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If you could be the best at something but nobody could know, what would it be? (lemmy.world)

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[-] tate 72 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Helping others to do their best, especially when it's something they are truly passionate about.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago

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

Hear that everybody? This guys an accessory to murder!

[-] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

Username checks out

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

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"

[-] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I hadn’t scrolled that far down yet lol

[-] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 months ago

Doesn't mean he has to help. Just good at it when he chooses it

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[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 55 points 4 months ago

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.

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[-] nycki@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago

Cracking DRM. Win-win.

[-] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz 29 points 4 months ago

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…

[-] a_new_sad_me@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

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

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

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

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 28 points 4 months ago

CRANKIN' MY HOG AROOOO!!!!!

[-] foggenbooty@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

computer programmer

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 25 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

exactly

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 23 points 4 months ago

Theft.

[-] marble@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 months ago

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

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 21 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

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

[-] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 4 months ago

Being a spy. Did I crack the code??

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 9 points 4 months ago

Not really. Spies need a handler. If no one can know then you can't tell anyone the secrets so you're a terrible spy.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Schrodingers spy.

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[-] Reverendender@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

Embezzling money

[-] fjord_monkey@hilariouschaos.com 16 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago

Best masturbator

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[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago

Being famous, in order to create a paradox.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

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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[-] Tazerface@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

Keeping secrets

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Give me something like physics. I'm just damn curious about how clouds form, or how ants can't be the size of elephants. Back when I took physics courses I felt like I had a better fundamental understanding of the world.

Nowadays I'm busy going in another direction, but a cozy Wikipedia article is always fun to read from time to time.

[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 9 points 4 months ago

Future’s market.

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Making money.

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Picking lottery numbers

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Vigilante murder.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 months ago

Innovating new outside-the-box stuff, procedures, code, whatever. A robust public domain would happily be my legacy.

No small amount of art too.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Sleeping.

[-] Someplaceunknown@fedia.io 7 points 4 months ago

Being unnoticeable

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Writer. Publish under a pseudonym. ;)

[-] Asudox@ani.social 7 points 4 months ago

Making money

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Potatoes. I would be the best at potatoes.

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 6 points 4 months ago

making money. a win win really.

[-] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Alone time 😉

[-] thejoker954@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Life. Nobody would ever figure it out. They might think/say "he's got the best life", but who would think "he's the best at life".

[-] SirDerpy@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Inciting the revolution.

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