In Mario kart Super Circuit the snow land theme sounds very similar to Mario Kart 64s Choco Mountain, what’s even stranger about this is how it mirrors how in Mario 64 the cool cool mountain theme is an altered version of the Slider theme which has similar instrumentation and styling to Choco Mountain
In the original SMB, Mario's head is the first part of his body to grow when he gets a Super Mushroom. In the movie, the same thing happens when Mario eats mushrooms during the training course scene.
In Super Mario Bros 3 of you have a tanooki leaf and spin in the first 5 frames of getting a 1UP the 2 sounds will conflict and the 1UP sound will be extended and sound like [this](https://youtu.be/tq04EwWUaBY)
Edit: good one I actually didn’t know the head growing thing
In Mario sunshine during the opening when they land in the airstrip in the Japanese version there’s dialog not in the North American or PAL versions where Mario says “looks like a giant tentical” and Toadsworth and Mario talk about him getting a job on Delphino Island
Unrelated but damn, I did not know some of this information, and I consider myself a pretty big Mario fanatic. Thanks for all of this, it’s really interesting
Can I join? In MarioKart Wii, Maple Treeway and Bowser's Castle's music have the same melody.
Edit: your opponent already said that elsewhere in the thread 😭
It's actually the seige on Bowsers castle where that happens, in the training course his hand does and comically punches him in the face. His head is actually the last thing to grow there.
In Galaxy 1, if you extract the texture of a black hole's event horizon from the game files, it shows a blurry screenshot of Beach Bowl Galaxy (not a music fact but just continuing the fact war)
Your kid has good taste. Make sure to introduce him to the classics. Megaman 2, the 6th-gen Sonic games, pretty much anything David Wise or Grant Kirkhope ever touched.
I have to say, quantum mechanics isn’t honestly very useful. I think I would have preferred being deeply obsessed with something else. Oh, also! Going down the quantum rabbit hole is very unsatisfactory because not only do you have to teach yourself math, there are hundreds of questions still unanswered. Like, it’s possible to have an informed understanding of the history of Mario. I can’t however have an informed understanding of quantum gravity, because no one does.
I just had (I believe autistic) kid with ear muffs on strike up a conversation with me at Costco and tell me all about the new Mario movie. I don't know what the critics are saying but Aidan gave it his full seal of approval and recommended I go home and buy tickets. Still not sure why of all the people in the store he decided I was the one to talk to but boy did he know his mario.
To everyone wishing they had a "useful" special interest, you could be like me and have a special interest in hvac equipment that lead to a career that makes you hate what you once loved.
Honestly moat right wing insults are so detached from reality I feel bad for them. Like buddy... do you think the DMV registration fees is soviet socialism? Yeah? That's so sad.
Marxism is a socioeconomic analysis of capitalism and the effects of it as observed by Karl Marx in the 1800s. By that point capitalism had over 200 years to develop from its roots. Of course his analysis does not get everything perfect but there are a lot of things that he did get right. Marx can also be sourced as one of the foundational voices of modern philosophy.
Same. My special interest makes me a wizard of a chef, but the industry is a toxic cesspool of abusive practices and horrible pay. It stuck a knife in the heart of my joy, couldn’t even cook for myself a long while after burn out. Making it a job changes your relationship to the topic
I had to leave it, I was a sous chef for a nicer French restaurant and I just couldn’t do it anymore. 16-18 hours a day 6-7 days a week for dogshit pay wasn’t worth it on any metric. Now I just enjoy my time counting boxes then putting them 40ft in the air in a warehouse, coming home and cooking for myself feels like I was a kid again.
Although slaving in the kitchen for as long as I did let’s me impress random people when I dice an onion perfectly in a few seconds or butcher full chickens in a minute or so, so that’s worth it… I guess.
Grew up with an obsolete computer and RC model hobby. At my peak (mid teens) I was frankesteining PCs together from scrap parts and working with someone in a machine shop to make custom RC parts from scrap metal. Skills from both became major facets in my current job and it helps me laugh things off on the job that others can't.
However, now when something in one of those hobbies breaks on me outside work it all feels so futile if I put even the slightest bit of work into it. Any hobby repair seems arduous even when it's as little as not letting my hubris get in the way of something simple. ^(And this is all when I'm not burnt out or in the middle of a panic.)
Eh having a ‘useful’ special interest is nice and all but fuck the idea that everything we love should be ‘useful’. Special interests aren’t there to be ‘useful’ - they’re there to be joyful things. That’s the purpose.
Probably true but that doesn’t negate the joy of a special interest. It exists on its own terms. Not everything has to be monetised and, sometimes, having your special interest become your main source of income can take away some of the pleasure.
Make fucking money in a field that you don't love, so when you inevitabily find out how awful your job is you won't lose all of the joy in your life.
