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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: tiesto on December 29, 2016, 01:56:40 AM

Title: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: tiesto on December 29, 2016, 01:56:40 AM: So, we all have those topics where, when prompted, we'll special fellow out and go into wayyyy too much detail on. What are yours? My two things that I'll special fellow out on if conversation steers that way:

-Electronic music genres. I get super micro-specific about these things. "No, that's not future house, it's post-2007 Romanian deep tech house!"
-NES memory mappers. For some reason I can tell people, when they talk about various NES games, what memory mapper chip they used. Castlevania 3 you say? That's an MMC5. StarTropics? One of the only games to use the MMC6, which was an MMC3 with an extra battery backup. Punch Out? Only game to use the MMC2. VRC7? Hell yeah I just bought the Lagrange Point soundtrack on vinyl!
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: benjipwns on December 29, 2016, 02:14:13 AM: i assume all of them that aren't related to myself personally
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Tasty on December 29, 2016, 02:20:10 AM: DC Comics. I know way more about that universe, especially the last 10 years, than I probably should. Don't get me started on anything Tim Drake related.

Pokémon. IVs and EVs were made for sperging.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: benjipwns on December 29, 2016, 02:36:34 AM: Quote from: Tasty Meat on December 29, 2016, 02:20:10 AM
DC Comics. I know way more about that universe, especially the last 10 years, than I probably should.
I know like the entire Multiverse arc from Crisis on Infinite Earths through Convergence off the top of my head. And like Batman's from Knighfall forward. And Superman from his death.

Also for Star Trek. Buffy/Angel. And probably a bunch of other stuff I shouldn't.

I can't do Marvel's at all, those crossovers are such a mess. Only series like Exiles or Runaways or something.

This same thing applies to like what I like to call "real world canon" which I've been thinking about compiling somewhere outside my head for future generations. The Great War is my favorite crossover, World War II was just like everybody trying to overdo the first one imo.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Coax on December 29, 2016, 02:52:42 AM: Quote from: tiesto on December 29, 2016, 01:56:40 AM
-Electronic music genres. I get super micro-specific about these things. "No, that's not future house, it's post-2007 Romanian deep tech house!"

Sounds like the kind of thing I'd read in Discogs' release edit summaries. Got into the habit of submitting releases there but since I dislike genre tagging music I usually use genre fields others have submitted.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: chronovore on December 29, 2016, 03:29:29 AM: Open-World Games. :-\
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Beezy on December 29, 2016, 03:38:49 AM: Quote from: Tasty Meat on December 29, 2016, 02:20:10 AM
DC Comics. I know way more about that universe, especially the last 10 years, than I probably should. Don't get me started on anything Tim Drake related.
Then give me some recommendations in the comics thread! :maf
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Tasty on December 29, 2016, 04:18:10 AM: Quote from: Beezy on December 29, 2016, 03:38:49 AM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on December 29, 2016, 02:20:10 AM
DC Comics. I know way more about that universe, especially the last 10 years, than I probably should. Don't get me started on anything Tim Drake related.
Then give me some recommendations in the comics thread! :maf

Bleehhhhh fine but you're unleashing my inner DC special fellow.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: benjipwns on December 29, 2016, 04:26:27 AM: Quote from: Beezy on December 29, 2016, 03:38:49 AM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on December 29, 2016, 02:20:10 AM
DC Comics. I know way more about that universe, especially the last 10 years, than I probably should. Don't get me started on anything Tim Drake related.
Then give me some recommendations in the comics thread! :maf
There was a torrent out there that had every DC Comic between Crisis and Flashpoint organized and numbered in story-chronological order. Find it, download it and read the entire thing.

Problem solved. :success
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: ToxicAdam on December 29, 2016, 08:41:36 AM: Podcasts. I'll often make references to them in conversations and then realize the person has no frame of reference for them. Then if you try to explain to them how great they are and make some recommendations you can slowly see their eyes glaze over as they listen to you.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: nudemacusers on December 29, 2016, 09:33:46 AM: 2001-2003 European menswear runway fashion
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: bork on December 29, 2016, 10:44:14 AM: Vidya.

Comics.

