Recent content by mnimmny

The trend for aiming for higher readability shouldn't be necessarily attributed to "dumbing down." In many cases it means cutting down on jargon or phrases that need more overhead to unpack for readers less familiar the topic/field of discussion. I mean, hitting up a 4chan thread or reading...

"there is no life I know that compares to pure imagination!" and if you want heavy: -- "You were as much in my hands As water or darkness or nothing Can ever be held ... It's just flashes that we own Little snapshots Made from breath and from bone And out on the darkling plain...

The Lone Wolf and Cub manga is essentially a collection of vignettes that are hands down the best samurai stories in existence. The movies are pretty slow, but the vignettes in the manga are beautiful, bloody, moving, and... ...oh go read it and then you'll understand what Movie Bob means about...

Sooo... we're not assuming said robot has sentience stemming from artificial intelligence? If the author was talking from a programmer's perspective of a procedural program then his reasoning is more that the robot isn't sentient and is thus devoid of the capacity for morality, but i don't think...

I take issue with the following segment: I'm not sure how the author jumps from 1. Asimov's 3 laws/programming == can do no evil (ish) to 2. cannot truly mean to do good. I mean, if you analogize the three laws into... say really effective policemen (ala minority report) who gently stop you...

Independence War, methinks is exactly what you were looking for. Space sim, but not in a starfighter, in a small capital ship. http://www.gamespot.com/pc/sim/independencewar/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gsupdates&tag=updates;title;1 Kinda old and the physics threw me off a ton.

humm... sooo... after you got over their outburst did you manage to ask them why they had the hierarchy? What was it about their music that spoke to them? I'm really curious as to what they saw in rap & hip-hop that they didn't see in other places with similar themes like the blues or folk...

I figured that Vader's plan to overthrow the Sideous really consisted of getting Luke to join him. But then again, I figured the rule of two's purpose was to keep the sith in hiding by necessity against a more pervasive jedi presence. Yes it resulted in stronger sith, but that was because...

i think Xtreme's point was not that Starcraft was the first RTS to have differing units, but rather that in Starcraft, Blizzard made a point of making 3 utterly different races (no units of any race of the same tier work the same way. period. The marine is not the zergling is not the zealot)...

Dude. Harvard and other US universities of similar caliber don't charge anywhere near what you're imagining even if you don't get financial aid. Check it out: http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu/cost.htm Though the extent to which you overestimate the cost just drives your point home. And she...

Bruce Geryk!? But how much do wargames contribute to steady hands? Also, aren't doctors famous for having chicken-scratch as handwriting?

Procrastinator. Convincing yourself you still have time and that you have the potential and then never doing anything about it is almost worse than just giving it up entirely. You're basically running away from having to prove yourself and to anyone that matters. Obviously YOU DON'T WANT IT...

Thanks for a thought provoking article Ray! I think I'm like a few other here in that my only objection is your characterization of "Starship Troopers" 1. "Starship Troopers" depicted a fascist society? I thought it was enfranchising anyone who thought fit to risk life and limb in...

I think the scary part is also that even if you trust Google and its present leadership now, its a corporation shareholder profit aside its very possible that it could change leadership/ownership eventually and have its massive informational assets passed to others. That and I think...

hmm... I'd have thought that this site being what it is and what it stands for that we were exploring the potential of video games as an artistic medium. Its clear that every other artistic medium has gradations of what people like that range from merely entertaining to profoundly moving...