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u/Th3Stryd3r 21h ago
Idk what's worst how niche that joke is or the fact that I instantly understood it.
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u/Practical_Delay_2158 20h ago
The guy who got knocked out and had a whole imaginary family right?
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u/Th3Stryd3r 5h ago
That would be the one. He was in a coma although I can't recall why. But what brought him out of it was noticing that a lamp in their home was distorted, much like a graphics glitch in a game. He focused on that it did some craziness and he woke up. According to him he had a whole other life, another wife, kids, and spent I think it was something like 10 years with them in the coma. He was super depressed after coming back from the loss
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u/vksdann Flair Loading.... 13h ago
Idk where this joke is from. Is this some reddit ancient lore like the small cylinder?
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u/DodoJurajski I touched grass 13h ago
It's about a guy that lived full life, then noticed the lamp looks off and woke up.
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u/Mysterious_Way8941 9h ago
It's wild that the cylinder is one of the most tame of the lores.
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u/80Amrig_Nhoj_Najed 8h ago
Of course it is tame. The post was satire.
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u/Mysterious_Way8941 7h ago
Nah, man. It was real life. Who would lie about something like that? Do you really think someone would just go on the internet and lie?
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u/FishingHot2806 12h ago
This post will soon be reposted to hell in all the "explain the joke" subreddit in about 24 hrs.
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u/MoonChief 1d ago edited 13h ago
A reddit story similar to one of the best Star Trek TNG episodes: The Inner Light
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u/InsuranceKey8278 1d ago
i don't get it
is it the console burning?
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u/TryThisUsernane 1d ago
Basically there was a Reddit story of a guy in a coma, while one the coma he dreamed of a life that felt like years, he got married, and I think had kids too.
Until one day he noticed the lamp in his home looked weird, something about it just didn’t make sense, and then he woke up.
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u/LikelyAMartian Professional Dumbass 22h ago
He has to go to therapy and had a hard time coping because it was all so very real to him and he had full memory of it all so basically one day his entire family he just made died and only he remembers them.
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u/InterstellarReddit 14h ago
This makes sense though. Have you ever woken up from a dream that was so real that you’re like WTF? Well, in a coma, you’re having that dream for an extended amount of time. You only had the dream one night and you woke up and you were confused. Imagine having the dream for a month or two or something like that
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u/AGrandNewAdventure 13h ago
My cat was killed in my dream and I swear for the next two days that kitty got so many fucking treats.
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u/creativeyeen 21h ago
Wait so you never lived the life of a Roman, living on the shores of the Mediterranean, having a full life, filled with family and friends, and a love that gave you beautiful children, where you would adventure and explore the uncharted world, one day returning to your family grey and filled with wisdom, lay down one last time looking at your loving wife and fall asleep, only to wake up in the current age of consumerism and greed? Only me?
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u/salmalight 17h ago
I had one where I was an elderly Asian man trying to seal the deal with a blonde playboy bunny to the expected result, same kind of thing right?
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u/Dabox720 23h ago
Boy that is a fuckin obscure reference
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u/Alric_Wolff 22h ago
I just came out of ECT this morning and I remember this reference... I should probably tell my doctor.
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u/RecipeHistorical2013 21h ago
ahh ok. this isnt an uncommon feature of comas (have hyper-lives in the coma)
but unique to this story is the trigger
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u/mjaga93 15h ago edited 14h ago
Sounds eerily similar to the 'For the man who has everything' episode from Justice League unlimited where an alien plant induces Superman with a hallucination that Krypton was never destroyed, he still lives and raises a family there until he notices things aren't right. I think it's based off a standalone comic.
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u/SeedFoundation 17h ago
It was a square lamp base, red with gold trim on 4 legs and a white square shade.
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u/Ask_if_im_an_alien 20h ago
It's a Rick and Morty episode. They go to an arcade where you live an entire life about a guy who works at a rug store or something like that. He has a heart attack and survives. You're supposed to realize life is short and go out and adventure but Morty gets better and goes back to the store. He lives about 50 years of life in 10 real minutes.
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u/OSUfan88 17h ago
I did Salvia in college and spent another lifetime (at least a few years) in another world. Whole experience was less than 5 minutes.
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u/VanillaBrook_ 1d ago
That classic reddit story will never not haunt me. Bro woke up and chose violence
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u/RecipeHistorical2013 21h ago
there are two classic reddit stories that i will bring up to you
1: poop knife
2: The cylinder must not be harmed
what am i missing
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u/Keykito 21h ago
The coconut
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u/Squeezitgirdle 19h ago
Jolly ranchers.
