Sunday, June 30, 2024

Recently the internet news on the new 2025 Superman comes with a possible Ultraman as the villain. In the comics, Ultraman is a Superman type character from a different alternate Earth named Earth 3. He usually comes with the Crime Syndicate, their version of the Justice League. The Crime Syndicate comes with Ultraman as Leader, Owlman, Johnny Quick, Power Ring and Super-Woman. They are the alternate versions of Superman, Batman, Flash, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman. In the image, it is stated that the character, with a U symbol on the chest is Ultraman. The costume is wrong, at least to compare with the comic version. Actually, so is Superman, unless this is the Kingdom Come's younger version of Superman. Which means, the lady at the side could be Super-Woman. Should that be the case, with the number of characters planned to appear in this movie, could mean they will be battling the Crime Syndicate, or at least 2 of the members. Should that do happen, the movie will either end badly, as in the story sucks, or end badly as in the good guys got trashed for good. The Crime Syndicate is Justice League level villains. You will need at least the real Justice League to be on the same level as them. Super-Woman is as female version of Superman. The Green Lantern in the show may level the playing field but, this Green Lantern is not Hal Jordan or John Stewart. Guy Gardner, in the comics is a arrogant and childish personality and may not be up to a fight with the villains here. The other characters are not of super power characters and will not be a match in term of raw strength. So do we get surprise appearance of characters to battle these villains or the bad ending is meant for a movie sequel? 



Saturday, June 22, 2024

Free Game of the week

 

Free game this week from Epic Game store:

Freshly Frosted
A dozen dozen dazzling donut dilemmas await you, that's 144 puzzles to please your particular puzzley passions. To excite and delight there are mechanics galore; from splitters to pushers, mergers and cloners, randomizers, teleporters, and more!

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/freshly-frosted-c636d0




Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Do you know ICQ? Or have you been through the ICQ years? ICQ is the first instant messenger, before MSN and Yahoo messenger. ICQ is supposed to mean I seek you. ICQ was developed by a company Mirabilis. It was later bought over by AOL and others before ending up with VK, the current owner. As the usage for IM is getting less as most users moved to mobile using Whatsapp or other messaging apps. For users that had an account on ICQ, they probably not expecting this item to be still active online. I tried to login to my ICQ, the ICQ app does not seems to respond and unable to switch to English. They have the web version and it works fine. I could login and saw that my contacts are left with 2 users and they haven't been active for a long time. Guess with the decline of IM usage now, it is coming to an end. Hopefully, it will be back in some form again in future. Visit ICQ while it last.

https://icq.com/