This… Is BGNN

Things you might want to know, for Mar 22, 2023:

• Tchia stands on the shoulders of Zelda — then leaps off — It’s gorgeous, I’ll say that much.
• The Little-Known Origin Story behind the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics — 🧐
• I Attended Submissive School For A Day — Ahem.
• Zack Snyder teases ‘ridiculous scale’ RPG set in the universe of his new Netflix film — He’s good at sequences and set pieces, but I’m not sure Zack has successfully delivered a whole film at this point in his career… so I’m not expecting much from his even grander ambitions.
• GDC 2023: ID@Xbox Online Demos Now Live on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S — 🍿

• Amanda Bynes Found Wandering Naked In Downtown LA, Placed on 5150 Psychiatric Hold — She was an enormous young talent just ten years ago… mental illness is a fucking nightmare, man.
• The Surprising Psychology Behind Your Urge To Break the Rules | Paul Bloom | TED — Ahem.
• “The Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You Are” — In my head, I’m… I dunno. Forty-five?
• ‘Ted Lasso’ White House Visit Disrupted by Briefing Room Showdown — Speaking of mental illness… good show, asshole, for trying to upstage a little benign outreach effort.
• ‘MILF Manor’ Is a Bizarre Blend of Reality TV and Incest Porn — Well okay then. Now I have to watch it.

• Hundreds of odd and unordered Uber Eats deliveries showing up in Los Angeles and New Westminster, Canada neighborhoods — It’s either the work of the world’s dumbest, most wasteful philanthropist, or a database glitch that got out of hand.
• Google Pixel bug lets you “uncrop” the last four years of screenshots — Yeah, so, this is one of those stupendously stupid programming errors that would make you laugh if you discovered it in your own code, while being moderately horrifying when considered at a scale of tens of millions of people.
• Ball games: did Prue Leith know she was wearing a suggestive necklace? — No, she didn’t. But it’s still priceless.
• Modder creates tribute to their Elder Scrolls-loving mum so ‘she can live on in every adventure I take in Tamriel’ — Geeks can be really sweet. It’s easy to forget sometimes, but it happens.
• Woman on speakerphone in Uber called in bomb threat to Walmart to prevent boyfriend’s shoplifting arrest — I don’t relish one more person being tossed into the jaws of the Prison Beast, but on the other hand, some people are too moronic and self-centered to be running around loose.

• Flexibility is important — 🍿
• Video: Looking Back On Animal Crossing: New Horizons Three Years Later — As difficult as it is to imagine, it was inevitable that some people would eventually look back with sentimental affection at the Lockdown Era.
• Life By You aims to be ‘one of the most moddable and open life-simulation games’ ever made — I’ll believe it when they deliver it. And I hope they do.
• How to Make Greens Last Longer | Cook’s Illustrated — Finally, a use for all those abandoned Sodastream gizmos that people forgot about three weeks after opening the box.
• Even in scams, women still get paid less than men — 🙃