Does the game have a limit? I'm still learning
For a while, I've thought I've maxed out my knowledge of the game... I know what I know, and there's not much left to learn, cause I've been at it for a long time. Few days ago, though, I went out with friends and made a somewhat minor modification to the overall game, and the minor modification seemed to result in significantly improved opens and retention. "Shit," I thought to myself, "there are still things I can do that result in what seem to be big improvements," depending on crowd and environment. I don't want to get specific about what I did because doing so is too revealing, but say something privately if you want to know more. If there are still things I can try to optimize, maybe game is a field that goes to infinity... you can never truly know it all. Reading most large forums, like Reddit, is unsatisfying because almost all the guys there are beginners with basic problems and situations. Nothing wrong with beginners... we've all been there... but "all beginners" is boring. A lot of beginners would be better off hiring a coach and spending less time on forums.
The other thing I got to thinking is a classic, but one I repeat because I saw it happen so clearly: girls get in their own way. A friend opened this hot girl, and the girl's friend was hideous. I tried to get another guy to entertain her, but he said no, so I was like, "Fuck it, I'll do it." I entertain the friend for a while, maybe half an hour, then make my other buddy do it. The main friend is hitting on the hot girl. We bounce venues, and the hideous girl tells me the hot girl is out of a relationship and looking to process the breakup, or some similar girl nonsense that means, "My friend wants to hook up and have a great time." At the new venue I entertain the friend a bit more, have a loop, open some other girls for laughs, and then I go home early cause I'm a good boy now.
Next day, apparently the hideous girl who said she was going to let her friend go fuck, didn't do so, and hooked the hot friend into leaving. I thought it was a done deal, despite knowing that what seems to be done, isn't, until it is. The hot girl let her "friend" get in her way. Such is the way of girls, and seeing this happen over and over again is why I laugh so hard at "feminism" and "girl power" and "girl bosses."
My buddy is a good guy overall, and the hot girl should have done him. Whoever else she gets is probably going to be worse than him. Such is the game. Girls turn down a cornucopia of beautiful opportunities, and hold each other back, like crabs in a basket. Some men do this as well, and if you find yourself among men like that, find new friends.