Playin' those Miiind Gaaaames
Take a look at this guy's life. But be careful, not because you will catch his raging case of nutsy, but because you might waste your entire day studying Mr. Ulillillia. For you lazies, he his a kid who was addicted to video games, cut himself off, and now has a video game inside his head he plays. Called MINDGAME.
posted by ryanerik at
6:02 PM
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Kyle, you got a cyber-gnosis for me?
I'm thinking...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergers_Syndrome
"AS is characterized by:
* Limited interests or preoccupation with a subject to the exclusion of other activities;
* Repetitive behaviors or rituals;
* Peculiarities in speech and language;
* Socially and emotionally inappropriate behavior and interpersonal interaction"
"Go hunting, but rather than using weapons, use thunder spells to short circuit the target's brain. After all, spells have perfect hitting accuracy if and only if you know how to use spells well enough and are at a long enough range for full effectiveness. Then, after I finish, I cast a life-cure spell on everything. Talk about a high chance of getting struck by lightning! There's a one in one chance ya know [unless the spell fails for some reason]!"
wowza
hahahahhahhahhahahahahahhahahahahahfuuuuck
I made zero progress at work today because of this site.
zero
Progress is born of dreams.
Then again...
Talk about a high chance of getting struck by lightning!
Tatoo under Nedbot2000's LALIV model branding decals:
I cast a life-cure spell on everything.
After all, spells have perfect hitting accuracy
Do you guys think Lettery and Wordy are related?
Lettery and Imagy are related (five legs). Wordy and ABCD have the same mother but different fathers.
One of my favorite pages is the funny things this guy does in the mind games (3.1.1.10) - especially No.6. Sounds just beautiful.
[WARNING: some of these are VERY FUNNY!]
17. copying 4500 files on a 2.88 MB triangluar or hexagonal floppy disk [!?] created from a create spell.
Geeze, sure is a good thing he warned me, I nearly spit whiskey all over my keyboard!
I really like this guy tho. His mind is clearly off, but in a really sweet way, somehow. I hope internet jerks don't give this guy a hard time.
Look into his music habits. He listens to instrumental video game music, at edited speeds, on loop... over and over... he has listened to (what he calls) "Out Where the Lake Is." from the Bubsy Super-Nes game, ONE MILLION TIMES!
When it comes to music, I listen to the same song for hundreds of time in a row, even thousands. My all-time top favorite song, of which I call "Out Where the Lake Is", has been listened to a million times (anywhere from 0.9 to 1.2 million). A few other songs have 6-figure play counts and even more with 5-figures.
His FAQ asks how he can tolerate repeated listening of this stuff...
This I don't know the reason behind with absolute certainty, but I do have two theories. One of which is possibly that I have OCD, and another, possibly related to it, is that game music is always looping.
Hey buddy, I'm no doctor, but I'd say you probably have OCD. Also the guy sitting next to me at this Dunn Bros computer smells like he has a poop hanging-out between his butt-cheeks.
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I love this guy because he makes my secret life feel a little less lonely. I realized over the past couple years I constantly play "mind games" of my own while interacting with the everday world: I play connect the dots with corners on walls to the point I have specific rules like no double-sliding (along a wall between corners). So if there was a blank wall with one picture hanging on it there would be eight corners to hit with an entrance usually at the upper right of the wall-strike off to upper right of the picture, slide down to the lower right corner of the picture - go to the lower right corner of the wall - slide to the lower left corner of the wall - go to the lower left side of the picture - slied up to the upper left side - and go to the upper left corner and out to the next wall. I perform this while talking or performing any normal task and I've always tried to convince myself that it helps me think or gives me good physical-space sense/orienteering. But really I've always been frightened and doubtful of games like this.
Does anyone else have habits like this?
This supernatural mind games dude has tweaks my sweet strings.
not completely unrelated - but does anyone else experience night-tremors? can a scientist explain this to me and why I would experience myself lifting from my own body as a result of it?
I have experienced it night-tremors or kanashibari in Japanese, especially in the summer and it is a paralyzing sensation as if my whole body has fallen asleep (like a foot falling asleep). When I wake up (always in at night laying down) and I feel the night-tremor it is like standing at the edge of a void with the decision to fall in or force my body out.
Until a two years ago I was always far too scared to fall and so force my body out but in the summer of 2004 I advanced on the void and thus felt myself rise out of my body. Am I crazy? Do I have any support here? Should I just get more vitamins?
By the way - I fucking LOVED the Noozles. crazy mysterious powers involving Ayers Rock? Awesome.
I believe all of it.
I know Josh loves to talk about Kanashibari so let's see what he knows.
I sold all my mind games to FunCo Land by now, but favorites used to include every car or bus ride being accompanied by the guy from excite bike or a skateboarding Ninja Turtle keeping up with the vehicle and pulling radical tricks alongside us.
Otherwise whenever I see to objects or shapes that are next to each other, and on the same level, I need to magic eye style look through them so they join as one, or cross my eyes so they join. Works great for any repeating objects too, like railings or ceiling tiles.
