Giant Freakin Robot

Normally it’s a bad thing for a father to miss out on raising his boy, but in the case of Anakin Skywalker I think we can all agree Luke was a lot better off without his Dad. Even before Anakin ended up trapped inside his Darth Vader mask, he was kind of a douche. Luke inherited some of his dad’s traits, he was a little whiny, but thanks to a grounded upbringing from Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru he mostly turned out OK.

But what if Darth Vader had taken a more active role in his son’s rearing?

It might have turned out a little something like this…

We may be a long way off from putting a man on Mars but as technology continues to improve we’re beginning to get a pretty good look at its surface anyway. Using high-resolution cameras recent photos taken of the surface captured something pretty stunning: A 12-mile high dust devil swirling and ripping across the planet’s surface.

Take a look…

Without a doubt the coolest, most iconic image from the classic sci-fi anime Akira is that of Shotaro Kaneda’s red, futuristic motorcycle blasting down the highway. That sweet ride has long been the fantasy conveyance of nerds everywhere, but one geek has stepped up and made that fantasy a reality.

Yep, that’s a real working version of Kaneda’s bike. It was made by Masashi Teshima, a resident of Fukuoka, Japan. Anime News says it took him seven-years and roughly $121,000 US to build, but the results make it seem like it was worth the effort.

The Hunger Games movie was a lot of fun, but let’s face it, if you’re really going to make something that’s basically Battle Royale but with white people, then things probably should have looked a little different. For instance if you’re going to have a bunch of kids try to kill each other, shouldn’t those kids be hipsters?

That’s the premise of this alternate version of The Hunger Games phenomenon. Watch one woman and one womanish man from each district compete in The Hipster Games…