What do you mean by that term Video game alphas -- do you mean people who still game and say you can be alpha and do both?

Video games for me definitely were an addiction at multiple points in my life. I'm much better now, and when I play I genuinely enjoy playing versus "grinding" and playing just because it kept me busy and not thinking about the real world / social life. That being said, and I'm not kidding you, I was on a roll this weekend playing League (climbed from Plat 2 to Diamond 4 in a few days. I've been as high as Diamond 1) and told my current plate last night that I wish I could be playing league right now (instead of fucking her like I own her)...

I'm just not sure how to interpret that... is that me just genuinely enjoying video games? Or is that BP me still wanting to come out?

I figure as long as she serves you lunch, while you play, you are golden.

lol yes.Now I have 3 free hard drives.

Fuck, I try to limit myself to 1TB. I have one portable HD that is dedicated to this purpose. It's mostly Asian porn because I live in Asia (although there is a compliment of big-tit blondes there).

I will have to get rid of it if my GF and I go LTR.

Please mate I can down a 1tb torrent of your favorite niche fetish overnight.

How is money not mentioned here?

I say this all the time. Women say those BS statements because it works for them. Being a semi-decent girl can get you pretty far. At least marrying an engineer and never having to work. They have zero idea of what it's like being a semi-decent guy. It's an entirely different playing field.

Looks don't matter is like Just be yourself. If 'yourself' is a fat, Asperger's nerd who plays video games all day then you should probably change something. Look's don't matter, past a certain point. However if you're below that point, Ie. Fat, cheeto finger, fedora wearing neckbeard, yeah you're probably not going to be banging 9's and 10's

Looks do matter to a extent , no one is saying looks don't matter, but you don't need to be amazing

Exactly. If you want to fuck, be somebody worth fucking. That means, learning how to dress, eat, lift, speak (verbal and body). Always be making improvements. Focus on you and watch what happens.

The sad thing is that "looks don't matter" is being marketed to men by PUAs trying to sell tickets to seduction bootcamps.

Yea I'd put dress well and lift into one though.

1. Improve aesthetics
2. Fatten the wallet
3. Make friends, faggot

There's the trifecta.

I rarely upvote but here you go because we are on the same page.

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Think of it as two parts

1. Self Improvement

2. Seduction

The point is that you're suppose to self improve regardless of women, self improve for yourself and only for yourself. Make you into the best version of you possible. Eating junk food and playing 2000 hours of video games a year is not the best version of yourself.

Women come afterwards but aren't the sole reason for your improvement, they part of it. If you're improving solely for woman, then you're doing it wrong.

Although I say this, I also disagree with OP, don't stop playing video games, play in moderation with everything else in life assuming it's a hobby of yours.

you are right, I prefer non fiction about science, but I'll read the books you are saying

This thought has been in the back of my mind for a while.

There are few forms of competition which match gaming. Soccer and baseball and basketball do, but have significant barriers of entry in comparison.

That being said, gaming is physically unhealthy. It is mentally healthy in moderate doses. Gaming a couple hours a week recreationally shouldnt hinder you or your goals significantly if you are energetic enough the rest of the time

The experience Braid gave me, no female will ever get anywhere close to.

"No fiction books" is as retarded, of course.

Life is dead and pointless without art.

Less expensive, take up less time, etc.

The only thing is if you are a man that an attractive woman finds worth fucking it is a rising tide that lifts all boats in your life. Men by default respect men who can score. You likely will gain points in charisma, likely will be more physically fit, etc.

Haha agreed. I think video games, like anything, in moderation is fine.

FYI thick eyebrows are in now. So don't go all metro.

Personally I moisturize with motor oil. It gives me that Mad Max gritty post apocalyptic glow.

I am 6', 185~pounds (yay me), at about 14-15%. Hairline not the best, but not balding. Still invisible.

I decided in middle school when I was addicted to World of Warcraft that I would try my best to learn to code instead of wasting my time away playing WoW.

10 years later, everyone in my programming courses is my bitch and I don't think I'll have any trouble getting an internship this fall! It's all about finding something equally as addicting as gaming. I srsly understand what you mean by the "itch". At first coding was awful, but once I got pretty good, I could just spend hours and hours trying to hack GunZ (god this game was awesome and so easily hackable) but I was actually gaining a valuable skill from it!

