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Today’s Ask PHlemmy: What could you talk for 30 minutes about with no preparation?
Fallout 2 content including the restoration project mod. Alternately, why duterte was obviously the worst candidate in the 2016 elections
Whoa you’re part of the FO2 restoration project? Either way, I played with the first couple of FO games buying them from a humble-bundle promo a long time ago. That hooked me into the whole FO franchise. Are you planning on playing starfield by any chance?
I’m not part of it. I just played it so many times that I know it really well.
Will probably play Starfield since I’m subscribed to Game Pass.
I was once asked, at a party, what my course is actually about. It ended up being a back-and-forth between me and the person who asked me about what my course is all about, and why it is a course that’s being taught in university.
I started by drawing parallels between people’s misconceptions about certain college courses (IT/Comp Sci = taga-ayos ng computer; Fine Arts = taga-drawing, magaling sa photoshop) versus what they’re actually about. Then proceeded to give an overview of what my course is actually all about, as well as the different specialties within it as well as the different career choices available after graduating. I also talked about the different kinds of institutions graduates of my course might handle, and what the differences between them are. I also touched on some of the related, albeit “more esoteric,” fields.
I ended up summarizing an entire 101 course in a span of around an hour.
We only realized that we’ve been at it for far too long when we noticed that the rest of the people at our table have already left us alone.
Late 90s to early 00s internet - I can tell you about Webdog, Dino Ignacio, EdsaMail, dial-up internet, and so on, for hours.
I can also talk about obscure cinema and make recommendations about horror and other genres you’ve (likely) never heard of. Obscure and indie music as well, such as post-rock and math rock. I know like a bunch of the former.
Mechanical keyboards too, but I feel like I’m less updated on switches and entry-level boards now that I don’t consider myself knowledgeable on the scene as I used to.
Basketball pa pala. My in-law was surprised I was able to answer his question on who was the early 00s UP mens college coach (who’s apparently a close colleague of his now) in just a second, lol.
Kung paano gumawa ng sabon.
Saka kung gaano na ko kapagod sa pang araw-araw na buhay. 'Lam mo yung paubos na yung Cheez Whiz tapos pipilitin mo pa ring takpan yung buong slice ng tasty ng palaman, masabi lang na covered lahat ng spots. That’s me, I’m the Cheez Whiz.
Numbers.
Just count until the 30 mins. are up.
EDIT: Since you have to talk about it pala. Talk about a number and a thing (i.e. 1 ballpen, did you know that my first panda ballpen was blue? Blue is the warmest color, but why is it warm? How do you think it is warm? Then drone on from there. NOTE: People might beat you up for wasting their 30 minutes though.
Hey, Vsauce here! One is the loneliest number, or is it? HAHAHAHAHAH!
Imagine incorporating clickbait titles in one’s conversation HAHA.
I could argue that it’s the other way around. Clickbait titles are conversational hooks used in titles.
It’s the same effect anyways, used in the same way.
Can’t say I don’t use it sometimes. It works. But if you can’t deliver beyond clickbait, well that’s a total conversation bummer. Oof.
Exactly why people have strong feelings regarding ‘clickbait’, I think.
I think it’s only ‘bait’ if you (as an article writer or otherwise) cannot support the premise you promised with the hook.
Like if I can’t subsequently support the premise of “no, actually, one isn’t the loneliest number” then what I said earlier is clickbait.
I agree. It is abused to the point that the relationship between the publication and the readership is damaged. Hence the comments on every buzzfeed post to summarize, or the emergence of TLDRs/TLDWs. However, if an entirely different premise is delivered (think of a good yt clickbait title but actually has a sort of unrelated, but quality content). In short, if clickbait is delivered tastefully (which is ofc relative per viewer), for lack of a better word, kahit malabo sa clickbait, one still engages because what the consumer gets out of the “exchange” is somehow equal or greater to the content proposition promised.
Appreciate this discussion man. Hope you’re not wet from the rain.
Similar sentiments here RE: clickbait. At the end, the question would to answer is: “did it deliver?”
Well appreciated too, it’s been a very fruitful one. Also, I’ve been safely inside the comfort of my own room, so I wasn’t even aware of the torrential rains until someone pointed it out. (WFH FTW!)
But may also turn out interesting too! 50-50ish, tama 😄
I prefer to let my conversation partner open up, pick their brain, and learn from their experiences. Hell I’m ok with 30 - 70 in their favor sa conversation. There are A LOT of interesting of people out there (as well as, well, terrible ones), and sometimes it takes nailing the right question, learning their right passion, to unlock a potentially memorable (and fun) conversation.
Strong law of small numbers though.
Masyadong konti ang numbers “small enough” (for example, less than 10000) for the available properties and hence small numbers are likely to be interesting.
I think that’s true whether or not we’re talking in a mathematical sense or not.
I agree with you, and thank you for the TIL
From my light reading of it, linking it conversationally, basically mahirap pag ikaw ung “small” number na nagbubuhat ng convo LMAO at a certain point you simply can’t carry on the conversation.
EDIT: Formatting
Yeah, ultimately, it depends on how much you can support your premise, in this case, “X is an interesting number.”
And in a lot of cases, you also have to make sure that whatever property you’re talking about is actually interesting to the one you’re having a conversation with (or in case of an article, your target audience).
Mejo useless if I assert and then go off on talking about why 28 is a perfect number if the person I’m talking to has no interest in the surrounding number theory behind it (lalo na if you just say it out of a sudden).
Kinda like forcing a square into a circle. It may be the most beautiful, valuable, awe-inspiring, insert adjective square, but if you’re putting it into a circle, socially it just doesn’t fit in/mesh well. It is something one has to be aware of in any discussion, lest it become hogging all the airtime to yourself because at some point the discussion lost interest. To be fair, human attention is hard to keep. We need to be able to transition well, keep interest in all subjects of discussion, and make it “human” and not feel like a text-to-speech reader lmao.
Agreed! Very much agreed.
It is really important for us to be aware of the person we’re talking to (or our audience), which is pretty much, to me at least, the heart of the art of conversation (or writing).
Forget the human, and you might as well be talking to the aether.
Lore ng Dark Souls or kwento ng relationship namin ng ex ko mga pinag gagawa namin sa buhay
Hmm, I can talk about the entire Cold War. From the Acheson-Lilienthal Plan which led to the Baruch Plan whose rejection sparked the Cold War arms race to the 1970s detente to Reagan’s “MR. GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!”, I can talk about it with only minor stops. Oh, isama na din yung more obscure proxy wars during the period such as the chess wars (Soviet school of chess, Karpov, Kasparov, Fischer) and yung Transfermium Wars (Dubna Institute, UCLA-Berkeley, CERN)
my favorite table tennis players, and their respective styles and strengths.
I wouldn’t say I’m a fan, but I’ve watched a few videos of Ma Lin, Waldner, and Ma Long. Nakakaaliw tignan specifically yung Ghost Serve ni Ma Lin. Was a really mind blown moment to see high level Table Tennis plays sa YT. Tabletennis is fascinating!
PC Building, tech, hardware and software.