You are Rajon Rondo. You love Connect Four. Good. You also love basketball, but not quite as much. You hate shooting. Now someone wants you to shoot to connect the four. What do you do?
What at first glance may look like a really neat idea done by some people from a neat country is actually not neat at all. It’s cruel. It’s a torture device. Someone crawled into Rajon Rondo’s mind and stole away with a nightmare. Not content with simple knowledge, they decided to make that nightmare real.
BEST GIANT BASKETBALL GAME EVER INVENTED!!: https://t.co/G7bgbeFAfr via @YouTube
— How Ridiculous (@HowRidiculous) July 28, 2017
Don’t be fooled by all the capital letters and exclamation points. The cheery colors and presentation are also a mask. What you see here is a fusion of toothpaste and orange juice. It shouldn’t be.
Rajon Rondo is not exactly a beloved superstar, but some of his quirks should be treasured. He loves his Connect Four. He loves beating schoolchildren at Connect Four. It’s his little happy place where he is in charge and nothing can touch him. We all need need something like that. Mine is a pizza buffet.
Having to shoot basketball shots is not part of Rajon Rondo’s happy place. It’s part of the opposite place. It’s in the horror disco next to Rick Carlisle’s face.
These two places should never touch. And yet How Ridiculous saw it worthwhile to not just let the thoughts mingle, they carefully combined the two, weaving pain and hope together to construct an unholy monster.
Now to be fair, that looks amazing, and I want to play immediately. It’s possible that they didn’t even have tormenting Rajon Rondo in mind when they built it.
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But while intentionality is important, it can’t excuse every act. Somewhere Rajon Rondo is crying and won’t come out of his room because he might walk outside and see this. We have to protect him.