Here’s a cute video of our little toad enjoying a chippy snack:
Cheesecake Arcade Game Flyers
Ironically, the best example of using cheesecake to sell arcade games also happens to be the first time it was ever done. That was in 1971, when Computer Space was released and this piece of art was used to sell it:
Stylish, isn’t she?
As the years went by more and more arcade games were advertised using cheesecake, which often had little relation to the gameplay.
Here’s an example of one such advert stuck more decidedly in the 1980’s:
Here’s an example of another one, which should be stuck in a shredder!
And here’s a case of the cheesecake in the ad being less than in the game:
Ningen
It’s time for a new cryptid!
Today I give you all… the Ningen!
About four years ago, on a Japanese forum, someone posted a story about gigantic (20 – 30m) long semi-humanoid creatures that had occasionally been witnessed in the antarctic oceans by researchers and sailors,
They are said to be ghostly white, very large, with humanlike faces and two long wing-like ‘arms’. They are often sighted at the surface, but are believed to be deep-sea creatures. Apparently they are slow moving and non-aggressive.
Other reports soon followed, and this cryptid was picked up by a magazine from which the story spread. All of a sudden there were many anecdotal reports of Ningen, accompanied by a few (obviously fake) ‘photographs’ (including the ones in this entry).
A ningen has even been spotted on Google Earth:
And here is a video of one, allegedly taken by an underwater ROV (this is particularly creepy):
Hostile or not, I wouldn’t want to run into that underwater 🙂
So, what do you think? Real or not?