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🕯 In labouring to be concise, I become obscure. 🕯 Alchemist, sacred things, making things 🕯 The map is mostly water. 🌜 I make GoJS: http://gojs.net 

Amherst, NH
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    Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris 13 May 2020

    Video games lead me to believe that you could just walk into places like gyms or taverns and they'd be full of people who would teach you the ropes at different skills or becoming a pirate or whatever. Sadly modern environments don't promote this, though it did happen to me once.

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      2. Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris 13 May 2020

        When I was 18(?) I went to the DMV parking lot to practice the motorcycle license test (painted on the ground). You had to do an obstacle course to get the license. I go the day before the test and there's a bunch of huge biker dudes getting their friends ready andpic.twitter.com/mhthYxEHLF

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      3. Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris 13 May 2020

        they see me and wave me over and say LETS GO KID YOU'RE GONNA CRUSH THIS TEST. No introductions. They walked me through the whole thing like it was their plan all along. Thanks huge biker dudes.

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      4. Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris 13 May 2020

        actually something like this happened as soon as I got to college! I missed orientation (busy that week of summer) so I had to go to international student orientation. This left me with a week of being in my dorm alone. I wandered around the mostly empty buildings a lot.

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      5. Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris 13 May 2020

        One day I came across a guy teaching a class of 5 or 6 people and this is how I discovered Zach Barth and his merry men. Some of you may know the name! He was giving them a small lecture with slides titled "C for fucking noobs" They apparently were on campus early too, and they

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      6. Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris 13 May 2020

        liked to get together to teach each other stuff and then play starcraft afterwards. So they were like hey we're gonna play SC soon come back with your laptop, so I did. Zach was very kind to me. He also gave me some laundry detergent in a tennis ball container because I had none.

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      7. Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris 13 May 2020

        Zach at the time was determined to invent a game that had shifting rules as you played, called Infinarena I think. Then later Infiniminer. Now many more of course. He kept inviting me to his hangouts but I rarely went because I was shy & dumb, but I'm v grateful that he tried.

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      8. Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris 13 May 2020

        I wish there were more ways that people could stumble upon other people working or doing stuff semi-publicly, what I think @context_ing called "working with the garage door up", which is probably the greatest thing about the internet.

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      2. Sam Strajack‏ @StrajackSam 13 May 2020
        Replying to @simonsarris

        In my experience, pleading ignorance and just asking when you don’t know something yields tons of people willing and ready to help. Has always been a huge asset in my life and I’ve never been shy about asking for help. Then again I’m tall and nice and white so results may vary.

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      3. brennan‏ @letkma 13 May 2020
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        totally - especially with the gym where there's people doing activities that require a lot of waiting around, I've had 100% success rate just asking the strong looking dude about what he's doing and why it's better than <other thing> likewise, I've helped everyone who asks me

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      1. Citizen Lane‏ @laneshetron 13 May 2020
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        this is one of the reasons I enjoy attending tech conferences regularly. I find people are much more inviting and eager to teach random strangers at them (and I don’t mean the speakers)

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