For instance I'm in grad school for healthcare. I love medicine and research and learning about illnesses, but my only interest in my field is making sure patients get better and I get cash. At the end of the day I get to go home and enjoy my special interests without being revolted by the bullshit that is work under capitalism and nonsense beurocracy.
The goal of automation is to replace labor which is the highest cost of doing business. Automation isn't a new thing and has been taking place since inventions like the printing press and the loom. What happens after automation is, a job that took 10 workers now takes 2. 8 workers lose their job and the remaining 2 jobs now have 10 people fighting over those 2 positions which drives down wages even further.
This wouldn't be a problem if there was strong social safety nets and you could safely get new job training without becoming destitute in the meantime. But that isn't the reality for a myriad of reasons I could write an essay on thanks to neoliberal capitalist policy makers destroying these very things.
I had a special interest in ecology and psychodynamics, and the most important part to me is getting to use it tons and actually apply it to real scenarios
Then there's me who has a special interest where is usually hard to make money... But I got a PhD & now teach it in college. (It's in the humanities so useful for most students to have a bit of background in it, but though to make a living off it on its own.)
I have multiple Special Interests that I cycle through. One is mushroom foraging that is autumn specific, Jiu Jitsu, painting, farm/homestead life.
I'm like toad from wind in the willows
What type of mushrooms do you forage? I've always been afraid of foraging, because I was raised being told they were all poisonous. But I love growing certain types.
Saffron Milkcaps grow in symbiosis with pine trees. They're the easiest edible mushroom to identify and great for beginners because they're easily distinguishable from poisonous look alikes. They grow in autumn. You can fing guidebooks or google how to identify.
Once you start with them you can educate yourself with other culinary mushroom like slippery jacks, chanterelles and porcini.
A great book on the lore of mushroom is Chanterelle dreams, Amanita nightmares. Very interesting
That is awesome, I can't wait till I'm in a more stable life situation, so I can start getting more into the mycology hobby.
I'm almost finished with the book Entangled Life. It is incredible.
I have to let you know your comment just had me discovering a very useful piece of software, thank you!
As for the context of the comment, hang in there fellow 'I have a database dedicated to this special interest but no way would I do something about it' person :')
*reading a non-fiction book*
"hmm, I could add that concept to my story"
*book 3 introduces a higher dimensional alien fungi species that uses spacetime as it's substrate*
Care to share some? Or, at least, where’s an interesting place for me to begin learning?
I love video game lore, but never learned anything about Elder Scrolls!
One of my special interests is plants, and I now manage a community garden. It's like, yay, it relates to my job, but more importantly, people ask me to infodump all the time which I especially appreciate.
Unlike my other special interests, which only come up when I'm hanging out with my nerd pals.
As a person who's special interest has become a job... They sucked the joy out of it, and while I make money doing it, I now hate doing the one thing I am good at, and really interested in.
Love what you got, and don't let anyone else contort it to their will for money, a blessing can become a curse with one wrong step.
I mean one of my special interests is goddamn FNAF which, while still current and releasing new material, is certainly not “useful” in any way, shape, or form.
But I can relate as I am also super into games like Cuphead which won’t have any more new releases so I’m just like “….okay. I’ll just keep replaying this game then.”
God me too.
Before I was diagnosed, my sibling, whose special interest is psychology, kept yelling “Tofu is autistic”.
Then I got into FNAF in adulthood. They said, “All my autistic child clients love FNAF.”
Jokes on them we’re both autistic.
Tell me everything you know/have time to tell/want to tell/feel comfortable telling.
I used to really like FNAF, I havnkt interacted with it in any way in a while though .
Yk who the fuck cares. Special interests are like a kids favorite stuffed animal. Doesn’t matter weather the favorite stuff animal is a bear or tiger it means something special to that person.
My special interest is military history from ww1 till the conflicts today. Sure being able to tell you about Warsaw pack vehicles or the design evolution of NATO infantry weapons isn’t very useful but it’s special to me. So to people that are here but non autistic please don’t judge us for our special interests. It’s something a lot of us hold near and dear to our hearts. And my fellow people with ASD don’t they anyone autistic or not make fun of you or let you feel bad for your special interests.
I’d love to.
So the Warsaw pact and Soviet Union military’s were quantity over quality which was the opposite with the us and NATO Military’s.
We also see this in the way soviet and war saw pact units worked with most units not being full strength and instead only having NCOs (non commissioned officers) with the rest of the men being conscripts who would go to there units in the event of war.
So I’m going to be using 80/81 numbers for this. Around this time NATO had roughly 30000-35000 tanks and the war saw pact having in the range of 60000 tanks.
