Vault dwellers rejoice! Need a visual guide for touring the Capital Wasteland in Fallout 3? Notepad no more, as Planet Fallout releases its own Google Maps-type of guide for the hit action RPG. You don’t need to wade through pages upon pages of text files - this visual game FAQ will have most of the locations on the notoriously vast expanse of fallout wasteland.

Much like Google maps, users can put location markers for any particular type of Quest, Location, NPC, and Easter Eggs.

Definitely lots of help, and fun to navigate, check out the map here at Planet Fallout.

Just recently got my hands on Marvel Select’s new action figure on the new version of Thor, God of Thunder. This rendition is from J. Michael Straczynski’s new take on the Marvel Thor character, with artwork from the series’ artist, Olivier Coipel, inspiring this action figure.

Packaging
Typical Diamond Marvel Select clamshell - with big comic artwork splashed liberally on the front, side and back of the carton flaps outside and inside. I especially like the side of the box - as it has a close-up profile of the character’s comic book artwork - you can line up your Marvel Select collection on a shelf, beside each other, much like displaying books. Well, I’m not really a packaging critique, but their line of works for me. After all, I open the boxes anyway.

Front

Back

Sculpt
Big, bulky, around 7″ tall, this sculpt is totally loyal to the new comics’ artwork. Though he looks bigger in scale, especially among his 6″ Marvel Legends little brothas and sistahs, he still looks as a good blend-in, a god among mortals. Compared to the early Marvel Legends Thor figures, he’s just as tall as them anyway.

There’s a stern expression on his face, quite what’s expected of the Odinson. Detail on cloth parts mince no detail on folds, however wide or small. The new chainmail style on his arms and legs add more intricate bumps that make him look larger and wider.

The cloth above his chest/chest armor is more prominent now, with all the realistic folds. The trademark circles are still there, only now replaced by metal-looking buttons. Har.
His only accessory, Mjollnir, is as always, looking hefty - the small details of the aged stone hammer and it’s short handle has carried this classic look from Thor’s earlier looks. He’s also got one impressive base/stand - a cross section of a part of a tower, with great cracked stone and slab details. Thor just enjoys surveying the landscape down below as he’s close to stepping-off this base.

Pretty solid sculpt, with each detail totally dead-on.

Paint
Paint is applied moderately - no drybrushing here, but none of the flat, boring Hasbro Marvel Legends-style insults. Though silver/metallic parts aren’t that shiny, they do their job to convey it. Props to the paints applied on the base - even if the paint looks too randomly applied on the stone. Flesh tone on the face is clean and smooth. The cape has enough folds in the sculpt to actually make up for the flattish application red color. Overall, clean, crisp - no problems here.

Articulation

The big guy has over 20 points of articulation - a ball neck and waist, knees, elbows and shoulders. Hips rotate, as well as the wrists. Ankles also tilt. Still no chest/torso artic, nada on the fingers and toes as well - not that he needs them anyway. Pretty good set of movement for a Diamond Select figure. He can even raise his arms to the sky unlike the old Toybiz Marvel Legends Thor of the early series. Just a note when twisting his wrists - they’re a little tight, and can easily break off if you force them. Turning them slowly while pushing his fists towards the arm can loosen them up. If not, a little heat (the blow dryer technique or hot water exposure) can soften the plastic so it can cooperate with the twisting.

Overall, this quite a superior Marvel Select rendition of the Thunder God. I’ll even go as far as saying that this is the best non-statue (read:articulated) Thor that’s come out for toys for Marvel. Retails for about US$20, though I got mine cheaper through the local ebay seller. All smiles when I purchased this dude - I suggest you grab one when you get the chance! Yea!

Now for more photos! (Hope you can bear with me - the subject IS very photogenic, hehe)

One thing’s for sure, KT’s not a “so-so” when it comes to modeling and showing off her “assets”. We love her! Woot!

Name: Kt So
Zodiac: Capricorn
Birth Place: Hong Kong, China
Home Town: Los Angeles, CA
Ethnicity:Chinese
Height: 5? 7?
Weight: 115lbs
Measurements: 34C-24-34

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The beta testing for new MMORPG Aion Online last week broke all Korea OBT records. On last report, there were around 170,000 players in the first couple of days alone.

Aion is scheduled to launch in Korea within the year, and launches in China, North America, Europe and Japan are planned for 2009.

Since Tuesday’s (November 12) launch of open beta testing in Korea, concurrent user (CCU) numbers have already jumped to more than 170,000 players, making it the most popular beta event in Korean history. According to NCsoft officials, more than 11,000 people were logged into the game after only two minutes of open beta service. In less than an hour, that number had ballooned to 40,000. Currently the number of concurrent players has leapt up to more than 170,000.

To meet the unprecedented demand by gamers, NCsoft rapidly expanded to 25 servers over the first few hours of opening the beta. Even with the increased number of servers, tens of thousands of people were waiting to enter the game.

Meanwhile, here are screenshots of the game:

Related Links

• Aion official site
• NCsoft

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I am personally excited to see what Axl and the new members of the group has come up with after all these years. Will it signal the end of Emo? (I hope so!) Will it be another big let down FOR ME like Metallica’s “Death Magnetic”? Or will it be a good kick in the nut for the current crap the overall Rock industry has been churning out recently?

Well, if their first single is any indication, it’s promising to be a good comeback for GnR.

Let’s just wait and see.

Guns N’ Roses’ current line up is composed of:

Axl Rose – Vocals
Robin Finck – Lead Guitars
Dizzy Reed - Keyboards
Chris Pitman - Keyboards
Frank Ferrer – Drums and Percussions
Brain Mantia – Drums and Percussions
Bumblefoot – Lead Guitars
Richard Fortus – Rhythm Guitars
Tommy Stinson - Bassist

You can listen to their new single “Chinese Democracy” here.

Check out these strange-but-true-facts:

• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
• The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
• Almonds are a member of the peach family.
• Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
• In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
• Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
• The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
• A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Ciao,

Fuhrer

Dragon Ball Online was formally announced last February. Geekzkrieg gives you the sweet details. This is sure to be a hit!

Bandai Korea and CJ Internet officially announced the DragonBall Online project at a press conference held at Seoul Plaza Hotel. DragonBall Online is expected to be launched in Korea before the end of 2008 at the latest and is set for 2009 launch in Japan.

Morever, speculation is that it will also be launched in the US early next year. A beta announcement is slated to be announced soon.

Meanwhile, check out these 2 trailers and some screenshots of the game courtesy of MMOSITE

Screenshots

Via MMOSITE

• Official Dragonball Online site (Japanese)

Put hot water and you’ll see Jesus shave off his beard. Genius!

You’ll have to go here to see it in action.

>> More Stupid Fun stuff here

Via Yahoo Movies

Related Links

• Watchmen HD Trailer
• Watchmen Trailer SD

Ever heard of a Hmong ethnicitiy? Cristal’s one and we all agree, whatever it is, we like!

Cristal Vang

Name: Cristal Vang
Birth Date: n/a
Location: California
Ethnicity: Hmong
Height: 5′4
Weight: n/a
Measurements: 32D-24-0
Website: www.cristalvang.com

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