I’ve mastered the ability to take any idea or thought and transform it into anxiety. Jitters McGee

    • Mister Bean
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      Not really good at it

      I disagree, I would totally eat those thinking they were some fancy snack

    • Bobby Turkalino
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      Useless? I feel like you could get some commissions from urban restaurants to put these in their street-facing food displays

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      My grandma loves miniature everything, especially cute homey things (she has sets for different “rooms”). Whenever I travel anywhere I’m always on the lookout for them cos she’d appreciate these more than the generic city/country souvenir. Always really hard to find though. These look amazing!

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    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.

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      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.

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      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?

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        • 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

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        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.

    • slazer2au
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      63 months ago

      I wouldn’t call that useless. That is how you get to be the executive lead cloud DevOps engineer.

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    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.

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    I can read UPC, UPC-8, ISBN, and EAN bar codes. Tear the numbers off the bottom of the bar code, hand me the lines, and I will tell you the numbers you tore off.

    I used to work the midnight shift at a call center back in the late 90s. It was incredibly boring because we weren’t allowed to browse the internet when no calls were coming in (which was most of the time, got maybe five calls total per night). So I picked up a copy of Yahoo! Internet Life, a now-defunct technology-centered magazine. This issue had a how-to section for wacky shit like that, so I committed it to memory because wtf else was there to do?

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    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.

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      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.

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    I can fluidly open a trash bag, pull it into a straight line, and toss it like a dart, landing it in an open trash can from up to 30ft.

    This only works with those cheap bags that businesses use and this was honed over years of changing trash at various businesses. Not useful, very majestic though.

  • 🐋 Color 🔱 ♀
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    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.

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    I could never spin a pen around my thumb so instead I learned how to “flick” it, have it do a flip and land back in my hand.

    I can also rapidly place two strips of tape on one another with no bubbles and parallel enough you’d think it’s one piece. However I can only do this vertically

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      The pen flip/flicking seems like a skill I would love to learn. Do you have a video or know of a video showing or teaching this?

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        It’s possible there is someone or a video who can show you though I came up with it myself in leu of spinning it so I don’t personally have any sources.

        I can give you a written explanation though!

        Step one: Hold the Pen as you normally would

        Step two: Get the rubber pen grip (or associated area, roughly 1/3 the length from the tip) onto the knuckle at your finger tip or just in front of it (towards the tip of your finger). This should have your finger in a C position which should put you pretty close to a flick position.

        Step 3: Put your thumb in front of the tip of your finger and apply counter pressure between your fingers (ready to flick)

        Step 4: Release your restrained middle finger causing your finger to flick and sending the pen up in a flipping motion.

        Notable: If the pen flys forward try adjusting how forward or backwards the pen sits on your knuckle (I.E. 1/3, 1/4 etc.). Same if the flip is too speedy or slow.

        Adjusting your wrist or moving your hand up to start with some momentum can be useful when learning.

        Consistency is hard but you’ll get the feel in time

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    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.

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    I can make baby elephant noises because I played trombone and fucked up my first attempt at lip buzzing