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Do you feel your gaming skills are lacking a little zest? Do you spend so many hours gaming and grinding on the latest franchise rehash that you simply cannot muster the time for a balanced meal? Then perhaps you should revaluate your life and priorities. Well, that or take these amazing, miracle health supplements for gamers!
That’s right, Japanese company Cyber Gadget has announced their newest products, Gemusapuri (Game Supplements). Two kinds of tablets set to help apathetic slobs passionate gamers achieve maximum potential without that pesky nutrition taking time from their precious gaming!
This marvel of Japanese science comes in two formulas: Gemusapuri Blueberry contains the mystic nutrients of the blueberry for prolonged gaming and Gemusapuri DHA contains the essential oils of fish to give you that extra mental prowess when playing intellectually taxing games or learning kanjis.
Each pack comes with 30 pills, enough for 15 days of gaming boost. All of this for the low low price of 800 Yen (around $7.50 USD). Now you can finally live on cheetos and mountain dew while your enemies waste precious time with salads and silly stuff like that.
[Cyber Gadget / Via Japan Sugoi]
I kid you not dear reader, Christie’s auctioned an authentic glass D20 used by the Romans as a gaming die. This dodecahedron (twenty-sided) dice was acquired in Egypt during the 1920’s. Now this is where it gets interesting, scholars have yet to find out what the hell did the romans play with these things.
So an artifact used by modern geek gaming is found to have been used in ancient times, its found in Egypt and we have no idea what exactly it was for. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we are living in a bad Yu-Gi-Oh sequel. Not that there’s a good sequel anyway.
That’s it, if some white-haired rich guy bought this and starts some sort of global Dungeons and Dragons tournament I’m quitting this life while I’m ahead. I wouldn’t want to be here when it hits a second season.
By: Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano - On Tuesday 10 June 2008 @ 4:38 pm
Oh boy those conspiracy theorists in Japan must be throwing a fit over this new book. Titled ‘Legend Of The Original Antarctic Model: From Dutch Wife to Love Doll, a Post-War History of Sex Dolls‘ it tells the story of the original development of Japanese sex dolls.
According to the author these objects of otaku lust were originally developed to control the desires of work teams dispatched to isolated districts of Japan. What’s even creepier is that the government ‘encouraged‘ the development. And as we all know that can only mean one thing, money.
So there you have it, Japanese sex dolls are a government tool to control the desires of the frustrated, downtrodden masses.In Japan, Oni-chan is watching you.
Woah! Look what the Photoshop Disasters blog found out. That girl on the cover of GTA4, who also appeared on the cover of more than one prominent magazine seems to have more quirks than just her suggestive way of licking a lollypop. She has 6 fingers.
It’s interesting, but what is more interesting is that at this very moment, someone in some gaming forum is turning this into some kind of secret hint that’s part of a massive secret campaign by Rockstar, probably relating to GTA6.
By: Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano - On Monday 14 April 2008 @ 6:01 pm
An ASU engineering student presents his capstone robot project, but instead of a boring, run-off-the-mill delivery what you get is perhaps the most intense engineering presentation you’ve ever seen. All of this done to the music of Gurren Lagann, using GL visuals and even paraphrasing the show. Sometimes anime works its way into everyday life, under the radar, and it works marvelously! It even begins with a little red robot.
I can barely listen to what he’s talking about but I’m still really excited, arent you?!
This is so wrong, so very wrong on so many levels, yet its so compelling! I shouldn’t be liking this, and neither should you! Maybe we should just keep it secret and pretend we never saw this. I cant unsee it!
Thanks WaryWolf…. I guess.
A couple of government engineers have rigged a military robot, the bomb diffusing kind, to work with a Wiimote. The pair of engineers developed the project while working at the Department of Energy, they say it will help make controlling the robots easier to control, freeing up the soldier’s attention to the sensitive data the robot sends. Important stuff, you know, like wether to cut off the green or red cable before everything goes boom. I sure hope its more responsive than a Warioware minigame!
