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Bouchart

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #43635 on: February 01, 2014, 10:59:26 pm »

Wasn't Pieman in Megaman 4?
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« Reply #43636 on: February 01, 2014, 11:52:00 pm »

So brain orgasms is a thing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_response

It's more surprising that, apparently, tons of unfortunate people DON'T experience this. Same with other weird sensory reactions like Photic Sneeze Reflex.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #43637 on: February 02, 2014, 12:04:47 am »

So brain orgasms is a thing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_response

It's more surprising that, apparently, tons of unfortunate people DON'T experience this. Same with other weird sensory reactions like Photic Sneeze Reflex.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #43638 on: February 02, 2014, 12:17:57 am »

I think I've said this before, but I think I experience something like that. That said, whatever I experience is something that it seems bizarre to think of as sexual, I doubt it has any significant effects beyond the immediate sensation, and I think that ASMR seems to be a phrase made to sound scientific and therefore legitimate more than to be a good descriptor. So, uh, yeah, I dunno really. Damned relaxing tingle, though.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #43639 on: February 02, 2014, 12:20:21 am »

Pretty sure it has nothing to do with sexuality. Brain orgasms was just too good not to type.
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« Reply #43640 on: February 02, 2014, 12:20:56 am »

For me, it's a pleasant tingle in my head. However, my short attention span means that I'll switch to reading something or playing a game within a minute or two.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #43641 on: February 02, 2014, 12:24:12 am »

It honestly just sounds like being high.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #43642 on: February 02, 2014, 12:36:06 am »

It makes a good background thing while doing other relaxing things, like sorting things or something.
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In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.
“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #43643 on: February 02, 2014, 12:59:14 am »

Never been high, but from how I've had it described to me it's a distinctly different sensation from that ASMR thingy, which is something I picked up the trick of consciously inducing... over a decade ago? It's good stuff. Music can make it easier, but it's mostly a breathing and concentration thing. Can get it to go pretty much full body with a little effort... s'kinda' like a very pervasive static charge, really.

Relatively certain the phenomena is at least partially responsible for some (a lot?) of the work behind chakra theory. Sensation's a little too close to some of the described physical aspects of that stuff to be a coincidence, imo.
« Last Edit: February 02, 2014, 01:08:23 am by Frumple »
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #43644 on: February 02, 2014, 01:59:17 am »

Spoiler: Possible NFSW (click to show/hide)
« Last Edit: February 02, 2014, 12:22:53 pm by Iceblaster »
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #43645 on: February 02, 2014, 04:55:46 am »

So I looked at a pony dating simulator and surprising enough it was less smut and more taking the piss(correct figure of speech?) out of the dating sim genre :P

And also it ends in stickman sex.
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« Reply #43646 on: February 02, 2014, 05:29:57 am »

As funny as that is, you may want to throw it in a spoiler tag or something.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #43648 on: February 02, 2014, 09:40:49 am »

Equally weird things have happened in the US. Ever heard of the Governator?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #43649 on: February 02, 2014, 10:45:37 am »

Equally weird things have happened in the US. Ever heard of the Governator?
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