In second place, Hunter Feuerstein, and in third place, Chandler Steele

Most of you know me from knocking my tooth out with a yoyo.

I’m Xavier Ng from Singapore.

I’ve been competing for over a decade and am currently the 4-time reigning Singapore National Yo-Yo Champion.

This year at the 2025 World Yo-Yo Contest, I placed 5th in the 1A Final.

After countless hours of practice everyday and training camps to Australia with Brandon and Allon, I’m proud to have done this routine on the worlds stage in front of thousands.

Here’s my full freestyle to FEIN by Travis Scott.

Would love to hear your thoughts on the routine, your likes, dislikes or critiques etc!

It’s insane how much I forgot but I’m super stoked to be picking it up again. This is literally my first time throwing in at least 12 years after practicing for about an hour.

Yes, I hit myself in the face on purpose for this video.

I spent an enormous amount of time on this. I’m incredibly happy that I can do this trick almost consistently

Feeling very depressed… looking for podcasts (not self-help/improvement) to uplift my mood or make me laugh or otherwise distract me from this feeling. Thanks.

I was so pleased with s1 and s2 of Outlaw Ocean (A podcast investigating crime in the high seas, examining modern slavery aboard ships and the dark side of the sea food industry.)

I also really enjoyed all the other seasons of these CBC podcasts (Hunting Warhead, Sea of Lies, etc) This feels like a dying, precious, highly dedicated type of journalism and I feel like I learn a lot while listening.

I’ve been through their whole back catalog and am looking for something new to listen to. Any leads?

I especially am interested in workers rights, exposing the problems at the “bottom” of the chain of production, the disguised cruelty within the blueprint of capitalism, social justice, scams, etc.

Thank you. :-)

It’s called illuminated and it tells the stories of people around Britain, going around the communities and interviewing them. I’ve been listening engrossed for hours. The first episode is about a man living in Manchester, England who believes he’s God and has followers who are totally devoted. Other episodes range from people living with Dementia to the London nail bombings, to a Vicar who found a decapitated head in his Church Vestry and beyond. The best ‘new’ find I’ve had in a while.

Every time i ask for podcasts, people give me something about changing life, or psychology, or economy or music bands etc.. I know those are great topics and I listened to a lot stuff like that but I’m just interested in hearing something new. Some new opinions, topics or researchs.

Looking for long form and serialized podcasts I can binge. Something where a topic is delved in to over many episodes.

Some examples of ones I’ve liked in the past:

-Floodlines, about hurricane Katrina. Just finished this one and need something to fill the void! -Sold a Story about how curriculum publishers pushed an approach to teaching reading without teaching phonics, and the negative impacts -Slow Burn about the Monica Lewinsky story -Can’t find it now but one that told the story about how Destiny’s Child got their start -Nice white parents, about modern day school segregation in a school in Brooklyn

I used to listen to podcasts like Flagrant and Joe Rogan but then they started going too conservative for me and I stopped enjoying them. I am hoping to find some new great comedy or even non comedy podcasts that don’t endorse maga.

Thank you all in advance

Edit: For clarification, the podcast could be about anything, the less political the better. I just don’t enjoy watching podcasts that have endorsed or currently endorse Donald Trump

I really like many of your suggestions! I am glad to see all of these great options and recommendations

Please help me. It’s been a week since I finished Lonesome Dove and it’s the greatest book I’ve ever read. Usually after I finish a book, I pick up the next one after a day or so. Except I’ve tried with a few different books and have put them all straight back down again because I can’t stop thinking about Captain Call and Gus McCrae. Please help me PLEASE this is terrible

Hi everyone! I have a super stressful week ahead and I really need a book that’s so entertaining I can get completely lost in it. I’m open to any genre. I just want something fun, fast-paced, or gripping enough to help me relax and take my mind off things.

If you could please also give me a quick idea of what it’s about that would be amazing.

Thank you so much in advance for your help!

My friend loves Outlander. My friend suggested I read Outlander. The chemistry between the two main characters is great. I love the Scottish Highlands, I love the time travel, I love the story… (I love the music in the show, even!).

I do NOT love the sexual violence in Outlander. It was unbearable in the first book so much that I literally skipped scenes to continue reading. I couldn’t start the second book. I cant watch the show. The next season is being advertised and my brain keeps going “oh yes you liked the time travel Scottish romance!” Until I remember why I haven’t read any further.

Edit to add: y’all have great suggestions! Trying to look them up in my library (hoopla/libby) has brought to light that this may be an entire subgenre of romance (I am not terribly familiar with romance books)- typing “highland” into the search box brought up… um… a lot of options!

Looking for something that is easy to read but also packed with a bit of punch. No self-help books please… A book that is based on real life events is a plus!

Whether it transformed your perspective or helped you through a tough time - give me your all-time best life-altering non fiction recs.

