Super Smash Bros Melee (9/10)

This is one of the greatest games of all time. Basically, the game is this, Let’s get all the most popular Nintendo Characters and make them fight. What could be better? nothing!

This game delivers tons of pwnage! (which is what we all truly want) with its great multilayer, tons of playable characters, unloockable content, multiple game modes, customizable rules, tons of diverse locations, beautiful graphics, wondrous sound, and groovy gameplay this is quite possibly the coolest game Nintendo has come up with! The only reason it did not get a 10 is because it has no ridley. And I dont like jigglypuff (although, I admit that I love PWNing him)

This is the one game no Nintendo Fanboy should be without.

PPX – PopSci Predictions Exchange

Ok so this is pretty sweet. It is like a virtual Stock Market. But rather that investing in business you invest in predictions (about business and technology)

Ok so here is how it works. You pick a prediction like “Will PS3 outsell the Wii and XBox 360 this year.” If you think it will you invest in it by buying its future stock. If most people think it will the price of stock will go up. You can then make money (popsci dollars) by selling the stock at a higher price.

But lets say you don’t think the PS3 will win the console war. (like me) You can bet against the stock by shorting it. Then as the price of stock goes down you cover it. You make money based on decrease of stock price rather than increase.

The pricce of the stock is a percentage of if people think it will happen or not. (for example a price of $73.12 means that 73.12% of the people think it is likely to happen. If the prediction comes true you get pop$100 for every share you have in that stock. (and trust me, you will tend to buy stock in the hundreds)

To start simply goto http://ppx.popsci.com/ and select “Sign Up” (there is also a tutorial that explains things better) By, signing up you get pop$250,000 to stat off with.

Oh, and here are some of the stocks I have invested in (or against)

Will the PlayStation 3 outsell both the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii by the end of 2009? http://ppx.popsci.com/security/view.php?symbol=PS3WINS

Will “smart” handguns be commercially available in New Jersey by 2009?
http://ppx.popsci.com/security/view.php?symbol=SMRTSHOT

Will Apple announce “Newton 2.0” by the end of MacWorld (January 18, 2008)?
http://ppx.popsci.com/security/view.php?symbol=NWTON

Will the Phoenix lander find verifiable signs of life on the surface of Mars by January 1, 2009?
http://ppx.popsci.com/security/view.php?symbol=MARSLIFE

Will the number of taxpayers electronically filing their income-tax forms for 2007 top 85 million?
http://ppx.popsci.com/security/view.php?symbol=TAXMAN

I Saw It In A Dream…

Ok, So last night I had a dream that I was playing Super Smash bros. Melee and I had found a new unlockable character…Monk! He was really powerful he could shoot out cleaning rays from his fingers. Oh, and he was huge! (Master Hand May have been his hand) The characters would try to leap on him and attack him but Monk could just pick them up and toss them away (while yelling “Wipe!”)

Oh, and one time I had a dreamed about Antique Roadshow: The Video Game. It was a platformer where the goal of every stage was to find a valuable antiques. Instead of coins and rings there were stamps…and lots of them.

I can’t help but wonder if this is how they come up with those horribly licensed video games.