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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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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 66 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We would all be like Pacman chasing ghosts and popping pills........ Wait....

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I am an Italian man who eats mushrooms and stomps turtles

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How many princesses have you tried to rescue only for them to be on another castle

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nah man he’s banned from all Disney theme parks now

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is why representation in games is so important

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

Ya know......I don't remember any super mario bros games where Mario is black.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

im an actual Italian man who eats mushrooms, but i dont dont stomp on turtles, and i haven't found my princess peach yet.

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[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 12 points 2 days ago

I’ve always heard it as „we‘d be running around in dark rooms with brightly colored lights, eating pills and listening to electronic music“

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

every shit-tier chore ever conceived, and every task on every 'honey do' list ever made, would be completed. every day. on schedule. and without fail.

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 24 points 2 days ago

A cottage industry of recovering neighbors who have fallen asleep on their way home and returning them to their beds in exchange for a 'finders' fee might develop.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Rename "chores" to "dailies" and you would get immediate results.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

“Video games don’t affect our behavior! If Pac-Man had an effect on us, we’d all be running around darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music” - Raver’s favorite shirt

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I always liked that one....*old ex raver, still love the music for sure. Actual shirt I owned was 'I said no to drugs but they didn't listen'

Edit, I always thought raves was my generation's summer of love. Diluted but I think the idea for many were the same...of course not for all, but it's how I felt it sometimes. The best people to be around were always so positive, and I so wished the millennium ushered in more positivity than how it happened. But .. yeah we all know what happened early 2000s.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I remember in 1993 my dad tried saying that video games make kids violent.

For anyone too young to pick up on the obvious situation here, 1993 was the year the media started looking at games like Mortal Kombat, and saying video games are violence simulators. In those days, news was different. Today there's heavy bias in reporting. Watching the same story from 2 different reporting sources will often paint a vastly different picture. In those days however it wasn't nearly the issue it is today. Fox News didn't exist yet I don't think. And even when it first started, it wasn't what it would later become.

The news was just the news. And the news was saying video games make kids violent. My dad was doing the modern day equivilant of parroting fox news talking heads points. No opinion of his own. Just parroting the news.

So when he said that video games make kids violent, I said "Dad, I have 3 games. Sonic 2, Madden 93, and Jurassic Park. By your logic, I should be a star athlete who can play in the NFL, who runs so fast that I become a blur , and is also a velociraptor. Teenagers in the early 80s would be great at tennis, crossing the road quickly, and know how to shoot down UFOs."

He had no rebuttal, because nobody on the news made those arguements.

[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imagine a dad making that argument these days and then they look at their kid's steam library and all they play is "shower with your dad simulator"

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[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I mine, I forage, I genocide. It's a simple life, but a good one.

[–] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 12 points 2 days ago

And you sometimes pick one dandelion too many and forget how to walk faster than 3 km/h.

[–] admin@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago

I mine, I forage, I genocide.

Steve?

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I would be farming and building shit to automate my life as much as possible.

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If that's true, then we be building factories, polluting the environment, and killing protestor.

Ohh wait

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

Sir this is Wendy's

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Do it slaughter millions of humans in games across different genres? Yes, I do and it's great fun!

Do I have any intention to kill even one human in real life? Hell no, I don't even want to hurt others!

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[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm either building a factory in space or an organ harvesting drug empire in space.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

Seems like you really like...

collapsed inline media

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We would also all have our own mini farms and chests upon chests full of weird stuff.

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 days ago (5 children)

If games determined my behavior I would be obsessed with Trains, oh wait I am obsessed with Trains :3

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago
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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Commercial driver’s licenses?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Over 9 million copies of Euro Truck Simulator 2 have been sold, according to a Renault Trucks press release from March 2024. That’s a staggering number, reflecting the game’s enduring popularity.

https://achivx.com/how-many-copies-of-euro-truck-simulator-2-have-been-sold/

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[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

id be shooting aliens and not afraid of anything

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

i can't believe they used halo for their recruitment ads. i was so pissed.

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[–] radix@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

And if childhood cartoons determined our actions, whole generations of kids would have wiped out the roadrunner population by dropping anvils on them (or attempting to, anyway).

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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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)."

[–] usernameusername@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I'd just be living in a small town, digging through trash cans, giving fish to the local homeless man, giving beer to the alcoholic and mostly just planting an ungodly amount of fruit trees on my land.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

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

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

And anytime a wall looked a little weird I’d be trying to smash through it.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Except I play Civ all the time but avoid power and responsibility like the plague.

Speaking of plague, adding a disease mechanic would be cool

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Whenever I play Civ I try to go for a peaceful victory. Then someone picks a fight with me and that escalates with me going for the world domination victory.

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

I usually play as Victoria so I like to do themes. Like if there are a lot of other woman leaders I’ll do a Girl Power game and form alliances with them and kill all the men.

Or if there are a lot of colonizer countries I’ll do a reverse colonization playthrough and conquer them with the help of colonized nations.

Then there’s the genocides I’ve waged for the most sacred resource to the English: Tea.

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

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

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

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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I would be an amazing manager and be very rich

I’d be a successful xenobiologist.

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

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

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[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

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

Oh, and I also farm.

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