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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 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.
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???
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
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.
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!”
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 have this same skill, but with voice actors.
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
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
I can throw dog treats with absurd accuracy and nearly always bounce/spin/toss them right near my dogs. Until I point it out.
writing code that doesn’t need a browser to run on
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
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
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
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.
Preposterous! What can code run on if not a browser!
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
My useless skill is software development ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
clearly you have a long road ahead of you if you still can’t escape your backslashes lol
Oof.
Don’t feel bad, I used to work as a writer.
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 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!
You almost got me there 😆
woah
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
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
