• Wodge@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I do it every day, just to check, as I’m not gonna be one of these idiots with the force for years without realizing it.

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      2 years ago

      You really have to! Spider-Man wasn’t born Spider-Man, he became Spider-Man one day. You can’t know what/when will trigger your ability to use the force. So constant testing is required.

      Small tangent, that’s the excuse I also use every time I’m drinking something and it goes down the wrong tube “Nope, still not Aquaman”.

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    2 years ago

    At least once? Almost any time something is just out of reach, I give it a go before moving. It’s just plain fun.

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      2 years ago

      Yeah but I’d expect more stories of telekinesis if it ever worked, so I only try sometimes. Once did the Jedi mind trick hand wave for fun while high, got a laugh but don’t think they were swayed to whatever I suggested. Though was mostly hoping for a laugh at the time so got some success.

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    2 years ago

    Of course. I test myself for spontaneously-developed superpowers all the time, just in case.

    I just hope if it’s the human torch thing that eventually works, that I’m also fireproof…

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      2 years ago

      In the 80’s, I had a stress ball that I put on my entertainment center and tried it, only took a few seconds and the thing fell off!.. because it had expanded back into a ball shape and rolled. At least I learned a fun trick to amaze my younger sister with :)

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    2 years ago

    Hell, that’s the least I’ve done.

    When I was a kid, me and my friend were obsessed with the movie Tron. Like the makers of that movie, we had no concept of how computers actually work. But we wanted to be inside one! So one night we typed “START: TRON >> ENTER GAME GRID” on the command line of his dad’s PC and the laid our sleeping bags around the PC and went to sleep; hoping we’d wake up inside the computer all dressed in blue…

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    2 years ago

    My nephew was so into star wars, like everything in his bedroom was star wars themed, he loved the Clone Wars cartoons more than anything.

    So me I go to a magic shop and buy one of those ‘levitate anything’ illusions and use it to convince him that I have the force. Only it’s reeeaallllyyy hard for me ‘use the force’ buddy so it has to be in a dimly lit room and I can’t do it on command when we see your friends buddy.

    I had him going for years!!

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    2 years ago

    Remote controls. You’ve all done it.

    Similarly, after playing Portal, I was constantly scheming on how to get an object.

    “OK, open portal on the ceiling, open portal under remote on the kitchen counter…”

    While we’re at it, I’ve been chunking stuff aside like Skywalker chunking his lightsaber and refusing to fight the Emperor. This has been going on for 30+ years.