Is your love life lacking acronyms and made-up words?
In love, as in every other aspect of life (except perhaps talking to cats), it pays to increase your word power. Happily for all of us I have discovered a wondrous Red Pill Glossary on Black Dragon Blog (tagline: “Love Women While Staying Free”), which includes a wide assortment of terms that will be new even to the most advanced Alpha.
Most would-be PUAs (Pickup Artists) can tell an AFC (Average Frustrated Chump) from a DHV (Demonstration of Higher Value). But here are few other acronyms you may not have encountered:
CTF – Cheating Time Frame. The amount of time you have installed in your brain before you will cheat on a monogamous partner. …
EFA – Early Frame Announcement. The strongly conveyed but unspoken overall message to a woman non-verbally conveying who you are and why you’re there. …LSNFTE – Long Soft Next For Temporary Exclusivity.
I didn’t make this one up, seriously. What all that apprently means:
A common occurrence with Alphas in nonmonogamous relationships where a woman leaves the Alpha, who will not give her monogamy, so she can get a traditional boyfriend or husband who will.
Huh. Maybe she’s leaving you because you’re the sort of person who goes around talking about CTF and LSNFTE, OK?
TEP – Three Exchange Process. Pitching a first date to a woman on the third or fourth email exchange with her on a dating site.
WHY DO YOU NEED AN ACRONYM FOR THIS? How many spammy messages are you sending out on OK Cupid anyway?
VYW – Very Young Woman, a woman between the age of consent (usually 18) and 23. VYW have the lowest ASD of any age group, by far.
Oh, whoops, I forgot: ASD is “Anti Slut Defense,” which Mr. Black Dragon defines as:
A condition created by societal programming experienced by women wherein they attempt to avoid sex, even if they want it, so as to not look or feel like a “slut” or “inappropriate” or not like “a lady”.
I think this is his complicated way of saying that no means yes.
There are three different types of VYW’s by the way. You can look them up yourself.
Now that you’ve mastered some of the most useful acronyms, let’s give acronyms a Hard Next and move onto actual words. And made-up words.
I might as well start with Hard Next, huh?
Hard Next – A permanent breakup. Where a man leaves a woman, never contacts her again, and literally never sees her again (or at least never again in a sexual context). …
This is not to be confused with a Soft Next, which is apparently a synonym for “acting like a douchebag.”
Soft Next – When a man removes a woman from his life for a short period of time, usually three to seven days, during which he completely ignores all communication from her, because of drama she gave him. At the end of the soft next, the relationship resumes as normal.
Or she tells him to go fuck himself because he’s being an immature asshole.
The Soft Next is not to be confused with the Stinky Next, which is when a man leaves a woman after letting out a fart so noxious that he’s too embarrassed to ever speak to her again.
Ok, I made that one up. But these are all real:
Betaization – The slow process by which a woman transforms a man she’s in a relationship with from an Alpha to a beta, usually by means of drama, demands, rules, sex (giving or withholding), or threats. Betaization is a completely natural part of a woman’s biological makeup … .
Comfort Bombardment – A process by which you get a woman comfortable about you after the first date is scheduled via online dating but prior to actually meeting her in real life. Comfort Bombardment raises the odds of sex considerably and reduces the odds of flaking. …
This is also useful if you’re planning to start a cult; you can use it alongside “love bombing.”
Disney – Any thought derived from societal programming that monogamy, child rearing, or traditional marriage is pleasant and/or permanent in the modern era. …
And for the fellas:
Guy-Disney – The incorrect thought men have that somewhere out there is a girl who will love you forever, never cheat on you, never get bored with you, and never break up with you.
This is not to be confused with:
Hanna-Barbera — In which someone plays a bongo drum very quickly every time you run.
Ok, I made that one up too.
There are more, but I think we’d probably do better just to make up some of our own.
But even in innocent context, there’s a gatekeeping aspect; acronyms divide people who have been involved in the community long enough to know all the jargon from people who don’t.
Ain’t THAT the truth.
There was this one d-bag who dumped me, probably figuring it was a Soft Next, and that he could get back to me when he was done running around with others. Well, two years went by, and I was long over him, when suddenly he calls back out of the blue. “A blast from your past”, he called it. I politely but cheerfully let him know that he’d been Hard Nexted. By a younger, cuter guy. He blasted off shortly after.
weirwoodtreehugger:
“They need their little egos propped up at all times. They need women to be “sluts” for them and only them. If a woman has had other partners, he isn’t special. It isn’t a conquest. Never forget that these people hate women and think we exist only to make them feel strong and powerful.”
