Fuck, I still do

  • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I think it’s really interesting that everyone seems to have had either a humanoid running along side the car or something aiming from their eyes that can cut/smash only certain types of things. I wonder what makes it happen.

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      5 days ago

      omg mine was inspired by Jet Set radio characters, grinding on the power lines, rooftops & whatnot ! quite close

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      I had Sonic, from the Sonic Riders series. Seeing as Sonic could slide through some cable thing, made sense. Plus, like, Danny Phantom, maybe, and maybe others.

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      I had Ben from Ben 10 mostly as xlr8 or heatblast if need flight. Picking up powerups like milestone or postbox… Lol

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    hell yes! I’m my case, I rode a dirt bike just next to the highway jumping overpasses, dodging trees and whatever else I needed to do to keep pace with the car without crashing

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      Mine was also a ninja that used signs as weapons. He’d pull them out of the ground and use them like swords.

      Signposts with reflectors on them had special powers depending on the reflector color.

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    I don’t recall imagining a particular character, just a humanoid figure running alongside and jumping over/dodging stuff.

    Apparently this is one of those things that nobody ever talks about, but a lot of people did.

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    I had a blade extending from my hand and cut down everything we passed like telephone poles and trees and mailboxes but I couldn’t let it touch metal so I had to angle my hand up if we passed anything like that.

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      10 hours ago

      I had the same thing except it was some sort of laser and since I have aphantasia I didn’t get to see any of it and just looked for weak spots.

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      Similar, I had lasers coming out of the side mirrors but would have to take my hand off the “button” so it wouldn’t cut down the signs, telephone poles, mailboxes, people, etc.

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    5 days ago

    I hadn’t remembered this in years, but I always imagined myself out there like the Flash and how my older brothers were in the car watching me burn it up and being super impressed. I literally might not have remembered that during my entire adult life. Thanks for reminding me. Although I was more like seven at the time.

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    I would imagine a BMX bike in tow. Using bridge embankments to clear roads… 😎

  • GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today
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    No, all of ya’ll are crazy. The dot of dirt on the window was the aiming device for a laser, and you had to use it to cut all the electrical wires without cutting trees or the poles, because those are wood and it would start a fire.

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    4 days ago

    Close, but not quite the same. I used my fingers as the imaginary runner, leaping from thing to thing, riding wires, etc.

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    Nah, it was my imaginary friend doing bmx tricks, we didn’t have parkour back then.

    Also, how could a person run fast enough to keep up with a motor vehicle? Sheesh, does your imagination completely ignore science? You gotta have at least a bicycle to keep up.

    Also, this is the first time I’ve ever seen or heard someone else talk about this kind of daydream. So, it’s pretty fucking cool, even though the details aren’t the same.