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Jun 13, 2007 01:06

This here is an educational post about one of my favorite things: schadenfreude.

It's German, it means 'pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune'. Particularly people I don't like. So yeah, maybe it makes me mean and a bad person - do I really look like I care?

Hell, there's even a song.So if I laugh at you when something bad happens, now ( Read more... )

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italk2walls June 13 2007, 23:54:51 UTC
So, is there a limit to your laughter, or do you pretty much chortle even when guts are streaming all over the floor?

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more_bendy June 14 2007, 01:49:37 UTC
I stop laughing when it starts getting gross.

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italk2walls June 15 2007, 07:20:53 UTC
S'cool then. All comedy is pretty much someone else's tragedy. Laughing at someone when their guts are hanging out, though, that wouldn't be righteous.

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more_bendy June 15 2007, 07:25:41 UTC
That would also be really gross and drippy. I'd probably even feel kind of bad for them, unless they deserved it.

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italk2walls June 15 2007, 07:59:27 UTC
Yeah. Not even sure I'd laugh then. Guts are pretty gross.

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more_bendy June 15 2007, 08:18:25 UTC
Oh, ew, have you seen guts before?

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italk2walls June 15 2007, 10:06:06 UTC
Yeah...sort of.

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more_bendy June 15 2007, 10:19:47 UTC
Sort of? So like in a movie or something?

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italk2walls June 15 2007, 10:39:20 UTC
No...my power. I can see the past. It's like living through lots of movies at once, only you're on the sound stage and smack in the middle of them.

Kind of depends on where I am and what I touch. But ... I don't like hospitals.

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more_bendy June 15 2007, 10:58:13 UTC
That's really creepy. The more I hear about people's mental powers, the happier I am that I don't have any.

So you see memories of people's guts coming out? Ew.

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italk2walls June 16 2007, 00:32:52 UTC
I can see good things, too. That's cool.

and...I'm not an empath, but if someone was really emotionally charged and handled an item and then I did, I'd pick that up, too.

Not very useful. What's your gig?

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more_bendy June 16 2007, 09:34:19 UTC
I guess it's not all bad, then. Still, that's just too damn creepy for me, it'd be like seeing ghosts.

Uhh... I'm extra flexible and agile, and a little faster than normal. It doesn't really sound that impressive, but it's awesome.

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italk2walls June 16 2007, 10:58:31 UTC
Funny you should say that. I'm afraid I'll start doing that one day.

It sounds awesome. There's a guy around who can do illusions. I'd use it to make illusions of me being dressed when I was walking around in my PJs. Awesome.

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more_bendy June 17 2007, 08:32:04 UTC
You think you might start seeing ghosts?

It's pretty fun, I pretty much never fall down and I can climb up really high and do flips and stuff. Niou's the one who can do illusions, he's a little weird but that would be a fun power to have.

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italk2walls June 17 2007, 10:02:40 UTC
It could happen. See, best I can figure out is I read bits of our aurus--people do have them--Ghosts are just auras and emotions and whats left over when the body's gone. And from everything I've read, they tend to haunt because of sudden death and unfinished tasks.

And I really don't want to start seeing ghosts. Seeing dead people reliving their tragedies is bad enough.

That must be cool. My growth spurt happened all at once, and I was the biggest klutz for the longest time. Sounds like you can have a blast with your powers. Awesome.

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more_bendy June 18 2007, 06:04:59 UTC
So don't you kinda see ghosts already, then? I thought ghosts usually did just relive their tragedies.

Heh, yeah. It's pretty cool. I don't think I'm gonna grow anymore, but I like being short better - the taller you are the harder it is to do the stuff I do.

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