#a friend of mine just had a computer glitch and lost a bunch of work and i said it sucked and i'm sorry and asked if he could email his prof

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

it sucks that so much of my family has also dealt with cancer but it's really lovely that they were able to give me warnings about things

[indi-indigo-loves-barley]

The Beginning - Chapter 1

[Mod Arts: A little fanfic about how Barley and Indi met/got together. Complete fluff with a side of mild family issues. Rating: PG-13  Word Count: 1631]

“Barley’s chill,” Monica assured as she clicked a few times on her computer. Watching her as she did this, Indi bit her lip. She had been playing Quests of Yore with her online friends for years, bringing someone new into the bunch made her feel slightly queasy. What if he judged her? What if he made fun of her?

Indi didn’t have another moment to worry because suddenly the boy was there in a loud flurry. His one liner (that she had missed) managed to make both Kyle and Liam laugh; Monica gave him a pity chuckle. “Tough crowd,” the boy tsk-ed before acknowledging Indi, “so you don’t have a funny bone Indigo Girl?”

Indigo Girl. 

There was no malice behind the words –no intent to hurt or belittle– he was simply interacting with her like he would any other person. Her chest unconstricted and she smiled slightly. “Naw, I do, I just have a little more class,” she joked back and he chuckled in return. In fact, everyone had laughed at her joke, including Monica.

“So why have I never met m’lady before,” Barley asked, raising a dramatic eyebrow and Indi’s mood fell. The light, fluttery feeling dropped from her stomach. This was always the elephant in the room.

“I-Im sick… can’t go out…” Indi stuttered out quietly. Barley’s face immediately fell with hers and he sat back, his mood significantly changed.

“Oh… how sick?” He looked like a lost puppy. Indi chewed on her bottom lip before speaking. Why was he so torn up about this?

“Just Anemia… but it can get really bad some days. I get dizzy spells, bouts of random tiredness, random upset stomachs, and exercise is a bitch. My moms have decided it’s easier to keep me inside.” His face seemed to lighten a degree, but not back to its original state.

“Forever,” Kyle snorted out. The word hung in the air and Indi sucked on her bottom lip harder, she could see the cogs working in Barley’s head. She could see the moment he realized she had pretty much never seen the outside world.

“Well I get out for doctors appointments…” she finally spoke up.

“Enough of the chatter,” Monica finally chimed in looking bored. Indi knew it was an act, Monica was like an older sister to her, they would always look out for each other. “I wanna play some Quests of Yore.”

“Oh, of course,” Indi piped up, grateful for the distraction, “this new campaign is gonna put y’all through it!” She started pulling out her Quests of Yore journal and flipping through it, till she landed on her newest writing. “Sabotage, spies, amnesia, Civil Wars!” Liam and Kyle groaned, they never liked the complicated stuff. 

As Indi started to DM the session she got a private message from Barley. Accepting the friend request sent along with it, she opened it. I’m sorry. She stared at the text as rehearsed words poured from her mouth. She stared until she couldn’t any longer because she needed to look at her notes for prompting.

~ ~ ~

The text was left unreplied to for three whole days. Barley had begun to wonder if he had said the wrong thing, if maybe she now hated him. It was late on the third day when he had opened the chat again to check –he always worried that his notifications might glitch and he’d never know she even replied– upon opening the chat he found she was typing. Suddenly she stopped, after a long pause she started again, only to stop. Sighing he turned off his phone and flung it on the bed, covering his eyes with his arm. Five minutes later the phone went off. 

Snatching up it he turned on the lock screen to look, it was probably Kyle or Liam wanting to play online. He nearly dropped the phone when he realized it was a text from Indi. Immediately, he unlocked his phone to read it. What had she said?

I don’t know how to reply to this… I’ve tried for a bit, but I just can’t. Originally I had typed up this great message about how it was okay, and how it was for the better. But to be honest, I hate it. I feel like Rapunzel locked up in here. I don’t know what it’s like to be a normal… and that sucks. IDK why I’m telling you all this… but you seemed like you sincerely cared, so I thought you should sincerely know.

Barley drank in the text, he read it over and over until the words were burnt into his brain. How was he supposed to reply to this? He couldn’t just give her a throw away answer like ‘that sucks’, he wasn’t that type of guy. He genuinely cared. She had spilt her guts to him because she thought he genuinely cared.

And he was going to prove it.

Like what? He sent back.

Huh? She replied.

What normal things have you missed? There was a long pause as she typed up a list, but this time she typed furiously.

Stargazing, driving, going to playgrounds, hanging upside down in a tree, going to ice cream shops, just walking down the sidewalks.

Twisting up his mouth Barley stared at the text and honestly tried not to cry. This girl hadn’t had basic childhood experiences. She was a prisoner in her own house, not a child. Finally he texted back: What are you doing later tonight?

Why??? She answered back.

Just wondering.

That’s not weird.

Just answer me.

Nothing.

