<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Chateau Heartiste]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://heartiste.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[CH]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://heartiste.wordpress.com/author/roissy/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Pictogram Text Game,&nbsp;Trending]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>When words fail you (or you&#8217;re too indifferent to the outcome to bother formulating a sentence fragment), you can&#8217;t go wrong with pictogram (aka emoji) game. A reader sent along screenshots of his pictogram game.</p>
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<p>Her contribution: Eighty words, four smilies.</p>
<p>His contribution: &#8220;Good.&#8221; &#8220;Ok.&#8221; A funny fat birthday cat.</p>
<p>That, my friends, is what it looks like when a woman is chasing an alpha male&#8217;s approval. I suspect that <a href="https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/jerkboy-charisma-chat-game/" target="_blank">birthday cat will get a lot of CH readers laid</a> in the cumming months.</p>
<p>As the pictogram sender above noted, the girl tried to pull a &#8220;take-away&#8221; on him at the end, but it&#8217;s obvious her threat was empty. When a girl is really through with you, she stops talking. When a girl is still into you, she pretends to be through with you in twenty words or more.</p>
<p>PS Some readers have complained about what they perceive is an excessive focus on text game. Folks, I don&#8217;t make the mating market, I just live in it. Face-to-face courtship has ceded ground to the smartphone seductress. If Romeo were alive today, he&#8217;d be staring at his phone under Juliet&#8217;s balcony, furiously texting her romantic odes as she watched them arrive on her phone from up above him. If you think we&#8217;ve lost something human in the transition, just wait until you get a load what the future has in store&#8230;</p>
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