Post: #26

(05-14-2013 10:56 PM)el mechanico Wrote:  California is a beta state so it's not suprising that you guys are inside alone on the computer a lot. This would explian the lucky rep points you catch here and there.

I'm going to complain to El Mech's parole officer that he beat me up again.

Post: #27

It would be pretty cool to have a detailed infographic on RVF user stats, maybe for the world on a per country basis and then for the US per region (Midwest, Eastern Seaboard, West Coast).

Post: #28

If you split up the country, it makes sense.

California has ~13% of the country's population, so on any internet site, there is going to be a strong Cali demographic.

When you narrow it down for RVForum or any sort of game-site, you are going to be pretty much zoning out all fly over states, with the exception of maybe Illinois (Chicago) and Nevada (Las Vegas). I don't imagine there's a lot of players out there in the Bible Belt/Rust Belt/Nebraska/Wyoming etc.

Keep in mind, there are three states on the West coast, and fourteen on the East coast. Then apply the fact that 13% of the population lives in California, and it's a no brainer that a majority of your posters are going to be from Cali.

Correlation does not imply causation.

Post: #29

I also tend to see that California has more posters dedicated to Game, while East Coast breeds a lot of more General Manosphere forumers and bloggers. Might be because of the weather

Post: #30

Notice how the New York people are trying to creep their city into the conversation. "Yeah, LA has got that, but New York has this equally-as-good thing too." Typical New York me-too shit--making everything about themselves.

   

I found this footage of the last gathering the California players.

Post: #31

I grew up in SoCal, San Diego to be exact, with bitches on my front and bitches on my back ...

And I have lived elsewhere in the US of A. The only thing I can add to this .... California girls are cunts compared to other areas. So, you get used to the tap-dance that is game quickly.

I will give California girls credit in one area, they do hit the wall with much less velocity.

I'm in the Midwest now and I've run into some young girls, like 22, 23 young that are broken down. Yuuuck.

Post: #32

MikeCF only made this post so he could include his own name, and you all fell for it ! ! !

Post: #33

People in California are probably in better shape, but maybe it's more corny on the whole than NYC. In NYC, we have dirt and bad weather that makes us manly. California everyone's all lubricated and sunny. You guys have better burritos, but I think that it sucks that you have to drive all over LA.

I think we probably have better fashion in NYC. Our men don't shave their body hair to look like oiled up dolphins etc. Shaving body hair is for women.

Also, there's a study that says NY has biggest dicks in the US.

Post: #34

Because it's a goddamn grindhouse and if you can pull in California you can pull anywhere.

Post: #35

(05-14-2013 11:58 PM)scotian Wrote:  MikeCF, you forgot two of the biggest Cali players on RVF, Qwest and InternationalSwagger, when I met those guys in Thailand they were wearing those Republic of California hats (the one with the bear on it) and had women throwing themselves at them.

See, the west side is the best side.

Maybe the mods need to give a badge or indicator saying, Cali swag. That way new guys will know what's up.

Post: #36

Won't claim to be an expert on California, but I have some statistical analysis that can back up what Mike, G and some of the others are saying.

After four years in the manosphere (In Mala Fide and under my real name) and comparing notes with other bloggers, site stats consistently show that California contributes more of the manosphere's readership than any other state. Not only that, the Midwest and South are underrepresented relative to their populations. For example, my stats consistently show more readers from New York than Texas despite the latter's larger population. Here are the top ten states contributing traffic to my blog in the past month:

California
New York
Texas
Oregon
Florida
Illinois
Washington
Georgia
Virginia
Pennsylvania

I'd explain California's dominance due to four factors:

1) Geographical concentration. There are more overall readers from the East Coast than the West, but they're spaced out across a bunch of different cities/states (New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Maryland/Virginia/D.C. being the most notable). California's population is so much larger than any of these individual states that they have an advantage on that alone.

2. Socially liberal attitudes. States/cities that are socially conservative/traditionalist are massively underrepresented in the manosphere because sleeping around is frowned upon there. LA, NYC, the Bay Area, D.C., Miami; these are the big blue metropolises where girls are living the feminist dream. In particular, the Pacific Northwest is massively overrepresented in the manosphere because it's ground zero for nutball feminism (see the furor that erupted over my RoK article on Portland).

