We have decided to give you this boxing glossary where you will find terms related to the sport you probably didn’t know their meaning.
You know the White House has wrapped itself into a pretzel, when it beseeches its Ukrainian attack dog to stop assaulting Russian oil refineries, while
The Social Network Giant's Double Standards
To the delight of many old-school fans (and to the chagrin of others, including perhaps those young enough not to have the same reasons for nostalgia that we older fans might have), an increasing number of characters from the original "Generation One" Transformers line have gotten updated figures in recent years. The "double spy" character, Punch/Counterpunch, is no exception, having been given a new toy as a special release toward the end of the Power of the Primes toyline.a The main gimmick of the double spy, of course, is that two distinct robot modes are possible with a single toy. For the original G1 version, that mostly just meant one robot mode was on the back of the other, and that basic reality holds true for this toy, as well, although advances in toy technology over the last 30 years makes the transformation a bit more convincing this time around. We'll start with an image of Punch, the Autobot mode that (usually) is the character's true identity. Here's a side-by-side comparison of the PotP version of Punch alongside the original G1 toy. Here's Counterpunch, the robot mode that the double spy uses to infiltrate the Decepticon ranks. The fiction usually acknowledges that Autobots and Decepticons alike understand that Punch and Counterpunch are related to each other, so the names themselves aren't as much of a giveaway as one might expect, but one still wonders how it is that the Decepticons never seem to do any more than suspect that Counterpunch might be a liability. As before, here's a side-by-side comparison of this mode alongside the G1 version. You'll notice that the G1 toy gave distinct weapons to each robot mode, whereas the PotP version made do with a single hand-held weapon used by both robots (the "secret" part of "secret identity" is getting harder to keep all the time! But it is noted that the PotP weapon is a closer match to the weapon used in Punch/Counterpunch's appearances in the Japanese Headmasters series). As before, the double spy uses a single vehicle mode, whether posing as Autobot or Decepticon (just how does he keep that secret again?). It's a reasonably faithful update to the original toy's vehicle mode, and if I have any complaints at all, it's only that getting everything to peg together cleanly requires some finessing, which is a bit scary since so much of the vehicle mode shell is clear plastic which I'm always afraid could crack.b It's never happened, yet, though! Here's a comparison with the G1 toy. Perhaps because this version of Punch/Counterpunch came out as part of the Power of the Primes toyline, it comes with a couple of extras which really have nothing to do with Punch/Counterpunch at all, but which tie into the rest of the toyline. The first is a "Prime Master" figure of Prima Prime, purportedly the very first Transformer (at least in some versions of the Transformers mythology). He's compatible with the "Decoy Suits" available elsewhere in the line, as well as with the other extra accessory that came with Punch/Counterpunch, a piece of armor that, with pretty much every other Deluxe-sized figure to come out as part of the PotP line, would have doubled as a fist or foot for that figure's limb mode when forming part of a Combiner Wars-compatible combiner. Punch/Counterpunch has no limb mode (nor should it!), but Hasbro did engineer a place in the toy's vehicle mode to hold the armor piece if you want to use it (here's a picture). To use the Prime Master in this armor, it transforms into what is essentially a cube which (as I said in the entry that featured the "Decoy Suits") is functionally identical to the "Titan Master" heads used in the Titans Return line, only the cube features an abstract symbol rather than a face. Here's a picture of that mode. Prima Prime can also stand atop Punch/Counterpunch's vehicle mode, although it looks rather silly doing so (this picture isn't one of mine, and indeed features different Prime Masters). Because this toy was (at least in the United States) an Amazon exclusive, a lot of fans may have missed it when it came out a few years ago, although the mold got another release just last year in somewhat lighter colors (but again exclusive to Amazon). Hopefully, if you missed getting the toy during one of those opportunities, you can find it on the secondary market for a reasonable price. It achieves the feat of giving you two distinct robot modes better than most other attempts to-date. aOf course, Punch/Counterpunch also got a new toy back in 2010, as a club exclusive from Fun Publications. The Power of the Primes toy is a more mainstream release, albeit still an exclusive, at least in the United States, where it had to be purchased via Amazon. Also, the club toy's mold wasn't actually designed for this character, whereas the Power of the Prime toy's mold was. bAs I recall, an assembly error that plagues this mold, whereby the shoulders were put in backwards, makes this difficulty even worse, but I've long since fixed that....
Twenty-five percent (25%) of the Northern Hemisphere is permafrost. By all appearances, it is melting well beyond natural background rates, in fact,
The past couple of years in Antarctica have been a rough and tumble affair of erratic climate change with record-high temperatures and totally unexpected
The Washington Post’s David Ignatius, the mainstream media’s leading apologist for the Pentagon’s use of force and the Central Intelligence Agency’s covert action, has done it once again. For the past two years, he has regularly predicted victory for Ukraine because the United States or the European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have delivered one particular weapons system or another. This time around, Ignatius’ oped argues that the “game changer” in the war is the “newly arriving ATACM-300 long-range missile.”
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A look at some of the hottest new boutique guitars, amps, and pedals from the Oct. 5-6 show in Van Nuys, California.
Homer is the quintessential Greek intellectual with many talents, including poetry. No other poet in ancient or modern times comes close to him. The
The U.S. mainstream media is calling for the criminal prosecution of Russian president Vladimir Putin, as well as Russian military personnel, for war crimes committed as part of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. There is nothing wrong with that. When government officials or military personnel engage in war crimes, they should be prosecuted.
An important thing about symbolization and trauma is that they are opposites, and that is what makes art so special: It takes trauma, something that by
As the world watches with mounting concern the growing tensions and bellicose rhetoric between the United States and North Korea, one of the most remarkable aspects of the situation is the absence of any public acknowledgement of the underlying reason for North Korean fears—or, as termed by United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, “state of paranoia”—namely, the horrific firebombing campaign waged by the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and the unprecedented death toll that resulted from that bombing.
En Masse Entertainment has announced that TERA has been patched with the Counterpunch update. Most notably, Counterpunch brings the male Brawler into the game. To accommodate the new character, players logging in between today and March 20th will have a free character slot "mailed to them via in-game parcel".
Over recent months, social media in Ireland and the United States has been saturated with claims and counterclaims about ‘Irish slaves’ and a broader
The United States is a human rights hypocrite. No country has been more aggressive in lecturing others about human rights and no country has been less
“And through the fog of the plague, most art withered into journalism.” — Pete Hamill + Four years of Trump, the most precipitous collapse of the US
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Ahmed, who lives in Tripoli, Libya, texts me that the city is quieter than before. The army of General Khalifa Haftar—who controls large parts of eastern Libya—has withdrawn from the southern part of the capital and is now holding fast in the city of Sirte and at the airbase of Jufra. Most of Libya’s population lives along the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea, which is where the cities of Tripoli, Sirte, Benghazi, and Tobruk are located.
Ancient Pathways Just south of the Montana State line, in the lower Big Horn Basin, sits Natural Trap Cave: a large circular hole in the ground with a
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For many years, BLM had plotted a massive deforestation project aimed at destroying ancient juniper trees living on Juniper Mountain in the Owyhee
Bronze has been an important metal for millennia. Some two thousand years of Greek history come under the Bronze Age, 3,100 – 1,000 years BCE. This was a
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