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Follow These Instructions: Childhood Brain Modification

Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
edited June 2011 in Social Entropy++
Hey guys! Friday night, huh? Right? Right.

Maybe in between your posts you get a little bored (haha, holler to the jailed crowd! Sorry bout those infranctoins :/)

The good news is that you probably haven't tried Childhood Brain Modification.

What? I didn't-

Childhood Brain Modification

Questions? Some frequently asked ones are:

1) What is the summary paragraph from this page?

A:
ATTENTION ALL GROWNUPS. Your "inner child" has long been waiting for a chance to usurp control of your body and force it to perform certain actions. The time is now at hand. Read and follow the instructions below. Do this now.

2) Epigraph?

A:
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity." - T. H. Huxley

3) Examples?

A:
Tube of Boob
Tune your TV to a blank station and adjust it for good "snow". Stare into the snow. Imagine the number "3", and it will appear as a 3-shaped flickering. But then it will start to slowly rotate. Mentally erase the 3, then imagine a horizontal line. It appears, but it won't stay still, it wants to drift and rotate. Make it shrink and vanish. Keep staring, and soon the snow will smoothly ripple, as if you were looking through the distorting water of complicated waves in a swimming pool. Think of more stuff to create mentally. View the "snow" with one eye covered with dark sunglasses. Who says that watching TV for hours isn't worthwhile?!
Make your 'self' vanish
As a child, while all alone, pretend that you are not who you think you are, but that you have suddenly woken up in this human body, and your memories of your whole entire life have just been placed in your head. Your real memories of your "real" life are gone. Your mom and dad are not your real parents, they are the parents of the child you've just been forced to occupy. You know you were just somewhere else a moment ago, but now you are here on this "Earth" thing, and you don't know how to escape and go back to your real home!

When done right, the shivers and black sparklies encroach, and you feel like you are nearing a precipice in the darkness. EEWWWWWW!
PENNY CYCLOTRON ACCELERATOR
I had a big potato-chip bowl. I had a penny. After some practice I could fling the penny along the inside surface so it would run around about seven times before hitting bottom. (If this is too difficult, then first practice with a marble or ball-bearing) Then I realized, OF COURSE! AH HAAAAAAA, YES! WE CAN CREATE *INFINITE COIN VELOCITY* by swirling the bowl along the table as the penny rolls. Pump the penny each time it passes. Yep, it works, and the sound-effects are notable, but the penny climbs to the top edge of the bowl then flys outwards in a random direction. Observe, Eegore, for if we wish to attain a coin velocity which approaches the Relativistic, we cannot use a snack bowl which is at all cone-shaped.

This is a good starting point, butt

do you guys have any Cool Party Tricks? Neat Talents? A little......latent psychically leftover from the tribal age? Maybe a really good impression? Things that you, the last member of your bloodline, hold alone in this big world?

Share!

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  • NiryaNirya Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    This is not a friendship thread at all.

    Nirya on
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  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    it could be one

    you are very...handsome

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    I do some voices
    they make people laugh

    Tam on
  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    I'm incredibly confused.

    Yep, it's a Shank post.

    facetious on
    "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
    Real strong, facetious.

    Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
  • George Fornby GrillGeorge Fornby Grill ...Like Clockwork Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    party trick: stand awkwardly with group I arrived with

    dance awkwardly to music if music present

    There are people who can attest to this.

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  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Tam wrote: »
    I do some voices
    they make people laugh

    please put every one of them on youtube so that I can laugh

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    I am interested in the tube of boob

    AMP'd on
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • NiryaNirya Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    I like making people think I'm interesting.

    Nirya on
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  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    I'm trying to learn the banjo and I can do a really good impression of Shaggy from Scooby Doo

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  • UlisesUlises Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    i can do a perfect walk cycle for all of scooby and the gang

    and i guess i make incredibly crude and insulting caricatures of people

    Ulises on
  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2011
    At this point, what is the game saying rhetorically with its procedural ruleset? Given the previous games in the series, which revolve around the acrobatic traversal of a labyrinth within a time limit in order to save a princess, it seems that the protagonist is firmly fixed in the role of retributive hero, who must track down the vizier in order to kill him.

    Orikaeshigitae on
  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    what the hell is going on in here

    TrippyJing on
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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Tam wrote: »
    I do some voices
    they make people laugh

    please put every one of them on youtube so that I can laugh

    too afraid of failure/negative judgement
    I might need to be plied with alcohol to get them to emerge
    I like the old Eastern European Jewish Man
    The old New York Jewish Man
    and the eternally bored campy German
    various Southerners
    various cartoon type voices

    Tam on
  • YukiraYukira Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Takin' notes.

    Yukira on
  • MarthMarth Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Someday I'll make the Sad Schaub face whenever I want. And that will be my weird talent.

    Marth on
    Steam PSN LoL: SadSchaub Battle.net: SadSchaub#1357
  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    At this point, what is the game saying rhetorically with its procedural ruleset? Given the previous games in the series, which revolve around the acrobatic traversal of a labyrinth within a time limit in order to save a princess, it seems that the protagonist is firmly fixed in the role of retributive hero, who must track down the vizier in order to kill him.