He smirked, this was it, he was going to help her tick off her list one thing at a time, starting with stargazing. Video call at 8pm-ish?

Sure?

Good, was all he replied before setting down his phone with a grin. Everything was in place for a perfect plan.

When 8 o’clock finally rolled around Barley started a call and Indi immediately picked up. “Which way does your room window face,” he asked.

“This is getting really creepy, are you gonna come kidnap me,” she joked back.

“No.”

“North.”

“Coolio.” Barley threw open his window and managed to scramble out of it, before Indi realized something was happening.

“What are you doing,” she was half laughing and half terrified.

“Climbing to the roof,” Barley grunted as he hoisted himself up. “There.” Refocusing the phone on his face he smiled and Indi gave him a real laugh.

“Barley, you are the strangest boy I’ve ever met.”

“Say what you must,” he joked back before settling on the northern hemisphere. “Are you looking out your window?” He watched as she shuffled around, and then he caught a glimpse of her room.

It seems lonelier than he imagined; white walls, neat bookshelf, the bed crisp and made, nothing on the floor (from what he saw). He stared a little too long, lost in thought and missed her words. She repeated them and he finally focused on the moment, but his stomach rolled.

“I’m at my window.” He caught her words this time around and plastered a grin on for her.

“Okay. See those five stars just to the right? They make a zig-zag line?”

“Yeah,” Indi breathed out looking up on her end.

“That’s Cassiopeia. And the right next to it, those four stars on the right, that’s Andromeda's legs. Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are out too, off to the left there.”

“I cannot believe you,” Indi suddenly laughed. Her voice held no tension, only great humor. “You’re trying to take me stargazing.”

“Well, yeah. I-I thought I could help you live out your dreams you know? Tomorrow we can hang upside down from a tree, and once I get Guinevere up and running we can go driving too!” Barley was blushing slightly, he didn’t know why, but he felt anxious voicing his plan.

“Oh,” Indi’s cheeks flushed and he noted how he liked that, it brought some color to her face. “I-I’d like that.” They sat in silence for a short time before Indi bit her lip and spoke.

“So, Guinevere?”

“Yeah,” Barley piped up. “Sweet van, automatic, roomie in the back. She needs a lot of work though; new breaks, the back lights are shot, a spark plug needs replacing too. Oh and I totally have to repaint her, tan is not her color.”

“Sounds like a real junk heap,” Indi giggled, “why did you even bother to buy it?”

“Her,” Barley corrected and they laughed together for a bit. Once the laughter died down he said, “I thought it’d be a nice summer project, you know. Make my own car, then it’ll really be mine. And so Guinevere was born.”

“No yet,” Indi corrected, “once you fix her up she’ll be born. And we will have cake, and party hats. It’ll be a grand birthday.” They chuckled together and suddenly Indi let out a big yawn. “Whelp, that’s my cue for sleep, I have to make sure I get what I can. It helps to be rested.”

“Of course,” Barley nodded.

“Thanks. See you tomorrow after school?”

“Yeah! We have a tree to climb.” Smiling at each other they hung up. Climbing back down and into his room Barley grinned to himself. He was saving Rapunzel from her tower.

~ ~ ~

As Indi went through her night time ritual to get ready for sleep, she thought about Barley. Why was he being so nice to her? She had originally thought pity, but tonight he proved her wrong. There was no pity in his eyes, there was only a caring glow. If it wasn’t pity, then what was it? What made this boy care so much about her?

Lying down in her bed Indi stared at the ceiling for a while before falling into sleep.

[theheavymetalmama]

Katie Reviews “Fallout 76″

Apocalyptic

I originally had no intention of playing this game. While I was wowed by the teaser trailer, the second it was confirmed that it would be an online massive multiplayer spinoff I immediately lost all interest. It’s a genre I couldn’t care less about, as MMO’s are all just endlessly killing random things across an open world that’s as big as an ocean but as shallow as a petri dish. Still, with WoW running on fumes and the battle royale genre being the new hotness in gaming developers and publishers are giving the MMO thing another shot, and in the case of Fallout 76 Bethesda asked “Can we have both?”

Clearly that answer is no.

Now full disclosure, yes, I played the original Fallout and Fallout 2, as well as Brotherhood of Steel, Fallout 3, New Vegas, and the very divisive Fallout 4. No, I’m not one of those fans who hold 1 and 2 aloft like She Ra’s magic sword nor do I think 3 or 4 are blights on the series. I also really dig New Vegas, but I’m one of the fans who likes the game and will admit its’ flaws other than the glitches.

So to answer your question. Is Fallout 76 the worst Fallout game ever? No, that would be Brotherhood of Steel, but 76 is right up there. I’m not kidding. Fallout 76 is a terrible game. When reviews and word of mouth came in I just had to try this game for myself, and luckily(?) for me a friend of mine got this game and let me give it a shot. I fired it up, created a character, watched the opening cutscene and jumped into the game, and oh my jumping Jesus. It wasn’t just bad, it was so much worse than I could have imagined. It’s exactly the kind of bog standard open world survival game with crafting and zombies shamelessly cashing in on the then success of games like Day Z and Rust that still flood Steam’s front page to this day.

