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Random: Breath Of The Wild Speedrunner Completes 100% Run Without Taking Any Damage

We feel like we keep seeing more and more impressive feats achieved within The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild every week, but is this actually the most impressive one yet? Read on…

Towards the end of last month, Breath of the Wild “expert” joedun became the first player to ever complete the game 100% without taking any damage. Just take a moment to let that sink in – he took zero damage – to complete a full run in Nintendo’s latest Zelda game.

In saying this, he did get some assistance from a number of Breath of the Wild glitches – allowing him to bypass a lot of dangers (moon jumping) and speed up the overall process.

Speaking to Polygon, the Twitch streamer said it took months of failed attempts before getting this result – highlighting the fact that the most difficult part was “never giving up”.

“You see, I failed that run 100+ times, with 3 of those times being 30+ hours in. To keep pushing myself to not give up and not let the game beat me was definitely the hardest.”

The record for this run is set at 31 hours, 58 minutes and 9 seconds. The streamer now wants to try and complete the game without taking any damage or using any glitches at all.

You can see the full recap over on Twitch. How far into Breath of the Wild do you think you could get before taking damage? Leave a comment down below.



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Washington Wizards, led by Russell Westbrook and Bradley Beal, capitalize on Brooklyn Nets’ defensive lapses in wild finish

Russell Westbrook and Bradley Beal rattled off a quick six points in a stunning 3.8-second sequence that propelled the Washington Wizards to a 149-146 comeback win over the visiting Brooklyn Nets on Sunday night.

“At this time, we don’t have nothing to lose,” Westbrook said. “It’s win or go home.”

The Wizards, down by five points with the shot clock turned off, had seemed to be on their way to a fifth straight loss.

“Honestly, Ish [Smith] just told me to push it and pull it,” Beal said after the game. “That is all we could have done in that situation.”

It worked.

Beal sprinted up the court and pulled up to nail a 3-pointer that brought Washington within two points of Brooklyn with 8.1 seconds remaining. As Nets forward Joe Harris went to quickly inbound the ball at the baseline, teammate Kevin Durant cut toward the basket. The miscommunication allowed Wizards guard Garrison Mathews to steal the ball in the corner and dish it out to Westbrook, who buried another 3 with 4.3 seconds to play.

With the Wizards clinging to a one-point lead, the Nets took a timeout. When play resumed, Nets guard Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot managed to get a good look at a layup in the final two seconds of the game, but his attempt rolled off the rim.

Two made free throws from Beal sealed Washington’s win.

“We had that game,” Nets guard Kyrie Irving said. “It should’ve been ours, so we just look at ourselves in the mirror and see what we can correct as individuals and as a group — especially on effort. I couldn’t guard a stick today. Those guys were just going right around me, and I was getting frustrated a little bit.”

The Nets led by as many as 18 points at Capital One Arena and had three 25-point scorers in Harris, Irving and Durant. The Wizards and Nets’ combined 295 points amounted to the second-highest-scoring non-overtime game in the past 25 seasons, according to ESPN Stats & Information research.

But defensively, Brooklyn continued to struggle. The Nets gave up 72 points in the paint, tied for their third most allowed in a game over the past 25 seasons and the most allowed in a contest since 2017. Beal was able to score 22 of his 37 total points in the fourth quarter. The Wizards outscored the Nets 12-2 in clutch time.

“It was the first game all year I had a White Claw,” Wizards coach Scott Brooks said. “I wanted to enjoy it. This is a good feeling. I wanted our players to enjoy it. We fought. We fought hard.

“We’ve done it all year, and the basketball gods gave us a break tonight.”

The Nets’ defensive issues allowed the Wizards to stay in the game. While the final sequence appeared to be the apex of the Nets’ breakdown, Irving said that Harris’ turnover and the subsequent 3 were a “microcosm” of the issues that plagued Brooklyn all night.

“It doesn’t come out of one play,” Harris added. “But same time, I mean, had I not made [the turnover], we wouldn’t be sitting here talking about loss.”

Nets coach Steve Nash called Harris’ turnover “an unfortunate moment” but said it wasn’t to blame for the loss.