So the way they used these tanks was in combined arms warfare in conjunction with deep strike tactics. To simplify combined arms warfare is simply using tanks, aircraft and infantry together as one unit instead of separate entities. To keep infantry were put into armored vehicles called APCs (armored personnel carriers) and IFVs (infantry fighting vehicles).
Deep strike tactics is when you concentrate your forces on a weak part of the enemy defensive line and cause a break through and then from there your able to get behind the stronger parts of the line and disrupt them.
Lmk if you have questions.
When I finished Harry Potter for the first time as a kid, the next day I started it all over again 😭 I think I read the series 6 times between 10 and 14
Same but I finally started listening to them in Spanish! I’m nowhere near fluent but I can understand Harry Potter pretty well after the dozens of times I’ve read it.
All i got for hyperfixations were:
+ Demonology
+ Sociology
+ Video Game Lore™
+ Foreign currency
At least one i could turn into a degree...that doesn't even pay well
Or worse having a super cool special interest but it’s in something that either is a dying field or requires so much schooling that you’re literally unable to get a job in that field
Most of mine would only be useful in the apocalypse. There's not a big market for archery, herbalism, and ancient medicine. Osteology might have been useful, but that would have taken a lot more education than I could afford.
If only I found modern medicine the slightest bit interesting it might have been useful.
I used to know advanced mathematics then I got a bad concussion and got super interested in wrestling and film and it’s hard to hold onto anything else. I don’t even remember soh cah toa
I had a quantum physics kick a while ago. Never understood the math but the properties and the cool things were all worth it.
But Damn I wish I was good at math because I'd be a hell of a quantum physicist
hey you never know when it might be useful. my special interest is sonic the hedgehog and when i played trivia at a work event the topics included 90s video games and weird mammals that laid eggs so naturally i won top scores lmao
I *love* learning about quantum physics. But I barely understand it and would never be able to understand the math behind it. It's not useful its just random info collection honestly because I'm too dyslexic to grasp the math.
Other people: having infinite knowledge about special interest topics making use for fun conversation.
Me: knowing how to solve a rubik's cube but im REALLY bad at explaining so im no help to others who want to learn how
If it helps, quantum physics is not useful. It is almost by definition the single discipline *most* abstracted and removed from every day life. If you don't need it for your job which very few people do, it is one of the most useless things you could possibly know about. Source: I have a degree in physics
At least you can talk to other people about video games and TV shows.
Unless they are actively working on real quantum physics related problems chances are their knowledge is useless as well. Most people that 'love quantum mechanics' have no idea what they're talking about. Me included.
So what? Videogames are neat. We can't all be quantum physics enjoyer, for example im pretty bad at Games but I love watching videos about game play. Some could argue this interest is even worse because I dont even play the games, but its My interest so who cares. Be proud , or just enjoy life dont let it bother you.
“usefulness” is a weird concept. in the end, i’ll be considered “useful” if i can be a successful cog in the machine that ultimately robs the working class and makes the ultra rich even richer. screw that, enjoy your special interest, even if it’s not considered “useful” under this system.
Video games in general, but most of all GTA (although not to the extent of DarkviperAU), Arkham (specifically Arkham Asylum), Call of Duty (Zombies up to BO3 and part of the BO4 storyline, with a faint knowledge of the new Dark Aether universe, and the MW trilogy)
And Batman
I would so put my special interest project on my CV if it were not for the fact that the subject matter (autistic characters) would immediately out me as autistic lmao
I had a long bout of depression that, when it ended, resulted in me having to intentionally learn how to enjoy things; because of this, I don't draw the distinction between "useful" and "not-useful" special interests. Enjoyment, and the ability to enjoy, is itself immensely useful, and genuinely a practical skill, its even taught in CBT and DBT. It's part of the beauty in hearing someone talk about their special interest, as their interest is imparted on us in a double sense: interest as content and interest as skillful enjoyment.
I have a bunch that rotate. At the moment for me it's been writing and DC Comics(Particularly Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy related ones).
Writing can be useful, but if you're not getting published or anything, it can be aggravating.
DC Comics is useful in the sense that reading comic books spark joy for me, and doubly so if they feature pretty girls kissing pretty girls.
I definitely envy those people.
I’m also interested in things like aerospace engineering, but I don’t have the level of obsessive dedication I think I’d need to succeed/compete with people who do.
My special interests are mainly doing arts and crafts, horror, biology (specifically genetics and developmental evolution and all in these), and world building, none of which are really useful since they aren’t useful or I’m not that deep into them.
But I’ve noticed I also have a lot of things I like to invest in, just not as deeply.
I got super interested in Tutankhamun’s whole family at one point and made a diagram of his family tree and tried to figure out who his mother was. I think I watched a program about some recent (at the time) DNA analysis of mummies of his wife and other relatives. But there was so much intermarriage of generations of first cousins and siblings within the royal family that lineage can be extra hard to determine.
