Perhaps I misread the article, but I believe that Ballistic City is the "genre show" they are referring to as a companion piece. I don't think they meant that it would be in the same universe, just on the same network and serving the same audience.

I was going to weigh in, but you covered it. Any perfect replication of brain processes will be done through emulation and modeling. This means that they model the function of the individual neurons, so differences between the computer and the brain become unimportant.

Labyrinth and Legend both have this through line of blatant sexuality between a supernatural older man and an innocent human girl. It definitely drew me in when I first saw them and it did things to my young mind.

Why? Why would you do that?

There was so much good in this show in amongst all the bad. The core characters and actors were flawless and the show had such an amazing momentum; it just got bogged down with all the bad secondary characters and terrible threads (the red-haired t-1000 lady is one of the worst characters of all time, and agent…

Same problem on Chrome v.26

Yes! This is the biggest problem with the system as it exists. Not only do the columns get partially cut-off on the left and right, but often an article will get almost entirely cut off and, when I try to click on it directly to see it, it disappears. Also, when I use the arrows to scroll comments to the right, if I…

Mike Duncan's "The History of Rome" podcast is an excellent and fairly comprehensive telling of... well... the history of Rome.

feedbin.me is amazingly clean. I don't see the use for a reader like Skimr that has no real organization. If you only have a few feeds, you can check the websites. RSS mostly becomes useful for managing huge volume and some sites publish far too many articles to make a single list worth it.

Personally, I don't grade on a curve. A 10 is a "perfect" movie. There are only a few 10s out there. A 1 is a "perfectly-awful" film. It is as bad as a film can be. There are few films that would get a 1 from me. A 5 is right between those, but there is not an even distribution. There are far more 3s than 8s in my…

Well I am about to vomit with excitement for Yamato, but I am confused by Attack on Titam. Did these giants manage to murder most of the humans on Earth, unstoppable by tanks and planes and guided missiles, but a fast human with a sword and a jet-pack is going to fight them hand-to-hand? Because that is stupid. I will…

My favorite explanation for Logan's amnesia is that his healing factor is too good. He has suffered so much psychological trauma over the years that his mutant power "healed" him by wiping the memories.

I use rigid ear buds that are the same color on each side. I started marking the right side with a permanent marker. Now I use a small piece of electrical tape wrapped around the cord so that I can feel it in the dark (important to use good tape so it doesn't slide and unravel). I also reinforce the cord around the…

While I agree that there is too much click-baiting on Gawker sites, I don't agree that this is an example of it. They may not think that the show is going off the rails, but the article is about questions from readers and a reader was asking "is there a point when it's going to go off the rails?" Thus the headline is…

For me, that moment was when Watson went from pretending to be employed by Sherlock's father to actual apprentice. The lack of adherence to the original stories is why I like this series so much more than the BBC Sherlock. The BBC one feels like someone trying really hard to add edge and intrigue to stories that are…

How cool would it be if Byzantium was about ancient Byzantium, and had no vampires in it? Am I alone on this?

Am I the only one that thinks of "Girls" by the Luna brothers? I mean, small town suddenly trapped under an invisible dome. All you need is a big sperm monster in a field and naked aliens.

Just once, I'd like to see Leonardo Da Vinci re-imagined as an awesome renaissance painter, inventor and all around smart guy. I know everyone wants him to fly and help assassins fight the ruling class all the time, but the man was fascinating and cool, and I would watch an accurate dramatization of his life any day…

Actually, most of the comments seem to be "I hate zombies, but..." going on to say how much they liked this one. I think the intention it to point out how affecting this short is that it can inspire emotion despite being part of such an overused trope.

Seriously. A bunch of pedantic nitpickers in the comments today who didn't see the dark humor in the first movie.