Gas Mileage, the New Ad Fad

“Buy the all-new Nissan GX3, with improved miles per gallon so you never have to fill up!”

“With our new gas protection plan, you never have to pay more than $2.99 for a gallon of gas for the first 1000 gallons!”

In today’s bustling economy, advertisers only need to feel the wallet crush to find out the newest way to spread propaganda: gas mileage.

Automotive advertising almost always now includes something about gas mileage, whether it be a protection plan, or whether it be a new car model. But anyhow, mpg has become a term of the present, forcing car companies to consider the gas mileages of their cars in order to sell them better. As an example, the H3 was created because of the low mpg of the H2. Although the H3 still does not get a significantly higher mpg than the H2, it should still be noted that the car company decided that mpg was a factor in purchasing cars. The Toyota Prius, running at 45-65 mpg, is selling remarkably! Sales increased about 33% in the last year; obviously people are flocking to this model because of its gas efficiency, not because of its looks. As gas becomes increasingly expensive, gas efficiency will become the most wanted factor in buying a car.

Electric cars are interesting, but for now are not as useful because of their limited mobility. The Tesla, a car which reportedly travels about 200 miles on a single charge of electricity, is a ground-breaking innovation. Too bad that this type of car won’t be seen for a while, for politics has its ways, and no car company will endorse the product design significantly until political power-holders decide to show off the new technology and create bills which help cars of its type proliferate in variety. For now, this car will run you about $100,000, of course being the first of its kind. The good thing is that this car will almost completely downsize your gas spending, since it requires no gas but still does require energy from your home energy outlet. The negative is that this is a limited mobility car; it only travels 200 mpg, hardly enough to drive from New York to New Jersey.

Hopefully in the future, electric cars, or some other new model design, will be seen everywhere. It will be interesting to run a car on a fuel cell, or a complete electric circuit. For now, have fun with the gas prices!

F.E.A.R. – How to Survive the Game Without Getting a Heart Attack

The extremely petrifying video game F.E.A.R. instills the so called FEAR into its every victim… no one can handle its viscerally beautiful gameplay and its excellent graphics without being scared at least 50 times throughout the story.

This guide will explain how to survive playing the game without getting a real heart attack…

1. Turn the lights on.

This is pretty self-explanatory. Although leaving the lights on will detract from the overall FEAR experience, the action will save you from jumping everytime the ingame HUD flickers or a desecrated skull picture flashes on the screen. Also, don’t play at night and don’t play in the basement, for when you turn off the lights, you know what will happen…

That said, there is one strange exception to turning the lights on. For some reason, FEAR is such a well made game that it sucks a player into the level. Even if the lights are on, the player will still feel as if he is actually in the game; perhaps this occurs because of the feeling of constant horror and the activation of the parasympathetic flight-or-fight reaction which gives the enhanced concentration on the object at hand. However it may be, simply turning on the lights while playing does not negate the scary effects present throughout FEAR, whether they may be a dead body hanging from the ceiling or blood dripping out of a pipe on the wall.

2. Turn on some music.

This technique actually works quite well and is one I am fond of doing while playing through the most intense levels. Turning on some nice music will distract your nerves from the constant petrification and will calm your body’s impulses down; this will allow you to feel better and less scared while playing the game. Because so much of the fear established through the use of no-sound or horror-themed music is seen, negating this destroys most of the scary aspects of the game.

The only negative aspect of this option is that you won’t be able to hear the ingame voices of the enemies or your radio team leader. This will probably make you feel helpless when you have to complete an objective but have no idea where to go because you missed the audio.

3. Invite a friend.

This method works as well, although sometimes it might not. If your friend is also very easily frightened, then forget this method as both of you will get scared out of your minds when the sight of blood and gore is presented in a grisly way. However, most of the time the friend will be able to calm you; usually just having someone around can destroy the unwanted feelings of fear and can help make the game more playable. Just make sure that your friend doesn’t sneak up on you while you’re in the most scary part of the game…
So.. I hope these tips help you survive the heart-pounding thriller F.E.A.R..