The 4th Horseman Is Here

Regarding body language bullshit, this is far from the exclusive domain of autists. By far, it has been low-IQ normie women that I've found who are into this stuff. They are too stupid to understand nuance, so they are attracted to any sort of one-to-one mapping of vague motions to emotions or whatever else.

A whole lot of people have friends, drink pints, and socialize. How many of them are success stories? It's a pretty pathetic success rate actually. There is some merit to your point that you have to interact with people for experience, but most people do this to an excess. Most people provide no value or negative value, and it's equally as important to refuse to socialize with these people.

Going to the gym is just about the best use of a saturday night. The drinking cope is a total waste of time. You won't make the sort of connections that improve your career by drinking on a saturday night. You won't make the sort of connections that enable you to have a family by drinking on a saturday night.