Ask Lemmy

Being correct on the internet. 100% so far

I'm really good at raising, training, and handling ducks. I'm the duck expert of my family and friend groups. I'm also damn good at treating injured or sick ducks myself, but that's a necessity because there aren't any vets remotely close to me that treat waterfowl. Performed very minor surgery on one of mine a couple months ago and he is totally fine now. I also treated a crippled duckling who was really close to needing put down and managed to get her legs working well enough for her to have a good life. She walks on her knees, but she gets around just as well as the other birds now. It's her first birthday in a couple weeks.

Remembering include the second word in a sentence.

I can make minute rice in 55 seconds.

I am really good at building computers. Like speccing out the parts, making sure they’re compatible, making sure they look good together, doing nice cable management, setting up the UEFI settings, etc. I spend a lot of time staying up to date on all the new hardware and checking prices.

Other than laptops, I’ve built every computer I’ve owned since I was about 14. It’s so fun that I’ll spec out PCs on Newegg with no intention of buying them, just for fun. My wife thinks I have too many computers, which I can’t really argue with, but I just know I’m one good sale away from building another.

It actually came in handy recently, when my sister wanted to buy her husband a gaming PC for Christmas. I gave her a bunch of spare parts I had, and we ordered the rest and built him a beautiful PC within her budget.

I built my company’s servers too, instead of paying the ungodly high prices for equivalent Dell or HP servers.

cooking. people are regularly impressed, ive got stiff competition with most indian and even high-end italian restaurants. still working on chinese, korean, and mexican :)

I understand IKEA instructions.

I'm really good at losing motivation for my hobbies 😭

Going upstairs and forgetting what i went up for

Procrastinating

I rarely get to talk about this. I can 1CC about 20 arcade games(from 1983-1993).

But I did excel at Slapfight and have clocked it 7 times over on a single credit.

I guess gaming with my thousands of hours spent on it. I'm very efficient at leveling characters on world of warcraft lol

My job. But I hate it

Coming up with projects and completing 80% of them really fast.

Honestly? I'm good at a lot of things. Not world class good, but good enough that I'm the best at it that I know of.

I'm a fucking fantastic DM. I can improv sessions, build campaigns, do good characters as NPCs. I've had players have to stop during sessions because they were crying too hard. Every single player I've ever had has not only told me I'm the best they've ever played with, but a few have often just stopped playing with anyone else when I wasn't able to run a game. That shit made me proud as hell.

I ran a campaign that lasted three years irl. Almost every week, sometimes multiple days on weekends. Kept every NPC, side quest, map and bit of detail straight, and explored multiple worlds in the process. Best game I ever ran tbh.

And, I can cook like a motherfucker. I've managed to make things that people who hate a given food will happily eat my version. It's mostly country cooking, soul food, with the usual us standards mixed in, but I can do fancy shit too. My wife? Hated greens, hated black eyed peas, and was dubious about pintos. Now, she'll find greens like collards at the grocery store, grab a bunch. A bag of beans or BEPs, and ask for them my way. My dad hated Brussels sprouts until I introduced him to roasted with my balsamic reduction.

My wife jokes that she married me for my meatloaf. I've actually won prizes for that. My biscuits too. And I bake. My fucking sourdough bread is amazing. Back during early covid, when store bread was decimated, a yeast was scarce, I set up the kitchen for it. Told my family and neighbors that if they brought flour, they would have bread. Was doing a dozen plus loaves every day for weeks. My hands were fucked, so I was downing way too many medications, but there's still neighbors that ask for loaves, and offer to pay way over store prices.

And don't get me started about my lemon meringue pie, or my murder cookies (it's a reddit thing that I've tweaked). Kinda suck at decorating tbh. The cakes taste great, but they're ugly lol.

There's other shit that I'm really good at, or used to be. But those two are the ones that I'm proud of the most.

Playing my favorite instrument.

Following YouTube tutorials.

Self confidence in taking on projects.

Estimating how long it'll take to get somewhere & what time it currently is.

Factorio.

My current record for game completion with no belts, was just over 36 hours.

Giving head, first partner I tried it with legit said I was a natural, and I haven't heard any complaints since, so I'm taking that as further endorsement!

Being me. I'm the best me.

Drawing. I really like drawing people and coming up with my own stories. Some big, some little, I just like being able to put what I see in my head on paper so other people can see it.

Ive been told I'm really good as a workplace trainer. So far I've got a 100% success rate with newbies and remedial training.

I dont know why.

Staying alive.

Haven't fucked that one up yet.

Making my own designs for fuse bead projects. People often ask "where'd you get the design for this?" I just put beads on the board and adjust it until it looks right...

Programming/making software I think. I just love doing it.

I'm very humble

I'm really good at spending years getting better at something and then giving up as years of hard work seems to have close to zero effect and i'm still as bad at it compared to when i started.