muggiwhplar

when my iphone refuses to send texts to people who don't have iphones :wall:

mods plz change saq's display name to "estonian dude"

Yeah if you're doing everything right, it's just a numbers game in the end. In other news, I slept with a new girl last night :D Scheduled a date with her via POF just like I do for every other girl (examples here) Met her at a Starbucks and she was really nervous (she just got out of a 7 year relationship where her BF cheated on her a lot). As soon as I met her outside, I said hi and grabbed her hand and led her inside. Sat down with her, I made sure to sit in a chair adjacent to her (instead of across the table from her) so I could touch her and stuff. She was really nervous at first because I'm the first guy she's seen since getting out of her relationship apparently. I tried talking about her relationship but she wasn't really comfortable with that so I just changed the subject. Got her talking about her job and boring stuff like that. Talked about all of her jewelry and tattoos (and touched them whenever I got the chance), then kept my hand on her thigh and rubbed her thigh for the rest of the date while we talked about dumb stuff. After like an hour I said I had to go so we got up and left. I put my arm on her lower back as I walked her to her car and she said I was welcome to text her if I wanted to. She drove away and I walked to my car, pretty sure I did everything "right" and was gonna get laid lol. Sure enough, about a half hour after I got home, I got a text from her asking me what I thought. I told her "I guess you're ok... :) What are you doing on Saturday?" Scheduled a movie night at my place for Saturday, and she ended up coming over to watch a movie we talked about during our 1st date. She came over, I put on the movie and turned off the lights. Put my arm around her as soon as I sat down and she cuddled up next to me. I'd rub her legs and her ass and stuff, and eventually I went for a kiss but she pulled back. I waited a while and tried again and she again resisted, saying she couldn't do it. Resistance kind of turns me off and makes me lose interest, so I pretty much just tuned her out and focused on the movie until it was over after that lol. After the movie was over, I asked her if she was ready for me to take her back to her car. She was like "ok..." so I went and grabbed my jacket. When I came back, she was like "I have a confession to make" (oh boy). "I just really wanna get laid and you're really cool..." Nice. Since she's very emotional and feminine, I was kind of worried that she might "agree" to have sex, and then immediately start to regret it, so I basically was like "are you absolutely sure? I don't want you to feel any pressure to do that if you don't want to." she assured me that she really wanted to, so I dragged her to my bedroom and the rest was history. zero resistance whatsoever. she was very enthusiastic :D anyways, afterwards, I walked her to her car but I chose to go walking around my neighborhood for about 30 minutes with her just to chat since it's relaxing. she's super extroverted and talkative, so she pretty much just talked the whole time while I just listened. she's 27 and all of her friends are married with kids, and she's upset about how things didn't work out with her ex, and how they never could have kids and settle down. I basically just gave her reassurance and made her appreciate her new-found sense of freedom and stuff. so she felt happy and relaxed by the end of our talk. I felt bad for her since I could kind of sense that she was stressed out over stuff like that. Anyways, before I dropped her off she said she wanted to see me again, so I'll shoot her a text today or tomorrow to meet up again soon. She seems like a solid friend with benefits so that means I'll just treat her as if she was a guy friend... that I have sex with >_> no romance, no spending the night. just sex and talking. but yeah, last night was a fun night :D

Could you give an example of a girl who flaked on you and how you scheduled the date?

haha I wasn't sober when I wrote that :D Anyways, this seems like one of those problems that mainly exists because Maddy doesn't believe that she can do any better. If she knew that she could easily hop right into another relationship with an attractive guy, she probably wouldn't be dwelling on something like this for so long. This is why regardless of whether you're single or in a relationship, you'll be an overall happier and less-stressed person if you're confident in your dating and relationship skills :thumbup:

But clearly with so many players at 5.2bil, there is demand to up the cap (:There's only 6 players w/ 5.2bil >_>

Does this upset you because deep down you think what they said about you is true?

