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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">The Geek's Guide to Dating - Eric Smith</h1>
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2021-03-23
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/reviews/">#reviews</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books-2021/">#books:2021</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-4/">#stars:4</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/edition-2013/">#edition:2013</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/self-help/">#self-help</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17568806-the-geek-s-guide-to-dating">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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You keep your action figures in their original packaging. Your bedsheets are
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officially licensed Star Wars merchandise. You're hooked on Elder Scrolls and
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Metal Gear but now you've discovered an even bigger obsession: the new girl who
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just moved in down the hall. What's a geek to do? Take some tips from Eric Smith
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in The Geek's Guide to Dating. This hilarious primer leads geeks of all ages
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through the perils and pitfalls of meeting women, going on dates, getting
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serious, breaking up, and establishing a successful lifelong relationship (hint:
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it's time to invest in new bedsheets). Full of whimsical 8-bit illustrations,
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The Geek's Guide to Dating will teach fanboys everywhere to love long and
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prosper.</p>
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★★★☆☆
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<p>I have to be honest: The first 1/3 of the book was quite boring. If you ever
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read any other dating-advice book, there is a lot of same tips: Listen to her,
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find some common ground, etc, etc, etc. All that with heavy drops of geek/nerd
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culture: game references, movie references, book references and the continuous
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use of referring to the reader as "Player One" (ok, I get it: People are trying
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to get their "Player Two", but heck, calm the freaking down).</p>
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<p>The later parts are a bit better, going off the common ground: casual dating,
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second date, how to dress, how to make things work when things get serious, what
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you should be looking for a long term relationship and how to act when things
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fall down -- either by your own decision or theirs.</p>
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<p>But there is something off here: Sure, it is somewhat fun getting ideas using
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analogies based on nerd stuff (again, games, movies and books), but the whole
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thing seems focused on geek guys, and I feel it would be really interesting, as
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a guy, to understand the female perspective of this all. The book tries
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(<em>tries</em>) to make things a bit less biased by adding a disclaimer that geek
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girls can also read the book, and should just replace the "she/her" to
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"he/him" -- which absolutely does not work on some chapters, like the "How to
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Dress" part.</p>
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<p>And yes, the heavy use of drop/nerd references in the first half does not help
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the lighter use in the second half: You're already tired of reading about Mario
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or Sonic or whatever.</p>
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<p>I'm going to give a 3 star just because it does the extra mile of going to
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different ideas of dating (serious vs casual), dealing with things going serious
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and breakups.</p>
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