Electronic music and robots go well together, don’t they just.
Love me a robot uprising. Not sure why but, “Free Yourself” reminded me of “Base 6” which I played the shit out of back in 2002 and is, in my opinion, the cooler track:
Forklift Accident Causes an Entire Warehouse to Collapse like Dominoes
•November 20, 2018 • Leave a Comment(￢_￢)
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R.I.P. Stan Lee 1922 ~ 2018
•November 13, 2018 • Leave a CommentStan Lee, the legendary writer, editor and publisher of Marvel Comics whose marvelous but flawed creations made him a real-life superhero to comic-book lovers everywhere, has died. He was 95.
Found these neat panels in one of my 50-cent purchases from back in the day.
Marvel Comics; X-Men Minus 1 Flashback (1997)
I love storytelling in general, and comics are an art-form unto itself with a unique way of enriching the reading experience. If you frequent le blog you would have surely seen the hyperlink tags “Comics” and “I ♥ COMICS.” My love for them comes with its own origin story, and although I feel my content of choice has graduated from the typical costumed Marvel heroes to more self-contained, creator owned creations, there is no denying the history of comics and why they flourished and endured, and for that, my hats off to Stan “the man” Lee.
Ferry Collides with Crane on Dock, Sparking Huge Fire
•November 2, 2018 • Leave a CommentA passenger ferry caught in bad weather collided with a huge loading crane at the port of Barcelona, Spain, today, causing it to collapse and spark an explosion:
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/ferry-collides-with-crane-on-dock-sparking-huge-fire/ar-BBPbxU1
Grandi Navi Veloci, the Italian company that owns the ferry, said in a statement that strong winds and sea currents prevented the ship from docking, eventually pushing it against the port’s crane. Nobody was injured in the accident.
On Tuesday, a Royal Caribbean cruise ship had to make an emergency stop in Spain after experiencing technical issues and allegedly taking on water. The same day, bad weather caused a cruise ship to collide with another vessel in the port of La Spezia, Italy.
プレイステーション クラシック Full Games List
•October 30, 2018 • Leave a CommentIt could be worse…
It could be a heck of a lot better too! Rainbow Six…GTFOOH!
For the Japanese version, these titles — Cool Boarders 2, Destruction Derby, Grand Theft Auto, Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee, Rayman, Syphon Filter, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six and Twisted Metal — will be replaced with these:
Arc the Lad / Arc the Lad 2 / Armored Core / G Darius / Gradius Gaiden / Parasite Eve / SaGa Frontier / XI [sai] (Devil Dice)
Basically the titles chosen for blatant social engineering purposes have been replaced.
Definitely gifting this to my little bro hehe, gonna hide it in the compost and play hot-and-cold for it. As far as I am concerned, the western version of Playstation Classic is awful and not for young minds. I bought a SNES Classic for my little bro this Christmas instead — way more kid/fun friendly, because those are the level of decisions big brothers should make. Heck, I want to play some of these gems myself:
⬆ T H I S I S B E T T E R ⬆
‘SpotMini’ Robot Dances to Bruno Mars
•October 17, 2018 • Leave a CommentMachines, before they rule, shit like this is how they will win us over.
Funny. Really smooth execution. Also were all going to die.
“SpotMini is a nimble four-legged robot that handles objects, climbs stairs, and will operate in offices, homes and outdoors. It weighs 25 kg (30 kg if you include the arm). SpotMini is all-electric and can go for about 90 minutes on a charge, depending on what it is doing. SpotMini is the quietest robot we have built.
Our mission is to build the most advanced robots on Earth, with remarkable mobility, agility, dexterity and speed.” ~ Boston Dynamics (aka Skynet!)
Seal Slaps Man with Octopus — “I don’t know who got the bigger fright, the octopus, the seal, or me.”
