[Blankstare]

If you think beautiful women don't know about the whole "make friends with them first" angle you haven't been with enough beautiful women. The jig is up guys, because they know!

It takes years to become close friends with someone not months. This is not controversial advice David, this is just plain stupid advice.

Snowball's dilemma is not really about whether the girl likes him or not, it's about courage.

Does he have the courage to ask this beautiful girl if she really likes him?

Or...

Does he play stupid mind games with her to avoid the courage it requires to just ask her?

What you suggest just prolongs the torture and anguish of secretly yearning for her while you build the fake friendship and then multiple the pain and dejection you have to deal with if she still says no. What if she finds out or realizes that this was your whole plan all along and she goes from being friends with you to hating you. There are just too many situation this plan can go from bad to worse.

Snowball should just muster the courage to ask her if she likes him in that way. Either he gets the utter elation of a "yes" or he starts that arduous journey of getting over her if he gets a "no."

What you advise is a bad risk.

EDiT: Typos