as I've redeemed myself.

Heh, I always say hello to girls with a kiss on each cheek. That's considered "socially acceptable" in France. I know lips are a different story but whatever, shows that a simple kiss can be a simple greeting. All depends on the context of "socially acceptable". If I were in your shoes I'd say "why don't you show me instead of just tell me?". Have some fun :lol:

Perfect! that's the right mentality and attitude to have right there. I hope you can enjoy your summer. That's very true (except if "being yourself" means being a shy "nice guy" or abusive jerk). There are no special tricks, merely a mentality that you start off with and that you eventually calibrate as you gain more and more experience. Common sense.... well sometimes inexperienced instincts or society's influence can cause you to do things that you would consider "appropriate" and cause you to fail (I remember that what I learned to do was the dead opposite of what I would have otherwise done instinctively).

Even though I don't have a girlfriend, the friend of mine who is a step above friend is just a girl I met in school. In fact most of my friends are from school however I have met a lot of girls by going out to clubs or bars and even on the bus ride home several times. Also met a nice girl at an anime convention, several on sports events (rock climbing), and even some in tech camps.

COMPLETE control of foresight. So I could gaze seconds or years into the future. See all my opponent's moves before they happen in a fight, or see what would happen if I make a certain decision.

Wow, I graduated today as well. It was actually kinda gloomy at first since we had our prom the night before (I went to sleep at sunrise :D ) but eventually with the mood and everything people started to relax and collectively rejoice at the fact that it's all finally over. I myself will be going to an engineering school to focus on, well, engineering (and minor in economics). I'm looking forward to all of it with GREAT anticipation. Same here, I'm born in October so I've just graduated at age 17.

Now I have a couple of problems with what you've told us. First of all, it seems your only motive for getting a girlfriend is just not to be single. I'll tell you straight away, that mentality diminishes your chances. Ironically, it's the guy who doesn't care about relationships who will get the girl since he's not desperate and is with them merely because he enjoys their company. I know what highschool is like (I have officially finished as of today btw ^_^) and there is a pressure for getting a girlfriend as well as shunning for those who get it but the ones who really have a good relationship are the ones who ignore the immature competition. So get a girlfriend because you'd interested in a girl and want to be with her, not because you have to avoid being single. The fact that you've imposed a timeframe only means you'll come across as needy/desperate which will kill your already low chances. However, if you can drop the timeframe and the desperation motive, I've got some tips but before that, there's another problem. You mention that you don't like many of the girls except this ONE girl, which is known as 'one-itis' and is by far the most challenging problem for guys on this board and in the world (I was no exception). 'One-itis' refers to a guy who focuses on one certain girl (often times it goes to the point of obsession), in popular media this is called a "crush" and it is a real killer for relationships. Not only it makes a guy put all his eggs in one basket, but also makes the girl hard to approach. I don't believe that you don't like the other girls. In fact I think that you are treating this one girl as a higher being and thus making all the other girls look bad in comparison. A guy suffering of 'one-itis' typically avoids potential relationships with other girls (intentionally or unintentionally) to focus on this one girl. And even when you muster up the courage to ask this girl out, her rejection can be shattering. If you would like to greatly increase your success with girls, I'd recommend you completely forget about this girl and instead I recommend you talk, or hang out with or even flirt indiscriminately (that means ALL girls, not just the hot ones). Not only you'll gain invaluable experience but you'll broaden your social connections, appear less shallow and more interesting and people will merely enjoy your company. I tried this myself and it had drastic effects on my social life. I've now surrounded myself with girls and not only is it TOTALLY fun to playfully flirt with all of them (some of which even have boyfriends) but I was to ask out one of them (not the ones with boyfriends obviously), their rejection would bare little weight, I'd just say "oh well" and move on. With one-itis you effectively limit yourself to one option (or two in some cases) whilst I've got far greater options. (Also, having friends to go out with would make for a great summer, you don't need a girlfriend for that ;) ). Once you stop worrying about getting a girlfriend and just go have fun with friends, you'll gain the confidence needed to take more risks and eventually you will get a girlfriend.

