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.
Learning from others mistakes.
Modding Bethesda’s Gamebryo engine games, especially Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, and especially doing so using only the built-in functions, i.e. no FOSE/NVSE. Not that I’m averse to using them, but I prefer to do what I can without them before I do. Thanks to that approach I had little trouble making Fallout 4 mods that could run on console editions of the game.
Repairing espresso machines. I’ve reached the point where I modify them and the parts can come from whatever is laying around. I’m pretty sure I’m done with it though, it’s boring after doing something for over a decade.
You ever heard of that Mr mixer guy? That could be you but espresso machines. But, not if you’re bored with it lol.
I thought about doing something like that; I already give out free advice anyway. I have yet to figure out a good way to make videos though, I know a lot about it but I haven’t put it in motion. That way people can fix their stuff because were going to need more of it.
Honestly fuck the monetizing of the video (unless you need that) just make step by step videos. People will find it if they need it. Hopefully.
I would but I would also need money to get equipment. Heh I should have kept my old Nikon that can record video. All I have is a go pro.
I mean, most of those tiktok people start with their phone. But idk what quality you need to show some smaller parts and stuff.
I tried it with my phone but I really need to use my macro lens to actually show anything. Otherwise it would look like a rats nest of cables in a server room.
I’ve shit my own pants more times than anyone I know
Wow that’s crazy! I also dont know anyone who has shit my pants!
Wanna set new records for each other?
Best of three?
I would expect as much from @[email protected]
Yeah, what’s up with that? Does he/she take a screenshot when they fart?
Ow my storage
I am the lone expert at putting my underwear on myself as I have yet to see anyone else put my underwear on me. And if they tried, I’d wiggle so I could keep the top spot.
That sounds like a challenge! a/s/l?
Foremost expert is pretty vague. Here’s a couple of the more unusual and rare things I’m an expert in. I’m going to define it as less than 10 people globally know more than I do. Less than 100,000 people know anything beyond the absolute basics.
Applied plant breeding of cucurbits.
International marketing and sales of agricultural seed.
Map modding of ThinkTanks a 2004 game by Bravetree.
https://www.planetthinktanks2.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5544TF2 clip-making is considered “niche” now? Where did all the time go?
People don’t make videos with SFM or Garry’s Mod anymore? Really?
What about Skidbiti Toilet? Is that no longer a thing?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.
wow, that’s interesting!
Have you trained dogs generally prior to this? How much of it is pretend scenarios (I’m curious how the dogs ‘get it’)
Yes. I trained dogs before, but only personal dogs, not professionally. I got lucky that my prior training techniques were very similar to the industry standard, so it was a relatively easy transition.
We probably run about 50 training scenarios for every 1 deployment per dog.
Ideally you’d be training from a 3 month old puppy until they are 18 months before they can test, which would include at least a couple training scenarios a week from in that window, so you’d probably have 150+ training scenarios before you even test. Additionally you would be doing daily behavioral training, similar to what you’d do if you want a very well behaved pet.
After they are certified, you’d still run 1-2 scenarios a week, 3-5 day seminars a few times a year, plus other related cross training if you want a high level dog.
Every region across the world has it’s own standard of what they consider a deploy-able dog. Some are highly paid, expert dog trainers that deploy in extreme situations. Some are casual retired bored rich people that want to take fluffy to something exciting, and just show up to random emergencies saying they can help, and have no actual formal training.
Most are highly dedicated volunteers that spend an extreme amount of time and money to ensure they meet the highest standards just in case they are called on to help out with people’s worst days.that’s amazing. do dogs forget things if they’re not using the knowledge like we do - is that why the scenarios are still re-run each week?
It’s just like any skill. If you were a professional football player, you’d still run fundamental drills every practice. Same with dogs.
You have to keep their strength and cardio up, so they can work for long periods of time. You have to keep their motivation up so they want to work, and you have to keep their skills up so they can do the work without thinking about it.
A well trained dog doesn’t understand that it’s a “job.” A dog is just out there having fun and doing their best to get a reward at the end. If you’re doing it right, your dog wants to work more than anything else in the world.
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
You’ll have to be the judge of whether it’s niche or not, but my Japanese language proficiency - both output (speaking and writing) and output (listening and reading) - is in many aspects and contexts indistinguishable from that of native speakers. I started studying Japanese at the age of 15 - some 23 years ago. My first languages are Swedish and Hungarian. While I don’t practice them myself any longer, I can teach the shamisen and the koto (Japanese classical instruments). Feedback from any and all pupils in any and all subjects that I have ever taught have been great, but I was aiming for something niche here.
Swedish and Hungarian as first languages, how did that come about? :) (I’m Hungarian too.)
Király! My parents are from Nagyvárad (Oradea for the uniniciated 🤣). They fled from Ceaușescu’s regime to Sweden in 88. I was born just a few months later. Thankfully, my parents only every spoke with me in Hungarian, so that’s one language “for free”. Outside of home, “on the streets”, I got the Swedish language for free. Being exposed to both languages on a daily basis from the beginning of my life, I achieved them both as truly native languages.
It has always been “funny” when I talk to Hungarians from Hungary, because I clearly lack some everyday vocabulary. After all, what I learned was the household specific language. One time, when I was traveling in Hungary for a week or two just for fun, I was in a restaurant in Budapest and I was ordering some salad. The waitress then asked me, “Öntet?” and I panicked. I panicked HARD. “What the fuck is ‘öntet’?!” I asked myself. You could probably hear the sound of my brain working to figure it out. I went through all the possible meanings, even the ridiculous ones:
- if “önt” == “pour” then “öntet” = “make somebody pour something”. WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO POUR HERE AND FOR WHOM?!
- if “ön” == formal version of “you” and “tett” == third person singularis or pluralis of “do/did” or “place/placed” then “öntet” = maybe “you did/placed”? But she clearly was saying “-tet”, not “-tett”. WHAT DID I PLACE WHERE WHEN?! GOD SAVE ME.
In the end, I had to turn around and ask my Hungarian friend, almost crying, what it means, and when I heard her say “dressing”, it all made sense. Fuck me… 🤣
I recently have been trying to relearn/polish up on Hungarian though, so during my vacation this year, I used to sit outside on sunny days reading A Pál utcai fiúk out loud. 😃
Where are you from? :)
Thanks for the background! And I love that anecdote 🤣
Pál utcai fiúk is a pretty fun historical snapshot from what I remember. I only read it in middle school, but I remember I found the kids’ lifestyle and hobbies interesting :)
I grew up in Budapest, but have lived in Glasgow for 15+ years now. I couldn’t bear the Hungarian heat lol.
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.
