Hard pass on this video of a skydiver pulling his friend’s chute after he was knocked out mid-jump

These days an adrenaline rush constitutes going to the store grocery. You're now a risk taker if you leave the house without a bomb disposal suit. Fighting soccer moms for toilet paper is part of X Games now. There was a time, however, when humans were able to do incredible (and incredibly dumb) things at will. We even jumped OUT OF airplanes for fun. I know, I know. Sounds crazy but it's true. Just ask Ben Pigeon, an avid skydiver who posted this 2014 video of himself being knocked out at 10,000 feet only to be rescued by the quick thinking of his friend last week. If you want to remember just how nuts humans once were, this is a pretty good place to start.
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Thinking about walking within five feet of someone today just for the thrill? Well, hopefully this scratches that itch. Poor Pigeon is the only guy who needs to be putting his life on the line today, getting clobbered by a fellow skydiver's f..

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Video game sports are actually making everything worse

Layne Murdoch Jr.If you missed it, NASCAR drivers are doing some kind of video game thing where they race each other virtually and people can watch on actual television. This is not a joke—these are the times we live in. I have friends who have gambled on this, and that's some good degeneracy, but oh my God, what have we become? There's an article on ESPN's front page about the results, and the only good thing about that is the detail that a driver named Bubba Wallace “rage quit” in the middle of a competition. (There's something about the name Bubba…if there was a golf equivalent of this, I'm sure Bubba Watson would be the first to rage quit.) William Byron won, but have we really stooped so low that this is considered remotely interesting?
The NBA's doing it too, with a 2K Live tournament featuring Kevin Durant, and it's airing live on ESPN and ESPN2. Why? If I were ever going to watch eSports—and I'm not—I would want to watch the best video ..

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