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A species of mushroom that grows in the northern hemisphere can get people high, but some other chemicals in the mushroom also make you very ill. However if a reindeer eats the mushrooms, the illness producing toxins are filtered out but the hallucinogen survives in the reindeer urine. It’s called Amanita Muscaria, aka Fly Agaric […]
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Italy, France, and Brazil are not even in the top ten highest consumers of coffee. The Nordic countries dominate coffee consumption and are all within the top ten countries worldwide. Further, Finland (the highest consumer in the world) more than doubles the annual consumption of Italy.
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New Zealand Council pays a wizard $16,000 a year to “provide acts of wizardry”.
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Do you remember those nights watching episode after episode of your favorite shows?
There was nothing quite like ordering pizza, making popcorn, and watching the new episode of Full House.
On September 22, 1989, ABC officially launched “TGIF,” a two-hour block of family-friendly sitcoms.
And the rest is TV history.
Nostalgic facts about forgotten TGIF shows
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Although many argue it is a riff on the phrase “Thank God It’s Friday,” this particular acronym actually stood for “Thank God It’s Funny”.
The block featured some of ABC’s most iconic programming, Including Full House, Family Matters, Step By Step, Boy Meets World, and Sabrina The Teenage Witch.
As well as some shows that are less well remembered such as Free Spirit, Camp Wilder, You Wish, and Teen Angel.
Urkel stole the hearts of many with his iconic catchphrase “did I do that?” But, he was only supposed to be in one episode.
The inspiration for Steve Urkel’s name actually came from co-creator Michael Warren’s real life friend Steve Erkel.
Urkel was so popular that he had cross-over episodes in various shows such as Full House and Boy Meets World.
Family Matters was the second longest-running sitcom focused on an African American family with 9 seasons. The longest-running one was actually The Jeffersons, which ran for 11 seasons.
Richie was played by twins because of California state regulations. But, they were only credited as one person: Joseph Julius Wright, rather than Joseph and Julius Wright.
Corey was originally supposed to have a group of friends instead of just Shawn, but no characters stuck.
In fact, the cast used to call the chair where those actors sat the “death chair” since they never made it longer than one episode.
Danielle Fishell was not the original Topanga. But, after the first actress was fired she was determined to take all notes to heart. After her first appearance, co-creator Michael Jacobs rehearsed lines with her and gave her a laundry list of notes.
“My heart stopped beating regularly, and my palms got sweaty: ‘Danielle, yesterday I gave you an enormous amount of notes. I did that because I believed you were capable of handling them,’ he said in front of all the writers and producers and my fellow actors,” Fisher said. “Then he stood up. I panicked. Was he going to fire me, slam his script on the ground, and storm out of there? ‘However, with your performance today, you exceeded my expectations,’ he concluded. He started clapping, and all the writers stood up and clapped next to him. Michael wasn’t going to fire me. He believed in me. He gave me a freaking standing ovation.”
No one else could play Topanga. And you can still see some of the original cast reprise their roles in the Disney Channel spin-off Girl Meets World.
Sabrina’s character was based on the Archie Comics comic book. Sabrina first appeared in Archie’s Madhouse #22 in October 1962.
Melissa Joan Hart’s mother, Paula Hart, was the one who first brought the concept to ABC.
“My mom doesn’t get nearly enough credit for her job as the woman spearheading the show. She is the one who was handed the Archie comic book on a playground at my sister’s school in Manhattan and sold it to Viacom as a Showtime movie,” Joan Hart said to Marie Claire. “She always knew it would make an incredible series but no one would listen.”
Sabrina was actually ABC’s highest-rated TGIF show.
The first official night of TGIF featured the series premiere of Free Spirit.
The Bewitched-like Free Spirit centered around a mischievous witch named Winnie, who worked as a live-in housekeeper for a divorced father of three.
Playing the 16-year-old-daughter was a young Alyson Hannigan, who also played Willow, a powerful witch and best friend of Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
The series eventually moved to Sunday nights and was replaced on TGIF by the short-lived Growing Pains spin-off Just the Ten of Us.