3. Weather. It's pretty much common knowledge that women from places that are warm and pleasant year-round tend to be more promiscuous, because the consequences for being a fuck-up are less severe; screwing around in a place like North Dakota or Sweden pre-civilization could (and was) be fatal for women. Think of George Carlin's routine on whether there's more rape at the equator or North Pole: "How many Eskimos have we got? 30? 35? Nobody's getting laid at the North Pole!" Statistics bear this out: the states with the lowest teen pregnancy rates are northern ones (Vermont, Minnesota, North Dakota etc.) while the highest rates are found in warmer ones (Texas, Arizona, Georgia etc.).

4. Image-consciousness (or "shallowness" if you're a loser). Following on the previous point, places where the weather is nice year-round tend to place a greater emphasis on looks. Contrast with, say, New York, where you're bundled up in a thick coat for half the year so you don't fucking freeze. Hell, compare to other parts of the West Coast; in Portland, despite the lack of snow, half the women dress like crazy bag ladies. I imagine that the guys here who grew up in Cali have a more acute sense of style and how appearance matters in game, which gives them a leg up on guys from colder climates.

5. Coolness. Bunch of guys mentioned this already, but I've noticed it myself; in the Midwest and other areas, being from Cali automatically makes you cool. No kid ever says, "When I grow up, I'm gonna move to Wisconsin!" It's always Cali, movie star land, where the beautiful people live. Hell, when I was applying for college, I tried desperately to get into UC Berkeley because of the cool factor alone.

So basically, Californian guys dominate RVF (and the manosphere in general to a lesser extent) because it ranks high on all the metrics: large population, socially permissive, warm, stylish, and hip. Nowhere else in the U.S. can even come close.

Full disclosure: I'm a New York native, but I grew sick of the place years ago. NYC is a good town, but the state in general has burned me way too many times.

Post: #37

(05-15-2013 12:44 AM)HeyPete Wrote:  I grew up in SoCal, San Diego to be exact, with bitches on my front and bitches on my back ...

   

Post: #38

Ha it's a joke the large population argument doesn't even work, include the next three states you mentioned and you'll still get calif beating the next three biggest populations combined.

Ask anyone who has lived on both coasts absolutely no one will say it's easier on the west side

Reasons why California is harder:
1. Shit logistics
2. Feminism ground zero
3. High competition
4. More ego inflation because they are "California Girls" so they must be the best (even have songs touting their inflated worth)
5. All the tech guys shoving money at every negative 5 (thank you Man Jose)
6. Wasn't the game written regarding LA? Guess we can ignore that too.
7. Any new "technology"ie: ways to keep hoes glued to their phones - California

There is no comparison. You can do this and adjust for population size as well same result. The east coast is a pussy paradise. LA/SD logistics hell, San Jose/SF is feminism hell. Again look at the forum when people try to fly in and kill it in California, goosed, fly to NYC and you end up smashing two bitches in a day(see slubu's report to NYC).

If you do fine in California you do fine anywhere, that's why it is a great training ground. You have to come up with new shit all the time just to keep up.

If you have lived on both coasts... You know the truth. If anything NYC makes you soft because it is too easy out there. Show up, get housed, holler at every girl who walks by your traffic lane, bang.

To reiterate no one will chime in saying the west side is easier if they lived on both coasts.

Edit: hasn't fisto also spent time in California? Isn't iknowexactly also Cali-for-nia?!

(05-15-2013 01:54 AM)Matt Forney Wrote:  Won't claim to be an expert on California, but I have some statistical analysis that can back up what Mike, G and some of the others are saying.

After four years in the manosphere (In Mala Fide and under my real name) and comparing notes with other bloggers, site stats consistently show that California contributes more of the manosphere's readership than any other state. Not only that, the Midwest and South are underrepresented relative to their populations. For example, my stats consistently show more readers from New York than Texas despite the latter's larger population. Here are the top ten states contributing traffic to my blog in the past month:

California
New York
Texas
Oregon
Florida
Illinois
Washington
Georgia
Virginia
Pennsylvania

I'd explain California's dominance due to four factors:

1) Geographical concentration. There are more overall readers from the East Coast than the West, but they're spaced out across a bunch of different cities/states (New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Maryland/Virginia/D.C. being the most notable). California's population is so much larger than any of these individual states that they have an advantage on that alone.

