• @[email protected]
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    72 days ago

    So that meme reminds me of a prank.

    There was once I had the same exact laptop as a buddy, but wasn’t using it anymore. He was finishing his degree and just about to turn in like 8 papers/assignments and had a ton of work saved on it. So I wiped my laptop and installed fresh Kubuntu, and then swapped the drives when he wasn’t looking. Then I pretended to have done him a favor since he had been having intermittent windows problems.

    He was livid but was trying so hard to be kind, loool. Made it better when I could swap it right back and everything was there

      • @[email protected]
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        31 day ago

        It was so good because I could be as rotten as I wanted, there was zero lasting harm. He immediately forgave me and found it amazing once he booted up the original drive and made sure it was all good

        • @Valmond
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          217 hours ago

          When I removed the knife from his throat he immediately assured me that he didn’t have any grievances whatsoever.

          That was just a huge dick move.

          • @[email protected]
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            17 hours ago

            Maybe if afterwards I showed him the knife was made of painted wood, blunted completely, and I snuck a throat protector in his turtleneck.

            I did more things like checking a windows install on my laptop first, and cloning his drive off before I pulled it.

            We would regularly pull pranks on each other, the rule was it couldn’t cause lasting harm. This fit well within that, and he got me at least as good multiple times. One of my best friends, ever

            • @Valmond
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              12 hours ago

              Your lack of empathy is appalling. Not your fault, but it’s not considered normal to not understand that stressing out someone is really bad. It’s a psycopathic trait, check this out.

        • @sploosh
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          218 hours ago

          So what’s the benefit of temporarily putting your friend in distress? What got better as a result of you scaring them?

          • @[email protected]
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            17 hours ago

            Um, our relationship? Have you ever had friends where you prank each other? The trust it engenders when you show you can play in that space but still not cause any lasting harm pulls people closer. At least it has in my experience. He’s one of my best friends ever

            • @sploosh
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              26 hours ago

              If someone who I considered a friend pulled that kind of stunt with me I would have one fewer friend. Screwing with people is rude and it’s plain bully behavior when you know they’re stressed and you mess around with a thing that is cruicial for them. You had fun at someone else’s expense.