Hey everyone,

So, I have been trying to get into Postapocalyptic fiction and while I absolutely understand why children (having children, rebuilding society etc.) would be a central theme for this genre (as well as parenting), I was hoping if someone can perhaps share any examples where that isn’t the case. The Stand, The Passage, The Border, All the Fiends In Hell, Birdbox (and its sequel), Children of Men, Survivor Song all lean into that trope in one way or another.

As mentioned earlier, I absolutely understand why that is a key element for these kinds of stories, I would love to find a book in this genre where parenting/pronatalism etc. isn’t the core theme (or at least takes a back seat). Would anyone have any recommendations?

Thank you

I want a game that gives you the ability to do a stagvering amount of things in combat like lets you do a bible load of stuff and has a institution to the coolness thats open doors for lots of cool broken things that do so much different things to my brain and hits so much different notes its like an institution like its doctor strange too much to be astounded and feel oversatisted but nothing boring no boring games

Recently I played fallout 1 and I can’t get it out of my head. The way you get dropped into the harsh world to explore and feel lost, with this objective that overwhelms you with anxiety, I love that concept. I want a game to really involve you in the world and story. I don’t want to watch or read someone else’s story.

I haven’t played many games but something else that came close to this for me was dragon quest V. A bit semplistic of a story but again you feel really involved in it thanks to the growing up mechanic. It feels personal.

They are both games that use more “original” ideas to make you involved in it and I think that’s what I’m looking for

I want to play more games that couldn’t really exist in any other medium

Given how little demands there is for these games I doubt I’ll really get much engagement lol

What games did you end up loving even though they made an awful first impression?

Current example for me is Mafia: The Old Country. I’m only 2 hours in but the first hour was absolutely terrible, felt less polished than a AA game even.

After the first hour I’m starting to enjoy it a lot more.

What examples do you have?

Does anyone know a game that rewards you for thinking not as a player, but as the character? For example, people usually play games with the understanding that they are very limited, and do exactly what the game tells them to do, even if there would be a better solution in reality. So what are some games that punishes you for thinking this way and rewards you for actually thinking logically?

Mine is Synthetik: Ultimate with 300 hours

Like the title suggests, I’m looking for games that have factory automation mechanics, but use them as tools to support other goals and activities rather than being the goal themselves.

I’ve realized I lose interest in factory games around the time the focus becomes “quadruple the size of your factory so you can quadruple the size of your factory again”. So I want something that’s a bit smaller scale because its purpose is to support exploration or combat or whatnot rather than just hitting production milestones or exporting or selling factory products.

Fallout 4 and Starfield do this a bit, but resources, ammo, etc., are so easily acquired via other methods it makes the factory-esque production irrelevant. Craftopia seems similar, though I haven’t delved as far into it.

Also I do distinguish between factory automation using machines and conveyor belts to produce things and colony sim production where NPCs are making things at workbenches. …

I have this automated to run daily at midnight to send a birthday wish to any contact whose birthday I have on my calendar. However, it’s always the same message. Is there a way, or can someone help me automate it to send a random greeting so everyone won’t get the same birthday greeting on their birthday? Thanks.

2 shortcuts to let you connect to VPN without having to open the app.

It uses the country ISO codes in a URL scheme for the NordVPN iOS app.

Both shortcuts quickly reopen the app you had open when running (if any).

• All Countries supported by NordVPN:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/5c5818e41b0448f6bf6ee0904e635f25

• Smaller custom list (easier to edit/manage):

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/fe227f632d19444ca7a832804269b805

Honestly this took me way too long to figure out it’s actually really simple from what I thought it would have been. And you can also do this with any other sound if you want

Note on what YOU need to do that MIGHT not work when you download the link:

• go to YouTube and convert a video of the “lizard” and save in files

-open garage band and edit the length of the video so that only one “lizard” sound plays (I chose one before it sped up as it sounded better and has less static) ^^^ LOOK UP HOW TO MAKE A RINGTONE ON IPHONE if you need more specific instructions the only thing you do different is when you share it to files you will put “song” not “ringtone”.

-once the file is saved you can insert it to where I have my file. You probably need to replace the top file part and bottom play sound part so that it matches YOUR file

-after it’s all done and running you can add it to your Home Screen, the image I have I just found on google

ANOUTHER NOTE: When I play it with the shortcut …

Uses the ChatGPT app as backend.

My goal was to have a nice looking summary function in Safari.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/32a08e9b6535492d8e1dacc42da43f61

Very simple but powerful automation!

If you sign up for USPS Informed Delivery (which is free and easy to sign up for, and is eligible for all USPS deliveries as I know of) they email you when they deliver mail! So I took this to my advantage and made an automation to make a reminder 30 minutes from when they deliver to go check the mailbox! If you want to take this automation to the next level, add it to a list shared with everyone in your house, and then anyone can go check it and tick it off on the list!

Super simple and easy to setup. First time posting, hope it’s liked!