r/Unexpected • u/Intrepid-Progress228 • 1d ago
Beyond the wall
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u/pauvcloche 1d ago
This guy meets awesome people ❤️
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u/Thundergod250 1d ago
Bro had too much Sidequests. The Enemy beyond the wall is still amassing their Army
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u/wrongitsleviosaa 7h ago
His XP gain is through the roof though, he's now leveled up to the point where he could kill the Night King faster than Arya did
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u/Popular-Influence-11 1d ago
In my teens I had a lot of social anxiety and really wanted to overcome it. Learned about the existence of exposure therapy and figured I could try it. So I took the bus to West Hollywood and walked around the Chinese theater. Everyone who made eye contact I said “Hi, my name is —— and I like dinosaurs. Will you be my friend?”
People are used to crazy around there so rejection just didn’t hurt much. The few people who said yes though actually became really good friends.
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u/bancheeshit 21h ago
hi, my name is Michael, and i like dinosaurs and cats. would you like to be my friend?
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u/Popular-Influence-11 18h ago
Heck yeah Michael! Do you have a favorite dino/cat?
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u/bancheeshit 8h ago
orange cats and triceratops dinos! i like when they make dinosaurs cute. do you have faves?
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u/Popular-Influence-11 5h ago
Awesome, yeah I do! My favorite cat of all time was a Russian Blue who would curl up in my lap and purr so hard she drooled. Her name was Tawny. I’ve never met another cat like her.
As for dinos I love ankylosaurus and quetzalcoatlus. I also loved when they determined that a lot of dinos had feathers. The way the feathers are depicted looks so cool.
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u/JerrSolo 19h ago
I was in until the dinosaurs. Sorry, I have a strict "no extinct creature-lovers" rule.
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u/FixGMaul 19h ago
birds are taxonomically classified as dinosaurs so maybe they just fuck with ornithology
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u/oodjee 20h ago
Did that exposure therapy help you in the long run? Or did the anxiety slowly start coming back? Did you do it just once?
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u/Popular-Influence-11 18h ago
Helped immensely. Did it three times over the course of a semester. I wouldn’t say the anxiety has completely gone away, but I’m comfortable being uncomfortable now. It’s not difficult for me to be my genuine self around strangers, and I don’t mind when some people find it off-putting. It’s been 25 years since I did that and I still remember those “sessions” vividly.
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u/ghe5 14h ago
I’m comfortable being uncomfortable now.
That's how it starts my friend. I used to be super awkward and shy around others because of my anxiety. Eventually I just said "fuck it" and whenever I felt uncomfortable I just tried to power throughou it. Today I'm an extrovert in pretty much every way, got several groups of friends I regularly hang out with and no problems with being new people
To be clear, this is not for everybody, not everyone wants or even needs too many friends, but it is good for me. I've always been an extrovert at heart, I just lacked the social skills
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u/TopFaithlessness2320 14h ago
Exposure therapy feels like a cheat code for me, just because how well it works in my case. It helped with my debilitating social anxiety and even art block. I also recently realized that I have been unknowingly doing exposure therapy for my ocd symptoms for my entire life and it's the only reason it doesn't bother me that much (unless I get really stressed or have a rough patch in my life)
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u/New_Budget6672 1d ago
Who is this. I want to see more hah
Edit: nvm I saw the handle🙄👀
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u/pauvcloche 1d ago
You can see his user name on the video: @sidequestz (instagram) 😊
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u/New_Budget6672 1d ago
Thank you! I was so focused on the dialogue i didn’t see it. Been scrolling his YouTube page. He’s hilarious
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u/lursaofduras 1d ago
His videos seriously make me cry with laughter. Especially the ones with Jamaicans.
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u/energybased 1d ago
If you look deep into anyone, there's an awesome person inside.
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u/PowerSamurai 1d ago
Now that just isn't true at all but I appreciate the sentiment regardless
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u/SparkleFritz 1d ago
Homeboy ain't never work with Janice "Farts While Microwaving Fish" McNichols on the third floor.
