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This is a video of Ivory Coast cocoa bean farmer N’Da Alphonse and his pals trying chocolate for the first time. It’s a real treat to see, though a little bittersweet (chocolate joke!!!). Who knew that the very people who harvested the beans have never even had the pleasure of tasting the fruits chocolate of […] Visit IncredibleThings.com for the full post.
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I think I have found the perfect weapons for the people in Sharknado 3 to use to fight off the toothy aquatic hoards. Check out these sculptures, they look like sharks with machine gun parts protruding from their bodies.
The sculptures are from artist Christopher Shulz. If these were nightmare weapons, they would shoot shark teeth rather than bullets, which would be pretty awesome.
Shulz describes his sculptures as, “3D metal sculptures combining sharks and guns that are meant to evoke a prescribed reaction from misinformation.” I’m not sure if he is going for commentary on how sharks are dangerous as guns or how guns are not dangerous or what. All I know for sure is that I want a shark gun. With a frickin’ laser beam sight.
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At their essence, games – video games, board games, sports – consists of nothing but choices. Will you move here? Will you attack this? And so on. Take those choices away and you’re no longer playing. In roleplaying video games some of the hundreds of choices we’re often urged to make involve exploration, and often consequently, narrative. If you love that part of RPGs, check out Nested.
Nested was released last year by Julien Thiennot aka Orteil, more famously known for Cookie Clicker. Julien calls Nested “a simulation of everything”, but don’t think Spore or No Man’s Sky just yet. Think Zork. Or the CliffsNotes for Zork. You see, Nested is a procedurally generated text-only game, presented in nested menus. You start with the universe, which contains within it galactic superclusters, each of which has a galaxy, each of which has planets and so on.
Many of Nested’s menus are recursive – i.e. they’ll eventually lead to another universe menu. But eventually you’ll get used to its dead ends – or are they eternal beginnings? – and stumble upon thoughts, notes and detailed descriptions of objects. Here’s a video walkthrough by RockLeeSmile:
You can play Nested for free. If you’re really lazy you can read what other people have found on Reddit. On one hand, it’s amazing how much fun you can have with menus. On the other hand, I find it hilarious that even in this barest of bare states the player still has to wade through lots of cruft to get to the good stuff.
Keep your house’s gutters clear of leaves, branches, and dirt with a gutter cleaning robot. The Autonomous Robotic Gutter Cleaner is a remote control robot that rolls through gutters on a tank style belt-driven treads. You can control it from up to 50′ away with a handheld remote control. The robot’s auger spins at 500rpm to split up clogs and eliminate debris with it’s dual rubber ejector paddles. Leaves are just thrown right out of the gutters. The robot is waterproof in up to 8″ of water (if you have more than 8″ of water in your gutters you have a really serious problem!) You can control it to move forwards and backwards as well as change up the auger’s spin direction to keep your rain gutters clear and prevent water damage to your home. The rechargeable battery will run for one hour per charge. If you have so many gutters that it takes you more than an hour to clean them, then just have your butler do it by hand Richie Rich. Compatible with most standard 3″ wide k-style gutters.
Holding a party can be a blast, except for the fact that you
constantly lose your wine glass. Hosts and hostesses rejoice! The Wine Yoke wine glass holder offers a wine glass wearing experience.
Artist Daisuke Akiyama created a way to make bubble wrap not as fun to pop. How could that even be possible? Also: MONSTER! He designed a panel of bubble wrap printed with tiny goldfish. That’s pretty messed up! But you know what? I’d still pop every last one of them regardless of the fishies and […] Visit IncredibleThings.com for the full post.
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