What's a weird subject you know way too much about?

[Rutabaga22]

Simple, just state what the subject is and some info around it.

For me it is probably Entymology, I was waayyy into bugs as a kid and still remeber a few things. 
One thing I find interesting is ant supercolonies. The fact that multiple ant colonies join into one with many queens is wild and wacky.

[kerbiloid]

2 hours ago, Rutabaga22 said:

Entymology

Insect linguistics??? You strong!

2 hours ago, Rutabaga22 said:

The fact that multiple ant colonies join into one with many queens is wild and wacky.

Too long way to Tipperary. Nobody wants to run so much.

[ColdJ]

3 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

Too long way to Tipperary. Nobody wants to run so much.

No more Vodka for you.

etymology

 

ĕt″ə-mŏl′ə-jē

noun

1. The origin and historical development of a linguistic form as shown by determining its basic elements, earliest known use, and changes in form and meaning, tracing its transmission from one language to another, identifying its cognates in other languages, and reconstructing its ancestral form where possible.

entomology

 

ĕn″tə-mŏl′ə-jē

noun

1. The scientific study of insects.

 

Don't think my interests are weird, but who knows?

[kerbiloid]

3 hours ago, ColdJ said:

etymology

+

3 hours ago, ColdJ said:

entomology

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8 hours ago, Rutabaga22 said:

Entymology

[Abel Military Services]

Computer science. Having a CSP contest( A chinese Computer science contest) last weekend.

[Aerodynamic Kerbal]

Geography,

sort of...

[Nazalassa]

Coding in ><>

[kerbiloid]

9 hours ago, Nazalassa said:

Coding in ><>

PERL zombies! They are everywhere!

***

Having seen too much PERL code, even when never used it or read boox about it.

Edited October 13, 2022 by kerbiloid

[Leganeski]

9 hours ago, Nazalassa said:

Coding in ><>

For me it would be coding in Befunge, which is pretty similar to ><>.

If you're unfamiliar with what these languages look like, here's an example program I just wrote to compute Collatz sequences:

&#+<1*3_;#%2:_@#-1:.:;2/#;

(It works!)

[kerbiloid]

Quote

Funge-98 is the successor to, and a generalization of, Befunge.

Fungi! They have captured everything!

Spoiler

And we know too much about it.

17 minutes ago, Leganeski said:

&#+<1*3_;#%2:_@#-1:.:;2/#;

First symptomes of a brain possessed by alien fungi.

[SSTO Crasher]

Geopolitics, the study of why nations act they way they do.

Edited November 3, 2022 by SSTO Crasher

[kerbiloid]

Java.

I wish this language had never existed.

[Ryaja]

6 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

Java.

I wish this language had never existed.

So, you wish Minecraft never existed?

 

Also I know way too much about random space facts and when I say random I mean random

Edited November 4, 2022 by Ryaja

[kerbiloid]

3 hours ago, Ryaja said:

So, you wish Minecraft never existed?

I wish it was written in a proper language like C++. See Minetest

***

Python.

Even the wiki article was too much to know about it.

Edited November 4, 2022 by kerbiloid

[Nazalassa]

Yey Minetest!

I think (think) I know too much about hyperbolic geometry in video games.

[Ryaja]

9 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

I wish it was written in a proper language like C++. See Minetest

***

Python.

Even the wiki article was too much to know about it.

And where would minetest be without Minecraft? Also the official Minecraft coded in c++ is bad but not c++ itself. Java might be a bad language but the games coded in it can be good.

•••

I know way too much about science, to the point I nitpick everything that has it wrong to find how it's wrong 

 

Edited November 4, 2022 by Ryaja

[kerbiloid]

8 minutes ago, Ryaja said:

And where would minetest be without Minecraft?

It would be instead.

***

I have seen some code in PERL.

It was too much to know about it, the nightmares don't leave me even now.

 

[Ryaja]

11 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

It would be instead.

No, because minetest is based off Minecraft, without java the gaming community would be completely different. But you have your opinions and I have mine.

•••

I know way too much about arguing, and should probably stop.

[Just Jim]

Besides Kerbals???  lol
I would have to admit it's the Fallout universe. I'm not just a big fan of the game, I am a HUGE fan of the writing. I think they've done a magnificent job building up the storylines and lore from game to game, and I find myself exploring each and every abandoned building , every working computer terminal I can find, just to learn more.  I know so much about what happened after the great war it's a little embarrassing... lol
(Full disclosure: the only reason I haven't applied for a writing job with Bethesda is I love KSP and Kerbals so much more!!!!)

[kerbiloid]

I'm not a Fallout or Skyrim expert, but being familiar too much with them, it blocks every my attempt to dive into any other game of that genre.

The previous such game was Duke Nukem 3d (DOS/4GW).

Only Duke Nukem and Fallout have been a recurring plot in my nightdreams with high detalization.

(Happily, I've never been a meter-high green humanoid in permannt spacesuit.)

[AtomicTech]

Probably amateur radio but then again my mentor's lightyears ahead of me so I go to school, figuratively, everytime he opens his mouth

[Nazalassa]

Unicode, here's a simple python script that strikes whatever you give it.

#!/bin/python3

import sys

t = ''
for a in sys.argv[1:]:
   for c in a:
      t += c+'\u0336'
   t += ' \u0336'

print(t[:-1])

And of course the strike is made out of Unicode characters.

[Abel Military Services]

Nuclear physics. 

Fun fact: I started learning that because I want to play a Minecraft mod called HBM's nuclear tech. 

Yeah now I can be the evil guy. 

[cubinator]

I know a handful of obscure Star Wars facts. For instance, that Jabba the Hutt reproduced by parthenogenesis.

[NovaSuper]

I don't know if its weird but I know wayyyy too much about RBMK reactors.