05.31.07

I (Did) Have a Wikipedia Page!

Posted in Weapons of Mass Enjoyment at 1:32 pm by earl

 I once had a Wikipedia page on my site, but do to the fact that wikipedia has a certain rule about “advertising your business/website”. Which I soooooooo was not doing. Dumb Wikipedia. Thanks a lot fellow user Ageo20. Thanks a lot. It was only 2 sentences long!

Game Previews-Fantastic Four:Rise of the Silver Surfer, Lego Batman, Guitar Hero Encore:Rock the 80s!

Posted in Game Previews at 1:21 pm by earl

Each of these three games have nothing in common, besides they are all video games. Go figure.

Fantastic Four:Rise of the Silver Surfer

The four are back for their first next-gen adventure, this time with 4 player co-op! This time, of course, they will be fighting the Silver Surfer and Dr. Doom, and of course in the video game fashion they will fight some more baddies to prevent the game from being 2 hours long. From what I read, each character will have solo missions that are tailored to them, along with group puzzles, encouraging you to use their different powers. My guess is that you’ll use The Thing to break stuff, but that’s just me.

  

Lego Batman

One of my favorite series last genration was the Lego Star Wars series. This had you in control of little Lego versions of every possibly imaginable Star Wars character. Well, soon Traveler’s Tales will be re-opening the Batcave for Lego Batman, a Lego version of the caped crusader. I don’t really know that much about it, but we’ll just have to hope for it sometime in 2008.

Guitar Hero Encore:Rock the 80s!

guitar Hero is coming back for another gig, this time, they’re joining up with Hiro and going back to the 80s. (Okay, they may not be teaming up, but it’s okay to have dreams!) This time they will have a slew of new songs, all from guess what decade? The 80s! This game will have all kinds of rocking songs, along with 3 multiplayer modes-co-op, faceoff (poss. different difficulties), and pro-faceoff. This one’s planned to re-rock the PS2 on July 17, 2007.

  

Mythbusters-Western Myths

Posted in The Tube at 9:58 am by earl

 This was a truly great episode. This time the guys were testing two Western Myths-Shooting someone’s hat off and busting someone out of jail with horses. The build team was also testing the myth that if a theif was trying to break into a car using the pick lock technigue (shoving a rod down the outer crack of the driver’s door where the window goes) and if that could activate the sidedoor airbag which could send the rod flying through your throat. Nasty.

First off, Jamie went off to go get some accurate guns and ammo while Adam went to go get the hats. They came up with 8 historically-accurate hats and a ton of accurate guns. They decide they’ll just use a handgun and a big gun on each of the hats. One of the more powerful guns does slide the hat off, but not the whizzing power shown in the myth’s clips-The hat flies off in the clips. They then get no hat-flying until they use the shotgun, which sends the hat flying, but surveying the damage, they see that the victim wouldn’t live to tell his buddies about it. They then conclusively busted the myth. They then got the horse escape myth underway, where they built the prison cell most commonly used and most succeptible to the myth. But when 1 horse, 2 horses, an all-terrain vehicle, even a boom lift can get the job done, they then resort to good old faithful-dynamite. They put a stick on the ledge where the bars stand, and they put Buster in the cell in the safest position possible, with G-Force stickers on him. They then set off the explosion, but the bars didn’t even go! Although Adam was able to climb through the hole where the bars were after he removes them, they find the sad conclusion-Buster didn’t make it. the 100 G lethal sticker was tripped on his head and the 75 G was tripped on his chest, leaving this one busted. The build team then try as hard as they can to trip the side-door airbag with Grant’s robot, with the ballistics gel dummy with skull mounted above. But no boom. They then resort to making a kicking rig, which only kicks the dummy in the head at a superhuman power. They then play dirty, shooting the rod out of an air cannon into the dummy head, going staight through, busting the myth. So, where does that leave us?

  • Shooting off someone’s Hat-The regular guns didn’t provide enough resistance, and then something that did (shotgun) just killed him-BUSTED
  • Horse-Powered Prison Escape-Neither the one or two horses, an all terrain vehicle, or a boom lift could provide enough force, and then something that did allow Adam to escape was dangerous enough to kill your buddy inside-BUSTED
  • Pick-Lock Impalement-The pick-lock technigue or a superhuman kick to the side of the door was not enough to set off the side door airbag-BUSTED