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by Mezzie 1574 days ago
> You would need to see me in person to experience the full effect, but my body does not match my words.

It's fun, isn't it? One of the saddest things about aging is I never again will be a 17 year old blonde girl who looked like Rapunzel with a decade of programming experience in the mid-00s. The dissonance drove people insane.
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Spivak 1574 days ago
Oh my god! I had the same experience in the late 2010s as a tiny little emo girl. The absolute shock in CS group projects with a bunch of guys who were upset that they “got put with the girl” when I had the whole thing done in an hour was chefs kiss.

I “booksmarted” so many guys in college who didn’t get that in real life you can put points into other stats like chr and it doesn’t take away from your int.

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Mezzie 1573 days ago
I think I was rolled by a min-maxxer: 20 INT and probably around 18 CHA (based on the fact that I could get 100 10 year olds to cooperate as one of them), but damn my CON and STR are so low I have constant pain debuffs to all my rolls. It's BS.
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