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Offline rachmaninoff_forever

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Has anyone played this game?
on: August 07, 2013, 02:29:12 AM


Who knows what the peer pressures in the college abyss will make me do...
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Re: Has anyone played this game?
Reply #1 on: August 07, 2013, 02:42:19 AM
Im a tradesman who needs his hands to work, when i come home I love to play the piano.....
 I think this game would be an excellent activity for myself..You know,..to build co-ordination! ;D
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Re: Has anyone played this game?
Reply #2 on: August 07, 2013, 03:01:47 AM
build co-ordination! ;D

That's exactly what I was thinking!
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Re: Has anyone played this game?
Reply #3 on: August 07, 2013, 03:21:34 AM
That's exactly what I was thinking!

Is it still called thinking when it's that crazy?  :-\
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Re: Has anyone played this game?
Reply #4 on: August 07, 2013, 03:27:53 AM


Not quite the original, but you get the idea.
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Re: Has anyone played this game?
Reply #5 on: August 07, 2013, 05:26:19 AM

Who knows what the peer pressures in the college abyss will make me do...

probably turn it into a drinking game

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Re: Has anyone played this game?
Reply #6 on: August 07, 2013, 10:17:37 AM
Never done it whilst singing but I used to do it after hours when we all used to pile back to someone's house after the pubs closed. The trick is to spread your fingers really wide, and try and keep near the tips. Never had an accident but I wouldn't do it now.
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Re: Has anyone played this game?
Reply #7 on: August 07, 2013, 11:11:40 PM
Not a wise thing to do if you value your future in the piano.
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Re: Has anyone played this game?
Reply #8 on: August 08, 2013, 02:17:15 AM
That's exactly what I was thinking!

If you were thinking you'd have thought:

If I don't stick my hand in the way, but put targets (such as a small dot on a piece of paper) in similar places to the gaps between the fingers, I could achieve the same level of control through practice without risking hand destruction.

That video presents possibly the dumbest ideas I've ever seen.. ever..  everrrrr...

Infact, you know what else would work?

Using one hand to do fast switches between chords on the piano that are a reasonable distance apart. Plus that way you'd be more aware of all the problems you're creating with a potentially locked up wrist/arm.

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Re: Has anyone played this game?
Reply #9 on: August 08, 2013, 02:26:46 AM
That video presents possibly the dumbest ideas I've ever seen.. ever..  everrrrr...

You really do need to get out more.



Or the original version with guns. Though the video for that is a little more disturbing.
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Re: Has anyone played this game?
Reply #10 on: August 08, 2013, 02:37:45 AM
You really do need to get out more.

Obviously I know there are dumber ideas.

In any case, "egg" russian roulette will not cause physical harm...

Is there actually any legitimate footage of a real game of russian roulette publicly available?

Offline rachmaninoff_forever

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Re: Has anyone played this game?
Reply #11 on: August 08, 2013, 02:56:31 AM

Is there actually any legitimate footage of a real game of russian roulette publicly available?

I'm sure there is on like worldstar hi hop or something.
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Offline senanserat

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Re: Has anyone played this game?
Reply #12 on: August 08, 2013, 04:54:13 AM
Obviously I know there are dumber ideas.

In any case, "egg" russian roulette will not cause physical harm...

Is there actually any legitimate footage of a real game of russian roulette publicly available?

It will humiliate you and in Russia losing your swag/mojo/ponpadour/poise is just as good as a death sentence.
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Re: Has anyone played this game?
Reply #13 on: August 09, 2013, 10:49:15 PM
With all the videos and the amount of people out there there must be.  And someone, lots of someones, have probably done that knife trick and failed.
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