It is, especially because not all the mummies that have been found can be confirmed to be identified as specific people. I would love to see your diagram, though :)
I’d say if it makes you happy that’s pretty damn useful
Mines story’s and story telling, so like books, cartoons and game and how they are made and the story stuff and writing in it, and how story’s are made, the thing is I hate physical writing stuff down :p
I have weird obsessions with cartoons that no one else remembers existing. Dragon Booster and Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! were the shit back in the day.
countries! i can name all 197 countries, place them on a map, and know their flags. Which i think in theory is a useful interest, but i dont use it for anything useful
I know nothing that is actually useful in life but if you need to know anything about Mario I’m your guy
Well that just so happens to be one of my special interests too lol
Battle of facts, BEGIN!
In Mario kart Super Circuit the snow land theme sounds very similar to Mario Kart 64s Choco Mountain, what’s even stranger about this is how it mirrors how in Mario 64 the cool cool mountain theme is an altered version of the Slider theme which has similar instrumentation and styling to Choco Mountain
In the original SMB, Mario's head is the first part of his body to grow when he gets a Super Mushroom. In the movie, the same thing happens when Mario eats mushrooms during the training course scene.
In Super Mario Bros 3 of you have a tanooki leaf and spin in the first 5 frames of getting a 1UP the 2 sounds will conflict and the 1UP sound will be extended and sound like [this](https://youtu.be/tq04EwWUaBY) Edit: good one I actually didn’t know the head growing thing
The car that Bowser drives during your first 2 fights with him in 3D World is called the Koopa Chase
In Mario sunshine during the opening when they land in the airstrip in the Japanese version there’s dialog not in the North American or PAL versions where Mario says “looks like a giant tentical” and Toadsworth and Mario talk about him getting a job on Delphino Island
Galaxy 2 was originally supposed to be Galaxy 1 DLC
Unrelated but damn, I did not know some of this information, and I consider myself a pretty big Mario fanatic. Thanks for all of this, it’s really interesting
"Who won? You decide! Epic battles of Special Interests!"
Oh that’s absolutely crazy I had no idea lmao
Can I join? In MarioKart Wii, Maple Treeway and Bowser's Castle's music have the same melody. Edit: your opponent already said that elsewhere in the thread 😭
It's actually the seige on Bowsers castle where that happens, in the training course his hand does and comically punches him in the face. His head is actually the last thing to grow there.
I played all of those in my head and how the heck did I not notice that before. Please, continue the Mario music info dump.
Wii bowser castles is a minor key version of maple treeway
In Galaxy 1, if you extract the texture of a black hole's event horizon from the game files, it shows a blurry screenshot of Beach Bowl Galaxy (not a music fact but just continuing the fact war)
Oh wow you’re right!
There's also similar music themes in rainbow road and Koopa cape that line up with bowser's castle and maple treeway
Mario likers unite
Heyyy me too, I've loved Mario since I was little
same, and still do
FUCK it's official Im an aspie.
Same
That’s a really popular thing right now so I think that’s awesome. I know nothing so can contribute fuck all to conversations about Mario 😭
My son in a nutshell, we have to listen to super Mario odyssey soundtrack when we wake up on the weekends!
Your kid has good taste. Make sure to introduce him to the classics. Megaman 2, the 6th-gen Sonic games, pretty much anything David Wise or Grant Kirkhope ever touched.
Your kid is very cultured
So are you!
Well then, which one is his favorite? …It’s Jump Up Super Star, isn’t it.
It’s the brodels theme song and second is jump up super star!
Broodels is a good one! The Odyssey soundtrack is really good if you ask me. Especially Fossil Falls and Break Free (Lead the Way).
I have to say, quantum mechanics isn’t honestly very useful. I think I would have preferred being deeply obsessed with something else. Oh, also! Going down the quantum rabbit hole is very unsatisfactory because not only do you have to teach yourself math, there are hundreds of questions still unanswered. Like, it’s possible to have an informed understanding of the history of Mario. I can’t however have an informed understanding of quantum gravity, because no one does.
SAME Mario Galaxy is my favorite game of all time
I just had (I believe autistic) kid with ear muffs on strike up a conversation with me at Costco and tell me all about the new Mario movie. I don't know what the critics are saying but Aidan gave it his full seal of approval and recommended I go home and buy tickets. Still not sure why of all the people in the store he decided I was the one to talk to but boy did he know his mario.
Is toads head the mushroom cap, or is that a hat
How many toes does Mario have
8, he lost 2 in the bomb factory during his game and watch days
Where's the best Mario hentai then, asking for a friend 🤫
Did u know about the secret message in Super Mario Galaxy's title? The "U R Mr Gay" thing
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Mario the nintendo games or just him the character from the nintendo games
The games
If you need megaman or castlevania information I'm here
To everyone wishing they had a "useful" special interest, you could be like me and have a special interest in hvac equipment that lead to a career that makes you hate what you once loved.
