Here’s an open-world game for the people who aren’t into Elden Ring’s engaging yet difficult gameplay! Sable, developed by Shedworks and published by Raw Fury for the PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S in September 2021, is a relaxing game that focuses more on the story and exploration. A bonus feature of this game is that there is no combat, so for those who want to explore without the hassle of fighting enemies, Sable might be up your alley.
It’s easy to dream or fantasize about moving civilizations to new planets that aren’t like Earth. Take, for example, Elon Musk, who wants to have a metropolis a million earthlings strong on Mars by mid-century,complete with everything from factories to breweries.
Here’s the thing though: Mars can easily kill a person. This means we have to develop the technology necessary to combat Mars’ challenging atmosphere and environment. If we just send people to Mars with the basic gear, they would die of radiation poisoning or cancer. At worse, they would likely freeze to death on their first night because the temperatures on the red planet can reach Antarctic levels. We haven’t even talked about its atmosphere!
Mars has a very low atmospheric pressure. This means that it would cause a person’s blood to literally boil, regardless of the outside temperature. Yikes. Aside from that, the atmosphere, which is made up of mostly carbon dioxide will not allow humans to breathe. So while we can dream of living on other planets, such as Mars, we have to take some precautions for our survival.
The Super Mario 64 Complete Clear Guide is an officially-licensed guidebook released in 1996. Now a rare item [and a very expensive one to purchase should you find one], the book has a high-quality scan uploaded on the Internet Archive by a Nintendo fan at Comfort Food Video Games. Fans and enthusiasts get to see the book and be awed at the information included in the guide, from tips and tricks, to trivia about its development process, to incredible dioramas of the game's maps.
An ultra-rareKoenigsegg One:1 was abandoned and then found by automotive YouTuber Effspot in Dubai. This luxury car is worth around six million dollars– that’s a lot of money! It makes us wonder what happened to the owner to actually leave such an expensive car without any regard for its worth. It turns out that this is a common occurrence in the city. There are severalmassive scrapyards in the Middle Eastern city where you can easily spot hundreds of supercars and luxury automobiles rotting under the scorching sunlight. This is crazy!
According to the artist, the flamingo is one of the most iconic animals in Florida. “Even though its popularity and image graces innumerable pieces of memorabilia that claim to be from Florida, for years this beautiful bird has been thought to be non-native,” Mazzota explained. The giant interactive sculpture is meant to be interacted with, touched, and photographed. Its size is meant to place the focus on the animal, reminding people that they share the same home with it.
Remember that unique ad that introduced us to the Squatty Potty? It's a stool that brings your feet up to a squatting position on the toilet in order to help you poop more naturally. Now the company brings us the Squatty Potty Pillow in order to sooth you, reassure you, and help you release your pent-up emotions in a more natural way, as in "relieving your emotional constipation." Believe it or not, it's a pillow shaped like the Squatty Potty. Only at the end of the ad do we find out why they made this ad, but people are already asking when it will be available to purchase. That seems to happen every April first, no matter how stupid the product is. -via Geeks Are Sexy
In 1929, rumors went around about a diet in which Hollywood stars lost a pound a day for 18 days. Women who wanted to look like a movie star were avid to get the details for months before the actual diet was published by entertainment columnist Louella Parsons. Every meal for the 18 days was spelled out, but they contained little food, even less nutrition, and almost every meal required grapefruit. Every day started with a breakfast of grapefruit, melba toast, and coffee. It worked for Ethel Barrymore, who was desperate to lose the weight her studio demanded for a movie role. Be that as it may, the diet's 500-600 calories a day was neither healthy nor sustainable for the many women and a some men who followed it. Actress Marietta Milner was on the diet when she contracted tuberculosis and died. Lesser-known women were passing out and even dying from the restrictive regimen. Read about the rise and fall of the 18-day diet at Mel magazine.
Gav and Dan are looking further afield to find weird things they can present to us in super slow-motion. Since they have a gun that will accurately shoot three-quarter-inch steel ball bearings, why not shoot it at a Newton's cradle, which has ball bearings that are only slightly larger?
The first slow-motion shooting begins at 2:53, but the result is so interesting that they try it in different ways to further explore the phenomenon, like using a hand gun. That's much more difficult for accuracy, but the mishaps are still worth watching. By the time the video is over, you'll have a newfound appreciation for ball bearings. And for Dan's marksmanship.
"A large portion of downtown Indianapolis remained evacuated. Report are sketchy at this point but we do know that apparently there are terrorists holed up in the downtown part of our city with nuclear devices."