This sitcom centered around four writers working at a hidden camera show, and featured a pre-Melrose Place Heather Locklear.
Though it was canceled after one season, co-creators Robert Gifford and Howard Adler and some cast members Stacey Keanan and Christopher Castile, would all find themselves working on a far more successful TGIF sitcom, Step By Step, the following season.
The series focused on single mother Ricky Wilder who moves into her childhood home after the death of her parents and becomes the guardian of her teenage siblings.
Ricky opens up the house to their friends as both an escape from their overbearing parents and to offer her words of wisdom for their problems.
Though the 19-episode run is largely forgotten, Jerry O’Connell played Ricky’s teenage brother Brody.
And making appearances as some of his friends were future Oscar winners Hillary Swank and Jared Leto.
It also featured a potentially groundbreaking plotline, Ricky’s six-year-old daughter, Sophie exhibits increasingly tomboyish traits. On the Christmas episode, she announced that all “she ever wanted was to be a boy!”
This show is actually a hit in Germany.
You Wish was something of a modern twist of I Dream of Genie. The show centered on the Apple Family, who unwittingly frees a genie when visiting a carpet shop.
You wish ran for only seven episodes.
Teen Angel focused on Steve Beauchamp who, after dying from eating a hamburger found under a bed (yes, you read that correctly…) returns to Earth to serve as his best friend’s Guardian Angel.
Despite an epic crossover event…
Which saw Sabrina’s Salem the cat appear on Boy Meets World, You Wish, and Teen Angel and send all shows into their own time-traveling vortex…
Both You Wish and Teen Angel were quickly canceled
Teen Angel only after 17 episodes.
But they were not the only ones. By then, ratings for TGIF were already on the decline, and two seasons later, TGIF was re-named ABC Working Comedy.
We still love these shows.
Some of the most iconic action movies have been based on fan-favorite video games.
It makes sense since video game developers spend a lot of time thinking about the story and different plot lines that move the game along.
These movies also serve as an introduction to the gaming world for those who might not know how to click the “X” button and provide more content for fans of the original games.
So, here are some killer facts about movies based on video games that even the most dedicated gamers will find fascinating.
Facts you didn’t know about movies based on video games
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Tomb Raider is one of the biggest gaming franchises of all time.
The game was created by only six people, who made history since it sold over 58 million copies.
The title character, Lara Croft, was originally named Laura Cruz.
But, Angelina Jolie was not always set to play the iconic character
Jennifer Love-Hewitt really wanted to play the role of Lara Croft in the film, but the director Simon West could only picture Angelina Jolie.
And, Daisy Ridley, Emilia Clarke, Saoirse Ronan, and Kristen Stewart were close to playing the part in the 2018 reboot before Alicia Vikander landed the iconic role.
However, Angelina couldn’t see herself in the iconic Lara Croft shorts. It took her a moment to get used to them.
And it was the scenery that sold the idea to her
Angelina agreed to do the film because of all the locations she would visit while filming.
“But they said you can travel the world and train with the British Military and so I had three months of seeing what I could do. And I would encourage anybody to do that,” Jolie said.
She performed a lot of her own stunts
The A-List star mastered the 2001 film’s bungee-ballet without a stunt double. And actually injured her ankle in the process. It had to be reshot when she recovered.
The scenes where Angelina is driving a jeep also had to be reshot because snakes and other critters kept dropping into the car.
They obviously incorporated a lot of aspects from the original game
Near the end of the film when Lara finds a wolf pack, she says “a-ha”. This is a nod to the original games where Lara used the phrase whenever she picked up an item.
We love props
The picture inside of Lara’s father’s pocket watch is actually Lynda Carter.
After filming, Angelina kept Lara’s holsters as a keepsake. Lara Croft Way in Derby, England was named to honor where the designers created the iconic character.
It only took 10 months and 4 people to create the original Mortal Kombat game.
The 1995 Mortal Kombat film is the fourth highest-grossing video game adaptation of all time, after Tomb Raider, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, and Pokemon: The First Movie.