“When you give up 149 points, that’s one error in about 50 defensive lapses,” Nash said. “So not good enough defensively, and we can look at the missed layup or the turnover for the 3 there, but we shouldn’t have been in that position. We had a big lead early, and we let them stay around a long, long time until their confidence grew. They’re a desperate [group] looking for a win, and we gave them a chance and gave them life.”

For Durant, “This is one of the ones you’ve just got to get rid of.”

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AMC, GameStop stock go wild: Reddit’s ‘insane’ ‘train wreck”Ponzi scheme’

GameStop shares are on an epic roller coaster that’s pushed them to the stratosphere. But for how long?


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Many of today’s adults spent their youths in GameStop stores. They bought and sold consoles and games. They lined up for launches. Now some of those people have become rich buying the company’s stock and encouraging their friends on Reddit to buy it too. GameStop’s shares rocketed higher than ever expected in the past couple weeks, and all because activity between social media investors began pushing it up. Wall Street had bet heavily that the company would fail, but as the price kept going up, investors were forced to reset their wagers. That led the stock to rocket up, and then swing wildly. 

Jaime Rogozinski, the apparent founder of the Reddit community at the heart of all this, told The Wall Street Journal it’s like “a train wreck happening in real time.” Keith Gill, the trader in the Reddit community who helped kick off the battle, told the paper he “didn’t expect this.”

On Thursday alone, GameStop’s stock hit all-time highs of $492.02 per share, only to drop by more than half a minute later. It closed trading on Friday at $325.

GameStop itself hasn’t fundamentally changed in the past month. It’s still a struggling retailer facing an uncertain future against the rising tide of online shopping. But its stock has shot up as much as 1,800% — that’s not a typo — since the beginning of the year. This dynamic’s led Wall Street investors who bet against the company’s future to lose billions of dollars, and the excitement is driving the hype even further.


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Over the past week, the financial world watched in shock as GameStop stock rose to unthinkable levels. Even Elon Musk tweeted about it, pointing his 43 million followers to a link of the Reddit community investing in GameStop, called r/WallStreetBets.

By the close of regular trading Wednesday afternoon, the stock was $347.51 per share, up from from historic lows of around $3.30 per share in the summer of 2019. And then in after-hours trading, it dropped by more than 37%, only to rise again. Thursday saw even more dramatic moves, with the stock jumping up to $492.02 before dropping nearly 60% to close at $197.44. Then, in after-hours trading, it rose back up to $311.99.

Meanwhile, stock market trading apps appeared to either stop or impose restrictions on GameStop share purchasing for at least part of the day. 

The popular stock trading app Robinhood drew particular attention for what appeared to be the among the most restrictive new rules. People had been raising concerns about Robinhood for a while, saying it “gamified” stock trading to a potentially dangerous degree. Now it’s being accused of outright market manipulation, including through at least one class action lawsuit filed already. Robinhood, for its part, said Friday that market rules effectively forced it to put those restrictions in place.

Read more: GameStop’s stock spike fueled by slang from Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets community. Here’s what it means

“We’re seeing a phenomenon that I have never seen,” Jim Cramer, a Wall Street commentator on CNBC and a former hedge fund manager, said during a segment Monday. And GameStop could be just the start. “It’s insane.”

This may seem like an oddball story about Wall Street investors being overrun by excited social media users. For some, it’s been fun to watch those investors get taken to the cleaners by a bunch of people posting rocket emojis, saying GameStop shares will go “to the moon.”

Reddit users are betting they can take GameStop shares “to the moon.”


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But for some on Wall Street, it’s the latest sign of how social media can upend everyday life. Twitter has changed the worlds of news and politics. YouTube and Instagram have transformed the fashion, beauty and entertainment industries. Now Reddit is taking on Wall Street.

These worlds have overlapped as well. Fans of Korean pop groups, known as K-pop stans, post floods of tweets about their favorite stars to overwhelm racist hashtags on Twitter. And TikTokers banded together in attempts to confuse President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign.

Now emboldened Reddit communities are talking about taking on other companies that Wall Street is broadly betting against. The Reddit crowd is already attempting to push up BlackBerry, the once-popular handset maker that now focuses primarily on selling business software. And Redditors are also targeting the struggling movie chain AMC, pushing its stock from hovering around $2 per share to more than $8 in after-hours trading. By Wednesday afternoon it closed at $19.90 per share before dropping to $12.75. On Thursday, it fell even further, to $8.63 per share.

