So, I've awared you all on how game and personality are meaningless in the short-term, i.e. from first meeting to about maybe a few weeks in --- if you're hoping to get sex, then you better look damn good to your target.

Does this mean personality doesn't matter AT ALL?

NOPE.

In the short term your personality only determines the type of woman you draw in.

However, the literature shows that the halo effect goes BOTH WAYS (time to eat some crow, blackpillers). It can make you more attractive. SIGNIFICANTLY more attractive. And it can make you LESS ATTRACTIVE. Significantly less so.

So in WHAT context is game most effective?

If you are around someone for short periods of time stretched out over weeks/months, then yes, if you do everything right, they will find you more and more desirable. The halo from your personality will light up your looks and will overcome deficits in physical attractiveness.

The literature supports this --- it's very well documented. IIRC people who knew each other 9 months or so before entering any kind of sexual relationship had almost no correlation between their attractiveness levels. People who knew each other for less than a month had the highest correlation.

The game strategy is optimized thusly, AND IRONICALLY:

'Friend' game.

You see someone around and hang out with them or have fairly brief interactions with them over a long period of time. Then, when the moment is right --- you strike. So WONDER UPON WONDERS, TBP is on to something with the 'I'll be her friend and just wait.'

Where does TBP go wrong? TBP is a one-size-fits all personality strategy (like TRP) and applied to the wrong type of girl, will make you less attractive to that girl. Blue pillers are more suited for going after normal, non-damaged, sorta boring women. But when you see them in the friendzone, the girl who friendzoned them is typically not this. She's on some sort of sliding scale to 'bad girl.'

So TBP's, go after your sunday school chicks --- of which there are fewer and fewer legitimate ones --- and emulate your favorite Disney hero/prince.

TRP's, go after the women who are a little looser, a little crazier, and likely more interesting.

Implement the above long term strategy, and you'll be fine.

Once the sexual relationship happens, then you can negotiate terms from a stronger position, i.e. keep the relationship casual or not.

But THAT is not really an STR (short period from meet to sex), because you had to invest considerable resources just to get to the sex.