Fun fact for movie buffs
The film was heavily influenced by the 1973 film Enter the Dragon.
Who is who?
Jean-Claude Van Damme actually turned down the role of Johnny Cage to do Street Fighter. Which is funny because the character in the games was allegedly originally based on him.
Chris Casamassa was initially only hired to work as a stunt ninja. The producers were so thrilled with his audition that he was cast in the role of Scorpion.
Meanwhile, Sean Connery was the first choice to play Rayden. He turned down the role because it was too physical and he wanted to play golf.
Cameron Diaz was seriously considered for the role of Sonya Blade, but she broke her wrist before filming.
And, Ed Boon was not only the voice of Scorpion in the original video game but also a co-creator and a creative consultant for the movie.
And she wasn’t the only one who got hurt
However, onset injuries were actually quite minimal. There were only a few bruises and broken ribs.
Other stars wanted to crash
The medic on set also worked as the security guard and turned away a curious Tom Cruise.
Mortal Kombat super fan Steven Spielberg was meant to make a cameo in the film, but scheduling conflicts forced him to back out of the project.
No one expected it to be so successful
Director Paul W.S. Anderson was incredibly nervous about how the film would be received. He hunkered down in Hawaii during the premiere only to regret his choice.
The movie grossed $23.3 million opening weekend. That was 8 times more than the next highest release, The Baby-Sitters Club.
Just like Tomb Raider, the Resident Evil game was conceived in 1993 and released in 1996.
Zombies weren’t big at the time
While zombie movies and shows are everywhere today, the studio was worried audiences wouldn’t want to watch the living dead at the time.
It had been almost 15 years since a zombie movie had hit big.
Clearly, they were wrong
The Resident Evil franchise has grossed over $1 billion.
They took some creative freedoms
Milla Jovovich agreed to do the movie because her brother was a huge fan of the video games.
But her character, Alice, never appears in the video games. Alice’s name is never spoken in the film either. It’s only revealed in the credits.
The movie was originally meant to be titled Resident Evil: Ground Zero. They dropped “Ground Zero” after September 11th, 2001.
Are they zombies though?
The word zombie is also never actually used in the film.
The makeup team had an incredibly difficult time with the zombie dogs because they kept licking the fake blood and meat off themselves.
More stunts
Jovovich did all of her own stunts in the film except for the pipe jump in the sewer scene.
And, the movie inspired the game as well
The iconic laser grid from the first film made its way into the Resident Evil 4 game.
There’s a hidden easter egg in the passcode for the door in dining hall B. The code 04031965 is actually the writer and director Paul W.S Anderson’s birthday.
These iconic video games have changed movie history. And, hopefully, the two mediums will continue to inspire each other.
Delta-8 is often an overlooked cannabinoid in the world of cannabis. With delta-9 and its high amounts of THC as the primary focus for most medical marijuana patients, delta-8 has been left by the wayside. However, if you are using cannabis to manage your chronic pain, this may not be a bad thing. Specifically, Delta-8 is actually identical to natural anandamide – one of our bodies’ own naturally occurring cannabinoids. The compound itself is known for its anti-inflammatory properties, which have shown particular efficacy in treating neuropathic pain conditions such as sciatica or diabetic neuropathy. This substance can also bind
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It’s by now common knowledge a profoundly high amount of marriages end in divorce in the United States.
Bearing that upsetting news in mind, we’d like to think each of those relationships meet their end for a worthy reason, full of movie-like passion and the strong convictions of both partners.
But a recent Reddit thread squashed those lofty hopes.
“Lawyers of Reddit, what is the pettiest reason you’ve ever seen for divorce?”
“Definitely the fridge Story!! A woman filed for divorce because her husband would eat everything he can find in their fridge whenever the wife was out for work.”
“So she came back to a basically empty fridge each night.”
“He also cheated on her but she was less angry about that. The fridge was what pushed her to the point she wanted a divorce.” — wrenisanecklace
“the husband kept putting wet/used towel on their bed.” — automind
“Wife wanted divorce like 2 months into marriage because the husband would squeeze the toothpaste from the top and not bottom.”