The Reddit community’s actions have had such an impact that TD Ameritrade took the extraordinary step last week to limit share trading on Game Stop and AMC stocks, “out of an abundance of caution amid unprecedented market conditions.” Nasdaq as well warned that it will halt trading on stocks it thinks are being manipulated by social media.

Meantime, traffic to the Reddit community at the center of the drama, r/WallStreetBets, is breaking records. r/WallStreetBets counted 73 million page views for its discussion boards on Tuesday, according to a report by Mashable. Over the past week, it hit about 700 million page views. Reddit is already the 46th most popular site on the web, notching more than 78 million unique visitors in December, according to comScore. And on Wednesday, the Reddit’s mobile app tallied its biggest single day of downloads, industry watcher Apptopia said.

But when the memes stop and the excitement goes away, GameStop will go back to being that struggling video game retailer at a time when gaming is increasingly moving toward streaming and the idea of stepping into a physical store is still a nerve-wracking prospect during a pandemic. At that point, stock analysts say, whoever’s left holding shares will see their value evaporate.

“This is unnatural, insane and dangerous,” Michael Burry, a prominent GameStop investor and one of the subjects of the book and movie The Big Short, wrote in a now-deleted tweet. His roughly $17 million investment in the company has ballooned to $250 million as of Tuesday, Markets Insider reported.

Many gamers spent their childhoods going to GameStop.


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Who listens?

Michael Pachter, a longtime video game industry analyst at Wedbush Securities, said he hasn’t even bothered to update his stock price expectations for GameStop since shares started going crazy last week. “Who’s listening?” he said in an interview last week. “Nobody cares what a sell-side analyst says right now.”

To him, there are reasonable explanations why people could be somewhat excited about GameStop. One of its newest board members, Ryan Cohen, helped turn Chewy into one of the largest online pet product sellers in the world, before selling it to PetSmart. GameStop’s also on a track to being profitable again.

But that doesn’t come close to explaining GameStop’s share price now. “It’s a Ponzi scheme,” Pachter said, referring to a form of fraud that appears to make money but in fact is only propped up by funding from new investors. “There is a point where it’ll go down.”

Many of the Reddit users buying up GameStop shares see this as a way to fight Wall Street greed.


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He suspects that may happen after the company reports its quarterly results in March, at which point executives and investors on the board are allowed to sell their shares.

One thing analysts watching wonder is whether the Reddit investors will lose their millions whenever the stock eventually crashes back to earth. Rogozinski, the man who helped found the Reddit community, said their approach to investing as more like gambling than traditional analysis and strategy. Its members, who the community identifies as “degenerates,” often encourage one another to push all their funds into one stock, riding it up and down. Their posts are punctuated with phrases like “hold the line” and “diamond hands” (hold onto your stocks for a long time) and YOLO (you only live once).

He told the WSJ he never imagined the Reddit community would morph from its beginnings to what it’s become. “It’s a little like watching one of those horror films where you can see the bad guy slowly going up the stairs,” Rogozinski said.

Indeed, even Keith Gill, the community member who helped kickstart the initial battle over GameStop, told the Journal he was surprised by what it’d turned into.

“I thought this trade would be successful,” he said, “but I never expected what happened over the past week.”

In the meantime, the social media hype is continuing on Reddit, where users are declaring their intention to buy and hold more GameStop shares, all to send prices even higher.

“My mom told me it’s time to sell,” one Reddit user wrote on a post about GameStop’s stock moves. “Should I find a new mom?”

“Yes,” another user answered. “The answer is yes.”

Read more: Why GameStop, BlackBerry stocks suddenly jumped, thanks to Reddit



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After a wild week of stocks, you can’t stream most of the biggest Wall Street films

It has been a wild week for the stock market, with amateur traders from Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets subreddit battling traditional investors. The past several days have been full of massive swings in stocks like GameStop and AMC and app-fueled drama that’s sparked a larger debate over the nature of Wall Street as a whole.

But if you were hoping to kick back this weekend, relax, and enjoy a classic business movie about shark-like investors and over-confident Wall Street executives, you’re probably out of luck. Nearly every major finance film isn’t available to stream right now in the US (at least, not at the time of publication of this article), thanks to the capricious nature of the streaming marketplace, the increasingly fragmented libraries of studios, and the byzantine licensing deals that regulate what you can stream and where.

