I haven't flown a plane in years.
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2025
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Because of heightened airport security?
No, I went to aircraft mechanic school and learned about how airplanes are maintained.
I haven't flown as crew or passenger since.
Telling you to shut the fuck up.
- marshmallow roasting (I can perfectly control the level of browning on the outside and melted-ness on the inside)
- paper snowflake making (I can make them very intricate and come out exactly how I visualize them)
pretty shit at everything else though. I fat-fingered my skill points allocation hard.
What I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
I am able to recite toy commercials and obscure TV theme songs from 90s kids shows with surprising accuracy, many decades past consuming them - Crossfire, Creepy Crawlers, James Bond Jr. Denver the Last Dinosaur... I'm your guy. I don't watch these things deliberately to learn them and haven't seen them since organically seeing during childhood, they just start playing in my head on the smallest triggers, music and lyrics, verbatim.
This is what the inside of my head is like, all the time
I can hear high frequencies that supposedly only kids and teens still can. The most recent time it was 'useful' was (spoilers) a magic show in Vegas a few years ago.
Otherwise my hearing is terrible.
Do you hear bats?
No, I have a pretty normal human range, just for a much younger human than I am.
(if it's super loud I could reach 22khz, but that was a few years ago that I checked it)
I don't think I could hear bats as a kid. I also didn't see bats often but when I did I didn't hear them
I'm a really good driver. Like rules of the road and all that, sure, but I also have some training in rally cars, am decent on a race track, and am generally a top 5 finisher in whatever Sim race I enter.
Wish I could afford to enter an IRL series.
I did scca auto-x for a few years. Never came close to being the fastest car there, but my car was just a humble 1st gen Dodge Neon. I usually had times in the middle overall, with high performance cars like subaru STI and also cars like miatas coming in ahead of me. I had a lot of fun, but it got boring since you only got 3-4 1 minute runs and spent all day in the hot sun. The cost and time commitment just wasn't worth it. I'd rather go to a decent gokart track.
I have hyperphantasia, which means that I'm able to visualize things in my mind in a way that it looks exactly the same as it would in real life. If I see a puzzle that requires spatial reasoning, I can rotate it and manipulate it in 3D space in my mind.
I hold your power in awe. I have the exact opposite of this. I cannot picture spatial dimensions in my head at all.
I use this for CAD! It's actually kind of frustrating because I often find my brain uses techniques that I can't replicate using the controls on cad software.
I remember about 80% you tell me about you (if I’m listening) I won’t tell you what I know about you in order to not creep you out.
Do you remember their name too ?
Absolutely not. Only their faces
I have found a person like me
I can die in peace from now on
I'm very good at remembering people's birthdays. I stopped "using" it cause I think it creeps people out a bit, but at least with people I like it's always nice to remember to congratulate them without relying on social media.
I'm shit with names though.
Have you had a situation where you remembered someones birthday only to twists their neme?
Huh?
walking into a room and forgetting why I entered
I use that skill every single day
Ability to kill 7 different ways with a fruit loop
Sling staff.
Lock picking.
Skydiving.
Laying ceramic tile.
How many of those can you do at once?
I can lay ten-inch hexagonal porcelain tile while freefalling, actually. But I need to use a premixed adhesive.
I think this has to be one of my favorite comments of all time.
Does the tile survive impact in one piece?
No, but this is a desired result of the technique.
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