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u/SonofAMamaJama 1d ago
I think Werner Herzog does a great job of demonstrating that through documentary films - projects like Encounters at the End of the World (2007), The White Diamond (2004), Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) all demonstrate unexpected stories, sometimes you just need the right context to learn the unexpected from a stranger, or to see someone you know, anew
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u/LactasePHydrolase 1d ago
I wish I could believe this but I'm so jaded man. Not saying you're wrong, maybe I'm just being too much of a doomer. Too much internet probably
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u/AMLIDH2 1d ago
This guy's definitely growing on me with his schtick
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u/JulianoRamirez 1d ago
Sidequestz is legit, love all his convos with Jamaican people, they're so wholesome.
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u/Captain_d00m 1d ago
Wait…..is this the same dude that chats up Jamaicans in patois?
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u/MightyCaseyStruckOut 1d ago
As soon as he started singing, it's like a light bulb went off in my head haha
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u/Incognizance 1d ago
Iirc, he gre up there, or spent a few years there as a child.
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u/your_mind_aches 1d ago
No he is from there, straight up born and raised in Jamaica. There are plenty of white (and Chinese) Jamaicans.
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u/stockflethoverTDS 1d ago
Shoutout for acknowledging the people who first recorded and who continue to promote and record reggae artists today.
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u/BAMB000ZLED 22h ago
Yeah tbh I didn’t know about Chinese Jamaicans until this thread. I mean I didn’t think it was impossible I just didn’t know it was prominent yk
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u/MustLoveWhales 1d ago
Im starting to realize I think hes insanely hot. That voice and the way he talks is somehow so alluring to me.
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u/pukesmith 1d ago
Hopefully he loves whales
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u/Kw5kvb5ebis 22h ago
She actually had a great argument to refuse that quest to the north. I respect that
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u/CrumBum_sr 1d ago
Sean Jon Snow
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u/Light1209 1d ago
Jon Pon Snow
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u/QuietlyLosingMyMind 1d ago
12 Inches of Snow is the best title he could have gave that album and that is a hill I will die on.
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u/ColoradoScoop 1d ago
Someone’s grandma took second place with her Diana Ross performance and is absolutely livid with the lady that brought this guy to the talent show.
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u/Bsjennings 1d ago
Unexpected and so wholesome. The seniors are all getting down and I love it
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u/No-Spoilers 1d ago
Seniors are wild man. The only thing that's changed from their youth is their physical shape and far far less fucks to give, otherwise they go hard.
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u/saintofhate 1d ago
There's a reason why teens and seniors are the top having/spreaders of STIs. They both fuck when they shouldn't.
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u/MNWNM 1d ago
OMG we just moved my in-laws into assisted living. My MIL went first because we had to get her settled into memory care. About two weeks later, my FIL got his own little apartment that's not in memory care.
He's allowed to do onto her unit and see her. He had not been there a whole day before a nurse walked in on them naked.
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u/SookHe 1d ago
You have no idea how wild they are.
I work exclusively with elderly and I am hit on regularly by my patients who will straight up get buff and ask if you are DTF.
It’s gotten so bad that I have to accompany my female employees to certain visits because the patients will straight up try to get funky with them
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u/WestCoastBestCoast01 1d ago
This senior center is poppin, exactly what I had in mind for Millennial senior centers, Shaggy included!!
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u/GlassPudding 1d ago
“no i have not”
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u/Agerius-Der-Wolf 1d ago
Go white boy go
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u/Orange9202 1d ago
AI ass comment
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u/FunkyOnionPeel 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah why tf does that have so many upvotes? It's bots all the way down
Edit: lmao it got deleted. Comment said something about how the guy saw a wall and decided gravity didn't exist?
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u/Rukenau 1d ago
This is u/sidequestz, I think. At least that's what he's called on YouTube
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u/Mc_Shine 1d ago
Yes it is. His Instagram handle is right at the end of the video btw ;)
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u/Fit_Pangolin6410 1d ago
and in every other part of the video
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u/Rukenau 1d ago
Dayum. I was so focused on trying to find his name in the post itself or in the explanation that I completely missed the fact that it was right in front of me the whole time.
