1.) having a girl buy me a drink or initiate a dance once was actually awesome and totally caught me off guard 2.) playing mind games is an interesting concept but if you don’t know the person too well honestly we don’t know where the line is between what they actually want and being told one thing but them actually wanting the opposite... better to just be blunt because we probably have no idea wth is expected 2.) From all media and movies and observing everyone around me, those of my friends who treated women disrespectfully, went straight for sex instead of trying to talk to them about deep things, and hooked up often without showing any emotional attachment to them were the most successful. In trying to imitate this I found it to be effective... yet when I actually ended up liking them it drove them away. This led me to draw the following (possibly incorrect) conclusion: if you want a chick to like you disrespect her and don’t give her much attention, if you want to lose out and drive them away, treat her too nicely, get emotional with her, and text too much and lengthy. 3.) if you have a guy friend or best friend chances are one of you secretly likes the other. I avoid close girl friendships because in observing everyone around me with these situations it eventually leads to drama - one of them down the road admits feelings for the other, making it awkward because it catches the other off guard. Or they end up in a weird with-benefits scenario. Or the other one is in a relationship or something. If there is a guy friend buying you stuff or following you around shopping and other places, chances are that you are attractive and they are dying a little inside each time hoping your friendship will go somewhere, even possibly resenting you for “leading them on” when you may not have any intention of doing so at all. 4.) random compliments are nice and very appreciated, as they do not happen often 5.) sometimes we gotta be hit with a brick of obviousness on whether to proceed or not. - for example one girl’s normal flirting could be another girl’s way of saying yo let’s get a room. And we definitely don’t want to do anything unsolicited or unwanted but at the same time to some that’s seen as attractive? (to a certain extent...)?? So yeah obviousness is good then we don’t accidentally appear creepy