In what ways are you absolutely the stereotype?

  • @[email protected]
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    381 year ago

    Not recent but at one point during my uni life I was a brown international student, studying computer science, and working at a call centre as a part time job. The fact that my parents are doctors made it that much worse somehow.

  • @[email protected]
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    271 year ago

    Well, I’m a software developer who knows way more about science fiction and fantasy than I really should, and if you get me drunk I’ll probably tell you all about how Sauron is an ainur and therefore didn’t actually die when the One Ring was destroyed - since the ainur can’t die - but he did lose all his power and henceforth existed perpetually as a powerless and intangible shadow…

    And when you wake up, I might still be talking.

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        1 year ago

        Oh, he is. The Maiar are “lesser Ainur” in Tolkien’s cosmology. They’re “of the same order as the Valar but of less degree.” “Ainur” is kind of an umbrella term, the way “angel” is in Christianity.

        Melkor, now known as Morgoth after being cast out, was once a Valar, but his cruelty and evil make him the foe of all of Arda. Mairon, a Maiar of Aulë, actually started down his own path of evil as a lieutenant of Morgoth, becoming Sauron.

        Sleepy yet?

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          No, and I already knew all of this. Spend some time in jail with the Silmarillion, and you’ll know all the names. 🤣

  • slazer2au
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    251 year ago

    Anti social nerd who just wants to be left alone to do his job and go home at the end of the day to play video games.

    • Rhynoplaz
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      51 year ago

      Let’s start a club where none of us have to talk to each other and we just go home and play video games!

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      I’m like this but i’m not anti social enough to be among the anti social nerds (usually just tired of dealing with people’s nonsense, like the: stuffs 3 pizza’s in his face and watches me eat a cookie, now blames the entire universe for him being fat and has no understanding why i’m skinny type of bullshit) and for some reason i’m not good enough at games to be liked by fellow gamers and lack the “addicted to video games” factor where they stay up until 2am to play video games and be less than useful during the next work day, while i went to bed at 9 after playing games for 30 minutes instead of 6 hours.

      My employers love me tho, but never enough to pay me a decent wage, with the exception of one that is now shut down.

  • @[email protected]
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    221 year ago

    The owner of a previous company I worked for once called me “a long haired, pot smoking hippie” and I can’t say he was too far off the mark.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      101 year ago

      Thats just an accurate description (apparently) there has to be more to this… do you own any lava lamps? Tie dyed t-shirts? HOW MANY PHISH CONCERTS HAVE YOU BEEN TO!?!

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        Well, the long hair part is the only descriptive part of that, as I am very conscientious about the smell (never came anywhere near my work gear) and I didn’t make a point to talk about my politics or views on gardening and shit in the work place, so guessing 2/3 ain’t bad based on the one feature.

  • @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    You know how you occasionally see articles about the male loneliness epidemic? Hi, that’s me. Haven’t spent more than a week around people in person in close to 5 years despite livingright next to a big city, struggling with depression and social anxiety, starved for physical and emotional affection but can’t bring myself to do anything about it, yeah. Snuggled and slept with an ace friend overnight on a couch at a big get together and it sent me into a massive depressive spiral! You know this meme?

    Yeah that’s me. I’m definitely not an incel, I’m self aware and not entitled, the only thing holding me back is me and my stupid fucking brain. There’s hope, antidepressants and therapy have been helping a lot. I just feel like the posterchild for the struggling, lonely but not “redpill nutjob” guys out there

  • Pyro
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    131 year ago

    I am a software developer and gamer who lives in his mother’s basement and watches anime.

    In my defense: I am in the process of buying my own house, I practice good hygiene, and I do have a social life (unlike a stereotypical basement-dweller). I have no excuse for the anime, that’s on me.

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    I wear leather jackets with metal band T-shirts and jeans and am covered in scars and tattoos.

    I’m basically the spitting image of what mothers tell their children to avoid looking like

  • ComradeSharkfucker
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    101 year ago

    I’m a leftist and I spend way too much time arguing with people who were never going to listen to me anyway.

    • silly goose meekah
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      1 year ago

      If you convince even just one person to change their mind to be more tolerant, you did more than most people.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    91 year ago

    Im approaching 40 and instead of buying a sportscar and fucking a coworker, I started working out and shaving my head.

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    81 year ago

    Pakistani guy who loves his spicy food. I keep a bottle of crushed red peppers in the break room at work for when the boss orders pizza for the office.

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    81 year ago
    • Work in IT
    • Play D&D
    • Interested in Star Trek
    • Play several board games
    • Play Factorio
    • Used to read a lot of books
    • Like superheroes
  • Ignotum
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    71 year ago

    Does being a software engineer who’s also a furry count? Or does it work better the other way around perhaps

    • @[email protected]OP
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      71 year ago

      Id say tech guys are more widely known for the classic “Anime Waifu” than being furrys, but I dont know enough about the furry community to discount this one.