Dang This Game Is Realistic
This man is living my nightmare of getting involved in virtual reality gaming. First, I don’t know why the 2x4 is required as part of the experience, but maybe that’s only available in a more premium package. Like I mentioned before, 90+% of my experience with the tech is through the Tetris game for the PS4, which doesn’t really goad you into hurtling yourself off of ledges, THE OTHER GUYS-aim-for-the-bushes style.
By the way, I’ve never seen the movie in its entirety, but that one scene is an all-time smash cut, and it feels like it’s the only thing I need from the film.
Watch This: Dorktown - A History of the Seattle Mariners - available via YouTube
I’ve mentioned this thing and its co-creator Jon Bois a million times on here, but the final installment of the series is a great time to cheat and highlight it again, and besides the only other thing I’ve been watching in any quantity is Espresso Machine YouTube which is at turns great and a totally new hell. For my money this is leaps and bounds the better sports documentary released recently, even though I could listen to Scottie Pippen talk for forever. Also very rude of The Last Dance to go ten Earth hours without even mentioning Pippen’s fruit drink, Zippin, which is not something I made up for this despite everything you might believe.
Even if you’re not a fan of baseball, I’m certain there’s something you’ll find interesting over the course of this nearly-four-hour series, whether it’s Hall-of-Famers being exceedingly great at their jobs (that’s episodes 4 & 5) or just the trials and tribulations of an almost uniquely odd sports team (pretty much all the other eps).
It looks like this gentleman’s endorsement of this city’s plan would constitute a conflict of interest if he had any decision-making power.
It’s certainly a way to play the long game though.
Not sure what a link between Substacks is called, but this one from Ranjan Roy is an interesting look inside the rather unscrupulous actions from multiple app food delivery services. In this case a friend of Roy’s realized that Doordash was offering delivery services for his pizzeria, which, notably, does not offer delivery in any form. Once Roy and his friend wrapped their heads around the economics of the model, they were able to exploit Doordash’s business model of “losing hundreds of millions of dollars and then suddenly stopping that some day” in a great Robin Hood-esque turn.
I don’t know what, as a letting agent, you’d expect from your tenant when you ask them to make a video promoting the property at the same time you’re ushering them out, but this is probably a best-case scenario.
The relationship advice subreddit is prone to fakery, which, for the record, I think this whole Moldovan Peloton scam story is, but you never know. It’s kind of like the “infinite monkeys theorem” but with human interactions, like at some point someone’s going to get coerced into being responsible for 100% of the networked exercise equipment ownership in Moldova. Fun fact, when you search a country there’s a subsection labeled “Plan A Trip” that offers different methods of transit, but for Moldova it just says “Please don’t” and it’s not clickable.
Good to know that Stone Cold Steve Austin is pro-mask, unlike The Undertaker up there. And also probably The Undertaker in real-life, sadly.
And finally, an old trope, but done very well: clips of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction slowed down so all the questions sound like drunk talk:
