Fucking Day: How to Pick Up Girls at a Con 🌭
Added 2021-11-19 13:01:02 +0000 UTCNobody really likes pickup artists. They reduce women to a cranky wad of holes waiting to be tricked into penetration, but what if I told you there's a less likeable version of that? What if I told you I found a book by horny sociopaths who also love Japanese cartoons? What if it's worse than that sounds?
How to Pick Up Girls at a Con was written by three future murderers called "The Night Kid$" and I think their process was jotting down some broad advice for helpless virgins and then giving it to a child who was told at gunpoint to "make it sound nerdier." Picture two people giving you advice at the same time. One says, "Bro, you need to shave your unibrow if you want to get your dick wet!" The other says, "Um, you may find evolving that Pikachu into a Raichu to be quite, um, troublesome without a thunder stone lol." This book is those two voices combining into one, but again, less likeable than that sounds.
The Night Kid$ speak Nerd like a Kansas librarian speaks Rap. This introduction is something a cop would say to arouse suspicion in a Channing Tatum comedy called Undercover Incel. If you call casual sex "a co-op game," you shouldn't be trying to do it. You should be asking your younger brother to put on a bra so you can practice honking boobies and having him explain to you why you're a goddamn loser. And this isn't a joke, but the line "picking up a 3-D girl can feel virtually impossible," is a fucking disgrace. These sex pests have the writing sensibilities of a cute pillow, probably because they each watched a grandmother stop struggling under one.
Here's a look at the table of contents, if you want to establish some expectations. It takes you on your girl hunt from preparation to recon to manipulation to CONGRATULATIONS, which is Murderer for "murder." Let's start with what the Night Kid$ consider "being well equipped."
They start off by suggesting you keep as much feces and disease off your body as possible. It's not bad advice, but it gives you a good idea of who they think their audience is. How to Pick Up Girls at a Con is for things that walked out of a swamp with a boner.
Now that you've gotten at least some of the poop off yourself, you're ready to learn the basics of social etiquette, such as the kind you've seen outside. Don't be a creep, and refer to a stranger's tits as "her power level." Now stare at your fading hands as the paradox of the last sentence erases you.
It's not a great sign when the first three pieces of advice in your chick hounding book are:
1. Here's how you take a bath.
2. Use all the social skills you've spent your life cultivating.
3. You remembered to be fit, right?
If you asked a random 7th grader to write this book, the only difference would be that the gamer language would sound more genuine. This shit sounds like Mitt Romney trying to understand his son Cham who actually prefers to be called Akira-chan.
Obviously, if you're looking to score babes, it's important to brush up on your anime knowledge. Let's stop here for a second because this one sort of gives away the game. Most old pickup artist books are about smearing the world with horniness and hoping to catch a woman at her most vulnerable moment. Modern pickup artist books are about crowd-sourced techniques to fake a personality long enough to seem interesting. This book is absolutely neither. These motherfuckers are already floundering in Chapter One. How to Pick Up Girls at a Con has no usable tips and was clearly written by guys who were sort of fuckable and found a community where that was a cheat code.
So let's talk about these possible hunks, who I looked up on social media. One of them shares an instagram with his wife and I'd describe him as both "pretty" and "definitely a danger to that wife I mentioned." The other two are a cute emo boy and a dead-eyed fitness enthusiast who takes the same emotionless mirror selfie every few days. The point is, and I say this as a handsome person, we don't get laid because of our keen ability to navigate the human experience. If you ask a hot guy what their secret is he might go, "Um, be born symmetrical? D- deodorant. Oh, and pretend to like cartoons since nerd girls are used to suitors covered in poop!"
