Fwiiw, from the IP onward this whole thread is full of bad or, at best, mediocre advice imo.
As I see it, the problem is the fundamental perspective. Namely the whole discussion is based on a bunch of generalizations about women, what they like and don't like, and about their interactions with men. Within this framework, the advice is probably pretty good, but the whole approach is a terribly limited and flawed one imo and experience.
Put in a different way, life is incredibly complex. People, and certainly women, are among its most complex components. Interactions between people are even more complex than individuals. Sex, and surely romance, are among the most complex and subtle of human interactions. Dealing with such complexity is so daunting and challenging that people understandably have the urge to fall back on some simple system/recipe/algorithm. If nothing else, it makes for less effort and stress. But using a simple solution does not make a hard problem easier; it just means that you do a poor job of solving it. In yet other words, human relationships are simply not the equivalent of baking a cake; they are no place for blindly following recipes; they are not even a good place for following recipes creatively. Better to throw out the cookbook entirely.
All this is not to deny that following all these rules/principles of "game" etc can sometimes get you layed. It surely can, but imo it will equally surely deny you access to the full potential and richness of relationships with women.
Btw, I'd say exactly the same thing about other important human relationships, e.g., parenting or friendship. Don't imagine that you can find the best approach by reading a book or following some simple set of principles. It just ain't that simple, no matter how much one pretends or wishes it were.
-Ww