A friend of mine from City of Heroes plays that game with his son. He’s “Shovar Robot” and his son plays a smaller robot hero named “Nudgar Robot”. Here’s his son’s halloween costume this year. It RULES:
Archive for October, 2007
28
Oct
Best Costume Ever
23
Oct
I Love Portal
And the rest of the “Orange Box” games. I’ve already talked about Team Fortress 2 and how great it is (short review: TOTALLY great!) but the other parts of Valve’s “Orange Box” are also fantastic. Half-Life 2: Episode 2 is more of the same greatness we’ve come to expect from the Half-Life game. Saying “more of the same” implies that it’s not better but it is because the “same” that the Half-Life series has is excellence.
But you don’t just get one of the finest team-based shooters ever and the very best first-person shooter single player game in the Orange Box for your $50 — you also get Portal:
That’s the trailer that gives you a hint of what you’re in for — you get a “gun” that shoots two different “portals” that hook up together and you use it to solve a bunch of puzzles. That alone is pretty cool but all throughout you’re being pushed and mocked and manipulated by a quite obviously insane AI who promises that “at the end there will be cake” and somehow causes you to feel a connection with a “Weighted Companion Cube” along the way. But don’t take my word for it, here’s ZeroPunctuation’s review of The Orange Box and he can criticize ANYTHING.
I’m so in love with Portal and the Weighted Companion Cube that it’s now my RAZR’s wallpaper and the song at the end is my ringtone. Here’s the wallpaper if you’d also like it:
14
Oct
A Cure for Cancer?
Apparently a Halifax-based company has a simple injection that is completely clearing up huge cancerous tumours in mice in two weeks.
Scientists initially injected the mice with cancer cells, which formed huge tumours and made them very ill. Within 14 days of receiving the vaccine, each one became tumour-free and perfectly healthy. The mice were re-injected and no new tumours formed. The trials were repeated three times with the same results.
This could be the greatest medical breakthrough ever. Sadly, it could also be bunk. The effects seem like magic or science-fiction — not only did it cure cancer with a shot and two weeks of waiting, but it immunized them against more!?
I’m hoping to see it get peer-reviewed and tested by outside sources, but for now I’m totally excited.
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