Do You Want to Play a Game?

[quote=jhoijhoi]This was on imgur today, so if you've already seen it, [u]don't ruin it for anyone else.[/u] I'll be paraphrasing some of it, but the game will be the same for the sake of keeping consistency. If you play the game and post your response, [b][u]ensure your response is spoilered[/u][/b]. The code for spoilering text is: [[[spoiler]]]Write stuff here.[[[/spoiler]]] [center][size=5]The Game[/center] -------------------------------- This game will reveal incredible things about whoever plays it - it may surprise, shock or delight you. It is a fun, simple activity that has no wrong or right answers, only your answers. Open a Notepad and complete the tasks as they come. The more descriptive and detailed you are, the better the results. Remember, if you decide to share, [b]ensure you spoiler your response[/b]. [columns][size=5]1.[/size] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol width=80][center][size=5]Cube[/size][/center] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol]I want you to imagine a desert, stretching out as far as your eyes can see. In this desert is a cube. Your first task is to describe the cube. What does it look like? How large is it? What is it made out of? Where in the desert is it, exactly?[/columns] [columns][size=5]2.[/size] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol width=80][center][size=5]Ladder[/size][/center] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol]As you look at the desert and your cube, you notice there is also a ladder. Your second task is to describe the ladder. What is it made out of? How big is it? Where is it, in relation to the cube?[/columns] [columns][size=5]3.[/size] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol width=80][center][size=5]Horse[/size][/center] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol]Now imagine that in the scene there is a horse. Your third task is to describe the horse. What does it look like? Where is the horse in this desert and what is it doing? Where, if anywhere, is it going?[/columns] [columns][size=5]4.[/size] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol width=80][center][size=5]Flowers[/size][/center] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol]The picture in your mind also consists of flowers. Your fourth task is to describe the flowers. How many are there? What do they look like? Where are they, in relation to the horse, cube, ladder and sand of the desert?[/columns] [columns][size=5]5.[/size] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol width=80][center][size=5]Storm[/size][/center] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol]There is a storm in this desert. Your fifth and final task is to describe the storm. What type of storm is it? Is it near or far? What direction is it headed? Does it affect the horse, flowers, cube or ladder?[/columns] [u][b]Stop here.[/b][/u] If you've been playing along, the next bit will be fun. If you have simply read along, I must warn you: the next part ruins your ability to play this game ever again. This is a once-off experience, and if you don't want to ruin it for yourself, turn back, complete the tasks or come back when you are ready. Trust me. [b][u]There's no going back.[/u][/b] [spoiler=This is truly a spoiler. Read this only after you've completed the tasks of the game] [center][size=5]Your Life[/center] -------------------------------- [columns][size=5]1.[/size] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol width=80][center][size=5]Cube[/size][/center] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol]The cube is yourself. The size is ostensibly your ego: a large cube means you’re pretty sure of yourself, a small cube less so. The vertical placement of the cube is how grounded you are. Resting on the sand? You’re probably pretty down to earth. Floating in the sky? Your head is in the clouds. The cube’s material conveys how open you are: transparent cubes belong to transparent people, opaque cubes are more protective of their minds. Glowing? You’re likely a positive person, who aims to raise the spirits of others. Made of granite? You’re likely protective and resilient. The trick here is that when asked to describe a blank, abstract entity – a cube – your imagination will tend to project its own identity onto it. This trick is as old as time, but it’s about to get more interesting.[/columns] [columns][size=5]2.[/size] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol width=80][center][size=5]Ladder[/size][/center] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol]The ladder represents your friends. Are your friends leaning on the cube? Your friends depend on you, and are close. Is the ladder frail, or robust? Tall or short? Does it lead inside the cube? Or is it cast to one side, lying unloved on the sand? By now you should be able to draw your own conclusions.[/columns] [columns][size=5]3.[/size] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol width=80][center][size=5]Horse[/size][/center] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol]The horse represents your dream partner. The type of horse reveals a lot about what you yearn for in a partner. Some people see a steady brown workhorse, others a shining pegasus or unicorn. Make of these people what you will. Is your horse nuzzling your cube affectionately, or taking a bite out of it? Is it far from your cube, or walking away? This can represent a current partner, or an aspirational one, but the results are often a mix of touching and hilarious.[/columns] [columns][size=5]4.[/size] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol width=80][center][size=5]Flowers[/size][/center] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol]The flowers represent children. The number of flowers relates to how many you imagine having. Some people see just a single, withered daisy; others a resplendent garden covering the cube and desert beneath. (Guys: watch out for those). The colour and vitality of the flowers can speak to their health and presumed prosperity. The placement – particularly in relation to the cube – can reveal interesting relations; I met one woman whose horse was eating their flowers.[/columns] [columns][size=5]5.[/size] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol width=80][center][size=5]Storm[/size][/center] [nextcol width=20] [nextcol]Finally, the storm represents threat. This speaks to the current state of the person, and how they perceive risk in their life. Some may see a distant storm, on the lip of the horizon, fading from sight. Others may view themselves in the midst of a thunderous apocalypse, hailstones the size of tennis balls pelting their fragile cube and horse. Chances are those people have some immediate trauma in their life.[/columns] Now is this all correct? Of course it isn’t. You won’t be reading any peer-reviewed journals on the soothsaying properties of horses and ladders. This is a game, albeit one that has endured in various forms for thousands of years. But if you play along – and I encourage you to try this on others – you will find it appears to have an uncanny sense of reliability to it. There might be many reasons: people seem to project themselves onto abstract objects (the cube), and their affections onto animals (the horse). Our nurturing of flowers bears some resemblance to that of children, a storm is a signal of environmental danger that taps into our sense of unease, and a ladder is something we find supporting. Maybe it’s all just wishful psychobabble... but did yours ring true?[/spoiler][/quote]

