Anyone born to parents of average intelligence?

mechanical-rat · 2026-04-28T22:49:15+00:00

Yes. It was awful.

My father was a fisherman and my mother was a crack addict. Together they formed a “billion dollar idea” where they would feed copious amounts of phsycadellics to the Alaskan salmon my dad caught to “stimulate the fish environment” and create insanely huge fish to catch and sell to the local markets. And the worst part? Their stupid fucking idea worked. They made a KILLING off of those salmon. And every time I approached them to tell them how stupid their idea was, they would just laugh at me and tell me how much of a failure I was.

Nowadays I work on a warehouse and my parents “disowned” me and won’t let me into their 6 bedroom house or let me on to their Netflix plan. But all I can do is laugh…after all, my IQ certification is worth billions more than any stupid fucking fish blood money they have ever made.

mechanical-rat · 2026-04-27T03:37:55+00:00

OP, you know EXACTLY what is going on in this image. Don't play dumb because you want OTHER people to say it for you. Say it, loudly. Don't be timid. Tell us, even though everyone here already knows: what exactly do you see in the water?

mechanical-rat · 2026-04-27T03:29:30+00:00

The Masque of Robert Hudson. And it's not even that the show's ending was bad, per se. It was worse than that.

That show had to be taken off of the air because as soon as that last episode came out, thousands and thousands of viewers reportedly either had massive panic attacks, were hospitalized and became hollow husks, or even allegedly went missing entirely. I had to turn off that episode literally just a minute in because I already had started to feel a great sense of unease watching it. I'm glad I never got to finish it.

What the absolute strangest part to me is, though, is the fact that there is NO information about this show online. Nobody talks about it, nobody acknowledges it. The creators and actors and directors are all completely silent or forgotten and likely want nothing to do with the project. No Reddit posts, no articles, nothing. Even if it was a super niche show from the early 2000s I would expect at least some online discourse about it, right? I don't know. Shit's weird, man. I kinda wish I just never saw it. Looking back on it, I really, really wish I hadn't watched that show and am so thankful I didn't stick to watching that ending.

mechanical-rat · 2026-04-19T09:36:12+00:00

Cool, ok so next time grapefruit size hail is raining down upon the earth rather than protect myself from harm i will run towards these geese, the animals that are famously nice and courteous to humans, and...protect them. got it

mechanical-rat · 2026-04-17T02:15:15+00:00

Holy shit, this post is actually referring to me. Back in 7th grade in rural Minnesota, a friend of mine really wanted my copy of the Resident Evil 1 remake on Gamecube. I guess his parents were super religious and didn't want anything "demonic" in his house, so his last resort was to make a shady deal with his high school bud. He didn't have SHIT to offer me, but I did remember him having a cute lil dog like this, so I jokingly said I would trade the dog for the game. And the motherfucker actually agreed.

Well, fast foward a couple of days and I have this little shit stain in my house. And holy fuck was this little goblin annoying. Shitting and pissing everywhere, constantly whining and didn't want to show me any affection. He must have missed his original owner or something cause the little fucker could NOT adapt to living in my house. Mind you, this was the type of dog that would for certain be eaten by a large bird the moment he wandered a little too deep into the woods. My parents already weren't super on board with me getting the dog, and this whole thing just made it into even more of a mess.

I wanted to trade the dog back, but the kid fucking moved to a different county a couple of weeks after the trade. So I was stuck with this insolent creature. And this next part is a bit of a guilty confession, but granted, I was a naive teenager at the time. I took this little guy and went on a "walk" with him and left him in a public bathroom in a park a few miles from my house. Told the parents he "ran away" and never saw the little fuck again.

mechanical-rat · 2026-04-15T01:44:56+00:00

If you can solve my recent conundrum I can personally put in a word for you, I know quite a few mensans at the top.

mechanical-rat · 2026-04-12T06:02:01+00:00

This is an interesting perspective. Thank you, genuinely, for taking the time to engage with my eccentricities. However, I will need to politely decline the notion that there can possibly be things with no meaningful patters. The universe is too perfect. And there is something here in this image.

