The display being at a higher resolution doesnt help either. Running retro games on my fancy flatscreen hi-def massive TV makes them look and feel so much worse than on the smaller fuzzy CRT screens of the time.

I can’t stand modern games with lower frame rates. I had to give up on Avowed and a few other late titles on the series S because it makes me feel sick when turning the camera. I assume most of the later titles on xbox will be doing this as theyre starting to push what the systems are capable of and the series S can’t really cope as well.

How could the dictionary be biased? Genuine question i promise im not piling on in bad faith or anything

I don’t think so, but maybe in the extremes. There’s some people with such low IQ they have difficulty following cooking instructions on a microwave meal. It might be possible to have such limited capacity that they’re immune to depression.

Yeah i can see wanting to do it of your own volition, my brother went the same way, but having one parent ask that of you is something else.

The Internet doesnt remember that one very spicy video you found

YMMV there, a lot (like a disturbing amount) of sleep paralysis sufferers report a hag coming to sit on their chest making breathing hard. I’ve never met her and I’m so glad I didn’t.

Maybe it’s a thing that only certain people do, like rolling your tongue. Looking at a bright light doesnt make me sneeze, and until just now I thought it was just an old wives tale, like remedies for curing hiccups. Doesn’t work but widely believed.

Its secure enough for the average person. If your friend was a big deal, super rich or powerful and a massive target it would be easy enough to figure out.

I doubt it would be worthwhile trying to crack that particular code for the average joe.

In my experience you can still control your breathing. I like to try breathing morse code as loud as I can. It makes me feel a little better that Im doing all I can, even if it’s next to nothing.

Recurring theme, hard to pick the scariest, but there’s a shape-shifter after me, like the liquid terminator or something. I know what it is, it thinks I know but might not be able to catch me. It tries to get close to me while I try to get away without letting on that I know. Really socially tense and my life is on the line.

Scariest one was the first time I remember having it. My dad took the dog for a big walk and drove off in the car. A couple minutes later my dad walks in the house without a car, staring eye contact at me, absolutely neutral expression, and walking slowly towards me. I ask where the dog is and he doesnt even respond, just walks back out the room and reappears immediately with the dog on the lead, also staring at me. I don’t remember how that one ends, but they got more convoluted and cat-and-mousey after that. Sometimes I got away and sometimes it caught me and stabbed me up.

Now any time anyone starts acting strange around me I always pinch my nose to see if im dreaming. I haven’t had that dream for about 15 years but it sticks with me.

Would-be assassin’s have realised he’s protected by a supernatural force and it’s not a good idea to get on the wrong side of such things.

Does Superbad count?

Its in no way a romance, but the entire adventure is fuelled by the quest to get laid.

I badly bruised (i still insist broke but the xray said otherwise) my foot by dropping a 20kg block of frozen chicken on it. Explained to the nurse i dropped a block of frozen chicken on it, forgetting that she didn’t have the context of the meat factory, and she gave me such a withering look of “what a pussy” and walked off before i could finish explaining.

Was limping for about a year…

I want to live in the timeline where a super-scientist gets sick of the attack helicopter meme and makes “attack helicopter reassignment surgery” possible and available.

Despairing that i haven’t even used it wisely to catch up on housework

If we’re including video games im gonna say mass effect. I didn’t give 2 enough of a chance because at the end of ME1 the entire known universe bands together to defeat a single big-bad ship and it’s a fully annihilating battle where the good guys barely scrape by. Then thousands of the big-bads turn up at once and the credits roll. Its a devastating ending that really drives home the central themes.

Then in ME2 your guy(orgirl) just wakes up in hospital after the battle? No chance. I just couldn’t get past it long enough to give it a chance. I still have them and I know I should but…

Season 1 of Once Upon A Time. Its OK afterwards, but an awful lot of what made the show good was wondering whether it was real or if the kids a mad fantasist. Afterwards it’s watchable but it’s different.

Its already started. Remember the “you get arrested just for posting on Facebook now” business?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ej8zp4971o

I don’t want my activities traced back to me, but given how fucky the world has become since Internet went mainstream I’d be willing to give that up.

That’s why I particularly hate active bigots. Like dude shut up I love free speech, keep this shit up and you’ll ruin it for the rest of us.

You may still be depending on how the story is spun, but you shouldn’t be. Hate crimes are motivated by the prejudice