Welcome to Rapture! Halloween Gaming with BioShock

Welcome to Rapture! Halloween Gaming with BioShock

Fall is most definitely my (Mom) favorite time of the year. Cool crisp air, apple cider, acceptance of hoodies back into the wardrobe, crackling fires, and pumpkin flavored everything. On top of that, it carries the funnest day of the year, Halloween. We all celebrate Halloween in different ways. Some of us take our kids trick-or treating. Others...sit at home and watch horror movies while shoveling candy corn down their throats. Most of us probably drink.

There usually is a common theme to Halloween though, and that is fear. So Pop and I decided we would utilize the month of October to play some frightening games.  First on the list is BioShock.

While it isn't the most creepy game out there, it hold its own in the world of eeriness. I for one have a hard time handling scary games so it kind of is a big deal to me. Through this adventure, you will mostly likely laugh at how scared I get, but if it weren't for sudden desire to crap my pants, you wouldn't be entertained would you?

So join us on this first title in our Halloween playlist! Jump in with Part 1, and check daily for new videos!

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(Hyrule Warriors Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Diablo III Part 6)

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"Beam me up, Scotty." Possible? Yes...kind of.

See how it's possible to be transported at the speed of light!

Everyone knows the iconic phrase “Beam me up, Scotty”, made popular from Star Trek. The real question is whether it's possible to be transported at the speed of light. The answer is yes…kind of. I will start by saying that it is not possible to send any matter/mass/weight at the speed of light 186,282 miles/second (or 300,000 km/second). The reason is simple, E=MC^2. Where E is energy, M is mass, and C is the speed of light.  According to this equation, mass and energy are the same physical entity and can be changed into one another. Because of this equivalence, the energy an object has due to its motion will increase its mass. In other words, the faster an object moves, the greater it’s mass. So basically if an object has mass, as it approaches the speed of light, its mass becomes infinite and so does the energy required to move it. In other words, to move your 235lbs overweight body at the speed of light, you would need more power than all the stars produce in the universe. That’s not going to happen, so now what?

So now what?

The trick is that radio waves have no mass, thus they travel at the speed of light. So even though we cannot send you, we can still send your information. Currently computers do not have the capability to scan every portion or atom that makes you who you are. However, computing power grows at an exponential rate, so in perhaps a few decades, computers will have the ability.

So how will it work?

Let’s say you want to go from your house to Mars at the speed of light. So you walk into your transporter and hit send. It would immediately scan your body down to the smallest building blocks or atoms. It would then take this computer model of your information and send it via radio waves toward Mars. Mars is a long ways away, at its farthest distance it is roughly 378 million km from Earth. So even though your information is traveling at the speed of light, it still takes 21 minutes to get there. Not bad considering. Once your information gets to Mars, another transporter (comparative to a fax machine at the other end of a fax) would decipher the information sent. It would then assemble you to perfection by using a sort of grab bucket of elements (remember we couldn't send your actual atoms because they contained mass).  So there you are in your vacation home on Mars after only a 21 minute trip.

So what’s the problem?

So let’s recap. We scanned you, we sent your information, and then we assembled your exact you at your destination. Are you beginning to see the problem yet? The original you is still at your house siting in your transporter after being scanned! There is now you and the “new you” on Mars. Both identical, both having the same previous thoughts and memories, both being the same boring, overweight, underappreciated you. So now what? The only answer is the transporter has to destroy the original you! You are now on Mars and there is only 1 of you. For all intents and purposes you traveled at the speed of light...good for you! So here’s the mind shattering question: Are you the new you? Or are you now gone and the new you is really not you, even though it is you down to the very last detail and thought (WTF)? Don’t kid yourself, in time technology will have the ability to get to this point, the question is “Are you the man on Mars or are you the dead guy on Earth”?

LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!

-Gillplane


P.S. God knows what happens if the transporter screws up. Anyone seen the movie The Fly?

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Most Underrated Sci-Fi Film of All Time!

Most Underrated Sci-Fi Film of All Time!

Before there was Avatar and Titanic, James Cameron made one of the most epic and most underrated sci-fi film of all time. The Abyss, not to be confused with James Cameron’s documentary Ghosts of the Abyss. This epic adventure includes machine guns, underwater submersibles, drownings, explosions, implosions, submarine battles, nuclear weapons, tidal waves wiping out whole cities (directors cut only), aliens, and breathable liquid dive suits! Everything needed in a movie to give a man an erection hard enough that he could drive nails in like a hammer.

The Abyss is not only the most underrated sci-fi film of all time, but one of the best movies of all time!

Everyone has seen Cameron’s Avatar, Titanic, Aliens and Terminators, but very few have seen The Abyss. Created after the monstrous box office sensation of Aliens, Cameron was given a massive budget to produce the most thrilling and daring under water film of all time. In fact, The Abyss would prove to be one of the most difficult, dangerous and expensive films ever produced. Pushing it’s actors to their emotional and physical brink, the daring underwater filming nearly drowned its main star.  

The Abyss takes place 1000’s of feet below the ocean’s surface on the sea bed floor. Sitting adjacent to a 2-1/2 mile deep drop-off to the bottom of the ocean, the workers of an underwater oil rig are joined by a number of navy SEALS to locate and investigate the cause of a nuclear submarine crash. As the crew embarks on their mission, they encounter a number of difficulties and discover that they may not be alone.

The shooting of the film took place inside an abandoned nuclear reactor cooling tower. All of the underwater scenes were filmed in this massive water tank. For filming they had built the exterior of the underwater habitat seen in the film, and then they proceeded to fill the tank with 7.5 million gallons of water until it completely covered the underwater set. They also had a smaller set that only required 2.5 million gallons. On the surface of the water, they poured millions of little floating beads to block the light above. It was in this underwater set that they filmed the most realistic live action underwater battles and sci-fi scenes ever imagined.

If you have never seen the epic adventure that is The Abyss, I beg you to track down a copy of the film. For those who have seen this extraordinary sci-fi experience, I say to you, “Watch it again!”

This epic submerged adventure has yet to be released onto Blu-ray. However, with the digital re-mastering of James Cameron’s Titanic and Aliens, it can’t be long. I hope and pray that this film is re-released soon. You better believe I am anxiously awaiting this masterpiece. Do I dare dream for a 3D re-mastering? You bet your ass I do!

- Gillplane

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