mindfucky

comparative more mindfucky · superlative most mindfucky

1. Characteristic of a mindfuck.

   Thanks for allowing us to watch you put yourself through LCS [Last Comic Standing]’s mindfucky, time-delayed obstacle course, and good work.

   2015 August 19–25, David Schmader, “Last Days: The Week in Review”, in The Stranger, volume 24, number 51, page 7

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   All this after a long hiatus centered roughly around a stupid mindfucky train he’d let through his head a week prior, about how B.O.-stinky undergrads shouldn’t write meta plays for the showcase thing, and how he should right a polemic sending all that business straight up, but which polemic itself would have to be a B.O.-stinky meta play, which sent him spiraling spiraling.

   2011 January, Jonah Furman, “Our Hero, in “The Mystery of Doing a Thing””, in The Bohemian Monthly, number 1, page 10

   If you’ve been laying in your bed all winter mindlessly scrolling through your Tumblr feed and eating Nutella with a spoon (heaven knows I have), then you’ve probably seen this new weird breed of .gifs that involve switching between a few different viewpoints of the same object in order to give it a 3D mindfucky effect.

   2013 March 11 – April 8, Ethan Lauer, “A New Angle: Experimental Videographers: A Nice Idea Every Day is changing how we see video”, in The Wake, volume 12, number 11, page 16

   LEGION is a show I saved to watch later, basically. I watched the entire first season in one sitting, or close to it – I might have slept in there somewhere – but when the second season was even more out there and mindfucky, I just didn’t have the bandwidth, so I bought the seasons on Amazon and saved them.

   2019 October, Ed Brubaker, Criminal, number 9, Image Comics