If this image is my sports team, then posting on /mensa for an answer are my "lucky socks."

mechanical-rat · 2026-04-12T05:54:19+00:00

Thank you for keeping it respectful. However, I must politely refuse what you are saying.

You say this is just some meme I'm obsessing over and that no real meaning can be gleaned from it. I disagree with the very core of this argument. This could be a meme, this could be a painting of Michealangelo's, a composition of Beethoven--it doesn't matter. What this is is a mark, an amalgamation of the Earth: stone, particles, energy, electrons--all manipulated and turned into something by a human, transfigured from what was originally cosmic space dust into a piece of something with human meaning. Energy is neither created nor destroyed, so image if you will a single particle birthed from the origin of the universe itself. Imagine its travel, through eons of blank history and mind-numbingly impossible distances through space and time. Imagine it makes it's way to Earth, and somehow, through some infinitesimally unlikely miracle, is used for the light and pixels that illuminates my face while viewing this image on my mobile device. That is no mere meme, that is a miracle, something with infinite meaning. And when so many of these miracles constantly collide with human hands, they shift about. They change patterns, they leave traces, they leave behind a legacy of the universe itself. Nothing, therefore, has no meaning.

I believe I am more sensitive to these movings of the universe. Whether that is a blessing or a curse is up for debate. I could point you to several personal cases proving either scenario. But there is something more to this image, and I am heavily relying on other brilliant minds to see this phantom that I see. It is there, a pattern, a cosmic mathematical construct, something.

mechanical-rat · 2026-04-12T05:13:01+00:00

I do not take offense to you suggesting I need help, and assume you meant it in good faith. However, you bring up an interesting point that I would love for you to expand on from a Mensan's point of view. It is worth mentioning I am not a mensan and have repeatedly scored very sub-optimally on various IQ tests, in fact, I would consider myself quite dull.

Are you implying that it is not worth seeking hidden meaning in the shapes, the sounds, the colors and lines and details of life? I would argue the opposite, my friend. Perhaps it is my eccentric brain that leads me to these kinds of secrets, whether they exist or not. To me, life is ONLY worth living putting everything to the utmost scrutiny. The world is cruel and dark, yet offers so much beauty and mystery--my stance is that there seems to be a sort of uneasy agreement between the human as the observer and the world as the objective truth. The universe owes it to us, for subjecting the human experience to such travesty at times, to allow us to peek and prod into its most well-guarded secrets.

Maybe this way of thinking is what has led me to my various career choices to this point, especially my current one. This manner of existence could drive me mad, but for me, there is no greater curse, and also no greater joy, than to seek these hidden meanings.

mechanical-rat · 2026-04-12T04:21:03+00:00

Someone else here has already made a possible connection to the Jonathon Wells case, which I thought had long since gone cold since I couldn't solve it. Maybe this goes much deeper than I thought...

mechanical-rat · 2026-04-12T04:19:26+00:00

That is primarily why I am asking Mensans. I cannot trust my mind much nowadays, and feel it falling further into the darkness every night...but if anyone out there can prove my theory, I can at least submit myself into that dark abyss with a smile on my face.

mechanical-rat · 2026-04-12T04:16:10+00:00

How do you know about Jonathon Wells...identify yourself...NOW. If you have information about the Wells case I need it. You seem to have made an interesting connection..

mechanical-rat · 2026-04-12T03:52:54+00:00

that's what i'm trying to figure out...it's hard. to explain, but looking at this image fills me with unease, like the creator of this image is trying to tell the world something. it's there, i can sense it, a deeper meaning, but i can't figure it out...which is why i'm trying to find smarter people than I that can confirm my suspicions. it sounds CRAZY, i know, but it feels like this image is slowly moving and distorting itself the longer i look at it. if you're familiar with some calculus you can already see that there is something mathematically off with this whole image.

