Let me introduce myself: I'm a 28 y.o. living in Amsterdam.
I first read about the game in the PUA newsgroups, way before it became as popular as it is now with the publication of "The Game". However, I dismissed it as bullshit from guys who probably weren't as good with the ladies as they pretended to be. Also, I thought of it as sort of a Catch-22: if a girl falls for tricks like these, she's dumb and not worth pursuing, if she doesn't there's no point in applying them. However, over the years I've come to realize that there is a lot of truth in the theories, and a lot of them work on every girl, no matter how smart she is (and I also discovered that you don't need a girl with a brain to have fun for a few nights).
So now I'm back to learn everything there is to it. My goal is to get to a point where picking up a girl isn't just something that happens once in a while when I meet a girl who likes me under the right circumstances, but something I can do any time, any place.