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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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[–] Skyline969@lemmy.ca 72 points 5 days ago (4 children)

For people who don’t get it: Duck Hunt was the most popular game that used the NES zapper. The way it worked was when the trigger was pulled, the screen went black for a split second except for a square of white. The zapper read the screen to see if it was aiming at the square and that determined if you hit your target. It only worked on CRT TV screens.

Honest people played as intended - standing at a distance, using the zapper like you would a gun.

Dishonest people would hold the zapper right up to the TV.

Chaotic people would just point the zapper at something producing white light (like a lamp) and fire away, technically never missing.

[–] haloduder@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 days ago

Interesting. I was thinking more about holding the gun sideways like a gangster.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I never actually understood how the zapper worked, thanks for the little summary.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 days ago

That was a little simplified, but mostly correct.

https://youtu.be/V6XnSvB34y8

The pointing at a light source doesn't work in every situation, and a lot of games had multiple targets.

You can see how it works in this 6 minute SlowMoGuys video.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

I wanna try the chaos option.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And people with good aim and a sense of humor always left their last shot for the dog.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I'd suggest getting too excited about shooting the dog is a different kind of personality test. I'm pretty much convinced the whole game is designed to root out the sick among us.

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 5 days ago

Pls elaborate, so people born after 1995 still understand 😆🫶🏻

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

I've rolled over the score counter in Duck Hunt just to see what hapoens. The answer is nothing interesting, for anyone wondering. No glitches, no crash. It just rolls over to zero.

Yes, I did it the intended way, standing back from the TV. The skeet shooting mode reaches a pretty early difficulty plateau and if you can handle, say, round 10 you can handle infinite play.

sitting on the couch with the second controller moving the duck around while my brother was trying to play

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 11 points 5 days ago

What kind of things have you learned about people that way? :3

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago

It only gets you halfway. To truly understand someone you need to also see them play DuckDodge ("Duck Hunt, but you are the duck").

[–] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Challenge myself. Stand back to test my accuracy.

[–] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I mean, the learn about people part.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

To me, holding the gun right up to the TV is so lazy and entitled. You have no inclination to even challenge yourself. You literally only care about "winning" even though it isn't fun, at all. You've misunderstood the entire point, BUT technically you won. Wow, good job.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

Now I’m really curious to find out how Kevduit, GreyStillPlays and The Spiffing Brit would play it.