What's your useless skill?
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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^
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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^
Narrator: "However, that Vic-20 would never be useful ever again, despite what he told himself."
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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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They must have been one of the main markets for Polaroid. They must have been dejected when production stopped.
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I can build majority of flat pack furniture without the instructions, first time, every time.
Do you have any leftover screws?
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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!
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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.
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writing code that doesn't need a browser to run on
Preposterous! What can code run on if not a browser!
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Making a paper airplane that looks like a star trek shuttle
Does it fly tho?
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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.
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I can wiggle my ears
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I can wiggle my ears
I can pop mine by using the muscles that open close the escutcheon tubes
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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Does it fly tho?
Yep. Long as there isn't an insane amount of wind. Light breeze can carry it quite a ways
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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!
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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.
Astounding!
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Preposterous! What can code run on if not a browser!
most code from the before times, from the long-long-ago, actually didn't need a browser, and could fit on a floppy disk!