First off, I'm glad to hear that you're overcoming your feelings towards you friend. Also, I've had almost the exact situation: ironically enough a girl who told me "let's just be friends" is seeming to go out of her way to avoid me. I guess she sees me differently now that she sees I have an interest in her and even though I screwed up (and apologized for being too forceful) and even though she says it's no big deal, I think she might be a little uncomfortable around me. It's not really an issue for me since most of our class will all be going our separate ways anyways, but it seems like your friend also is experiencing the same thing. I guess the best thing to do is probably to wait a bit, or maybe even explain that you still would like to stay friends.

I have absolutely loved the metal gear series, although unfortunately right now I lack the finances, I will get a PS3 and MGS4 as soon as possible.

That's your call. Although frankly I'm disappointed because it's really more about the use of Messenger when talking to a girl (the PUA stuff was an added detail, not the topic). Anyways, Ginger is pretty well on so I'll just focus on section by section The fact that you've obsessed about her all this time is a very bad sign. Before the board crash, there was quite a lot of talk of "theres-this-one-girl-and-I-don't-know-how-I-can-get-her" type problems, that I refer to as "one-itis" and that popular media refers to as a "crush". Although at this point I think you've transcended the term crush and it's really starting to be very unhealthy. This passage alone is evidence that you should strongly consider forgetting about having a relationship with her. Now you moved to a different school and STILL couldn't stop thinking of her? That's really a problem. Yep, he's not a cliche'd "nice guy". He's got that jerk appeal that girls love. If you believe that girls want a "nice guy" as a boyfriend you're quite mistaken, just as I was a few years ago. First of all, it's great that you're becoming more social. That already puts you ahead of the thousands upon thousands of guys with the same problem. Now, for this situation, I suspect that this guy knows that you like his girlfriend and is toying with your emotions in order to get you worked up. Keep in mind that he is appearing as a complete jerk to you, but you don't know what it's like exactly between them. As Ginger stated, you've clearly got strong feelings towards this guy and perhaps he is not as big of a jerk as you make him sound (or at least he isn't as much of a jerk towards her). Also, trying to tell her that her boyfriend is an idiot will most often backfire (even if he really is), she will just defend him and have her feelings even more strongly rooted. What a nice guy! Buying her breakfast and giving her foot massages. You're really doing your best to comfort her. But tell me, honestly, are you doing this just because you're a friend or are you hoping that with enough time/money invested on her she will eventually consider you for a possible relationship? If you're doing it for the hopes of a relationship, cut it out, it doesn't help. If this is because you're being a friend, then by all means, keep treating her to breakfast. Either way, you mention thinking about her so much you can't sleep. Emotional pains. The more you continue with her, the more you'll feel the pain. It's really a problem if this starts to affect your health too. I skipped a part because, honestly, I don't have the experience needed to answer that. I know there's something there but I don't want to give advice that hasn't personally worked for me. Sorry. This, on the other hand, I've seen before. If you are serving the role of the "advisor" or the person she goes to for troubles with her existing relationship, then she's not considering you for a real relationship. Which means that you can stop obsessing about her right now. Last sentence especially makes me curious. You see, when I first got into this whole thing I thought girls needed to be respected to the point of worship, and was wondering how could guys act so disrespectful towards girls (and also, how come those girls were responding to it!?) Turns out that the cocky and funny guy is able to create loads of attraction and seriously turn them on while the "respectful" nice guy, is just someone who's comfortable and non-threatening but clearly not the confident guy they are looking for. Could it be that what you consider to be "disrespectful" is actually a bit of a skewed image? I'm saying this because there were phrases and actions that I was surprised guys could say. Now, I have the confidence needed to use them myself (AND I CAN"T STRESS HOW MUCH IT WORKS). This girl is clearly chasing after him, so he must be creating some sort of attraction that she doesn't see elsewhere. Could it be his cold attitude? Before you judge who is the right guy for her. Consider asking yourself some questions: What qualities make this guy so attractive? Do you honestly know what kinds of things create attraction within girls? What qualities makes you less attractive than this guy? and most importantly: WHAT makes this girl so special that every other girl on the planet doesn't have?

No, that's ridiculous. There are other ways to develop an appetite and sleep better. Sports or physical activities for example can solve both those problems (they do for me).

I'll still be using them, just use your imagination to fill in the blanks, :wink:

Nardil, looks like the whole Age of Conan stuff will have to be redone from scratch. Along with all the long-term threads. Looks like some places were hurt more than others. We've got posts that were around in January/February in OT (that's more like 3-4 months lost content).