“She claims to have told him a millions times over to stop. Would have been easier to get 2 toothpastes i thought.” — Infamous-Offer6342
“Not a lawyer- but apparently my brother divorced his wife when McDonald’s forgot to put bbq sauce in with her chicken nuggets at the drive through and she asked him to go back and get some.”
“He didn’t and then I guess she started smashing up food and throwing it at him/out the window….. so yeah…. McDonalds how could you ruin a marriage 
…….” — WITCH_glitch_I-hex-u
“Not a lawyer: My Mom’s coworker divorced over dishes in the dishwasher.”
“The wife would get so frustrated over the husband (coworker) not rinsing dishes before he loads them in the dishwasher.”
“To compromise, they bought a super nice, top of the line dishwasher. Solves the problem, right?”
“She yelled about the dishes that night. He filed for divorce the next day.” — weberster
“Not a lawyer but this happened to my wife’s cousin.”
“Her husband came home one day asking her to give a higher financial contribution on the groceries, because she, as a lady, was using more toilet paper than him.”
“She took it as a joke and had a good laugh. He got mad, and asked for divorce.”
“Worth mentioning that his salary was 3 times higher than hers.” — Yashky
“Nobody ever believes me about this one, but it’s true.”
“A man wanted a divorce from his wife because – and he gave this example as the ‘last straw’ – his wife ate those nasty pumpkin Halloween candies, like candy corn but pumpkin shaped.”
“He had been looking forward to them all day and when he got home, she had eaten them all. He snapped.”
“Swear on my life this story is true.” — Brkiri
“My father-in-law and mother-in-law’s breaking point was when he threw a breadcrumb at her from across the kitchen.”
“The divorce took 4 years to settle.” — ITS_JUST_LOW_T
“My ex thinks I divorced him because my friends told me to.”
“What actually happened was I was bitching about him to a friend and she said ‘you know, he really is a passive aggressive piece of garbage. He does this all the time’.”
“And then I started thinking about how he really did pull that crap all the time and how I wasn’t actually depressed, I just hated living with him.”
“She opened my eyes, but I divorced him because he treated me like crap, not because my friend told me to.” — scaly_friends_4me
“I remember one episode of a TV show here in my country, similar to Jerry Springer, the woman didn’t know her husband used dentures until marrying and living together.”
“She said she couldn’t handle anymore, she was disgusted.”
“They both cried, she said a lot of ‘I’m sorry’ but she couldn’t go on. They were married for a few months.”
“Don’t know if it was true though.” — nerdy_latino
“The weirdest I’ve ever seen is a coworker of mine.”
“His wife saw a picture of him at a pool when he was in high school and really athletic. Toned, muscular, tan and so on.”
“Over the 10 years after high school he stopped lifting and lost his muscle tone and just became skinny.”
She told him she wanted him to get back to working out because she really liked the way he once looked and he said it was something he missed doing and agreed to get a gym membership.”
“He was going to the gym four days a week but was only really working out for two of them. On the days he didn’t work out he would sit in the sauna to get sweaty, watch Netflix and then go home.”
“When she asked about him going to the gym and accidentally let it slip that he was fudging workouts twice a week. She apparently found that to be a deal breaker and filed for divorce.” — SafewordisJohnCandy
“A woman came in wanting to divorce her husband. He had just gotten a new job and a pretty big raise.”
“It turned out that this new job of his also required that he work from home but he was working in an office before.”
“She was having an affair with their next-door neighbor and him being home more meant that she couldn’t cheat on her husband easily.”
“That was definitely a twist. I was expecting something like him being the one having the affair but nope!” — red_duke117
“A teacher I had in HS got divorced because his wife didnt like how much sex he had before they had been married.”
“To put in context how petty of a reason that was, they had been married for 12 yrs and had three kids together.”
“She had also met him a few years into his teaching career which didn’t start till he was 32.”
“But to say both sides of the argument, he did have a staggering large amount of sex, he was an Olympian and had been going to the Olympics to compete since he was 18.”
