When I played Silent Hill 2 for the first time back in 2001 certain elements of the storyline actually gave me nightmares, which was truly impressive considering I was a twenty-something-year-old horror movie fiend.
I appreciated being truly creeped out by a video game, but I didn't really appreciate all the revolutionary gameplay elements and environmental work Konami put in to the creation of Silent Hill 2.
After watching this incredibly revealing episode of Off Camera Secrets by Boundary Break I now see the strange creatures and deeply disturbing storylines are only part of the reason Silent Hill rose to the top of the horror game pyramid.
Nobody can make you feel like an unwanted and unlovable schlub on Tinder quite like a dog, because while people are busy swiping left on your profile pic everyone will swipe right on a pic of a cute dog.
Phil the Alaskan Malamute's owner created a Tinder profile for him to test this theory, and not only did Phil's profile pic get him lots of love it sparked some crazy conversations with humans looking for pets in all the wrong places.
Some people saw Phil's profile and tried to woo him away from his owner with promises of belly rubs, head scratches and biscuits, but it turns out Phil was only in it for the exposure.
Cast reunion photos can look like a bit of a train wreck when the actors who reunite haven't aged well, making fans feel bad for their favorite stars instead of rekindling their passion for the project.
But when the cast is looking good a decade or three later the reunion photos make us want to cheer for those stars all over again.
(The Goonies cast 1985-2015)
It was great to see that most of the cast of The Goonies hadn't gone off the deep end since the film's release thirty years earlier, and seeing the School Of Rock kids all grown up was truly heartwarming.
But to me the most heartwarming cast reunion photo of them all was the Hook 25th Anniversary Reunion, because of Rufio Rufio Rufio Rufiooooooooo!
The corporate logos created for companies like Starbucks, Footlocker and Target were created to be simple yet memorable, a logo that is easily identified by both shape and color from afar.
But how well do people actually remember those famous logos they see every day?
Signs.com challenged 156 people to draw these famous logos from memory, and even though the Target logo is just a target and the Apple logo is just an apple people struggled to perfectly recall their logos.
They called their little experiment Branded In Memory, and it proved that some people simply cannot accurately recall what a logo looks like no matter how simple the design or how many times they've seen it.
Whoever came up with the idea that people are multilayered like onions was definitely on to something, but instead of an onion I'd say the average person is more like a Tootsie pop, with two layers at most.
Then I'd say about ten to twenty percent of the populace is like a candy apple covered in sprinkles with about four layers of depth, some of which may be crunchy, chunky or sickly sweet.
And then there's the three to five percent of the population which this Pie Comic describes to a "T", and they are the strangest bunch of people you'll ever meet- especially when they're having a hipster tree day!
Whoever says "well, at least they died doing what they loved!" when a performer dies on stage clearly doesn't get why that would suck- because all of your accomplishments in life are overshadowed by the way you died.
'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott was one hell of a guitar player and a heavy metal god thanks to his role in creating Pantera, and in 2004 he was set to become an even bigger star with the debut of his post-Pantera band Damageplan at the Alrosa Villa club in Columbus, Ohio.
But Darrell's career came to an abrupt and tragic end when ex-Marine Nathan Gale walked up to the stage and shot 'Dimebag' dead, all because Nathan was upset about Pantera breaking up.
Now people know 'Dimebag' Darrell's name because of this tragic event rather than because of his incredible guitar playing, which is a real shame because 'Dimebag' truly deserved his guitar god title.
Denny's is one of the only restaurants open 24 hours a day even on Christmas, it's the place where teenagers go to drink coffee and eat french fries for hours, and in keeping with the American diner tradition Denny's is always affordable.
What started out as a donut shop called Danny's Donuts that opened in Lakewood, California back in 1953 has grown to become Denny's- one of the largest and most successful restaurant chains in American history:
The 24-hour doughnut shop grew quickly, expanding to a larger menu and roughly 20 locations by 1959, and changing its name to Danny’s Coffee Shops along the way. But the founders worried that the mini-chain was at risk of getting confused with nearby Coffee Dan’s, so they switched one letter to create the Denny’s we know today.
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The Grand Slam Breakfast debuted in Atlanta in 1977 with a name inspired by legendary baseball player Hank Aaron, and the Grand Slam has been about the same price my entire life- which is probably why it's Denny's most popular dish.
When Denny's says they're "always open" they mean it, and their 24-365 status almost became an issue when most of the restaurants decided to close for Christmas back in 1988:
When almost all the Denny’s locations closed for Christmas Day in 1988, many stores realized that they didn’t have any keys, or even locks, since they never used them. All told, 700 of the 1221 restaurants needed to get new locks installed for the holiday.
Being chased by a roaming dog looking for trouble can be humiliating, terrifying and frustrating since those curs don't know when to mind their manners, and people often make matters worse by running away.
Brendan Leonard from the Adventure Journal says running is a bad idea because dogs instinctively chase anyone who runs from them, so it's better to stop, turn around then flip the f$%k out on the dog.
