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I think it kind of validates a type of thinking that any decent person would want in a candidate. Capitalists are stupid. They don’t know the first thing about skills and abilities.
They’re the kind of bottom of the barrel dipshits who would dismiss a candidate who is great at spelling just because we have autocorrect, even though that’s a solid brain right there.
I have the same addiction, but with voice actors.
That’s a niche skill I like it!
They are all Troy Baker anyway xD
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?
Clearly you don’t know how I clearly know this clearly isn’t true? Well, it’s simple, you didn’t use the word clearly nearly enough.
Seriously, go to IMDb and look at any big TV series or movie then go to the goofs section and look for all the very smug ‘clearly’ remarks.
“The stunt man was clearly wearing a wig to make him look like a woman”…“watch the background to see that George Clooney was clearly not driving the car” etc etc.
And every single time the word brings nothing to the point being made. Nothing. It’s just out there by the person to show how clever they are for spotting it.
‘clearly’ is IMDb’s version of “well, ackchualllyyyy”You’re clearly overthinking this
Northernlion build his entire career of bering the good of trivia, so it is viable. But not as easy as some other careers to get started in
NL in the wild~
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.
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!
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.
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
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
I think you might have a very useful skill of actually finding good, compatible friends.
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’m good at navigating places, but GPS has made it a less useful skill.
It’ll be hugely useful in a post apocalyptic world though
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
I’m terrible at this. [It’s maybe because I watch my shows in black and white due to a cognitive processing disability].
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.
The guy from Reno 911! and Curb Your Enthusiasm!? Holy shit, he really ended up doing alright for himself.
Unscrambling jumbled words. I can usually do 5-letter ones at a glance, and 6-letters in a few seconds.
I wonder if OP is faceblind and has slight recognition but not completely.
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
I can wiggle my ears
I can pop mine by using the muscles that open close the escutcheon tubes
