But it is in large part what made me reject PUA shit when I first encountered it more than a decade ago.
It's trying to make dating less about dating and more about gaming the system1 and I don't like it.
Also, even at my horniest and most desperate, I wanted to find a girlfriend, not just a one-night-stand.
I had independently discovered something like negging, jokingly making fun of something about my date, as ostensibly a form of proving that I'm not desperate and thus delighting the date. So it may not count as negging? IDK.
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the system may or may not exist.