I don't know what term to use when you attend bootcamps, seminars, or learn from DVDs and online streaming to attain game, then use it to pick up people who were ignoring you or giving you a difficult time beforehand.

For example, you work in IT, and regularly fix computers at companies full of hotties. Each time you fix a hottie's computer, all she does is sit back and watch, or ignore you while chatting with a coworker. After you learned The Game, you started getting numbers, dates, and lays with some of them. Another example is you are a grad student who can never seem to get the interest of a tenured professor who specializes in the thesis you have to write. After you learned The Game, the professor took a vested interest in you.

So tell your stories of "retroactive game" to give a lot of us more hope!

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