Sloppy Bitch

you play it while walking around with friends and if you see something and don't know what it is or wonder why its there, you stop and point and say Hey What Is That Thing. and everyone speculates about it. googling it is allowed but preferably after spending several minutes guessing or asking a passerby about it

weird structures, ambiguous signs, unfamiliar car modifications, anything that you can't immediately understand its function. eight times out of ten, someone in the group actually knows, and now you know!

a few examples from me and my friends the past few weeks: "why is there a piece of plywood sticking out of that pond in a way that looks intentional?" (its a ramp so squirrels that fall in to the pond can climb out) • "my boss keeps insisting i take a vacation of nine days or more, thats so specific" (you work at a bank, banks make employees take vacation in long chunks so if youre stealing or committing fraud, itll be more obvious) • "why does this brick wall have random wooden blocks in it" (theres actually several reasons why this could be but we asked and it was so you could nail stuff to the wall) • "most of these old factories we drive past have tinted windows, was that just for style?" (fun fact the factory owners realized that blue light keeps people awake, much like screen light does now, so they tinted the windows blue to keep workers alert and make them work longer hours)

When Avatar was almost done. And they were complaining about the fly scenes, “Why does this flying scene go one for so long? You’ve already proved the point. It doesn’t advance the narrative. It doesn’t advance the character.” and I said, “You’re right on every count. You’ve ticked every box like a good studio executive. But guess what? I want to see it.” And I extrapolate from that, Stanley Kubrick was a firm prophet of this principle. If I want to see it, my cognitive leap is there are going to be lots of people that want to see it. And want to see it for itself, not for it's purpose. Right? Because there is a purpose to the things you want to see. The purpose is to be present, to be in that world, to be enjoying what’s happening, to sustain a feeling. So those flying scenes actually did have a big purpose. That’s when Jake and Neytiri fell in love. And I got into a big fight with the studio over that.