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WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 months ago

If you could be the best at something but nobody could know, what would it be?

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If you could be the best at something but nobody could know, what would it be?

WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 months ago
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    Helping others to do their best, especially when it’s something they are truly passionate about.

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      What if the thing they’re passionate about is doing evil murders?

      Hear that everybody? This guys an accessory to murder!

      • WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.worldOP
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        Username checks out

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          If any comment from this section was going to get me the “username checks out” I thought it would be the one I made for “Cheesy McSneezer, and the Cheesy McSneezer 7”

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            I hadn’t scrolled that far down yet lol

      • tate@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Some say the world would be poorer without Charles Manson. Not me - some.

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    Generating world peace.

    The world would become a better place, and no one would be able to trace it back to me. I get to live in a warless world and still have my privacy.

    • Pissipissini Johnson 🩵! :D@sh.itjust.works
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      A lot of people would argue Jesus did that historically. Or maybe Buddha. Obviously they were famous though.

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        Jesus made sure EVERYONE knew

        • Pissipissini Johnson 🩵! :D@sh.itjust.works
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          Jesus explained a special equilateral triangle shape and its internal geometries, mainly group theory. It has an identity where if you imagine rotating it by 120 degrees, there’s no change in position afterwards. He said there were 3 important things you should know and they were all equal and in a way identical; they perfectly related to each other.

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            Ah yes… My favorite gospel

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              It’s the Bible codes, which you might not believe in or care about. To have an idea like that, which people still believed in and would easily spread across the world, he needed to understand about mathematical geometries. To do this, he spent most of his life studying. It was a form of logic he used to say things that were hard to disagree with.

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        deleted by creator

  • 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz
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    I feel like you could game this… my superpower would be making a hit album in a day. I’ll just tell them it took several weeks. Replace album with day trading, writing a comedy set, movie, engineering designs, theoretical physics…

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      Game this is easy: I will be the best at commiting crimes without getting caught. In your face Moriarty

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        I was going to say “robbing banks” but I prefer the generality in your answer.

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    Cracking DRM. Win-win.

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      Judging from some of the prolific ones out there, cracking DRM requires you to also be absolutely batshit insane.

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        I should give cracking a go.

      • PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com
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        That type of hacking is mind-blowingly complicated. Literally. It’s impossible to understand it all without being batshit insane.

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          Definitely not wrong, when I read about it virtualizing the whole deal… I’ve worked in relatively adjacent fields before and I couldn’t even give you a satisfactory high-level explanation of how it works.

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    CRANKIN’ MY HOG AROOOO!!!

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      I love that THE_PACK memes are leaking into Lemmy. WE MADE IT BOIS!!!

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        THAT’S CUZ THE PACK NEVER LEAVES A BROTHER BEHIND AROOOOOOOOOOOO!!!1!

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        !the_pack@lemmy.world

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      https://www.theonion.com/im-getting-pretty-good-at-masturbating-1819584112

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    computer programmer

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      Time to contribute great code to tons of open source projects, completely anonymously of course.

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        exactly

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    Theft.

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    Making people laugh. They’ll keep thinking there’s someone funnier but they’ll be wrong.

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    Nobody’s claimed stock investing yet, I’ll take that one.

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    Can it be murder? I’d fix the world with violence if I could get away with it.

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      You’ve seen Death Note right?

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      If anything “Using violence to fix the world” would be the better thing to be good at since it protects you from the Monkey Paw to a certain extent. Exceptions:

      • a “fixed” world being one devoid of humans
      • a “fixed” world panning out in the opposite way you imagined (everyone is equally miserable instead of happy for example)
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        Everyone being equally miserable could be preferable to some people being happy, since it gives everybody equal reasons to work towards improving the situation… Except, of course, the monkey paw would ensure that wouldn’t pan out

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    Embezzling money

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    Social engineering. Give everyone a sense of agency but make the world in my image.

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      Father?

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        😉

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      You sound like a lead anime character, and I mean that in the best way.

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    Being famous, in order to create a paradox.

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      It doesn’t create a paradox. It just creates the same situation I’ve been thinking about for 30 years.

      If I had any musical talant, I would be “Cheesy McSneezer” and my band would be “Cheesy McSneezer and the Cheesy McSneezer 7”. It’s a death metal jazz lounge band. They create all original music, but nobody knows who Cheesy McSneezer is. You hear him on all the albums, but every time you go to the concerts, the band tells you “Sorry guys, I know you came out for a great show, but Cheesy McSneezer couldn’t be here tonight. So instead, please welcome our one night only temporary lead vocals…(Insert any random well known musician here)”

      And every show, the reason why Cheesy couldn’t make it changes, and is always completely absurd. And every album cover is like 100,000 people all coming together for a photo shoot. Somewhere in the photo, Cheesy McSneezer is always on the album art…but it’s never aparent which one he is. And the photos are taken from so far away that you really don’t have any up close visuals to cross reference the other photos with.

      So every concert, is technically a famous musician doing cover songs for a guy that nobody knows who he is, but also everybody knows who he is.

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        If you haven’t seen the movie Frank (2014) I’d recommend it

        Based on a true story, unbelievably

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      Basically Buckethead.

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    Best masturbator

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