I’ve mastered the ability to take any idea or thought and transform it into anxiety. Jitters McGee

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I used to make miniature food models for fun.

Not really good at it but it’s useless and fun.

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Not really good at it

I disagree, I would totally eat those thinking they were some fancy snack

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Useless? I feel like you could get some commissions from urban restaurants to put these in their street-facing food displays

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That was what inspired me to make them at the first place! although it got less common

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My grandma loves miniature everything, especially cute homey things (she has sets for different “rooms”). Whenever I travel anywhere I’m always on the lookout for them cos she’d appreciate these more than the generic city/country souvenir. Always really hard to find though. These look amazing!

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엄청난!

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That is cool as fuck.

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Im a top 1% player in Rocket League after playing for 4500 hours. The skill gap between me and the best players in the game is the same gap as between me and a brand new player.

But i will still beat 99% of the game’s population.

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Same for me, but with Tetris. I’m not the best, but I’m confident I can handedly beat the vast majority of the population. I spent most of my lockdown days just doing Tetris.

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Similar on Splatoon. Before the recent rank reset I was S+6, it blows my mind that people go up to like S+20. But when the season ends, all the S+x ratings reset to S rank, and playing with normal S rank people recently reminded me of that.

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I was literally just about so say same for splatoon, I just hit my highest elo ever and I’m really proud of myself 🥺

Do you play much x rank? I’m surprised to see someone refrencing their anarchy rank as opposed to x power

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Did you mean “handily?” Or “single-handedly,” implying some sort of Teamtris?

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Yup, thanks! I was trying to figure out which word I was thinking of. I must have malaphored myself

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Yeah same, but with like 2K hours. At some point I was Grand Champion 1 or something. I could probably win against 2 noobs without me using jump and boost, but in the few moments I played against pros I got equally clapped. It’s insane to me how much better pro players are.

After Epic bought it the whole game slowly went to shit though. Psyonix once treated the game and its community as their baby, but it just became a soulless money printer without any decent innovation. So I barely play anymore, even though the core game is ultimately still fun.

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As an 800 hour player that has to put the game down because of competitiveness making me a curmudgeon – Wow, gotta say. That’s so much work.

Did you use the practice modes to get to be that level or did it just come to you during play?

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  • Tons of freeplay
  • Tons of mods/workshop map
  • Ive had some coaching
  • And I also play in an amateur league

As long as you always play to improve, watch videos to keep up on mechanics/metas, and just immerse yourself in the game, you’ll always climb up. If you play at least 2 hours a day, you’ll be insane before you know it.

But in the spirit of this post, you could spend your time doing something so much more productive than a video game lol

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Played 932h (around 900h actual playtime) and almost exclusively played ranked or rumble/dropshot but never casual.
Best rank was Diamond 2 or 1 not sure anymore.
Played it only on keyboard. No controller ever used. Gave it up as a sort of protest against the buyout and never went back.

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I turn yaml into aws bills

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I wouldn’t call that useless. That is how you get to be the executive lead cloud DevOps engineer.

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I can read UPC, UPC-8, ISBN, and EAN bar codes. Tear the numbers off the bottom of the bar code, hand me the lines, and I will tell you the numbers you tore off.

I used to work the midnight shift at a call center back in the late 90s. It was incredibly boring because we weren’t allowed to browse the internet when no calls were coming in (which was most of the time, got maybe five calls total per night). So I picked up a copy of Yahoo! Internet Life, a now-defunct technology-centered magazine. This issue had a how-to section for wacky shit like that, so I committed it to memory because wtf else was there to do?

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Well that’s cool. Can you write in scan-able barcode?

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No, there is too much precision required.

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If you got graphpaper?

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i can roll quarters down my fingers continuously because I saw Val kilmer do it in Real Genius and I wanted to be cool like him.

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Ha, I saw Val Kilmer do it in Tombstone and always wanted to do it, but never followed through.

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he does it in tombstone?

i must have completely forgotten about that.

haha he definitely must have told them that he could do it from practicing on set at Real Genius and they should let him do it in tombstone too, that’s hilarious haha.

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Yep, when he’s playing cards here. I didn’t realize he’d done it in other movies. I’d look for excuses, too.

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