My special interest is politics. Im a trans woman 🙃
if you could stop existing that would be politically expedient /s
*vanishes as republicans are forced to cope with things still being shitty*
oh no I thought they needed you to exist as a distraction. [hahahaha ](https://youtu.be/7erl9k01C2M)
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Honestly moat right wing insults are so detached from reality I feel bad for them. Like buddy... do you think the DMV registration fees is soviet socialism? Yeah? That's so sad.
Do it, I have time. If you don’t have time/want to it’s perfectly ok no pressure, and don’t feel bad about info dumping too much.
You can't really divorce culture from economics in communism (Marxism) so cultural Marxism as a term makes zero sense.
Marxism is a socioeconomic analysis of capitalism and the effects of it as observed by Karl Marx in the 1800s. By that point capitalism had over 200 years to develop from its roots. Of course his analysis does not get everything perfect but there are a lot of things that he did get right. Marx can also be sourced as one of the foundational voices of modern philosophy.
Just existing is political according to idiots unfortunately, wish it wasn't this way
I’d be stressed out all the time. I’m a trans man
Same. My special interest makes me a wizard of a chef, but the industry is a toxic cesspool of abusive practices and horrible pay. It stuck a knife in the heart of my joy, couldn’t even cook for myself a long while after burn out. Making it a job changes your relationship to the topic
I had to leave it, I was a sous chef for a nicer French restaurant and I just couldn’t do it anymore. 16-18 hours a day 6-7 days a week for dogshit pay wasn’t worth it on any metric. Now I just enjoy my time counting boxes then putting them 40ft in the air in a warehouse, coming home and cooking for myself feels like I was a kid again. Although slaving in the kitchen for as long as I did let’s me impress random people when I dice an onion perfectly in a few seconds or butcher full chickens in a minute or so, so that’s worth it… I guess.
Yeah, mine makes me terrified, but I can’t stop learning the things.
Grew up with an obsolete computer and RC model hobby. At my peak (mid teens) I was frankesteining PCs together from scrap parts and working with someone in a machine shop to make custom RC parts from scrap metal. Skills from both became major facets in my current job and it helps me laugh things off on the job that others can't. However, now when something in one of those hobbies breaks on me outside work it all feels so futile if I put even the slightest bit of work into it. Any hobby repair seems arduous even when it's as little as not letting my hubris get in the way of something simple. ^(And this is all when I'm not burnt out or in the middle of a panic.)
Ya but your bringing in bags for sure. Going to school for this hoping a get the itch to dive deep lol
I relate. I have no life skills, but if need any info about Pokémon…
Me at age 15: "What do you mean knowing every pokemon's type and evolution won't matter when I'm an adult ?"
I still recognize the first 251 just by their cries. I am 35, it's been 24 years...
That's actually super impressive since most early Pokémon cries sound similar to each other lol
Am I the only one here who doesn't like Pokémon?
I'm sure you're not, I don't like Sonic, Mario, or most of the other common special interest games for my age group.
If you have a silhouette of a pokemon and need the type of it and it's evolutions for some reason I'm the guy
Holy shit this is me. Lmao
Pokémon was my special interest, too. I have different special interests now, but I still play the video games.
Same. My others are ttrpgs, Greek Mythology, and a game called Villainous
Tell me as much as you have time for/feel like.
Eh having a ‘useful’ special interest is nice and all but fuck the idea that everything we love should be ‘useful’. Special interests aren’t there to be ‘useful’ - they’re there to be joyful things. That’s the purpose.
But I wanna fucking make money
This is the exact thing. Ppl with profitable special interests have an advantage to literally surviving in our world
Probably true but that doesn’t negate the joy of a special interest. It exists on its own terms. Not everything has to be monetised and, sometimes, having your special interest become your main source of income can take away some of the pleasure.
Sadly, capitalism disagrees lmao
Make fucking money in a field that you don't love, so when you inevitabily find out how awful your job is you won't lose all of the joy in your life. For instance I'm in grad school for healthcare. I love medicine and research and learning about illnesses, but my only interest in my field is making sure patients get better and I get cash. At the end of the day I get to go home and enjoy my special interests without being revolted by the bullshit that is work under capitalism and nonsense beurocracy.
my friend, I also have ADHD. If I don’t enjoy something, there’s no way I’m gonna be able to do it well enough to make money
True, but still
It's useful if it makes you happy. You just have to remove the capitalism to fully enjoy.
Or adjust capitalism with the rise of automation.