Sadly, as of the past few months Overwatch has begun consuming my life though... I need to get my shit together again, heh...

Fuck, now that I think about it, Blizzard is fucking amazing at consuming souls. I should apply for a job there when I graduate.

I had the same thing. I used to play RPGs all the time. I hated MP, I only cared about the fantasy. When I started college I stopped gaming and switched to writing. I'm about to publish my first novel early next year. And have also made writing part of my frame. I picked up a lot of girls by developing an "intellectual/artistic" aspect of my personality. Just by channeling my impulses into something more socially productive.

I've basically done the same thing. Now I spend hours producing/mixing all my music. I'd love to hear some of your work. I'll pm you my soundcloud

True. I've learned that the main objectives in your life should be:

1. Get an abundant life: read, learn something new, learn to love your job or get one you'll love, lift, eat well, be social with everyone, etc.

2. Enjoy your life. Because the most important ingredient in your life is YOURSELF. What you should be focusing on is yourself.

3. Keep your life in balance/order. Don't get an addiction. Call it drugs, alcohol, videogames, dating women, reading pick up theories, too much of anything is not good. (I mean for people that just reads dating and pick up for entertainment, that never apply what they read cuz they feel they need to "know/read more")

So yeah, YOU are supposed to be the center of your life, NOT women, NOT videogames...

That's what I got yet. I'm still learning, and this is imho.

I can agree with this. OP you're still in a blue pill state. You've changed your entire life because you feel the lack of something that you need. This is entirely normal and understandable, however, just judging on what you have written, you've removed things from your life that you really did not need to. If you were going into Monk mode or something, this might be understandable however, Monk mode is a temporary ideology that allows you to give yourself breathing room to work on yourself.

You are worried about some really trivial things. I'm not bald, but take a look around you. Many men are bald, or balding. This is not as bad of a social stigma as you make it out to be. I know a LOT of women that are into bald men.

It appears that you were studying to become a PUA, when in fact this is impossible when you are in your blue pill phase. All the charm in the world is going to do nothing for you if you're still a beta male.

You've given up porn and fapping. I can understand cutting down on porn, some people take it to excess and find themselves dysfunctional when the real thing comes around. Fapping? I'm sorry, men have needs, if a woman is not meeting that need, meet it yourself. You know your body better than any woman is going to know it. You know what you like and you know how to satisfy yourself in as much as fapping is limited in pleasing a person. Sex and masturbation is a natural and beneficial act.

You've given up gaming. This to me is the biggest red flag of all. I'm an avid gamer. I have been for 32 years. When I find someone to date, I typically want someone with similar interests to mine. Did you stop playing Chess? Cards? Do you watch football? Baseball? Any other sports? Because sports are games. You can use all the hamstering you want to deny this, but it won't change the truth. Sports are games used because we as a civilization do not have gladiatorial combat. We have no arena where people can fight in a death match. We've become tamer as a society. We created the Olympic Games as a means to entertain people. These games have not gone anywhere since their inception. I will never give up playing games. Board games, tabletop games, card games, video games. I love them all. This is what I'm passionate about.

You have taken the things that you enjoyed away from yourself because you want to prioritize the need for a woman. Which means you have put an imaginary woman on a pedestal. Cutting down on excess is one thing, removing a simple pleasure in life completely is another. I keep seeing this as a repeating theme here in TRP. People seem to think that giving up all the things you enjoy is magically going to make things better for you.

There can always be a place for the things you enjoy. I will continue to the end of my days, playing games on my computer. Playing games with my children and friends. Life is too short to not enjoy it simply because you feel you need a woman more than a life of personal happiness. Remember, no woman can make you happy. The only person that can make you happy is you. You control your life, you can make a choice to be miserable, or happy.

I've been away from Blue Pill now for almost 8 years. I'm much happier for it. I will not get into a serious relationship for the foreseeable future. I refuse to be further manipulated, cajoled or harassed into making choices I do not agree with. I'm perfectly fine being alone when I do not have a plate or two to play around with.

