A Penny Saved

via TheGentlemansArmchair

Roomba Pong

This seems like a very creative way to both spill all your beer and ruin your Roomba. Personally I find beer pong kinda gross. That ball is not clean, I don't care if you dip it in water or not. You're really just playing an elaborate game of "I hope I don't get diarrhea from this".

I'd rather just play Bounce Off while drinking a fifth of bourbon. That's how classy people roll.

Tony Hawk Lands 900 At 48!

This is pretty insane. There's not much more to add than what the title suggest. Tony Hawk revisits his most famous trick at the age of 48. I'm not sure if I'm inspired or depressed right now. I turn 40 in like another week and my body feels like it's completely falling apart. I hurt my back late last year and while a month of physical therapy seemed to do the trick, I've totally re-injured it recently. It sucks, my new insurance won't cover the cost of physical therapy so I don't really want to go back and pay $400 a week but at the same time I'm pretty much in constant pain. It's a totally downward spiral because with the pain I'm not as active which really just leads to more pain. I'm trying to quit drinking soda and lose a few pounds but that's not going very well.

Long story short, don't get old kids. Or if you have to get old be more like Tony Hawk.

Game of Thrones Season 6 Thoughts

Welp, that's a wrap folks. Game of Thrones Season 6 is officially in the books. I mean it's not in the BOOKS yet, it's just that it's over. Whatever, I've been sick since Saturday. Also I make fantastic decisions like watching Game of Thrones last night starting at 11pm instead of going to bed early, so I'm so very tired. Also I played a bunch of Overwatch. Why does it feel like I'm on trial here?

Back to the subject at hand, Season 6 of Game of Thrones was highly anticipated because the show has finally passed the books. There were one or two small plot points that still pulled from the books but most of it was brand spanking new. It definitely changed the way I watch the show. I still download it because I don't have that HBO skrilla, but the last few seasons I've read recaps and embraced spoilers before watching episodes. I didn't even watch the final episode until months after it aired. This year I was downloading that ish as quickly as I could though and I'm avoiding spoilers like greyscale.

Overall I thought the season was very good. The last two Fire and Ice books felt like GRRM was just spinning his wheels. Taking as long as possible moving the pieces around for a big finale. Season 6 was also about moving the pieces around for the final conflict, but instead of Tyrion jousting on the back of a pig you had the Battle of the Bastards, which was absolutely epic. It'll be interesting to see how things unfold next season as it will be the second to the last. It feels like everything is about to boil over to the final conflict right now, so I'm interested in seeing how the showrunners draw things out without making it feel like they're drawing things out. They've already confirmed that the last two seasons will be shorter than usual so I guess that will help.

Now if we could just get GRRM to finish up those books. Why doesn't anyone ever talk about how long he's taking? I feel like he should be writing faster /s

Are You Ready? - Steam Summer Sale 2016

Holy carp, this video is amazing. Ser Davos as PayPal couldn't be more fitting. It's like he knows you're making mistakes but in the end is pretty much powerless to stop them. The best he can do is just offer his support. Good on you Onion Knight. I swear GRRM better not kill you off.

Watermelon Links

This Is Exactly The Truck You’d Drive To Save Your Heroin Addict Friend If You Were Also A Heroin Addict And Had A Shit Ton Of Guns With You. Holy crap, look at these rednecks. Yesterday, this truck was stopped in the Holland tunnel by police because it had a cracked windshield and looked just a mite bit suspicious. Turns out there were “multiple loaded guns, knives and ballistic vests” inside and a crew of self styled vigilantes on a rescue mission to save a teenage girl from a drug den.

First off, thank goodness the cops stopped them. There's zero way this wouldn't have ended without some innocent bystander getting shot. Second, cops can pull you over for a cracked windshield? What is this Soviet Russia?

Indie Wrestlers Find Both Struggles And Triumphs On The Independent Scene. Great article on the increasingly popular independent wrestling scene in the states. I don't know much about these millenial hipsters but as long as they like PBR and Wrestling they can't be all that bad.

Turn A Watermelon Into A Keg With A Watermelon Tap. Oh man, I would get sooooo drunk off this thing. I mean, I guess you don't have to put booze in your watermelon keg but WHY WOULDN'T YOU!?!?

Super Mario Maker In Real Life

Youtuber MyNameIsBanks made this Super Mario Maker fan film, or is it more of a fake trailer? Lets say it's a trailer to a fan film. Either way it's impressive. Whenever I see a youtube film like this I'm blown away at what you can do with computers these days. 30 years ago you couldn't pull off these special effects with a $50 dollar budget. We're all going to be living in the matrix in like 20 more years.

New Westworld Trailer

While everyone was watching basketball or wrestling last night (according to my twitter) HBO released a new trailer for their adaption of the Sci-Fi classic(?) Westworld. Westworld is on of those movies that I know I've seen but I don't really remember anything about it. I'm far more familiar with the homages the Simpsons, Red Dwarf and Star Trek TNG played to it. Frankly every episode of Star Trek TNG where something goes wrong in the holodeck owes some credit to Westworld. The trailer looks really cool BUT it looks like it has a pretty high chance of becoming a rambling mess like Lost.

Prove me wrong JJ.