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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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[–] usernameusername@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I love eating mushrooms, being high as fuck, hitting bricks with my hands and crushing turts all day.

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

You can't just say perchance!!!

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Call of Duty League?
Commercial Driver's Licence?
Christian Defence League?

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

the second. its about driving Sims

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And I'd be eating readily available street pizza all the time!

"Hey look, someone left a full ham roast here on the sidewalk! I'm bleeding pretty bad, so I'll go ahead and chow down! Let me just squat over it real quick, I can usually eat a roast ham in like 0.06 seconds (assuming I've lost enough blood)."

[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days 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.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

I'd be rolling everything up into a ball as my distant authority figure father berates me.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Played too much Pokémon, now I run a bet-fueled dog fighting operation

[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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 1 week ago

I would be an amazing manager and be very rich

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I cant afford a spaceship though :(

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imagine your behavior shaped by Ubisoft collect-a-thons. Now that's grim.

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

Drug addicts looking for scrap metal aren't much different. They look through abandoned structures, sneak around armed "hostiles", and sleep wherever there are no enemies.

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

meanwhile, some tech bro tries to wrangle this into some kind of ARG product

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days 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.

[–] m532@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

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

[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days 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.

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago

I would be throwing water bottles at and casting lightning bolt on all my problems

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This just made me imagine a sport that contains both and it would be awesome, call it Guerrilla Valet.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I would sell so many organs

[–] nathanjent@programming.dev 2 points 6 days 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.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Then I'd be pretty violent against demon invasions of our world. Or maybe I already am, don't really know how to test it out lol.

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Halloween has literally just happened. How many demons did you slay?

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