Over the past 8 years, I have made a lot of changes to my life. I no longer have open compassion for the plight of women. They know exactly what they are doing at all times. To believe otherwise is to fall back into the blue pill phase. I exercise regularly, MWF is cardio, T,TH,S are physical training. I take time out of my day to socialize with people. Sometimes it's only an hour, maybe half, or several hours. I make time in my schedule, away from my games and porn and fapping, to be out in the world, and that's all you really need to do. See, the thing about games is that you can almost always come back to those games at another time. I can log onto WoW any time I want to and mostly pick up where I left off. (I use WoW as a reference because people know how time consuming that game can be)

I'll just share a quick short story that happened recently in my life. Just after I divorced 8 years ago, I was still in the process of moving out of the blue pill phase. I met a woman at a store while I was shopping for christmas. She did not know that I had a vasectomy shortly after divorce, (after going through courts and child support for two different children from two different relationships I wasn't going to have that noose around my neck again) so we started seeing each other. I wasn't at that time worried about sex in the slightest, however after about 9 days of dating (a month into our dating relationship) she decided to have sex with me. Fine, I'm all for some fun, I love sex. A day later she is in the bathroom throwing up. Why? Because she is pregnant. I had already knew that she had just come out of a relationship recently when I had met her. So the BS detector was ringing loudly, and ever more so when she tried to state that the baby could be mine. Really... mine? One, we used a condom, I know they aren't full proof, but with a vasectomy and a doctors notation that I cannot have children any longer, I knew where this was going. So I left. I left her when she had a miscarriage. Now, I know you may think this is insensitive, it is and it is not. At that time, and even to this day, I just really do not care. It was not my child. I know for a fact. At that time, like I said, I was still moving out of the blue pill phase, so at least during the beginning of her pregnancy I was trying to be the good guy.

Let's fast forward. Two years after I bailed on her, I get a message on FB (which I check maybe twice a year) that someone was looking for me. It was the woman I was dating. Doing the typical AWALT crap. So I decide to see what kind of game she's playing. We talk. I find out she met someone right after we stopped seeing each other. (This was not surprising to me at all) She also had another child by a different father. The first thing she said to me was "I'm sorry I treated you the way I did. I was under a lot of stress and I realized recently because of my therapist that you were just trying to be there for me and help me." This can't be all there is right? Not likely. A couple of months pass fairly casually for me. As she's trying to butter me up, she starts inquiring about marriage. She starts to offer me the use of her car, giving me money, all of it was ridiculous.

Thanksgiving is coming around. I'd been divorced for 8 years and Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. I love the food, the atmosphere and the cooking, but since being divorced, even to this day I have not had Thanksgiving with anyone. (I won't go into how lonely and sad that makes me) So she decided to invite me to her parents place for Thanksgiving dinner. The day of, it's almost time for us to meet up and I send her a text message stating that I'm not feeling this and I'm not going to come over for dinner that day.

I mentioned earlier that I was done with being manipulated, cajoled and coerced into things I do not want. The first thing she tried was to guilt trip me, stating that her family cooked all this food for me. I'm sorry, but they did not cook all that food for me. They were expecting me we had made plans. Nothing is set in stone sorry, I'm my own man. After that she started trying to manipulate me by saying that she thought I loved her. No again. After about 15 minutes of her trying various AWALT methods of persuasion, I finally sent her a text message telling her to find someone else, I was done. She drove over to my place that day, being so kind as to bring a large container of the food her family cooked just so she could try to convince me to stay with her. I didn't meet with her then, but she certainly left the food and a letter stating that she still loved me, yada yada. It wasn't but 8 days later that she decided to hook up with one of my room mates. Lot of love there right? Nope, it was just my turn, even when I passed the turn up. I do not speak to her, I refuse.

Men break, we can be as strong as we wish to be, but we cannot be as hard as we want to be. Being strong is good, being hard is what makes you weak. When you place yourself on the back burner, you are doing yourself a disservice. When you decide to break blue pill phase, and take away many of the things that obviously make you happy, you're doing the same things you were doing as a satellite, without a body to orbit. You are hanging onto this idea that giving up everything is going to magically make you better. That's why the PUA did not work for you.

You cannot be blue pill and a PUA at the same time. You cannot take everything away from yourself, to gain something intangible without giving something in return. You are at your own fulcrum. You cannot take from yourself without giving, and you cannot give to yourself without taking. This is how it should be, not you taking everything away and getting nothing in return. Take some time to listen to some of the comments you are seeing here. You are missing some vitally important information. Good luck.