I’ve mastered the ability to take any idea or thought and transform it into anxiety. Jitters McGee
I am better at helping others flesh out ideas and expanding on them than I am making up my own ideas. I’m good at troubleshooting problems better than most I’ve ever met. I owe both to PC troubleshooting over the last few decades (from Apple 2e and Pentium II to present). I find that people these days have tunnel vision and focus on short-term gains over long-term payoffs, often to the detriment of future productivity.
“I am better at helping others flesh out ideas and expanding on them than I am making up my own ideas.”
I think this makes you a “force multiplier”.
“a force multiplier is a factor or a combination of factors that gives folks the ability to accomplish greater feats than without it.”
I won’t say “mastered” as I have lost the ability now, but back in college Pokemon endgame content gave me the ability to read braille by looking at it.
That’s about as useless as possible.
And yet I’ve always wanted to do that 😅
See also https://xkcd.com/315/
I can speedwalk very fast and with good stability. It comes on handy when I need to move fast with a glass of liquid, which doesn’t come up a lot.
Were you ever in marching band? I got relatively good at that after putting my all into marching band in high school.
I can solve a 3x3 rubix cube in under 60 seconds.
Just practice and memorization, it’s not that hard.
Back when I was 15 or so I spent a summer solving one, no guides or resources used. Took me about 3 months and it would take me about 10-20 minutes to solve after I figured it out. I was always proud of that haha
Alternating between American and British spellings like it’s nothing. I just use whatever spelling I vibe with at the time. I’ll do the same with units of measurement as well.
As a a Canadian, I just do this naturally as well.
I can’t imagine spending the time to master anything and then thinking the skill is useless.
I can make double fart sounds by laying on my back and cupping my knee-armpits with both hands.
Not entirely useless though; I showed this to my SO 7 years ago when we started dating and she was clearly impressed as she’s still hanging around.
I was worried I was the only one! I can also do elbows, neck, and chest. Also eye sockets but it’s not very loud, I’m working on it.
I wish you a great success on your journey towards the eye-socket-fart mastery
I used to be deadly accurate throwing a paper book of matches. A useless skill even when they were readily available.
Whistle like a pidgeon and mourning doves
I can spew random trivia about every latin american country.
Give me your favorite please!!
There is a taco bell in the historic city of Antigua Guatemala. Guatemala also has like 30 volcanos and their flag is light blue and white with the coat of arms featuring the quetzal bird on it.
Im a top 1% player in Rocket League after playing for 4500 hours. The skill gap between me and the best players in the game is the same gap as between me and a brand new player.
But i will still beat 99% of the game’s population.
As an 800 hour player that has to put the game down because of competitiveness making me a curmudgeon – Wow, gotta say. That’s so much work.
Did you use the practice modes to get to be that level or did it just come to you during play?
- Tons of freeplay
- Tons of mods/workshop map
- Ive had some coaching
- And I also play in an amateur league
As long as you always play to improve, watch videos to keep up on mechanics/metas, and just immerse yourself in the game, you’ll always climb up. If you play at least 2 hours a day, you’ll be insane before you know it.
But in the spirit of this post, you could spend your time doing something so much more productive than a video game lol
Played 932h (around 900h actual playtime) and almost exclusively played ranked or rumble/dropshot but never casual.
Best rank was Diamond 2 or 1 not sure anymore.
Played it only on keyboard. No controller ever used. Gave it up as a sort of protest against the buyout and never went back.
Same for me, but with Tetris. I’m not the best, but I’m confident I can handedly beat the vast majority of the population. I spent most of my lockdown days just doing Tetris.
Similar on Splatoon. Before the recent rank reset I was S+6, it blows my mind that people go up to like S+20. But when the season ends, all the S+x ratings reset to S rank, and playing with normal S rank people recently reminded me of that.
I was literally just about so say same for splatoon, I just hit my highest elo ever and I’m really proud of myself 🥺
Do you play much x rank? I’m surprised to see someone refrencing their anarchy rank as opposed to x power
I don’t do too much X rank, I mostly stick to anarchy. Though I do jump into the occasional X game when I’m feeling masochistic.
My main goal really is to master as many kits as I can and to learn their roles, and X games are not the tier for experimentation. Anarchy is a bit more lenient.
Gotcha, I can see why you’d be more into anarchy then. Congrats on S+6 ☺️
Did you mean “handily?” Or “single-handedly,” implying some sort of Teamtris?
Yup, thanks! I was trying to figure out which word I was thinking of. I must have malaphored myself
Yeah same, but with like 2K hours. At some point I was Grand Champion 1 or something. I could probably win against 2 noobs without me using jump and boost, but in the few moments I played against pros I got equally clapped. It’s insane to me how much better pro players are.
After Epic bought it the whole game slowly went to shit though. Psyonix once treated the game and its community as their baby, but it just became a soulless money printer without any decent innovation. So I barely play anymore, even though the core game is ultimately still fun.
Whistling. Took decades and I can do it two different ways (lips and teeth). I now do it subconsciously when listening to music where I’ll typically add other melodies or harmonies. I can bird call pretty much flawlessly. Loudest I get is over 100dB. Average is low 90s. Not much use but it’s fun.
When you say teeth do you mean like with your tongue on the roof of your mouth/behind front teeth? Or is there something new I can learn?
Maybe the teeth gap? I have a very small front teeth gap (probably <1mm) and can produce a very high pitched annoying whistle with it.
Procrastinating, i don’t know how i became so good at it.
I can tell you, later
i can roll quarters down my fingers continuously because I saw Val kilmer do it in Real Genius and I wanted to be cool like him.
Ha, I saw Val Kilmer do it in Tombstone and always wanted to do it, but never followed through.
he does it in tombstone?
i must have completely forgotten about that.
haha he definitely must have told them that he could do it from practicing on set at Real Genius and they should let him do it in tombstone too, that’s hilarious haha.
Yep, when he’s playing cards here. I didn’t realize he’d done it in other movies. I’d look for excuses, too.
Fuck I love that movie.
ha, thanks for the clip! thats great.
I learned to ride a unicycle.
I’ve wanted to do this but I’m afraid at my age I’ll be seriously injured trying.
I learned to ride when I was 17. It took me like 2 months to learn to ride.
I just turned 42 today. If I didn’t already know how to mount and ride a unicycle already, I’d probably be like F that as well.
If you fall on an unicycle you land on your feet
My experience says no to this. Maybe usually, but I fell on my ass a few too many times and gave up trying to learn the rest.
I fear you may overestimate my physical prowess.
Usually yes, but it partly depends on how big the tire is and how tall the unicycle is…
I learned on a 24 inch tire with 6 inch pedal cranks, not stupid tall. I wasn’t going for the circus, I just wanted to learn to ride.
