Enhance!!!

Ever see one of those CSI Enhance videos? Well, this takes enhancing to another level. Enjoy!

The Secret about $2 bills

You want to know a secret? $2 aren't rare. Yep, just go to a bank and ask for a ton of them. Sure, some may not have many, but they can always order more. Impress the ones who don't realize this truth. You may be able to get away with more with this knowledge. Read more about it here.

Fireworks Gone Wrong

Hope your 4th didn't end up like one of these. Mine was like the one when it exploded everywhere, but I'm okay. Remember, funny for you equals possible schadenfreude, so be aware people will say not safe for work language.

Super Moonwalking

Doesn't this make you want to see if its possible? This was on 3rd Street Promenade.

Airlines may want to get to know you better

In some airports they are planning to use facial recognition to get to know you better. They are trying to make it a personal experience, but is it too personal? Read for yourself.

Kinetic Rain

Imagine walking into an airport and you see this. Does it make up for the perilous journey that you will have to venture through with the TSA?

Robotic Cat Ears

Want some ears that react to your emotions? These are a necessity for any cosplayer that wants to make their animal costume more realistic, depending on the situation.

Human Slinky

Awesome slinky person

Office Workout

This is how you should keep in shape while sitting for 8 hours at a time.

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/bloodninja
Above, we have here what we call a troll. This is one of those old things on the internet, which was made back when things like YouTube didn't exist. There is some strong language in there, but tis to be expect with funny hi-jinks.

Dragon Shards

Some dragons are made not born.

Colbert Chucks an iPad and Sucks On an iPhone.

What the title says.

Abridged Anime

Do you like anime but find it too serious? Do you want to watch some of your favorite series from a totally different viewpoint? Above we have Yugioh, which this one was the one that started all the abridging. You can also see DBZ(done by TeamFourStar but link goes to another account), One Piece, and Pokemon. Randomness and funny hijinks prove this to be not safe for work.

Super Modern Mario Bros

What if the original Mario Bros was made more modern?

David Blaine Spoof

I thought this was pretty funny taking magic to the extreme. Remember, funny stuff tends to be not safe for work due to funny hi-jinks.

Star Wars meets Random Cartoon Voices

Do you know star wars? Do you like to hear things in funny cartoon voices? Well, take a look at this. Nice and funny hijinks shall ensue. Goes without saying that comedians/comedy in general = not safe for work. You also will see the people who voice some of your favorite cartoon characters.

PonPonPon

Japanese randomness at its finest.

Stuck at Home?

Maybe you should read homestuck. Homestuck is a... interesting tale about a group of children who play a game that goes horribly wrong or exactly as planned? I'm still not so sure. You will love the complexity of the story and the twisting and winding of time and space as the story tries to move in a linear path and gets overtaken quite a bit. It's a story hatched from the brain of programmers, so it makes sense that it would be so cool and original and unexpected. You will have so many, "They planned that from that long ago." It is certainly an enjoying experience and so I hope you enjoy reading it. There are so many inside jokes that you will be telling your friends, "I told you about the stairs." Also, heads up, it's not finished yet, but there is a nice stopping point right at ACT 6 if you are like me and dislike having to wait for something new everyday or so. Check it out above. There are other stories that are finished/not finished on the site as well, so feel free to take a look.

Henry Stickman

Like create your own adventures? Want some more interactivity with your story? Are you a completionist? Regardless of your answers to these questions, you should check out the Henry Stickman series, which is a nice group of interactive movies. Enjoy getting into some trouble!

Shock More

A tribute to one of my favorite stick figure movies, this movie has superb music connection with the flow of the battle. The hits match the sounds of the trumpets. This is a must see video of enjoyment.

Gem of a comment

One of the most amazing stories I've ever read in comment form. Here's what was said:
You can find it here.