Real-life experiences where I write paragraphs when I could probably cover it in all in like two sentences.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 29, 2016, 11:23:33 AM: *checks hours put into Diablo 3, sees it is in the low to mid 4 figures*

ARPGs apparently. Also politics.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Purrp Skirrp on December 29, 2016, 12:29:53 PM: Hip hop, anarcho-punk when I was 11-13, mental health, nutrition, weed horticulture (only gets unleashed if another pothead spergs out first dropping trigger words like "trichomes" "catapalonic" "purpskurp").
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: chronovore on December 29, 2016, 12:40:00 PM: Quote from: bork pls on December 29, 2016, 10:44:14 AM
Vidya.

Comics.

Real-life experiences where I write paragraphs when I could probably cover it in all in like two sentences.

You've more-or-less defined the Bore's parameters there, champ. :-*
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on December 29, 2016, 02:00:07 PM: Nothing

Unless you are a hot girl, nobody really gives a fuck about what you have to say on the internet unless it's something to be used against you. Exception being autistic slap fights where the goal is to see who is the best fisker and fuck that shit.

Conversely if you are a hot girl you could write something as mundane as "I had a sandwich for lunch" and get dozens of likes.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 29, 2016, 02:02:59 PM: The sandwich I had for lunch
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 29, 2016, 02:11:26 PM: Hip hop, spreadsheets, and ARPGs. :doge
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: king of the internet on December 29, 2016, 02:14:14 PM: I know more about ASOIAF history than world history. Also Overwatch. But those are the only things are nerd out to these days imo.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Steve Contra on December 29, 2016, 02:18:38 PM: Benji's real answer is "internet comment sections"
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 29, 2016, 02:19:02 PM: Quote from: king of the internet on December 29, 2016, 02:14:14 PM
I know more about ASOIAF history than world history. Also Overwatch. But those are the only things are nerd out to these days imo.

Who was the best Targaryen king and why :doge

(you can't say Aegon I, just to ensure a more interesting answer)
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 29, 2016, 02:25:13 PM: True. I can recognize multiple male porn stars by their dicks alone.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: zomgee on December 29, 2016, 02:31:43 PM: 80's arcade games and arcade emulation.
Weird Al Yankovic
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: CatsCatsCats on December 29, 2016, 02:44:10 PM: Quote from: king of the internet on December 29, 2016, 02:14:14 PM
I know more about ASOIAF history than world history. Also Overwatch. But those are the only things are nerd out to these days imo.

My stepson and I can talk about Overwatch for hours, much to the chagrin of my wife
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on December 29, 2016, 02:51:07 PM: Giant Monster Films, or Kaiju Eiga if you want to get proper technical.

Hong Kong gangster films (Ringo Lam is highly underrated in his field).

Elvis, his life and career.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 29, 2016, 02:53:09 PM: Quote from: TheInfelicitousDandy on December 29, 2016, 02:02:59 PM
The sandwich I had for lunch

I know people thought I was joking about this but I know this little shop in china town that makes 3$ sandwiches. I talk about them a lot. Its one of the few things that is very special in my life.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: nudemacusers on December 29, 2016, 03:19:18 PM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on December 29, 2016, 02:25:13 PM
True. I can recognize multiple male porn stars by their dicks alone.
like, how many?
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: king of the internet on December 29, 2016, 03:37:16 PM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on December 29, 2016, 02:19:02 PM
Quote from: king of the internet on December 29, 2016, 02:14:14 PM
I know more about ASOIAF history than world history. Also Overwatch. But those are the only things are nerd out to these days imo.

Who was the best Targaryen king and why :doge

(you can't say Aegon I, just to ensure a more interesting answer)

I don't have an interesting or logical answer but Aegon V will always be my boy for trying to do the right thing, even if he failed :yeshrug
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 29, 2016, 03:49:27 PM: 90's PC RPGs

Anime
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 29, 2016, 06:10:19 PM: 80's horror movies

Lovecraftian/weird fiction
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: studyguy on December 29, 2016, 06:18:25 PM: existential dread

also snowboards, I used to be big into those motorized RC cars.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Bebpo on December 29, 2016, 06:21:50 PM: Videogames with a focus on rpgs.

I guess Japan/Japanese culture a little. I enjoy a lot of stuff, but these days I'm not like super super into i.e. I can talk for hours and hours and never stop about any subject besides videogames. Fuck man, I've been playing them for 30 years now, you think I'd get over it, but I still find videogames and game industry stuff fun and fascinating.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Mr Gilhaney on December 29, 2016, 08:31:53 PM: Silent hill.

