All The Childhood Toys We Forgot

Did anyone else have those action figures for "Star Wars" and "G.I. Joe"? I used to have them team up together to fight off my "Transformers". It's the kind of made up world that comics come up with all the time, some insane cross-over. It seems so worthless sometimes to keep those toys but later on you never know what they could go for. We live in the age of Ebay where people can sell their childhood or soul in a jar and fetch crap loads of money. I've seen a new PS3 sold right when they came out for $10,000! Well, I don't know if it actually got sold, but that was the asking price from one person. Can you imagine if that guy actually did sell that? And now I wish I still had all those cool toys which seem to have vanished somehow. These days comics aren't worth that much even unless they're golden age ones. Yet if you hold on to the ones you do buy later on you can set your own price for them! These days it's up to the people to decide the worth of something. I just remembered... I do have golden age comics, and that means I could set my own asking price for them! Hmm... tempting, yet at the same time they're priceless if you really like reading them. What else could one collect from their youth?



Guest Commentator HARVESTER OF SORROW says: "You have the devil's wisdom my child!"

Dinosaurs To Make A Comeback

I hear they're trying to plan a real life "Jurassic Park" someday! This is a bit scary to me. I also heard they're trying to bring back a Woolly Mammoth. This just doesn't sound like a good idea at all. I mean I'd love to see those hairless carnivores running around looking for cats to eat but what else comes with that? In truth, the dinosaurs were our predecessors, and they were all carnivorous animals able to take down a dog or bear even. In the end all the dinosaurs evolved to become all the animals we know now. Even us, somehow we're related to those creepy critters. See, if we came from monkeys, and monkeys came from the primate revolution then where did the primates come from? We all know that primates started as dinosaurs that evolved to grow hair or feathers. We are dinosaurs! That's why they're so creepy to me. I don't think it's a good thing to bring back primitive predators that are worse than the ones we have now. If one got out somehow then it could spawn a mutant strain of evolution that never happened before! New dinosaurs that never existed is what I'm saying! And why does this remind me of an author I met that wrote a story about a goup of astronauts that found a primitive planet that was just beginning, one with new and different dinosaurs? He was on to something, I see that now. It's like that new "Star Trek" with that huge monster that comes out of the icy snow. We have no idea of what could happen. As pollution rose the size of animals shrank to eat less food. Even if one didn't get out a bacteria could get in water and travel to the sea, thus causing the same turn of events. Or a bird could carry microscopic life to other areas. There's no way to bring them back safely. Yet if it did happen, I'd probably go to see them... before anything happens in my lifetime.



Guest Commentator BLUE FIEND says: "I'll stay in here till they're all dead!"

Robots Will Call Us Outdated

Versus Tek #2. Someday we'll all be having robots do our work for us so we can do other things. It'll be like multi-tasking without actually doing so. We'll have robots for our elderly to check the mailbox, we'll have microwaves that cook the food for us, we'll have cars that are linked to satellites, we'll have robots doing many jobs thus leaving us with less. Imagine a riot of people wanting jobs that robots have. There's no telling what they could do, maybe even drive our cars. So what sort of future is this leading to? It's impossible to know, that's why it makes great cyberpunk paranoia now. We see movies where people are enslaved by cyborgs and robots but strangely that is possible. It doesn't have to happen but it is definitely a possibility. And will we be numb to society with robots at home to keeps us company? Robotic mates even. It sounds like a sex doll future, but widely accepted as normal. That goes to show you how strange the future could be. Trading dreams or arguing with computers. It all sounds so far out. Could a robot every take the place of a human entirely? If so would we ever question anything? Could there be a grand conspiracy to assimilate us all into the cyborg future to phase out the outdated human?



Guest Commentator CHROMESHINE says: "Humans are like cockroaches I tell you!"

Suicide Culture Makes Movies

Versus Movie #71. There's something genuinely creepy about this movie. "Suicide Club" from 2002. I remember seeing it in the video store but never thought much of it. Now days I've learned all about Asian cinema and found some wild stuff. This movie is definitely bloody, really gory. Most of the Asian horror movies are really sickening. Which is a good thing depending on who you are. This movie takes the idea that you think it is and twists it so far into a surreal cyber horror circus. You can't quite figure out why things are happening and they make it much more bizarre than you think. The opening scene you see 54 schoolgirls hold hands and jump in front of a subway train! Then other suicides start happening all over the city. Somehow a hacker keeping score of the suicides is linked since he tallies them before they happen, so he knows something. But we never find out what. And to add to that there are some really bizarre gory things happening that start to make sense but then throw you off again. The reviews say there's nothing supernatural at work. So it's either technological or biological or something else. They say it's got an open ending that will frustrate you. This sounds much more bizarre than one is led to believe. It's a freak show. Along with "The Ring" this movie was one of the big movies in Japan that year for horror. Their idea of horror can be so much more insane than ours. I happen to think it sounds really cool. There's supposed to be an underlying message about the numbing of our modern society and the paranoia we could get from that. I could see that as every adult in the film doesn't seem to show much concern. It's a strange film, as most Asian horrors do go over the edge. It's a good one. Believe it or not this movie later spawned a Manga! It's supposedly easier to understand. I'm surprised Quentin Tarantino didn't announce this movie!



Guest Commentator BLOOD MISTRESS says: "Do not watch if you have a heart problem!"

They're Always One Step Ahead

Versus Tek #1. A new category is born! There was a different kind of Hummer in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen". See just when we think we got the top of the line stuff handed down by the military then they come out with something else. They're always one step ahead. I think this may be the way technology will always be in every field. If some new technology comes out then the military is probably wanting to be ahead of it somehow for defense reasons. So yeah that could entail a lot of top secret things. They're probably always working on reverse engineering new ideas just like that "Sector 7" in the first Transformers movie. This new Hummer looks like a one piece composite chassis, which would be better and more durable. And I bet it's able to take a hot from another car just fine! You know they only make cars so cheaply so that we buy new ones if one gets damaged. They could make them all in one piece composite bodies but that would cost a fortune. This leads to the evolution of my theory on consumerism being a catalyst for things like making cars out of sheet metal and tons of people dying everywhere. It's like why they make CD's without covers to keep them from being scratched, which they have done before for Famicom games, they want us to buy new ones after they get scratched. I'm willing to bet this next generation Hummer is quite strong indeed.



Guest Commentator BLUE FIEND says: "But reverse engineering what is the question?!"