my childhood

GAME IDEA REBLOG THIS AND TRY TYPING YOUR URL EYES CLOSED

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bd-doughnut-boi:

VD&diydgbyt-buh

 

toofartoobroken:

toofartoobrooen

 

eddietrashmouth:

Edidjetrashnouth

 

papermancrumbles:

Papermancrumbles

 

pattycake-hockstetter:

pattyvaje-hickstetter

 

nurserykryme:

Nursertkfyme

 

aslutforpatrickhockstetter:

Aslurforpareickhockstgter

 

captainjacksparkles:

Capfajnjacksparnles

 

trashmoutozier:

trashmoutozeri

(I DID SO WELL YES.)

 

reddietrash002:

32wwi2tr 

i literally cant type with my eyes closed what IS this

 

femmemayfield:

fennenatfuek

 

billbenbev:

Billbenbev

Omg I made it

 

newtandthediamonds:

Newtandthefuamonds

 

starryoleff:

starryoleff

 

queenbyers:

wueenbterd

 

2ds-leg-hair:

e2eeec-’dhphipzoc

 

murdocmorelikemurcock:

Murdicmorelikemurcock

how did i

Miss.. like

One lETTER

 

ask-theforgottenone:

Ask!thedorg9ttej9je

Yes.

 

xxthelittlefawnxx:

Xxthelittkefasnxx

(( Aw so close! ))

 

officialwilfordwarfstache:

offi ialwilfordwarfstache

fUCKING-

 

splatoon-jim:

splatoon-jim

guys,,,did you,,,,not memorize and forever ingrain to your memory the location of every key ever

 

snowwolf5552:

snowwolf5552

splat, I did-

 

lizawithazed:

Lizawuthaeew4d

well i started off well but uh then i forgot where z was

 

prince-atom:

prince-atom

To be fair, I’m pro.

 

heroofthreefaces:

heriija

I had to give up because my keyboard is too sensitive and the keys were depressing while I was reaching. (but i’d already blown it)

 

pedanther:

pedanther

Also I’m typing this entire paragraph with my eyes closed. When I was a boy, our home computer (in the days when it was unusual for any home to have more than one computer, if that) had a game on it that taught touch-typing, and I played it a lot. Then And I’ve done enough typing since then to keep the skill fresh. I don’t know if my dad was being foresighted about what his children’s future was likely to hold’ he may have got the game for himself originally; lots of record-keeping in his job, which meant lots of typing once the computers arrived.

 

justice-turtle:

jusrice-turtle

That went better than expected, considering I’m on my phone. On my laptop I can match pedanther’s accuracy, for much the same reason. Do the youths not learn touch typing any longer?

brin-bellway

I wouldn’t necessarily say that I *learned* touch-typing, per se. I learned to touch-type the same way that (I am told) I learned to read: there was little to no deliberate effort involved, it just sort of *happened* given enough exposure. (So my question is, not “do the youths not learn it any longer”, but “do the youth not type enough to learn touch-typing by osmosis?”)

(And yes, I did type the rest of this with my eyes closed. I did open my eyes to check whether I’d erased enough when backspacing, though, but only for rephrasings and not typos..)

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While I’m talking about this sort of thing:

Does anyone happen to know of a way I can still play either of the pair of Wild Thornberrys animal-rescue games the Nickelodeon website used to have in their browser-games section back in the early-mid 00′s?

I don’t expect to be able to archive them locally (though that would certainly be nice), but I would like to play them again and I can‘t find either of them anywhere. I’d probably even be willing to pay a few dollars, if they’re available for sale.

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#oh look an original post #Wild Thornberrys #my childhood #games #(that Internet Archive copy of M&Ms: The Lost Formulas was great) #(but I can’t find anything like that for these)

brin-bellway asked: Is “using handedness to introduce children to the concept of privilege” not a standard part of liberal upbringing? Was that just me? (I don’t think they used the word “privilege”, but that was clearly the idea. I think there was some social-model-of-disability stuff involved too.)

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brin-bellway:

moral-autism:

moral-autism:

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I don’t remember it being used in my school.

It’s been long enough that I don’t remember the circumstances, but it was definitely not at school because I didn’t go to school. (I don’t *think* it was a schoolbook.)

It might have been from my parents: my dad’s left-handed, so *some* lesson on handedness would be bound to come up at some point†. Or media. Or maybe Girl Scouts (which is also kind of parents, since my mom led my troop). Or a combination of the above.

(When I dig through my brain, I get strongest associations with Girl Scouts, but that might just be from me *thinking* about previous right-handed-privilege stuff *during* Girl Scouts because of crafts using right-handed scissors.)

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†And I suppose might not come up much in an all-right-handed family, so that alone would go a fair way towards making it not a Relatable Childhood Experience.

My mental model of a central SJ-enthusiast would not find the idea of handedness as a legitimate axis of privilege obvious, and would react to the idea with at best curiosity and at worst hostility. My mental model of a central generic liberal would also not find the idea obvious. I’m also very probably biased to underestimate the importance of “left hand = devil hand” type attitudes because I live in a liberal area where it doesn’t seem to be a thing. This is the context that informed the wording of my post.