💣 Fortunately, that wasn't real: the fake newscast was part of a 1986 training video developed by the Nuclear Security Administration, the federal agency that's responsible to avoid nuclear catastrophes in the United States. The video was part of "Mighty Derringer," a multi-agency exercise in which a large city was devastated by a nuclear blast.
🎸 Got a bad experience at a local business? Most of us would just grumble but not Layne Barton. When he got a bad experience at his local Western Dental & Orthodontics clinic, he rocked his protest: he set up his amp on the sidewalk in front of the dental clinic and shredded his guitar.
🖥️ My favorite link of the day: Clinton Jones challenged his fellow artists from around the world to design CG art on the theme "Infinite Journeys" and 2,448 of them answered the call. Jones featured the Top 100 3D renders in this fantastic clip. Don't miss this one!
✋ Have we reached peak Will Smith news yet? If you're tired of hearing celebs give their take on the infamous Oscar slap, consider what people who just happen to share the same name as the actor must be feeling. They're the wrong Will Smith, and they're taking abuse online.
Larry Lawton had quite a career in jewelry heists that netted millions dollars in the 1980s and '90s. But he was finally caught, and served ten years in prison. Now he explains the importance of the getaway car. Lawton knows a lot about getaway cars, which are crucial to his former occupation, and not at all like what you see in movies. In the movies, the car stands out so we can follow it. In real life, that's the opposite of what you want. Lawton explains how he would select a getaway car and made it as untraceable as possible. No high-speed chase necessary, if everything goes as planned.
Those tips didn't help a bit when Lawton was arrested in 1996, when nothing went as planned. He ended up driving as fast as he could in a rental car with blood on the seats and a bullet hole in the window. It's an exciting story that you can read at The Drive. -via Damn Interesting
We've long loved looking and laughing at other people's cats on the internet, but since the rise of smartphones, the supply has grown exponentially. When you see a cat doing something really weird, you no longer have to run and get a camera only to find that the moment has passed; you just aim the phone that you are already holding. The strangest ones end up on the Twitter account cats being weird little guys. That's one you might want to start following.
Bored Panda skimmed that account for the weirdest pictures and presents 50 of them in a ranked list. Some are cute as a button, some are goofy enough to make you laugh, and quite a few will make you wonder what strange set of circumstances led to this moment. Whatever happened, we are glad that they did.
Aside from ordinary compensation issues, such as paying rent and eating occasionally, scholars prioritize getting published and getting their published works cited by other scholars. Therefore any means to increase citation rates should be considered.
Scholars Stephen B. Heard, Chloe A. Cull, and Easton R. White report in bioRxiv the results of their recent study in the correlation between the humorous nature of titles among ecology and evolutionary biology papers and the citation rate of those articles.
The authors conclude that, at first glance, having a humorous title tends to correlate with lower citation rates. But this is only because scholars tend to give less important papers humorous titles. When the importance of an article is corrected statistically, it would appear that humorous titles correlate with higher citation rates.
So try cracking some jokes and maybe you’ll get a full-time appointment.
Ian Darlington of IAM Productions is just as frustrated as any other parent with children who won't eat their vegetables. He knows you can't force a kid to eat, but he hates wasting food. So he made this animation about the life cycle of peas. Watch the peas grow up in sunshine set to the tune of "Mr. Blue Sky" by the Electric Light Orchestra. Then they are rejected by a child, and suddenly the sad strains of "Mad World" by Gary Jules takes over.
Darlington says that he showed this video to his daughters, and now all it takes is a couple of notes of "Mad World" to get them to gobble up their vegetables. Well, yes, making a cute and clever video might do the job, but for parents who don't work for a video production company, it makes more sense to just stop serving peas to kids. You'll have better luck with green beans or broccoli, especially if they are slathered in cheese sauce. Then again, since he's already made the video, try showing it to your kids and see if they turn into pea fans. -via Laughing Squid
Do breasts normally generate sound effects? I mean outside of anime, of course. The answer, in my admittedly limited experience, is no.
Nonetheless, one woman reported to her physician that her breasts made a "swishing sound". Weird Universe shares her story, which was reported in a 1994 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. She had saline breast implants and asserted that the swishing sound generally came when she was at high altitudes.
Why? Dr. James J. Bachman attributed the noise to Boyle's Law, which provides a formula for the expansion and contraction of gas that varies with temperature and pressure. The woman's breast implants contained a quantity of air, which expanded when the woman was at higher altitutudes and thus lower air pressure.
Novelist Richard Kadrey decided to have some fun on Twitter by giving book covers more interesting titles. Or designing new book covers for whatever subversive title you can come up with. This is #PulpSabotage. It's been going on a couple of years now, and the hashtag itself has fans.