^^^Nutshell.
LWAGMSUOTI – pronounced El wagum sue otee, Looser without a girlfriend making stuff up on the internet.
Black Dragon – an old D&D reference to an acid spewing lizard
Bina:
It always annoys the hell out me when reactionaries claim to be the “real ‘Murrica-loving patriots” and liberals and leftists hate the U.S. – and they don’t even know anything about USian history. At all.
This is one of those things where even where they get bits right, they manage to come to the wrong conclusion.
1: The country was facing a likely road to abolition of slavery, in no small part because the urban North was growing increasingly populous, and the 3/5 solution was no longer going to be enough to hold back the desire for abolition.
2: The South didn’t want to give up slavery, having built its economy around farming and other slave-profitable enterprises.
3: It’s true that abolition was a distant-to-non-existent concern of Lincoln’s; he was opposing the disintegration of the Union. Even the Emancipation Proclamation is tainted by the fact that it didn’t apply to slaves in the Union states that still had them.
4: While Lincoln might not have been fighting to end slavery, it is very true that the Confederates were fighting to preserve it. The letters and documents of the era, including the Confederate constitution, all make that abundantly clear.
What nitwits like Black Dragon usually get horribly wrong is that they think this somehow creates moral parity between the two sides. It does not–one side was fighting for a largely neutral issue (the retention of the Union); the other was fighting for a morally repugnant one.
(Oh, and of course, Lincoln did not ‘invade’ the South–you can’t invade your own country. If anything, the Confederates, by declaring themselves to be a foreign power, invaded from within.)
I usually refute the notion that Lincoln fought the war to free the slaves because it makes the North–which had a massively racist culture of its own at the time–seem somehow so enlightened that the fact that the Union won means that that should’ve been the end of the issue, which obviously it was not.
that live in swamps and iirc won’t eat anything until it has decayed for a week
@ proxieme – I am literally only here for the LULZ. (learning stuff is a bonus)
@ sparky – If colace plus a lion equals Sean Connery, what does lactulose plus a jackal equal? (I have no idea, but I stink at acronyms and this game looks like a fun substitute)
Freemage – well put. One of the cruel ironies of the War of Southron Treason was that – at the beginning – the Traitors were fighting to take slavery out of the USA, and the USA was fighting to keep it in.
The Traitors knew that history and demography were not on their side; eventually, they would lose control of the Senate and then tariff reform would wreck their pre-industrial economy.
I’m a 4th level Alpha Male with a +2 Cloak of Peacocking and a masterwork fedora, giving me a TSEF0 (to seduce easiness factor zero) of 15.
The green d20 is a bit unbalanced and throws up natural 20s 6.3% of the time, so I use that one when rolling to get laid.
When I reach 7th level, I’m going to multi-class with MRA so I can cast Improved Bitterness and Meme of Confusion and…
Where are you going? I haven’t told you about my Great Neg feat yet!
@schwadevivre:
Old, am I?
@PolicyofMadness:
They prefer pickled prey.
@Ira:
That totally sounds like one of those game reviews we were doing last week. “It’s totally great, except where it sucks.”
But yeah, I should totally talk more about RPGs, shouldn’t I.
Said no one ever.One of the trouble spots of WEG Star Wars was that you improved your skills by buying more dice to roll, letting you get higher numbers. Well, there was no upper limit; except maybe by demonstration. They had write-ups for all of the characters, and Darth Vader had lightsaber combat of 11 dice by the end of Return. That’s a difficult number of dice to roll unless you can find some special teensy six-siders.
Anyway, then you can Use the Force (spend a Force Point) and it lets you double the number of dice you roll.
Plus Vader probably had some Force skills that added dice to lightsaber combat, I don’t have my books handy and anyway it’s bath time for the kiddos.
So anyway, if Vader gets his mad on and spends a Force point in a lightsaber duel, the poor GM would have to roll at least 22 dice, probably a lot more. About time to do what GURPS does when you have to roll a large number of dice, divide that number by 6, roll 6 dice, and multiply that result by the number you just divided for.
Which comes in useful if your players in your GURPS WWII game are flying the Enola Gay.
