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how 2 soft skills
by : uncle anon
so you don't know how to talk to people? good. fuck 'em. they suck. probably means you're smarter than they are, since the most vapid people i've ever known are also the most talkative. but still, you gotta deal with the cocksuckers to get through your life and not end up dying in a hole somewhere. that's where 'soft skills' come in, aka how to talk to an NPC.
rule 1: let them do the talking
nobody gives a shit about you. not trying to be a dick, that's how it is for everyone. nobody gives a shit about anybody else. when someone asks 'hey, how's it going?' they don't actually care that you're bummed out over putting your dad in the psych ward after that unfortunate incident involving the neighbor and a pungee pit, they're asking because they're thinking about themselves, so they presume you're thinking about yourself. yes, normies are this fucking shallow. get used to it.
but if you met someone who let you talk about your dad spilling his shitbucket in the hall outside your bedroom on the way to pour it on the stakes for his stupid fucking pit, you'd probably like that guy, right? that's the secret fucking sauce, chief. be that guy. you only need to do two things. listen and ask followup questions. yes. this means listening, earnestly, to normie drivel. you won't have to remember it, though it helps if you do. don't burn yourself out trying unless they're important NPCs, like your boss or your stupid fucking dad. god i hate you, you stupid pit digging fuck.
anyway, listen, then ask. if you're not horrifically autistic, you can probably pick up on people's tone of voice. they sound different when they're sad or mad or happy, and they're so fucking desperate to blow that emotional load on anybody that it creeps up into their voice, so making reference to it is a good way to get people talking. though you might get roped in to listening to some asshat crying about having to help hoist his neighbor out of a pit of waste deep shit.