I think particularly successful Boss Battles are the ones that really tune into the sense of desperation. For the most part, the Collossi in SotC do this very well. Each time you are climbing it feels like "this will never work oh god oh god"
But the absolute best I've experienced this is Giygas.
Yeah okay, I'm a Mother/Earthbound nut, but hear me out.
(Preface: this ENTIRE, well-scripted event is completely devalued if you know what to do ahead of time, whether through looking it up or through hearing about it. The game IS 17 years old, and all. But for the first time player who has no idea, it is remarkable.)
Consider first, that once you break past Pokey and he shuts off the Devil Machine and fight Giygas directly, the fight and aesthetic is more surreal than any encounter before. There is no Giygas sprite, there is no real background, there is only the shifting form of Giygas taking up your entire field of view. The music is deranged, but strangely calm. Then he calls to Ness and...
"You cannot grasp the true form of Giygas' attack."
...'the hell!? And BAM, your whole party is hit by an attack ranging in effect from a slight scratch, to volatile status effects, to incredible damage, to instantaneous death. You were told, but perhaps you did not believe it, Giygas is an entity of pure, incomprehensible, chaotic evil. You resort to your two most trustworthy trump card attacks, Jeff's Multi-Bottle Rocket and Ness' PSI Rockin' Omega.
And neither work.
To tell the truth, PSI Rockin' sometimes works, but sometimes it doesn't, and it has NEVER been ineffective before. You can understand such a mundane attack like a bottle rocket failing, maybe, but this is your signature move, THE thing that has distinguished Ness as special, even among other psychics. And it might not even WORK!? Oh.
Shit.
But it's okay. You can fight, you have plenty of other effective attacks and ways to heal yourself and pick up fallen allies. It's not totally hopeless. So you struggle and (as far as you can tell) you're doing alright. Maybe you're stressed, maybe your confident when Pokey comes in to taunt you. Maybe he makes it worse, or maybe you blow off the fat kid's jeering as a load of hot air, doesn't really matter. What matters is that from that point onward, you have NO idea how much more you have to fight until the end.
You fight. And you fight. And you fight some more. For a long time you can feel confident, but eventually you will start running out of Cups o' Lifenoodles and PP restoring items. Soon enough, you're running out of fuel and Giygas is still alive, still hammering you, and still behaving exactly the same. Whether you like it or not, the prospect of losing this battle starts to become a very real idea. You thought you were prepared, nay, OVERprepared. You got the Sword of Kings, you have the Gutsy Bat and you are approaching, if not at, max level. You can eat Bionic Kraken and Atomic Power Robots for breakfast. And for all that, you are utterly incapable of dealing any appreciable damage to Giygas. You know you can't lose, you know you'll never be stronger than this, you know that there has to be some way to defeat him, but HOW!?
So you get desperate.
Jeff is down for the count and Poo is diamondized. Ness and Paula are pretty badly wounded and have critically low PP. You select "Bash" for Ness, and move on to choosing Paula's attack. You weigh your options, unleash another PSI Freeze or Thunder? Maybe use what's left of your PP to cure Poo or pick up Jeff. Either way, after this turn, you've got nothing left.
And then you happen to notice the one command you have probably ignored for the entire game. The hit-or-miss, random effect, usually-doesn't-work-at-all, Pray. You might know that sometimes Pray can fully heal you, but maybe you don't. Even if you do, you're hoping against the odds that (if Pray even works) THAT effect is chosen among all possibilities. Either way, you are praying for a miracle. So you pray.
You withstand another incomprehensible attack. Ness attacks and deals (what you used to think was) a considerable amount of damage, and then pray triggers. What follows is something you didn't expect. Paula speaks, desperately begging anybody for help, and across time and space we see your team of supporters sense her and pray for you.
"Giygas' defenses became unstable!"
...Holy Shit.
It was not until that final act of near hopeless desperation that the battle even really began. Mechanically, yes, Giygas is invincible in this phase and unbeatable, but you have nothing telling you that aside from Pokey, and OF COURSE he'd want to believe that Giygas is unstoppable. It took exhausting every resource at your disposal until you resorted to a command you had long ago dismissed as all but useless, because you were that desperate.
And the designers knew that.
Everything about playing videogames teaches us to forgo weak techniques for better alternatives. We also know that sometimes there are abilities in games that just inherently suck whether they're supposed to or not. Often these abilities are just fluff, or a cool concept that never got fleshed out right. NOBODY in their right mind would use Pray on a regular basis. Aside from having a high chance of doing nothing and wasting a turn, half the effects negatively impact YOUR team too. The payoff is absolutely not worth it, so it's not a surprise that a player would ignore it. It's now that I can appreciate that very deliberate design. You are given the God-ending power early in the game, and it is useless. It's so useless that in the moment you need it most, you would not even think to use it. The time when you most desperately want to throw your strongest attacks at the enemy, your only effective attack is the pointless command you never use. I'm sure the designers knew that it would take trying absolutely every other option you had (even the equally useless Mirror technique) before using Pray, because they wanted you to feel as desperate as Paula does when she prays.
Mission god damned Accomplished.
So the fight changes to outlasting Giygas' tortured/ecstatic cries while Paula prays for support with everything she has. THIS is doable. You can last this long, just survive, see where this takes you, you'll be fine now. Each prayer reaches a new set of loved ones and friends who's support for the team weakens Giygas, dealing ever increasing damage. This is good, this can be done! So you Pray, and soon enough Giygas becaomes "fatally wounded". The image of Giygas splits into distortion. Staticy, numerous, frantic faces quite clearly writhing in pain. You've done it, you've won. Your sense of accomplishment and relief is palpable. And yet... the fight keeps going?
Strange. Okay, well, I suppose they just want you to finish him off. You assuredly Pray this one last turn.
"Paula's call is absorbed by the darkness."
...What.
WHAT!?
You mean NOW, after all that, having very literally NOTHING left to throw at Giygas is when you have to beat him the conventional way? There's no way, you're out of PP, out of items, out of time, out of everything! You've got to be kidding, you're still going to lose!? But... alskjdfnlkjsljkbhlajsfhkdj!!1!1
Suddenly, after you were lifted up into the confidence of a sure victory, you are tossed back down to where you were a few minutes ago, desperation. Again, you don't know what to do but hope for the best and pray.
So you pray again, because you're at that point where you'll even try things that have failed before. And just as quickly as you were smacked back down into desperation, hope shoots back up as a mystery identity wishes for the safety of the party, dealing increasingly PREPOSTEROUS amounts of damage to Giygas. In a few turns, you realize that identity is you. The name of you, the player, who was so randomly asked through the 4th wall half a game ago. YOU desperately wanted Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo to win.
So they did.
The game made you as a person fervently hope for the victory of the characters and in the end, it was YOUR genuine hope for their safety that saved them.
What you experienced was just a video game. A simple SNES cartridge of cartoony sprites and kooky bad guys. But in it's simplicity, it still has the power to invoke that emotion in you, and then USE it as the very key to winning the final battle.
And that is why, ladies and gentlemen, I will always hold the battle against Giygas to be the greatest Boss Battle any video game has ever presented.

