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MetalSlimeHunt

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3945 on: April 25, 2013, 07:50:27 pm »

Told my roommate, he's just as freaked out as I am that we may have come close to horrible refreshing death.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3946 on: April 25, 2013, 07:53:34 pm »

You have something in common with your roommate? Could it be that you're...bonding?
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3947 on: April 25, 2013, 09:04:54 pm »

So earlier today I had a little bit of a nervous breakdown, which has me completely freaked out since I'm the first person I personally know to have anything like this happen (my entire family is some of the most psychologically stable people that I know of). I ended up spending about 30-45 minutes in the corner of my bedroom shaking uncontrollably, complete with difficulty breathing, my hands cramping into fists (I literally could not open them), and paresthesia (pins&needles) all over my face and arms. I was only able to break out of it with the breathing exercises that I learned as a musician, and I have no doubt that if I was any less of a person I would probably still be there right now.

Basically the main stress is my scholarship/GPA interaction. I just found out a few weeks ago that my current GPA is 2.97, but the scholarship that gives me free tuition needs a 3.0 to be refreshed. With my current class grades I should barely scrape by the cutoff but it all depends on how well I do on my finals (which are the week after next). Quite a few of my class grades depend heavily on doing "good" on the final (not "average"; "good", preferably "very good"). And since I've always had a problem forcing myself to do "busy work" that teachers give out when I already understand the concepts, many of my classes have very small safety nets for me to land in if I mess up.

As you can imagine I'm pretty stressed out about this, especially since I get along great with my parents and really don't want to have to go to them and say "Yeah I just cost you guys $20,000 through my inability to force myself to do 'busy work'." (Doubly so since right now they are also the ones paying for my housing, food, and gas. My usual comeback when my mom mentions this is that I'm saving them $10,000 a year with the scholarship.) Right now I'm studying all I can to do well and grasping every bit of extra credit I can find, but it still has me really terrified that I'm stressed enough to breakdown like that in the first place.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3948 on: April 25, 2013, 10:18:13 pm »

You have something in common with your roommate? Could it be that you're...bonding?
Bonding over the prospects of potentially being killed by a can of shaving cream is better than no bonding, certainly.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3949 on: April 25, 2013, 10:28:57 pm »

Shaving cream has a lot of water, right?

You might say they're...

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3950 on: April 25, 2013, 10:35:58 pm »

Shaving cream has a lot of water, right?

You might say they're...

Hydrogen Bonding.

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3951 on: April 25, 2013, 10:37:58 pm »

So I had a can of shaving cream that depressurized and had all the contents leak out some time ago. I just looked at the can again, and for the first time I noticed that the front of it has an explosive fragmentation warning on it.

My grandmother has one of the little beads from an old spraypaint can lodged in her chest, right next to a major artery. pressurized containers aren't a joke.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3952 on: April 25, 2013, 10:38:24 pm »

Who knew shaving cream could be so flammable?!

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3953 on: April 26, 2013, 08:31:30 pm »

They aren't really scary (referring to Jef and Dog) because ultimately one's a serial killer who can thus be incapacitated and one's a wannabe Freddy Kreuger.

I was referring more simply to the images. The stories about them aren't threatening at all, but seeing those images late at night and unexpectedly can still flip me out. Even when I'm expecting to see it I get chills. dunno why, I guess it's just uncanny valley.

Also, death by explosive shaving is one of the odder ways to go. Never heard of that before.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3954 on: April 27, 2013, 08:38:42 am »

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3955 on: April 28, 2013, 08:05:11 pm »

After doing so well in most of the coding and other reverse engineering sections of a CTF comptetition I'm participating in, even with my severely limited experience, I just tried a puzzle titled 'More Evil.'  It's not in Python or Java, like most of the puzzles, and all the hint says is '"Download IDA and stare at it for a few hours.  There are no shortcuts"
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3956 on: April 30, 2013, 11:18:44 pm »

Got junk mail today. Included was some pamphlet for 'An introduction to Gnosis: Knowledge of the inner being through direct mystical experience!'
Ok, crazy people selling crazy shit to crazy people. Except aparently it is for a free ten week introductory course. Just enough time to brain wash somebody.

Fuck, I'm living near cultists. Worse still, cultists from something I have never heard of before, they could be the fringe cultists who are too crazy for all the other cultists! Next thing they will be picketing the hospital claiming that drugs murder your soul.

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3957 on: April 30, 2013, 11:20:02 pm »

Reading skinwalker creepypasta in the middle of the night was not my wisest move.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3958 on: April 30, 2013, 11:21:03 pm »

The low quality of cultists depresses me...

Where do Cthulu and blood sacrifice go?
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #3959 on: April 30, 2013, 11:22:15 pm »

Got junk mail today. Included was some pamphlet for 'An introduction to Gnosis: Knowledge of the inner being through direct mystical experience!'
Ok, crazy people selling crazy shit to crazy people. Except aparently it is for a free ten week introductory course. Just enough time to brain wash somebody.

Fuck, I'm living near cultists. Worse still, cultists from something I have never heard of before, they could be the fringe cultists who are too crazy for all the other cultists! Next thing they will be picketing the hospital claiming that drugs murder your soul.
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