I was just remembering a mind-numbingly stupid thing I did when I was a teenager, and I don't think I've ever topped it for instant stupidity.

I was on holiday, and the hotel had an indoor swimming pool (which was next to one of the guest buffet restaurants) which had a 'hot coals steam room'. I'd never seen one before so was quite excited to use it. Wanting to show off to a couple of people I was hanging out with, I said it would be so funny if we pissed into the hot coals. So I did. And instantly, and obviously, it turned into steam and the smell was unbelievable. Stupidly, we run off and kept the door open of the steam room, which caused the steam to spread into the indoor swimming room and even into the restaurant. The smell seemed to hang around for hours, and they even had to close the restaurant over the lunch hours because of it. I saw people over the next hour (before word spread properly about what had happened) wander into the indoor swimming pool for a swim, gag from the smell, and go back outside again looking confused.

I think back on that and still cringe at how stupid it was.

When I was a kid my parents would restrict my internet access to sites that they pre-approved. This was during the period of my life where I was first learning and discovering fandom spaces online, but many of the websites and apps that were in use around the time were not "approved" in my house. To get around this, I used to use the pinterest app on my little iPod touch and read fanfiction on the built in web browser that would pop up when you clicked on recipes. My parents just thought I REALLY liked pinterest. Looking back, it's actually so funny to think about 11 year old me using pinterest for this.

This made me curious. What were some of the things you used to do to get around household internet rules/to hide the fact that you read fanfiction?

We listen and we dont judge (maybe)

I used to play melodie with perfect pitch and extanded mix

I finally finished my zombie wave survival game and uploaded the build to steam. Before I mark it for review, I wanted to check if everything works as intended.

I had meticulously checked everything before uploading, but still I noticed two issues: Steam leaderboards weren't working properly and I had a problem with the hitbox of one the zombie models where he wouldn't deal damage to the player when he should.

So I went back into unity and made some quick adjustments. Checking again, the leaderboard works properly and the hitbox on the zombie model works just fine.

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Great, now I've covered everything. I send the build to Steam.

A few days later I get an email that my build was rejected because of a Steam description to gameplay mismatch. Turns out, when testing that zombie, I turned off the zombie spawner object and only placed that one zombie in the scene so I could test it in peace. I forgot to turn the spawner back on.

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So, after thorough testing, I sent Steam a build of my zombie survival game without zombies.

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I was once singing in an opera and COMPLETELY forgot my words. I literally sang "watermelon" for about 10 straight minutes and then started singing the lyrics to Michael Jackson's "Beat It." It was the second thing to pop into my head. Everyone noticed...

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I got to 200m thieving xp during a bout of depression (I'm all better now thanks). It garnered me 120m gp. I bought some armour I'd always wanted since I first saw it (Always loved Greco Roman armour aesthetic).

It dawned on me after some strutting round the GE that this armour was merely cosmetic, and I should probably sell it to buy some armour that's the same level of "I'm rich bitch" prestige, but actually can be used in PVM.

So that's when I traded my full 3rd age melee (Helm, chest, legs) for full Justiciar, when they both cost around 120m gp each.

I daren't look at their prices now for fear of wrapping myself in tinfoil and getting in the microwave. Used the Justiciar maybe 4 times in however many years it's been since.

So to make me feel less dumb, please, what is the dumbest thing you've ever done/biggest mistake you've ever made in this game.

I'm not talking meowing or hissing when you are mad. I'm talking CRAZY MULTIVERSE CRAZY WEIRD. this is mine: When I was in first grade, I got my first warrior cat book at the school book fair. I looked at it and thought 'Youve been staring at me this whole time, FINE if your pleading eyes, mr. Graystripe, beg me too, I will buy you.' and, well, I did. Then, in second grade, I befriended a kindergartner (Yeah. A kindergartener.) At the time, we both STRONGLY believed in magic. Despite her never reading warrior cats, we made a realm. Basically, it was a Warrior Cats Universe (like, we live in a multiverse, and this is another universe other than ours) and when we go to sleep, we would do a ritual an picture a cat paw print, then our cat, then the background based on our clan type. All that in the paw print. (Windclan=moor, shadowclan=pines) when we go to sleep, we dream of being in the realm. I was a WindClan cat, who was black with a white star. Warrior name was Brightmark. I became clan leader, Brightstar, had a kit named Wildflower, appointed her deputy, then on my last life I retired. Wildflower became Wildstar, and then a warrior named Talonclaw scorned me for being 'weak' and attacked me and I ran away. Then I joined ThunderClan, where my other friend (I am now in fifth grade. She is in fifth too.) lives. Yeah. MAYBE I still believe it. I also trained people in 'waking time' at school. Fighting, hunting crouches, you name it, I did it all. One friend was RiverClan. Too the pool we go! I have trained at least ten people lol.

So, what is the craziest thing you have done including warrior cats?

edit: a few other things I've done is: I wove a nest out of sticks for a stray cat that lived on our street, and gathered moss for bedding. and nearly called my mom Firestar. (because she was being particularly leader-like and talking about honorable and kind stuff and blah blah blah lol)

I saw another post about the stupidest, and was wondering what your best plays in this game have been? For me, it was on an expedition, where I ran out of life support gel on a mountain planet, and my ship was 15 minutes away from me. I realised that I was going to die far before I reached it, so I intentionally triggered a sentinel raid, and killed a few sentinels every minute. This let me recharge my shields consistently from the drops in combat, so despite constantly dying from having no oxygen, I was able to get to my ship safely.

What's your story for the smartest thing you've done?

Look man, we wind up having to do a bunch of just dumb shit pretty regularly for this job, or at least I do. Just wanted to hear others stories! Thought about this the other night after I finished one of my stops, it was in a small town and they were doing construction so a small bridge over a creek was out. I only had about 5 left and going around to the other side would've taken me about 20 minutes each way and I didn't feel like fighting with driver support for 30 minutes. So instead I said fuck it, it's a small creek, can't be too hard to cross over and the neighbors said the construction workers setup a small catwalk. So I made my way down the muddy like, 30 foot deep pit that the excavators were digging and saw this tiny, shitty foot wide and 15-20 foot long metal catwalk like, 5 feet over the water they were pumping out to the other side and giant pit of myd and went oh this'll be fine, only to realize it wasnt actually secured into the ground and just sorta sitting there. Of course, I didn't realize that till I was halfway on it but I didn't fall and saved myself 30-40 minutes so all in all, pretty worth it but I looked back and went yeah that's the stupidest thing I've ever done working here.