Golf is an annoyingly frustrating sport to play, but it can also be one of the most relaxing—if you’re any good. So I can’t imagine the type of mental fortitude needed to even hit a ball in this elaborately trippy shooting range built for professional golfer Rickie Fowler.
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We knew the Australian Classification Board had fundamental objections to Saints Row IV. What we didn’t know, however, was that these sticking points boiled down to just a single 20-minute side mission, in which the player gained superpowers by smoking “alien narcotics” with a character called Shaundi. That mission has now been exorcised, microwaved and buried in a sanitary disposal tank somewhere in the outback. According to Eurogamer, the only other change to the Australian version of Saints Row IV is the removal of a weapon called the Rectifier, which the censors were too anal to appreciate, but which will still be available to players as DLC. Meanwhile, we’re taking bets on how long it’ll be before the full, uncut title hits shelves Down Under as a premium box set.
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Source: Eurogamer
Humans love to get high. So much so that people were recreationally using nitrous oxide (commonly called "laughing gas") for nearly a century before it was used as an anaesthetic. So when chemists in the 1930s started proposing the use of nitrous oxide in consumer products like whipped cream canisters, some people naturally assumed that the end result would be rampant casual drug use.
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We’ve all seen those pop-up ads peddling discount prescription drugs from Canadian pharmacies. Ohhhh! Cheap Xanax! They always seem a little dubious, but as of this week, you’re probably going to see fewer of them. In partnership with international regulatory and law enforcement agencies, the FDA has just shut down 1,677 illegal online pharmacies, and seized a whopping $41,104,386 worth of illegal drugs.
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The Drug Enforcement Agency has seized 11.02 Bitcoins—about $800—from a drug dealer in South Carolina who had been using Silk Road. It’s the first (known) time the government has taken control of the virtual currency like it were property or real-world cash.
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People know that smoking is bad for their health. Most of them are also aware of the fact that doing drugs might make them loopy. Yet people still smoke and use all the same.
Text warnings can only do so much, so for cigarettes, some institutions pushed for manufacturers to print graphic pictures of the negative effects on the actual boxes. One study found that cigarettes packages with these pictures on the package reduced cigarette demand by 17%.
Perhaps following this lead, Brazilian ad agency Talent put up a bunch of posters showing what would happen to you if you smoke crack.
It’s not an outright graphic image, but in time, it shows you what’ll happen to you if you continue doing drugs.
The posters aren’t printed on paper, but are actually made of thin sheets of dough. In time, flour beetle larvae (also known as mealworms) slowly eat through the dough, poking holes into the face of the person on the poster and literally eating away at his face.
The ads were run in São Paulo, Brazil, but maybe they should be run all over the world for good measure.
[via Taxi via Gizmodo via Geekologie]
Don’t do drugs, people. But if you do do them, don’t overdose on ’em. But if you do overdose on ’em, make sure the drugs you’re doing are weed, LSD, opium and mushrooms and not pharmaceutical pills. That’s because pharmaceuticals kill more people in America than any other type of drug. What? More »
Being able to fund your gaming addiction is pretty difficult, especially if you don’t have the means to keep up with it, which results in your competitors beating you on a regular basis due to the fact you can’t afford better gear. But a 19-year-old Chinese man thought turning into a drug dealer would give him the cash he needed in order to buy better in-game gear in an MMORPG he was hooked on.
Wang reportedly spent most of his days playing online video games inside of an Internet cafe, where he also worked as an attendant. Through his time at the cafe, he became addicted to an MMORPG where player-versus-player battles were very important. (more…)
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There are plenty of reasons to be thankful that you don’t live in the early 1900s (child labor laws, air conditioning, what have you), but just in case you’ve been feeling nostalgic for simpler times, new research from the University of Detroit Mercy should put those wistful fantasies to rest. After chemically analyzing several dozen patent medicines from around the dawn of the 20th century, chemist Mark Benvenuto found that many of these completely unfounded “miracle cures” contained toxins such as lead, mercury, and even arsenic. More »
In a display of blatant disregard for Nancy Reagan and her pleas to the contrary, Russia’s bears, no longer able to resist the sweet temptation of gasoline, have found themselves suffering from a good, ol’ fashioned jet fuel addiction. More »
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