First person shooting in Bethesda Fallout games were always a bit janky at best, but combat in this game feels like trying to play Fallout 3 where the VATS system doesn’t work and there’s an agitated cat constantly jumping on and off you while you play. Speaking of VATS, in this game, forget about it. I can’t tell you how often I shot at something at damn near point blank range and still managed to miss the target completely. Thought to be perfectly honest, even if I was landing direct hits it still wouldn’t matter all that much because pretty much every weapon in their vanilla form that isn’t a minigun or missile launcher has so little impact they may as well be BB guns.

The story is awful. Say what you will about the trite and lopsided main story of Fallout 4, but it was still a story. There a beginning, middle, and end with all sorts of different characters you meet along the way. In 76, all you do is talk to a bunch of random computer monitors and maybe a couple of robots that send you bouncing around all over the map like a Fallout themed pinball machine and you’re the ball. And to what end? I don’t know, because it was so soul crushingly boring that I outright abandoned the main story after like the fourth time speaking to a static screen with some dude’s mug on it.

While there is some impressive lighting in this game, on the whole the graphics and aesthetics look like a bland, washed out version of Fallout 4. There are a few decent visuals and some of the interior details paint a clear picture of what happened when the bombs fell, but unlike previous installments almost none of them are memorable. It’s been well over a year since I last played Fallout 3, and I still remember the locations, set pieces, and visuals like the wrecked Nuka Cola truck and the entrance to Rivet City. Meanwhile I dropped 76 not two days ago and I barely remember anything as far as location specific details go.

Now I don’t know if this part was just me, but the server I played on was barely populated. I ran into maybe three other people, one of which was a griefing little shithead. Not only did it feel empty for an online multiplayer game, but this made fights with certain enemies mind numbingly tedious. You can go it alone, but it’s painfully obvious the game was designed for you to pal around with at least five or six other players. Again, I don’t know if this is common or just me, but my playthrough was pretty damn barren. I know that sounds weird since Fallout games are supposed to feel dead, barren, and empty, but this felt less like wandering a post nuclear wasteland and more like exploring an abandoned shopping mall.

And speaking of tedium there’s the resource management and crafting. I only made it to about level 10 or so, but even then by that point I was spending about ten minutes every hour or so sorting and scraping through my loot so as to not overburden my character. See, the only place you can safely sleep and store items is your own personal, portable camping sight. It’s a good idea in theory, but in practice it only serves to add more arduous busywork as your storage box consists of a measly 400 pounds. Which wouldn’t be a big deal if it weren’t for the fact that after Fallout 4 I was wired to pick up every single useless piece of junk for every scrap of resources for building my settlements, so in Fallout 76 I was endlessly juggling my gear deciding what to keep, what to scrap, and what to leave behind. I don’t feel like I’m making use of what I have in order  to build a new world from the ashes of the old; I feel like Tim the Tool Man at a fucking garage sale.

Fallout 76 is to the Fallout series what Chinese Democracy was to Guns n’ Roses. It’s well and truly awful, a blight not just on the series and Bethesda, but on gaming as a whole. MMO’s in general rarely make any impact, and even the ones that succeed eventually get chewed up and spat out by World of Warcraft. And since WoW refuses to die, time and time again a publisher throws their hat into the MMO ring to test their mettle and very few of them are successful.

Bethesda is yet another notch on the holster of failed MMOs. They wanted World of Fallout, and instead they ended up with City of Zeroes.

2/10. Country roads, take me home. Please.

[mizukikuramoto]

“KILL JA̶CKSEPTICEYE | Bio IN̵̛c Redemp T̨I̶̢on” Analysis + Theory

I don’t know if this is going to get any attention in the tag... that’s alright if it doesn’t. I just want to collect my thoughts into an analysis and a theory.

Well well well... Anti is back for more, and we also had the pleasure of seeing Dr.Schnee in action... Let’s just get to the point. Hey g͚̘͉̘̖̼̤͒̓̆̓͌̚͡ĺ̷̞̙̰̳͔̯̼̞̓̆͑̃̚͢͝ȉ̵̬͕̖̥͊̉̐̕̕̚͜͠ẗ̡̻̝͍͇́̑̈́̔̽̄͞͡͡ͅc̷̬̳̭͉͉͚̹̗̏͑̊̌̐̇͛́͡͡ͅh̦̘̪̥̽̾̒̋̉̃̀ͅ b̷̧̠͖̦̗̍͌̑̈́͗̇̕͜͠͡͠i̶̯̭͔̪̭̫͍̣͍̳͑́̈̉͌̆͞ţ̧̭͕̭̙̩͔̭̲͛̈̄̓̊c̬̰̞͔̹̱̙̪̹̳̉͌̀̃̒̑̚͡ḣ̶̨̜͙̜̙̔̈̋̋̕̕͝!̨̛̛̞̠̳͕̌͌̎̓͐͆͢ I’m going to shoot your plans out of the water!

