• jawsua@lemmy.one
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    4 days ago

    It was so good because I could be as rotten as I wanted, there was zero lasting harm. He immediately forgave me and found it amazing once he booted up the original drive and made sure it was all good

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      3 days ago

      When I removed the knife from his throat he immediately assured me that he didn’t have any grievances whatsoever.

      That was just a huge dick move.

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        3 days ago

        Maybe if afterwards I showed him the knife was made of painted wood, blunted completely, and I snuck a throat protector in his turtleneck.

        I did more things like checking a windows install on my laptop first, and cloning his drive off before I pulled it.

        We would regularly pull pranks on each other, the rule was it couldn’t cause lasting harm. This fit well within that, and he got me at least as good multiple times. One of my best friends, ever

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          3 days ago

          Your lack of empathy is appalling. Not your fault, but it’s not considered normal to not understand that stressing out someone is really bad. It’s a psycopathic trait, check this out.

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            2 days ago

            And here we have the reason why online psychological diagnosis is considered malpractice, especially over text in a single session

            I’m a highly empathetic person, to the point it causes me difficulties in life, especially in male relationships. I did this specific prank because I knew he personally would love it and he was already highly stressed and needed a break. It worked out great, both for our friendship and his college career.

            But thanks for the completely useless, unfounded, and insulting armchair diagnosis. Perhaps in the future your time might be better spent figuring out your compulsive need to prove yourself right and the best understander of a situation despite having almost no requisite knowledge

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      3 days ago

      So what’s the benefit of temporarily putting your friend in distress? What got better as a result of you scaring them?

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        3 days ago

        Um, our relationship? Have you ever had friends where you prank each other? The trust it engenders when you show you can play in that space but still not cause any lasting harm pulls people closer. At least it has in my experience. He’s one of my best friends ever

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          3 days ago

          If someone who I considered a friend pulled that kind of stunt with me I would have one fewer friend. Screwing with people is rude and it’s plain bully behavior when you know they’re stressed and you mess around with a thing that is cruicial for them. You had fun at someone else’s expense.