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I've acquired a new superpower

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Re: I've acquired a new superpower

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Post by _nivlac_ »

Xerox9213 wrote: post #426
amingilani wrote: post #266

I'm frequently surprised by the amount of seemingly ordinary skills I picked up as a bored child that other people didn't. This was an obvious way to solve those "spot the difference" pictures in magazines. I wonder what skills other people picked up that I didn't. Some recent example of things I shared: + When your belt buckle hangs a little loosely on the front of your pants. You can hook the buckle's prong onto th…

My odd claim to fame which is hard to garner praise for is that when I was a kid I always followed a certain pattern when I did something on a left or right foot. I always tried to even it out. So if I pinched my left toes, then I would do my right. But then I would undo that by going right then left. And then I would undo that by undoing the entire thing: right left left right. And the pattern went on: LRRLRLLRRLLRL…

I did the exact same thing, due to a feeling of wanting to "even" things out between right and left. Blew my mind that it was a known pattern; after watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prh72BLNjIk&t=549s

I'm always reminded that we are all more alike than we realise :)

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Post by soperj »

kayge wrote: post #192
soperj wrote: post #162

Any recommendations for when you can't get the images to quite overlap? I feel like I can get 75% of the way there, but then they start going the other direction. I can do magic eye easily.

Use your browser to zoom out and make the images slightly smaller

this made all the difference in the world.

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Post by arwhatever »

klondike_klive wrote: post #219
duxup wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Probably my peak fame right there. My son and I always make jokes about everyone's 5 minutes of fame. Some random person on the jumbotron at a sporting event "Yup, there's his moment, it's over now." At least yours got you something ;)

One of my dad's sayings when somebody in a film delivered a line and then disappeared was "6 months rehearsal for that."

A funny quip from mst3k was “their whole family probably gathered in front of the tv to watch them deliver that 1 line.”

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Post by riffraff »

dclowd9901 wrote: post #434
iforgotpassword wrote: post #187

We got a magic eye book when I was maybe 6 - some time early elementary school. After learning how to do it, and also trying it by crossing my eyes to see an "inverted" image, I started doing it whenever I saw some repeating pattern IRL. It was most interesting when it was slightly uneven, for example a fence with sloppily applied vertical planks. Doing the magic eye would make it seem like some of them are closer to…

Yep, this is exactly what came to mind with this "newly unlocked superpower". I wonder if OP is aware they made a joke about the inability to use this superpower to identify a sailboat in a 90s indie movie.

I have never been able to see stereograms (I think because I have an eye which is far "stronger" than the other) and that movie made me feel seen.

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Post by belowm »

drdo wrote: post #160
belowm wrote: post #138

After a short period of training, I got to the point where I can see the third image which I can focus on. However, the differences are very subtile and don't stick out at all :/

Try the second test image (the one labelled "Hard", with the snow). That one was far easier for me than the first (the cat one).

Indeed, that did the trick. Thanks!

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Post by hoppp »

soco wrote: post #65
Workaccount2 wrote: post #43

At a local bar they had a game machine, and if you got a high score on any of the games, your tab for the evening was free. One of the games was a "spot the differences" between two pictures with an ever decreasing timer for each round. Using this trick I was able to easily surpass the high score, and garner a crowd watching me perform this mind numbing feat. Probably my peak fame right there.

I can't overlap the images to save my life - they get like halfway there and that's it...

Works for me, I see 3 images if I try hard and the differences pop out

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Post by bluSCALE4 »

satvikpendem wrote: post #362
iforgotpassword wrote: post #187

We got a magic eye book when I was maybe 6 - some time early elementary school. After learning how to do it, and also trying it by crossing my eyes to see an "inverted" image, I started doing it whenever I saw some repeating pattern IRL. It was most interesting when it was slightly uneven, for example a fence with sloppily applied vertical planks. Doing the magic eye would make it seem like some of them are closer to…

Now try it with various colors, some people can see "impossible" colors [0]. [0] https://preview.redd.it/yaiyf2bi9aa31.png?width=640&auto=web...

Neat, the colors only blade when perfectly aligned.

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Post by Lio »

warner25 wrote: post #348
duxup wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Probably my peak fame right there. My son and I always make jokes about everyone's 5 minutes of fame. Some random person on the jumbotron at a sporting event "Yup, there's his moment, it's over now." At least yours got you something ;)

Totally indulging in this side discussion: I remember thinking in high school and college that fame was the end-all of life, telling people that my goal was to have my own Wikipedia page. I saw it as something like the combination of being a "cool kid" (but for, you know, the whole of society instead of just one's school) and a sort of immortality. Anyway, over the last couple of decades as an adult, besides realizin…

We are all doomed to be forgotten.

Even if you are remembered briefly, what’s remembered isn’t you it’s just some vague representation of you that will fade over time.

Some famous Roman emperor might have said something similar 2000 years ago for all I know but I forget his name. :P

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