But first, let’s dissect this video a little bit. I’ll be using time stamps as a reference. 

[0:39 - 0:45] Jack feels sick and steps out of the video, covering his mouth as if he’s about to throw up.

[0:47] Ze good Doctah takes over! He is confident, per usual.

[1:22 - 1:28] “JackSepticEye. . . he is one of my dear friends.” Normal for an alternative ego to have a correlating relationship with the ‘main ego.’ He expresses an attachment to Jack.

[2:00 - 2:10] “Taking shape, taking form. You do not look the best. You do not look the way you have always looked. You do not look like... yourself...” A bit weird to say that after assuming a stomach problem. It’s as if Dr.Schneep is aware of Jack’s disposition, that Anti is slowly taking control of him and that it’s physically taking a toll on him... well, perhaps appearance wise, but the video in itself is showing that Anti is causing Jack to slowly inch to death.

[2:22] The first glitch is seen. Subtle, sudden. Dr.Schneep appears to be fine.

[2:57 - 3:02] “Always. Always with the mood swings, one time he is one person, the next time he is a completely different person.” I’m probably looking at this too much... I just found this interesting.

[3:07] Ze doctah’s eye is itchy... ehh, it’s probably because Jack’s eye is itchy. Nothing more probably.

[3:41 - 3:45] Dr.Schneep starts to worry about Jack. The appropriate response for a concerning doctor and friend.

[4:14] The second glitch is seen. Longer than the first. It looks like Dr.Schneep is getting a nose bleed, just like how Jack got one from the “Say Goodbye” video. This could be Anti infecting him.

[4:18 - 4:28] “I saved my very good friend Chase. Chase Brody, he went back. He saw his family. Did they take him back? We may never know--” I mean, there’s speculation that Anti already got Chase. I saw a picture of Anti with his hat in a post. Just a thought. Dr.Schneep is getting a bit more concerned.

[4:54] Preeeety specific with the ‘anti’ in anti-coagulants...

[5:03 - 5:12] “If something gets inside your body, and it wants to destroy you from the inside out, there’s only one way to deal with it and that way is SCHNEEPLESTEN.” Things are starting to get serious. It’s just like timestamp [2:00 - 2:10], it’s as if he knows that Anti is slowly gaining more control over Jack. The third glitch shows ze doctah with black eyes, just like Anti’s. Anti has now fully infected Dr.Schneep, and I think he knows it too. 

[5:12 - 5:25] “You’re not... looking yourself. It’s getting very warm in here. . . very scary, very, very, nervous.” He is reaaaaally stressing out at this point. He’s trying to compose himself, but he is really worried about Jack and he’s getting flustered. Him saying that it’s very warm is probably due to him panicking.

[5:26 - 5:34] “What is happening? I feel it in my own arm.” Jack and Dr.Schneep are one and the same, they have a connection. Maybe it’s a heightened connection since Anti is inflicting pain on Jack while infecting ze Doctah. 

[6:03] The fourth glitch happens. Dr.Schneep is rubbing his neck. It possibly connects to the slit on Anti’s neck? The one he stitched? 

[6:32] The fifth glitch happens. Ze doctah is stressed out of his mind.’

[6:38 - 6:43] “You need... get... whatever is inside that brain! Whatever is inside, we need to get it out!” He is fully aware of what is happening to him, and he is stressing out big time because he is going to lose Jack if he doesn’t do anything. The sixth glitch shows Dr.Schneep convulsing, as if possessed.

[6:44 - 6:47] The flickering of the glitches are becoming more frequent, and Anti’s voice emanates from Dr.Schneep’s voice when he says ‘die.’

[6:49 -6:54] “Not again, I will not lose you. I almost lost you once before.” HE’S ADMITTING THAT HE STITCHED AND HEALED ANTI AFTER “SAY GOODBYE!” This is it! After Jack killed himself, Anti took over his body, and ze doctah stitched him back together. It’s still Jack’s body nonetheless! More flickering occurs.

[6:58] Dr.Schneep is freaking out, he has no idea what to do. He’s going to lose Jack. He is panicking.

[7:15] His attempts to save Jack are becoming futile. Systems failure is in the Zalgo/creepy font in cc. The camera flickers dimly to reveal Anti for the first time, smiling at us. Anti knows that he’s going to kill Jack, again.

[7:40 - 7:48] Dr.Schneep grows anxious.Anti speaks out from ze doctah with maniacal laughter. Anti has more control over him. 

[7:51 - 8:02] “Ve need to save him-- I need your help!!” Dr.Schneep is being driven by fear and panic. The feedback of the camera is lagging. He knows his demise is coming, and now he’s screaming at the audience to help Jack. He knows that we, the community, can stop Anti, but he alone cannot. Anti continues to speak over ze doctah, telling the audience to save him and not Jack... just like he always wanted us to do. (By the way that was a pretty cool transition from Sean to Anti c:)

[8:05 - 8:10] “Antidepressants, Anti-- depress--press--press--press. We have to depress Anti--and--get him out of there!” He’s trying to fight against Anti’s influence. He doesn’t have that much time, and now he’s trying to go against the glitch to send the community a message to stop Anti.

