Step one to failure- calling it "game and pickup tactics"
The solution- just talk to people. Not people you want to screw, just people. Every day.
Women are just people. They're much like men in that, out of a group of them, there's a few you would hit it off with and a whole lot of losers. The whole game/pickup bs is putting them on a pedastal. Why do we have to be so wierd about this- if there's a woman you would like to talk to, go up to her and say "Hi, my name is ___________. What's yours?"