Yay! my guide survived the crash!

Yeah, although that was before he turned out to be a misogynistic sadistic psychopath. At this point I've more or less lost hope for him. Well at least several the flame wars that I caused (leading to me making an [wagon] out of myself) have been lost =P Actually, in reference to one of them, it seems I might have undervalued messenger conversations in terms of relationship. After several girls were asking for my email (for Messenger purposes) I decided to give it a shot and also test out some PUA routines using words to stimulate emotions, feelings and values (note: NOTHING I said was rehearsed, I only used my own personal application of a concept). The result I got was a bunch of interesting conversations we would share inner thoughts, our most touching feelings and other things which really made the conversation worthwhile, very deep-rooted and very interesting. This is the opposite of the infamous generic MSN conversations which can go "Hi" "how are you?" "fine, lol" and that's about how deep it gets. So can MSN be the base for forming a relationship? Honestly, no. Or at least not a base. I consider these conversations to be "extras" or "add-ons" to the conversations that I have with these girls in real life (and I see them everyday until recently). I don't think you can build a good relationship on simple conversations alone, it's not the same as real life however it can be useful, especially if extended phone convos are not your cup of tea (they aren't for me, but this might change). So I'd say that you CAN potentially have deep and meaningful conversations just via MSN if you know how to go beyond shallow small talk (note, we rarely used stupid acronyms or one word answers) AND if this is someone you see in real life regularly. One thing to never do is ask out online. That's just an unnecessary lack of confidence and even if you've sufficiently connected with the girl, she'll probably end up saying "let's just be friends".

You're whining about a bad grade over the internet :roll:

Seek help again then You're getting beat up over a game of DnD? Yep, but you can't change that. So instead of DnD he goes to drink? Sounds like you need to have a serious conversation with your friend So are you going to try and make your story better? You're considering committing suicide, I don't think you need to show so much pride.

Today was a pretty normal boring school day and right now I've got too much work to do, yesterday I was recovering from a hangover from an amazing party the night before.

Joke about the pen aside, it's true when you roll up a newspaper really tight it seems to have that effect. I have no idea of the technical terms so I'm going to call it "big pole" and "small pole". The example I was using was basically the "classic" stick (it's padded and spans about the size of a person's arm excluding the shoulder) This is supposed to be the "typical" size of stick you're likely to encounter and basically the most tricky to deal with as well so for small poles that technique would be suited. It's also assumed it's a 1 handed weapon (using 2 hands would be pretty stupid in that case anyways) If you're talking about 2 handed big poles I really don't know what you'd do but I guess the principle remains. Problem is that they keep you at quite a distance and it would be too hard to get in fast. I guess I'd pray that the size of it makes it awkward to wield (which is generally the case) That sounds like a specialized weapon and scary too. I wouldn't want to go up against one of those.

Can I ask why you didn't accept? Was it cause your waiting for the someone special? Pretty much. :) Your one of the few people I know who is actually doing that. Most people now get off with people who they may have just met a minute ago or maybe not even talked or see each other before. I've noticed that as well. Most of the other kids my age have what I would call 'reckless hormones' - they'd kiss anything and everything if they had the chance. :roll: Yeah, ideally I'd like my first to be meaningful but will not be too picky. I won't wait forever just because I don't think it's going to be a special someone. Besides, I'm bound to have multiple relationships in my life. I may just think of the first kiss as a way to practice. You'd want to get skilled at kissing for when you meet (almost made a terrible misspelling there) some quality women, or you could practice on a stiff dog :wink: That's the dream. IMO it's totally unrealistic to wait forever until you find someone you are sure you will like. It promotes not trying and that's not good.

Has anyone done any tests? it would be wise to know if it increases the chances or not

If you're looking at comparative advantage, then summons are MUCH better than a godsword/equipment. Much cheaper in the long run. Furthermore, why limit yourself? Get both.

tryed them hit like a 2 rarely unless you use a scroll then you miss a turn in combat That's his special attack. Use his normal attack, it hits up to 9 so you can really get some cumulative damage going. Not bad for the bronze version of a minotaur, just imagine what the best ones would be.

That was his mistake but you handled it inappropriately. If you hadn't insulted him back he probably would have explained

Why the heck would you alch a bronze minotaur pouch? That should be used in combat!