Is it possible to learn this power?
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It's just you trying to break out of the Matrix, but you keep waking up back inside it.
Esc > E > S > Q
Lost and ragequit so many times that he related anguish to quitting out through the menu xD
I remember the first time I woke myself from a bad dream. I was pretty young, and in my dream I was being chased by a monster and I suddenly realized that it was a dream and I could chase the monster back. So I turned around (in my dream) and started to chase the fucker.
I recall waking up laughing.
That kind of sounds like a strategy to trigger lucid dreaming. I've heard that if you envision a specific thing while falling asleep, like for example the StarCraft menu screen, then it will appear somewhere in your dream. When it does, it's supposed to sort of jostle you into consciousness but not wake you up.
It seems that what this person's friend did with his free will in dream land is nope right out of there. He could have turned that nightmare into something awesome though!
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That's hilarious because I've done the same exact thing before except it was the watch menu from the Goldeneye Nintendo64 James Bond game. It worked for several years as a young lad.
Dude i kept having fucmin dreams where i kept getting shot and my red health and blue armour would appear in my vision, and go down. Then I'd try to look at my watch to quit to menu, but it would be blown up just sitting there on my wrist blackened and falling apart so I had ti ride it out and die.
It would be me on the ground and then the grenade landing in front if my face and then going BANG that woke me up and got me out of there
That's crazy. I have told that story to a couple people and they just looked at me like I'm nuts.
You know what's even weirder? My name is Matt too 🤯
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Awesome ! mine is blinking real fast, it wakes me up in about two seconds of in-dream time.
I roll my eyes up until the "pain" and my eyes open.
Try it, roll your eyes up as much as you can, your eyes will open slightly.
Super power unlocked!
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This is my new answer to the "what super power would you like" question.
I'm old, so I always got up out of the dream and turned the knob to switch channels.
That is really fucking cool
I've woken myself up from several unpleasant dreams and nightmares before by literally just going "fuck this, I'm out."
I think I'm often aware that I'm dreaming, but I don't really lucid dream because my dreams are generally more interesting than anything I could consciously come up with anyway. So more often than not I'm just content to be along for the ride.
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Shit! I hit Save by accident! shitshitshit
Thank god my nightmares are not viewed in vim. I can't Google how to quit it while I'm sleeping!
Click escape, which gets you out of the current write mode.
Type :q!
:q
I prefer ZQ
:q! if it's urgent
It's always urgent.
Might have to hit escape first if you’re not in ~~visual~~ normal mode
edit: I’m bad at remembering words
Escape puts you in normal mode, visual mode is v
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Awake me can remember. Goodnight me can't 😵💫
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Vim, I wish I knew how to quit you! (/s obviously bc Vim is life)
Would that mean your nightmare is all in ASCII?
Might be. Some unrecognizable, nightmarish UTF8 mixed in with the wrong encoding maybe?
That's just Thursday
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Anyone else do an image search just to get a good look at that menu again?
I did! That took me back. LAN party with my huge CRT monitor eating takeout at 2 in the morning that we purchased on the way to the LAN
I miss LAN parties. I miss the atmosphere in those sweltering bedrooms/livingrooms in the quiet hours of the morning. I'll never forget that LAN party vibe. Big one for my cousins and I was the Desert Combat mod for Battlefield 1942. Also Starcraft, Diablo 2, and later on it shifted to WoW.
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Starcraft 2 is seriously the only game that's ever given me performance anxiety. There were days when I'd sit down to play and I'd already have nerves and just nope right out and watch GSL VODs of pro players instead. Seeing your rating and all that, Platinum to Diamond, then Diamond to Master, that game was rough and you were always at risk of cheese and basically getting harassed to death playing a traditional build order
Personally i didn't really have performance anxiety, but I would get really pumped every match with my pulse racing and sometimes even my hands shaking afterwards. I always had to take breaks in between ladder games, only after an hour or two it would normalize enough to queue repeatedly.
The cheese didnt bother me much, I always loved macro and did that every game behind good scouting, often leading to some timing attack I built up to like a stim bio timing or tank marine drop.
I can't really put my finger on it but it's almost like the game gave me imposter syndrome, as if by some fluke I was where I was at, and everyone was probably much more knowledgable about timings and map awareness. Felt a little more risky than it should have, trying risky things, that kinda thing.
There wasn't any sort of MMR-based practice mode where I could just fuck around and not be a tryhard against similarly-rated players and I think that kind of fed into that, like if you want an even matchup it's gonna be on the book so you gotta play to win at all times.
At some point I just felt committed to trying to win every match, eventual weird vibes from it
I had that in WoW PvP. A buddy and I were in the top 50 of the second largest server and it was work. Even solo, we'd often wait for each other to come online before hitting ranked PvP so there was at least someone to talk to. It made losing not seem so bad, and if you started flunking, the other would say to stop and pick it up later.
Otherwise, pressure as hell. And for no reason other than trying to be the top rank of my class which was some pointless goal I put on myself.
On the other hand I enjoyed that game for years without ever touching multiplayer....
It's always weird because everyone talks about how stressful it was, but it never was to me because I could just pause/save and walk away.
Up towards Masters people would get really creative and it was a shitshow, like you'd scout and see 1 rax and think you're getting rushed but they actually went two rax expo and tucked the rax and base in some corner, so you lost the macro game anticipating an early attack (or you'd do that same thing to them). It was just weird mindfuck stuff like that left and right lol. Basically hyper aggressive deception every other game and you'd have to play like that in order to survive
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