Teach me how to code

There are many places that can teach you coding in a fun easy way. So for those who are interested in learning something that will be quite beneficial given the current state of affairs between us and computers, here's a few places to learn how to code:

Code Academy
Udacity

Learn Something in a Minute

There are alot of Youtube channels out there, but there are a select few that aren't just about cute babies laughing, cat being forced to do things, or random people doing stunts to remove themselves from the gene pool. There are a few that actually provide decent knowledge and teach you something new or perhaps something that you already knew, but didnt know why. Below is an example of the latter:

If you are interested in more informative learning, check out his channel here.

You Are Not So Smart

What the Title says. We believe that we know everything from time to time, but then there are other moments when we completely clueless and yet we still try to act that we have all the answers. I turn your attention to the video below, which reflects this thought process:

Now let's learn something productive, eh? What's the most dangerous form of not doing things productive? Procrastination, no? Well, what if I were to tell you that procrastination is a mind game that fight with over the space-time continuum? What if I told you that procrastination can be solved by using a lot of mental power to outsmart yourself? What if I... Oh just listen to the other video below:



Enjoyed those videos? Want to learn more useful information? Want to learn from Benjamin Franklin how to turn enemies into comrades? Read more here.

TV, You're So Predictable

So two protagonists just had the worst day ever and sit down on the sidewalk and one tries to comfort by saying "At least it can't get any worse..." What happens next?

I'm sure 95% of you are saying, "It rains, of course." If you got that then you are familiar with a trope. This is called Cue The Rain. A trope is obviously something that has occurred so many times that you can expect it to happen given enough information. Occasionally, these can be subverted to provide a Didn't See That Coming experience. Want to see what tropes your favorite shows have partaken in? Well go to TV Tropes.

I'm sure this will be useful for those of you who want to make a story or two. Enjoy!

Newspapers are So Yesteryear

Do you still read newspapers? Time to realize that newspapers take a day to tell you what happened yesterday, and they waste tons of trees and otherwise perfectly good toilet paper.

Time to get with the times and become that impatient internet user that wants all the world's information at your finger tips in a matter of seconds. Since you are on a computer perhaps you would like to know some tech news perhaps? Don't worry I'll be providing more news places over the summer in case you don't like tech news. Try Giz.

Try this article for useful info in what not to buy.

Homepage of the Internet

Hey you. Yea, you looking at these words. Welcome to the internet!

Yeah, I'm sure you are aware of that. Remember your first time being on the internet and not knowing where to go? Maybe you knew Google was the go to place since it popped up on your screen or perhaps you came in later and it was Bing. Regardless of the way, you got on here and searched for something for some reason.

What do you use the internet for? Talk to people, most likely?

What if I told you that you can use the internet to learn? Well, I will be doing that this summer and maybe past that depending on how well this turns out, but first of all let's get you acquainted to the Internet. Your first stop? Reddit.

Have you heard of it? There should be a split. Some are saying well this is a waste of my time, while others might be actually curious. Reddit is exactly what it says it is, "The Homepage of the Internet". This will give you access to practically any part of the internet and it grows along with the internet. Reddit is like having a giant news feed that is created by other users. What do you do for fun? What are your interests? There's a subreddit for that most likely. Just be careful of trolls and you will be fine. Go to reddit today!

And here's a guide to get started.