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I actually enjoy* fucking around with older-ish computers and making them kinda useful again
* involves lots of cursing and groaning when things don’t work and I have to troubleshoot or start over
Narrator: “However, that Vic-20 would never be useful ever again, despite what he told himself.”
Its a good hobby. I have a 14 year old Iomega network drive that I loaded Debian onto. It will serve audio or samba shares without overloading the 256MB of memory
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My S-tier abitity to hyperfocus on learning useless things to the detriment of everything else.
Well, if there’s a choice between learning something relatively tedious and completely useless, and something relatively tedious that’s urgently needed… I know what I’m going to pick!
Oooh, an installation manual for a 1935 refrigerator!
Oooh shiny!
Making a paper airplane that looks like a star trek shuttle
Does it fly tho?
Yep. Long as there isn’t an insane amount of wind. Light breeze can carry it quite a ways
Honestly, I think this skill could easily translate to one of those “lore keeper” or “continuity expert” jobs people have on TV shows.
Script supervisor?
They must have been one of the main markets for Polaroid. They must have been dejected when production stopped.
I can wiggle my ears
I can pop mine by using the muscles that open close the escutcheon tubes
I know we’re all here for the LOLs, but just a quick reminder: it’s ok to enjoy things without being able to monetize them.
In this economy?!
My bills have bills to pay!
Very wise.
Do you have a Patreon?While of course it is, also if you have natural talent for something and enjoy it then monitizing it means you you might be able to do a job you enjoy.
Especially when that skill is “remember a face.”
I think recognizing a person by hearing them once would be useful as:
- spy
- bouncer
- detective
- headhunter
- diplomat
Also just for any kind of sales, honestly. I’m always surprised that regular customers at my bakery like being recognized, but they generally do. I was once in the Taco Bell drive through and the cashier asked me how I get my hair to grow so quickly (I grow it out until it’s long enough to donate, then chop it off and start anew), which implied a very long term recognition, so I stopped going to tb for a few months, because I hated the idea of being observed. I’m autistic and not especially social, though, so I can understand that I’m the outlier here.
I think it’s very context dependent.
Pharmacists often recognize me and I’d rather they didn’t. But I get it. I’m there almost every week for something.
My favorite bubble tea place now recognizes the car I drive so they will prepare my tea as I’m parking and it’s ready by the time I get to the counter. I did tell them that on occasion I’ll order something different but I appreciated it nonetheless.
I like it when I’m remembered because it means that I was worth remembering.
I would be proud of being recognized at a local bakery, and similarly uncomfortable being recognized at a Taco Bell.
People recognize my husband (visual disability) and my twin (distinct dress style) around and it makes me so fucking uncomfortable when they do. Especially now here in the us. Please don’t remember us. Forget us and leave us alone. But they act like I’m an asshole for being super uncomfortable with people just fucking coming up and being all “oh you’re from x place!” cause also just because they recognize someone doesn’t mean you comment on that?? I was taught that was rude as fuck?? You also don’t know us at all???
It’s a sign of intelligence to be able to “connect the dots”, so arguably this is a transferable skill.
Put OP on monitoring CCTV.
“Enhance, OP! Enhance!”
I did that for a while, and I’ll be exaggerating my uselessness but here goes.
“No, that can’t be him. See, the man who did the robbery was wearing a pair of pantyhose on his face. This guy has no such article of clothing on his face. His friend had on a ski mask, I don’t see a ski mask on this man’s face. Yeah, they’re wearing the same shoes but what about the face coverings, hmmmmm?”
“Hey, that guy stealing all our stuff was in Frasier!”
God forbid we have a piece of our lives that isn’t monetized for the grind.
Well hey, if you monetize it whatever service you monetize on will just demonetize it without warning for no reason anyway.
Why anyone would even start a YouTube channel right now is beyond me. Unless you’re planning to go full Louis Rossman and DGAF.
Working for youtube as a content creator sounds like my personal hell. You’re basically a slave to your channel once you decide to make it your full time job.
If it was me id host my shit on my own platform and post shorts on YouTube and everywhere else linking back to it. Being a content creator sounds like he’ll to me though so this is all hypothetical.
Sounds like too much work, honestly. People on youtube can’t be fucked to click on links to other websites. It would also be a terrible business model for someone who aims to make content creation their job.
If it is just for shits and giggles, then I don’t think youtube or your suggestion is that big of a deal. Then it’s just a hobby that people can do when they feel like it.
What I was talking about were those people who decide to make a career out of it. That is hell. There are a select few who get lucky where it doesn’t destroy their lives, but for most, it is just an unforgiving and soul destroying endeavor. I cannot imagine letting myself become essentially an ad-prostitute where I earn my money by blabbering on about sponsors every video and probably not know for sure if the company I advertise is good or turns out to be some corrupt scam or a cult some years down the line - making me look like the tool I am. I cannot imagine having to produce x amount of content with advertisement in it to uphold my end of whatever contract I have with a sponsor - essentially being their puppet until the contract runs out. And maybe I was an idiot who didn’t understand lawyer-speak and now I have committed myself to be their mouthpiece for seven to ten months for free because I signed that shit. Everyday turning on the camera and dance like a monkey for my followers while my sponsor gets free advertisement.
And then gradually being recognized and getting weird people following me, finding facts about me I don’t know where they got them from. Shit like that. And the pay is still nowhere close to being worth all that stress because you’re also constantly paranoid about demonetization and being basically having no privacy anymore. Even if you try and cover all your bases, people will find out who you are and where you live and with whom. The more you try to hide, the more persistent they will be.
Like I said = hell.
I have the same addiction, but with voice actors.
