How to Think for Yourself

Re:How to Think for Yourself by toyg on Friday November 27, 2020 @12:00PM (#25230349)

Yeah, stereotypes are a bitch. BUT - if one gets stereotyped enough, after a while s/he’s probably developed some coping mechanism to actually leverage it into an advantage (I know I do). So don’t feel too bad - it might well be that the guy uses that sort of conversation precisely to gauge his audience.

(It makes a lot of sense that pro athletes are in gaming, btw: it’s competitive and it’s something that can be done during long downtimes between training sessions, or lonely hotel nights away from home. If you follow any twitter feed of pros, from football to f1, sooner or later you’ll see plenty of posts about games.)

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Re:How to Think for Yourself by meheleventyone on Friday November 27, 2020 @12:39PM (#25230725)

With games its been ubiquitous culture for a couple of decades now. It frankly staggers me that stereotype is something people actually still think is a thing.

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Re:How to Think for Yourself by nobinstok on Friday November 27, 2020 @12:42PM (#25230769)

Just for context this was about a decade ago. Games were definitely more popular than in that past, but I remember it was well before the time I first remember seeing League of Legends on ESPN and being like "ok nerds are unequivocally mainstream now." But yeah it was pretty silly even by the standards of then.

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Re:How to Think for Yourself by meheleventyone on Friday November 27, 2020 @01:04PM (#25231079)

I'm on the cusp of 40 and even in my youth (in the UK) videogames were ubiquitous. LoL appearing on ESPN is basically that ubiquity catching up with people no longer watching ESPN.

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Re:How to Think for Yourself by selestify on Friday November 27, 2020 @12:22PM (#25230557)

How do you leverage your stereotypes? I assume the stereotypes you leverage are the positive ones?

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Re:How to Think for Yourself by toyg on Friday November 27, 2020 @04:27PM (#25232725)

You can leverage the negative ones too. They can be used to let people underestimate you, gaining the element of surprise at later stage; or to look more threatening than you actually are.

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