A lot of the time they guess the twists using a sort of “meta-reasoning,” where they use knowledge of the classic tropes of fiction to figure out what the writers are trying to do. Classic tropes are classic because they’re good, so I see your point.

It kind of makes you wonder how writers are going to make thrilling or shocking shows, now that there is a networked army of nerds working to ferret out any conceivable lead or clue in popular TV. Before you had to outwit the individual viewer, now you have to outwit an informal NSA.

I want this movie to be good. But from what I’ve seen of it, I have a hard time believing Michael Fassbender isn’t going to have another Jonah Hex on his hands.

“Theocratic” would be closer.

It must be weird to be in animatronics right now. Mechatronics and motion capture is improving to the point that you can finally start to make your coolest visions a reality, but you also know that everything you’re inventing will eventually end up in a sexbot.

The newer freezing processes use a cryoprotectant solution that vitrifies instead of freezing in crystals. How successful it will be depends on whether the cryoprotectant penetrates all the cell membranes and whether the toxicity of the cryoprotectant itself doesn’t cause too much damage. One company published a paper…

They are probably drilling through its “cortical shield” based on an email Bernard sent on the Delos employee website.

If you look under the “Corp Resources” tab it has online training programs for technicians that explain (among other things) the AI system that monitors the park and watches out for when the guests are in danger. It presents you a bunch of scenarios where the the system has flagged that the guest are about to murder…

Wasn’t this supposed to not be possible? I thought this only happened on The Mentalist.

-I hope Theresa gets her own Host copy, because the actor is one of the better ones on the show.

-I hope Theresa gets her own Host copy, because the actor is one of the better ones on the show.

I think it was in an early season of Veep.

I said this in another article and I’ll say it again, noticing the spelling of some of the graffiti:

I read this article from the Guardian in which they quote his policy pledges from last month. Anybody else notice how many [sic]’s there were? Donald Trump is basically a human [sic].

It’s kind of funny though, because big companies were how the media originally developed journalistic standards. Back in the day, newspapers were just tiny, opinionated local newsletters not too dissimilar to blogs. Then they got acquired and combined into national newspapers by large publishers, and had to remove…

I thought this too. Just because it’s an artificial intelligence, doesn’t mean it can’t just act. Maeve basically is acting, because they programmed her as a realistic simulation of a brothel madam/prostitute, so she isn’t actually into any of the guys she has sex with.

The only people polls reflect are the people willing to take a cell phone call from a polling agency, and those people are almost as strange a bunch of weirdos as internet commenters.

There might be a stopover on the way back to give Stalin pinkeye, but yes.

“I don’t often vote for women...but when I do they have to be eights or above.”

Gonna be a lot of “good Germans” when this is all over.