Stupid Mistakes Thread

Odd socks are lucky, when was the last time a dead person was found wearing odd socks eh?

Excuse the necropost, but I have had yet again a stupid mistake. I uninstalled Steam in an attempt to fix a bug (which later turned out to be half life’s CDC thing). In the process, I deleted all of my maps. I then attempted to restore them from an external hard drive thing. It failed and broke my computer. I had to do a Factory image reset and now all of my old cool programs are gone. I shall miss them.

On the subject of mistakes with computers I’ve fried 2 perfectly good laptops in the past, the first one was a dell core 2 duo with 2gb of ram, I killed it because I didn’t know what the charger plug polarity was, thought + was center and - was around it, turns out the center pin is a data line and the +/- are hidden so I had just killed the laptop’s ability to recognize a charger, but I blame it on DeLL, no other laptop manufacturer does this.

The 2nd one was an HP pavilion in which I had to flash the BIOS in order to switch the internal WiFi card because HP decided it was a good idea to hard code the DEV_ID’s of the old card to the BIOS so that when you try to put another card it goes “invalid wireless adapter remove illegal adapter and restart” so obviously I went and hex edited that shit just like google told me but I didn’t realize HP was the only laptop brand that can’t recover a failed BIOS flash, unless you buy a new motherboard. Fuck you HP.

My biggest mistake was (for the first time ever) smoking two huge billowy hits of medical marijuana. Oh and it was pretty much pure THC because it was keef. Needless to say I freaked out, had a nervous breakdown and practicably slipped into hell. Ever sense I have had anxiety, panic attacks, stress, etc, and this all happened two years ago. I’ve done other, stronger drugs but for some reason marijuana has really messed me up. Looking back on that day I wish I had never done it. However even if I do get a little anxious now and again things are starting to return back to normal for me mentally.

Protip: Don’t do drugs, they can kill you.

Protip: They could, but they won’t systematically.

Question: Why are there so many drug users on this forum?

(ignoring Pot-heads)
on the subject of Computers, I once thought that smacking my laptop when the screen went Completly dark would fix it… until smacking it no longer fixed the problem and my local IT guru had to replace the Backlight (yes, I WAS that stupid)

Well it gets boring on these forums sometimes :frowning:

Oh man I want to snort Gary Coleman’s ashes so bad.

I’ve always wanted to try acid, but i’m afraid of suffering ego death or worse.

I smoke 302 pounds of pot a week personally

BWAHAHAHAHAHA

Sorry for laughing but, two hits of chemo and you’re tripping balls? You have to understand how your mentality works before attempting medical weed (or any other drug)… You see, everyone thinks they have a rock-solid mind until they try drugs.

Most drugs cause what I like to call “placebo effect enhancement” when everything you think of seems more likely to be real due to reality being slightly blurred (and you being stoned out of your fucking mind of course). Now I’ve never bad-tripped on weed, so I can’t say 100% it was your fault, but I tested my theory on someone who had a very similar experience to yours, the guy swore to never smoke again because every time he smoked things would go crazy (anxiety, depression, confusion and all kinds of stuff out of nowhere) so I just explained the placebo effect and that if he thought of relaxing and not about what happened last time nothing would happen, and right after he smoked we laughed nonstop for like an hour.

Now one thing I learned about the placebo effect is that it’s very hard to control, for example I took speed when everything in my life seemed okay, then it felt awesome and I started talking to random people (it’s one of the side effects) then I just didnt give a shit, then when the high was over the first thing that came to mind was, damn all that feeling good was just a delusion, I’m just a worthless piece of rotting flesh and I’m not getting anywhere, it was so easy to slip and then I badtripped like a mofo (I stayed in my room for 3 days), and ever since then I don’t take pills anymore. If your next time smoking weed is a bad experience even after reading this I suggest you stop smoking it, there is really no point to drugs but it’s part of my routine “nothing says relaxing like smoking a huge blunt”

Just remember, life is uncontrollable and ultimately pointless but that should calm you down not make you stress, there is no point to stress except making you forget things and sound like a bitch.

Well thanks, and actually I smoked it during the summer about a few weeks before school. Technically I only freaked out for 1-2 minutes but it lasted for what seemed to be eternity. Everything was good and I chalked it up to be a bad experience, and then came the second day of school. I was sitting in my basement with a few buddies of mine watching American Psycho, and for some reason I started feeling similar to the moment I had a bad trip and almost had a flashback. I started to panic, felt like I was on a rollercoaster watching myself fall, and it scared the living shit out of me. Like I said it’s been 2 years sense I had a very bad panic attack, (and oh there’s been worse than that, long story but it involved me walking around a town next to mine at night alone) and some part of me still wants to retry weed. Thanks for commenting though, very comforting to hear that.

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