30-year old Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey has created a virtual reality headset that kills a user in real life if they die in-game, by exploding their head. Finally, the high-stakes video gaming I’ve been waiting for! Some more information about the headset while I wonder what Facebook’s next move will be in bungling their ownership of Oculus:

I used three of the explosive charge modules I usually use for a different project, tying them to a narrow-band photosensor that can detect when the screen flashes red at a specific frequency, making game-over integration on the part of the developer very easy. When an appropriate game-over screen is displayed, the charges fire, instantly destroying the brain of the user.

The idea of tying your real life to your virtual avatar has always fascinated me – you instantly raise the stakes to the maximum level and force people to fundamentally rethink how they interact with the virtual world and the players inside it. Pumped up graphics might make a game look more real, but only the threat of serious consequences can make a game feel real to you and every other person in the game.

Obviously, this has Squid Games II written all over it. Would you participate in VR Squid Games? I would. I mean as long as you aren’t required to use one of those omnidirectional treadmills and actually run around, because I’m only participating if I can sit and play. I’m sorry, but I’ve just always imagined my head exploding sitting down.

This is a video of a pipe laborer in New Orleans demonstrating how a high pressure pipe can be repaired while running using a clamping metal sleeve with its own pressure release fitting, which can be closed once the collar is secured in place. Honestly, every time I think about it I find it mind-blowing we have running water in our homes at all. The things we take for granted.

In what is arguably the most important time capsule of all time, TikTok user Sunday Nobody built and buried a 3,000-pound concrete sarcophagus not to be reopened for 10,000 years containing a single snack size bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos encased in resin for future civilizations to discover, and, presumably, immediately understand why they evolved stainless steel buttholes.

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Built by LEGO fan Brandon Jones and displayed at the recent BrickCon 2022 in Seattle, this massive Super Mario Bros level features 14 motors to make the pieces really MOVE. And you know how I feel about moving. “You try to as little as possible throughout the day.” Fact! “And if a friend asks for help moving you ignore the text and pretend you never got it even though you don’t know how to turn read receipts off.” Hoho, a BONUS fact — you’re on fire today!

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of mobile game Candy Crush Saga (and the ridiculous amount of money it’s made), King Digital Entertainment held a fair along the Hudson River in New York City, with a 500 drone light show finale inspired by the game. Damn, 10 years — have I really been addicted all this time? I’m on level 12,189. That’s crazy to think about. Crazy in a bad way, just to be clear.

Keep going for the video. Also, I like how they horribly CGI’d the scenes of the lights from the crowd as if each drone was ultra-bright. I mean I did a better job Photoshopping two of the drone images together.

Because how are robots going to overthrow humanity if we don’t make them tough, harbingers of the apocalypse IHMC Robotics has conspired with Boardwalk Robotics to develop a Nadia humanoid robot capable of maintaining its balance after getting shoved on a treadmill. Yeah, make it resilient then piss it off! I think it goes without saying, but this is all going to end poorly for fleshbags.

Keep going for the video while I wonder why if they had to make its pincers look like it’s carrying a gun.