This week’s short stock drama have you hankering for The Big Short? You won’t find it on Netflix, Hulu, or HBO Max. Right now, you can stream it with ads on Crackle, of all services. Paramount (which distributed the film) might be saving it for Paramount Plus, which is set to launch in March, but that won’t do you any good this weekend. Instead, your only option is to buy or rent it — which, it seems, many people are doing, given that the film has shot to the No. 3 spot on iTunes.

Maybe the ups and downs of the stock market reminded you more of Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, chronicling the rise and fall of investor Jordan Belfort. But the Paramount film is nowhere to be found on any streaming platform. So unless you’re willing to pony up some actual cash to buy or rent the film (which, like The Big Short, is shooting up rental charts), you won’t be enjoying Leonardo DiCaprio’s profanity-fueled chest-thumping either. The same applies to 2000’s Boiler Room, which is also absent from any streaming service.

20th Century Fox’s Wall Street is — predictably — not on Disney Plus to stream, but it’s also not available on Hulu or any other service. If you are looking for a financial film to watch this weekend, though, the sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, is on Amazon Prime. There’s also Margin Call, which is streaming on Peacock (for now).

But the dearth of classic Wall Street films isn’t a unique issue. It’s one that streaming services have been grappling with in recent years, as big players like Netflix and Hulu have been less encompassing and streaming services have focused more on building up libraries of original content. There was a similar issue during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when millions of viewers looking to watch Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 film Contagion were frustrated that the film wasn’t available to stream anywhere.

The fact that iconic Wall Street films will similarly miss the big moment around ambitious investors and skeevy short selling is indicative of a bigger problem with streaming in 2021, one that will likely continue to get worse as more and more studios continue to reclaim their content for their own services.

Then again, it’s almost fitting that the only way to watch The Wolf of Wall Street or The Big Short this weekend is to pay a little extra cash back into the big financial machine.

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AMC, GameStop stock go wild: Reddit’s ‘insane’ ‘Ponzi scheme’ can’t last

GameStop shareholders are watching piles of cash come in. But for how long?


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GameStop is one of those stores nearly every gamer has a story about. And for good reason. A lot of today’s young adults spent their youths in the company’s stores, lining up for new consoles, as well as buying and selling used video games. Now some of those people are making a fortune buying the company’s stock and cheerleading their friends on Reddit to buy it too, causing the stock to swing wildly like never before.

Though GameStop itself hasn’t fundamentally changed much in the past month, its stock has shot up more than 10,400% — that’s not a typo. This dynamic has led Wall Street investors who bet against the company’s future to lose billions of dollars, and the excitement is driving the hype even further.


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Over the past week, the financial world watched in shock as GameStop stock rose to unthinkable levels. Even Elon Musk tweeted about it, pointing his 43 million followers to a link of the Reddit community investing in GameStop, called r/WallStreetBets.

By the close of regular trading Wednesday afternoon, the stock was $347.51 per share, up from from historic lows of around $3.30 per share in the summer of 2019. And then in after-hours trading, it dropped more than 37%, only to rise again.

Amid all this, the people behind r/WallStreetBets hid it from public view, requiring people to ask for an invite into the group. Meanwhile, the popular chat app Discord banned the community outright after what it said were repeated violations of its hate speech rules (and not for discussing finance).

Read more: GameStop’s stock spike fueled by slang from Reddit’s WallStreetBets community. Here’s what it means

“We’re seeing a phenomenon that I have never seen,” Jim Cramer, a Wall Street commentator on CNBC and a former hedge fund manager, said during a segment Monday. And GameStop could be just the start. “It’s insane.”

This may seem like an oddball story about Wall Street investors being overrun by excited social media users. For some, it’s been fun to watch those investors get taken to the cleaners by a bunch of people posting rocket emojis, saying GameStop shares will go “to the moon.”

Reddit users are betting they can take GameStop shares “to the moon.”


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But for some on Wall Street, it’s the latest sign of how social media can upend everyday life. Twitter has changed the worlds of news and politics. YouTube and Instagram have transformed the fashion, beauty and entertainment industries. Now Reddit is taking on Wall Street.