“He was the best teacher to ever have as a homeroom teacher as the stories he could tell were just surreal.” — TarvidD12
So there you have it.
Even if you find yourself in the throes of a dying marriage destined for failure for the least legitimate reason possible, you will not be alone.
I guess there’s some comfort in that, right?
We all like to think we’re clean people, and we probably are.
But there are probably still some ways we can improve, or ways to get things just as clean without all the time and effort.
“What is a hygiene tip/trick that everyone should know?”
“Occasionally wipe down your doorknobs and light switches. When I was a maid I’d clean people’s light switches and they’d be covered is brown gunk because they’d never been cleaned before. We touch them multiple times every day. They get nasty.” –yarnfrog
“At the start of the plague I deep cleaned the office. The worst part was the door. Not the handle but the door itself, because everyone touches the same spot to hold it open when they pull their key out. Also the armrests on chairs. I swear I went home and took two showers from how nasty it all was.” –shiguywhy
“Whenever I lysol wipe my phone, the wipe still has lots of life left so I’ll go wipe any switches, door handles, sink handles, fridge handles, microwave buttons, all that good stuff in the vicinity. Doesn’t take too long.” –drsandwich_MD
“Don’t ignore a toothache. Abscesses can lead to sepsis that’ll destroy your whole body. Take care of those luxury bones!” –februarytide
“During the lull between the first and second covid waves, we had two admissions to our intensive care unit with pericardial infections secondary to dental abscesses. One died. Don’t ignore dental infections.” –Mouse_Nightshirt
“Brush your tongue and the top of your mouth along with your teeth.” –pdxblaxer
“Clean your pillowcase regularly, it helps keep your face from breaking out.” –Amish_Juggalo469
“I change my pillowcase every 4 nights (1 night per side) originally because of breakouts. Helped a lot. Just went to a second hand store, got a ton of cheap pillowcases, washed them with hot water and bleach and voila.” –Balderdash966
“And your comforter/blanket if you’re like me and bring it all the way up to your face.” –Reamund
“Washing my hairbrush. I used to just get rid of the excess hair but that was it: I never rinsed it out. I wash it in a mild soap solution and rinse in very hot water and it makes my hair smell so much better.” –Redditor
“I did this the other day, I was pretty grossed out by how dirty the water was afterwards.” –spitfire07
“Omg. Bc of product buildup, natural oils, dry scalp, wtf I’m doing this tomorrow thank you! Seems like common sense that a brush would need cleaning too 
” –rayne-drops
“Maybe not hygiene, but use a face lotion with a SPF of 15 or higher. You’ll thank yourself later on in life.” –__Sentient_Fedora__
“I’ve been doing this daily since I was 18. I’m now 52, no wrinkles at all. I still get asked for ID. Do it.” –Acornpoo
“Mid-40s here: Same. My sisters and I have been putting on SPF daily since childhood. My mom was super stringent about it. Face and neck.”
“My mom is 70-ish and she looks like she could be early 50s. My sisters and I have smooth skin, no sun spots and no wrinkles. It could be genetics, but it could also be rigorous use of sunscreen.” –ResidingAt42
“Poop first, shower second.” –belachewm
“I poop 5 times a day and shower once or twice so this isn’t really sustainable for me.” __Guy_Incognito
“One word. Bidet.” –Canisnate
“Pee after sex! Male or female, everybody needs to pee after sex.”
“Also, if you’re reading this, you probably need to drink at least one glass of water.” –hananobira
“I don’t need to drink any more water. I work in construction and it is summer here. I drink plenty because I sweat it out like a faucet. What I need are electrodes especially sodium.”
“That ‘drinking lots of water is good’ mentality can be really dangerous. We periodically get reminded that drinking water is not a substitute for a rest to cool down because of how many people drink themselves to the point of water poisoning.”
