So if it’s the neighborhood discourse lately I’ll say that while I never thought of myself really as doing PUA stuff my taking human-interaction leads from Veronica Mars was just a more sophisticated, and productive walk in that direction really. That said I’ll say what I saw involved some useful tricks to social interaction that were honestly “tricks” to inducing situations ripe for connection in the same sense group facilitators going around in a circle and having everyone say their name and one fact about them is.

Aside from that the “advice” often sounded like descriptions of the anxiety-free way I now interact with people, and not useful instructions to that could have been usefully applied by the old personality