Noozles were so good.
I guess what really made me think about the kanashibari or the mindgames that we seem to be talking about had more to do with the guy's fears than his brand of mindgames. The mirror fear and "person" and "people" fear especially. It reminds me of the wall of fear in kanashibaris.
Let's talk tremors, Josh.
Or koalas with time-space chalk - your call.
everyone plays mind games, most just don't know it.
When I bike to work, I'm a rocksatr, and the cars are my audience. The faster i peddle, the more groupies I get to make out with after the show.
I've heard of that one. I think it's called Masturbatory Delusions.
Ryan - I am still addicted to the excite bike ride along program. Although mine has a more skiing influence. I am always thinking when driving, "Could I clear that gap?" "Or rail slide arcoss the highway on the pedestrian bridge." The answer is always "of course" especially if I summon the anti-gravity spell.
This post is turning into a regular shamming cream - just look at all the comments!
Still waiting to hear back on the kanashibaris, though.
I never want this post to end.
Kanashibaris are for those who are weak of mind and spirit, my boy.
I am excite bike.
Your assessment stinks. Without a personal experience of a kanashibari you have no point of reference save that of a hopeless bystander. So keep watching and waiting hoping you will wake in the night to a special tingling of the body.
Only then will you know what it is to be a man.
Otherwise let the excitebike live on. I always take the opportunity of stop lights to perform mutiple tricks in the air sometimes casting off of power lines to gain points before taking off on the green.
i don't know, i've only experienced Kanashibari once in my life. It had me quite scurred. For the sake of clarity, i think what you mean is Sleep Paralysis.
That also happened to me in the summer, too, when I was working like a rat (in a cage despite all my rage), at Mount Rainier.
I dreamt that I was on some trail on the mountain, working at the bottom of a deep pit, and something trapped me in the pit and I felt paralyzed, and I'm pretty sure I couldn't breathe (only for 20 sec. or so).
I knew my eyes were open, but our shack at the bottom of the mountain was so dark that I couldn't see anything, though i felt fully concious. Then I snapped out of it, leapt out of bed across the room and grabbed at the blinds, because all i could see was a streetlight outside the window. My roommate woke up and asked me what the hell i was doing. It was pretty scary, and I am ashamed to admit my mental and spiritual weakness, but the next night I was a little afraid to fall asleep just cause I didn't want to feel what it was like to die again. But I fell asleep anyway cause I worked so goddam hard at that job.
Kanashibari is one of those things that a surprising amount of people I talked to in Japan knew about or had experienced.
Murakami, who I don't always like anymore, but he wrote some good things, wrote a story about it. Here's a snipple:
I remember with perfect clarity that first night I lost the ability to sleep. I was having a repulsive dream
- a dark, slimy dream. I do not remember what it was about, but I do remember how it felt: ominous and terrifying. I woke up at the climactic moment - came fully awake from the start, as if something had dragged me back at the last moment from a fatal turning point. Had I remained immersed in the dream for another second, I would have been lost forever. After I awoke, my breath came in painful grasps for a time. My arms and legs felt paralysed. I lay there immobilized, listening to my own laboured breathing, as if I were stretched out full-length on the floor of a huge cavern.
~ Murakami Haruki, Sleep
Jason, are your dreams ever 'slimy'?
No just wet. [zang!]
I've had sleep paralysis but it was always kinda fun.
yes my dreams have been both wet AND slimy - like a CrocodileMile left out in the rain for a week.
My kanashibaris are always frightening and prickly like being electrocuted or having my entire body fall asleep (as in, having a foot fall asleep). They shake me from sleeping and I stare into the darkness and freak out. Usually freaking out for an extended period of time results in physical movement and then I am out.
It usually happens at night when I am in the middle of sleep - but once it also happened at a friends house at around 9:30 AM (gucci's place). I lay on floor with my eyes wide open and watched him make breakfast and leave for work.
When I was a little kid I thought it was GOD!!! My parents brushed my experiences off and nobody seemed to know what was going on with me. Japan however, a person knows about it about as often as they know someone who has excellent ghost sense (reikan, 霊感) - by which I mean everyone.
It's always a dark brink for me and by being frightened and fighting away from it I pull out.
..my entire body fall asleep (as in, having a foot fall asleep). They shake me from sleeping and I stare into the darkness and freak out. Usually freaking out for an extended period of time results in physical movement and then I am out.
--yeah that's how mine was. i was freaking out like a deaf mute parapalegic with collapsed lungs and eventually this catapulted my body to the window. it was like everything but my vision and conciousness was under water.
you mean your Kanashibari once lasted long enough to watch Gu-chon make egg on toast and leave the house?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
Yup, was totally aware of the gootch stumbling out of his room, pouring a glass of tea and heading out to work while I lay frozen on the kitchen floor, locked in a crystal!
He usually drinks a glass of tea and eats a cigarette for breakfast.
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