“The peeing to prevent UTI is spot on though.” –idunnoijustlurk
“You’re in public and your armpits smell disgusting. Use hand sanitizer because the smell is caused by bacteria, and the hand sanitizer killed it. Just don’t do this regularly because your skin is sensitive under your armpits.” –Toxicity5675
“Also don’t do this on freshly shaved armpits.” –standinginmyownway
“Pro tip for hairy guys: Shave your pits. Saves your shirts from stains and GREATLY reduces the smell. Also, your deodorant will actually work.” –Intyleryoutrust
“Years ago I had BO that would go through the best deodorant. My dermatologist told me to buy this product called Hibiclens – it has 4% chlorhexidine gluconate- and use on my pits when i shower.”
“Game changer. I still use it to this day, maybe 1 or 2 times a week instead of every time I shower.” –PAXICHEN
“When you take a shower or get out of a pool, slide your hands down your legs, arms, stomach, butt etc a few times like windshield wipers when you turn the water of and there’ll be less on the floor when you get out and your towel wont be as soaking wet either.” –pURPleDorito4108
“Hand squeegies!” –II_Confused
“Note for my fellow hairy dudes: It still works somewhat but mileage may vary.” –Ennbeard
“points finger to temple”
“Dry off while standing in the tub/shower. No water on the floor.” –InanimateSensation
“Wash you feet! Most people I know seem to believe their feet magically become clean from having soapy water run down them while they are showering.”
“That is NOT the case! You really need to wash your feet.”
“Also a good idea to take a pumice or foot file to calluses and use a hard nail brush for toenails.”
“Keeping your feet clean will prevent a lot of problems, particularly with fungus. Funguses live and thrive on dead skin cells so if you have toenail fungus you will have a really hard time getting rid of it till you get rid of dead skin around the nails!” –internet_commie
“To piggyback off foot health – if you work at a job where you work for long hours and maybe your feet kinda smell at the end of the day.”
“Try having two pairs of shoes and wear them alternate days.”
“Changing socks mid shift can help a lot.” –OrcOfDoom
Hopefully some of these hygiene hacks will help make your life a little easier, and maybe a little cleaner.
Most of us will work a fairly wide variety of jobs over the course of our lives, and some of us walk away with some pretty interesting stories while trying to pay the bills.
The most fascinating jobs, though, have to be the ones that we’re not supposed to talk about.
“People who did super-secret work, what is something you can share now that you couldn’t before?”
“Interned for a plastic surgeon who is very well known and does work on celebs. They sold their skincare line for hundreds of dollars and touted it as having highly advanced ingredients of the highest quality.”
“They bought most of it from a wholesale retailer who stuck their name on the bottle. The website looked sketchy tbh (to be honest).”
“They also had ’24k gold face masks’ that were purchased in bundles off of Amazon for cheap.”
“These fancy skincare lines are such a scam, don’t waste your money.” – monkeylioness
“Dermatologists do this too.”
‘A lot, if not all, don’t really formulate their own products. They buy it in bulk at a discounted price from pharma sales reps, repackage, and mark up by a ridiculous percentage.” – streakfolmlore
“Friend had to get heaps of security clearance at one of his first jobs. Inventory reporting that fed into customs databases.”
“I had to speak to an FBI agent as part of his background check and the job really just amounts to tallying information almost like tick sheets.” – tdasnowman
“Worked at an engineering department at a university that had an aviation engine testing shop. We got military surplus stuff all the time through industry agreements.”
“Some stuff that got dropped off were cruise missile engines with pretty advanced thrust vectoring and some stealthy design features.”
“All the aviation geeks were like, ‘We didn’t know that those missiles had that on them.’”
“Then some serious-looking men came to the department and took them back, and kindly reminded us not to talk about whatever it was we thought we saw but actually didn’t see because it had never happened.”
“I saw some of it published a few years ago in the open so I figure I’m good.” – gunmedic15
“My grandpa worked for the NSA. Had to say he answered phones his entire life.”
“Went to the DC Spy Museum and they had his career on display. Wild. He cried a lot.” – EepEekim
“Dad (died 2016) was in the Navy and on one of the ships in the blockade that was part of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The official story is that no American ship fired any shots.”
