My favourite part is the drawn-on windows and greebles on the dummy capsule. :P

I definitely envision a future in which I purchase many fine books from the wonderful 47North imprint, which brings us a wide selection of excellent science fiction titles at such reasonable prices.

Jorge Luis Borges' Library of Babel — an infinite library containing all possible books... If one can find them amongst all the shelves and shelves of "books" that are just random jumbles of letters. People live out whole lives in it on a futile quest for knowledge.

Am I overthinking it if I'm turned off by the "women like to wear dresses" bit? "Many women like to wear dresses." "Women, and some men, like to wear dresses." "Women like to wear dresses because of society's gender norms, but that doesn't mean we should shame anyone for wearing a dress." Okay, none of these…

Oh no, she is LIKE A PROSTITUTE! Dun dun dunnn! You totally shot her down there with your well-thought-out post. (/sarcasm)

I think I "got it" when I read a story online — sadly I can't remember where, it was ages ago — about a MtF transsexual who liked to fix motorcycles as a hobby before transition, and then just kept on doing that after transition as well. She got criticised for it by some, like she wasn't "properly" acting like a woman…

Is there a third option? Like, I don't agree with puppetier at all, but I also feel very uncomfortable with the statement "females and males are different, but deserve the same rights." I think gender identity is a very personal thing, and that it's possible for a person — of whatever birth sex — to identify as…

I guess I'll buck the trend here and say that to me, the "masculine themes" "boy-only" party is definitely the more offensive part of this story than the "uninvited" bit (though the latter also sucks, of course).

Meh. I tried earlier games in the X series, and found them boring. The universe was vast, but it also felt dead. This universe is even waster and more detailed, but is it any more alive? If I walk through the halls of that awesome-looking space-station, will I find it populated by convincing characters that will be…

I "love it" when "people" use scare quotes around words like "she" and "him" when talking about trans issues.

Disillusioned? But they are awesome! You just learned that Rufus would be our post-apocalyptic overlord! :P

Now I'm imagining a civilization of technological naked mole rats that use their movable teeth the same way we use opposable thumbs. Thanks, io9. :P

Well, for starters all the people who don't think a woman should be in charge of Xbox care, it seems.

I like the bit about the concept of embodiment. Our minds don't exist in isolation from our bodies, so why would an artificial mind? Our minds are located at a particular point in space, and interact with the world through particular means made available by their bodies. If you want an AI that has a real grasp of the…

Do androids have nightmares of electric bees?

Global warming is a lie concocted by the powerful Hippie lobby and their massive granola bar industry. They are bribing all the scientists in the world! