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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
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
Narrator: “However, that Vic-20 would never be useful ever again, despite what he told himself.”
I can wiggle my ears
I can pop mine by using the muscles that open close the escutcheon tubes
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 build majority of flat pack furniture without the instructions, first time, every time.
Do you have any leftover screws?
Never! Unless they gave me too many…
But seriously I don’t use the self tappers or nails they give you as they awful, made of soft cheese.
I’m in awe of you. Genuinely
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.
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!
I can throw dog treats with absurd accuracy and nearly always bounce/spin/toss them right near my dogs. Until I point it out.
I have this same skill, but with voice actors.
My SO can identify all actors by voice (she follows all films by ear because she’s playing some kind of Candy Crush game — several of them, because she runs out of levels). And as a lot of them are foreign, and dubbed, she’ll tell me that this was the guy that was doing the voice in (litany of roles).
Of course I have to pick films accordingly. She’s never seen Tenet.
Me with anime
Granted I watch mostly >decade old stuff dubs, so it’s mostly the same 30 VAs in every show
If it’s an elf woman that
may or may not be particularlyis either extremely horny or ace, i have a pretty solid guess of the English voice actor…
What, I said guess 🤣. Maybe check again I’ll try
I know the year most Disney movies came out. Not all of them, but probably more than I should know. Generally, I know the year of release for most movies I have seen.
When it comes to remembering useful things, I might as well have dementia.
writing code that doesn’t need a browser to run on
Preposterous! What can code run on if not a browser!
Oh man so much love went into crafting code for low end MP3 players in the Rockbox project, then everyone ended up carrying around smartphones with tons of compute and memory resource to waste
Rockbox was so cool. I had it on my SanDisk Sansa e250. It was so awesome. Better video format support, better interface. And it ran fucking DOOM.
Man I still use my iPod with rockbox. A terabyte of storage and a massive battery and I never have to worry about giving streaming revenue to pedo rapists like red hot chili peppers, or worry about rumors being true about pedo rapists like panic at the disco
I used rockbox on a recent holiday for my ipod 6g. It’s always my go to for holidays so i don’t need to use up my phone’s battery
My useless skill is software development ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Don’t feel bad, I used to work as a writer.
Oof.
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.
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 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.”
