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  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I was just finishing middle school when Columbine happened, so I was front and center when they started putting metal detectors and cameras everywhere

    My strongest memory was getting in trouble when they made us watch a video about why they were installing all this expensive security stuff.

    In the video, they showed off how youth fashion could be used to hide weapons on our person, exemplified by having a clearly 25 year old man dressets in JNCO'S and a Tommy Hilfiger polo pull at least 12 guns off his person, most egregiously a full-length shotgun from his pants leg

    I started cracking up because that made absolutely no sense to me because HOW THE FUCK DO YOU WALK WITH YOUR PANTS THAT FULL OF GUN?

    I got detention for "disrespectful behavior" towards a VHS tape

    My parents were okay with it, so I didn't learn a goddamn thing

      • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        The absolutely best part about my high school's metal detector was that unless there was a security guard there to make you walk through it, there was enough clear space on both sides to just walk around it

        Just a lot of security theater designed to make it seem like the school actually cared about us as human beings as opposed to ways to get money from our parents

      • MockingTurd [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        every door was hooked up with an alarm

        We used to disable those to sneak across the street and smoke. It actually made it easier; you open a door on one side of the building and when everyone goes to check it out you leave from the other side.

        I remember people would make bomb threats to get out of tests and stuff. They would have us all line up in the parking lot to do a head count. In hindsight we would've been sitting ducks for an actual shooter people were more worried about bombs.

        It wasn't super uncommon to go hunting in the morning and have a shotgun in your car when you got to school by me... weird times

      • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        I know!

        Like, who walks around with 12 guns like they're a mid-90's superhero with a name like Blüdgunn?

          • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            He got all 900 of them and he's keeping the giant poop on his mantle to show his friends and family

            • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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              3 years ago

              I'm glad the reward for that is poop. You should be punished for trying to collect all that crap.

                • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                  3 years ago

                  I got maybe a third or so. I dunno, whatever I stumbled by. That was one of my favorite things about the game, was not only was there a lot to do, you didn't feel bad for ignoring shit you didn't wanna do. I didn't even know about Terry Town until after I beat the game and looked around for days and then finally looked up stuff online.

              • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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                3 years ago

                My partner was dead set on trying to find all of them until I told her that was the reward

                Gave me some more time with the Switch

                • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                  3 years ago

                  Like, there's that many so players can generally find enough to upgrade their inventory enough to have a satisfying carrying capacity. People complaining there were too many don't get the point that they weren't all meant to be found by one person.