I'm not saying the Night Kid$ are for everyone. They look like point guards in an all-hairdresser basketball league. If they see this and get mad at me, they'd have to seduce 8 more boys their size before they could plausibly threaten to beat me up. But sure, if you dress them up like moon creature ranchers and throw them into a convention center they'd be in the upper 40th percentile. Enjoy, ladies. Anyway, let's review their introductory poontang tips:
To be fair to the soft and smooth Night Kid$, they do cover some entry-level pickup advice like the importance of "breaking the touch barrier" and "bringing a wingman." The wingman is there to both prove you're capable of having a friend and to distract anyone you're not trying to fuck. None of it is actionable or useful. It's like writing a book on auto racing and telling the reader to make sure there are tires and to always know when to go fast. And I fucking dare you to find worse sex advice than "Obtain anime knowledge." You could dedicate the rest of your life to it and you will die cursing me for being right. "Eat from diapers and change your name to Diaper Eater" is better sex advice than "Obtain anime knowledge."
Chapter one had a dark tone, but hopefully they'll get a little less predatory as they go. Let's move on to Chapter 2: CHOOSE YOUR HUNTI-- oh my god.
You know when you need loot drops from quest monsters and they only spawn in one spot? That's what it's like establishing intimate relationships with human women. And of course, here's an unrelated quote from the character select screen of Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. It's possible I've read more books like this than anyone, and this is the new bar I have for "worst anyone has ever been with women." These three guys all agreed girls are like Monster Hunter and still decided they were experts. I don't have an analogy for it. It will be the analogy the next time an unqualified monster decides to be an author. If Michael Jackson's doctor writes a book on sleep remedies I'll say, "That's like a nerd writing a sex manual using the knowledge he got from Monster Hunter."
Let's skip past the admittedly sound advice to "be fun and popular" and talk about the real dilemma. It's the decision every man-about-town has to face at an anime convention-- crushing ass or the variety of panels and events? It's what we in the anime fuck community call The Unlimited Pussy or Meet the Voice of Rainbow Dash Gambit.
To their credit, these three authors are starting to figure out they might not have scored their seven combined sexual encounters, eight if you count hand stuff, by way of their masterful seduction techniques. They're out of ideas and they know it. Their confidence is so shaken they open Chapter 3: SCOUT THE POTENTIAL WAIFU by trying to lower the reader's expectations. They consider the hypothetical reader of How to Pick Up Girls at a Con and tell them to take a look at themself and consider their options. It's a book purely about fantasy within a world of fictional wonder and they want you to be a little more realistic. Are you really a "human girl" kind of guy? After all, you just learned how to wipe your ass twenty seven pages ago.
Okay, now that you know your worth, let's see if we can figure out who you should go for.
What you're looking for are "Wall Stragglers" and "The Loners." And as for the second page of your potential targets, you shouldn't be too surprised to find it's entirely blank except for this drawing of a girl whose panties you can see. So to recap: ambush women when they're tired and alone, hoping they "perhaps secretly" want to talk to you, and if that doesn't work, this young cartoon girl's mostly exposed crotch. Let's be real. You had to expect exactly this, unlikely readers of How to Pick Up Girls at a Con. Now let's move on to some of the things you'll need to watch out for.
Holy shit, if I'm understanding this correctly, the first potential danger they list is "accidentally fucking a dude." When was this written? This is some old timey Crocodile Dundee transph-- 2021!? They published this misogynist relic this year!?
Okay, fine, let's assume the Night Kid$ were too busy hiding from paternity tests to keep up with the latest trends in gay jokes. The other thing they tell you to look out for is people exactly like yourself, who came to the convention for action, but had no idea how to get it. Which means the biggest impediments to getting an anime girl are feminine boys and losers, and hey wait, isn't that why we're infiltrating this community? Aren't all these feminine boys and losers the things we're counting on to seem fuckable by comparison? At least, and see if you can tell this is setting up a stunning reveal, they're not making casual jokes about sex with underage girls...
Here's a proverb for you, Night Kid$: If your advice about sleeping with children adorably rhymes, you're definitely one unattended kid away from sex crimes.
