I'm still confidence building and working on my general game (Best advice I've found so far is Mark Manson's book 'Models': being vulnerable and honest with your intentions etc etc. Seems to be working for me over a bunch of cheesy pickup lines.)

I can't help but feel that being with different groups of friends in different settings affect my results on a night out.

With all due respect to my friends, I always notice that these different scenarios bring different results.

For instance, I've noticed that when standing with a group of more 'handsome' friends, (most of them married or in relationships - they obviously have some sort of game). I would probably tend to be approached a lot more and have no problem approaching.

If I'm with my geekier single friends, with worse dress sense, no sense of game and are generally a bit dorky and their behaviour matches their description (that's why I love them). I generally tend to be less successful in my approach to women.)

I personally don't think I'm doing anything different in my approach, being with different groups of friends. It's also not like I'm trying to use any of them as a wing-man.

Are the girls in question judging my friends here, and not my own approach? Do they see my social circle as being dorky and not having much game, therefore I must be one too?

I'm not sure I'd want to be with a girl who can't handle the fact I'm friends with these people.

Has anyone got an opinion or advise on this? I'd like to think this isn't the case, but it certainly seems like it.