[quote=jhoijhoi][spoiler=this was my response, completely unedited. don't read this if you haven't read the original post]Expanding desert. Simple cube made of a cream-coloured material. It is solid. Probably the size of a car. A ladder is resting against it. It is made of wood. There is a horse near the cube. It is not going anywhere. It is standing next to it. It is a white horse with a bushy mane. There are flowers surrounding the cube and horse. They are purple and yellow dandelions. They sway in the breeze. There is a storm in the distance. There is a faint rumble of thunder. [/spoiler][/quote]

[quote=The_Nameless_Bard]yea....all that happened is that I read "The Game" and then proceeded to lose [b]THE[/b] Game and be slightly angry. 8D jk [spoiler=descriptions]1. The cube is blue and metallic, mirrored even. It's large enough to climb on, would appear to be made of tinted glass mirrors, resting on shifting sand, and it's not quite in the center of the desert. Like someone was trying to annoy a person who likes that sort of thing by just barely putting it shy of the geographical center. 2. The ladder is made of wood, but it's not an ordinary wooden ladder. It's dark and burnished to a bright shine. The ladder is leaning on the cube, perhaps to let one climb to the top of the cube more easily. 3. There's a dapple grey horse running around the cube. Circle after circle, going nowhere. 4. A single white rose blooms nowhere near the cube, next to an oasis. 5. Oddly enough, it's a thunderstorm. Approaching the cube. The thunder scares the horse out of its laps around the cube, causing it to knock over the ladder and slam into the cube. Instead of shattering, the cube seems to warp slightly and suddenly the whole scene is reset. The rose is unaffected entirely.[/spoiler] seriously eerie though.[/quote]

[quote=Ninja Trigger]I got really descriptive with mine. [spoiler] Cube- I see a desert with white sand, and floating above an oasis is a large blue cube made out of some sort of gelatinous crystal with four spouts shaped liked square windows pouring out waterfalls, the waterfalls pour into the small oasis right below the Cube, the Oasis has around 5 palm trees scattered about the oasis Ladder- Out of one of the cube's waterfall descends a stairway, until it connects the ground to the cube, the stairway is made out of the same gelatinous crystal as the cube and has many small steps. Horse- By one of the trees a Horse appears to be standing it is a black horse and it is staring strongly at the descending staircase. Flowers- The trees around the oasis began to bud red and yellow flowers and there are several lily pads floating gracefully in the Oasis Storm- In the far off distance there is a coming storm, it looks like its some sort of dust storm with lighting, and it is slowly but surely heading towards the Oasis. You know if I had a dollar for every girl that I was ever interested in asking out, who ultimately ended up dating/getting married to one of my friends. Well I would have enough money to just buy a wife,[size=1]well more like 7 or 9 dollars but yeah it has happened to me a lot[/size] so that part is disturbingly accurate. [/spoiler][/quote]

