Did y'all know when the Nintendo Wii was announced you could buy a Nintendo Gamecube, brand new, at Wal-Mart, for $49.99 in 2006?
That's still only $83.10 today
Games were $49.99 but those dropped to $9.99 and $19.99 as well
Just thought that was interesting
Most male lions never live to see their tenth birthday. The ones who win a pride usually keep it for two to four years. Then a younger, bigger group of males shows up and pushes them out. And a lion who loses his land rarely dies quietly. He starves, or the rivals who replaced him kill him, or hyenas run him down.
Scarface held his ground in Kenya's Maasai Mara for close to a decade. When he died in June 2021, it was of old age, at around 14, lying in the grass.
He didn't do it alone. For a male lion, survival comes down to numbers, and Scarface had three brothers: Morani, Sikio, and Hunter. People called them the Four Musketeers. In 2012 the four of them took over the Marsh Pride, the lions the BBC had made famous years before. Four males hunting and fighting together is close to unbeatable. It let them hold a wide stretch of land along the Mara River and hold off the younger males who kept trying to take it.
The scar came from that life. He tore up his right eye in a fight over territory, and it never fully healed. It split open more than once, and vets had to treat it so it wouldn't get infected. That torn-up face made him one of the most photographed lions on earth. Guides could pick him out from across the plain.
You've probably seen the stats that get posted with his photos: 400 hyenas killed, 130 rival lions beaten, never once defeated. None of it is on record. The people who tracked him for years say those numbers are made up. He was a hard fighter, but the giant kill counts are just a story.
By the end, the brotherhood was gone. Two of his brothers had died, and the group that kept them all safe had fallen apart. Scarface spent his last months mostly alone, thin, limping on old wounds, slowly losing the ground he'd held for years.
Then he walked. In his final days he covered more than 15 miles, heading back toward the corner of the Mara where he was born. Photographers watched three young males come near him at the end. They didn't attack. They let the old lion lie down. He died there, quiet and undisturbed, in the place he started.
A wild male lion dying peacefully of old age is one of the rarest ways to go in the wild. Almost none of them get it. Scarface did.
We stopped the world’s economy for a virus 99.9% of people survive and we printed $7 trillion in unbacked currency while we did it.
This is how it is now. That toothpaste doesn’t go back in the tube. Sorry. Some of us tried to stop it.
Russell Crowe says Tom Cruise taught him a blackjack strategy that won them $25,000
“Occasionally I will go and play blackjack at a casino if I'm in a group of people because, if you're all disciplined and if you hold every seat at a table, you can turn the tide against the house very easily”
“Funnily enough, it was Tom Cruise who taught me this. If you have it so the first chair and the last chair make the calls and the decisions, and everybody else just sits on 12 and above, you watch the mathematics come your way”
“Now, way back in the day, Tom calls me and goes, ‘Hey, bud. We got this thing set up. Steve Wynn has put on a jet. He's going to fly us to Vegas. We're allowed to play at Shadow Creek.’ I'm not really a golfer, but it sounded good to me. Jumped on the plane, went there, and we're playing Shadow Creek”
“We enjoyed ourselves at the golf course. Then we go back to the Wynn Hotel, and they've given us Michael Jackson's lanai to change clothes in or whatever. We go and get some Chinese food. The jet's comped, the golf's comped, the lanai's comped, the food's comped, and then we go and play blackjack together”
“Tom explains what the team's going to do, and we take $25,000 or more off the table. We go back to the airport, get on the comped jet, fly back to LA, and we finished up as a group. That was a perfect day”
Every min wage job I’ve ever had: “You shouldn’t just be standing around there’s always something to do”
Every white collar job I’ve ever had: “Yeah sorry we don’t have much for you to do this week. Just make sure you’re available in case we need you”
@dessriell S (Shū - 秀): 90-100%, Exemplary/Superior
A (Yū - 優): 80-89%, Excellent/Very Good
B (Ryō - 良): 70-79%, Good
C (Ka - 可): 60-69%, Pass
F (Fuka - 不可): Below 60%, Fail
Japanese stuff
Lowkey hilarious how every country that just got eliminated from the World Cup was completely devastated and USA fans just didn’t really give a fuck LMAOOOO