Hi guys
You maybe thinking that either this is a creative thread or the most stupid suggestion you've ever heard but- do videogames ACTUALLY HELP with your PUA Game.

Whilst the standard video gamer is stereotyped as the Dungeons and Dragons playing, Anti-social, poor personal hygeine girlfriendless loser. I think the PUA Community was BORN out of thread forums such as this- maybe inbetween playing Counterstrike.

Also videogames with their photo realistic graphics of people and locations. Do you imagine on a Saturday Night playing GTA4 and think "hang on- if I can do this whilst playing a game- I CAN do this in real life" (preferably going about the nightlife-but not shooting people)

Instead of having turn based battles on Final Fantasy 7 you think about turn based qualification/negs. Opening is just like a game etc. You select which text you use to interact with characters

I remember playing Deus Ex (a first person game), one night not intending on going out. I ended up in a nightclub section of the game. I got goosebumps- and thought this reminds me of the real thing....so I headed out.

So do games remind you of life or is Life just a game?

Good Point! I say that it can help you detatch from the outcome some and thus help you do better.

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Haha smooth... great game . Its a shame that it ends so soon though.
I dont think that playing games will help you to improve your game. Because then you will be home away from the real life and not in the field where you get the best experiences, some #, k, f-closes if you play it right getting over AA, expanding your social circle etc.
But still... maybe it would be good for some AFCs so they can.. I dont know... practice in the virtual world before they go out on the field heh.
It should also be a good, instructive game with some quality and not like the game smooth has in his signature , but the game is still amusing though

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Well I'm not advocating that videogames are in anyway better than reallife Socialising- no way.

But as a "visualisation tool"- as you said- playing the scenario out first before heading out for real is a very powerful technique.

I don't have approach anxiety- never had it anyways- and I always socialise at any given point.

However with the more "tricky sets" I did this NLP trick called dis association. That is I would visualise me walking into the bar like GTA (San Andreas at the time)- with the "floating camera" behind me as I approached.
If I got blown out- and someone said something hurtful I'd mage it as a "cut scene" with badly acted dialogue and the girls looking like "blocky pixels"
At first I thought this idea was hairbrain until I read a Paul McKenna book that used a similar technique.

In fact Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (prior to videogames) would always visualise his meetings from different viewpoints- not only in feeling- but also by "floating" into his opponents head and watching himself through their eyes

Lol omg video games are horrible for the pick-up arts... If it weren't for video games, we'd probably be outside all the time actually interacting with people.

is this a serious subject.. video games in no way compare to experiences of real life