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• Surreal, Disturbing, and Delicious Thai Chocolate Commercial
• Before Joey Chestnut, “Fat Men’s Clubs” Dominated the World of Competitive Eating
• Dungeons In Skyrims Are Getting An Overhaul Thanks To A Mod
• Bullshitting Your Way In Life Is A Sign Of Intelligence
• AI Scans Your Lego To Suggest Things You Can Build With It
• An Impossible Chest In Breath Of The Wild Has Finally Been Opened
• Fireworks Mishap in Ohio
• This Fractal Vise Can Hold Objects Of Any Shape!

Surreal, Disturbing, and Delicious Thai Chocolate Commercial Posted: 06 Jul 2021 08:49 AM PDT How weirdandwonderfulcan a Thai commercial be? Producers in Thailand are always pushing the creative envelope and this 2019 chocolate bar ad is no exception. It's called "The Secret" because the young lady in the ad is hiding something from her boyfriend. But thanks to a Voiz Waffle Chocolate Bar, it won't be an obstacle in their relationship. -via Dave Barry

Before Joey Chestnut, “Fat Men’s Clubs” Dominated the World of Competitive Eating Posted: 06 Jul 2021 08:02 AM PDT As we've said before, people will take any activity at all and make a competition out of it. Joey Chesnut won the annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest (again) this past weekend by downing 76 dogs- a new record. Competitive eating has been in the news for about three decades now, but it was also a thing around the turn of the previous century, which grew out of Fat Men's Clubs (FMCs), fraternal organizations in which men could be proud of their girth and socialize with each other. And, of course, eat. FMCs did not invent eating contests — like most modern social phenomena, the history of competitive eating reaches into mythology — but they certainly popularized them in American culture. When the Manhattan FMC held an all-you-can-eat contest at their East Third Street clubhouse in 1909, several reporters were present to watch Frank Dotzler, a 380-pound alderman, devour 275 oysters, 8 pounds of steak, 12 rolls, 11 cups of coffee and 3 pies. He won $50 and eternal glory. The considerable media attention enjoyed by these clubs says a lot about the era in which they prospered. "In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries," Laura Doan wrote in an engrossing article about Texas FMCs, "attitudes about fat bodies were remarkably different than they are now … As fat men's clubs were at their peak, people positively associated men of a larger size with wealth and affability." Read about the rise of Fat Men's Clubs and their gastronomic achievements at Inside Hook. -via Digg

Dungeons In Skyrims Are Getting An Overhaul Thanks To A Mod Posted: 06 Jul 2021 08:01 AM PDT Here's a good reason to pick up Skyrim again! Thanks to modder Cooleoj's efforts, Skyrim's dungeons are being enhanced and resized to provide more ways to have fun in the game. The mod, called 'Dungeons Revisited,' adds a "lot of new paths, rooms, and enemies", and new "confusing" elements to the game's dungeons. While not revealing a lot about the mod, Cooleoj assures that both veteran and new players will get lost playing through the new modded dungeons:  All of the changes are in harmony with the themes of the base game's dungeons, as Cooleoj says they want the enhancements to be both lore-friendly and indistinguishable from the experiences Bethesda crafted. The dungeons enhanced so far include some fan favourites, like Bleak Falls Barrow, which looms over Riverwood and plays host to one of the game's early main quests, and others. The list "thus far" is Ustengrav, Embershard Mine, Steepfall Burrow, Halted Stream Camp, White River Watch, and Hillgrund's Tomb – though it sounds like the modder's planning to revisit more. If you're keen to grab the mod for yourself, you can find it atNexus Mods here. As ever, mod with caution, and be sure to check out our rundown of thebest RPG games andbest Skyrim mods on our home platform.  Image via PCGames

Bullshitting Your Way In Life Is A Sign Of Intelligence Posted: 06 Jul 2021 08:01 AM PDT Have you ever written a full paper for a subject without much effort at all? Alternatively, have you defended your position (whether in a personal conversation or in a more academic setting) through purposefully convoluted arguments that really aren't that good? Well, it seems that our ability to bullshit through real life events is a sign of intelligence. The proof lies in a study published in Evolutionary Psychology:  The researchers measured respondents' intelligence through a cognitive ability test, and tested their ability to bullshit through a verbal exercise that required them to explain 10 concepts (like general relativity), only the catch was that some concepts didn't even exist. The researchers found the skilled bullshitters who satisfyingly and persuasively tried to explain completely made up theories and concepts. Unsurprisingly, those who tested high on the bullshit scale also tested well on the cognitive ability test, thereby proving that sometimes, you can actually fake it till you make it. Maybe bullshitting is just another way of finding connections, or maybe it's a sign of a charismatic persona. Either way, we now have further proof that bullshitting can make you smarter—or at least make you look smart. Image credit: Paramount Pictures

AI Scans Your Lego To Suggest Things You Can Build With It Posted: 06 Jul 2021 08:01 AM PDT Now this application is very convenient! Brickit is an app that uses an AI camera to scan your LEGO bricks and suggest projects you can build with your current inventory. The application uses machine learning to scan your entire spread of bricks to recognize as many bricks as it can. In addition to taking inventory of your collection and suggesting potential projects for it, Brickit can also show you exactly where the necessary bricks are in your messy pile. Isn't that amazing?  Image via PetaPixel

An Impossible Chest In Breath Of The Wild Has Finally Been Opened Posted: 06 Jul 2021 08:01 AM PDT Four years after the release of the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for the Nintendo Switch, players are still finding new ways to exploit the game or find hidden items buried in the game's files. MrOrdun has achieved something that no player has done before. The player shared a video on Twitter of them opening an 'impossible chest,' a chest that the game recognizes but the player can't reach in the overworld:  As spotted byKotaku, the video shows how they were able to uncover the "impossible" chest found 80 meters below the ground at Aris Beach in the game. According to the player, "it has never been opened prior to this moment". As the player mentioned in the tweet, the chest despawns after seven seconds of sinking from loading into the game, so they had to intercept the chest along the way. The player takes multiple steps in order to collect the chest, including using a game bug that lets you fall through the ground as well as utilising Breath Of The Wild's multiple Sheikah Slate abilities to reach it. The fullYouTube video, which goes through the entire process, reveals that the prize within the impossible chest was, after all this time, just a piece of amber. Image credit: Nintendo

Fireworks Mishap in Ohio Posted: 06 Jul 2021 08:01 AM PDT People shooting off fireworks in Toledo, OH turned their neighborhood into a war zone when their performative patriotism (or just stupidity), turned their neighborhood into a war zone after the U-Haul truck they rented exploded with the fireworks inside. pic.twitter.com/EQguCzpZWY — Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 5, 2021 A block party in Toledo, Ohio, was the scene of a major fireworks mishap Sunday night. A group of teens were seen throwing some kind of incendiary devices into a U-Haul truck filled with fireworks. The truck exploded, and ignited a stack of fireworks that had already been unloaded. Four people were injured. A longer video shows that the explosions went on for several more minutes (linked video contains NSFW language). -via Fark

This Fractal Vise Can Hold Objects Of Any Shape! Posted: 06 Jul 2021 08:00 AM PDT Steve Lindsay  has created a device that can hug any object placed between them, regardless of shape! The fractal vise has passed through different iterations, and now, its latest version, has finally met the Nebraska-based artist's approval. Lindsay actually spent six years working on the vise's design! The device was based on a 1900s milling machine, with its components creating a tight grip on irregular shapes like wrenches and scissors. Image credit: Steve Lindsay via Colossal

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