• slaacaa@lemmy.world
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      be me

      average 4chan user

      love reading and sharing greentext stories

      take screenshots of the best ones to save for later

      notice one day that a screenshot seems slightly tilted

      think it’s just my imagination

      days pass, more screenshots seem off

      angles get worse, barely noticeable but there

      try rotating my phone, doesn’t help

      open screenshots on my computer, same issue

      post about it on /x/, get mocked and called a noob

      start getting obsessed, spend hours comparing, measuring angles

      start losing sleep, seeing the tilt in my dreams

      one morning, wake up, entire room looks tilted

      try to walk, stumble and fall

      everything feels off, can’t tell which way is up

      go outside, world looks upside down

      panic, try to grab onto something stable

      people staring at me like I’m crazy

      feel like I’m in a nightmare

      rush back inside, lock the door

      look at my screenshots, they’re completely upside down

      can’t take it anymore

      hear voices whispering from my computer

      see my reflection in the monitor, it’s me but inverted

      scream, try to shut down the computer

      power button doesn’t work, can’t unplug it

      everything in my apartment starts spinning

      fall to the floor, clutching my head

      voices getting louder, can’t think straight

      world fades to black

      wake up in a padded room

      nurses say I’ve been here for weeks

      try to explain, they don’t believe me

      only allowed a pen and paper

      draw greentext arrows on the walls, but they all look tilted

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        The top right corner is darker than the top left corner, I’m guessing that is a photo of a screen

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          i had this happen to me while working IT:

          user has problem.

          User takes a picture of error message on phone. User sends photo to her email. User Downloads photo from email. User creates word document. User loads photo into the word document.

          User prints word document. User sends the printed document to my office by internal mail. Document arrives next day. User calls me to make sure I got it, and explains her issue to me over the phone. Error message she took a picture of is just completely useless information that didn’t help me when troubleshooting issue.

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        It’s a new Windows 11 feature. If you press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+L it will let you rotate your windows for more flexible placement on screen.

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          Pressing X to doubt. Not because it’s a dumb idea (because I wouldn’t put that past them), but because Microsoft is seemingly getting rid of every keyboard shortcut that doesn’t involve the windows key.

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    Ngl, I still have the fire truck I got when I was five.

    Only reason I didn’t become a fireman was getting convinced I could do stuff in nursing that I was better at and help more people than I would as a mediocre fireman.

    I dunno if it was true or not, but it ended up relatively good overall, so I ain’t mad.

    But shit, I got to ride in the trucks a few times anyway. My uncle was a volunteer fireman in the next town over, so as a kid I got rides when things were slow. Even went a few times as an adult on actual calls, though that wasn’t supposed to happen lol.

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    be me

    get laughed at for showing toy firetruck at school

    dad wakes me up for drive to school

    pass school

    “dad where are we going”

    “my friends want to meet you anon”

    pull up to schoolmate’s house

    it’s on fire

    the firefighters are there

    get to see my enemies die screaming while burning

    get to see a real fire truck

    mfw my dad took a day off to do a little arson to make me feel better

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      go to visit my dad in prison

      he asked me to smuggle in some cocaine

      I hide it in my firetruck

      give him the firetruck

      he hides the firetruck in his ass

      all the other inmates make fun of him for hiding a firetruck in his ass

      he builds a prison gang drug empire

      he has everyone that laughed at him killed

      now my firetruck smells funny