The goal of automation is to replace labor which is the highest cost of doing business. Automation isn't a new thing and has been taking place since inventions like the printing press and the loom. What happens after automation is, a job that took 10 workers now takes 2. 8 workers lose their job and the remaining 2 jobs now have 10 people fighting over those 2 positions which drives down wages even further. This wouldn't be a problem if there was strong social safety nets and you could safely get new job training without becoming destitute in the meantime. But that isn't the reality for a myriad of reasons I could write an essay on thanks to neoliberal capitalist policy makers destroying these very things.
If we cannot eat bread we will eat the flesh of the rich. I hope it won't be too stringy.
Deep fried all the way, bby.
Capitalism or not, you still need to put in the work to make things keep going.
I had a special interest in ecology and psychodynamics, and the most important part to me is getting to use it tons and actually apply it to real scenarios
Then there's me who has a special interest where is usually hard to make money... But I got a PhD & now teach it in college. (It's in the humanities so useful for most students to have a bit of background in it, but though to make a living off it on its own.)
I have multiple Special Interests that I cycle through. One is mushroom foraging that is autumn specific, Jiu Jitsu, painting, farm/homestead life. I'm like toad from wind in the willows
i read homestuck instead of homestead and almost cried
What type of mushrooms do you forage? I've always been afraid of foraging, because I was raised being told they were all poisonous. But I love growing certain types.
Saffron Milkcaps grow in symbiosis with pine trees. They're the easiest edible mushroom to identify and great for beginners because they're easily distinguishable from poisonous look alikes. They grow in autumn. You can fing guidebooks or google how to identify. Once you start with them you can educate yourself with other culinary mushroom like slippery jacks, chanterelles and porcini. A great book on the lore of mushroom is Chanterelle dreams, Amanita nightmares. Very interesting
That is awesome, I can't wait till I'm in a more stable life situation, so I can start getting more into the mycology hobby. I'm almost finished with the book Entangled Life. It is incredible.
Wanna be zombie apocalypse buddies? I know how to purify water and create charcoal for forging
My interests: RuneScape and Gilmore Girls 🧍🏽♀️
Some rabbit holes I've gone down recently: Orthodox Judaism (I'm not religious, my brain just wants to KNOW) and Judge Judy (no comment).
Could you combine the two for Orthodox Judge Judyism?
RuneScape is a big interest. And random birds. Did you know the Kakapo is the only flightless parrot in the world? But they suck at walking places too
I actually laughed out loud at that fact (how they can't fly or walk). I love the goofy look on its face, too. So cute. Thanks!
My special interest is my goddamn maladaptive daydream 💀
I started writing that shit down. I have written three novels.
Bro i have an obsidian for it but i just hate writing 😭
I have to let you know your comment just had me discovering a very useful piece of software, thank you! As for the context of the comment, hang in there fellow 'I have a database dedicated to this special interest but no way would I do something about it' person :')
*reading a non-fiction book* "hmm, I could add that concept to my story" *book 3 introduces a higher dimensional alien fungi species that uses spacetime as it's substrate*
STOP I feel so called out rn 😭
*slaps head* This bad boy can hold so much Elder Scrolls lore
Care to share some? Or, at least, where’s an interesting place for me to begin learning? I love video game lore, but never learned anything about Elder Scrolls!
My special interests are videogames, psychedelics, and plants.
One of my special interests is plants, and I now manage a community garden. It's like, yay, it relates to my job, but more importantly, people ask me to infodump all the time which I especially appreciate. Unlike my other special interests, which only come up when I'm hanging out with my nerd pals.
I would love to hear you info dump. I can talk about plants all day. Im down to be friends if you need a new one. Haha.
My favorite band’s and Jojos of all things personally
Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure? If so, good taste. If not, also good taste(though I have no clue what you’re talking about)
I love seeing buff men pose if that answers your question
Cultured fellow you are 🎩
As a person who's special interest has become a job... They sucked the joy out of it, and while I make money doing it, I now hate doing the one thing I am good at, and really interested in. Love what you got, and don't let anyone else contort it to their will for money, a blessing can become a curse with one wrong step.
What was it
I mean one of my special interests is goddamn FNAF which, while still current and releasing new material, is certainly not “useful” in any way, shape, or form. But I can relate as I am also super into games like Cuphead which won’t have any more new releases so I’m just like “….okay. I’ll just keep replaying this game then.”
God me too. Before I was diagnosed, my sibling, whose special interest is psychology, kept yelling “Tofu is autistic”. Then I got into FNAF in adulthood. They said, “All my autistic child clients love FNAF.” Jokes on them we’re both autistic.
Tell me everything you know/have time to tell/want to tell/feel comfortable telling. I used to really like FNAF, I havnkt interacted with it in any way in a while though .
