I've been trying to figure this out for a long time.

Most clubs are just really loud places where everybody mainly goes to drink and dance. There really isn't any way to hold a conversation in these environments.. nobody can hear you and you have to shout things in people's ears, sometimes several times, just to get a small sentence across. So running "game" simply will not work.

So how do people pull girls in these clubs? I don't understand how there can be any concept of game here, it all just looks like a jumble of drunk people moving around, maybe if a girl likes your looks she'll let you dance with her, otherwise what else can you do? Try to impress people with your dance moves?

Even if you get a girl to dance with you, they usually run off after a couple minutes, so how can you escalate?

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I definitely understand your frustration. It's completely retarded! This is where I go to lounges, or clubs that have a lounge area. I live in Cali, so most clubs have something like this and it's usually where the smokers hang out. So you have to take the good with the bad.

Either way, in these parts of the clubs, the music is a lot softer and you can have a conversation. Sometimes you find girls that are just hanging out, they are taking a break from dancing and getting some fresh air, or you got a genuine yuck mouth (lady that smokes) on your hands.

Otherwise if there isn't an area of the club like this, or a lounge that you can go to, then there is nothing you can do other than use your big boy voice to hold a conversation over the loud speakers.

In my experience, you can escalate only while dancing. First you just dance by her, move up to her, then put a hand on her, pull her close, dance together, grind together, then get all up on each other. Then, if it seems like she's getting tired or there is nowhere to escalate to and it's getting boring, you can motion her out of the crowd for a drink (the places I know are quieter around the bar). Not much real gaming to be done in such places, first of all, as you said, it's too loud, and in that environment, they have less of an attention span than a hyperactive kindergartener.

I can't figure out the places that are too loud to talk, but no space for dancing. Any ideas?

Two choices there:
1: Doing what the others do, wiggling your body in the crowd like sardines and trying to make the best out of it
2: Getting the hell out of there and finding a better place.