They did this exact same thing before with an Xbox controller, it sure makes you wonder how these research labs operate. I’m betting it involves a lot of mountain dew and cheetos.
After the masterpieces that were Haloid and Dead Fantasy I, kick arse 3D animator Monty Oum is back with Dead Fantasy II. If you thought the first part was good, prepare yourself for the second…
By: Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano - On Friday 28 March 2008 @ 12:15 am
Maybe you were a bad enough dude to rescue the president, but are you man enough to program in FORTH? FORTH is a programing language from the 70’s and this is the cover of a book that teaches you how to use it to program on, you guessed it, the Atari.
More importantly, it teaches you how use FORTH to become a mini-hulk with a huge package and a killer moustache, ladies in vinyl underwear dig the moustache. I don’t think current consoles can do that!
By: Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano - On Wednesday 26 March 2008 @ 12:34 am
People dressed as Ninjas get free train rides during Mie prefecture ’s Ninja festival. In the ancient days the Iga village (in the now Mie Prefecture) was one of the biggest centers in japan when it came to the practice of ninjutsu. So from April 1 to May 6 everyone in ninja garbs gets a free train ride courtesy of the city. Never mind that a true ninja wouldn’t need to be given a free ride. He would ride free and you would never know it… if you’re lucky.
In this Japanese TV ad you will see a woman getting nearly fondled by a mass of tentacles while she applies itch medicine to them. You wont find that so weird, proof of how jaded you have become by Japan. Worse even, you just might recognize this is as a reference to the earliest tentacle hentai in the world, a wood carving from 1820 called The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife. I wish I could say the ad is the weirdest thing in here, but no, its the fact that its not weird at all anymore. You’re probably wishing there was a second part where they actually get down to business, aren’t you? What have we become?
By: Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano - On Monday 17 March 2008 @ 6:19 pm
Those old school games sure had weird premises, hadn’t you noticed? I mean, Pac-Man, its a game about popping pills and eating ghosts and fruit! What the fuck is up with that? Where did these people came up with such ridiculous plots? Well, lets remember this was back in the late 70’s and mental… enhancement was in vogue. The guys from Cracked and comedy troupe Those aren’t Muskets! teamed up to bring us a look at how these great classics may have been born. Comedy gold ensues. Click above to watch it!
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By: Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano - On Monday 17 March 2008 @ 4:27 am
Ever wondered why Nintendo never goes for photorealism? Well the picture above might just be your answer. Pixeloo brings us this photorealistic rendition of our beloved Mario and its outright creepy! The gray stubble, the tired eyes, the sad look. This is one old, jaded plumber we’ve got here. I guess the burden of a loved one who’s always being kidnapped (and never giving Mario any) and his hardcore shroom addiction don’t do his health any good.
[Pixeloo]
Akihabara has a new maid-style cafe but this time the maids are replaced by railroad attendees, weird? Not so much! Japan’s train otaku (who call themselves tetsu) are a really well established subgroup of the otaku kingdom. In this cafe, called Little TGV, you have to purchase a ticket to get in and as expected, everything form the decor to the drinks has a train twist to it. They even replace the usual background music with the sound of train wagons rolling along the tracks!
I’m actually surprised it took them so long to open up one of these cafes, perhaps they thought the guests wouldn’t arrive in time! Oh that was an awful joke, sorry its not easy to joke about something as boring as trains!
[Little TGV / Via Tokyomango]
Remember when we introduced you to Norton Fighter, the masked superhero that protected Japanese Citizens from dangerous computer viruses? We’ll he’s still going strong and so his battles with the forces of cyber evil keep being documented! Here’s episode one of the Norton Fighter series with English subs, maids in distress included.
Don’t you feel a lot safer now? I feel a lot safer now! Time to run a full scan though! Japanese marketing be blessed.
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