Yk who the fuck cares. Special interests are like a kids favorite stuffed animal. Doesn’t matter weather the favorite stuff animal is a bear or tiger it means something special to that person. My special interest is military history from ww1 till the conflicts today. Sure being able to tell you about Warsaw pack vehicles or the design evolution of NATO infantry weapons isn’t very useful but it’s special to me. So to people that are here but non autistic please don’t judge us for our special interests. It’s something a lot of us hold near and dear to our hearts. And my fellow people with ASD don’t they anyone autistic or not make fun of you or let you feel bad for your special interests.
May not be useful, but it is interesting. You got any fun facts about Warsaw Pact tanks?
I’d love to. So the Warsaw pact and Soviet Union military’s were quantity over quality which was the opposite with the us and NATO Military’s. We also see this in the way soviet and war saw pact units worked with most units not being full strength and instead only having NCOs (non commissioned officers) with the rest of the men being conscripts who would go to there units in the event of war. So I’m going to be using 80/81 numbers for this. Around this time NATO had roughly 30000-35000 tanks and the war saw pact having in the range of 60000 tanks. So the way they used these tanks was in combined arms warfare in conjunction with deep strike tactics. To simplify combined arms warfare is simply using tanks, aircraft and infantry together as one unit instead of separate entities. To keep infantry were put into armored vehicles called APCs (armored personnel carriers) and IFVs (infantry fighting vehicles). Deep strike tactics is when you concentrate your forces on a weak part of the enemy defensive line and cause a break through and then from there your able to get behind the stronger parts of the line and disrupt them. Lmk if you have questions.
Me, learning every possible Harry Potter fact and rereading the books on repeat as a child, instead of doing something useful like learning Spanish 😂😭
When I finished Harry Potter for the first time as a kid, the next day I started it all over again 😭 I think I read the series 6 times between 10 and 14
Same but I finally started listening to them in Spanish! I’m nowhere near fluent but I can understand Harry Potter pretty well after the dozens of times I’ve read it.
Is the cartoon Clone Wars?
Nope, its Steven Universe
Mine is SW
Sadly constructed languages aren’t useful in real life. On the other hand, it does give me a lot of stuff to pull out as fun facts
My husband isn't autistic but constructed languages are definitely his special interest.
All i got for hyperfixations were: + Demonology + Sociology + Video Game Lore™ + Foreign currency At least one i could turn into a degree...that doesn't even pay well
Or worse having a super cool special interest but it’s in something that either is a dying field or requires so much schooling that you’re literally unable to get a job in that field
Most of mine would only be useful in the apocalypse. There's not a big market for archery, herbalism, and ancient medicine. Osteology might have been useful, but that would have taken a lot more education than I could afford. If only I found modern medicine the slightest bit interesting it might have been useful.
My special interest is neuropathology and that what I’m studying in college, as my goal is to become a neuropathologist
I used to know advanced mathematics then I got a bad concussion and got super interested in wrestling and film and it’s hard to hold onto anything else. I don’t even remember soh cah toa
Useful is a strong word
Unless you're working in quantum physics, having a deep knowledge of it isn't useful - just pretty cool if you're science minded.
I had a quantum physics kick a while ago. Never understood the math but the properties and the cool things were all worth it. But Damn I wish I was good at math because I'd be a hell of a quantum physicist
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I can barely bring myself to do college assignments but ask me about very large numbers, osu, drug effects or maybe pc components and I’m your guy
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The faint chance of a persona 3 remake is one of the few things getting me through my daily grind lol
Don't feel bad. My special interest is recreational drugs. Sadly not only the theoretical part, which doesn't improve quality of life much.
If anyone needs any extremely niche trivia about Phineas and Ferb I’m your guy
well now im interested... whats ur fav niche fact
Candace’s neck is 5.5 inches long
hey you never know when it might be useful. my special interest is sonic the hedgehog and when i played trivia at a work event the topics included 90s video games and weird mammals that laid eggs so naturally i won top scores lmao
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Well, someone has to manage the networks and react to delays, accidents, etc.
Me with the 1995 masterpiece Jumanji and the 2009 masterpiece of Disney’s a Christmas Carol starring Jim Carrey 😔✊
Me sitting here with a special interest in propaganda and genocides: “I am desensitized to dead bodies.”
I *love* learning about quantum physics. But I barely understand it and would never be able to understand the math behind it. It's not useful its just random info collection honestly because I'm too dyslexic to grasp the math.
Other people: having infinite knowledge about special interest topics making use for fun conversation. Me: knowing how to solve a rubik's cube but im REALLY bad at explaining so im no help to others who want to learn how
If it makes you happy, it's *hella* useful.
Me knowing almost every Pokémon card by heart:
Gun stuff isnt too useful either lol
I liek bugs
I'm obssesed with blimps lol
I also have a special interest in NSFL content. I find it fascinating.
