Saw this on reddit. Made me laugh. Thought I’d share.
So my friend’s 4-year-old likes to pretend he’s batman…
At the grocery store he’s running around doing superhero moves with a fierce expression and making kind of a spectacle of himself. A lady says “hello, young man, what’s your name?”
In a little kids’ version of a growly voice, he says “I’m batman”.
The lady laughs. “I mean, what’s your real name?”
Again: “I’m BATMAN!”
“No, what’s your actual real name?”
(long pause)
“Bruce Wayne.”
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New Years Surprise: A Final Fantasy Story
Jan 4
Posted by Ryan Moore in games, mind-blown, stories | No Comments
A couple days after Christmas my friend Justin was over at my house, and we decided we were going to watch a movie. I had heard great things about the Final Fantasy VII (thats a 7 folks, learn Roman Numerals) Movie and asked if he would be interested in it. He replied that he had seen it before but he wouldn’t mind seeing it again. He then asked if I had played the game. I hadn’t. He insisted that I not see it until I played the game and finished it. After debating, I agreed and we instead watched ‘Let the Right One In’. The next day he had brought his FFVII disks over and I dug out my now old Playstation and started playing.
A few days later I went to a birthday party that Justin and another friend of mine, Dillon were also at. We started talking about Final Fantasy which immediately sparked a conversation between Dillon and Justin. Both agreed that Final Fantasy 7 was the best game they had ever played because of the amazing story line. After awhile Dillon had the idea of having a Final Fantasy night.
Here was the plan: Each of us pick an installment of Final Fantasy, get 3 Playstations and 3 TVs in 1 room and all play at the same time. We would each play, and when ever someone ran into a cinematic sequence, everyone would pause the game and watch the clip. It was like a LAN party without the LAN.
We agreed that the idea was awesome and on New Years Day the plan was put into action. We set up 3 TVs in my unfinished basement and started our nerd-fest. That same day my dad had scheduled a DirecTV guy to come over and do some stuff related to well… you know, Satellite TV. As we were playing, the guy game into the room we were playing in walked behind the TV to put an end on the coaxial cord coming out of the wall. At that moment I was in the middle of a battle in my game. As he squatted down to do his job, he turned to us and asked “Are you playing Final Fantasy 7?”. To which we all looked at each other in awe and stated that we thought it was ‘freaking awesome’ that he knew that just from hearing the battle theme music. He smiled and then told us that he loved that game and he had an original sealed copy of the game back at home. Isn’t it a little weird that the day we decided to play Final Fantasy in the basement, my dad schedules a fellow Final Fantasy fan to come over to our house? Life is full of surprises.
‘I haven’t felt the way, I do today in so long’ -Incubus
Tags: 2010, 7, Directv, fantasy, final, final fantasy, final fantasy vii, mind-blown, new years, playstation
Lecture halls and Mac computers
Dec 11
Posted by Ryan Moore in funny, pranks, stories, tech | 1 Comment
When it comes to memorable moments, you never know when they are going to sneak up and surprise you. Some of the best, in my case, have occured during the most random of times and completely on accident. This is the third sentence to the introduction of my story.
Setting: I’m this fresh out of high school graduate, so naturally I take the first chance I get to get off on my own and start college. Since I couldn’t enroll for day classes yet, I decided to move out and take some night classes. A mere 2 classes is all I managed to enroll for. Both of these were held on the same day giving me 6 days of wasting my life away on WoW and 1 day to actually apply myself. Life wasn’t as good as you would think. Being lazy for extended periods of time blows.
So one day I was sitting in my 3 hour (7-10pm) ‘Intro to Humanities’ class grudgingly half listening to the professor lecture about renaissance painters who like painting blurry pictures of stupid stuff and music that didn’t even have a guitar solo. During this time I would zone in and out of caring about what this guy was talking about depending on the topic of the discussion. Well I started to zone out right about the time he brought up the word ‘Opera’ singing. While he was searching for the video clip on his computer, which was a nice new iMac by the way, I went rummaging through my backpack looking for something more interesting than opera. Anything would have done it because fat women wearing viking helmets and making weird noises doesn’t really interest me much and I don’t really see how anyone else can appreciate that. Its officially on my ‘Top 10 Stupid Crap’ list, and it isn’t coming off anytime soon.
A pencil is what I usually choose to fiddle with during boring classes, but I happened to see my Apple-branded remote first. These remotes are used with Apple products, in my case, a laptop. It took me a couple seconds of weaving it through my fingers to realize what awesome potential I had to make this dull class a little more fun. The conditions were perfect. I was sitting on the back row of a small theatre-styled lecture hall with the iMac up front connected to a projector on the ceiling. Now most Macintosh computers can be controlled with any Apple branded remote unless specifically disabled in the operating system’s settings. I wasn’t sure whether the tech crew of the school would have disabled this feature or not, so I stealthily pointed the remote at the computer up front and attempted to adjust the volume. And sure enough, it worked.
At this point the professor was just finishing up giving us the background information for the opera he was about to play for us. He gave the last few details then made the video wide screen, pressed play, then started walking to the back of the room to watch it with us. Just as he was about to sit down, I pressed the pause button on my new best friend. Confused, he stood back up, and walked back up to the computer to resume the video. Five feet before he got to it though, I pressed the button again which made the video mysteriously start up again. Even more perplexed, the teacher shrugged it off and again walked back to his seat to ‘enjoy’ the opera. What do you think happened next? Yep, you got it. I did it again a couple more times until he looked like he couldn’t make up his mind as to where he wanted to be. The remote was looking more and more like a device to control my professor rather than the computer. Thoroughly confounded and frustrated, he started looking up at ceiling projector trying to figure out just what was happening. The class just confused as he, tried to help by offering advice. Among these, I heard ‘Its because it’s a Mac!’ and ‘Maybe you have a virus’.
I decided to stop for a couple of reasons. One being that I didn’t want to totally ruin his lesson. The other being that my friend, who, sitting beside me caught on to what was happening. He demanded that I stop because he didn’t think he could go on any longer without laughing hysterically and therefore blowing my cover. I agreed as I didn’t think I could either. As I let the lesson continue on without any further interruptions, I occasionally chuckled to myself which earned me odd looks from the serious students who wondered what could possibly be funny about an opera. They had no idea.
Tags: Apple, college, computer, funny, iMac, prank, school, teacher