And jumper cables.
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u/antmanfan3911 18h ago
I think I know the jolly rancher one unfortunately but the other one sounds to scary lol
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u/Squeezitgirdle 18h ago
The other one is actually pretty great.
Sadly u/rogersimon10 hasn't posted in years. He was a bit of a meme ten years ago. Basically he'd say something related to whatever post he was replying on, and somehow it would always end with him getting beaten by jumper cables. Probably sounds bad from a third party, but his comments were always pretty hilarious.
Except maybe his final comment that one probably didn't age well.
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u/antmanfan3911 15h ago
Wait I remember the jumper cable story now... How did my brain try to erase that story and not the COCONUT STORY???
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u/tworaccoonsinaboat 17h ago
Wonder if something happened to him. It has been 10 years since then.
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u/birthday6 17h ago edited 16h ago
Ok, I first heard the jolly rancher story from friends in high school, I believe 2006. Reddit was only founded in 2005. When did the Jolly Rancher story first get posted? Im trying to figure out if its true Reddit lore or an urban legend that predates Reddit.
Also, I'm from PA, so I'm wondering if this story had local origins considering one in the party supposedly went to Penn.
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u/Squeezitgirdle 16h ago
I'm having trouble finding the original post, but I am on mobile at the moment.
Found someone retelling the story 16 years ago though.
Warning, super gross but looks like this guy also summarized it rather than giving as many details as the original. https://www.reddit.com/c0er6q4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=2
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u/birthday6 16h ago
The story likely predates the reddit post. It could have been an email chain before that. Im now really curious if I heard it when it was still a regional urban myth, before it hit the internet, or if I just caught it when it was still a relatively unknown copypasta.
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u/Squeezitgirdle 16h ago
Could be. Like every highschool had that rumored girl with the dog and the peanut butter. I heard it in my high school, friends heard it in their high schools, etc.
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u/Dr_Philmon 20h ago
"I had sex with my mother"
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u/Fostley can't meme 20h ago
To add on, my mom gave me blowjobs because I broke both arms.
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u/InsanityImp 20h ago
Please use fucking quotation marks
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u/Squeezitgirdle 19h ago
I forgot about that one. I may have vomited a little after reading it.
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u/ThatLasagnaGuy 2h ago
I have a good few that I love to recommend to people!
That guy who took edibles before dinner with his wife and in-laws
EA’s infamous “pride and accomplishment” comment
And the story of the lazy US military OPS
I think I have a few more in my back pocket, might edit this when they come to me.
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u/clumsycashier 21h ago
pretty sure this is a bot account
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u/ManiacLife666 14h ago
chatgpt speak yea, say something agreeable/generic about the post upvotes will come
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u/LoudCherry_ 19h ago
That legendary Reddit post ruined lamps for an entire generation of internet users.
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u/leosoulbrother 17h ago
I don't get it and I'm kinda old here, second account already, been here for a long time.
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u/SayerofNothing 17h ago
The "lamp looks weird" meme originates from a famous 2011 Reddit story about a man who lived an entire 10-year alternate life while unconscious for just a few minutes.
The Origin Story
- The Incident: A college student was severely knocked unconscious after being assaulted on the street.
- The Illusion: While unconscious, his mind created a vivid, completely realistic life that lasted 10 years. He graduated, built a career, met a woman, got married, and had two children.
- The Lamp: One day, he noticed the perspective of a lamp in his living room looked inverted, flat, and completely wrong. He became obsessed, staring at it for days trying to make sense of it.
- The Awakening: As he stared at the lamp, the illusion shattered. He woke up back on the sidewalk, surrounded by paramedics. Only a few minutes had actually passed.
- The Aftermath: The man suffered deep trauma and depression, grieving the sudden loss of a wife and children who never actually existed.
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u/DeKnightOwl 14h ago
Looks like the guy watched the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Inner Light before it happened
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u/leosoulbrother 8h ago
Oh thank you, now i remember this one, i don't know if i have seen the original post, but yeah when you mentioned the "10 years" i immediately remembered. Weird stuff, i had a dream like that once when I was drunk, but it felt like 3 months and it was already horrible.