•September 27, 2018 • Leave a CommentGangster seal pulls a swim-by, bitch-slaps human wielding a fellow aquatic life form then makes a clean hit-and-swim getaway:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12132762
A kayaker inadvertently got a face full of tentacles while coming between a seal and its lunch in waters off New Zealand. Kaikoura on New Zealand’s South Island has a large population of fur seals. The octopus tried to escape the seal by latching onto the bottom of a kayak but it is not know how successful that strategy was in the long-run.
The salty seal has yet to be identified and is considered extremely racist. Humans are warned to keep vigilant for the perpetrator and avoid feeding (OK yes I made that up).
My PlayStation Classic Games (mini) Wish-list
•September 22, 2018 • Leave a Comment
Sony recently announced the PlayStation Classic system, a miniaturized recreation of the original PlayStation console that comes preloaded with 20 classic games from its iconic and eclectic library.
If you’re smart and eager to explore the boundaries of your digital devices, and if you’re like me in this respect and also love games, then you probably have an emulator. I use ePSXe myself, but there are multiple ways to play those classic games from video game consoles of a bygone era (backwards compatibility would be nice). I have a friend who purchases them from the official store through his next-gen consoles. Although we both still have the original games in their original disc format, there’s something about enhanced graphics and processing power that breathe new life into forgotten game gems that is exciting to be reintroduced with, especially if the games are rare and/or we haven’t played them yet. Me and him just go about it differently. I should be the last person excited about the PlayStation Classic, and yet, I already preordered (not before checking my local supplier’s cancellation process, of course). I like the idea of hardware and not having to fiddle around, BUT, my biggest trepidation comes down to the word “Classic” and what that means to Sony and their games selection process, because many were not considered classics and deserved to be, while others are so well-known they lost their replay value decades ago.
Only 5 games of the 20 have been announced, so fingers crossed it’s not an obvious lineup (so far so good).
These are my top (probably unlikely) wishes I hope to see included:
Not many. I can’t help but think about the alternative other. The type of goodies that get buried under popular opinion, sales statistics and algorithms. What good is a retrospective console if not to reacquaint gamers with gems they missed out on, right?
And here are three that (like Whittaker’s chocolates) I love so much that I would be happy if NO ONE played them, because they’re really great, and I’m mean like that.
The PsClassic is a great idea and I’m open to being surprised, I just hope the unannounced 20 is slightly more diverse than this mock-up:
In my defense of being a bit of a dork, I have a six-year-old brother. It is a far better thing for a boy his age then it is for me. Therefore, December 3rd being the release date gives me exactly two weeks to play-through what I want before gifting it. …So I can see if there is any content that is too grown up for his age range, you know, in case it would be irresponsible of me to share give to him. What are cool big brothers for, right (hehe).
St. Lucia — A Brighter Love [♬]
•August 2, 2018 • Leave a CommentTotally digging the chorus!（＾3＾♪ ♫ ♩ ♬ I’m searching for the undiluted heart ♪
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Speak to me now I tried to be what they want ‘Cause I’m searching for a night light in the dark So now it’s all come to this
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And all this time I didn’t close them I’m searching for a night light in the dark [Interlude] So I’m searching for a night light in the dark |
#Bookface Portraits — French Bookstore’s Perfectly Scaled Book Covers
•August 2, 2018 • Leave a CommentLibrairie Mollat (France’s first independent bookstore) has carved a unique niche on Instagram with its #bookface portraits. The Bordeaux-based bookstore regularly features photographs of book covers held up in front of perfectly scaled and dressed people:
As far as social media gimmicks go, I think this is a fun one.
Chalkboard Art by Hong Kong Students That Their Teacher Wipes Away Every Day
•August 1, 2018 • Leave a Comment
A group of high school students from the Heep Yunn School in Hong Kong who call their art group Illusdreamer spend hours creating strictly temporary masterpieces knowing they’ll be wiped away whenever their teacher needs to use the board again.
Their drawings are so big it takes them up to one hour to wipe the chalkboard clean.
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