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7/28/23

You go into 2033 for 10 minutes and you get one google search, what are you looking for?

ChooseYourStory. Need to know if it's still here.

Wrong answer, everyone should be searching for lotto numbers. CYS ain't going anywhere if it's backed by multimillonaires, it can become its own private island fortress at that point.

An r/askreddit post from a month ago by u/arkjump with 45k upvotes

Pfft, that was getting pushed into the year 2030. Totally different.

ten quickest growing stocks over the last ten years

Come on now, it's one question a week. Surely you can come up with something that isn't from the top of AskReddit.

Ok I will next week

>:(

You disgust me and I sentence you to pulling a prompt off one of those lame writing reddits and making a story out of it. You have one week.

Either stock charts for the "last" 10 years, or even better crypto charts since those have greater variation in shorter amounts of time. Or I'd just google myself for the funsies.

My obit

Porn

I wonder if porn in 2033 will come with a VR headset and a fleshlight plug in ^_^

I thought they already had that or were already working on improving it.

I have that. The future is now.

imad is lying down on the job again, who will replace him?

ME!

What insect is the least scarring to eat and why? (Include preparation details if needed)

If it's a singular insect, I would go for the smallest one I could find. Google says a fairyfly, on average about 0.5-1 mm. I wouldn't even notice, probably.

Grasshopper for sure. Classic survival bug, doesn't do or eat anything gross. Allegedly tastes like popcorn and John the based Baptist liked them too.

Crickets are up there I suppose, but in populated areas they eat literal garbage and...it might feel too personal.

I know cicadas are also deliberately eaten by lots of people, they freak me out but then shrimp are horrible little ocean bugs too, just a matter of mentally adjusting.

I guess I might eat earthworms? The texture would be a problem though.

The leaf cutter ants destroying the crepe myrtles in my yard are eaten in Mexico and South America it seems. My willingness to eat these might grow along with my spite.

I know termites are eaten in some cultures and are perfectly safe and nutritious ends yadda yadda, but I'd never do that, I'd just choose to die. So I think that's it for the list of bugs I would choose over starvation.

I've always wanted to try crickets. In the EU it is also now recently legal to use crickets as food ingredients in supermarkets.

You can crush them into flour or roast them and apparently they taste kinda like nuts or chicken.

No offence cricket.

Normally I don't object to the thought of people eating me, but for you I will make an exception.

I would lick an ant off the finger

Giant grubs are the basic bitch insect of survival and seem like they'd actually be good.

Mealworms because they would be crunchy, and I wouldn't have to remember the crunchy trauma of stepping on a dead spider barefooted. The texture was unpleasant.

If it can be barbecued, scorpions. I don't know why, but I want to try one.

Ditto on the scorpion. That would be cool

I'm sure I've accidentally swallowed a fly once, so probably that. Preparation method: place it in my food, forget all about it, and consume it while distracted.

Snails aren't really insects but I've tried escargot before. I actually enjoyed it until my parents told me what it was, then I was slightly scarred.

Pretty sure Swift would have some answers for this question, him being the resident bug eater and all.

fried worms

Ants really aren't that bad. They don't taste like anything, and they're so tiny that you can't really notice them. 

Not actually an insect, but I will vote for Mudbugs.

And you boil them, with spices.

I had crickets one time. They were ground up into a powder and made into cheesy chips. They were pretty good. Probably because 1: It didn't look like anything like a cricket and 2: They were cheese flavored. 

Other than that a couple of times I swallowed the odd mayfly that flew into my mouth. 

I once had crickets in brownies. For all I can remember, they tasted like normal brownies. 

I called first dibs on the Questionnaire, so clearly I should be the one to get it. 
 

What is the sexiest name someone could possibly have?

Remus
(Only some of you will get that.)

Brunhilde

You can't be serious.

Gretchen

Theodore

Cricket

Lauren

EndMaster

Cymbelene

Mehmet.

