A Bardcore Cover Of Metallica’s ‘One’

A Bardcore Cover Of Metallica's 'One'

This is a video of Algar the Bard performing a medieval bardcore cover of Metallica’s 1988 banger ‘One’. 1988? Good lord I feel old, and I’m not even the undead warlock I’m always pretended to be. You know, I was just listening to Algar’s version and reading the lyrics, “Darkness imprisoning me; All that I see, absolute horror,” and it came to me — it’s about being locked away in a castle dungeon! A perfect fit for a bardcore cover. “Yeah that’s no what it’s about.” Is it about Napster?!

Look At This Real-Life Pokemon Hanging On A Dude’s Back

Look At This Real-Life Pokemon Hanging On A Dude's Back

This is a video of a real life Pokemon clinging to some dude’s back. Based on its incredibly unusual body and cartoony eyes, I assumed it was fake at first, but no — it’s a Sunda flying lemur. How about that! The natural world, am I right? It would be so awesome without humans.

Squirrel Helps Itself To Soda From Fountain Drink Dispenser

Squirrel Helps Itself To Soda From Fountain Drink Dispenser

Because squirrels don’t act so erratic due to nut energy alone, this is a video of a tree rat getting its daily dose of caffeine via a Pepsi fountain drink dispenser. According to one of the guys you can hear in the video: “Dude, he does that every day.” Wow. And do you think it’s always sanitized afterwards? Because I’m leaning towards a hard no. NATURE FACT: Did you know 9 out of 10 squirrels hit by cars are found to have Coke in their systems? Get it?! Me neither, explain it to me.

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I….need….CAFFFINNNNE

♬ original sound – Dan Oconnell Jr.

Thanks to JustA, who agrees the last thing we need are a bunch of caffeine addict squirrels running around.

Stunning 4K Video Of Earthrise As Seen From The Moon

Stunning 4K Video Of Earthrise As Seen From The Moon

This is an absolutely magnificent 4K video of earthrise as seen from the moon, created by Youtube user Seán Doran using images captured by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kaguya Orbiter. It features several different angles too. What a trip — Earth looks so small. If you squint though you can still make out my penis, just so we’re clear.

Tour Bus Driver Ignores Bridge’s Weight Limit, Makes It Buckle

Tour Bus Driver Ignores Bridge's Weight Limit, Makes It Buckle

Because bridge weight limits, much like speed limits, are merely suggestions that you can choose to ignore based on your own misguided driving prowess, this is a video of a tour bus driver pushing a one lane, 10-ton maximum bridge in Beaver, Arkansas to its limit as it crosses a river and the people in the car filming discuss the other motorists honking. In the clip, you can see another tour bus has already made it across, so this tour bus saw what happened when that one did, and still decided to go for it. Now you can call me a chicken for still wanting to live, but I would not want to be the next vehicle crossing that bridge. I mean Or the one after that. I imagine those buses caused some lasting damage. No word where exactly these tour buses were headed, but based on the drivers’ poor decision making skills, my guess is the cemetery.

Guy Allegedly Proves Wordle’s Best Starting Word With Math

Guy Allegedly Proves Wordle's Best Starting Word With Math

Note: Article does name the word, continue at your own discretion.

Because taking the fun out of things is some people’s greatest joy in life, Grant “3Blue1Brown” Sanderson (who presumably has two extra heterochromatic eyes) believes he’s found the best starting word to play in Wordle, not just for its letters, but also for its placement of letters. He came to his conclusion after having a bot run 12,000+ words through an algorithm to determine all the words that could follow based on the results. And his winning word? SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER: CRANE. According to Kotaku:

I’ll note here that Sanderson isn’t the first person to try this. Coder Adam Kubaryk says SOARE and SAINE are the best, while strategist Rob Miller wrote a script that gave him “TARES, followed by LARES, RALES, RATES, and CARES”.

The way Sanderson explains how he put this all together, and the math underpinning it, is not only fascinating but also provides a lot of supporting argument for his choice of CRANE over some of those other options.

Well, there you have it. Is it actually the very best word to start with? Beats me. All I know is apparently always starting with PENIS isn’t the winning strategy I thought it was. But is that going to stop me from still doing it every time and giggling until my girlfriend asks me what’s so funny? No, because I still know how to enjoy games.

Keep going for a video.

Thanks to my dad, who agrees if you really want to challenge yourself, start with QUBBA.