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Being a cat would be awesome: someone else feeds you; “take nap” is the number one thing on your agenda; and no matter how many valuables or pieces of furniture you destroy, your owner will still love you. The creators of indie game Catlateral Damage ran with that idea, because who doesn’t want to play a game where you’re a mischievous cat?

Available to play for free right now, Catlateral Damage is a first-person cat simulator where your only objective is to knock as many of your owner’s belongings to the floor as you can in two minutes. I have no doubt that this should be Game of the Year 2014. Just look at the gameplay and try to tell me you’re not going to go mess around with this for the rest of the day:

The developers are planning to add more rooms/levels to the game soon, but for now you have to content your kitty self with just your owner’s bedroom. If we get a Kickstarter going, do you think they could make this compatible with the Oculus Rift?

(via Alpha Beta Gamer, image via Catlateral Damage)

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Cats are majestic, graceful, adorable assholes. They sit around all day disdainfully, while you feed and clean them. The cat-human relationship is complicated and delicate; but, as it turns out, your cat doesn’t think of your relationship that way at all. Instead, they just think of you as a large, boring cat who exists to take care of their needs.

British biologist (or “anthrozoologist,” according to his website) Dr. John Bradshaw has just published a book called Cat Sense, where he reveals his findings from over thirty years of studying cats. Despite perhaps not getting out a lot, Bradshaw has published some interested feline observations in his new book; for example, the fact that cats tend to think of humans as “larger, non-hostile” cats, instead of as another species.

Bradshaw writes that cats have remained far less domesticated than their canine counterparts, thanks to relaxed standards of breeding, and still interact with humans on a primal and instinctual level. By doing things like kneading you, your cat is treating you like it would treat its mother (kneading is used to force more milk out). Rubbing bodies is a primary expression of affection between cats, so when your kitty gets all slinky around your calves, he’s basically just saying, “Hey, thanks, giant hairless cat. You’re alright.” And those dead bird deliveries? It’s all about the fact that you provide your cat with a safe place to eat.

So just remember, the next time you go to feed your cat: its pretty sure you’re just a really awkward version of themselves.

(via Time, image via I’m A Kitty Cat)

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In general, you’d say hurricanes are bad for business. But apparently they’re good for some products—specifically, beer and strawberry Pop-Tarts.

Wal-Mart is good at learning all about it's customers through their buying habits, the company used some groovy software to figure out what Floridians bought as Hurricane Charley approached, and stocked it's stores accordingly for Hurricane Frances.

Survival gear and canned goods weren’t the only go-to categories. Whenever a natural disaster is about to strike, or pretty much at any time of year, the two most valuable products to Wal-Mart costumers seem to be both pop-tarts and beer.

They might not even care about clothing or anything else when beer and pop-tarts pop into their head.

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