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Oof, this makes me sad. Sure it's always good to have the facts at hand if actually necessary, but open discussion is great and sorely missing from a lot of modern interactions.

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It's not open discussion though. All avenues are closed except ones that can lead to figuring out a piece of trivia about someone who isn't there!

I guess it works if everyone is equally into a subject but that's pretty rare and by this point I've been put out by it so many times even if I am interested, I'm not interested.

The unknown isn't something to be scared of. It's alright if something isn't settled in stone, you don't need to resolve every little question. You don't even need to resolve the big ones!

> you don't need to resolve every little question.

Then why do you want to argue about it?

I just don't want conversations to grind to a halt to figure out a piece of trivia, moving on is fine as is looking it up.

Eh, the fact a phone can resolve the question of whether Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs was released first doesn't stop us discussing which is the better film.

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