NIntendo Zapper that literally zaps!

Every kid (at least from my generation) had at one time fantasized that their game console gun, like the above Nintendo Zapper for the Nintendo Entertainment System (American version of the Nintendo Family Computer which was more popular in the Philippines), was a real laser gun. Blame it all on those space movies and TV shows, but we all wished our game gun was a real laser gun. Well, present-day technology has now made that possible to a degree.

Our fantasies are coming true, and it's exciting and scary at the same time. What will we think of next?

(Originally saw the video at nerdapproved.com. Read the original article here: nerdapproved.com/gaming/modifying your nes zapper into a laser gun is a great idea until someones eyeball catches on fire)

Mack Bolan books: Escapism or Something More?

One of my pastimes during my high school years was reading the Mack Bolan adventure book series and its spin-off titles Able Team and Phoenix Force. I have to admit that it's still a guilty pleasure to this day. So when I spotted the above book at a Book Sale outlet recently (and for Php15!), I couldn't help but buy it.

Why do I like reading these books? It's gritty, graphically violent just this side of gratuitous, and unapologetic about its theme of primal (even politically incorrect) justice. Should I, as a Christian, be even reading stuff like this?

My Book Fair Loot

Ever since I've worked with OMF Literature, where I am now, the Manila International Book Fair has been part work and part pleasure. But this year's book fair has felt thin somehow. Maybe it's the lack of selections,

Video Review: Brothers Barbarian

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The Gamers: Dorness Rising not only revived my love for gaming, but opened to me the enjoyment of independent films in this particular genre. Learning that Dead Gentlemen Productions followed up Dorkness Rising with the web series JourneyQuest, I subscribed to their YouTube channel and went on to enjoy it.

But I wanted more.

The Gamers: Hands of Fate - - September 2013

I haven't been writing on this blog for some time now because time and duty didn't allow. But today is a day of epic proportions.