    I'm pretending bowser is a vizier for this to fit into a preexisting schema

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Yukira wrote: »
    Takin' notes.

    it woulda worked if you hadn't posted this
    but now I'm gonna be on guard

    Tam on
  • nealcmnealcm Alvarian AlvarianRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    am i a friend

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    I really don't know what to make of this website

    on the one hand, half of these seem like the ravings of a sperged out man

    on the other hand, a bunch of these are real things you can do

    so I'll leave you with this: close your eyes and rub on your eyelids, applying pressure on your eyes, but not enough to hurt. watch patterns emerge in the phosphenes.

    AMP'd on
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
  • SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    I'm really good at standing far enough away from a group of people none of them think I'm in their group and people outside the group think I am.

    On a less facetious note, I can lock one of my fingers in at a 90 degree angle then get people to flick it and it bounces around like rubber.

    SLyM on
    My friend is working on a roguelike game you can play if you want to. (It has free demo)
  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    AMP'd wrote: »
    I really don't know what to make of this website

    on the one hand, half of these seem like the ravings of a sperged out man

    on the other hand, a bunch of these are real things you can do

    so I'll leave you with this: close your eyes and rub on your eyelids, applying pressure on your eyes, but not enough to hurt. watch patterns emerge in the phosphenes.

    what are some of your favorites!
    LOBSTER BOY!
    Cross your fingers, and curl your middle finger around your index finger. Now grab your ring finger and curl it over the back of your curled middle finger. Do the same with your pinky. Your hand looks damaged. LOBSTER BOY!! Now do the same with the other hand too. LOBSTER BOY IS HERE TO TAKE AWAY THE BAD CHILDREN.

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    AMP'd wrote: »
    so I'll leave you with this: close your eyes and rub on your eyelids, applying pressure on your eyes, but not enough to hurt. watch patterns emerge in the phosphenes.

    do this all the time
    also look at the blue noon sky to see all the little swimmies

    Tam on
  • NiryaNirya Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    nealcm wrote: »
    am i a friend

    basically my only one.

    oh and everyone else except faynor.

    Nirya on
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  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    It's funny you should use that word.

    I too have that skill.

    facetious on
    "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
    Real strong, facetious.

    Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
  • George Fornby GrillGeorge Fornby Grill ...Like Clockwork Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    AMP'd wrote: »
    I really don't know what to make of this website

    on the one hand, half of these seem like the ravings of a sperged out man

    on the other hand, a bunch of these are real things you can do

    so I'll leave you with this: close your eyes and rub on your eyelids, applying pressure on your eyes, but not enough to hurt. watch patterns emerge in the phosphenes.

    what are some of your favorites!
    LOBSTER BOY!
    Cross your fingers, and curl your middle finger around your index finger. Now grab your ring finger and curl it over the back of your curled middle finger. Do the same with your pinky. Your hand looks damaged. LOBSTER BOY!! Now do the same with the other hand too. LOBSTER BOY IS HERE TO TAKE AWAY THE BAD CHILDREN.

    I used to do this when I was bored/didn't have a pen to play with in class and now I cant stop laughing because it DOES look like a lobster claw ahhhhh

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Tam wrote: »
    AMP'd wrote: »
    so I'll leave you with this: close your eyes and rub on your eyelids, applying pressure on your eyes, but not enough to hurt. watch patterns emerge in the phosphenes.

    do this all the time
    also look at the blue noon sky to see all the little swimmies

    I have hella floaters

    I can also see a little phosphene that's a collection of tiny orange dots, and it floats around.

    I was really good at seeing it everywhere when I was little, but now I have to look at the dark, specifically

    t charles:
    Make your 'self' vanish
    As a child, while all alone, pretend that you are not who you think you are, but that you have suddenly woken up in this human body, and your memories of your whole entire life have just been placed in your head. Your real memories of your "real" life are gone. Your mom and dad are not your real parents, they are the parents of the child you've just been forced to occupy. You know you were just somewhere else a moment ago, but now you are here on this "Earth" thing, and you don't know how to escape and go back to your real home!

    When done right, the shivers and black sparklies encroach, and you feel like you are nearing a precipice in the darkness. EEWWWWWW!

    pretty sure one of these is just "what if the blue you see, and the blue I see are different, but we've both been taught to call it blue"

    AMP'd on
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    I see lots of things
    squares
    thousands of blue dots
    many different other patterns that are hard to describe

    so when I look at the blue sky, it turns out the swimmies are leukocytes
    so that's kinda cool

    Tam on
  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    AMP'd wrote: »
    Tam wrote: »
    AMP'd wrote: »
    so I'll leave you with this: close your eyes and rub on your eyelids, applying pressure on your eyes, but not enough to hurt. watch patterns emerge in the phosphenes.

    do this all the time
    also look at the blue noon sky to see all the little swimmies

    I have hella floaters

    I can also see a little phosphene that's a collection of tiny orange dots, and it floats around.

