that's the truth.

[rmd]

a phrase i recently encountered that kind of sums up a lot of stuff regarding geek social skills (and the difference between theory and practice):

CHARISMA IS NOT A DUMP STAT

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[bikerwalla.livejournal.com]

Me Too, This, +1, Bump, Hear Hear, and /signed.

[lioritgioret.livejournal.com]

This is kind of wonderful; it says it in functional terms, makes it part of the game, which is what it is.

[gayathri.livejournal.com]

WHY is this so hard to understand?!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*grins* I love that.

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

Har! But in much of geekly life, there are few rewards for charisma. Excepting for one's love life, I think. (The old engineer joke ends, "If you took the knot out of the rope, it would work better." -- An engineer is a guy you pay to tell you that the bridge is going to fall down, no matter how much you want it to hold up.)

[rmd.livejournal.com]

only iff you ignore much of the rest of the world, which includes one's employers and customers.

[dfjdejulio.livejournal.com]

But in much of geekly life, there are few rewards for charisma....

...that are obvious to the people who default to using charisma as a dump stat.

There are plenty of rewards. They are simply not obvious to a lot of folk.