What topics do you tend to special fellow out on?

[tiesto]

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!

[benjipwns]

i assume all of them that aren't related to myself personally

[Tasty]

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.

[benjipwns]

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.

[Coax]

-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.

[chronovore]

Open-World Games. 

[Beezy]

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!

[Tasty]

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!

Bleehhhhh fine but you're unleashing my inner DC special fellow.

[benjipwns]

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!

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.

[ToxicAdam]

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.

[nudemacusers]

2001-2003 European menswear runway fashion

[bork]

Vidya.

Comics.

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

[Human Snorenado]

*checks hours put into Diablo 3, sees it is in the low to mid 4 figures*

ARPGs apparently. Also politics.

[Purrp Skirrp]

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").

[chronovore]

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. 

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

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.

[Madrun Badrun]

The sandwich I had for lunch

[Phoenix Dark]

Hip hop, spreadsheets, and ARPGs.

[king of the internet]

I know more about ASOIAF history than world history. Also Overwatch. But those are the only things are nerd out to these days imo.

[Steve Contra]

Benji's real answer is "internet comment sections"

[Phoenix Dark]

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 

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

[Phoenix Dark]

True. I can recognize multiple male porn stars by their dicks alone.

[zomgee]

80's arcade games and arcade emulation.
Weird Al Yankovic

[CatsCatsCats]

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

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

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.

[Madrun Badrun]

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. 

[nudemacusers]

True. I can recognize multiple male porn stars by their dicks alone.

like, how many?

[king of the internet]

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 

(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

[Great Rumbler]

90's PC RPGs

Anime

[Joe Molotov]

80's horror movies

Lovecraftian/weird fiction

[studyguy]

existential dread

also snowboards, I used to be big into those motorized RC cars.

[Bebpo]

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.

[Mr Gilhaney]

Silent hill.

The dillinger escape plan.

The latter already being quite a special fellow and autism magnet in itself.

[Valkyrie]

*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.

[etiolate]

MMO mechanics, especially battle mechanics
sometimes music of various sorts

[Phoenix Dark]

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 

(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

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...

[zomgee]

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.

[Himu]

shenmue.

religious topics.

racial topics.

the aesthetics of a good looking penis.

makeup.

;etc

[Syph]

Anything even tangentially hockey related.

[chronovore]

Thomas Dolby's discography.

[Van Cruncheon]

motorcycles, natch. and pc build performance.

[tiesto]

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

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they were definitely rolling and probably thought I was too so no harm, no foul

[close]

[T-Short]

Nuclear engineering.

Aviation.

Automotive engineering.

DJ hardware.

[fizzel]

Genocide.

[Samson Manhug]

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.

[Tasty]

I semi-special fellow out on DSLR/filmmaking stuff, like digital vs. film, aspect ratios, f-stops, micro 4/3s vs. full-frame, etc.

[chronovore]

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.