For me: I am one of the foremost experts on Team Fortress 2 video recording/editing and automated clip gathering within tf2 specifically. Even more specifically within the context of competitive play but the knowledge applies to casual play as well.
Indeed, you are. I found your YouTube channel.
I really want to tell you, but the niche is so narrow, it would be difficult to reveal it without doxing myself.
So I’ll just say that I’m probably top 20-25 in the world at playing a mod for a dead video game.
Full English breakfasts.
I’m open to offers to speak at conferences. I can probably cover a full Scottish as well, but English is where my knowledge is deeper.
Not an expert, but I used to religiously and obsessively play the niche sport of Gaelic/American handball, specifically the 4-wall variation.
It’s essentially racquetball, but with a much smaller, much harder ball, played only with gloved hands (gloves do not pad hands, just used to keep the ball dry).
Technically the 1-wall variation might have been the first ball sport to ever exist and is certainly the predecessor to modern tennis.
Awesome game, insane workout, and one of the few sports that is truly ambidextrous (handball absolutely requires use of both hands/arms).
I had to step away when I got into the tech sector and needed to dedicate most of my time to studying and working, but I played like it was a job for 8 years. Loved it.
I train and deploy search and rescue dogs.
There was a game in the early 2000s that my family and I liked to play called Scene It. It was a DVD with accompanying board game - pretty cool. We had both a Disney and a Music one. I don’t know if my music trivia still holds up, but I was an absolute champ at that game. I’d beat my parents hand over fist despite them being alive for a lot more of the events the trivia asked about.
In a similar vein, I am incredible at the Jackbox game Fibbage. On both sides, the trivia and the lying and suckering people in >:B
I recently found out that the creator of Jackbox games is the brother of the creator of Grand Theft Auto
I had the Harry Potter one! I forgot about that game.
Data systems engineering! It started when MS pushed Windows 10 on me and my ancient laptop couldn’t take it… So I downloaded a gnu/Linux distro and developed a CS hobby. That turned into a career and here we are : ) Thank you Microsoft
I build liquid rocket engines, and their fuel refinement systems; in a manner thats totally legal for normal (US) civilians.
for instance, did you know that your house’s natural gas line is usually ~80% (varies by municipality, lowest I’ve seen is 74%) methane by volume, and is actually shockingly easy to purify and pressurize into usable methane for a methalox cycle engine?
its even easier to make LOX (liquid oxygen), all you need is: air (in vast supply here on lovely Terra) literally any cooler design that gets down to -183C…( the Glifford McMahon cycle works; and you can build that at home), a fractionating column, (you can buy them off the internet, you’ll want metal, but glassware is still fine-ish as long as you account for thermal shrinkage…and never ever let it heat back up to room temp), a cryo-rated compressor (sold on ebay), and a dewar (also on eBay)?
This is exactly the type of incredibly niche answer I was hoping for! Its also super interesting! How did you even get into this?
Are you this guy?
haha; alas, no, I am not.
He did give me several ideas though. I’d be glad to call him a friend; were we ever to meet.
Haha was hoping your link would go there!
I’m told almost every week that I’m excellent at teaching archery to complete beginners. Young, old, missing an arm, don’t care, I’m always profusely thanked.
I’m an incredibly good riichi mahjong teacher! I also teach go, shogi, and koi-koi too. It’s nice landing gigs when an anime convention pays me to go out and run panels about this stuff, helps round out the monthly income nicely, plus I get to travel and take good art pictures while I’m out!
Ooh, perhaps you have heard of Hikaru No Go?
A lot of people have mentioned it to me, so I flipped through it for a bit and was pleasantly surprised to see that the manga uses actual go consultants to make sure that the material presented in the books is accurate and useful!
I’m not really an anime and manga enjoyer in my day-to-day though, but I’m glad those people exist.
Oooooo!!! I am a big fan of playing Go! I wish I had more opportunities to actually play with people in person. Everyone I play against these days is someone I also taught how to play.
I am also a big fan of playing Go — but I’m quite bad at it considering how much time I spent trying. The game I’m actually good at is NetHack.
No one is good at Go, no one. Even the ones sitting in the Nihon Ki’in playing for a Honinbo title wouldn’t say they’re good, and they’re the ones being televised.
If I recall correctly, we share a city!
I’m a mile wide and an inch deep, baby.
I’m one of the world’s foremost SAP FI/CO consultants leveraging both my MBA and BSc - and worked on projects on three continents.
Apart from that I’m also really, really good at finding the dog’s poop during the evening walks.
Idk if I’d go as far as an “expert”, but I listen to an obscene amount of thrash metal, and plenty of other extreme metal genres. I’m also a moderator for the !thrashmetal@lemmy.world and !heavymetal@lemmy.world communities where myself and a few others used to post daily for a couple years, no repeats.
Give me your one, singular best recomendation.
Hmm, that is a tough one… There’s so many amazing songs out there, I could never pick a favourite. Besides, there is a difference between my favourites and the “best” recommendations. That being said, one of the most underappreciated albums, truly an exercise in top notch quality thrash, technical, superb song writing, some of the best riffs I’ve heard: Dreamweaver by Sabbat. Every thrash fan should be made aware of this release. Here is my favourite song off the record: Do Dark Horses Dream of Nightmares .
subscribed, thanks for the tip!
Cheers dude, enjoy! Plenty of content to last you a while haha ;).
I know a lot of things but none of them are relevant or impressive to anyone.
I mostly just get pushback when I try to talk about them, like I work in IT security, but apparently since I don’t work for the CIA I ‘must not be very good at it’.
I also work in IT security but rarely reveal it to people. There are so many misconceptions about what the job entails, it usually derails the conversation and I spend the next 20 minutes insisting my job is incredibly boring, tedious, and nothing at all like the movies.
I usually just tell people I do “customer service”. It’s true enough.
This is your stage to brag about your skills no matter how non-relevant they are :D
I have a PhD in philosophy.
People make horrible assumptions about it though, so I don’t ever bring it up.
I’ve only minored in philosophy, but last weekend I watched Waiting for Godot for the first time with my mother and as soon as the intermission came she turned and asked, “Jaycifer you’ve studied philosophy, what insights do you have so far?” I definitely feel that it carries an expectation that I think deeply about everything.
What kind of assumptions do you deal with? Do you mind if I ask what area you focused on?
Sorry, I’m a generalist.
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not an expert per se, but i am very good at identifying manzanita species. Manzanitas are a genus of shrubs and small trees in the blueberry family mainly found in Western North America, especially California. There are a little over 100 species and subspecies, and the visual differences are often subtle. Many botanists in California don’t even bother trying to ID them.
I am not a botanist, but i can reliably ID most NorCal, Sierra Nevada, and central coast varieties from memory, and with a key handy i feel confident i could ID any manzanita plant to currently accepted species or subspecies in person or with sufficiently detailed photos and gps.
The most striking feature of manzanitas is their bright red, smooth bark. They are locally called “refrigerator bushes” or “refrigerator trees” when large because even in the heat of summer the bark is always cool to the touch
