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Comment on Field Report: Fashion Show Disaster by Mr. Orange

Mr. Orange — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:07:33 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Looking back at these openers, I can see why they didn’t go anywhere.

Comment on Field Report: Fashion Show Disaster by Yo Baby

Yo Baby — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:02:10 +0000

Mostly questions from the get go. Try making statements/assumptions about them or their answers to your questions. It looked like an interview from the beginning.

Comment on Dating Gone Wrong: Gizmodo blogger Alyssa Bereznak puts Magic: The Gathering champion Jon Finkel on blast by Grim

Grim — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:29:18 +0000

I think the problem was identifying him by his full name and linking it to his wiki page. If she hadn’t done that, the whole “going on a second date just for fodder for my article” wouldn’t have mattered as much.

Comment on Field Report: Can I retake that shit test? by Badger

Badger — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:44:35 +0000

I wonder how it would have gone over if you put your hand on her hip and said “I promise I’ll never touch you again.”

Or grabbed her hand, then said “may I hold your hand?”

Would have been a classic cocky mind-fu** of saying one thing while doing the opposite.

Comment on The 5 Best Places To Meet Women by Badger

Badger — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 07:02:41 +0000

“By far the best place to meet women is the internet. I could write a whole post on meeting women over the internet and I just might.”

Please do as I am dumbfounded by this being #1. I’ve been online for four months (after getting out of an LTR with a woman I met on the Internet) and pickings have been slim. It’s been productive by sheer numbers, but my day and night game have been much more efficient. There are theories that more women are getting online dating profiles as attention-getting mechanisms instead of actually trying to find dates – back when there was a stigma, you had to be really serious about dating to be on there.

Comment on Dating Gone Wrong: Gizmodo blogger Alyssa Bereznak puts Magic: The Gathering champion Jon Finkel on blast by Badger

Badger — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 06:56:55 +0000

This is excellent stuff. Shameless plugging but I posted twice on this, didn’t see yours until after I’d hit publish or it would have made the post itself.

http://badgerhut.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/cattiness-and-the-un-selected-man/

http://badgerhut.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/further-thoughts-on-the-bereznak-finkel-kerfuffle/

Comment on Dating Gone Wrong: Gizmodo blogger Alyssa Bereznak puts Magic: The Gathering champion Jon Finkel on blast by mr. cellophane

mr. cellophane — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:18:50 +0000

It occurs to me that her uber-bitchiness might be a strategy to compensate for her lack of physical gifts. I mean, obviously if she went to a beauty salon that did professional makeup and hair, she’d do herself a lot of good in the looks department. Especially if she followed that up with a half-decent wardrobe. Seriously, the Mormon-chic look only works in Fundamentalist LDS towns in Arizona these days.

However, I think her attitude is exactly right, “Lick my shoes, worms!” is going to get her dates with the kind of men she wants and work to keep her in control of the situation. She’s clearly not an Alpha Female, but she’s trying to play the role of Alpha Bitch. (Maybe NY hipsters like the Sarah-Plain-and-Tall look, it’d never fly in Miami, though.)

Incidentally, not only is Finkel good at Magic, but like many Magic players he went on to win at professional Poker.

http://www.amazon.com/Jonny-Magic-Card-Shark-Kids/dp/1400064074

“Journalist Kushner, author of Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, treats Finkel’s saga as a journey toward self-knowledge and manhood, as he loses weight, starts scoring babes (with the help of arcane womanizing strategies gleaned from PickUpGuide.com) and develops the stoic grace under pressure that defines mature masculinity.”

So, I’m not exactly crying for him, except…. why did he go for a 2 like Alyssa (and I’m only calling her a 2 because I’ve never seen a 1). Maybe he thought she’d be an easy lay… but if you have to do it with the lights out what’s the point?

Comment on Dating Gone Wrong: Gizmodo blogger Alyssa Bereznak puts Magic: The Gathering champion Jon Finkel on blast by Mr. Orange

Mr. Orange — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:28:33 +0000

Thanks Katrina. This story just keeps getting better.

Comment on Dating Gone Wrong: Gizmodo blogger Alyssa Bereznak puts Magic: The Gathering champion Jon Finkel on blast by Katrina

Katrina — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:26:07 +0000

It includes phrases like “Champion dweeb in hedge-fund manager clothing”

Comment on Dating Gone Wrong: Gizmodo blogger Alyssa Bereznak puts Magic: The Gathering champion Jon Finkel on blast by Katrina

Katrina — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:25:18 +0000

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/08/my-okcupid-affair-with-a-world-champion-magic-the-gathering-player is the original article