It’s very possible my mental models of a central SJ-enthusiast and a central generic liberal are in error.

Tagging @ranma-official and @moral-autism because they also responded to my post.

I think the idea was, *because* handedness (in this part of space-time) is not a huge Thing to anywhere near the extent of gender or race or such, it’s a good way to ease people into the ideas without [putting them immediately on the defensive]/[making them focus on the trauma of their oppression] (depending on status).

So, I don’t think they’d go so far as to call it *legitimate* per se, but thinking it’s ridiculous to the point that “X implies that handedness is an axis of privilege” constitutes a significant mark against X also rings false to me.

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#reply via reblog #my childhood #our roads may be golden or broken or lost #mind you my dad also told me the ”I can’t operate on him! That’s my son!” riddle when I was a kid #and I felt *so* embarrassed and like *such* a failure not to have figured out the doctor was his mother #that I still remember it after all this time #(I don’t know what reaction Dad was aiming for or what reaction he thought I was having) #(but subjectively I felt like a disgrace to the name of feminism) #((I don’t recall the wording of my thoughts but that was pretty much the gist of it)) #(I doubt the *acute* pain lasted very long but the experience stuck with me) #tag rambles

brin-bellway asked: Is “using handedness to introduce children to the concept of privilege” not a standard part of liberal upbringing? Was that just me? (I don’t think they used the word “privilege”, but that was clearly the idea. I think there was some social-model-of-disability stuff involved too.)

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moral-autism:

moral-autism:

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I don’t remember it being used in my school.

It’s been long enough that I don’t remember the circumstances, but it was definitely not at school because I didn’t go to school. (I don’t *think* it was a schoolbook.)

It might have been from my parents: my dad’s left-handed, so *some* lesson on handedness would be bound to come up at some point†. Or media. Or maybe Girl Scouts (which is also kind of parents, since my mom led my troop). Or a combination of the above.

(When I dig through my brain, I get strongest associations with Girl Scouts, but that might just be from me *thinking* about previous right-handed-privilege stuff *during* Girl Scouts because of crafts using right-handed scissors.)

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†And I suppose might not come up much in an all-right-handed family, so that alone would go a fair way towards making it not a Relatable Childhood Experience.

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#reply via reblog #our roads may be golden or broken or lost #Girl Scouts #my childhood #(I’m…I guess I could put it as ”right-handed but left-armed”) #(my right hand is better at finesse and my left is better at brute strength) #((I use my left hand to open jars)) #(apparently Mom’s dominant hand is also her stronger and she was surprised to learn mine were different) #(I wonder how common a difference is)

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Anonymous asked: Hi! Those books about kids and their inner worlds seems fascinating; do you remember what they were? I’d love to read them

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brin-bellway:

theunitofcaring:

I think one of them was Siblings Without Rivalry, but I don’t know if that was the one with the ice-throwing story. I just read the first chapter because it was free on Amazon and I’m kind of alarmed I read it as a small child; it’s all about horrific intrafamily bullying and parents talking about how much witnessing this makes them hate their kids. Then again, I’ve repeatedly had the experience over the last few years of going ‘wow I read what when I was seven’ (Animorphs, yikes) so maybe small children are just actually pretty resilient.

(please stand by)

Huh, interesting. I tend to have the opposite experience: “wait, *this* was enough to terrify me when I was seven?” (There are a few episodes of mid-series Red Dwarf like that. They were trying to play the suspense for laughs, but back then I reacted as if it were played straight.)

It’s kind of comforting to see how I’ve improved. I tend to think of myself as fairly psychologically fragile, but compared to child!me I’m a goddamn juggernaut.

(it’s…probably for the best I never read Animorphs)

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#I did read a parenting book my parents had lying around when I was about nine #I don’t recall its specific problems #–and there may not have been anything specific so much as a general aura– #but I thought it was rather patronising and offensive #(as I had suspected it would be) #reply via reblog #my childhood #Animorphs #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see

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justice-turtle:

I’m going to bite somebody, I really am. What is wrong with you, 1930s Newbery writers? :P

I’m guessing your problem with this is to do with the whole ~democracy~ and ~ideals and manners~ stuff (and fair enough), but for me the problem that stands out most is:

“Instead of dwelling upon the familiar details of the story, this treatment of the legend”

I look at that, and I think:

‘And *that’s* why I had to learn nursery stories by taking several parodies and riffs of each one and noting the similarities between them. Nobody ever ““dwells upon the familiar details””, *everyone* assumes you already know and expects you to keep up.‘

You would think *children’s* media, of all things, would understand that there’s a first time for everything. If fucking *children’s books* aren’t a 101 space, what *is*?

(It may be relevant that I had to look up William Tell on Wikipedia just now. At least Wikipedia is willing to provide basic background knowledge. I guess *they’re* the 101 space for legends.)

