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The cringe I get from the explanation from someone who truly knows the game1 is akin to the one I get from “hacking the mainframe” or “tracking the killer’s IP address” or the casual “bypassing the firewall”. All hat, no cattle indeed. I can venture a guess at the answer but: Why is any of this enha…

It’s home to a mere 57,000 people and costs $1.7 Trillion. BTW: That’s one of my favorite websites on the internet, especially when I watch people play “Geography Tetris” with trying to fit as many countries as they can into Africa 🌍…

Features two late legends, Sanjeev Kumar (Santa) and Kishore Kumar (singer). Not sure who advised the former to strike a “BRO WHAT’S EVEN GOING ON” expression throughout the song. Wondered what became of the kids in the video. Assuming they were ~10 at the time this movie was released in 1974 they’d…

Best I’ve seen in recent memory. Features the poem “Boots” by Rudyard Kipling, read with this bone-chilling pitch and cadence by a chap named Taylor Holmes in 1915. Here’s the track by itself. Sounds like it was taken from a record; the noise doesn’t help with the chilling of the bones. Update The…

Not sure what else to add here, other than my head reeling with “How the heck does one even think up this subject?”. And appreciating how the Internet can be such an amazing forum for collective weirdness and joy. Speaking of fora, the link’s on Twitter so here’s a cached version to save you the dis…