[8:11 - 8:20] Anti fights back and manipulates Dr.Schneep’s body to hang itself on the cord of his headphones. Ze doctah- thank goodness that this happened- breaks out of Anti’s control and continues to do his best to save Jack. This shows that he was, originally, one of the strongest egos among Jack’s alternatives. Sadly, he’s losing the battle as he is slowly fusing with the glitches of the video.

[8:24 - 8:29] Dr.Schneep is stuck in the control of Anti’s glitch, which is apparent from his repetitive, yet contorted, mention of anti-coagulants. His movement is synced with Anti’s as the camera flickers between ze doctah and Anti, signifying that Anti has full control over him now. Their expressions match, the madness is taking over him with every pulse of a glitch.

[8:30 - 8:46] Ze doctah’s pain is either the connection with Jack slowly dying, or the pain is from Anti which he is inflicting upon him. Anti, in the background, continues to laugh as Dr.Schneep succumbs to the realization that Jack will die, that whatever he did made Jack worse, that his efforts were wasted on someone that was going to die.

This is Anti’s part. I’m just going to list out the important parts he says.

“im tired of playing pretend! sick of it!”

“and you thought you had him back”

 “they all follow me”

“ive kept control all of this time!”

“i am eternal, always!”

“fooling around over, and OVER! in fucking circles!”

“mocking me with your ‘glitch bitch’ ” ha yeah shut up Anti you are a glitch bitch

“that doctor thought he could save him but he was MINE! he was weak!”

"who do you think youve been watching all of this time”

“powerless”

“my puppets”

“there are no strings on me”

So... what now. 

What does Anti want? What is he going to do? Jack is dead... again. What happened to Dr.Schneeplesten? I have a few ideas as to what’s going to come in the future.

There’s a few new things he mentioned during his little hissy fit: “my puppets” and “there are no strings on me.” He’s talking as if he is a puppeteer, the one pulling strings in this entire predicament. He wants- desires for power, for control, and as we were watching,”powerless” and unable to do much at first, he was ever so slowly getting what he wanted. From this video, it appears that Dr.Schneeplesten is now under Anti’s control, making the strongest of the bunch submit to Anti’s will. It’s just like what ze doctah said: “If one goes down, then they all go down.” Anti is planning to take down every other alternative ego and to break their will so that he could enter easily within them. He was able to successfully infect Dr.Schneep by making him feel helpless. Anti slowly pushed Jack to death and Dr.Schneep couldn’t do anything about it, causing him to spiral into a heap of panic and mistakes. He was mentally broken, and that was when Anti entered. If he was able to do that to him, then think about what he could possibly do to the rest of them?

What I fear is that Anti will use all of the alternative egos against Jack. Jack’s creations will turn against him.They will torture him, just like how Anti did to ze doctah. They will do all the dirty work, and Anti will grab the opportunity to possess Jack and fully control him. In a way, it’s like a computer: if you take down all of the smaller systems in a huge one, then you can hit the center core of the process with ease.

Now... what can we do?

We fight back. We can think two steps ahead of what Anti is planning. We continue to strengthen our will for Jack to come back- especially when he broke his two video streak OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE ANTI YOU BITCH- and to make sure that we #saveseptic/#septicsave rather than save Anti. If we break now in a heap of worry, which is honestly working Anti WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO JACK, then we are playing right into the his hands.

Let’s do this for Dr.Schneep! For Jack! We are more than one person. We are a community. We’re not going to let some petty glitch take over Jack!

On another lighter note, I hope that you enjoyed my analysis, interpretation, and theory! I would really love your feedback please dont roast me alive. I’ll be honest, I’m scared to post this over tumblr. It’s moreso that it might get negative feedback, but that’s the risk that I must accept. I never really popped my head and put my input in stuff, especially in Mark’s and Jack’s community, so yeah ^^’

Have a good day all. Stay awesome, you are all amazing.

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29 People Reveal Their Best Newly Discovered Life Loopholes

Humans have always existed on the brink of stupidity and pure genius.

Loopholes were discovered by those who lean more on the genius side.

Sometimes when loopholes are found, they aren’t always shared. No one wants their secret to be discovered, and even worse, destroyed.

But Reddit has proved to be a safe space for people to share their loopholes.

Get out your pen and paper because a lot of these you are going to want to keep for a long time.

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Airplane Genius

“A few years ago I was flying from Detroit to Charlotte. Prices were higher than I would have liked, so I checked a couple of other nearby destinations.

Found that a flight to Greensboro (two hours away by car) was much cheaper, yet somehow still connected through Charlotte (Detroit -> Charlotte -> Greensboro). So I said screw it, bought a one-way, and carried on my bag, with plans to abandon the flight in Charlotte. All went well.