[quote=jhoijhoi]I wish I had taken the time to be very descriptive with mine. But I almost think that the lack of description also says something. [spoiler=replies to Amanda and Ninja that other people shouldn't read until they've played the game]Amanda: When I read yours, I was thought to myself, "Poor Nick". Ninja: For real, when I read the "staring strongly" at the ladder, I raised my eyebrows, because really, you could draw so much from that and then you confirmed it. It's still psychobabble, but it's still interesting.[/spoiler][/quote]

[quote=Latest Legend][spoiler]I only did this real quick in my head, but the gist of it was: pretty huge warmly yellowish cube (3-4 meters or sth) in almost empty somewhat "waving" desert. Old but strong wooden ladder leaned against it. Brown horse on top of the box and some light-colored (pink) flowers with unrealistically green planted against the cube. The "storm" wasn't much more than a wind breezing through the flowers (that's the Netherlands for you). I am a little disturbed by the location of the horse ^^' Not that I value these "tests" highly. Funny thing though.[/spoiler][/quote]

[quote=PsiGuard][spoiler=Here goes nothing I guess]Cube - Opaque, medium bluish color. Where the sunlight hits it, the reflection is close to white. About 5x5 feet in size. Not sure where it is since I'm imagining a desert and there's nothing else there. It's just on a sandy plain I guess. Ladder - Made of aluminum, probably like 10 feet tall. Lying on the ground fairly near the cube but not right next to it. Horse - Light brown horse with a black mane. It's nice-looking I guess? I don't know how to describe horses. It's little ways off from the cube and walking around sniffing the ground. Flowers - There's no flowers. It's a desert. I'm reserving my right to say there are zero flowers, therefore I don't have to describe them. Storm - It's a sandstorm (dudududu) fairly close to the cube/ladder/horse. Close enough that the wind is audible and picking up sand and tossing it around a little. Far enough that there's a bit of a tornado visible (with a lot of sand in it) that isn't directly affecting the cube/ladder/horse at the moment. I don't really know what to make of this. I guess this means my dream partner doesn't know I exist and I won't have any kids? The storm sounds like my student debt though. :/[/spoiler][/quote]

[quote=The_Nameless_Bard]interesting. very interesting. [spoiler=@jhoijhoi]Yea, I would feel sorry for him too. I'm a tough person to handle at times.[/spoiler] [spoiler=@psiguard]At least they're not doomed to run in aimless circles trying to deal with your problems?[/spoiler][/quote]

[quote=Ninja Trigger][spoiler=@JHOIJHOI] I know it's just psychobabble, but still it was dead on :([/spoiler] [spoiler=@PSIGUARD] well at least your Horse isn't interested in everyone else, and she may just be playing hard to get, unlike mine who wants to eat everyone else s sugar cubes[/spoiler] [Spoiler=AMANDA] I feel bad for your Horse, but at least it is trying to please/be there for, I think?[/spoiler] [spoiler=LATEST LEGEND]On top of the ladder? Well it looks like me and you both are going to have to play the "MR steal your girl" Card when it comes to getting that Horse [img=https://38.media.tumblr.com/c1591ed4f9fa7fc1f7941d252d8f3922/tumblr_mjzg34Fjbv1ryg88no1_400.gif][/spoiler] [spoiler=One more thing] Made you click for no good reason! Also @Amanda you lost the game again, since you made me loose the game with one of you're earlier posts because I wasn't even thinking about the game until you mentioned "The Game"[/spoiler][/quote]

[quote=Vapora Dark][spoiler]Cube - It's... a cube. It's fairly small, barely bigger than a Rubix cube. It's made out of steel. It's just sitting there in the middle of the desert. Ladder - It's made out of wood. It's about the size of your average ladder. It's pretty close to the cube, to the right, stood up. I have no idea how I noticed the cube befor ethe ladder. Horse - It's brown. It enters my vision from my right as it just walks ahead, walking past the cube and the ladder. It doesn't seem to be going anywhere specific, just walking ahead. Flowers - There's 2 flowers. They have a yellow center and red petals. They're in front of the cube and the ladder, diagonally to the left from the cube. Storm - It's far, it's headed towards us. It affects the flowers most of all, the horse will probably survive it and it won't affect the cube or the ladder. My horse is going to exit my life just as quick as it entered... ;-;[/spoiler][/quote]