totm aug 2023 What funny/interesting thing happened in your life today?

[magnemoe]

1 hour ago, Superfluous J said:

It lasted all of a fraction of a second but I actually saw detail, like fire or plasma or whatever blowing off. Then I had a green/orange line through my vision for a half hour

Ruined your night vision that, would be an big one. 
Saw one as an teen who was impressive more so it flashed then went dark and started up again. 
One in gang said it was an anti air missile test as it looked as it was going up and it was an two stage missile. 
Who we agree on, plausible outside you don't test long range SAM in populated areas. 

[AlamoVampire]

this post very nearly earned itself the negative thread. i am going to sound dramatic, but, this was very nearly catastrophic. my very life flashed before my eyes a few minutes ago. See, I was playing MLB The Show 24 and decided to swap over to watch something on Disney+. Well, Disney+ glitched out and didnt log in. I cut the app off on my PS5 and went to relaunch it. If at first it fails, try again right? This is where I thought my world just up and caught fire. See when I went to relaunch the app, my screen went dark as it does, but then it just FROZE. It wouldnt change. I shut my ps5 off, and nothing, still glowing darkness <LCD screen what can i say?>. I changed feeds to my cable box on a different HDMI cable. Still no change. I thought my TV up and died. Turns out, that tv glitched and glitched HARD. It is NOT a smart TV thank the stars. I tried everything I could think of. Turn the tv on and off. no change. swap HDMI ports, no change. Plug the cable box into a different port, still nothing. I sat there staring at an oddly glowing tv thinking that I am about to be forced into buying a new tv, one that very well may need an internet connection to work at all <i really do not want that, spectrum is sketchy enough with its internet, i dont need it to take my tv out when the internet goes down. When the internet goes down, I watch dvds and if a smart tv cant hear the internet then theres a chance it wont even let me watch stuff offline let alone my cable. I hate that thought. worse yet, spectrum hard corded my wifi antennas off because my cable modem/wifi unit is 1 unit and nearly 7 years old, so they are TRYING to force me into gear that is 2 items with less reliability... I nearly started crying from the stress. Getting back on topic, something hit me. I dont know if it was my friend who passed away in august of 2020 <im an atheist and dont believe in the supernatural so, i cant say what provoked the thought> reaching out from beyond to do what he always did best, calm my stupid butt down for 20 seconds to hard stop the tv by literally pulling its plug. Sure enough, pulling the plug full killed the tv and its back to normal. what ever normal around me is. Let this be a lesson: When in doubt TURN UNPLUG IT! I know we all know that adage of turn it off/on to see if THAT fixes it, well, guys, what works on our phones, our computers, our consoles, works on our TV's as well. I want a hug. will one of you give me a hug? Im soo stressed out. 012101072025

[DDE]

Untranslated comic below.

Spoiler

A: "So, you took out a loan. And then you took out a credit card to repay the loan?"

B: "Uh-huh"

A: "And then you took out a bunch of payday loans* to repay the debt on the credit card? Well, one thing's for certain - you have nothing to fear from a zombie apocalypse."

B: "...Why?"

Zombies: "Braaaaiiiinsssss..."

* the original refers to the more generic category "microloans", which in English usually refers to business-oriented loans only, but in Russia has come to meanm.. mildly domesticated loan sharks

 

[Kimera Industries]

19 hours ago, AlamoVampire said:

this post very nearly earned itself the negative thread. i am going to sound dramatic, but, this was very nearly catastrophic. my very life flashed before my eyes a few minutes ago. See, I was playing MLB The Show 24 and decided to swap over to watch something on Disney+. Well, Disney+ glitched out and didnt log in. I cut the app off on my PS5 and went to relaunch it. If at first it fails, try again right? This is where I thought my world just up and caught fire. See when I went to relaunch the app, my screen went dark as it does, but then it just FROZE. It wouldnt change. I shut my ps5 off, and nothing, still glowing darkness <LCD screen what can i say?>. I changed feeds to my cable box on a different HDMI cable. Still no change. I thought my TV up and died. Turns out, that tv glitched and glitched HARD. It is NOT a smart TV thank the stars. I tried everything I could think of. Turn the tv on and off. no change. swap HDMI ports, no change. Plug the cable box into a different port, still nothing. I sat there staring at an oddly glowing tv thinking that I am about to be forced into buying a new tv, one that very well may need an internet connection to work at all <i really do not want that, spectrum is sketchy enough with its internet, i dont need it to take my tv out when the internet goes down. When the internet goes down, I watch dvds and if a smart tv cant hear the internet then theres a chance it wont even let me watch stuff offline let alone my cable. I hate that thought. worse yet, spectrum hard corded my wifi antennas off because my cable modem/wifi unit is 1 unit and nearly 7 years old, so they are TRYING to force me into gear that is 2 items with less reliability... I nearly started crying from the stress. Getting back on topic, something hit me. I dont know if it was my friend who passed away in august of 2020 <im an atheist and dont believe in the supernatural so, i cant say what provoked the thought> reaching out from beyond to do what he always did best, calm my stupid butt down for 20 seconds to hard stop the tv by literally pulling its plug. Sure enough, pulling the plug full killed the tv and its back to normal. what ever normal around me is. Let this be a lesson: When in doubt TURN UNPLUG IT! I know we all know that adage of turn it off/on to see if THAT fixes it, well, guys, what works on our phones, our computers, our consoles, works on our TV's as well. I want a hug. will one of you give me a hug? Im soo stressed out. 012101072025

The purpose of 'smart' technology is to convince us that we don't want AI-integrated technology. This is clearly an insightful move by the time travelers who control the government. Wait, come back! I have more theories!