These worlds have overlapped as well. Fans of Korean pop groups, known as K-pop stans, post floods of tweets about their favorite stars to overwhelm racist hashtags on Twitter. And TikTokers banded together in attempts to confuse President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign.

Now emboldened Reddit communities are talking about taking on other companies that Wall Street is broadly betting against. The Reddit crowd is already attempting to push up BlackBerry, the once-popular handset maker that now focuses primarily on selling business software. And Redditors are also targeting the struggling movie chain AMC, pushing its stock from hovering around $2 per share to more than $8 in after-hours trading. By Wednesday afternoon it closed at $19.90 per share before dropping to $12.75

The Reddit community’s actions have had such an impact that TD Ameritrade took the extraordinary step of limiting share trading on Game Stop and AMC stocks, “out of an abundance of caution amid unprecedented market conditions.” Nasdaq as well warned that it will halt trading on stocks it thinks are being manipulated by social media.

Meantime, traffic to the Reddit community at the center of the drama, WallStreetBets, is breaking records. WallStreetBets counted 73 million page views for its discussion boards on Tuesday, according to a report by Mashable. Over the past week, it’s hit about 700 million page views. Reddit is already the 46th most popular site on the web, notching more than 78 million unique visitors in December, according to comScore.

But when the memes stop and the excitement goes away, GameStop will go back to being that struggling video game retailer at a time when gaming is increasingly moving toward streaming and the idea of stepping into a physical store is still a nerve-wracking prospect during a pandemic. At that point, stock analysts say, whoever’s left holding shares will see their value evaporate.

“This is unnatural, insane and dangerous,” Michael Burry, a prominent GameStop investor and one of the subjects of the book and movie The Big Short, wrote in a now-deleted tweet. His roughly $17 million investment in the company has ballooned to $250 million as of Tuesday, Markets Insider reported.

Many gamers spent their childhoods going to GameStop.


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Who listens?

Michael Pachter, a longtime video game industry analyst at Wedbush Securities, said he hasn’t even bothered to update his stock price expectations for GameStop since shares started going crazy last week. “Who’s listening?” he said. “Nobody cares what a sell-side analyst says right now.”

To him, there are reasonable explanations why people could be somewhat excited about GameStop. One of its newest board members, Ryan Cohen, helped turn Chewey into one of the largest online pet product sellers in the world, before selling it to PetSmart. GameStop’s also on a track to being profitable again.

But that doesn’t come close to explaining GameStop’s share price now. “It’s a Ponzi scheme,” Pachter said, referring to a form of fraud that appears to make money but in fact is only propped up by funding from new investors. “There is a point where it’ll go down.”

He suspects that may happen after the company reports its quarterly results in March, at which point executives and investors on the board are allowed to sell their shares.

In the meantime, the social media hype is continuing on Reddit, where users are declaring their intention to buy and hold more GameStop shares, all to send prices even higher.

“My mom told me it’s time to sell,” one Reddit user wrote on a post about GameStop’s stock moves. “Should I find a new mom?”

“Yes,” another user answered. “The answer is yes.”

See also: Why GameStop, BlackBerry stocks suddenly jumped, thanks to Reddit



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From Pony Ma to Jack Ma, the Rich Win Big With Wild H.K. Stocks

(Bloomberg) — Pony Ma got $6.9 billion richer on Monday after one of the companies his Tencent Holdings Ltd. backs revealed its IPO plans, while Jack Ma’s public reappearance Wednesday added $1.6 billion to his net worth.

Even though the Hong Kong market has proved particularly volatile lately — the benchmark Hang Seng Index gave up all of of its Monday gain on Tuesday — it’s been one of the world’s highlights this month.

Tencent and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., along with food-delivery giant Meituan and carmaker Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd., were among the stocks helping propel the rally. Their top executives have made a combined $32 billion this month through Monday, and they’re not the only ones benefiting, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

The Top 10 richest moguls with companies that have a primary listing in Hong Kong have added more than $60 billion of wealth in January — or $3.8 billion for each trading day. This doesn’t include Jack Ma, whose Alibaba trades in Hong Kong but has its primary listing is in New York. His net worth is up $3.5 billion this month to $54.1 billion as he resurfaced in a video after weeks of speculation about his whereabouts following a Chinese government clampdown that had left his business empire in crisis.