As I was walking through Charlotte airport, I passed the Greensboro gate and heard the agent asking for volunteers (the flight was oversold). So with a heavy heart and Oscar-winning sympathy for the gate agent’s predicament, I agreed to give up my Greensboro ticket for an extra $200 in vouchers.

Then I skated out of the airport feeling as though I’d beat the unfathomable system for once.” @leaflitterer

Wow, what a truly selfless man. This might be the only lucky airport story among thousands of unlucky airport stories.

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The HamBurglar

“I went to a local burger place that was running a promotion for either 1 free large fries or 1 free burger of your choice (from a preselected menu of 4 or so options).

It was one of those promotional coupons that get printed on the bottom of your receipt and you just cut off the coupon and give it to the cashier. Well, I don’t know if the burger place f**ked something up or if they did it intentionally but after redeeming my coupon for a free burger, they gave me a receipt with another coupon for the same deal on it. I came back the next day, redeemed it and the same thing happened.

I was being given coupons for free burgers by redeeming my coupons for free burgers. I took advantage of this situation for about a week before the promotion ended. The next time they ran the promotion, none of the free food came with a receipt so I’m almost 100% positive they caught onto my abuse.” @Merry_Dankmas

I could get very carried away with this because I love hamburgers. But what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right?

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Idiot Sandwich

“In college, there was a sandwich shop where you’d build your own sandwich using a paper checklist, give it to a sandwich maker, and they’d build it.

I found out that starting with a cheese sandwich base and adding meat was a dollar or so cheaper than starting with a meat sandwich and adding cheese.

Also, the cheese sandwich version would have about the same amount of meat as the meat version, but about twice the amount of cheese.” @robbbbb

In college, you’ll do just about anything to get more food for cheaper, which involves being a little bit of a mad genius.

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Rigged Arcades

“I discovered in my local arcade that there’s a machine that you can get to jam up by dumping a bunch of quarters into it really fast, and when it jams it gets confused and starts shooting nonstop tickets out at you.

The folks who work at the arcade probably want to know how I am so dang good at arcade games, and also why I keep coming back for more inflatable dolphins.” @snarkyopteryx

This was my dream as a child. Rig the arcade game and win infinite inflatable dolphins. What I would do with them, I don’t know, but rigging the game would be the best part.

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Endless Spaghetti

“While in college, I used to work at a fast Italian place that had two shifts (lunch and dinner). Dinner shifts would start at 5.

Well, employees got one free meal per shift under the manager on duty. So what I would do is go in at 4 and get a huge meal that would be a good size dinner, and finish it by 4:30 when the dinner manager showed up. Then at the end of the night, the dinner manager would set a time for all clean up crew to make a meal before going home.

Basically, because I volunteered for cleanup each night, I would get a second free meal that I would save for lunch the next day in addition to an extra hour of pay. I made it nearly three months without buying food or groceries because of this since the menu was enormous and I got creative/counted calories well.” @musicman206

Again, college kids will do almost anything for a free meal. No shame in their game.

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The True Winner

“Back when I was in high school, I worked at a supermarket. At the time Snapple had a contest where you had to check under the cap to see if you won.

Well, I found out that certain flavors, like Snapple Apple, is clear enough you can see from the bottom of the bottle. I just kept buying the winners every week.

So many shirts and frisbees.” @ohitsmark

Dang it, I should have thought of this! I never won any of those contests. All I wanted was a free frisbee.

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Blockbuster Goes Bankrupt

“If I kept a video for too long, my Blockbuster would take $25 out of my checking account. If I then returned the video, Blockbuster would put the $25 back into my checking account AND apply a $25 credit to my Blockbuster account.

A useful little computer glitch, that. The next time I rented a video, the guy rang it up, handed me my video and said, “You’re all set, and you still have $23 credit.” That was how I discovered the glitch.

So I kept that movie too long, on purpose this time. Blockbuster then took $25 from my checking account. As soon as that happened, I returned the video. Blockbuster gave me back that $25 and added another $25 credit to my account. So now I was up to $48 in Blockbuster credit for doing nothing more than keeping two videos for too long.

So I checked out another video and kept it… I eventually built up over $200 in Blockbuster credits. I finally quit because it was just too easy. Like shooting fish in a barrel.

They went out of business soon after, which was not a big surprise.” @PaulsRedditUsername

So this is how Blockbuster went out of business! It all makes sense now.

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Everyone Gets A Free TV!

“I remodeled my kitchen a few years back and bought all new appliances from Samsung. They had a promotion that gave you a free TV with a new Fridge/stove. The promotion worked by giving you a single use coupon code when you shopped at the Samsung store. The odd thing was this coupon didn’t subtract the price of 1 TV from your shopping cart. Instead it modified the unit price of the TV to $0.00.

