What event or wake up call did you experience that led you here?

Mine was pretty bad. A little over a year ago I was starting to doubt TRP because everything it taught seemed to directly contradict everything I was experiencing with interactions out in the real world. The final straw was about two months ago.

To sum it up, I was out at a bar with some friends and a friend of a friend who we'll call TRPer had come along. I'd known this guy was into RP cause of some of the language he used, he lifted religiously, and after having been on TRP for about five years, I knew exactly where he was getting all this stuff he was saying from.

We ended up talking to another group at this bar, and there was a really good looking blonde woman with them who TRPer started trying to talk to. He was throwing all the game techniques at her that I'd been reading religiously for the past five years. Negs, DHV, all that bullshit. This was the first time I'd ever seen anyone use "game" IRL and TRPer was coming off looking like he was socially inept. My friends I was with looked pretty weirded out by it, and the woman he was going after just stood there nodding her head and agreeing with whatever he said. She looked petrified and uncomfortable, and finally said she had to go find her friend. He kept talking like she hadn't even said anything and she just let out a nervous "Okaaaay..." and walked off.

My friends were looking at TRPer like "Wtf dude?" and I knew exactly what was going on because he shot back with "Don't worry. It's just a test. She's only testing me cause she wants to sleep with me."

I knew the exact post on TRP he got that from, and for the rest of the night it's as if I was watching him act the post out IRL, down to the very punctuation marks.

We went and got another round of drinks and about 30 minutes later TRPer saw the same woman he was hitting on going upstairs with another group. TRPer insisted he was going to go approach her again cause "She's just nervous and shit testing me." My friends and I told him not to do it cause we could see this girl clearly wasn't into what he was selling.

He kept insisting she's just testing him and went upstairs to try and find her. 20 minutes later he's being escorted out of the bar by a bouncer who was aggressively telling him that they're getting the police involved if he doesn't leave.

I don't know what happened up on the second floor of this bar cause none of my friends and I have heard from this dude since, but I'm going to guess he kept following this woman around or tried the same thing on some other women until someone complained and the bouncers had to handle it.

It definitely made me rethink a lot of this stuff. I went back and read some of the approaching posts that I used to read all the time there and now when I read them they come off as predatory and stalker-like.

I'm also trying to find out what happened to TRPer from my friend who knows him better than I do. I don't know if this is the first time he's pulled a stunt like this but based on the way he talks and the language he's used since I met him that he's definitely been in the RP/PUA communities for a good chunk of time.

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