I used to have really bad social anxiety when I was younger too. I was afraid to go through a fast food drive-thru or check out at the grocery without my parents because I was afraid I'd do something to humiliate myself. The biggest things that cured my social anxiety were: 1. I joined a fraternity, where I was welcomed with open arms (I was never hazed), and as I spent more time with guys who got laid a lot or were super social, my social anxieties quickly began to vanish. 2. I started working as a part time cashier at the university bookstore. Being forced to interact with strangers just by saying "Did you find everything you were looking for?" pretty much put the final nail in my social anxiety coffin. I remember my first week working there, I was terrified of embarrassing myself somehow and I'd avoid hot girls when they'd start walking towards my register. But within a year, I'd go out of my way to hop on the register that the hot girls were walking towards just so I could flirt with them :lol: So yeah. I think you said you're already in a social group which is good. Spend as much time as possible with guys who possess qualities that you admire (social skills, charm, etc.) and eventually those qualities will begin to rub off on you automatically. I'd also go get a job that forces you to be social (even if it's as little as cashiering) since anyone can get hired at a job like that. Then after you become comfortable in your own skin in social situations, you can take things to the next level and become a salesman :P Edit: another thing that helped my mindset before I left for college was I pretty much assumed the mindset of an idiotic student/learner when I finally started doing things on my own (such as going to the grocery). Like, if I was going through the self-checkout and I messed something up and an employee had to help me, instead of freaking out I'd just be like "Sorry I don't know what I'm doing. Can you help me?" Something as simple as that made "failures" like that much more bearable.

(Yes, that was a Forrest Gump reference)

We may not be smart men, but we know what love is.

There's no natural law that states if one has not had any contact whatsoever with a woman by age X, they are doomed to remain that way until they die. People become successful with women when they decide that they want to be.

FTFY

We already gave you advice a couple of months ago. Reread what we said. You can't simply "think" your way out of your fears, weaknesses, and inexperiences. Only uncomfortable/embarrassing experiences and failures will cure your fears. Just accept that if you wish to be successful at anything, you have to accept the growing pains of getting there.

Muggi's approach to life in a single sentence. Well if the answer is no, then there's his answer :P

or... 1. Write a Facebook status bragging about how you successfully conned some idiot into giving you his calculator 2. Add him as a friend on Facebook 3. Let us know what happens :twisted:

Have you banged her yet? >_>

I understand why someone would want variety in media so that everyone isn't doing the same thing, but this is a such a subtle thing that deviating from it is going to have almost no effect on the power of the movie for 99% of the population. Yeah, this is kind of a dumb complaint. Yeah I didn't even notice it until I skimmed the links. Surprised they didn't include Portal in the examples. My dad's kind of the same way as those guys sometimes, though so I can sort of understand where they're coming from. My parents go to the movies all the time and my dad was just joking about how frequently he hears the "ONLY ONE MAN CAN..." line in movie trailers and stuff. Hell, I saw Interstellar with him last night and he nudged me during the trailers and was like, "See! SEE?! 'ONLY ONE MAN CAN SAVE THE WORLD' in this trailer too!" "Yep you're right, Dad." haha

Farming is like the 6 hour AFKing of skilling. I love it. :wub:

That's a really obscure annoyance :P

Second time getting 99 attack. Third time getting 99 defense. On my previous accounts I trained those stats mostly at Ape Atoll, either on the skeletons or the zombies with salve (e). Finished the final stretch at the Ape Atoll zombies since they're 130k XP/hour (could be more if I had piety) instead of Guthans 18k controlled XP/hour Need to get 72 prayer and 99 ranged next. Assuming that achievement diaries are released with the same rewards as in the dev blog, that should make prayer and ranged cheaper to train so I'll wait till the diaries come out before I level up those. In the mean time, I'll just be going back to my old routine of logging on just long enough for keeping MTK at 100% and slowly spending ~23M NMZ points on herb boxes. After that, I should basically be "retired" on 2007, free to do whatever I want whenever I want. All goals will be complete since I think skilling's a massive waste of time and money :P

Yeah that's awesome that you had the balls to do that. Good job :D

Ok thanks. I'll look into joining Stud Unit since I'll be 120 combat in about a week and I've got most of the gear they require. Can I get kicked out for inactivity? I don't spend a whole lot of time on RS these days with the exception of AFKing :P

Well hopefully you were at least touching her throughout the date. Going from 0 contact/tension to a kiss is going to be kind of weird. But yeah, without touching you're probably gonna get friendzoned :P

3rd time getting 99 HP. :D

Thanks a lot for the detailed response. Do you worry about dying or disconnecting with all that gear? I've never actually been to corp but I had a bunch of experience w/ GWD originally back in 2007-2008. I imagine if you die your friends can just return your loot for you, but if the servers DC are you just out of luck? They keep changing the death mechanics so I'm not sure what the current status on that is.