Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

Cereal boxes

They could use it on cereal boxes

Used to be they came with a little toy, now they could come with a free switch peripheral and a game

Oh my god

That Labo thing

Companies could conceivably make their own minigames and print peripheral designs on their packaging

You could buy anything from Amazon (other online retailers are available) and there are patterns marked on the box to make a special controller and then you can download a game to play with it

Peripheral designs on pizza boxes with downloadable games

Honestly Nintendo are on to a winner with this one

Have you ever given a kid a cardboard box? They have hours of fun with them

Now the kids can play video games with them afterwards

Hang on, they're releasing Labo on the 20th of April?

This isn't a video game thing, they're running a study on how well people can assemble things while under the influence of weed

It looks pretty neat and the price isn't ridiculous

Considering the usual price of games on the Switch and the fact that it comes with game things for all the cardboard things, that Labo stuff isn't priced that far out of the way

did you know?

octopuses are very wiggly

Parry Gripp has answered the age old question "If @squirrel was a vegetable, which would she be?"

[CW: epilepsy warning]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCcCFi5hOOw

OMG Bitcoin is properly below 10,000 now

Bulgari have a new version of the Serpenti Tubogas in three colour gold

It looks like a snek 🐍

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/bulgari-serpenti-tubogas-three-gold-introducing

The conversation also included "It's batteries for a <thing>"

"I don't know what a <thing> is, let alone what kind of batteries it's meant to take"

"Hey Sam, have you got any batteries? I need one"
"Yeah, loads, which kind?"
"Round ones"
"Doesn't narrow it down"
"Y'know, round ones"
"WHAT KIND OF BATTERIES DO YOU WANT?"

Turns out it was MN21s which I don't keep a stock of

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:( it went back up

Bitcoin is now below $10,000!

DROP DROP DROP

The Germans make better wristwatches than the Swiss