Recent content by deathjavu

Huh. As much as I love the Shannara series, I doubt it's going to be the next GoT. Plays most things a bit too straight for that, and the pattern from book to book has very little variation. Oh, the dressings are always different, but the main beats tend to play out roughly the...

[link:http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this,36131/]Somehow The Onion continues to have the most incisive news commentary of any news source, despite being a joke newspaper. [/link] There is literally no debate on gun control in the US that can...

Has a laugh track, one of the jokes is the fact that there are other genders besides men and women (ha, so funny!), another two jokes is that his assistant is attractive, a bunch of references I didn't get because I'm not from Britain, and the last two minutes is the kind of joke I remember from...

SMBC has it covered, as it so often does. Marketers have become extremely adept at exploiting psychological holes in human minds, and this is one of em. People are happy when a bad thing is given to them, then taken away, even when the bad thing didn't need to be there in the first place.

I replied to this specifically because it brought to mind a great analogy, in regards to Pirates 3 and Spiderman 3. Did you by any chance see Pirates 4, the one that might as well have been a reboot? Pirates 4:Pirates 3 :: What Bob claims ASM2 is like : Spiderman 3. Sure, the 3s are...

Pardon my french, but, bullshit. The money's there in the current pricing structure, the ISPs are just refusing to spend it. There are other countries that offer cheaper (per mb/s), better internet that are still upgrading their capacities faster than the US without utilizing pricing options...

This is so disturbingly and depressingly common it has a term associated with the practice: the "revolving door". The Environmental Protection Agency, Food and Drug Administration, Beareau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Consumer Protection Agency, Department of Agriculture, Antitrust...

Right on the nose. AIs are just like literal genies, there's essentially infinitely many ways they can screw you over while doing exactly what you asked. Because they're not human, and they don't think like you.

The problem is that programming an AI becomes immensely complex because we can't predict where the rapidly self-updating chains of logic will go. We typically assume the ability to program some kind of humanity into an AI, but we don't realize the human response represents a massive number of...

Sounds like yet another anti-intellectual "science gone wrong" sci-fi movie that's been around since the 50s. We get it, change is scary. Find some way to do it that doesn't promote the same kind of mindset as the anti-vaccination crowd. Considering how insanely powerful an actual GAI would...

This seems about right to me. TV is just a million times less convenient than watching something on the internet. Why on Earth would I want to warp my schedule around TV programming when I can just watch something anytime, anywhere? Current efforts to halt this shift have focused primarily on...

Your prayers have been...answered? Sort of? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROHrQof_sjY

Once you figure out killing all the crew members gives more scrap, the A layout of the Mantis ship can win Easy over 75% of the time. Other tricks- maximizing your pilot, engine and shields officers by having oversized-for-your-sector shielding that a beam weapon only enemy cannot pierce...

An old friend of LRR who has a "real job" in acting. Andy is amazing, but he's not around Victoria much. Generally LRRfans get their biggest doses of Andy during Desert Bus, in November. We can get entire days of glorious, glorious Andy. (those of you who want more Andy, take note. Desert...

Actually, I'm pretty sure emulators of games is NOT a legal grey area, hence why they still exist. If you own the game in question, you are allowed to emulate it. At least that's my understanding of the law in the US. I don't pirate stuff because I think it's morally wrong, but I have...