That’s a niche skill I like it!
I kinda have both. I have to know if that cardassian holographic doctor was someone in scrubs. And why do I recognize the chicken from the chicken ad in Bojack horseman and how is it not Terry Crews?
Wasn’t the cardassian holographic doctor on Doogie Howser?
No but he was in a lot of medical shows
They are all Troy Baker anyway xD
My father was frustratingly difficult to watch movies with, because of this exact thing. He would pause the movie to explain that the actor on screen had been in some other obscure movie a decade ago. It was especially bad if two actors had previously worked in the same project, because then he would start listing off other cast and crew they had worked with in the past.
Okay, great, please press Play. I just want to watch the goddamned movie.
Ah shit. I do this and I just assumed my kids were cool with it. Thank you for being the mirror I didn’t know I needed.
Your kids might appreciate it. Just ask.
I’d be cool with discussing it afterwards. That kind of thing is really interesting to me. My dad doesn’t know shit about fuck though.
lmao My friends and I do this, but we do not pause the movie. We can keep track of what is happening, give obscure info, tell jokes, even, if it’s necessary, we do pause the movie to go to youtube to watch some video because someone remembered see some similar scene or something. Maybe that is our useless skill
I think you might have a very useful skill of actually finding good, compatible friends.
Yeah you try this with me and I’ll definitely pause the movie until y’all be quiet unless it’s a trash fire type watch
My wife and daughter do this a lot, but their version is to quietly look up the actors and then announce their results during a lull, so it works out fine. I just do it in my head so I’m like yeah I know, she was also in whatever with Val Kilmer.
There are certain TV shows where you could spend the whole time figuring out who used to be in what - in the 80s Murder She Wrote featured just about every middle-tier actor from the 60s or 70s. Before that they were on The Love Boat. Seems like there must be a modern show full of 90s through 2010s actors but I don’t know what it would be. Hey, there’s Topanga!
I can say the alphabet backwards, really fast. I also know all the digits of pi in ascending order
Ascending order? So like, 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9?
That is the joke, yes.
No, like 0 0 0 0 0 … 1 1 1 1 1 … 2 2 2 2 …
and I forget the rest, but I’m pretty sure I know the last digit
I’m pretty sure you don’t
well it’s likely to be a digit between 8 and 10
But it’s just a guess!
woah
You almost got me there 😆
i once was asked to recite the alphabet backwards for a dui stop. after the pig wanted to breathalyze me first and I told him "don’t we have to do a little song and dance? (walk in a straight line).
been practicing ever since.wait… ALL the digits? fucking mastermind over here
I dated a girl who could recite pi to a hundred places.
Yeah, well I know all the digits of pi in base pi
No completely true. You can win gift cards at bar trivia.
I know this because, in college, I had to take Greek mythology to get an engineering degree. I can honestly say I’ve never used the Greek mythology knowledge anywhere but bar trivia.
Reminds me of a story of a friend of mine… She did her undergrad and masters in classics and archaeology. As part of her studies she participated in a summer dig on the island of Cyprus. She spent the summer working on remote archaeological sites in the rural countryside.
Well one day she needed to go into town for something. She goes in to the only store in town, a tiny little grocery store. She finds what she’s looking for then goes to check out. Suddenly, with horror, she realizes, “wait, I don’t know how to talk to this guy. I can’t speak modern Greek.”
So she attempts the next best thing. She tries to talk to the shopkeeper…in ancient Greek. She tried to have a random conversation with someone in ancient Greek in modern Cyprus.
The shopkeeper looks at her like she has two heads, pauses for a moment, and says, in English, “lady, no one has talked like that here for two thousand years!”
There have been few things in my life more satisfying than being in a room full of generally smart, knowledgeable people, and being the only one who knows the answer to a trivia question. It’s happened a few times in my life, and usually it’s about mythology.
One time while scoring the round, the quizmaster was asking the questions aloud and letting the crowd shout back the correct answers. When it came to the Greek mythology question I was the only one who shouted, “Tartarus!” Someone in the back of the room shouted, “Nerd!” Later in the round he found me and apologized, but it didn’t bother me.
For my first baby shower we hired our quizmaster to host trivia. In the interest of fairness, our six person team was split across three of the teams. It ended in a three-way tie, and the tiebreaker was the name of Odin’s horse. It was Sleipnir, which means “Slippy”. Slippy the eight-legged horse. That one was especially satisfying.
mythology… isn’t that a horse with 4 legs and 2 arms (the almighty centaur)?
Sleipnir isn’t a centaur. It’s a horse with eight legs.
I think you could get more creative with your language, with that knowledge. If nothing else, reading the Bible (or catching the cliffs notes) and getting a firm understanding of ‘The Classics’ gives you an immense wealth of phrases and references to help illustrate your point that are so ingrained in Western culture and media that you’re likely to strike more points with it than without.
I’m still making my way through that herculean effort, that sisyphusian task. I struggled like Odysseus returning home to get through the Bible the first time, but once you get through all the parables and their Lot, there are some really interesting stories that make for easy metaphors and similes.
And metaphors are useful because it makes language a bit more digestible and accessible to people who understand those metaphors.
because stories they are… lest you believe they’re history events
I knew someone that worked at an Audi dealer that can recognize everyone’s voice and associate their purchase.
I called him 4 years later to inquire about a new Audi and he asked me how my TT was treating me and if I was ready for a bigger car(I mentioned that I was going to start a family soon).
Born politician right there. Seriously, some of the shittiest villains in politics would nonetheless wow you with how they can legitimately work an entire room full of people, remember names, make you feel special, etc.
Honestly, if I was in the market in buying another car, I would love that kind of personalization.