Read more: Jack Ma’s Video Chat Prompts a $58 Billion Sigh of Relief

Even China Evergrande Group’s Hui Ka Yan, whose net worth sank more than anyone elese’s in Asia last year, has regained $2.6 billion in 2021. His electric-vehicle startup said Sunday it’s selling HK$26 billion ($3.35 billion) of shares, triggering a 52% surge in the stock.

While Hong Kong’s economy got badly hit from the coronavirus crisis and a political crackdown, money has kept flowing to the city. Mainlanders taking advantage of bargain prices after international investors were forced to dump some newly banned Chinese stocks have helped boost the market, just as concerns over stricter regulatory rules governing internet giants in China have eased. At the same time, companies linked to Chinese consumers — like Meituan — have benefited as the nation was one of the few able to control the Covid-19 pandemic and the government has pledged to increase consumption.

The Hang Seng Index soared 11% in January through Monday, when it hit its highest level since June 2018. It fell 2.6% on Tuesday.

Pony Ma’s $18.6 billion wealth surge this month is the biggest after Elon Musk’s, while Tencent co-founder Zhang Zhidong has gained $8.5 billion. Zhong Shanshan of bottled-water maker Nongfu Spring Co., who became Asia’s richest person at the end of 2020 and started the year by taking Warren Buffett’s spot as the world’s sixth wealthiest, has added $16.2 billion in 2021. Meituan’s Wang Xing has amassed $7.8 billion.

Xiaomi Corp.’s Lei Jun is the only major tycoon whose net worth has dropped in January. The U.S. blacklisted the smartphone maker in an unexpected move that sank its shares a record 10% on Jan. 15.

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Breath Of The Wild Mod Makes Link’s House Suck Less

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Much like his fellow millennials (who may or may not also technically be over 100 years old due to Calamity-induced death sleeps), Breath of the Wild’s Link dreams of home ownership. Unlike the rest of us, he can actually achieve that goal. There’s just one problem: The house is bad. Between the initial purchase and upgrades, it costs 4,400 rupees, and it ends up being little more than a glorified storage unit. Thank goodness for a new mod that spruces the place up a bit.

Modder Waikuteru’s “House Enhancements” mod does exactly what it says on the tin, adding a stable, a fishing pond, a cooking nook, a better bed that grants you additional hearts when you wake up, and your very own cucco buddy from whom you can extract eggs. There are also fun new decorations, including concept art on the walls, and you can access it any time with a custom warp point (which, in a clever twist, automatically banishes bad weather any time you use it).

“This mod re-imagines owning a house in BotW to make it a worthwhile purchase—something you’ll want to use regularly—all the while, retaining the original game feel and balance of the game,” Waikuteru wrote in a video description on YouTube.

It’s a solid start—functionality that, frankly, should have been in the game from the get-go. That said, I will not rest until I’m able to tame every dog in Hyrule, at which point they will take up residence in the fields around my house and live in a state of perpetual bliss. If modders can’t do this, then consider it a demand for Breath of the Wild 2. Failing that, at least let me pet them!

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Breath of the Wild mod makes buying Link’s house less of a scam

While some would argue that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is perhaps one of the greatest games ever made, there are still aspects of the experience that are disappointing, or not quite as fleshed out as they could be. Take buying a house, for example. Seems like it would be a pretty big deal, right? Dropping thousands of rupees to own a piece of property carries with it the expectation that you’ll get something worth your while.

Instead, the house just has some knick knacks that you can display (for more rupees!), and it also lets you restore your health. You’ll probably still buy the house if you’re a completionist, but the cost doesn’t quite seem to justify the return on investment. Perhaps this is why modders like Waikuteru have come to the rescue.

As spotted by Eurogamer, a new Breath of the Wild mod revamps the house and gives it a total makeover. There are more decorations that make the space cozier, like hanging concept art, but that’s just the start. There’s also a new stable where you can store a horse, a fast travel point, a cooking area, a fishing spot, and even a mechanic that allows you to keep a pet. Depending on how you treat your pet chicken, it can reward Link with eggs that can be used for cooking. Nice.

The video above shows off all the perks that come with the mod, but unfortunately, you can’t experience this unless you’re playing an emulated version of BOTW. Still, it’s nice to see folks beefing up a game that’s already excellent — perhaps Nintendo will try and incorporate some of these ideas in the eventual follow-up?

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