Last Man Standing returned to the small screen tonight. While there was a sense of comfort being back with the Baxter family, the loss of a familiar face was definitely noticeable. After Last Man.
Ever wonder what happened to the Incredibles after the end of the Disney Pixar movie ? THQ has endeavored to tell that tale with a new game called Rise of the Underminer .
The Olsen twins started making direct to video movies catered to their pre-teen market such as To Grandmother’s House We Go, Double, Double, Toil and Trouble, How the West Was Fun, and the. The sum of Incredibles 2 is its own story, with few unresolved plot points that directly set up the third movie. But, of course, given that The Incredibles' sequel-tease ending - the Underminer making his moves against the surface world - was dispatched in the movie's opening, anything overt needn't be expected to be the plot of Incredibles 3. Jul 20, 2018 Truth be told, I thought the Underminer would have a bit more screentime/over all plot impact than he did. He only got what, 5 minutes? I was like, “Well that lasted long.” He didn’t even get “defeated” in any big, heroic way. Paw Patrol's Skye and Chase's fun day at the Playground & No Bullying at School Baby Pups Videos! - Duration: 20:56. Genevieve's Playhouse - Toy Learning for Kids 121,134,073 views. The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer is the video-game sequel to The Incredibles. John Ratzenberger reprises his role of The Underminer while the other characters from the film are voiced by different voice actors. The game starts off with the final movie scene, in which the Parr family walk.
If you’ve seen the The Incredibles , you may recall the Underminer from the final scene of the film—he emerges from a stadium parking lot and announces his presence. The game picks up where the movie leaves off. Mrs. Incredible takes Jack Jack, Violet and Dash to safety, while Mr. Incredible and his friend Frozone head off to battle the Underminer.
Soon Mr. Incredible and Frozone discover that the Underminer has hatched a sinister plan to pollute the Earth. He has also built legions of robotic soldiers—giant mechanized behemoths that resemble steam engines and boilers with big weapons welded to them—to do his bidding.
Like the original Incredibles game ( , March 2005 ), Rise of the Underminer is a third-person brawler. In single-player mode, you’ll take turns being Frozone or Mr. Incredible as they make their way through the Underminer’s subterranean tunnels to put and end to his evil plans. And there’s no end of robotic bad guys to thwart you along the way. Luckily, you have superpowers. Mr. Incredible can use his strength to lift doors or slam apart weak floors, for example, while Frozone can freeze robots in place, build ice bridges, and skate through the air on ice slides. As you fight your way through the game, you’ll earn points, which you can then use to upgrade your characters’ powers. While there’s a lot of action and mayhem, it’s all pretty tame. The game is rated for anyone over the age of 10.
The game also offers a two-player cooperative mode. Each of you selects a character (either Mr. Incredible or Frozone) as you play side-by-side on the same computer. Thanks to the game’s autosave feature, you won’t have to worry about saving games mid-stream if you’ve got something else to do.
Although the game’s execution is good overall, I did run into a few shortcomings. The game had significant problems when installed on a multimonitor system. Even in Mirrored mode the game froze up after just a few minutes. Reinstalling it on a different computer with only one screen solved the problem.
Support for game pads is also weak. The game wouldn’t recognize either of the pads I normally use—bizarre, given that this game was also developed for consoles. While I recognize that Mac OS X’s support for game pads isn’t a broad as what you’ll find on other platforms, plenty of Mac game developers get the support to work. And this game would have been better for it.
If you’ve played the first Incredibles game, you won’t find a lot of surprises here—though the addition of Frozone as a playable character definitely adds to the enjoyment. At $20, Rise of The Underminer is a decent value, presuming the technical problems don’t overwhelm you.
By the way, the disc also comes with bonus material, including a “making of” video, a trailer for Pixar’s 2006 movie, Cars, and other Pixar-related content.
The Bottom Line
The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer is an enjoyable continuation of the Incredibles storyline. Too bad it’s limited by some technical shortcomings.
The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer
RATING:
PROS: Cooperative multiplayer support; fun sequel; inexpensive.
CONS: Poor support for multiscreen setups and game pads.
PRICE AS RATED: $20
OS COMPATIBILITY: OS X 10.2 and higher
COMPANY: THQ
No one quite knows exactly what happened to the Ancient Romans. . . but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of theories out there.
About.com asked several forum members for their theories on where we could potentially find the direct descendants of the Ancient Romans, why we can't find them, and, of course, the melting pot:
Theory One
Even with European royals, ancestry gets very murky when you go back before the early 9th century CE. With non-royals, the records just aren't there to provide a link to imperial Rome. Those records may exist for European royals through the Byzantine emperors. As I recall, the current British royal family is descended from at least two of the later Byzantine emperors. There were a number of palace coups in Byzantium's long history, but upstarts tend to marry daughters of earlier ruling families or their close relatives in attempts to legitimize their thrones, so you might be able to trace the British royal's Byzantine ancestors to some members of Constantine the Great's court. It might be possible to trace the ancestry of many European royals back to the city of Rome, I have just never read about such records existing. It is very unlikely that such records exist for Madonna or John Travolta. Kirk Johnson
This is a difficult one as by the end of the Empire Roman meant every free born citizen. I suspect that they went nowhere and just paid their dues to the big German with the sharp sword who now lived a lot nearer to them than the distant emperors. Although in most of Europe our little down trodden Roman seems to have won in the end, neither France (Gaul), Spain (Hispania), nor Italy which between them make up a significant percentage of the Western Empire, speak a Germanic languages based on that of the specific barbarians who took over after Imperial Authority ended, but a more or less direct descendent of Latin As for any ethnic Romans today, I doubt it. Even Italy's been repeatedly invaded since then with numerous races to throw their little bits in to the mixing pot, let alone the rest of the bits of the West. SISIBERT
Theory Two
All studies of lineage today are based on genetic 'similarities' The cleanest gene pool today is in Iceland - almost undiluted since the 10th century.
