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You'd really like my turtle then. His name is squirtle

Thats really cool!

mine is birds and ornithology


i'm also really into mario, if that counts as a special interest.

Awww! Turtles are my main special interest. What kind of turtle is Squirtle?

My Squirtle is a red-eared slider Don't know about the Squirtle in pokemon though

Aww!! I love sliders! I used to have two, Nemo and Nikita. Here they are

How old is your Squirtle? Maybe you could post a pic of him?

IDK what kind of turtle Squirtle in Pokemon is either. Closest thing to a blue turtle I know of, is the leatherback. Tirtouga sort of looks like one. Sort of.

My primary special interest is skiing, hence my relocation to Denver a few years back:


My other special interest is classic arcade gaming, specifically the Pac-Man series:


I like to joke that my year only has two seasons: ski season and arcade season.

Ah yes the infamous kill screen one gets after level 255 I believe.

Did Space Invaders have a kill screen?

That is SO cute and the name, Squirtle Wonderful

Hey, look at the score number patterns:
333360
999940

Huh. I'm obsessed with skiing and classic games.

Too bad you didn't relocate to salt lake city instead, the snow's better here

(except this winter)

HAH! Patterns, especially number patterns are of a particular interest to Aspies and I was the only one who saw the numbers consisted of the same pattern.

4 of the same number in the front;
0 at the back;
same length;
6 + 4 = 10

Languages now and forever. My dream job used to be a documentor of endangered languages.

Also:



Countries. I love collecting information about countries from wikipedia, and looking at pictures of towns in different countries, especially if there are people or crowds in those pictures, because I like looking at people too.

Sorry double post, no longer able to edit the above post. But I forgot this one:



Randominity.
I love randomizing things. I like making decisions by sticking options into an online random generator and randomizing them. I have a pair of dice and a 20-side die on my desk by my laptop at all times for randomizing things or just to throw for fun and see what numbers come up.

Sometimes I go out of my way to randomize something, e.g. I've selected what to borrow from the library on two separate occasions the following way: randomly generate a letter from A-Ö (ö = the last letter in my language), go to the shelf of the letter that comes up, count with my finger one-by-one the entire number of books on that shelf (let's say e.g. 56), and then randomly generate a number from 1-56 and select the book the resulting number corresponds to.

I suspect part of the reason I love japanese RPGs so much is because of how much randominity is involved (random drops, random encounters, random amounts of gil between X and Y, random amount of damage between X and Y, there is a 1 in 3400 chance of such and such rare encounter, a 1 in 728 chance of such and such rare treasure appearing, etc etc... love it!). And this site is gold, I can sit and play with these generators for hours on end:
chaoticshiny(dot)com/index.php