Thursday, September 10, 2009

Airless tires of the future

Military testing out fancy new airless tires - Source Dvice.com

Check out those cool new tires.  It looks like honeycomb but it's strong enough to hold a military vehicle.  I think that is awesome because you will never have to worry about getting a flat ever again.

Could it be possible that your tires will still fall apart?

I just love the future.

Supernatural Season 5

Then: Last season Sam turned into sort of a Vampire sucking demon blood and being brain washed by Ruby to think that she was on his side and being led down the wrong path which led to him releasing Lucifer.

Now: Supernatural is back with their 5th season and it's starting out with love for Sam then hate for Sam.  Poor Sam.  He thought he was doing the right thing, even Castiel thought it was the right thing which is why he let Sam go from his cage.

Lucifer who is going to be played by Mark Pellegrino is out now and it's going to take a whole season to put him back in his cage lol.

It turns out that Dean is the vessel for Michael the arc angel but he won't give permission to Michael to claim his "meat bag" (as Dean would put it) which I think at the end when it all comes down to saving the world he will probably accept Michael and let him fix this whole thing and send Lucifer back to hell.

Guess who is back?  Meg is back to haunt them once again but she has a new body (or as I stated before, meat bag lol).

I thought Castiel was dead because he was blown to bits but apparently he found a way to put himself back together.

So welcome back Supernatural for yet another season.  It's going to be a fun rollercoaster ride with the boys.  Can't wait to see it every week.  They do not disappoint that's for sure.

Vampire Diaries

The new series Vampire Diaries is on tonight and it's very good.  It's Twilight-ish.

"About a high school girl torn between two vampire brothers."



This stories main characters are Elena (Nina Dobrev) who falls for Stefan (Paul Wesley) who is at war with his brother and fellow vampire Damon (Ian Somerhalder).  According to the IMDB plot (quote above) Elena is in love with both of them.

This show has the token psychic named Bonnie (Katerina Graham) who kind of reminds me of Cordelia from Buffy but psychic on Angel lol.

At first I thought it was strange that Stefan could be out in the sun until Damon took the cool ring from him and said that without it he would incinerate when the sun came up so that cleared that up for me.  I was sort of irritated that Hollywood was ignoring the fact the sunlight kills vampires like Moonlight did but they introduced the ring which Buffy had actually introduced that Angel crushed.

I can't really tell how good or bad this show is going to be based on the Pilot but I like it and I'm going to tune in to it for at least the season.  If it turns into Twilight meets Gossip Girl I'm not sure how long I will watch it lol.

D&D Online For Free

A couple of years ago I was making the rounds and trying all the online games.  I did the 7-10 day trial on many games like World of Warcraft, Dungeons & Dragons Online, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings online, EQ 2 etc.

I did like D&D Online and I played it for a couple of days but I just couldn't pay their monthly fee because I was playing EQ at the time.  Well, I was taking a break from EQ to do these other games trials but I was still paying for EQ.

But now it's free to play.  So all you have to do is click Dungeons and Dragons Online™: Eberron Unlimited™ and download the version that is suitable for your system.

I will most likely create a new character with the name Xanapus.  I will be on server Ghallanda

Edit: The more I think about it the more it reminds me of when EverQuest came out with a standalone game called Escape to Norrath which was a free EQ game but you could only get up to level 10 and that's it.  You can't go further and so basically if you liked what you saw then you can buy the full version of EQ and pay a monthly fee.  So I will be skeptical about this until I find out if this is the same deal or not.

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Click the image to see it full size.  This is the character selection screen.  I've already created my character XANAPUS who is a halfling cleric.  The character I created is excellent for solo gameplay who can heal as well as do battle.  I'm level 1 obviously because I just created it but I'm sure if I play it long enough I will get higher in level depending on if I continue playing it and if this is just a way  to get people to buy the game and the subscription.  Maybe I might like it though, who knows.

Edit: I played some of it today and noticed how it was saying something about being able to get up to level 20 which confirms my suspicions that this will only let you get to level 20 then after that they give you the option to buy the software and pay their monthly fee.

The only thing that pisses me off about this is that after about 5 or 10 minutes it shuts down then to get back into the game you have to reload it.  Maybe there is some setting I can change.