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It'll be hugely useful in a post apocalyptic world though

Well hey, if you monetize it whatever service you monetize on will just demonetize it without warning for no reason anyway.

Ah shit. I do this and I just assumed my kids were cool with it. Thank you for being the mirror I didn't know I needed.

lmao My friends and I do this, but we do not pause the movie. We can keep track of what is happening, give obscure info, tell jokes, even, if it's necessary, we do pause the movie to go to youtube to watch some video because someone remembered see some similar scene or something. Maybe that is our useless skill

My wife and daughter do this a lot, but their version is to quietly look up the actors and then announce their results during a lull, so it works out fine. I just do it in my head so I'm like yeah I know, she was also in whatever with Val Kilmer.

There are certain TV shows where you could spend the whole time figuring out who used to be in what - in the 80s Murder She Wrote featured just about every middle-tier actor from the 60s or 70s. Before that they were on The Love Boat. Seems like there must be a modern show full of 90s through 2010s actors but I don't know what it would be. Hey, there's Topanga!

That's a fun skill! You're also clearly good at picking usernames

now find the lid

that's on the fly volume calculation. very useful for when you have to pack a truck.
also helps if you have some Tetris experience. so def monetizeable

I'd like that skill!

The guy from Reno 911! and Curb Your Enthusiasm!? Holy shit, he really ended up doing alright for himself.

Hmmm your ideas are intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

dental plan

Reminds me of a story of a friend of mine.. She did her undergrad and masters in classics and archaeology. As part of her studies she participated in a summer dig on the island of Cyprus. She spent the summer working on remote archaeological sites in the rural countryside.

Well one day she needed to go into town for something. She goes in to the only store in town, a tiny little grocery store. She finds what she's looking for then goes to check out. Suddenly, with horror, she realizes, "wait, I don't know how to talk to this guy. I can't speak modern Greek."

So she attempts the next best thing. She tries to talk to the shopkeeper...in ancient Greek. She tried to have a random conversation with someone in ancient Greek in modern Cyprus.

The shopkeeper looks at her like she has two heads, pauses for a moment, and says, in English, "lady, no one has talked like that here for two thousand years!"

There have been few things in my life more satisfying than being in a room full of generally smart, knowledgeable people, and being the only one who knows the answer to a trivia question. It's happened a few times in my life, and usually it's about mythology.

One time while scoring the round, the quizmaster was asking the questions aloud and letting the crowd shout back the correct answers. When it came to the Greek mythology question I was the only one who shouted, "Tartarus!" Someone in the back of the room shouted, "Nerd!" Later in the round he found me and apologized, but it didn't bother me.

For my first baby shower we hired our quizmaster to host trivia. In the interest of fairness, our six person team was split across three of the teams. It ended in a three-way tie, and the tiebreaker was the name of Odin's horse. It was Sleipnir, which means "Slippy". Slippy the eight-legged horse. That one was especially satisfying.

That sounds like it would be a pretty simple program to create a replacement for if IMDb’s data is scrapeable, but I don’t know anything about programming

Very wise.
Do you have a Patreon?

In this economy?!