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Re:Seattle, in Midst of Tech Boom, Tries to Keep Its Soul by PhasmaFelis on Friday October 09, 2015 @04:24PM (#10363043)
I meant more what mjevans said. Sometimes two people just don't have anything in common, and that's too bad, but too often blame is placed 100% on the nerdy guy for having the "wrong" interests, when really it's nobody's fault.

Remember a while back when someone wrote an entire awful clickbait article about the horror of discovering that the guy she was on a date with played Magic: The Gathering? Not that he was unpleasantly obsessed with it, not that he couldn't talk about anything else, just that he was a frequent player.

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Re:Seattle, in Midst of Tech Boom, Tries to Keep Its Soul by eastbayjake on Friday October 09, 2015 @04:49PM (#10363188)
To clarify, an important part of these date horror stories is literally "I could not get him to talk." Like long, awkward pauses until his interlocutor asks him about work/engineering. The problem is not "having the wrong interests", it's not being able to communicate your interests to female humans unless presented with a direct question that can be answered with a factual response, like "What do you do at [Company]?"
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