• jawsua@lemmy.one
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      1 day ago

      It was so good because I could be as rotten as I wanted, there was zero lasting harm. He immediately forgave me and found it amazing once he booted up the original drive and made sure it was all good

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        12 hours ago

        So what’s the benefit of temporarily putting your friend in distress? What got better as a result of you scaring them?

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          27 minutes ago

          Um, our relationship? Have you ever had friends where you prank each other? The trust it engenders when you show you can play in that space but still not cause any lasting harm pulls people closer. At least it has in my experience. He’s one of my best friends ever

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        11 hours ago

        When I removed the knife from his throat he immediately assured me that he didn’t have any grievances whatsoever.

        That was just a huge dick move.

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          7 minutes ago

          Maybe if afterwards I showed him the knife was made of painted wood, blunted completely, and I snuck a throat protector in his turtleneck.

          I did more things like checking a windows install on my laptop first, and cloning his drive off before I pulled it.

          We would regularly pull pranks on each other, the rule was it couldn’t cause lasting harm. This fit well within that, and he got me at least as good multiple times. One of my best friends, ever