To find any reliable connection to the ancients would only put you in a pool that demonstrates X% of traits with Y% of the pool you were comparing. For example:
You could go to Macedonia and gather genetic samples from everyone whose at least had family there for, say, three generations. In that pool you will find some similarities which, because they are the most common, are therefore the oldest traits in the pool. You can get some traits, perhaps only 1% or less which you might then say were traits of the Ancient Macedonians. It you have this trait, you are reliably descended from ancient Macedonians.
To establish a linkage to a specific ancient character is impossible. We don't have their gene data to start with.
REYNOLDSDC
Theory Three
At the risk of opening a can of particularly agitated worms, an objective analysis would indicate that most modern Greeks actually have ancestors of a variety of ethnicities, some of whom they would prefer to distance themselves from. This is apparently an extremely touchy subject in that part of the world: modern Greeks unquestionably prefer to identify themselves as descendants of the people that produced the Age of Pericles, etc. Suffice it to say, however, that, after several hundred years of Turkish domination, not to mention numerous incursions by Slavic peoples and other invaders, the modern Greek gene pool is probably as diverse as that of the British (for example), though there are no doubt still traces of 'ancient' Greek ancestry in the population. For a modern Greek to proclaim that his ancestors built the Parthenon is rather like a modern Englishman claiming that his ancestors built Stonehenge or Maiden Castle. Yes, he may well be partly descended from someone who was around at the time, but the great majority of his ancestors from that era were probably living in a different part of Europe (or Asia) altogether.
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Italy likewise has undergone numerous invasions, both temporary and permanent, since the heyday of the Roman Republic. Even if you disregard the peaceful influx of diverse people from all over the empire, and class every citizen who lived in Rome in, say, 300 A.D. as a 'Roman', the 5th and 6th centuries saw a series of invasions by Germanic peoples (most notably the Lombards) that introduced a large, permanent, German component into the population of Italy, especially in the northern part. Later invasions of the southern regions by Saracens, Normans, etc. also added to the gene pool. There are undoubtedly many Italians alive today who are directly descended from people who lived in Italy during the Roman era, but most (if not all) of them will have at least some admixture from other European peoples too.
KL47
Theory Four
The ethnogenesis of Italian population is rather complicated. I think one can count 4 main Indoeuropean invasions and settlements of Italy. In prehistoric times Italy was inhabited by a (or probably more) non-Indoeuropean population. The first Indoeuropean invasion of Italy dates back to about 2000 B.C. and amongst these Indoeuropean peoples there were the ancestors of the Romans. A second wave dates back to about 1100 B.C. These first two Indoeuropean settlements in Italy happened in prehistoric times. The third wave (the first historically recorded) was that of the Celtic invaders (about 450 B.C.), who settled in the northern part of Italy ('Gallia Cisalpina'). The fourth wave was that of the Germanic tribes who invaded and settled mainly in northern and part of southern Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. To VI century A.D. date back also the settlement of Slavic tribes in north-eastern Italy. These were the main Indoeuropean invasions and settlements of Italy from continental Europe.
Besides these, there were also, from the Mediterranean Sea, the Greek settlements in southern Italy (Magna Grecia) and Phoenician colonies in Sicily and Sardinia. Finally we have not to forget the mysterious Etruscan people in central Italy. These are only the main peoples who contributed to determine ethnogenetically modern Italy. Note that even during the Roman Empire the 'true' Romans (that is, the descendants of the first Latin settlers of the zone around Rome) were only a small part of the Italic population. The unity of Italy during the Roman Empire was mainly political, economical and linguistic -- not racial.
The first person, as far as I know, who spoke of all modern Italians as direct descendants of the ancient Romans was the famous Italian poet Petrarca at the end of the Middle Ages.
DINOIT
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Theory Five
There were 2 ways of making newly conquered land Roman: the first strategy was killing all inhabitants and replacing them by Romans. The Romans murdered the Kelts of Gallia Cisalpina and replaced them by Romans. The second strategy was making the inhabitants 'feel' Roman, by bringing them Roman technology/culture. This was used when larger lands were conquered (they couldn't just kill all inhabitants of Gallia, around 4-5 million, and replace them by Romans). The Romans didn't like the Kelts and Iberians (who lived in Spain) -- they were nothing more than barbarians -- and I think that contact between Romans and Kelts wasn't appreciated by other Romans. Greeks were more civilized than the western inhabitants of Europe, so contact between them and Romans would be more likely tolerated. What is certain is that when the Germans invaded Gaul they didn't find Gauls, Romans, etc. They found Gallo-Romans, who were related to many kinds of people. The Germans then intermingled with Gallo-Romans.
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Are there still Romans left? What are real Romans? The Romans were the descendants of intermingling between Indo-Europeans and other people. They themselves were a melting pot. Real Romans have simply never existed! (At least that's what I think. THEMANIAC77
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