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#reply via reblog #my childhood #(I know I used italics here) #(but I also put single quotes around it as a fallback measure)

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brin-bellway:

God, the Internet is amazing.

I was thinking fondly of a song from a childhood video game, but I could not recall how the song went or the exact name of the game. And I thought “Maybe I can fix that.”

Armed only with the information “there was this M&M-themed game on CD-ROM, and the song was the background music for level 5″, it took me all of a couple of minutes to track this down. (If you would like to skip to the best part, that is at 1:03. I tried linking to that timestamp, but it looks like you can’t do that with video posts.)

Bonus: apparently the game disc’s ISO is available from the Internet Archive.

(I wonder if Windows 7 is backwards-compatible with Windows 95 games, or if I would have to take stronger measures?)

Update:

I downloaded the ISO, installed some software that lets me run the ISO in a virtual CD-ROM drive*, and tried the game.

It works! Windows 7 had no problem (nor even complaint) installing and running this Windows 95 software. I played through level 1 and most of level 2 (out of, I think, 10). When I ran out of lives, I decided to stop for the moment rather than restarting the section.

*I do have a real CD-ROM drive, but I didn’t want to bother obtaining a blank disc to burn the file onto.

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#games #my childhood #food mention #oh look an update #Windows versions 8 and newer have virtual CD-ROM drives built in #so if I had one of those it would have been even easier than it already was #(assuming they didn’t break backwards compatibility with the game in those versions)

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God, the Internet is amazing.

I was thinking fondly of a song from a childhood video game, but I could not recall how the song went or the exact name of the game. And I thought “Maybe I can fix that.”

Armed only with the information “there was this M&M-themed game on CD-ROM, and the song was the background music for level 5″, it took me all of a couple of minutes to track this down. (If you would like to skip to the best part, that is at 1:03. I tried linking to that timestamp, but it looks like you can’t do that with video posts.)

Bonus: apparently the game disc’s ISO is available from the Internet Archive.

(I wonder if Windows 7 is backwards-compatible with Windows 95 games, or if I would have to take stronger measures?)

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#games #my childhood #music #oh look an original post #food mention #proud citizen of The Future

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enscenic replied to your post “Once Upon a Time (cont.)…”

This is, of course, the pay off on following you – the commentary and evaluation is delightful. Especially in the tags.

:)

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I’m realising that it’s really hard to model my ten-year-old self’s sexuality, because there was so much she didn’t know. Nowadays it’s hard to grok what it’s like to know that little, and to not even be aware that you might be missing information in this area.

(Apart from the lack of practical demonstrations (no condom-on-a-banana or anything; it was all book-learning), my sex education was about as good as it could reasonably have been, which is to say it was absolutely terrible for me except for teaching me how my reproductive system worked on a purely anatomical level.)

Like, how high was my pre-pubescent libido? In early puberty, when my body was still sorting out what hormonal profile to have, what effect did that have on it? I don’t know, because at the time I didn’t have a concept of “libido” in a way that was relevant to my life, and so it never occurred to me at ten to ask questions like “how often do I think about hypnosis?” or me at thirteen to ask “that time when I spent two (nonconsecutive) weeks out of a four-week period (so to speak) menstruating* because my body was still a noob at having a menstrual cycle, did I feel really tired a lot no matter how well I slept**?”. I didn’t know that these things were all connected until several years after the fact, so I didn’t keep track.

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It occurred to me this morning: while I loved A Wrinkle in Time (and thought the sequels were reasonably enjoyable in themselves but failed to live up to the first one), and I loved the Children of the Red King series, my main reaction to Molly Moon was “more boring than it had any right to be”.

I mean, it was okay, and I read a couple of the sequels, but like, how bad does your book about hypnosis have to be to get merely an “okay” rating from a porn-starved hypno-fetishist?

A model of my childhood sexuality would need to account for that, and I’m not sure what it was that made it different. (“Told almost entirely from a top’s perspective”? “Being ‘a book about hypnosis’ is actually a problem, because it causes too-high expectations”? Both? Something else?)

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*And so possibly two weeks ovulating as well.

**For a moment there, my brain tried to combine the stereotype of “teenagers are constantly horny” with that hypothesis of “our society has been chronically-sleep-depriving the vast majority of its teenagers for so long that we think symptoms of chronic sleep deprivation are ‘just part of what being a teenager is like’”, and then I remembered that for normal people, “constantly horny” is not a symptom of chronic sleep deprivation. (Note that I personally was not chronically sleep-deprived as a teenager: I was homeschooled and allowed to set my own sleep schedule.)

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transgirlkyloren:

I’m on vacation at Disneyland, ama

Are you going to buy a stuffed animal at Disneyland for your future child? My parents did that while visiting Disney during their first trying-to-conceive stage, and I always liked being able to tell people that I’d had my Winnie the Pooh teddy for [current age + 1] years.

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#reply via reblog #Disney #fertility cw?