S-sprite? I don't know, this is obviously a low effort endeavor by two lonely psychopaths and one terrible husband, but the Night Kid$ sometimes offer practical reminders like how everyone can see you. You can't just run up to every cosplayer and see if she's doing it for the unsolicited cock offers. You'll get a reputation as a thir-- oh, the Sprite can clipart represents thirst! Aw, that's kind of cute, pussy hunter boys.
Immediately after telling you to take it easy and pick your targets to avoid a reputation as a creep, the authors hit you with the desperate pep talk every pickup artist eventually gives: we don't know how any of this works-- you need to show your dick to everyone you see and hope one of them recently lost a bet and the conditions were having sex with the very next penis they saw.
Things are probably going great. You've learned not to wear poop, not to waste time searching men for vaginas, and to obtain anime knowledge. But these tips aren't fool-proof. The Night Kid$ include some DEATH FLAGS to help detect ladies immune to deodorant and anime knowledge. Watch out for these! Has a boyfriend. Ignores you. Keeps turning away. Face doesn't look like flashcards your childhood therapist showed you for "happy."
Seventy pages into the book and the Night Kid$ finally give the reader some actionable advice. They list five real questions you could ask a girl! Four of them are the most common things said out loud at a convention and the fifth is aggressive sexual harassment, but at least they're not telling the reader they should try being hot next to a drawing of a dripping wet school girl. I honestly think childlike begging for oral sex is a step in the right direction for these authors.
Ladies, I know most of you know this, but according to U.S. Chapter 7 Code § 2260, if your partner tells you to "prepare to Cubone," you are legally complicit in a federal crime if you don't chemically dissolve their genitals within one half hour of hearing it.
Hmm... My mother gave me such chlamydia. Here's a sack of Nazi diarrhea! Sorry, you must be confused. I'm trying to come up with a six word phrase more destructive to a person's love life than saying "a whole gang of anime bitches." I strangle sexy dogs to death? I.. I don't think you can do it.
In the WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? section, the authors continue describing all the ways this quest could end with each one getting sadder and sadder. Your potential victory goes from true love to sex rampage to convincing a woman to settle on you to a platonic cartoon buddy to a bloody butcher knife to a drawing you can masturbate to. Self-aware or not, it is, without question, the most perfect way to end this indoor kid's guide to beginner humaning. A stunning artistic achievement. They imagined an entire world of overweight, unwashed anime nerds where they could be sexual mentors, and even in that fantasy, their students died alone, dumped into the ocean with a clumsy Pokemon reference. It was worth all 90 pages of their pathetic horniness and cool dad l33t speak for this amazing, immaculate ending.
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Comments
Addendum: Jesus Christ, using "trap" in 2021 and warning about the evil trans people who'll trick you into fucking them? I don't want to wish physical harm on people, but I hope these three writers never know joy.
Matt Edwards
2021-11-23 02:24:53 +0000 UTCI feel like the issue here is not that some people aren’t attracted to Trans* people (which is certainly okay - I’m not attracted to jock bros, for example), but rather that a real-life cosplayer and Trans* cosplayers are described as “traps,” a Trans*phobic attitude that goes WAY back (think “The Crying Game,” for example). It’s okay not to be attacted to someone, or to stop being attracted to them once you discover more about them. It’s NOT okay to insinuate they “trapped” you into being attracted to them.
Jaime W
2021-11-22 03:59:02 +0000 UTCI think what I hate most about the book is it's mediocrity in progressiveness/sexism scale. I thought most of the references were pretty okay (the last one of School Days was downright "kinda funny"), but it gives advice that's pretty good, like "don't be a creep" and "learn to take no for an answer and move on" and then goes for the horrible "attack them while they're alone and vulnerable". Also disgusting, calling femboys/crossdressers/trans women "traps", presenting them as a hazard and refusing to talk about them as if they were too disgusting for a book that tells you to wipe your ass.
