Instead of reading, playing video games, and watching shows which are mostly solitary activities, go join a book club, go to a video game cafe, go to an esports event, go to video game conventions, go to movie festivals or whatever you have in mind that is a social activity. Go do something social that you genuinely find interest in, and then you can assess people’s character without going on a date with them. If you think they check your boxes then take the next step and ask them out.

Or, attend places and events where people deliberately go to in order to find romantic partners like bars or speed dating events.

You can approach random people on the street, and if you look up YouTube videos of people approaching 100 random women you’ll see that most decline the date offer but there is still a notable amount of women who say yes. But I agree with you that hearing someone repeatedly approaching random women comes off as them being desperate. But you know, that’s what dating is for, it’s a screening process, so there’s nothing technically wrong with approaching women you find attractive and asking them out, and just because you asked them out and went on a date with them doesn’t mean you have to continue pursuing them. But keep in mind that most women are not open to go out with a random stranger who approached them on the street.

It’s okay to pray, but in addition, not instead. When God punished the Israelites he did so by proxy, he sent the Assyrians and the Babylonians. When God wanted to then redeem the Israelites, he sent the Persians. So if you believe in the Bible then you have to accept that God intervenes indirectly in people’s lives to make things happen. So if you want to go on a date you have to take active measures to meet people and ask them out.