Real life fear/horror/madness

[HuManBing]

That's actually an excellent question, with a faintly sad answer to it... LomboDot comes from China, and so she doesn't have any siblings. Nor does anybody she knows personally in her generation.

I think of all the fun times I had with HDT (when he wasn't busy tricking me into farting on my own pillow and other brotherly pranks) and I think LomboDot really missed out.

[LadySoth]

Not a real madness check, but I actually forgot it was Halloween yesterday evening. I was expecting my boyfriend to come over, and the doorbell rang, and so I answered it, and there were these two little kids wearing facepaint holding their pumpkin buckets out expectantly. I looked at them cluelessly for a couple seconds, and then just sheepishly said, "I'm so sorry, I don't actually have any candy. But you guys look really great!" and closed the door. . . I felt such a prat.

[High Priest Mikhal]

Here's a Madness check. Some idiot figures out a way past the firewall, again, and then draws several dozen forms of malicious software while accessing adult websites. Only here's the kicker; it wasn't a cubicle convict, it was the VP in charge of the company's branch I work at. Really? He could have just piggybacked on an unused line on his own computer without anyone knowing instead of hiring some high school student to perform a computer crime because he still doesn't know how to plug an ethernet cable into the network jack on the wall. The kid got off with a warning when the Board got word of it, the veep doesn't even get that because he's the son of the CFO in New York.

Am I alone in thinking it's time to reconsider eugenics for people too stupid to even open a bag of airline peanuts?

[HuManBing]

Not a real madness check, but I actually forgot it was Halloween yesterday evening. I was expecting my boyfriend to come over, and the doorbell rang, and so I answered it

...I was totally expecting something like "in my underwear" at that point.

At least you didn't make that mistake!

[HuManBing]

On mishearings

There was a period of significant mutual exertion.

Afterwards, the hypothetical man looked at the hypothetical woman and whispered with a smile "How do you feel?"

Perhaps the hypothetical woman was just tired. Or maybe the hypothetical man needs to learn to enunciate better.

She smiled back and said "I love you, too."

...

I wonder if the Dark Powers call for Awkwardness Checks.

[HuManBing]

Nested Dreaming

This can be surprisingly stressful. I woke up and checked the clock. It showed eleven in the morning, meaning I was several hours late for work. I realized I was in a dream, and the only escape was to force myself to wake up.

This can be surprisingly stressful. I woke up and checked the clock. It showed eleven in the morning, meaning I was several hours late for work. I realized I was in a dream, and the only escape was to force myself to wake up.

This can be surprisingly stressful. I woke up and checked the clock. It showed eleven in the morning, meaning I was several hours late for work. I realized I was in a dream, and the only escape was to force myself to wake up.

This can be surprisingly stressful. I woke up and checked the clock. It showed five fifty in the morning, the predawn murk silent through the window.

I yawned, glad to be awake after fighting through three or four levels of my own brain trying to trip me up.

Stupid brain.

[Dark Angel]

I once got up to get ready in the morning. I walked downstairs (in high school, still lived with my folks at this point), hopped into the shower to help wake me up. Deodorant, hairspray, and teeth brushed later, I walked back to my room to get dressed. Walked past the family's (dad's) home entertainment system and noted the time. It was 2:00 (ish) in the morning. I dreamed my alarm woke me up.

I went back to bed and woke up with a pressed down hairstyle that would make Hitler say, "Hey there handsome!"

Your brain is stupid, mine went Oceans 11 on me with that level of deception.

[Gonzoron of the FoS]

When I was a young child, I read in an arts and crafts book how to make a paratrooper from a napkin, string and a clothespin. I begged my mom for a clothespin, but she didn't have any. So I laid down in the kitchen doorway and had a tantrum, kicking my legs in the hallway and flailing my arms in the kitchen, begging for a clothespin that she didn't have.

or so I thought....

The next morning, my parents informed me that in the middle of the night, I had gotten out of bed, turned on the bedroom light, laid down in the bedroom doorway and had a tantrum, kicking my legs in the bedroom and flailing my arms in the hallway, wailing incoherently. Then got up, turned off the light and went back to bed.

[LadySoth]

My landlord had a stack of DVD movies he was looking to give away. Knowing I'm a film buff, he asked me if I wanted to take a look through them and see if there was any I wanted.

Don't think he realized he'd included "Big Apple Booties--Volume 2" in there as well. . . oh yuck dude, I don't want to know about your porn collection!!!

[Dark Angel]

My landlord had a stack of DVD movies he was looking to give away. Knowing I'm a film buff, he asked me if I wanted to take a look through them and see if there was any I wanted.

Don't think he realized he'd included "Big Apple Booties--Volume 2" in there as well. . . oh yuck dude, I don't want to know about your porn collection!!!

Think positive! It can now be the beginnings of your porn collection!

[LadySoth]

^ Nah, I find porn so ridiculous because of the bad acting, it really makes me laugh. I remember one summer, going to visit my grandma, she had pay per view cable, and we had a pretty serious argument, and I was really pissed off, so for fun I downloaded a bunch of adult movies to her DVR. It was a pretty wicked thing to do, and she must have had a horror check when she got her cable bill that month, but funny enough, she never mentioned it.

[HuManBing]

Porn - the last bastion against copyright abuse

The first amendment protects freedom of speech, especially in cases of parody. This has led to the odd situation where Lucasfilms can shut down fan films using his characters and plots, but cannot really do much about porn films that do something similar. The main difference is scale - the average Star Wars fan doesn't have the money to fight a spurious copyright infringement lawsuit from Lucasfilms. But Vivid Entertainment has much deeper pockets and is far more likely to follow up in court.

The adult film version of Star Wars by Axel Braun actually has a few choice moments that show surprising familiarity with the subject matter.

Luke: How did my father die?
Obi-wan: A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until I... cut his arms and legs off and left him to die in a pool of lava... (Retrospective pause)
Luke (timidly): ...I think I wanna go home now...

[Zilfer]

lol, I find a lot of people are more aware of star wars general plot, then just 'nerds'/'geeks'. I'm the person who knows maybe a little bit more star wars than he needs to. xD

[High Priest Mikhal]

I think Diz-knee having the full rights and licenses to the Star Wars franchise is horrifying enough. My friend, who is one of those uber-fans of Star Wars, nearly had a stroke when he found out. He got a job at 14 at a local Taco Time to support his fan-atacism; he makes me look like a dabbler in my only hobby.

[Zilfer]

I think Diz-knee having the full rights and licenses to the Star Wars franchise is horrifying enough. My friend, who is one of those uber-fans of Star Wars, nearly had a stroke when he found out. He got a job at 14 at a local Taco Time to support his fan-atacism; he makes me look like a dabbler in my only hobby.

I'm actually not that fearful of that happening. I'm glad they are moving forward to making more movies. Should be good, They made Pirates right? Those were pretty good, so they won't be horrible in my opinion.