Merry Christmas, tilderinos
Hope everyone has a happy holiday!
Hope everyone has a happy holiday!
Hey guys,
The whole idea of this website reminds me a lot of the forums I used to spend hours on as a kid, when those websites were just a place for people to talk about stuff and that was it, and that made me wonder, what was YOUR experience of that same era ?
Can't wait to hear your stories :)
I'm shamelessly stealing this from a reddit thread, but omitting the "Christmas" part to avoid excluding people who don't celebrate Christmas.
Another country, another city, another street, another building, another room, another chair... temporarily or permanently; where would you like to be ATM?
Every couple of days or once per week in those moments where you automatically think of and attempt to plan for the future, how far ahead are you thinking, and what about?
Who would you share it with? The world, your friends, no one? Would you create an elaborate puzzle and only tell the winners?
Where do you live and how do you feel about it? What are the best and worst parts?
Hello everybody! As the Americans here are probably aware, this week is our holiday for Thanksgiving. One of the traditional parts of the holiday (at least as I've always practiced it) is everybody writing a list of the things they're thankful for in their life and over the past year. Especially since this is our first Thanksgiving together since Tildes was founded, I was wondering if you'd like to contribute such a list. :)
When running up the stairs in my house, I run as if I'm a four-legged monkey.
For those who've not heard of it, the scp wiki is a community-based collaborative writing effort based around "anomalous" objects/beings and the efforts of the SCP Foundation to contain them and protect the general public. Users can submit and vote on articles about SCPs, written in the style of research/containment notes. Some popular entries are SCP-173, SCP-87 and SCP-682, alongside a few more abstract and lighter entries.
Anyone want to share some SCP entries they've enjoyed reading? SCP-3515 is the most recent I've read and I'd definitely recommend it.
We've all got our interests and things we spend a lot of time thinking about, but often they require either an external or internal catalyst to spark a comment or a post in and of itself.
What would you like to talk about? What interests or preoccupies you? What do you think is neat, or terrible?
I just got done with taking a nap in a laundry basket, which obviously served as a precursor to this post. A bit of weirdness every once in a while spices life up, don't you think?
Any plans?
Reading, watching, playing, tinkering. Do you still go out or do you stay home? Do you brew a hot drink or make a sandwhich for yourself?
I'm nearsighted and I have a -1.25 rx. I don't need to wear them all the time, but I love it when everything is well defined.
thought it would be interesting to hear some of your guys' habits in day to day life.
feel free to answer only one of the questions if you feel uncomfortable or anything :)
these are mine:
the good habit is definitely walking for 20 minutes every day.
and the bad one is not sleeping enough.
This can be anything, I'll accept "relaxing in front of the TV with a drink" as an answer.
Personally I've grown fond of Wednesdays, because that's when I sometimes get me a sandwich from my favorite place, and Sundays because that's when I often go to play board-games with some old friends.
Do you have something you look forward to in your week? Or maybe some advice for people who are looking for something to look forward to?
Today I stumbled upon a pdf of Peter Arnell's redesign of the Pepsi logo, touted by a person on twitter as "the height of human bullshit". And it reminded me of the time I worked at a small start-up company, where these kinds of overblown but substantially empty ideas were common currency.
So I'm wondering: do any of you have any funny or interesting stories of encounters with these kinds of things.
hey everyone! found this interesting post on /r/6perks, and i wanted to share it here and see what ideas get shared.
You wake up in a chemist's lab. In front of you is a table with 10 different-coloured pills. You may only choose 3. A warning label notifies you that taking more than 3 will cause instant combustion.
Which do you choose, and why?
🔵 Future Pill 🔵
You can see 10 years into the future or any time sooner, whenever you want. You can see any part of the world.
🔴 Xray Pill 🔴
You gain the ability to see through anything as far as you can normally see. Works at any layer.
🔸 Fly Pill 🔸
You can fly. You start at a slow speed and require time to speed up to a maximum of 100mph (161kph). You are not immune to low oxygen or harsh temperatures.
🌿 Drug Pill 🌿
You gain the ability to automatically be affected by any drug that exists as much as you want, no bad side effects.
❤ Sex Appeal Pill ❤
Anyone you want is instantly attracted to you, you are cured of and immune to STD's. Anyone who you "do" also becomes immune, and son on. Cure the world?
💠 Disease Immune Pill 💠
Gives you the ability to become immune to all harmful diseases.
💰 Money Pill 💰
You don't become rich, nor have infinite money, but it's like you do. Every time you want to do or have something, your bank account/wallet has exactly as much money as you need.
💮 Wish Pill 💮
Gives you the ability to wish for one of two things: any existing object to be teleported in front of you, or for you to be teleported wherever you want. Can only be used once a week. You get a free return ticket if you teleported somewhere. You cannot wish for other pills.
♠️ Death Pill ♠️
Gives you the ability to have any person of your choice killed, with no risk of consequence. Can only be used once every 5 weeks.
🌟 Painproof Pill 🌟
You are tougher than Wolverine after drinking green tea or eating spinach. You can still get hurt but you have Olympian-like physique, the skills of the greatest martial artists in the world, you are twice as fast, and your wounds regenerate very quickly.
I freaking love Halloween. The costumes, the candy, the temperature, the pumpkins, and the whole aesthetic. I'm just testing the waters here to see how everyone else here feels about it and what ya'lls plans are.
EDIT: haha, while my title is technically correct I meant "best" holiday, not next
How's it going?
I feel like I don't ask enough people that question.
In the replies to this post, just put down whatever's on your mind. We can have a convo or I can just look at some words and think "Wow, so this is the life of another guy?"