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u/SayerofNothing 6h ago
Yeah, I've had a couple of dreams that felt like glimpses into a parallel reality where I'm married and living somewhere else, and I've woken up almost in grief of that life not existing. I can't imagine how it must felt to lose 10 years of a life in minutes.
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u/Invictu520 2h ago
There is a story by Junji Ito about that, called "The long dream" it is pretty creepy with a not so nice ending tho.
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u/Michael_Le41 13h ago
It's interesting how far the lamp dream has gone, sort of spooky ngl.
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u/Psychotic_EGG Lurking Peasant 12h ago
I just googled. I have my reservations on validity of the post. But if true, gawd damn. And if not, they wrote a great short story.
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u/Chirya999 1d ago
Peter? Where are you?
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u/SampleDisastrous3311 1d ago
Its a dream or the person is in a coma,
Theres a story out there of a person living a life, had children, had a wonderful life where they felt for fillment and one day they sat on a couch and noticed the lamp looking weird , then they woke up. Years of time gone due to noticing the lamp and waking up to reality8
u/Sil3ntWriter 1d ago
Any link to this story? Sounds both interesting and terrifying...
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u/Crunchy-Leaf 22h ago
I’ve read the same story except it was a guy in a car crash and the woman he married may have been the woman he crashed into, but in reality she died? Does that ring any bells? Probably a copycat post. Also how would he know what the woman looked like I guess
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u/MasterCheeef 23h ago
Not buying GTA 6 if there's no disc. Since buying isn't owning anymore
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u/eblackham 4h ago edited 4h ago
Parroting the hive mind I see
I get it, but the reality is most games that are released are released without major updates. So you own the launch version, which can be broken and that sucks. Games used to ship when the console would not get updates or connect to the internet. It forced producers and developers to actually finish a product. We need to go back to having a completed product for launch if physical game media is going to survive.
That or push for owning digital content keys.
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u/MingleLinx 20h ago
It never was. Even with a disc they could still restrict access
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u/Oldspaghetti 19h ago
Fuck Dem 😡
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u/MasterCheeef 19h ago
Fuck em' against the the wall with handcuffs on and their mouth super glued shut.
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u/TortelliniUpMyAss 19h ago
How many steam games you got downloaded?
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u/MasterCheeef 19h ago
There's no steam on PS5 buddy. Waiting for Control Resonant to release on disc Oct 15
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u/nobodysbestfriendd Plays MineCraft and not FortNite 8h ago
Which will have to download digitally anyway. Discs haven’t had full games on them for a long time. You can’t put that much data on a single disc.
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u/Afferbeck_ 12h ago
I'm curious, how long did you expect software to keep being distributed on optical discs? It really makes no sense in this day and age, did you expect it to last say the rest of the decade or did you really think you'd be spinning up a disc to play a game in 2077? I get the concern of platforms locking down their content and preventing reselling etc but the writing has been on the wall for discs for the past 15-20 years now.
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u/soukaixiii memer 21h ago
You've never owned any software you didn't copyright yourself tho.
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u/AbbreviationsNo3722 17h ago
My old consoles that are free of the internet say otherwise .
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u/soukaixiii memer 13h ago
And the software still isn't yours
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u/FinlandIsForever 7h ago
Go take it from them then
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u/soukaixiii memer 7h ago
From who?
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u/FinlandIsForever 7h ago
The guy who said his old console without internet say otherwise
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u/soukaixiii memer 6h ago
I'm not the owner of the software, I can't revoke their license, but if the owner did, there will make no difference that they have a physical copy as they would still be breaking copyright.
You're just conflating ownership with the owner not enforcing their license revoking powers.
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u/OhGodOhFuk 5h ago
This is the embodiment of that mental gymnastics meme
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u/soukaixiii memer 5h ago
No, this is the reality of copyright law, software owner is whoever registered it and what everyone who bought the software has is a lease of a revocable license. If the software owner revokes your license and you run the software, you're running a software you don't have a license to use, which means you're breaking copyright whether or not you have a physical or digital copy of the software. You don't own the software on your physical media, you own the chips and plastic of the cart, or the plastic of the disk. The software has never been yours, unless you're the legal copyright holder.
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u/Hanfos 18h ago
when u buy a game on gog u own it
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u/soukaixiii memer 13h ago
When you buy a game you get a revocable license lease and that's how every propietary software works.
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u/sgb67 1d ago
We're nor living in the ninties, your download would start again at 99%...
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u/Me_gentleman 1d ago
Missing the point.
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u/Dizzzy777 1d ago
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