The dillinger escape plan.

The latter already being quite a special fellow and autism magnet in itself.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Valkyrie on December 29, 2016, 09:01:35 PM: Quote from: Human Snorenado on December 29, 2016, 11:23:33 AM
*checks hours put into Diablo 3, sees it is in the low to mid 4 figures*
Let's be bffs. I could talk about D3 for hours. Loved D2 too but I'm not as knowledgeable in it.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: etiolate on December 29, 2016, 09:04:17 PM: MMO mechanics, especially battle mechanics
sometimes music of various sorts
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 29, 2016, 09:53:59 PM: Quote from: king of the internet on December 29, 2016, 03:37:16 PM
Quote from: Phoenix Dark on December 29, 2016, 02:19:02 PM
Quote from: king of the internet on December 29, 2016, 02:14:14 PM
I know more about ASOIAF history than world history. Also Overwatch. But those are the only things are nerd out to these days imo.

Who was the best Targaryen king and why :doge

(you can't say Aegon I, just to ensure a more interesting answer)

I don't have an interesting or logical answer but Aegon V will always be my boy for trying to do the right thing, even if he failed :yeshrug

In terms of sheer accomplishments and reign I don't think anyone comes close to Jaehaerys I, but my heart says Aegon V too, for the same reasons. Top 5 most interesting characters in all of ASOIF.

If only he had dragons...

:tocry
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: zomgee on December 30, 2016, 12:43:28 AM: I very sincerely would like to hear everyone speak on their interests in this thread. Hearing anyone talk about their passions almost instantly makes me interested.

Even porn dicks.

For example I really want a $3 sandwich.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Himu on December 30, 2016, 01:18:14 AM: shenmue.

religious topics.

racial topics.

the aesthetics of a good looking penis.

makeup.

;etc
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Syph on December 30, 2016, 06:19:45 PM: Anything even tangentially hockey related.
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Post by: chronovore on December 30, 2016, 07:15:06 PM: Thomas Dolby's discography.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 30, 2016, 10:41:11 PM: motorcycles, natch. and pc build performance.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: tiesto on December 31, 2016, 12:05:07 AM: So now I remember something I sperged out a few months ago on. Went to Electric Zoo and saw Porter Robinson play, he is a big weeaboo so his visuals were a ton of anime characters and giant robots and things that looked like something out of SotC or a Miyazaki film. In one scene a message was being typed out, and the font used was the same font used in all Square's 16 bit RPGs (I'm sure it was deliberate). I was talking with some fellow fans of Porter and then just sperged out and went on and on about the font :P

spoiler (click to show/hide)
they were definitely rolling and probably thought I was too so no harm, no foul
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Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: T-Short on December 31, 2016, 09:29:09 AM: Nuclear engineering.

Aviation.

Automotive engineering.

DJ hardware.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: fizzel on December 31, 2016, 10:27:56 AM: Genocide.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Samson Manhug on December 31, 2016, 12:32:06 PM: Hyoushi is not bullshitting. After the Fukushima disaster we were all collectively like, “this seems bad” and then Hyoushi came in and started writing 800 word interesting posts explaining in detail how nuclear power works and what specifically was happening in the reactor and what the fallout would be. It was amazing. We were like, “bro, are you a nuclear engineer?” and he just shrugged it off like it was a normal hobby.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: Tasty on December 31, 2016, 01:23:05 PM: I semi-special fellow out on DSLR/filmmaking stuff, like digital vs. film, aspect ratios, f-stops, micro 4/3s vs. full-frame, etc.
Title: Re: What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?
Post by: chronovore on December 31, 2016, 06:18:51 PM: Quote from: Samson Manhug on December 31, 2016, 12:32:06 PM
Hyoushi is not bullshitting. After the Fukushima disaster we were all collectively like, “this seems bad” and then Hyoushi came in and started writing 800 word interesting posts explaining in detail how nuclear power works and what specifically was happening in the reactor and what the fallout would be. It was amazing. We were like, “bro, are you a nuclear engineer?” and he just shrugged it off like it was a normal hobby.

He's not kidding about aviation, either. He showed up in Osaka with an AR-equipped app which would use GPS and air traffic information to tell him what any plane in nearby airspace was doing, and where it was going or from where it had come. Now I own the app, too.