2. Socially liberal attitudes. States/cities that are socially conservative/traditionalist are massively underrepresented in the manosphere because sleeping around is frowned upon there. LA, NYC, the Bay Area, D.C., Miami; these are the big blue metropolises where girls are living the feminist dream. In particular, the Pacific Northwest is massively overrepresented in the manosphere because it's ground zero for nutball feminism (see the furor that erupted over my RoK article on Portland).

3. Weather. It's pretty much common knowledge that women from places that are warm and pleasant year-round tend to be more promiscuous, because the consequences for being a fuck-up are less severe; screwing around in a place like North Dakota or Sweden pre-civilization could (and was) be fatal for women. Think of George Carlin's routine on whether there's more rape at the equator or North Pole: "How many Eskimos have we got? 30? 35? Nobody's getting laid at the North Pole!" Statistics bear this out: the states with the lowest teen pregnancy rates are northern ones (Vermont, Minnesota, North Dakota etc.) while the highest rates are found in warmer ones (Texas, Arizona, Georgia etc.).

4. Image-consciousness (or "shallowness" if you're a loser). Following on the previous point, places where the weather is nice year-round tend to place a greater emphasis on looks. Contrast with, say, New York, where you're bundled up in a thick coat for half the year so you don't fucking freeze. Hell, compare to other parts of the West Coast; in Portland, despite the lack of snow, half the women dress like crazy bag ladies. I imagine that the guys here who grew up in Cali have a more acute sense of style and how appearance matters in game, which gives them a leg up on guys from colder climates.

5. Coolness. Bunch of guys mentioned this already, but I've noticed it myself; in the Midwest and other areas, being from Cali automatically makes you cool. No kid ever says, "When I grow up, I'm gonna move to Wisconsin!" It's always Cali, movie star land, where the beautiful people live. Hell, when I was applying for college, I tried desperately to get into UC Berkeley because of the cool factor alone.

So basically, Californian guys dominate RVF (and the manosphere in general to a lesser extent) because it ranks high on all the metrics: large population, socially permissive, warm, stylish, and hip. Nowhere else in the U.S. can even come close.

Full disclosure: I'm a New York native, but I grew sick of the place years ago. NYC is a good town, but the state in general has burned me way too many times.

Post: #39

The Midwest is generally bad for developing players compared to most other places in the country.
You have the high neuroticism and introversion of the x-generation Scandinavians (and Germans to some extent), an almost homogenous aging population of conservative white people with liberal politics scattered in rural areas and small towns, low population density, and lots of alcoholism.

Not to mention abstinence-only sex education, anti-bullying PSAs since the early 90s, religious values, healthy family relationships, and that winter is about eight months out of the year. I wouldn't doubt that the 20-something marriage crowd is bigger here, since ~50% of my friends are getting married soon or are engaged.

It's getting gayer since feminism and women's rights campaigns are blowing up in a lot of college towns, as legions of pasty Midwesterners study to be activists and lawyers and hope move out East to try their hands at non-profits and politics.

Here's teen pregnancy rates, for instance

Quote:40. South Dakota - 53/1,000
41. Iowa - 51/1,000
42. Nebraska - 50/1,000
43. Utah - 48/1,000
44. Wisconsin - 45/1,000
45. Maine - 43/1,000
46. Massachusetts - 42/1,000
47. North Dakota - 42/1,000
48. Minnesota - 42/1,000
49. Vermont - 38/1,000
50. New Hampshire - 33/1,000

It's not to say that solid gamesmen can't wreck it in Minneapolis or Omaha, it's just not a great place to expect a lot of players to come from. The talent is also pretty good during the summer but hits the wall quickly and goes into hibernation during the winter.

Post: #40

(05-15-2013 01:54 AM)Matt Forney Wrote:  3. Weather. It's pretty much common knowledge that women from places that are warm and pleasant year-round tend to be more promiscuous, because the consequences for being a fuck-up are less severe; screwing around in a place like North Dakota or Sweden pre-civilization could (and was) be fatal for women. Think of George Carlin's routine on whether there's more rape at the equator or North Pole: "How many Eskimos have we got? 30? 35? Nobody's getting laid at the North Pole!" Statistics bear this out: the states with the lowest teen pregnancy rates are northern ones (Vermont, Minnesota, North Dakota etc.) while the highest rates are found in warmer ones (Texas, Arizona, Georgia etc.).

