Originally posted by Hitosu Moriko
in video games i let people kill themselves
Some people may not understand that, but, that's actually a really good FPS technique when there's area of affect weapons like grenades. Even against really good players, if you're good enogh at running and ticking people into firing at walls near themselves, it's hilarious.
This entry earns my stamp of "It's the Genius Way!"
I'll post of the solitaire awesomeness later tonight. I was thinking about only putting in 1 technique, but I'll actually show you guys multiple. You guys will be amazed at how complicated a simple game can become.
Parking in Your Garage.
In the mean-time, I'll tide you guys over with a tip on parking in a small garage.
If you guys have a garage packed full of stuff or it's really small and makes it difficult to know how far to pull in to get the back clearance on shutting the garage door, there's a nifty little trick I learned:
It will take about 10 minutes, a nail, some string, and a small teddy bear. First, pull your car into the garage to where you get nice clearance from the garage door (just like you always do.) Now, tie the teddy bear up with the string, and make some string long enough to stretch from the ceiling to the windshield. Then, either tie or just plain hammer the string directly above AND adjacent to the windshield so that the Teddy lightly rests on the windshield.
What does this do?
Simple: From now on, you never have to get out of your car and check that the garage door will clear your rear bumper. None of this pull forward more, and more, and more...etc. You just pull forward enough to have the teddy bear resting gently on youyr windshield. No guessing needed.
This works really well for automatic garage doors.
10 minutes could save you lots and lots of time in the future, and possibly some damage to the garage door and rear of you car.
Originally posted by Mr. Rhythmic
When you are in trouble, explain things around so you seem right.
This can actually be really bad, especially if you're in trouble. The best way to go about things is to masterfully find out about how much your accusing/accosting party knows. Then, once you have a really good feel (and you must be certain), tell as close to the truth as possible, and change things ever so slightly to avoid looking bad or at fault.
Example, you smoked some weed. Your parents confront you one day. They start by playing naive by asking you if there's anything that you want to tell them. You say something like, "Well, nothing at the moment. If this is the prelude to me getting kicked out, let me just say that I love you guys super much and I appreciate all the things you've done for me, growing up." Then hug them. They should be nice and softened up, by now, or at least get a laugh out of it. Then, ask them if something is up. They may actually tell you that your clothes from Friday night smelled like weed and booze.
Here's what you do: get close to the truth, but don't go all the way. Tell them that some of your friends drink and light up, but you don't like any of that cause you don't like the feeling it gives you. Go further to say that, often times, you request that your friends try to remain sober at your parties. IF your parents found weed on you or in your clothes, this one is easy to get out of: Tell them you friend tried to light up again, and you took his stuff so he couldn't get high. Then, go into a diatribe about being pissed at your friend throwing his life away and that you don't want to turn him in, but you still don't want to see him destroy himself.
Sure, those techniques require you to actually word things convincingly and act it out well. But that's why it's called the "genius way." It's hard to do and it seems really smart if you can pull it off.