The Weekly Six – 8/27/10

A quick hit on this week’s hottest topics: The Weekly Six. If you missed out on what’s been going on this week, tune in to read about the hottest topics on the net – or at least the hottest topics to us. This is your chance to feel free to agree or disagree. And without further ado, in no particular order, behold the six!

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Don’t Open Until Christmas

It looks like the 33 Chilean miners (who were trapped in a cave-in on Aug. 5) may be stuck 2300 feet below the surface for up to four months. Rescuers are doing their best to get notes from relatives, food, and games to pass the time down the four-inch supply tube but when it comes down to it, four months is a LONG time, especially considering we get sick of people after just a couple of hours. We at C6M wish our best to those guys and hope that none of them have seen The Descent.

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Bat Boy Lives!

This week marks the 175th anniversary of The Great Moon Hoax, when the New York Sun reported that moon was inhabited by unicorns, bison, beavers, and bat dudes that were “four feet in height, were covered, except on the face, with short and glossy copper-colored hair, and had wings composed of a thin membrane, without hair, lying snugly upon their backs from the top of the shoulders to the calves of their legs.” We know now that there is no life on the moon and this description was really just referring to Oklahoma.

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Attack Of The Baby-Faced Bigot

Tensions in New York reached a new height this week when film student Michael Enright stabbed a cab driver after finding out he was Muslim. The debate over the “Ground Zero Mosque” has increased acts of stupidity to such an exponential level that this will certainly not be the last act of violence against American Muslims. Look out, Hawaii – the rabble will be heading to all the Shinto shrines near Pearl Harbor next…

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But Will There Be A Wasteland 2?

C64 fans, your day has come. The greatest computer of our childhood is coming back – better than ever! I’ll be honest, some of my best memories from the 80s involve me and my friends huddled around the Commodore trying our damnedest to get through classic RPGs like The Bard’s Tale, Might & Magic, and Wasteland. If these guys are smart, they’ll include a kicking emulator and access to the C64 back catalog.

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The Return Of Stay Puft

In continuing the themes of our childhood, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is also back, this time in caffeinated bite-size form. For $20, you can pick up 24 scrumptious pieces left behind after the gooey terror of NYC exploded into a spray of delicious flavor. The addition of caffeine will also ensure that you never again fall asleep during the glory that is Ghostbusters 2.

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Japan Wins…Again

For today’s moment of epic glory, we present you with GIANT MOTHER-EFFING GUNDAM ROBOT, stationed outside the Namco Bandai factory in Shizuoka, Japan.