“A few months before he died, Dad said his ship was one of several that fired shots.” – xkulp8
“During the 1982 Falklands conflict, it was spread on the news that several British submarines were in the area, and this is likely what deterred the Argentine carrier Vientecinco de mayo from engaging the British fleet.”
“My father was a submariner at the time (didn’t go down there). When he was in the bar on base back home, it was announced on the radio that a certain British submarine was in the area.
“The guy next to him said, ‘I hope not, I just walked off it an hour ago.’”
“Basically pulled the same trick the Royal Navy used against the Graf Spee in 1939.” – EmperorOfNipples
“I was a QA tester on Half Life 2. At the time it operated under multiple code names outside of the main testing room: the two I remember was Red Rooster and Dirty Butler.”
“Security was INSANE. They had us in a small corner office with PCs and draped-out windows. Our lead kept the office locked at all times, and when we got into work each day we had to hand over all bags, cell phones, and any storage media we had.”
“If I recall, screenshots were only allowed with permission, and had to be sent in an email to the lead, then scrubbed from the computer.”
‘This was also during the time Vivendi Universal Games (where I worked) was having tensions with Valve over the whole Steam thing, so for a while, it didn’t seem like we’d get credited either: we eventually did, but only on Gamasutra.”
“The entire team got printed shirts that read, ‘I survived Red Rooster,’ and I’ve still got mine kicking around. It’s itchy, thick, and uncomfortable to wear, but I refuse to get rid of it, since it’s a memento I’m fairly proud of.” – PatienceHero
“I worked at a printing company that made Magic The Gathering cards. It was insane.”
“There’s nothing quite like seeing uncut sheets of foil mythic rares stacked in a block 4 feet high 8 months before release.”
“I wasn’t allowed to play in tournaments during my tenure there and I had to sign an NDA.” – feverishdodo
“I worked similarly at Hasbro, the parent company for Wizards of the Coast which owns Magic and I was given a free uncut press sheet of Japanese Rise of Eldrazi foil mythic rares. They also gave me a full set of the employee-only holiday cards and a bunch of other stuff.”
“Basically one of the higher-ups found out that I loved Magic and made a call to get a huge package of free stuff sent to me. I barely knew the guy but it was such an incredible thing to do that my whole department came out to watch me open the stuff.”
‘It’s one of my most cherished memories honestly.”
‘It makes sense though that a company made up largely of adults who love toys and games would retain that childlike spark of just wanting to give your friend a gift to make them happy, no strings attached.”
“If anyone here reads this and gets the chance to work for Hasbro, I can’t recommend it enough, TAKE THAT JOB!”
“I wish I still had the press sheet, but life gets in the way sometimes and I had to sell it along with all the other rare cards I had to make sure my wife and I could survive. I miss them, but making sure my wife felt a little more secure that month about money was easily worth all of my cards.” – Itsfitzgames
“Still secret: Sometimes I warn my dad about certain things and tell him how to react/ what to do (dad has autism so he can’t keep the truth from his expression) for my mom’s sake.”
“For example, my mom is older and got a shorter haircut and talked about how worried she was to show my dad because she knows he doesn’t like shorter hair on women.”
“I texted him to warn him and tell him to just smile and say it’s nice, DONT tell her you like it longer.”
“The next day, my mom couldn’t stop looking in the mirror because my dad said he really liked her haircut.”
“She doesn’t know it’s because I warn him about things and she will never know.”
“I love my dad but he is horrible at lying with his facial expressions. Same as instructing him to order flowers and a gift for my mom to send to grandma’s house for Valentine’s Day because she was visiting her mom and would be away.” – CorruptManatee
Some secrets are less interesting than the fact they were made to be kept secret at one point, but every once in a while, a person finds a gem.
The ones that make us question something basic about our lives, or that remind us to be thankful?
Those are the best kinds of secrets.
The video for Welcome to The Jungle by Guns N’Roses was originally banned by MTV. It took the influence by David Geffen to get it aired for just one time at 4AM EST Sunday. The response was so overwhelming it shutdown MTV’s switchboard. Appetite For Destruction went on to sell 30 million copies.
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