Now there's a half baked theory if I ever heard one, Actually Matt, there's a huge rape problem in the north pole among the Eskimo (Inuit in Canada), Alaska leads your country with the highest rate of rape, so I guess Carlin was wrong about that. Instead of blaming the weather on the higher rates of teen pregnancy in the south, I think a better explanation could be that the teenage girls there have less access to sexual health education, birth control and abortion than their northern counterparts.

Post: #41

(05-15-2013 03:32 AM)scotian Wrote:  

(05-15-2013 01:54 AM)Matt Forney Wrote:  3. Weather. It's pretty much common knowledge that women from places that are warm and pleasant year-round tend to be more promiscuous, because the consequences for being a fuck-up are less severe; screwing around in a place like North Dakota or Sweden pre-civilization could (and was) be fatal for women. Think of George Carlin's routine on whether there's more rape at the equator or North Pole: "How many Eskimos have we got? 30? 35? Nobody's getting laid at the North Pole!" Statistics bear this out: the states with the lowest teen pregnancy rates are northern ones (Vermont, Minnesota, North Dakota etc.) while the highest rates are found in warmer ones (Texas, Arizona, Georgia etc.).

Now there's a half baked theory if I ever heard one, Actually Matt, there's a huge rape problem in the north pole among the Eskimo (Inuit in Canada), Alaska leads your country with the highest rate of rape, so I guess Carlin was wrong about that. Instead of blaming the weather on the higher rates of teen pregnancy in the south, I think a better explanation could be that the teenage girls there have less access to sexual health education, birth control and abortion than their northern counterparts.

Wouldn't a rape problem indicate that women are less sexually promiscuous? Here's a transcript of his comedy skit as well -

George Carlin's Routine Wrote:Now, speaking of rape, do you know what I wonder? I wonder is there more rape at the equator or the north pole. These are the kind of things I think about when I'm sitting home alone and the power goes out. I wonder is there more rape at the equator or the north pole. I mean per capita, I know the populations are different. Most people think it's the equator, I think it's the north pole. People think it's the equator because it's hot down there, they don't wear a lot of clothing, guys can see women's tits, they get horney and there's a lot of fucking going on. That's exactly why there's less rape at the equator. Because there's a lot of fucking going on. You can tell there's a lot of fucking at the equator, take a look at the population figures. Billions of people live near the equator. How many Eskimos do we have? Thirty? Thirty five? No one's getting laid at the north pole, it's too fucking cold. Guys say to their wives, "hey tonight honey, huh, tonight, huh?" "Are you crazy? The wind chill factor is three hundred below." These guys are deprived. They're horny. They're pent up. Every now and then...p-pmm...they bust out, they got to rape somebody.

When your state is an ice-locked wasteland for six to eight months out of the year these are things that you think about.

Post: #42

perhaps is because weed is legal there, so they are more laid back about life and have less hangups because of this fact.

Post: #43

Also from Cali.

Anyways, with my experience in IM, I've found Cali people to be a lot more wired in than other Americans, so that might be part of it. Maybe that's just the IM crowd though.

Beyond All Seas

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Kipling

Post: #44

I think this forum has a high concentration of people from California because more people from California travel abroad than other states, or so it seems. Most of the 25-35 year old American expats here in Bangkok that I know are also from California. Bay Area and LA mainly. Some of us even lived in the same cities back in California, but never met until moving here. New York seems to be a distant second with the younger BKK expat crowd.

Post: #45

Thought experiment:

A 30 year old man who has lived in DC all his life goes to Los Angeles for one week, renting an apartment in the most desirable nightlife area.

A 30 year old man who has lived in LA all his life goes to DC for one week, renting an apartment in the most desirable nightlife area.

If each man runs day and night game full time during those seven days...

1. Who would bang the most girls, regardless of quality?
2. Who would bang the most 7s or above?

Post: #46

I will go all in on guy two and make this bet any day of the week.