Madison

Enterpride

If Suranna doesn't get this going, I'm commandeering the thread again

Suck it. This thread is my domain now. 

I'm smelling a Thunderdome match.

That's certainly an idea

The winner takes all!

Life after death is real! Just, not as you expected. You now get to spend the rest of your (undead) life as a ghost! 

 

What do you do with your freetime? Who do you haunt?

being able to pass through walls and be intangible and invisible, I would haunt the Governments of the world, looking through their secrets and hidden places.

I need more details. Will I be able to present myself? If so, how? To what degree am I allowed to manipulate with the tangible world? Heck, what do I look like?

Hey, I'm not the ghost here. That's YOU. What can you do as a ghost, Peng?

I don’t like open ended questions, Suranna. You ask the question you provide the parameters.

Fine. You can appear and disappear at will, but you're stuck looking like a ghastly version of yourself. You can interact with small objects, but nothing biological. You can fly through objects and potentially travel the world if you desire. Satisfied? 

How small? To what extent biologically?

Satisfied. I'd go and see the world, and then probably just 'interact' with my phone, computer, or books.

On occasion I might haunt people just to mess with them. "Life" would be boring after a bit, I'd imagine.

Might as well go all out and haunt some passenger jets. Imagine how terrifying that would be. Perfect captive audience. Trains would also be incredibly fun.

Upon further consideration, I'd find some dead crackheads and go run a Waffle House until the heat death of the universe

Implying that a Waffle House wouldn't survive the heat death of the universe and carry on as usual

True enough. Might be a bit longer between shifts while we waited for whatever multidimensional creature (or maybe nostalgic ghost) to get the munchies

I've always wanted to travel the world, so I'll haunt as many tourist spots as possible. The London Eye will spin dangerously quick and out of control, the Eiffel Tower's lights will flicker ominously in shades of white and blood-red (and probably spell out a sinister message in Morse code if I wanted to be extra), and the Statue of Liberty's torch will set fire to any boats that come too close by.

When I get bored of this, I'll go visit Petros' Waffle House.

I would scare every teenager in their edgy emo/goth/ghost phase straight and it would never get old

Haunt people who don't believe in ghosts. Torment people playing with ouija boards. Join a crew of ghost pirates. Then, when I get bored of it all, explore the Mariana Trench and visit Petros' Waffle House to enjoy a blueberry waffle.

I'd haunt pychics and mediums but deliberately give them fake information to make them look like idiots in front of their clients. Like:

"Your granny Ethal says she's so proud of you."
"Who the fuck is granny Ethal?"

I haunt the whitehouse and sit bricked up in the presidents' chair.

8/18/2023 

What is the best jellybean flavor? 

Personally I am partial to Jelly Belly's Juicy Pear. 

What the hell kind of weird jelly bean is that?

And yes I know it's pear flavored, just seems like a really elaborate name for "pear"

Never had one in my life that I can remember.

Black licorice

Petros secret Dutch confirmed

Cinnamon!

passion fruit but all jellybeans suck

The orange one with the red spots is the best one.

"Orange one with red spots"
See now this is the proper designation for flavor. 

blue

8/26/2023

The world has just ended. How has it ended and what caused it? 

(shhh I definitely did not think today was Friday)

Well, if only life has to end, I like the idea of everyone just collectively going berserk and eating each other's spleens or something.

If the Earth itself must go, then getting eaten by some cosmic entity sounds good. I hear some people are into vore.

Hoomans

Gamma Ray burst from a pulsar 36.9 lightyears away that lasts for 36 hours in duration.

It's 2023 and we have vr porn. I can only assume they have feeling and smell added now too. I'd read one detailed article of the how and why it works then take that to the scientists of now and speed up the progress.

9/2/2023

It's nighttime somewhere in the world. (I also, once again, thought today was Friday)

How old do you feel mentally?

Wow, you suck at the days of the week.

