In a direct approach, I believe some of her logic creeps in saying, "if he was that comfy telling me how cute i am, then he would obvi be as comfy doing that with infinite other girls."

Hence why I prefer situational 99 times out of 100. Gives the full fate impression.

And whether you go direct or indirect it is fate: after all the two of you happened to appear in the world together at that moment in time.

But I'm not going to go to the mat for situational indirect - that would be the ego running things and I'm not going to let that happen.

The main reason why I like going direct is because I am secretly screening for sexual submission. A woman who is compliant and submissive is more likely to be compatible with a dominant man sexually.

As alluded to I respect various types of approaches however for me and me only I feel I'd lose a significant amount of opportunities on the front end going direct vs. going direct indirectly i.e. being direct as fuck with everything but 90% of my words. I like giving the female mind something to chew on rather than just spilling it out as though I was talking about the game with my buddies.

I would just as much prefer to have a approach invitation where a girl is hovering around or checking me out. Its the same difference, her buying temperature is up, she already wants it so, coercing her into doing what she already wants is a given outcome. She already made that conscious choice and willed it into happening.
The ego comes in one way or another. There is no trying to avoid it as that is just a new ego. I have seen people read Ecky, get on about ego, and create a new ego of pointing out the ego of every man, women, and child. Its like the man stuffing his face full of donuts preaching about not eating sugar. It is ridiculous.

I do not think it is black or white. It could be indirect yet implied context that suggests sexual interest. It could be direct and pulled back ever so slightly. You could be indirect one sec and balls to the wall the next. It is all about context and most importantly, game being your ability to pickup on social cues. Lastly, a woman is either interested or not.

PU as a system in and of itself is faulty and not the most efficient. When it comes to pickup, many systems are involved, and some of which are blending together with a variety of others. Even the attempt to understand her or your emotions, a variety of systems are involved. Great game is the ability to pickup on all these other systems at work, fate being another, timing be another, circumstances, situational outcomes, and a variety of other.