In chapter 7 of Never Eat Alone, the aforementioned author says that when he goes to an event, he has single- or two-page "executive summaries" prepared on everyone he'd like to introduce himself to. While the gist of it is "here's what matters to So-And-So," he never describes what kind of detai...
How do I grow 'Reputation Points' using the StackExchange web site. The function is typical techie, avoidant, cryptic and jamming algorithms to any post disagreeing with coder of (this) site ...
I cannot avoid them. I cannot avoid this meeting. I have to be there and be nice.
When you need to hang out with your distant nephews/nieces, what's your strategy for maintaining relations/dealing with them when they have the following traits?
Nosy queries: (this can go on endlessly for 20 mins)
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I'm making a small indie game featuring a black main character, as I'm interested in representation in the medium of video games.
I'd like to ensure that my work doesn't offend anybody, but at the same time I'm aware that there is an issue of offending people from this community - who the fuck ne...
@AlexRobinson tolerating is an intrapersonal thing anyways. Handling conversations with them might be a goal, but the question definitely can use more focus on OP instead of on that which they despise ;)
Actually now that I actually read the question, instead of typing with no context...
> I'm living in a place where black people are a distinct minority and I don't currently have any black friends (mostly now due to Covid - otherwise I'd have attended events where I would have the opportunity to make good acquaintances). So, I have Googled a ton of information about black hair, etc, and sourced lots of references for my model. I'm really trying to do things in good faith, or so I think.
@JourneymanGeek i suspect this person is just ill informed and probably needs to refine their characters ethnicity but doesn't know that or doesn't know how / why
@Tinkeringbell I dunno. Gaining rep is partly an IPS! "I write really insightful answers but I keep getting downvotes even though I'm perfectly pointing out what these morons are doing wrong! How do I get upvotes instead?!"
@Tinkeringbell I was going to point out that 'spawn' is an uncountable noun, but I looked it up and it looks like both are correct?? 'Spawns' still looks wrong to me!
@JourneymanGeek "Black hair"... Like... black hair? Or hair of black people?? What does black hair have to do with black people?
....Y'know, this is the first time I can recall where we've had liberal and democrat voted in at the same time (well, kinda. Trudeau has a minority government). Usually we alternate.
I've started typing this question countless times over the years, only to scrap it every time, knowing that it sounds too stupid when written, and is unlikely to get a useful answer. But now I'm going to try anyway, especially as I might find myself in such a situation in the not-too-distant futu...
How do I grow 'Reputation Points' using the StackExchange web site. The function is typical techie, avoidant, cryptic and jamming algorithms to any post disagreeing with coder of (this) site ...