According to Brendan staying calm and barking back at a dog trying to chase you down may confuse the dog and diffuse the situation:
What the dog has not seen is a human being going FREAKING CRAZY on it. Which is what you're going to do. For one second. When the dog realizes you have completely lost your shit, it will be shocked. You are unstable, possibly dangerous. And, ideally, the dog will stop chasing you.
I've seen the power of standing still diffuse a situation with an aggressive dog that was chasing my friend and I, but I certainly wasn't thinking about barking at the vicious Rottweiler as it sniffed my butt and tried to figure out why I didn't run away. Longest three minutes of my life...
Puerto Rico still needs aid to repair the damage done by Hurricane Maria and restore some normalcy to the lives of the people devastated by the storm, so many celebrities are helping to raise money for the people of Puerto Rico.
But I guarantee no charity fundraiser will be as entertaining or endearing as the #PuberMe hashtag challenge started by Stephen Colbert and Nick Kroll:
So, how does #PuberMe work? It’s simple—a fact that's allowed it to easily go viral. For each celebrity who shares (on social media) a picture with that hashtag as well as #PuertoRicoRelief, Colbert will donate $1,000 from his AmeriCone Dream Ice Cream Fund and Kroll will match it, too. All money raised will go to One America Appeal, a charity started by all five living former U.S. presidents that helps with hurricane relief.
So far a bunch of funny folks have shown the world what they looked like at their most awkward, and I'm sure the submissions will continue to dazzle us with their dorkiness.
But the award for "most changed since childhood" definitely goes to Ryan Seacrest, who is unrecognizable in this photo from his "awkward phase":
Going outside can be a real bum trip, as the bugs start to bite and the neighbors start to stare before you suddenly realize you're standing outside in your underwear, so cool kids like singer/songwriter Bill Wurtz stay indoors.
We all have our own reasons for wanting to stay inside, but Bill Wurtz's reasons are some of the "Wurtz" I've ever heard! You see what I did there? Yeah, I know...here's a taste of what to expect when Bill goes "outside":
A spaceship came to take me away. Into the moonlight. And they touched me in an interesting way and now I’m pregnant with aliens….Oh it’s a brand new day.
Corporations have used their power and wealth to harm customers for profit in the past, and while this harm isn't as direct as a knife to the gut or brass knuckles to the chin their ability to harm with impunity makes corporations the ultimate weapon.
New York-based artist Tom Galle took the idea of corporate weaponization literally when he created a set of sharply satirical weapons shaped like brand logos for his series "Corp Gear"- the ultimate arsenal for corporate thugs.
Now corporations like McDonald's, Facebook and Nike can take class warfare to the street in style, fighting their way to increased profits by killing the competition.
Dealing with a polite vampire really sucks because they make you feel bad about wanting to get straight to the point and stake them dead, forcing you to find a more polite way to knock them off.
Should you ever encounter a polite vampire in the wild it's best you know garlic merely repels vampires and won't finish them off, oh, and they like their steaks extra bloody. (Comic by Napalm Soda Comics)
Cats are strange and inscrutable creatures, and trying to figure out their behavior or what they're thinking is like trying to solve the problem of world peace- it may be possible but nobody has done it yet.
But it appears the vet who came up with these clever explanations for cat behavior is on to something, and their explanations seem way closer to the truth than the opinions of so-called cat "Experts".
Imgur user ItsJayOrDan was visiting his local vet one day when he noticed some comics by Adam Ellis pinned to the cork board, and under each pic was an explanation of common cat behaviors which prove this vet really knows their stuff.
Now that this brilliant vet has begun revealing the secrets of felinekind we may someday truly understand the furry little savages living in our homes, but until then we need to keep our kittehs happy and avoid their traps at all cost.
People assume all counterfeit clothing comes from China, where creating bootleg couture is a proud tradition dating back decades, but the bootleg clothing biz is booming so manufacturers in other countries have joined in on the fun.
In Seoul streetwear rules the counterfit clothing scene, and clothing obsessed Korean consumers are always hungry for new designers to step up and get weird.
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This short documentary by Highsnobiety discusses the rise of K-fashion, the Korean youth obsession with streetwear, and the ever-growing global market for counterfit clothing:
Carving animals and tiki gods into tree trunks with a chainsaw is an impressive way to sculpt wood, but chainsaw artists who are able to carve trees into realistic and free flowing organic shapes are a cut above the rest.
American chainsaw artist Jeffrey Michael Samudosky got his hands on a fallen redwood snag he saw as the perfect medium for a giant sculpture, and after staring at the wood for a while he started to see tentacles.
After hours of carving and sanding the tentacles started to take shape, as Jeffrey freed the giant octopus hidden inside the chunk of redwood tree provided to him by Redwood Burl.
Now the fallen redwood has been given a new life as a massive work of art, and Jeffrey is now the proud owner of a giant octopus that won't try to gobble him up!
