I was on a plane that made an emergency landing. It was a lot less scary or exciting than it sounds. Our plane was leaking hydraulic fluid, so we diverted to a closer airport to land while the landing gear could still be lowered with hydraulics. The landing was uneventful, but I did get to see a flash of emergency vehicles with their lights on along the runway.
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I once fell out of the attic of an abandoned house because an owl scared the living crap out of me - it was huge and it made itself look even larger, must've been the largest bird I'd seen IRL by that age. Does that count?
Killed myself successfully and lived to tell the tale
And yet you didnโt tell the tale! Are you ok? Do you feel comfortable talking about it?
I got brain rot so I forgot
I once hiked onto a mountain barefoot because of a bet with a friend, it took me 3 1/2 hours untl I have reached the summit.
Did you hike off it barefoot too, or did you pack shoes?
I was bringin sandals with me and hike-off with them
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I have been 'interviewed' by the Secret Service 2x in my life.
Both times because I was a young dumbass, and both times I am sure they wrote in my official file: 'harmless dumbass'.
I knew a guy from the US that was also interviewed by some 3 letter agency because his girlfriend was Russian. This was like 20 years ago.
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Played the game Me And My Shadow. It's an abandonware open source 2D puzzle platformer for windows that apparently was last updated in 2021, with source package last updated 2 years prior according to the last github nightly build release. Repo was archived January of this year. Not really a cool and exciting game at all compared to other open source games like Mindustry or SuperTuxKart or SRB2.