^ Using humor that comes off as genuine works great for me as an opener, both online and off.
As the game situation evolves, I think that humor is going to become more and more important. The "strong silent" "most interesting man in the world" vibe just isn't going to cut it with the modern young woman in the age of social media. Almost nobody is legitimately interesting enough to make a woman think to herself "Oh! He's so mysterious! I must get to know him better." They've just been hit up four times on Tinder in the last hour. They don't care.
There's a reason that Roosh recommends watching Seinfeld for people new to game, and perhaps specifically Western culture. If you behaved like Jerry Seinfeld all the time, you'd be a stereotypical neurotic Jew and likely get laid pretty close to never. But that's not the objective. The objective is to look at his best material and note the timing and delivery. What you'll notice is that, like all good art, there's nothing extraneous and everything is in its place. Each word has purpose and there's not one extra.
An example: when Jerry is complaining about the guy who he thinks has converted to Judaism just for the jokes. That guy is the "wrong" kind of funny.
"So this is offensive to you as a Jew?"
"It's offensive to me as a comedian."
I don't think Donald Trump is a great example. He says some humorous things from time to time, but at his core he's just a bloviator. He uses too many words. He uses the word "love" fifteen times in the same speech, and so on. He obviously writes his own material. Women are fickle, but there's something I found that they generally don't like across the board: tryhard bloviators. So when someone says "funny guys don't get laid" you have to ask yourself: are you being charming and "observationally funny", or are you being a gabbermouth windbag?
The dilemma of being a politician and humor is that in a sense, you have to appeal to the lowest common denominator. And good comedy always has to be adapted to your audience (important game tip) and will never appeal to everyone, particularly the lowest common denominator.
Most politicians aren't particularly funny. Ironically, the one politician who strikes me has having at least some sort of innate and genuine sense of humor and delivery is Barack Obama - observational, dry, and sarcastic...an Alpha sense of humor, the type of humor that women mistake as being what men are attracted to when they talk about how "snarky and sassy" they are in their online dating profiles. But he's smart enough to tone it down a whole lot because the job requires that. You can tell that sometimes he probably just wants to spit what he's really feeling and could be really funny doing it, but can't. It's probably a really frustrating aspect of the position for him.
Humor doesn't always get me all the way, nothing ever will all the time, but I don't think it's an intrinsically bad way to start, and in my experience if she's feeling it right off the bat it usually means you're at least going somewhere.
As the game situation evolves, I think that humor is going to become more and more important. The "strong silent" "most interesting man in the world" vibe just isn't going to cut it with the modern young woman in the age of social media. Almost nobody is legitimately interesting enough to make a woman think to herself "Oh! He's so mysterious! I must get to know him better." They've just been hit up four times on Tinder in the last hour. They don't care.
There's a reason that Roosh recommends watching Seinfeld for people new to game, and perhaps specifically Western culture. If you behaved like Jerry Seinfeld all the time, you'd be a stereotypical neurotic Jew and likely get laid pretty close to never. But that's not the objective. The objective is to look at his best material and note the timing and delivery. What you'll notice is that, like all good art, there's nothing extraneous and everything is in its place. Each word has purpose and there's not one extra.
An example: when Jerry is complaining about the guy who he thinks has converted to Judaism just for the jokes. That guy is the "wrong" kind of funny.
"So this is offensive to you as a Jew?"
"It's offensive to me as a comedian."
I don't think Donald Trump is a great example. He says some humorous things from time to time, but at his core he's just a bloviator. He uses too many words. He uses the word "love" fifteen times in the same speech, and so on. He obviously writes his own material. Women are fickle, but there's something I found that they generally don't like across the board: tryhard bloviators. So when someone says "funny guys don't get laid" you have to ask yourself: are you being charming and "observationally funny", or are you being a gabbermouth windbag?
The dilemma of being a politician and humor is that in a sense, you have to appeal to the lowest common denominator. And good comedy always has to be adapted to your audience (important game tip) and will never appeal to everyone, particularly the lowest common denominator.
Most politicians aren't particularly funny. Ironically, the one politician who strikes me has having at least some sort of innate and genuine sense of humor and delivery is Barack Obama - observational, dry, and sarcastic...an Alpha sense of humor, the type of humor that women mistake as being what men are attracted to when they talk about how "snarky and sassy" they are in their online dating profiles. But he's smart enough to tone it down a whole lot because the job requires that. You can tell that sometimes he probably just wants to spit what he's really feeling and could be really funny doing it, but can't. It's probably a really frustrating aspect of the position for him.
Humor doesn't always get me all the way, nothing ever will all the time, but I don't think it's an intrinsically bad way to start, and in my experience if she's feeling it right off the bat it usually means you're at least going somewhere.