Yeyo
2021-11-21 22:52:52 +0000 UTCI've been trying to read this article for over 24 hours, and I'm only about halfway through. I hate this book, the people who wrote it and anyone who took its "advice." So they're already up there with the greats of the genre like Godek and Diebel. Good job, I guess?
Matt Edwards
2021-11-20 21:39:27 +0000 UTCNothing wrong with just wanting sex, really. Don't think this makes you a dick by itself. Complete and utter refusal to see women as people and instead as just "points" or "mobs" or whatever does, though.
Nikolai Sitko
2021-11-20 10:33:02 +0000 UTCBooks on picking up chicks feel like products made to assist perfectly capable humans in cracking eggs: they speak a lot about the people who buy them and everyone is naïve if it's suspiciously only good things. Though, I suppose people are less outraged or turned off by "inability to crack an egg". The jury's out on this one. 🤔
Devon the Rogue Supreme
2021-11-20 10:26:40 +0000 UTCBooks like this piss me off, and I think they probably piss off Sean. The target audience is a group of people who think of sex as a goal in and of itself, rather than a result of an existing healthy romantic relationship. It's a profoundly toxic view that stems from an absolute refusal to self examine. Guys who buy books about how to get laid at anime conventions aren't just sad guys who need some tips about how to make a connection, they are dicks who need to be persuaded that hygiene and not being a total creep is critical step one type information.
Flippant Sausage
2021-11-20 03:58:55 +0000 UTCYou could save a lot of young men a lot of confusion by just telling them to stop buying books and shit, and just put some legwork into finding a reasonably priced sex worker or save up for a Real Doll. Cos these books aren't about finding a person to have a relationship with. They're about finding a wet hole to fuck. Then again, if you had to be told that social interactions are aided by not smelling like a dead dog, and a wider array of conversational gambits than "I can recite the entire Pokerap from memory and know the lyrics to over 100 anime theme songs." you probably have bigger problems than a chronically dry dick.
Flippant Sausage
2021-11-20 03:26:42 +0000 UTCI’d try to make these tips work, for science, but 1) I’m married and 2) unfortunately I’m still hypnotised to hunt topless dancers, which is apparently a huge turnoff. I keep yelling “TOPLESS CONNECTION”, which is almost as unattractive as the “I LOVE TOPLESS DANCERS” pin that somehow keeps reappearing on my jacket every time I throw it out….
Christopher Horne
2021-11-19 22:51:15 +0000 UTCIn the twenty years I have been reading Seanbaby this is the angriest I have ever seen him come off in an article and it's with completely due cause. Pants Chapley was exiled for less than this abomination of literature.
Curtiss
2021-11-19 22:44:47 +0000 UTCMy main problem stems from who Sean's targeting. Normally in an article like this he goes after the oblivious (occasionally malicious) simpletons who author this trash. And while that is still partly true here, he seems to be going extra hard at the potential readers/intended audience of the book. People who genuinely do need help (that this book will in no way provide) but instead often become easy targets for lazy jokes.
Joshua Graves
2021-11-19 21:29:17 +0000 UTCYeah. While I agree that pickup artists are generally trash I get the impression that SB expected this book to be much creepier than it actually is and is trying to force humor based on things that aren't there. Make no mistake, the book deserves all the mockery in the world for its groan-inducing anime references, but it explicitly makes the point of not being a creep and learning when to take a "no" for an answer, which is something you wouldn't expect from a pickup artist book. SB tries to paint this book as one of the worst when it's actually one of the least offensive ones. Also, and this is a general problem these days, so it pains to see SB falling into it, but please everyone get this into your thick skulls: Not being sexually interested in transgender people doesn't make you transphobic. It's not like the book calls transgender people "trash" or anything like that. As a matter of fact, the book doesn't even say anything about transgenders. It just say to watch out because some of these people might be men dressed as women. It doesn't even say to avoid, just to be mindful.