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u/your_mind_aches 1d ago
That's honestly an indictment of Reddit's system that you usually have to trawl the comments to find a credit
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u/Acceptable_Owl6926 1d ago
An actual good "prank". Those seniors had to love the entertainment. Good on him
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u/Mc_Shine 1d ago
I mean, I'm pretty sure the old lady is in on it, what with someone filming her and everything. That was some pretty good karaoke though.
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u/troll_right_above_me 1d ago
He has someone film all of these, doesn’t mean she’s in on it. Wouldn’t really matter though, hilarious either way
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u/Crystal_Voiden 1d ago
She's literally mic'd up tho... she moves her arm and you hear the mic rub on her clothes
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u/Funslinger 1d ago
How is he so consistently invited to go do random things without it being at least at little bit orchestrated
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u/TheAndrewBrown 1d ago
It could easily be achieved by talking to a shit load of people and just posting the ones that worked out
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u/shawncplus 1d ago
Unfortunately this is just the reality of the "content creator" life. Eventually every neat idea turns into publicist-fodder. The best examples lately are probably Subway Takes and Track Star. Though the Subway Takes guy did say that was his plan all along and he just needed enough regular randos to go viral so he could get celebs on and make bank. Everyone wants to be Hot Ones. Really though they all just want to be Carson/Letterman but the format is dead and "instagram gimmick" is this generations vehicle.
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u/Dull_Foot_1902 1d ago
Yeah, watched through his channel.
The very next video had Orville Peck and he just pretended like it was another random encounter.
My guess is that it started mostly authentic but then as he got popular it became more scripted since a higher level of entertainment became expected.
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u/bobspellsbob 1d ago
In a life full of NPC quests, he accepted the challenge & dominated
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u/nocluebeing 1d ago
Game developers should take a note. This will be a unique idea. Side quest turning into main quest
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u/Puzzleheaded_Top_523 1d ago
Bro thought he was giving out side quests but then got sent on one himself
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u/SugarBeefs 1d ago
lmaoooo, where did that come from?! I've seen his Jon Snow skits before, I didn't know he could get down like this tho
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u/Mr-Klaus 1d ago
Dude's not joking, he's genuinely talented. I recognise him from his song Santiago, pretty damn good song - the kind of song that would be #1 with the right industry connections.
Link to song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfQYi2Zb9so
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u/dirtyitalianguy 1d ago
I'm past the midpoint in life and not a single person with a sharp blade has ever stopped me to ask if I would go on a quest with them....
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u/MasterOfDerps 1d ago
Lady: you don't seem to understand. I'm not side questing with you. You side quest with ME.
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u/chefbobbyjay 21h ago
Holy shit this made my night. Good for this dude. I wish I didn’t have crippling social anxiety and could just go.. do stuff lol
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u/homiestar_runner 1d ago
I don’t normally laugh out loud to stuff like this. But this actually made me smile and laugh out loud. Wholesome to say the least.
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u/Zealousideal_Cow5558 1d ago
This is the world I want to be in right now! Lemme see what’s happening at the senior center
https://giphy.com/gifs/bJGQavEgK77jy
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u/Testtypo 1d ago
When you are going to recruit companion for your quest, but get side quested and got recruited instead to conquer the hearts of the citizens.
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u/NickVanDoom 1d ago
those old people look like 60ish…?
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u/BeartholomewTheThird 1d ago
It's a senior center, not a retirement home. They just go hang out and go home at the end of the day.
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u/Turdburp 1d ago
My local senior center is 50+, which makes this 48-year-old feel old af. Most are probably 55+ or 60+.
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u/post-explainer 1d ago edited 1d ago
This comment has been marked as safe. Upvoting/downvoting this comment will have no effect.
OP sent the following text as an explanation why their post fits here:
Thought there'd be an amusing exchange where she accepts his quest or declines. Was definitely NOT expecting seniors getting down to the Night Watch performing Shaggy.
Does this explanation fit this subreddit? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.