    I was really good at seeing it everywhere when I was little, but now I have to look at the dark, specifically

    t charles:
    Make your 'self' vanish
    As a child, while all alone, pretend that you are not who you think you are, but that you have suddenly woken up in this human body, and your memories of your whole entire life have just been placed in your head. Your real memories of your "real" life are gone. Your mom and dad are not your real parents, they are the parents of the child you've just been forced to occupy. You know you were just somewhere else a moment ago, but now you are here on this "Earth" thing, and you don't know how to escape and go back to your real home!

    When done right, the shivers and black sparklies encroach, and you feel like you are nearing a precipice in the darkness. EEWWWWWW!

    pretty sure one of these is just "what if the blue you see, and the blue I see are different, but we've both been taught to call it blue"

    I like his attitude to this one a lot

    like the complete breakdown of one's identity and the entire basis for one's reality should be treated as one would a really big caterpillar

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  • YukiraYukira Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Tam wrote: »
    Yukira wrote: »
    Takin' notes.

    it woulda worked if you hadn't posted this
    but now I'm gonna be on guard

    It will drop.

    Yukira on
  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    smh, son.

    Clint Eastwood on
  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    smd

    so that I don't get spotting on my briefs

    Charles Kinbote on
  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    soj

    sippin

    on

    jack

    Clint Eastwood on
  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    sogaj

    facetious on
    "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
    Real strong, facetious.

    Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Longer Seeing
    Modify your perceptions with physics rather than psychopharmacology: put an infrared filter in some welding goggles, then wear them outdoors on a bright, sunny day. (Choose a filter that is in the near-IR, so a bit of light is visible still. Or try theatrical gels, congo blue combined with primary red, several of each.) The world will become EXTREMELY BIZARRE. Wait a couple of minutes until your eyes grow accustomed to the darkness. Then the bright pink clouds drift in the dark sky above the frosty white trees. The world is dusk, yet the sun still shines. Car tail-lights blaze brightly. The houses and roads are dark. But the grass! The trees! They are frosty blazing red, like snow which has been sprayed with cherry Kool-aid powder. Everyone's clothes are altered. Blue-jeans are almost white. Some black clothing turns light grey. The artwork of T-shirts is almost invisible, and everyone's hair is grey. (New: see the article.)

    I've heard that some types of clothing are transparent to the infrared, so stagger on down to the beach and verify if this is so. "Mister, why are you wearing those goggles?"

    EXTREMELY BIZZARE

    AMP'd on
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    facetious wrote: »
    sogaj

    wmmomm

    ammomm

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  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Thank you.

    facetious on
    "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
    Real strong, facetious.

    Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    three good ones in a row
    The journey starts with a step
    Smoothly and rapidly walk down stairs while skipping alternate steps. (It requires some practice alone, but it's not that hard.) I started doing this in grade school where the "hall monitors" would call the teacher if they caught any kids skipping steps while going upstairs. So I started skipping steps going down. This confused them, and they had no rule to cover it.

    Triggered Creepout
    Are human bodies born with programmed instincts to avoid damage? Try this on yourself: take a sharp pointed object and make sudden stabbing motions toward your forearm. Not very creepy? Now stab towards your throat, or towards your fingertips (under nails.) Ewwww, a definite 'avoidance response.' Now, knowing what to look for, stab towards various body parts. (Or trigger your 'mirror neurons' by watching others perform stabbing on themselves.) Hmmm, my body objects to wrist or knee damage, but doesn't mind stabs to thighs, biceps, etc. I guess that makes sense: body somehow knows to use its arms to keep sharp broken branches away from its throat. It wants to avoid gut wounds, and is very protective about ear holes and eyes. OK, now get a big dirty rock and jerk it suddenly towards your groin, or towards your brittle delicate teeth!

    Neutralization
    At a large company party there are helium balloons as decorations. There are also vegetable horsdoeuvres. Tie a carrot or celery stick to a balloon. It must sink rapidly. Eat down the carrot slowly, while testing the buoyancy. When the balloon hovers or sink/rises very very slowly, you're done. Repeat with more balloons. Soon the room is filled with annoying density-neutral objects drifting around. They lose some helium and sink after many minutes, so bite each carrot to restore full nuisance value.

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    my mirror neurons triggered just reading that description.
    Dry your tongue!
    Get a clean cloth or paper towel. Stick out your tongue, then dry it thoroughly with the cloth. Keep sticking it out so it will air-dry a bit more. Now challenge your friends to feel your dry tongue surface. Weird and creepy. Grab the hands of an unsuspecting passersby, and force them up against your warm dry tongue.

    AMP'd on
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • facetiousfacetious a wit so dry it shits sandRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    That last one is brilliant. I need to find an opportunity to do that.

    Edit: at Shank's last post.

    facetious on
    "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
    Real strong, facetious.

    Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
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