My Mission

I have found it. I have already been performing it, and i am pleased.

Gah Lak Tus

I've just read the "Ultimate Galactus Trilogy" which I borrowed from a friend (Thanks Andy).

I have very mixed feelings about This new version of Galactus. Let me first say that the trilogy itself was awesome. Any story that incorporates Ayahuasca, Necronauts, Zero-Point Energy, the Multiverse and a planet-devouring entity is AWESOME. That should pretty much go without saying.

But with that being said, the 'Ultimate' version of Galactus just seems wrong.... For any newbs who don't know about Galactus, he's the "devourer of worlds". He's a God who destroys life who acts as a counterpart to the 'Creator God', sort of like the Yin to Creations' Yang or the Shiva to the Hindu Vishnu... Well.... in the old days (1970's to early 2000's), he looked like a Native American God of the Mayan/Aztec/Toltec/Olmec persuasion:



Now... the 'Ultimate' line of Marvel comics introduces a new universe in which the super heroes/villains are different than they are in the 'normal' Marvel Universe. (ie. the Fantastic Four are all teenagers, the silver surfer has wings, Beast has a lion's face etc...). The old version of Galactus will still continue to exist, but The new 'Ultimate' version of Galactus is not a Mayan/Aztec-looking God... He's a 'hive-mind' comprised of hundreds of thousands of city-sized insectoid robots.....wtf? I mean.... that's pretty cool.... I guess.....but......IT'S NOT GALACTUS!! To be fair, Marvel was aware of this fact, so they decided to call him "Gah Lak Tus". Nice try Marvel, but that's pretty lame....

A Living Pokemon In Real Life?

This thing is real. Look it up.

It's called the "axolotl"

It's my new favorite animal.

Ridiculously Awesome Games Announced at E3

Oh my god!

Resident Evil and Metroid look AMAZING!!!! They don't look like 'typical' video games, they seem to be more immersive, like you're "in a film", almost.

Wow.

For an extensive list of all the new games being unveiled at E3, see peterparker's Microsoft E3 report here and the Nintendo report can be found here

Keep on the lookout for the upcoming Sony report at the forum



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Wii 'Punch Out' Review

If you like the old Punch Out games, I can almost personally guarantee that you will LOVE the new one. It totally feels like the old-school Punch Out style, but with updated 'pretty' graphics. It's the same old system of "wait for the opponent to do something weird (wiggle his eyebrows... shake his body... etc...) and then counter it, get a star... repeat.... stars give you the "super punch" ability to fuck shit up.... you know how it goes.

I haven't even bothered to play with the nunchuk. It's too much fun to play with the sideways wii-mote old-school NES style.

My only minor gripe is that they only added two new characters (one of which is a brand new character named "Disco Kid", the other one is an old Nintendo favorite who has decided to enter the ring with Little Mac. I won't tell you who it is, but you can click here if you're dying to find out.). It would have been nice to see a few more new faces, but the old characters have been given a complete make-over (while remaining true to their established 'personalities'. For example, The Great Tiger's jewel still flashes and he disappears and reappears in puffs of smoke, you punch King Hippo in the stomach and once he falls down, he can't get up, and Bald Bull still has the good 'ol "Bull Rush"), but there's so much new, extra stuff added in that it's almost as if you're fighting all new opponents. Almost...

Overall, I'm completely satisfied with the new 'Punch Out', and I feel that it's a perfect addition to the series. They got the engine right, and the graphics are fantastic (funny cut scenes too). Here's hoping for a sweet sequel with new characters.... *crosses fingers*

Here's what some of the top game critics have been saying about it:

the story of OHMer

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/19633781/detail.html

INDIANAPOLIS -- With gas prices up another 20 cents Tuesday, an Indianapolis man is happy to not have to worry about it.

Patrick Roth uses a fully electric car to take his daughter to school and run errands, 6News' Jennifer Carmack reported.

The car may look like any ordinary Ford Escort, but a closer look reveals that it's anything but. Roth didn't buy the car that way. He built it himself.

"I have taken out all of the components to the internal combustion engine and replaced it with a big electric motor and a bunch of batteries," Roth said. "Essentially, I've turned it into a 100 percent electric vehicle."

Roth said he got the idea while driving his Lexus hybrid. He thought that since the Lexus can go partially off the battery, he could get a car to run solely on electric power.

"I found myself constantly trying to trick the car to run on the electric motor as much as possible, which got me thinking," Roth said. "Why not just have a second car that's purely electric?"

There are electric cars on the market, but they aren't cheap. After a lot of research, Roth tackled the conversion himself.

"It works great, actually. I've tested it on the highway up to 70 mph," he said.

Roth said he checked with both his insurance company and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and found that his converted Escort is legal.

Instead of hitting a gas pump every week or two, he just pulls the car into the garage at night and plugs in.

"In the equivalent, it works out to what it would cost me if I were paying 75 cents a gallon at the pump," Roth said.

Roth spent about 10 weeks building the car, a project he contends just about anyone can do.

"If I can do it with no mechanical ability and no engineering degree, no electrician's degree, then certainly anyone else can do it with basic skills," he said.

Roth bought the car specifically to convert. The cost of the vehicle and the conversion was about $13,000.

Click here to see how he did it: http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3155482

The greatest competition in the history of man? I think 'yes'.