Blow-Outs

Earlier today, I was playing an NBA basketball videogame. This game saves my season so whenever I decide to play a game I just play the next game on the schedule. I am pretty good at this game so I generally win the game in blow-out. Occasionally, I play a game that is a blow-out even by blow-out standards: The game that I played today was one of those games.

My team scored at will in the most remarkable fashion that I have ever seen. I literally scored at will no matter what type of play I was running. The interesting thing about it is that when I looked at the score, I expected to see more points scored and a wider margin of victory. This wasn't the case: My team scored less points than it does on average and won by a smaller margin of victory than usual.

This made me think about real basketball games and how this idea might apply to other situations. There's two types of blow-outs: There's the blow-out where one team beats the other team by a huge margin...Then there's the blow-out where you put Shaq in a point guard so that he can get a quinteple-double. The second type much worse...

Sitcoms

I was thinking of when I used to watch situation comedies while I was growing up. It has been years since I watched television regularly. I watch television occasonally, but I never keep up with storylines. It was rare that I liked a situation comedy when I was younger. The comedy in so many of them was based on putting the main character(s) in an awkward or humiliating position and having the audience laugh at them while they try to get out of the mess. While watcing thses types of comedies, I found myself feeling angst for the character(s)more than laughing. I alway wondered if other people reacted to those types of shows the same way.

New Emotion

I have been thinking about something interestng lately. There are people in the world who are literally incapable of feeling the full range of emotions that other people feel. From what I understand, there are numerous ways that that this can occur. This led me to think about somthing different. Are there people in the world who can feel emotions beyond what other people can feel? If not, is it possible that people would develop new emotions that are not present in the future?

If people who have emotions in addition to what most other people have exist, how would we ever become aware of it? Could a person who didn't have the newly developed emotion(s) fathom that someone had an emotion that they didn't? Would the person who was capable of experiencing the new emotion ever have any sense of being different from everyone else? Also, it would be interesting to see how it is determined that a new emotion exists. Would a someone be able to look directly at the person with the additional emotion(s) and determine that that person had more emotion(s) than a normal person? Or is it possible that it would be determined by deduction: By looking at behavior and reasoning backward to the fact that some new emotion must have caused it. I need to move soon: With nothing to do my mind wonders to such topics...