This Basement Has A Cold Glow
So a new Half-Life game is out which would be very exciting except it’s completely virtual reality and I’m not really at a place where I believe in or want to fiddle around with the technology enough and that’s before realizing that the all-in cost for a system that runs VR well is over a cool thousand dollars. Although all bets are off once that sweet sweet stimulus money comes through, but really! Probably not. My experience with the tech is limited to the PS4 Tetris game which, to be fair, is amazing, and much more of a sensory overload than the words “VR Tetris game” would have you believe.
Behold! Half regular-ass Tetris, half electro-dance nightmare, it’s wonderful. Anyways, Half-Life does seem like a very good realization of the promise of the technology, and someone figured out that it was pretty easy to swap out video assets in the game, and that’s how you wind up with something like this.
Watch This: Nathan For You - Available via Hulu
I always say there’s too much content, but it’s negligence that I just now found out that this is on streaming services. One of the funniest shows in recent memory, Nathan For You is a documentary series that follows comedian Nathan Fielder as he goes around offering business advice and different promotions to actual businesses. There are some truly classic episodes in there, and most of the fun is seeing how much the owners are willing to accommodate Fielder’s imagination. There are also surprisingly deep emotional threads woven through the show, mostly centered around Fielder’s desire to make friends and generally be liked, and the series winds up in a very unexpected place by the end of it all. It ran for four seasons and all of them are on Hulu and really worth a watch. You may not enjoy it if you’re not into cringe, but to me it’s more heartfelt than shows in that lane tend to be.
There are not one, but two new albums from The Nine Inch Nails out today, and I don’t really have a bit for this other than it’s very weird and cool that Trent Reznor (with Atticus Ross) has become one of the great film composers of our time, with their work on THE SOCIAL NETWORK all the way to HBO’s recent WATCHMEN adaptation. For real though, everything must be gravy for them after scoring the final montage in MAGIC MIKE XXL where Joe Manganiello figuratively impregnates a nice StripperCon attendee which, woof. Anyways.
It’s barely been over two weeks since the NBA called off its season, and let’s check in and see how everyone is taking i—
I see. That link is a rabbit hole to so many other odd hypothetical threads, only some of which involve fraudulent marriages, which, if you’re the owner of a literal sports team, is probably something you’re used to anyways, this is just a more outwardly pragmatic version of it. Though who knows, watch me with egg on my face when Jerry Jones’ harem goes undefeated and wins like Super Bowl 60 or something on a $55 payroll.
This was a surprisingly thorough and oddly compelling dive into how Triscuits got their name. Spoiler, it’s not mean to be a “triple biscuits” portmanteau, which is also what I’d assumed they were this whole time besides barely flavored. It seems like a real stumper and the answer, may surprise you. Complete with confirmation from the official Triscuits Twitter account as well, which, in the absence of a snack food historian, will have to do.
The other day, we highlighted the video of Italian officials losing it at people who weren’t obeying the shelter-in-place/lockdown orders for their cities or provinces or whatever it is that Italy has. Since then, in addition to taking their crown as the most irresponsible assholes around, we as a country are also dipping into the Mayors Losing It On Their Constituents racket. Bonus points for the mayor looking like the blowjob dog from the end of THE SHINING in his The Facebook profile picture.
That was rude, here’s some wholesome content of some dads and their Large Adult Sons dancing to that new The Weeknd (Is it better with 1? Or 2?) Apparently his new album is good as well, though I’ve historically been pretty cool on him, and also secretly believe he’s never actually done drugs, like who talks about it that much really.
They’re bring the Episode I podracing game to Switch! Almost certainly the best thing to come out of the whole dang prequel trilogy (which, at last rewatch, I’m slowly warming up to please send help), it combines all the fun of white-knuckle speed with engine temperature management and who doesn’t love that. Also, forcing people off the road and into explosions, really who doesn’t love that?
Finally, I don’t know if this is the ideal time for welcoming new people into your life, but hey, at the rate we’re going, may as well shoot your shot I suppose.
Imagine being fresh off your divorce proceedings and immediately going on to Craigslist missed connections in the year of our lord 2020 to see if anyone noticed you. Stranger things have happened, but if it works out you should probably think up a lie to tell the grandkids when they ask how you met.
