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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nisarg" data-source="post: 1728901" data-attributes="member: 19893">Wow, this sounds like advice someone's mom would give; "don't worry if they call you nerd, honey, just tell them your mom said nerd means cool!".Yea.. that won't get your head dunked in a toilet...And, for the record, a tiny percentage of nerds will, due to some invention or innovation, get astoundingly rich.The vast vast majority will not, because any career ambitions they may have will be stymied by a lack of social graces.  In this culture the guy with 18 Cha is far more likely to end up making millions than the guy with 18 Int.Those who "don't fit in" will have a lot of trouble being able to play well with others in the business world, will not be able to interact with their superiors well, will not be able to lead their inferiors well, and no matter how smart they might be will not get very far.Like I'd said before in the thread, one of the symptoms of the socially handicapped gamer is a chronic inability to keep even the most menial of jobs.  In my old gaming group in Canada (average age of about 26-27) there were plenty of times when I was the only one of two out of seven people who had a regular job, and the only other guy who did had been a McDonald's employee for the past 7 years (without ever making manager, though he constantly claimed he was "about to get that promotion"); of the rest some were just plain unemployed, some were chronic students, one was in a prolonged process of suing his old place of work for a fraudulent claim while making zero effort to look for new work, and a few were the type that would get a minimum-wage job they thought was "cool" until a few weeks later it got "boring" and they got fired, usually for missing shifts.  These guys were all "nerds", and I'd bet they all had well above-average intelligence if one was to test them. And yet.. no big million-dollar futures for them.The guy who can play well with others is the one who will make the big bucks, more often than the anti-social geek.Nisarg</blockquote>

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