This was a normal web shopping cart where you could edit the quantities of each item you were buying. I didn’t really need another 32″ TV but I had to know if really the web design was that bad. It was, and Xmas shopping for Mom was cheap that year.” @frogspaw

Now that’s a glitch I can stand behind! Merry Christmas to everyone, especially you mom.

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Disappearing Student

“When I was in high school and we had a sub I’d volunteer to take the attendance sheet to the office so that I could ditch the rest of the period while still being marked as present.” @TornFromTheWomb

This is…beautiful. I’m upset I didn’t think of this myself.

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Parking Professional

“Not me but a buddy of mine. In Chicago for a weekend, parked in a garage that was $55 a day. Over a 4 day weekend, that’s a $220 total.

But the signs posted all over the place say if you lose your ticket, you’ll be charged a full day. So my buddy parked for 4 days and only paid for 1.” @Weird_Map_Guy

This is the only time where I’d be happy I lost my parking ticket.

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The Gift That Keeps on Giving

“Back in high school, there was this one Jamba Juice in a Safeway that my friend and I would go to every now and then. One day, my friend got a coupon through an email for a buy one get one of equal or lesser value free, but only at that specific location.

The biggest mistake they made? There was no expiration date on the coupon. So my friend prints out a few pages worth of the coupon, cut them into individual slips, and we just used them every time we went there.

They never caught on.” @Sleepy_Potato

No expiration date, no problem. Just endless smoothies.

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A Win-Win

“Current job is commission only, but has an ‘additional discount’ if you fail to meet a certain amount of net sales every week.

I found out that if I sell $7800-8000/week I would take home $1200-1500/week.

If I sold $500 more a week (easily doable), I would only take home $700-800/week because of the loss of the discount. It, literally, pays for me do be lazy and know math.” @landravager

It pays (literally) to do your math people. Count it up, rake it in. #MoneyMoves

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Hotel, Motel, Holiday Win

“You have a hotel reservation with a two-day cancellation policy. Your plans change one day before your trip, so you can’t cancel without paying for the room.

Instead, reschedule the reservation for a future date more than two days out. Then call back later and cancel.” @Hysterical_Realist

I am so proud of humans. Look at the geniuses we have created! Never will I pay a cancelation fee again.

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Milk Money

“A few years ago a milk company did a promotion at work to allow you a free half gallon bottle of their milk.

They didn’t have the vouchers ready at the time so emailed everyone at work a pdf copy.

No one at work paid for milk for the next six months until the offer expired.” @UniquePotato

That’s a lot of free milk. Which means I get to have cereal everyday!

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Lush Life

“This isn’t super exciting, but the store Lush loves to give out samples. They sell beauty products.

Now, their shampoo samples run out in no time but if you ask for any kind of soap it goes a long way. Every time I buy shampoo there, I ask to try out a new face-cleansing product and get a good chunk of soap.

I haven’t paid for skin care products in six months and my acne is almost gone.” @Notrightnowplease_

If you add together enough samples, it basically becomes the whole product. This is the life I aspire to have.

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Movie Pass Madness

“For the most part, My AMC rewards card works with my MoviePass so when I get to go to movies for 9.95 a month I usually can get a free large popcorn and drink because it tracks my rewards as if I bought the tickets at normal value.” @Underlipetx

I can really dig this. More popcorn? Extra butter, please.

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I’m Lovin’ It

“Last McDonalds Monopoly promotion, they had the “get a free burger/fries/coffee” tickets again. Our McDonald’s has the machines where you can put in your order. The machine doesn’t ask for the tickets of course, so you can just add the free items to whatever you order.

Then select that you want to pay at the counter. In my McDonald’s they never asked for the tickets, as their register system just asks for the total amount of money once they put the order number in. I kept the tickets on me just in case.

I also never tried to go above 1 or 2 extra items, but the system would have let you. Took about 2 months until someone asked me to give them the tickets on picking up the food. But it was about a week before the promo ended.” @LemonRaven

I would be absolutely swimming in McDonald’s french fries. Which is actually a dream I had one time. Does anyone else have dreams about french fries? No? Just me?

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I’m Still Lovin’ It

“McDonalds brought out this Christmas app where you played each day and it gave you a new prize. Most of the time the prize was like a Festive Pie but sometimes it was a large burger.

You could only spin once a day.

Spin, delete and reinstall the app, spin again till you got the prize you wanted. I ate there every day for free for a month. So did several of my friends.” @harkerryan

More free food! I really am loving this. It feels like all my dreams are coming true at once.

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Coca-Cola Contestant

“Coke ran a competition here where you got a code on the underside of the can tab or on the inside of the label on the bottle and you text it to a number and were entered into a competition which ran every 15 minutes to win a football and an hourly one to win an iPod.

12 year old me would collect a few, set an alarm for 5am and enter one in each 15 minutes competition and then had 4 in every hourly competition.

At 5am most people who are up are either getting up for work (not drinking Coke) or still partying (different coke).