Robert: Exactly. Now, some folks use that to argue that we should’ve elected a more moderate candidate, rather than Lincoln, one who would allow a negotiated end to slavery–after all, we get to the same place in the end, without the tragedies of the war, right? There’s several problems with this notion:
1: There’s no guarantee it wouldn’t have just pushed war down the road another election cycle or two.
2: A slow collapse of slavery would’ve left nearly 4 million people in slavery, possibly for decades–‘eventually’ does not imply haste. Hell, there could easily have been another generation born into shackles. These lives don’t matter to the Confederate apologists, of course, for… reasons.
3: Usually the Confederate apologists like to suggest a very Pollyanna scenario, in which the gradual freeing of the slaves leads to a more peaceable society where there’s no lingering racial animosity. Again, there’s no guarantee of this. I just recently read a short story set in an alt-timeline like that–but instead, it was very dark, with the Southern states, realizing they were going to have problems with people who had a vague legal status, establishing what amounted to concentration camps, where the slaves were kept in worsening conditions until they died of illness and neglect.
many northern states got rid of slavery via gradual emancipation.
anyone who thinks this worked out well is someone who doesn’t care that people continued to live in slavery for most of their lives in order to protect the economic interests of rich white men.
yeah, no racism there at all.
I shamefully (not really) admit to having played this. With a table of 3-4 gamers + DM, we had *plenty* of dice. And there’s a certain pleasant feeling to have a small ocean of dice in front of you that you have to role. Though I have to say, I was amazingly good at rolling really crappy no matter how many damned dice there were.
@ Falconer – bet you’re younger than me
First RPG I played was “World of Greyhawk” rules from a photocopied book sent over from the US because it was not for sale in the UK. Tunnels and Trolls with Bunnies and Burrows also were part of my history.
Actually I suspect that MRAs see themselves Heroes a la D&D when in fact they are actually Drone humans in Paranoia!
I’m sorry, I know this shit is awful, but I can’t stop laughing at LSNFTE. “She only dumped me and never contacted me again and got married to that other guy because… because she’s so into me! Because I’m so alpha! This is just one of her evil manipulatey lady tactics! THAT MUST BE IT.”
@schwadevivre: No bet. Sorry, I kind of left that thought half-finished. Seeing as they’re publishing the 5th Edition of D&D, I don’t think black dragons are all that hipstery retro yet.
I’m sure Paranoia is hilarious with the right people. I’ve always been too nervous to try it.
@Puddleglum: Oh, it’s no problem finding the dice. It’s just rolling scads of them, then counting them up. I’ve heard people complain that it slows the game down.
I just finished running I6 Ravenloft for some friends. One of them was playing a wizard for the first time ever. That was kind of slow, because we had to answer his questions about spells.
The card reading* put the holy symbol in the same room as Strahd. You know, the thing that would paralyze him and destroy him outright 1 chance in 10? Right. There. So the heroes win initiative, manage to grab the symbol even though it’s trapped with a lightning bolt, and use it all within the space of one round. Then they knock the paralyzed Strahd over and stake him with a natural 20. Boom. We took the looting as read. I still have to add it all up….
*The module has g*psies all over the place. Fair dos, it’s from like 1985. I replaced them all with wandering halflings and it didn’t seem to make a difference.
Welp, off to play Baldur’s Gate 2, a video game that simulates a tabletop game, and one in which I right wrongs and go around with a character that shouts things like BUTT KICKING FOR GOODNESS!!
grumpyoldnurse:
Hmm. Lactulose plus a jackal. Bruce Willis? And one pissed-off jackal.
What about senokot plus a polar bear?
@weirwoodtreehugger
Ack, screwed up the HTML, sorry.
At first I was disgusted at the dehumanization of women, cynicism and all-around douchebaggery (also entertained with the self delusions).
But then I got to the definition of “guy-disney” and it made me feel a pity for them. All that pretentious “game” comes at a great cost.
Is there some need for military-style precision and terseness in dating that is fulfilled by acronyms?
She: Hello.
He: I HAVE VISUAL LRD OF AN RNTPZQ AT 01040 WHISKEY FOXTROT TANGO! REPEAT, CONFIRMED LEVEL 3 SPBHCA WITH AN F-5 FUNNEL ON THE GROUND. CLOSING ON TARGET WITH ZDRNST FFW ZZT BLX. ROGER!
She: Uh-huh. So….is Roger single?
@ Sarah, it’s their choice. A choice made out of fear, true, but their choice.
” ATTENTION…DON’T EAT THE RED PILL ACID…IT’S BAD. “