Agreed. The contacts are a smart feature—they make it less acceptable as a mainstream product, but way more useful for job-related applications. I'd love it these guys pull it off in a deployable way.

Does it? Or do they just want to? Two years in, and those guys are still pretty short on results.

Bus 174, too.

Sure, everything in the world (apart from an inky-black abyss) is beaming photons into your retina. But the way those headsets seemed to work wasn't by simply sticking a screen in front of your eye, ala Glass—or one of the countless other examples of HUDs in SF—but a tighter, more direct interaction with your retina…

I'm pretty humorless, today, for sure. But this is the intersection of my two great loves: SF and tech. Randomly dumping both into a blender is a dumb, rampant trope, trumped only by being overly credulous (or intentionally ignorant) about how the latter actually works.

Damn straight.

Hey dudes: None of these examples hold up.

That about tears it. Fuck these videos. Pointing out logical inconsistencies in a blatantly campy, satirical take on 80's excess, corporate greed, and fascism, is like asking an air traffic controller to rip apart Airplane!

Those are all "after" images. It's like she's wearing someone else's skin, Leatherface-style.

Didn't realize the second image was going to display like that. Here's another:

But we talk about plastic surgery in the U.S. all the time, particularly when young actresses/TV personalities have terrible things done to their faces. If S. Korea is not only beating the U.S. in facial procedures per-capita, but the results are this disturbing—it's still crazy noticeable in that game show clip, when…

And such a great, bittersweet ending. It really fit with Robotech's mostly tragic, slightly hopeful tone (skip to 7:40...spoilers, obviously):

One could make the point that they didn't necessarily have the technical capability to pull off convincing versions of real cities in the previous games, so they went with fictionalized equivalents.

I think he'd respond to Titans in much the same the way you or I would a random sighting of a howling, naked meth-head.

Your point about the faulty structure of the Grantland piece is fantastic.

Hello! This, sadly, has nothing to do with your current Web series, but I'm damned curious: Can you imagine actually taking over for Letterman on The Late Show (or an equivalent late night deal)? I had never thought about it before those Louie episodes, but it seems like a pretty perfect fit.

"I want to play on the PS4 now. I can't wait!! – Male in his 30s "I want to partake in the Final Fantasy XIV beta test." – Male in his 20s "I want to get one before the tax rate goes up." – Male in his 20s

What steps do you think can or should be taken? Honest question, since I'm stumped. I almost wish there was a way to effectively age-gate a given gaming site or community, providing devs with a clear delineation between broad types of feedback.

Plus, as the writer mentions, zeroing out a game on Metacritic is an unfortunately powerful move.

Well said. Unfortunately, compelling as this is, I don't think appealing with frank sincerity to hordes of children will ever work out.