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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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edit - Yeah I play video games with violence too, my point is that video games are a mirror that exposes a less brutal image of ourselves than we are convinced of. The truth of what we desire is as often silly or altruistic as it is selfish or violent, even in the realm of fantasy where the violence is unreal as everything else.

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[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There would certainly not be any feral pig problems in the US, that's for sure.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I never understood how "vitality" refers to not any type of armor, but instead an inheret "unkillable"ness until I started looking into wild boars.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I would be an amazing manager and be very rich

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

construct additional pylons!

[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

What I get from simulation video games is that if I didn't have to worry about working to live and the daily grind of life, I'd work to get real-world experience doing stuff I may like.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

That tracks actually.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

I have 30 hours in house flipper 2 since getting it 5 days ago. I wish I could live in the homes I make

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

I'd be succesful in governing countries and making them prosperous and free as fuck without being conquered.

Oh, and I also farm.

[–] m532@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

I'd be wacking walls and machinery with a pickaxe.

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

I guess I'm an immortal autocrat with foresight and pattern recognition good enough to be the global economy by the 16th century.

I play too much 4x.

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd be an expert race car driver, or really good at parkour.

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[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

If video games determined our real world behavior,

I'd be a robot witnessing the fall of humanity, whose crime was free will

Don't know if that translates to a job necessarily

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'd be just at bad at poker as I am now, I think

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

I'd be a min-maxing hoarder that never used stuff. In all honestly, I should probably try to be more like that minus the hoarding.

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I cant afford a spaceship though :(

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I would sell so many organs

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If games determined my behavior, I would practically be Machiavelli.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A lot of Crusader Kings or assassin's Creed?

(I think in one of AC games you're actually doing missions for Machiavelli himself.)

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No; I just do anything and everything I can to further my own strength and fuck everyone else because they're just NPCs.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Fair enough.

When given the option "spare him, or kill him", one has to ask "is he worth XP?"

[–] nathanjent@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

In my case the bodies of my enemies would fuel my armies of the undead leaving a trail of blood and destruction behind me. If the first boss I encounter doesn't take me out.

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