And mentally, I feel like a 40 year old stillborn

Mentally I feel like I'm 22

13 (melts into distance)

12

Last week someone asked how old I was and my brother and I both said 12 at the same time. I'm 14. 

69

I think the general consensus of the people who know me is that mentally I'm about six years of age. However, I feel like a particularly stressed eleven-year-old.

Depends on the time of day

I feel like I'm a fresh 15 not turning legal driving age :')

A FRESH fifteen you say? 
It's funny that my brain immediately translated to this meaning me at the age of fifteen instead of someone who had just turned fifteen

9/8/2023

What is the best film adaptation of a book you have seen?

that one animated egypt movie as an adaptation of the bible

Blade Runner. I can't remember which edition of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? had it, but there was something at the end that talked about movie. Iirc, Dick didn't want the movie to be his book on a screen, so they had to write something different for the author to okay it. Rutger Hauer rewrote the Tears in Rain monologue the night before filming the scene, and Philip K Dick died before the movie was released. As stupid as it probably sounds, not knowing what Dick would've thought of Hauer's monologue will probably haunt me 'til my death day. I think it goes without saying this is going off of my poor memory of reading something years ago.

I should do a reread and a rewatch sometime.

I watched Blade Runner way too young, and eye gouging remained a key feature of my nightmares for decades

Most of the movies I watch are pretty dang old, so this was a really interesting question to think about. It's difficult finding one that I've read and watched. I may have to come back to this after combing through my memory, but off the top of my head, my favorite book film was the Jane Eyre that Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine played in. It was pretty fantastic. Apparently it's from 1943

One that might be close is the 1960 version of The Time Machine which was also pretty great and had pretty cool special effects for the day, though it didn't follow the book as faithfully. I probably still liked it a bit better than the book.

No one mentioned LotRs?

9/16/2023

What is one thing that people will remember you by? (Other than you like to write, you sickos)

probably my absolute side splitting bants

Well, for you it may be the fact that you never posted these on actual Fridays

Darn, I was hoping people wouldn't notice this time.

Suranna you think you'll remember this time?

:/

YOU DID IT YAHOO

That I'm retarded lol

You shall not be remembered. The retard gimmick has been filled

Given other recent noobs, I would rate you squarely above average.

That I screamed "Imma blow up the fucking world!!" when I fell asleep in class

who is this guy

An insane person who likes eating penquins...and humans

The fuck is a penquin?

Maybe it's some type of palanquin. 🤔

None will remember you

Nobody will remember me

I'll remember you... as long as you still kill darius.

that means so so much

9/22/2023

Would you rather be the protagonist or antagonist in a story? Why?

Antagonist, Villain good thats why. The protag never has the ggod fun of mass murder!  ^-^

I mean you can be a villain protagonist and still indulge in mass murder.

Right you are I concede.

I'd wanna be a protagonist because I feel like it makes it less likely that people will make Tiktok edits of me

Protagonist is more likely to succeed at their goals.

Protagonist because of the infinite plot armor so that Petros won't ever succeed in killing me.

What are you smoking? Protagonists die all the time

But almost never in the beginning of the story, they usually die at the very end if at all. Otherwise they wouldn't really be a protagonist.

Alright, you can be the protagonist of "edge of tomorrow" or "chainsaw man"

The main antagonist of chainsaw man got herself eaten alive, not really the greatest example.

When the question was posed to me, I was more thinking about the classic whodunnit novels where the detective and/or the Watson don't usually die.

Pretty sure he's talking about Denji. ,':(

Living with perpetual depression still beats death by cannibalism.

Have you ever played danganronpa?

No. This whole time I also thought you were asking Darius

I was asking him, but thanks for the info. I'll troll you about danganronpa somehow.

Either, neither, or both, as long as I'm the comedy relief

What about anti-heros?

An anti-hero could be either the protagonist or antagonist, so it doesn't matter