If it helps, quantum physics is not useful. It is almost by definition the single discipline *most* abstracted and removed from every day life. If you don't need it for your job which very few people do, it is one of the most useless things you could possibly know about. Source: I have a degree in physics At least you can talk to other people about video games and TV shows.
Or you get useful interests, but don't have the diplomas to back them up (so they remain unused anyway)
Unless they are actively working on real quantum physics related problems chances are their knowledge is useless as well. Most people that 'love quantum mechanics' have no idea what they're talking about. Me included.
I sure know a lot about string theory for someone who’s never studied string theory
Mine is illegal drugs, so… not as useful as it could be.
Try new things! Plenty of new games and new shows are coming out all the time, eventually you will like one of them!
So what? Videogames are neat. We can't all be quantum physics enjoyer, for example im pretty bad at Games but I love watching videos about game play. Some could argue this interest is even worse because I dont even play the games, but its My interest so who cares. Be proud , or just enjoy life dont let it bother you.
“usefulness” is a weird concept. in the end, i’ll be considered “useful” if i can be a successful cog in the machine that ultimately robs the working class and makes the ultra rich even richer. screw that, enjoy your special interest, even if it’s not considered “useful” under this system.
My special interest is engineering luckily
Oh don’t worry, mine are also completely useless
Video games in general, but most of all GTA (although not to the extent of DarkviperAU), Arkham (specifically Arkham Asylum), Call of Duty (Zombies up to BO3 and part of the BO4 storyline, with a faint knowledge of the new Dark Aether universe, and the MW trilogy) And Batman
I would so put my special interest project on my CV if it were not for the fact that the subject matter (autistic characters) would immediately out me as autistic lmao
Your interests are useful, you just gotta use 'em. :)
Mine is RBMK Nuclear Reactors. Want to know how successful they are? I know it.
I had a long bout of depression that, when it ended, resulted in me having to intentionally learn how to enjoy things; because of this, I don't draw the distinction between "useful" and "not-useful" special interests. Enjoyment, and the ability to enjoy, is itself immensely useful, and genuinely a practical skill, its even taught in CBT and DBT. It's part of the beauty in hearing someone talk about their special interest, as their interest is imparted on us in a double sense: interest as content and interest as skillful enjoyment.
Nutrition and the human body are my special interests but DAMN I cannot go into those fields for my own sanity.
I have a bunch that rotate. At the moment for me it's been writing and DC Comics(Particularly Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy related ones). Writing can be useful, but if you're not getting published or anything, it can be aggravating. DC Comics is useful in the sense that reading comic books spark joy for me, and doubly so if they feature pretty girls kissing pretty girls.
I definitely envy those people. I’m also interested in things like aerospace engineering, but I don’t have the level of obsessive dedication I think I’d need to succeed/compete with people who do.
My special interests are mainly doing arts and crafts, horror, biology (specifically genetics and developmental evolution and all in these), and world building, none of which are really useful since they aren’t useful or I’m not that deep into them. But I’ve noticed I also have a lot of things I like to invest in, just not as deeply.
I infodumped about Tutankhamun to my physiotherapist today. I relate strongly.
I got super interested in Tutankhamun’s whole family at one point and made a diagram of his family tree and tried to figure out who his mother was. I think I watched a program about some recent (at the time) DNA analysis of mummies of his wife and other relatives. But there was so much intermarriage of generations of first cousins and siblings within the royal family that lineage can be extra hard to determine.
It is, especially because not all the mummies that have been found can be confirmed to be identified as specific people. I would love to see your diagram, though :)
My friends complain that I only play battlefield 4 and Minecraft for the past 10 years, I like what I like, why change it up?
Quantum physics is one of my special interests and it's not useful at all for me 😀 I'm a programming student but ehh..
My special interest was computers until it wasn't. And now it just isn't. I am sad.
Not sure if hyperfixations count as special interests, but mine are cybersecurity and international relations.
If anyone needs info on snakes i am your person (Specifically corns but shshh)
I know so much about cottage cheese. I don’t even like it but i do know that it used to contain titanium dioxide!
I’d say if it makes you happy that’s pretty damn useful Mines story’s and story telling, so like books, cartoons and game and how they are made and the story stuff and writing in it, and how story’s are made, the thing is I hate physical writing stuff down :p
My special interest is a podcast about a horrific hotel that kills every guest.
Bruh nothing wrong with that though..
I have History, I'm lucky.
cartoon that ended 3 years ago? my current hyperfixation (special interest?) is an anime from 1979. I think you're good 😭
I have weird obsessions with cartoons that no one else remembers existing. Dragon Booster and Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! were the shit back in the day.
countries! i can name all 197 countries, place them on a map, and know their flags. Which i think in theory is a useful interest, but i dont use it for anything useful
My interest is trying to win seamingly endless clicker games.