Pablo Rodriguez
2021-11-19 21:21:51 +0000 UTCyes i am now suspisius of books that promise to teach the children skills by 'getting down' verbully with their own language we bought Trayton "The Minecraft Guide to SURVIVAL MODE Toilet Evacuation and CREATIVE MODE Wiping" at the bookfair and it was kinda expensive and he still just throws the toilet paper in the garbage instead of flushing but now at least he folds it into squares first
sissyneck
2021-11-19 21:06:37 +0000 UTCThese guys don't understand anything. A Marowak is much more desirable than an unevolved Cubone. That's why any TRUE Pokemon master is a volcel.
Dave Dalrymple
2021-11-19 20:28:52 +0000 UTCTook you a minute to get there, but the point is valid. I concur.
Bonnybedlam
2021-11-19 20:19:23 +0000 UTCPickup artists deserve neither pity nor respect. Only scorn, mockery, and mace.
FancyShark
2021-11-19 19:52:18 +0000 UTCI was wondering who Peterson was until I realized that was the guy that made me break up with my girlfriend. I know that usually in a relationship between a white man and a minority woman, the argument is going to go in the other direction, but I'm in the minority there.
Matthew Harris
2021-11-19 19:16:50 +0000 UTCOh shit, it just got knocked down to #3
Matthew Harris
2021-11-19 18:57:30 +0000 UTCI never groaned, oof'd, and cringed so much during an article. But then laughed at the same time. Truly a roller-coaster of emotions. Thank you Seanbaby for putting yourself through so much pain, for our entertainment.
DustysRadTitle
2021-11-19 18:39:25 +0000 UTCAnyone here read Childhoods End by Arthur C. Clark? For those that haven't a quick summary is aliens that look like demons show up and demand humanity get their collective shit together. At the end of book humanity evolves into a hive energy being, the devil aliens were sent by another energy being to prepare us for that, and the reason devil's as a representation of evil is due to the pain of this transition creating a power physic pulse that goes backwards in time to early man. What I'm getting at here is that the association of sex and shame is most likely due to our collective disgust over this book being spread backwards throughout all of human history.
Most Powerful Alex
2021-11-19 18:14:51 +0000 UTCI got woken up this morning by a leaf blower blowing close enough to my bedroom that I could smell diesel fumes, and now that is only number 2 on the list of things that make me hate humanity today.
Matthew Harris
2021-11-19 18:02:22 +0000 UTCOf 5 follow-up questions, the direct request for sex is the least creepy one, because at least she can directly reject you now and not try to avoid giving you clues to stalk her later.
Brendan McGinley
2021-11-19 17:37:39 +0000 UTCSomething feels off about this one. Like it's a little more mean-spirited than it needs to be in some aspects.
Joshua Graves
2021-11-19 17:31:40 +0000 UTCSomehow I’ve managed to father two children despite not knowing anything about anime and being terrible at Monster Hunter
Robert Lee
2021-11-19 16:55:08 +0000 UTCThis proves that anti-bullying campaigns have gone too far.
Pem
2021-11-19 16:48:12 +0000 UTCI can smell this book, even through my phone screen. Spoiler alert: it’s not a good smell.
Chris “Ace” Hendrix
2021-11-19 16:15:26 +0000 UTCI imagine this book, even new, feels damp
Fatamatician
2021-11-19 15:53:27 +0000 UTCI volunteered at an anime convention once. I could have read this book and felt just as creeped out in a fraction of the time.
FancyShark
2021-11-19 14:42:14 +0000 UTCThis book got the new record in the "How many times I shouted 'Fuck You!' at my phone" category.
Dan B
2021-11-19 13:46:05 +0000 UTCI’ve had the kind of week that makes people hand out Chick Tracts, and this made me laugh. It also reminded me of my old DM’s stories about LARP scene inbreeding. There, the ability to go twenty minutes without quoting Whedon, Python, or Peterson was enough to turn you into Drake for adults. Or, in darker stories, normal Drake.
Dennard Dayle
2021-11-19 13:40:18 +0000 UTC