According To The NES Manual, Tetris Blocks Actually Have Names
According to this NES Tetris game manual that Twitter user vecchitto dug up, these are the names of the various Tetris blocks. And here I’ve been calling them L and backwards L blocks, when they’re actually Blue and Orange Rickys! I should have known. Hero and Smashboy are definitely the
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POV Footage Of The 2023 ‘Mountain Of Hell’ Winning Bike Run, At Speeds Up To 62MPH
This is the helmet cam footage from cyclist Kilian Bron’s winning 2023 Mountain Of Hell bike run (he’s won the race three times previously as well). The 25km (15.5 mile) trail, which is pretty much the entirety of a mountain at Les Deux Alpes ski resort in France, features all
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Building And Riding A Minimalist Tireless Bike
Piggybacking on the build of his bike with treaded square tires, this is a video of engineer The Q reducing the design to its bare minimum, producing a tireless bike that runs on thin treads that only make contact with the pavement at two points. That’s…something. Something I wish I’d
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First Person POV Of A Jump Filled Extreme Downhill Bike Trial
This is a video from the helmet of pro mountain biker Juan Diego Salido as he blasts down an extreme, jump-filled trail built for the Darkfest 2023 biking competition in South Africa. I broke so many bones just watching it, and I’m sitting on the toilet! Just kidding, but my
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Baby Goats Romping In Sunflower Rompers
This is a video of a herd of baby Nigerian Dwarf goats at Sunflower Farm Creamery in Cumberland, Maine wearing sunflower rompers and romping around a barn. This is just what I needed to get my week started. Granted it will probably all be downhill from here, and by the
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Playing Foosball With Cordless Drills: No Spinning!
These are a couple videos of people who have attached cordless drills to the player rods of foosball tables and play with the press of a trigger instead of the flick of a wrist. It’s basically just a giant spinning mess. I’m sorry, but I have no tolerance for spinners,
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Bear Tries To Make Escape Out Home’s 2nd Story Window
Presumably busted mid home invasion, this is a video of a bear in Colorado Springs, Colorado attempting to make a hasty escape out a home’s second story window after entering on the ground floor and getting trapped upstairs after closing itself in a bedroom. “WTF! Goldilocks never have to do
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Pyrotechnic Stage Rig Can Shoot Flames In Sequence From Its 28 Heads
This is a short video demonstration of a pyrotechnic stage rig built by the appropriately named ER Productions for British rock band Bring Me The Horizon. Pfft, go get the horizon yourself, I just got comfortable. The rig has 28 individually controllable nozzles that can shoot flames in pre-programmed sequences.
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