Man Watches Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ on Game Boy Advance

To spite Christopher Nolan for wanting people to visit movie theaters in the middle of a global pandemic to watch his movie Tenet, YouTuber WULFF DEN managed to put the movie on five Game Boy Advance cartridges so he could watch it the way it absolutely was not meant to be: super pixelated and at four frames/second. I can already feel my eyes drying up like raisins.

According to WULFF, “This movie was intended to be seen on the big screen. So let’s put it on a really tiny Game Boy Advance screen and blow those pixels up so we can barely see anything :D! This is quite possibly the worst way to watch Tenet and still be able to see what’s going on.”

I actually can think of worse ways to watch Tenet and still see what’s going on, but they do all involve me watching the movie from jail, and I ain’t going back to jail just to prove my point.

[via BoingBoing]

Worst Star Wars Merchandise Ever: Imperial Stapler and Tape Dispenser

There’s a ton of great collectible merchandise out there for fans of sci-fi, comics, and fantasy. While they’re not all perfect,  most of the merchandising tie-ins are at least somewhat logical these days. And then there’s stuff like this.

This Star Wars stapler and tape dispenser make zero sense at all. That is, unless I missed a scene where the Empire’s accountants were putting together budgets for the construction of the Death Star or something. But even George Lucas wasn’t tempted to include that in the prequels alongside all the boring political talk.

Bioworld’s ruthless cash-grab merch include a black plastic stapler embellished with a TIE fighter pattern and the words “Crush the Rebellion.” Seriously, even Milton in Office Space wouldn’t have cared if someone stole this stapler. The matching tape dispenser doesn’t even achieve the same level of mediocrity as the stapler. It just has some silhouettes of TIE fighters and paint spatter that’s supposed to look like a starfield. Talk about phoning it in. I haven’t seen Star Wars merchandising this bad since that Revenge of the Sith toilet paper.

I’m not even going to tell you where you can buy these things because whoever came up with them doesn’t deserve to see one red cent in profits.

Q-Bong Pressurized Beer Bong Will Make You Hurl Faster

It’s 2019, and ordinary beer bongs just won’t cut it. Gravity just doesn’t deliver beer fast enough for some people. That’s why we now have the Q-bong pressurized beer bong, a device designed to shoot beer down the throat of its recipient faster than ever.

All you have to do is fill the reservoir with up to 32-ounces of beer, pump the air bulb to your desired beer-pressure, press the trigger valve and get to chugging. Isn’t college fun? Now it’s a little less fun because it’s so convenient to chug all by yourself with no one helping.

Is it called the Q-Bong because some guy in British intelligence who invents gadgets for a living came up with this? I have no idea, but I can tell you that the guy in the video looks like Ryan Reynolds demonstrating this device. And just as I thought, he doesn’t look like he’s having a lot of fun chugging from this thing. Calling it now, this thing kills parties dead. Oh look, there’s so and so over there chugging by himself in the corner from what is essentially a juice box of beer. No one likes that guy.

I like how the video also cuts off right before he chugs. Because he can’t. Because he’s clearly too old for college.

[via Dude I Want That via Geekologie]

VFO: A Frisbee with a Built-in Camera

Is a game of frisbee not high-tech enough for you? Well, Brookstone, is selling this VFO (Video Flying Object) with a 720P video camera for you to destroy. Okay, they say it’s “super rugged” but clearly you haven’t seen me throw a frisbee.

The camera does not record audio, so you will be missing out on the sound of wind and nothing else. You’ll just have to settle for no sound with your videos, where your frisbee takes a trip along the route that you are already aware of, because you threw the thing after all.

You could always attach your GoPro to a frisbee instead, if you think it will fly. Somehow I don’t see this selling well.

[via Geekologie]

Drunk Guy Tackles Robot, Robot Calls for Help

Apparently, a drunk guy got into a scuffle with a Knightscope K5 security robot, and by scuffle I mean he knocked the 330-pound robot over. Maybe in an effort see if Weebles really do wobble, but don’t fall down, since the thing does look like a giant Weeble. I’m just guessing here.


