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.
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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?
walking into a room and forgetting why I entered
I use that skill every single day
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 am reasonably acrobatic. I only get to use it when people are drunk and get the sudden urge to watch someone do a backflip.
Much lower level, but I'm over 50 and can do a great cartwheel. Was at a concert and these little kids were sitting in a line, one by one doing a cartwheel, I came and joined their line and when my turn came did the cartwheel they were just delighted, it was so cute.
Not otherwise acrobatic, a one trick pony. But it has very occasionally been a good trick.
Yeah, kids losing their mind (in a good way) is quite wholesome.
Resolving IRQ conflicts on ISA devices
Somewhat relatedly, I still have the MSDN Windows 2000 license key memorized.
Needless to say, I have not had to install Windows 2000 on anything for quite some time.
Cool, I had a Win98 one memorized for years but it's gone now.
And of course there's...
NT4.0 key here
Still remember the sound blaster config?
220,5,1,5 or something similar
I know how to do home canning, and making sure it's safe. I just don't get to do it often because it's energy intensive on the me so it's something I do about twice a year.
I can vomit on command at most times without sticking a finger down my throat etc. I feel like that scientifically inaccurate dinosaur from the original Jurassic Park.
Mister Neon evolved!
He learned "Vomit"!
I'm a PC filler Pokemon that would rather be a Digimon. I don't know what that means, but it's the truth.
Technically if you put pokemon inside a PC it became digimon.
artificial / forced burping. i used it a lot as a kid to graciously avoid broccoli and other dinner socializations.
the gracious part only works on family though.
I can see magic eye pictures instantly. Like, at a glance.
never in my life have those worked for me. My family used to infuriate me talking about what they saw and telling me to relax my eyes. WTF is relax your eyes!
If all they ever told you was to relax your eyes then it's not surprising they don't work for you, that's not very helpful! Feel free to skip the rest of this if you don't want advice on how to get them to work.
For me, the best way to get them to work is to cross my eyes and let my gaze drift out of focus. When I was a kid I read a tip in a book to press your nose up to the book, look at the picture, and keep them in that position as you pull away. That works well for me too if I'm having trouble doing it on my own.
I can do the out of focus thing on command, but even with the other tips you gave here i could never see it.
Crossing your eyes will show you the opposite effect though, something being concave instead of convex.
You still get the image, but that explains why they’ve always been concave for me 😂
So, I never had to try, it just always worked for me. But, a friend of mine once said that she got it to work by holding her finger up in front of her face, like a foot away, and then looking past the finger at something farther away. Then, back to the finger. Looking past her finger, she'd see two of the finger, but as soon as she was thinking about the finger, she'd focus again on it and start just seeing the one finger. The trick to the magic eye is basically getting to where you can deliberately focus past the finger and still look at it? I don't know, I just look and see the image. Once, someone made a fake one that had no image to try to mess with me. There's also a neat trick where you can immediately see the difference in side by side images by "magic eye-ing" them. The differences kinda flicker or glow, it's hard to explain.
There was a video game back in the 1990s (Magic Carpet by Bullfrog) that was first person shoot that had a mode that would run the game in that "magic eye" 3D. I could only see it if the player was standing still, but you should see if you could see it 3D in real time. I've never met anyone that could.
Yup, totally could. Loved that game. Would get the Meteor power, then erase the map!
Because of how it was coded, it was really hard to emulate. Haven't tried in years.
Magic Carpet also had red/blue 3d mode that worked pretty good!
I know kung fu (wing chun). I am however years out of practice, and also glad its not something i use very often.
Back in the 80s I knew Wang Chung.
Unscrambling mixed-up words. I can usually do 5-letter ones on sight, 6-letters might take a minute, or at least a few seconds. Recently while watching Young Sheldon I was surprised to see a closeup of a Jumble that Meemaw was working on - which I'm still not sure was real because one of the words was POINT, which can also be PINTO. The Jumble people are usually careful to avoid words with multiple solutions, because certain letters in each word become the source for a longer final jumble, so having them unambiguously in the correct positions matters.
Balloon animals.
Make me a bicycle, clown!
What kinda animals can you make? Are there some that you excel at in particular that are out of the more ordinary repertoire?
Ability to kill 7 different ways with a fruit loop
I can create massive research papers overnight.
Sex.
I use it once every fifteen years.
I'm top notch at oral and love to do it, but I married a woman who doesn't like it ten years ago. So much waste.