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Today’s Ask PHlemmy: What could you talk for 30 minutes about with no preparation?
Fallout 2 content including the restoration project mod. Alternately, why duterte was obviously the worst candidate in the 2016 elections
Whoa you’re part of the FO2 restoration project? Either way, I played with the first couple of FO games buying them from a humble-bundle promo a long time ago. That hooked me into the whole FO franchise. Are you planning on playing starfield by any chance?
Numbers.
Just count until the 30 mins. are up.
EDIT: Since you have to talk about it pala. Talk about a number and a thing (i.e. 1 ballpen, did you know that my first panda ballpen was blue? Blue is the warmest color, but why is it warm? How do you think it is warm? Then drone on from there. NOTE: People might beat you up for wasting their 30 minutes though.
I prefer to let my conversation partner open up, pick their brain, and learn from their experiences. Hell I’m ok with 30 - 70 in their favor sa conversation. There are A LOT of interesting of people out there (as well as, well, terrible ones), and sometimes it takes nailing the right question, learning their right passion, to unlock a potentially memorable (and fun) conversation.
Late 90s to early 00s internet - I can tell you about Webdog, Dino Ignacio, EdsaMail, dial-up internet, and so on, for hours.
I can also talk about obscure cinema and make recommendations about horror and other genres you’ve (likely) never heard of. Obscure and indie music as well, such as post-rock and math rock. I know like a bunch of the former.
Mechanical keyboards too, but I feel like I’m less updated on switches and entry-level boards now that I don’t consider myself knowledgeable on the scene as I used to.
Basketball pa pala. My in-law was surprised I was able to answer his question on who was the early 00s UP mens college coach (who’s apparently a close colleague of his now) in just a second, lol.
I was once asked, at a party, what my course is actually about. It ended up being a back-and-forth between me and the person who asked me about what my course is all about, and why it is a course that’s being taught in university.
I started by drawing parallels between people’s misconceptions about certain college courses (IT/Comp Sci = taga-ayos ng computer; Fine Arts = taga-drawing, magaling sa photoshop) versus what they’re actually about. Then proceeded to give an overview of what my course is actually all about, as well as the different specialties within it as well as the different career choices available after graduating. I also talked about the different kinds of institutions graduates of my course might handle, and what the differences between them are. I also touched on some of the related, albeit “more esoteric,” fields.
I ended up summarizing an entire 101 course in a span of around an hour.
We only realized that we’ve been at it for far too long when we noticed that the rest of the people at our table have already left us alone.
Hmm, I can talk about the entire Cold War. From the Acheson-Lilienthal Plan which led to the Baruch Plan whose rejection sparked the Cold War arms race to the 1970s detente to Reagan’s “MR. GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!”, I can talk about it with only minor stops. Oh, isama na din yung more obscure proxy wars during the period such as the chess wars (Soviet school of chess, Karpov, Kasparov, Fischer) and yung Transfermium Wars (Dubna Institute, UCLA-Berkeley, CERN)
my favorite table tennis players, and their respective styles and strengths.