Hello dear people,
This post was inspired by @wise's post "What are the sounds of your people"
But I'd like to hear you describe the scent, aroma, fragrance, or any kind of smell that you associate with yours. Maybe there's some overlap with ~food, but it's not just limited to foods and drinks. I think pretty much anything deep in our memories might be tied to the impressions of scents. Maybe it's the soil after night rain, the interior of a car, the book aroma of a library, or a pet, a person... let me know.
I'll be posting mine as a comment.
you head to the gas station to catch a 6-pack and maybe a bag of chips or some rillos. you pass the cashier a twenty, and they mention your change will get you a couple lottery tickets. you're in a good mood and we all hate coins, so you just tell 'em you're down and to choose random numbers.
a week later, you wake up and see the winning lottery numbers on the news.
hopeful curiosity turns into a flooring disbelief as you pause the tv and check the numbers four times over.
you scramble to find and unlock your phone, heading straight to google.
"winning lottery numbers"
"how to tell if you won the lottery"
"lottery number checker"
everything checks out.
"how to claim lottery winnings"
you go to claim your prize, and you can choose between $130,000,000 in post-tax cash now, or $210,000,000 spread equally over the next 30 years.
which do you choose? what do you do with it?
If the cookies never stop being produced, then it is logical to assume that, if unchecked, uneaten cookies will eventually choke the earth, leaving us uninhabitable. What is your plan, and how long do you think we'll last in this cookie apocalypse?
As for some general rules, the machine is impossible to break, and it can inexplicably produce cookies infinitely without having to refill on ingredients.
I'm going to be a little bit more broad on my response. It wasn't a matter of just a one-time thing or action, but a philosophy. I have a personal rule of mine to change something major about myself at least once a year, and that could range from a job or to taking up a new hobby.
Since taking up on this idea, this thought, I've felt better as I can see changes happening, and looking back from exactly a year ago to the date there's a lot to be impressed by. By following this new tradition I feel better as I can see constant improvement, and self-motivation to adapt, and evolve as a person.
What was the best change you ever made in your life?
Hi all!
I'm new to Tildes and thought it'd be a great idea to get to know the other Tildes users.
Just post something about yourself. Maybe where you're from, what you do for a living, a hobby you have, anything!
Sorry if this is a bit off-beat from the usual discussion here, but I really want to hear any jokes that y'all have, just for fun.
I've never broken a bone! I've probably had minor fractures before and played it off when stubbing my toe for example, but as far as I know, I've never broken a bone.
Tildes, tildites, tilidians? What is something you've never done?
I'm not sure how often this will be necessary, but figured I'd give it a try a few times a week for now. Share a story, ask a question, or start a conversation about (almost) anything you want.
Something that I believe others would find to be a negative trait or personality is a person with a sense of dark and morbid humour. I tend to use dark humour a lot more than I should and sometimes have to be pretty careful around who I say it. Having friends who can take in jest with the things I say without any repercussions is great, otherwise they wouldn't last that long as friends!
What do you consider a negative trait, quality, factor, and that you find attractive?
I went to Iowa for over a month. Visiting family and such. How about you?
How was your day? Any interesting stories? Any cool observations?
What did you recently do (or maybe not recent but still memorable) to go out of your comfort zone and actually have it work out in the end?
Just got in a huge argument with my aunts and uncles who are engineers (I am as well) who don't believe climate change is real. Or as my chemical engineering aunt and my emissions engineering aunt put it "I don't believe carbon dioxide is a pollutant"
What are your guys family gathering stories?
We're finishing up the graduation season which has me thinking about some of the impactful teachers in my life. Who's someone that made a big impact on you? What lessons did they teach you or passions did they instill?
I'm curious to hear about my fellow tilderadans' talents and skills.
Hey I'm @vikinick. On Reddit I'm /u/vikinick and mod several subreddits. What about you guys?
Hi everyone! I'm @Vibe aka /u/drkgodess on Reddit where I mod a couple of small subs. The original Introductions thread got kind of long so I'm starting a new one. What brings you to ~ ?
Based on what I saw, and that user's follow up post, it doesn't seem like jokes are an unwelcome idea per se, but rather the goal is to promote discussion over low effort meme posts and one liners (I wholly support this), so shall tildes, tell me some of your favorite jokes! Dad jokes, mom jokes, dark (not racist) jokes, long and short form, what are your favorites? I prefer darker humor myself, but I'm not sure what's appropriate quite yet as far as this community is concerned...
It would be nice to get to know you guys more, so pray do tell, what have you been up today?
Hey I'm @Ten and I'm an... oh wait, wrong forum.
Anyways I've already introduced myself before but I wanted to start a new one so all of the new people can get in and feel welcome.
I'm Ten, formerly /u/TheLetter10 and other accounts for ~8 years on Reddit. I'm 34, am disabled, trans and really messed up. I was interested in ~Tildes because I miss the early days of Reddit before it got really bogged down by memes and poor "Reddit Policy". I stream on Twitch under (original name) theletterten and can usually be found around the whole internet under that or variation of that. I have so far invited three really cool people to Tildes and I can't wait to meet more of you <3
Also shoutout to my good friend @icecapman10
Edit June 3rd, 151am: I have read every single comment so far and I love the different types of people we've got here! Love them!
I saw that the 2nd thread by @vibe was dying so I decided to post a new one.
Howdy, my name is Odin, or /u/alibyte. I go by alibyte on absolutely everything (except here). I moved here because I was sick of the blatant political bias on Reddit and the massive echo chamber it became. I'm looking forward to the future of this place :)