Everything matters . . . your looks, your abs, your hat, great grandma, guitar, etc . . . However, you're randomly pulling these things out of thin air without any regard to an overall pick up strategy. This is like walking into a music store and picking up a random instrument without any thoughts as to what type of music you want to play.
So you got your 'feel it out' thread out of the way. If you're interested in really giving this thing a shot, then consider creating a journal in the FR section. Read the journals of guys who have more than just a few pages. Model your journal after their examples.
Couple of thoughts:
1. Abs: Working on only abs is like a newbie learning only the guitar solo of a song. Even his solo will improve if he learns the whole song right? If you want to get fit, find a trainer or at least do an online search for an overall fitness program.
2. Your social habits/tendencies probably have been influenced a lot by your past. Whether it's through a therapist, counselor, church, meditation, etc . . . you might want to address some issues. (You might also consider reading this
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3. We see a hot chick and we pop boners; it's simple. Girls on the other hand ping a bunch of different radars. They've got the 'creep' radar, 'cool' radar, 'popular' radar, etc . . . and essentially, all of this data gets crunched in a complex real-time female-o-calculator. This is how they judge 'attractiveness'. And this is why the 'guys' here are perplexed to why girls would label you 'unattractive' just by looking at your outer appearance.
If girls labeled you 'unattractive' in the past, then there might be some truth in it. The interesting thing is that you can control a lot of the 'data' that goes into the female-o-calculator to shift the results; THIS is 'game'.