Anyway, one of the five-foot droids took a fall last week in Mountain View, when a drunk man decided he didn’t like droids. Jason Sylvain knocked down the robot while it was patrolling a parking lot. Now the man faces prowling and public intoxication charges. Stacy Dean Stephens, Knightscope’s VP of marketing said, “The robot did exactly as it was suppose to do. The ‘assault’ was detected and immediately reported. The alarms on the robot sounded, the suspect attempted to flee the scene and was detained by one of my colleagues and me until the Mountain View Police arrived.”

I just want to know how this guy took down a 330-pound robot. Maybe he should play football.

[via C|Net via Engadget]

Dicktendo Discontinues NES Classic Edition Console

So your company has a wildly popular product that people are clamoring for to the point that there are widespread shortages, and you can’t keep up with demand? What do you do? Well if you are Nintendo you say EFF THOSE GUYS and discontinue the product.

Yep, if you haven’t got your hands on the NES Classic Edition yet, you are SOL. After just 5 short months of life, Nintendo has decided to already discontinue the NES Classic Edition, and has stated that the last few shipments won’t come to North America. Those last few consoles will go to wherever the NOA territories are.

This means that if you have been spamming the online retailers looking for stock to turn up, you are out of luck. You might as well go over to eBay and pony up all your monies because any Classic Edition consoles left just got way more expensive to buy. Nintendo is discontinuing the NES Classic controller as well. Massive dick move, Nintendo.

[via IGN]

Some Jerk Drops an iPhone 7 Plus off the World’s Tallest Building, Because Why Not?

Youtuber TechRax likes to buy expensive gadgets and destroy them for views. Yeah, this kind of stuff gets old pretty quick, but it’s gotten him over 5 million subscribers. And the only reason I’m sharing this video with you guys is because his latest video has Rax at the top of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. You can guess what comes next.

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He throws a brand new iPhone 7 Plus from the top. I’m pretty sure you could kill someone down below with an iPhone, or at least hurt them severely, so yeah, this is a stupid stunt. I only watched it because I wondered if he was actually going to find the phone afterward. So now you have to watch it too.

I’m just hoping some other jerk throws a smartphone off a building and Rax is below. Or it would be cool if the iPhone survived and some stranger picked it up and walked off with it. That would be Karma.

[via Gizmodo]

Spectacularly Stupid People Set Wal-Mart Fireworks Display Ablaze

Have you ever seen someone do something and just wondered what in the actual f**k they were thinking? This is certainly one of those cases. A pair of idiots went into Wal-Mart with possible plans to set their Snapchats ablaze with followers and comments by setting fire to a display of fireworks in store in Phoenix, Arizona.

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The idiots seem to have be incapable of understanding that Wal-Mart is completely festooned with security cameras and their entire prank was on security video. They set the fireworks on fire, setting off a chain reaction and turning the section into a significant fire.

Thankfully, everyone got out and the fire didn’t spread to the entire store. Once the police catch up with the duo, they face a class 2 felony for setting the blaze, which carries up to 20 years in prison. That is a serious bit of prison time for a stupid prank that could have killed someone. Is that lighter fluid in the bottles near the fireworks as the camera pans?

One Selfie Stick to Rule Them All

Ugh. Taking selfies is so much work. If only there was a selfie stick that would do all of the work for you, while you make your duck face. Well apparently there is. The UnREAL Selfie Stick is the selfie stick to end all selfie sticks.

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This ultimate selfie assistant has an automatically extending arm, fans that will create a breeze so that your hair can flutter in the wind, even lights.

It isn’t a real product yet, thank God. It’s only a concept design by Thinkmodo, to promote the Lifetime show UnREAL. There’s no indication that the company plans to mass produce it. I beg of them, please, don’t ever produce this. But somehow, I think someone will create an even crazier Selfie Stick. And people will buy it.

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[via Damn Geeky via Neatorama]