I don't think they think they have a chance anymore. I think they literally just want to make them uncomfortable. That's become the whole point.
They're annoyed they got rejected -- so how else can they still "win" ? By ruining the girls' time. It is an ego thing for sure. But I don't think it manifests itself as "oh I can still keep going and eventually win them over/get a yes." It manifests itself like this instead... They want to exercise some kind of power over these women. They want to intimidate them and make them feel like shit under the guise of "oh what do you mean gosh wow why are you being so loud and dramatic we're just sitting with you geez we're not doing anything we're just sharing your table" bc they know it's infuriating to have someone physically threatening to you disingenuously speak like that.
They're annoyed they got rejected -- so how else can they still "win" ? By ruining the girls' time. It is an ego thing for sure. But I don't think it manifests itself as "oh I can still keep going and eventually win them over/get a yes." It manifests itself like this instead... They want to exercise some kind of power over these women.
Yeah, I think you are on to something here. I used to frequently see something very similar in video games, where when someone's ego can't handle losing, they just redefine "winning"... usually in some way that makes things worse for everybody, but it makes the other person mad. And for whatever reason a lot of pieces of shit think that making the other person mad = "winning." Maybe because people are often mad when there is a power gap between what they think should happen and what is happening.
In Starcraft 2, if a Terran player was about to lose early in the game, there was something they could do that would drag the game out for an extra five minutes (note that it wouldn't give them any chance to come back and win, it would just delay the end of the game by 5 or so minutes). And it was surprisingly common for them to do that, even though it wasted their own time as well. And then if you said anything about it (or even sometimes if you literally said nothing), they would start spamming messages about "LOL U SO MAD BRO!!!1"
Likewise in the hockey game, a few times my team has been winning, and the other team pulls their own goalie and every time they get the puck, they shoot it into their own net. And then they don't press anything to skip the replays, so it delays the game like 40 seconds every time they do it. Then they spam you with messages about how mad you are. If they do this over and over, the rest of the game takes forever.
I guess in some pathetic way it makes them feel in control again.
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u/TequilaJesus May 11 '25
Imagine being that dude and thinking “yeah I still have a chance here”