There are side effects to practicing game.

People touch you more.  Men and women.  Once you break that social taboo, people are so touch starved in our society that they unconsciously respond to it, even just seeing it.

Women approach you more.

Usually not women that I am interested in, but it happens.  They will come up and start talking about something I am wearing, or doing.  It happens in grocery stores, it happens on the street.  It happens at the gym.

People talk more, with less prompting and then say things like, “I don’t know why I told you all that.”

Except for the most bitter angry old women, everyone gets out of my way.