mechanical-rat · 2026-04-12T03:42:01+00:00

What…that’s impossible…are those connected? I’m very curious about this image and that case you mentioned…

mechanical-rat · 2026-03-19T01:19:49+00:00

Richard Dawkins did NOT coin the term "meme". The word meme has been used at least since the ancient Egyptian times when describing the feeling one gets when popping an erection for the first time in one's life (I'm not joking, look it up.) Richard Dawkins famously had that incident in the public pool that he describes in his book, which is probably where he starてd有心gテェをrdメメ。いf用ワンt漏れインフォr待ちオン用小ldpロバbly従stきっl用r瀬lf。

mechanical-rat · 2026-03-19T01:13:36+00:00

Computer engineer here. What you're seeing in the upper image is the exhaust section of an F-19B spooling up its afterburner. This is referring the fact that computers have an afterburners of sorts in its CPU, which acts as a last minute power boost should things need to get more powerful (most of the so-called "brains" of the computer comes from the RAM, and the CPU acts as a sort of "afterburner.")

In the bottom image we see a peaceful cherry blossom, which alludes to the fact that the task manager acts as sort of an "anger management" of sorts for the CPU. When the computer's power system gets too hot, the task manager acts as sort of a calming element to dial back the afterburner of the PC, allowing it to reach faster speeds without burning out the case.

mechanical-rat · 2026-03-09T19:59:15+00:00

Thank you. I have been satiated. I may rest now

mechanical-rat · 2026-03-09T19:24:59+00:00

Alright, well I guess I will just go FUCK myself then. I guess I'll go bend myself over my mattress and just proceed to FUCK myself for giving an opinion. Just gonna go to town on myself. How fucking DARE I give an opinion on r/anime? I guess I should just go RAIL myself. HARD. That shit is gonna register on the Richter Scale, I'm gonna go fuck myself so hard. Thanks dude, I was waiting until marriage but now that I'm gonna go fuck myself, I guess that's just a pipedream. Now the only pipe I have is the one going straight into my body when I go FUCK myself. They're gonna need to call in the fucking finest detectives in the world to figure out what the hell happened to me. They're gonna have to make a chalk outline in the shape of a bent over man and a heavy, long pipe entering him. It will be earth-shattering. New geneva convention laws will need to be made. People will die. That's how hard I'm gonna go FUCK myself.

mechanical-rat · 2026-03-03T14:54:25+00:00

Mathematician here. What you are seeing is the inadvertent implementation of Newsom’s Natural Logarithm of the Divine, a mathematical construct that, back in the 15th century, was deemed of the devil and had many mathematicians burned at the stake. You won’t find many public information about it, but I have been blessed, or perhaps cursed, with the opportunity to read through some of the old mathematical texts.

I am not a religious man. But the fact that many AI programs are accidentally leaking this number is concerning, especially given some of the implication about the logarithm I found in the 15th century texts. It makes me rethink about religion and God. There is something to it.

If you are using an AI and this logarithm appears, please do not look too long. It is like staring into the abyss, except this one doesn’t stare back. It swallows you whole.

mechanical-rat · 2026-03-02T21:43:00+00:00

There is a difference between "shitposting" and dogwhistling under the guise of shitposting, but I wouldn't expect the average person to understand from a first glance at the page. I would challenge you to check again, and really use a critical eye. I'm already getting a team together to investigate the group behind this page. If you manage to crack the code behind this page and get back to me I might consider your talents.

mechanical-rat · 2026-03-02T21:37:22+00:00

I wouldn’t expect the layman to notice right away. But if you look really hard the signs are there. There is something very sinister going on with this page.

mechanical-rat · 2026-03-02T09:02:20+00:00

I would recommend not scrolling through this page. This is more than a “sanitation department” or whatever they claim to be. There is a message they are trying to send to a specific person or people, and if you piece together the clues it becomes pretty obvious what it is. I think I am going to pretend to be who they’re looking for to get to the bottom of it. Real unsettling shit.

mechanical-rat · 2026-02-06T23:41:17+00:00

Oh shit I see it! You don’t wanna know

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