Think I won about 40 footballs and 8 iPods until it ended. A hefty profit for a kid who had no expenses. They changed entry hours to more social hours to fix this loophole.” @KetamineKetayours

What could you do with 40 footballs and eight iPods? I don’t know but at least they’re free.

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TV Addict

“When I was in middle/high school my parents put child locks on the cable box so I wouldn’t be able to watch tv when I got home and would work on homework instead.

They set it so that it would only work from the hours of like 5 to 11 on weekdays.

What they didn’t know is you can change the time zone in the cable box settings, so every afternoon I just switched to whatever the f**k time zone it was 5 o’clock in and switched it back before they got home.” @hairyhairyveryscary

Hell hath no fury like a kid who desperately wants to watch TV.

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Devious Drivers Ed

“In drivers ed we had to do this simulator type thing. Only hard part about it was that everyone had their own driver’s seat, but there was only one big screen- you had no idea if you were making errors. Soooo many people failed the simulators.

I discovered that if you never took the car out of park, it only dinged you for the one mistake. Highest grade in the class.” @if_not_impulsive

Genius idea, just not too sure how I feel about him hitting the streets.

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The Happiest Place on Earth

“I work 30 mins away from Disneyland and I usually go to the park on Tuesdays after work.

I usually park at Downtown Disney, buy a movie ticket for $5 using my AMC rewards membership and enjoy 5 hours of validated parking. It works out because it dies down at the park around 6pm.” @julianjames_

Oooh, I am definitely using this one. Disney already takes enough of my money when I cash out buying Dole Whip and churros.

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The Generous Vending Machine

“Me and some friends discovered that if we unplugged the vending machine in the band room of the high school for about 10 min, once it was plugged back in it would dispense free drinks for awhile.

Not sure how long the freebies lasted but it was always back to normal by the next morning.” @sharrrp

Do kids even use vending machines anymore? I feel like this would have been the equivalent to hitting the lotto when I was in high school.

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Laundry Day

“We lived in an apartment building with shared laundry. The machines only accepted tokens- like at an arcade. You could buy tokens from them and one token was about $2.00 or one wash/dry cycle.

Along with our neighbors we found the exact same tokens online and purchased over 1000-the minimum order- and only $140. We used those tokens for a few years and handed them out like prizes to our neighbors when we moved.

The management company only said we had to use tokens to pay the machines not where they had to come from.” @picklewiffle

All of a sudden I love laundry day very, very much.

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AirBnb Baller

“Instead of booking an Airbnb once, use a referral code for $40 and create another Airbnb account to book two trips, just let the host know what your intentions are and that you’re trying to use credit.

Also ask them to refund you one cleaning fee because technically, it is one whole trip. Oh, and the $40 code only applies to trips $75 and over.” @bankrollbully

Fingers crossed that the Airbnb host is cool enough to let this one slide.

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First Time, Every Time

“Any app that gives first-time only deals or credits, try downloading a texting app. Rinse and repeat, I used to do this with Uber and Lyft all the time but I think they caught on because some phone numbers generated by texting apps aren’t supported.

You can legit just fill out fake info, fake email addresses, just to use first-time only codes and never use the account again.” @bankrollbully

Multiple identities, multiple phone numbers, multiple dollars being saved. I can stand by a lifestyle like that.

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Loyalty, Loyalty, Loyalty

“When you’re traveling and you go to a grocery store or any store really, and they ask for a card, tell them you have a phone number. Then say whatever the local area code is, plus 555-1212 (a quick Internet search can tell you the area code you’re in.)

I cannot tell you how many times this has worked.

God bless all you people that sign up for loyalty and rewards programs under that generic number.” @Mysticedge

Ok so I’m a little afraid of trying this but it’s worth a shot for sure. Love me some free loyalty points.

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Pizza Party!

“When I was a broke college kid, papa John’s was trying to get their internet business of the ground and offered a pick-up-only large pizza any way you want it for first time users coupon.

I just made new accounts for apartments that didn’t exist in my building.

Used that for like a year.” @royalobi

Another dream of mine. Endless pizza. This could lead to some serious health issues but it’s pizza so how do I say no?

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Freshman 15

“Back when I was a wee little undergrad freshman, the campus cafeteria required you to swipe your student ID to get in, then charged your student account the appropriate flat rate for a meal (so like $5 for breakfast bar, $7 for lunch/dinner, $5 for weekend buffet).

If you knew you’d be eating there often, you could pay a flat $1000 at the beginning of the semester for unlimited use of the buffet. Meanwhile, these same IDs unlocked the dorms, so one floor up from the cafeteria there was a security office where you’d sign out a “loaner” ID linked to the security account if you left yours in your room or something.

Guess which account had unlimited meal credit on it. No penalties for being one of those forgetful types who’s always losing your card, so… I think only myself and my two roommates ever linked the two ideas together, but boy did we eat well in college.” @SweaterZach

I am amazed by college freshman. Is there anything, besides attending class, that they can’t do?

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Share this article with friends who could use that free pizza or a really great discount. A little bit of a loophole goes a long way.

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