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[–] artifex@lemmy.zip 101 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 51 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

My bills have bills to pay!

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 4 days ago

Very wise.
Do you have a Patreon?

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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).

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

Honestly, if I was in the market in buying another car, I would love that kind of personalization.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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^

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Narrator: "However, that Vic-20 would never be useful ever again, despite what he told himself."

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[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I can build majority of flat pack furniture without the instructions, first time, every time.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Do you have any leftover screws?

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I'm in awe of you. Genuinely

[–] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 58 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think recognizing a person by hearing them once would be useful as:

  • spy
  • bouncer
  • detective
  • headhunter
  • diplomat
[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I have this same skill, but with voice actors.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

If it's an elf woman that ~~may or may not be particularly~~ is either extremely horny or ace, i have a pretty solid guess of the English voice actor...

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Me with anime

Granted I watch mostly >decade old stuff dubs, so it's mostly the same 30 VAs in every show

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago (5 children)

God forbid we have a piece of our lives that isn’t monetized for the grind.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Making a paper airplane that looks like a star trek shuttle

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yep. Long as there isn't an insane amount of wind. Light breeze can carry it quite a ways

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

writing code that doesn't need a browser to run on

[–] beveradb@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

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

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[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My S-tier abitity to hyperfocus on learning useless things to the detriment of everything else.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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!

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

I can throw dog treats with absurd accuracy and nearly always bounce/spin/toss them right near my dogs. Until I point it out.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 42 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's a sign of intelligence to be able to "connect the dots", so arguably this is a transferable skill.

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 17 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Put OP on monitoring CCTV.

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[–] DanForever@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, I think this skill could easily translate to one of those "lore keeper" or "continuity expert" jobs people have on TV shows.

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago

Your kids might appreciate it. Just ask.

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[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (3 children)

My useless skill is software development ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] frenchfryenjoyer 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 days ago (7 children)

My boring super power isn't something I can monetize, but it's useful regularly: being able to pick the best sized Tupperware container to put leftovers in.

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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 19 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I can say the alphabet backwards, really fast. I also know all the digits of pi in ascending order

[–] levzzz@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Ascending order? So like, 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9?

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[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I have the same addiction, but with voice actors.

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[–] Heikki@lemm.ee 15 points 4 days ago (7 children)

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.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago

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!"

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[–] ours@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (11 children)

IMDB used to have an amazing cross-search. You could put any combination of actor, crew, movie/show title and it would bring out common movies/shows.

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[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 5 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The actor who played Oscar in The Office also was in The Italian Job (Marc Walberg, Charlize Theron). He was the security guard for the rich guy (Edward Norton) and said maybe two lines while checking ID.

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