No disrespect, the logistics alone will fuck a man up (you also have to assume you can't use gimmicks both guys go in cold).

Yeah maybe top guys on here will do well in LA (roosh of course included) but average man? No shot in hell.

If you have lived on both coasts raise your hand if the west coast is easier. (Crickets).

As a final nail in the coffin, I have visited Toronto and San Jose... I have pulled in Toronto goosed every time in San Jose. Toronto also does suck most visits have goosed there.

Note: San Jose is actually slightly worse, no offense to LA guys that place sucks too, but San Jose has shitty logistics Santana row closes at 1:30, the bitches are ugly and there is nothing but engineers throwing cash at them. That's why it's the sugar daddy capital where dudes pay just for company.

Difficulty in California game: San Jose > LA/SD (least you got Latinas/Korea town) > SF (you got logistics - more simple numbers game) > random obscure college cities (you got girls + logistics + weak competition)

That's how Cali works.

(05-15-2013 05:18 AM)Roosh Wrote:  Thought experiment:

A 30 year old man who has lived in DC all his life goes to Los Angeles for one week, renting an apartment in the most desirable nightlife area.

A 30 year old man who has lived in LA all his life goes to DC for one week, renting an apartment in the most desirable nightlife area.

If each man runs day and night game full time during those seven days...

1. Who would bang the most girls, regardless of quality?
2. Who would bang the most 7s or above?

Post: #47

To Matt's point about bundling up in NYC..

I tend to get in a massive dry spell when the summer hits around here. I've attributed it to a couple of things:

1) There is a population drain as many people head out to escape the city heat by going on vacation. Also, school is out, so a lot of girls go back to their home states.

2) I can't bundle up in my cool clothes anymore, which also double to hide the fact that I'm not the most buff dude (see I can talk California too) around. In summer here, there's not much for guys to wear.. maybe a t-shirt and jeans (I'm not a big fan of the shorts guys have been wearing lately). I'm going to try getting more buff and maybe accessorizing my look with a cool necklace or watch so I'm not just walking around in a T-shirt.

Post: #48

(05-15-2013 05:18 AM)Roosh Wrote:  Thought experiment:

A 30 year old man who has lived in DC all his life goes to Los Angeles for one week, renting an apartment in the most desirable nightlife area.

A 30 year old man who has lived in LA all his life goes to DC for one week, renting an apartment in the most desirable nightlife area.

If each man runs day and night game full time during those seven days...

1. Who would bang the most girls, regardless of quality?
2. Who would bang the most 7s or above?

This is interesting. I would think that the LA guy would find it fairly easy to chat up DC women, but would have a hard time finding 7s and above. Meanwhile while the DC guy in LA would did himself surrounded by attractive women, but not really having access to them.

Assuming equal levels of game, I'd say that LA in DC wins out. DC girls have bitch shields, but they're mostly to weed out DC's high herb count. They're pretty easy to defeat. The real problem is that most DC girls aren't worth the effort. A top notch player from DC, however, feels like a kid in a candy shop once he is in a city with real talent.

Post: #49

+1 on Cali being the best place to tell people you're from.

Girls eyes light up when I tell 'em I am from Los Angeles. "Oh really?! I've always wanted to go there blah blah"

But despite that, when I'm in Los Angeles, I make sure to tell people that I am just 'visiting from Miami' and they love that, too.

Fujiwara is known to get people to put four fingerz up, twist the two in the middle, put 'em in the sky and bounce 'em up and down like a lowrider.

Post: #50

(05-15-2013 07:42 AM)Fujiwara Wrote:  

+1 on Cali being the best place to tell people you're from.

Girls eyes light up when I tell 'em I am from Los Angeles. "Oh really?! I've always wanted to go there blah blah"

But despite that, when I'm in Los Angeles, I make sure to tell people that I am just 'visiting from Miami' and they love that, too.

Fujiwara is known to get people to put four fingerz up, twist the two in the middle, put 'em in the sky and bounce 'em up and down like a lowrider.

I'm sorry, but travel abroad and you'll see that the coolest place to same you are from is NYC.

Ok California guys, you've had your day in the sun so to speak, but you still haven't provided any incentive to move to LA. Time to take your Ed Hardy shirts and go home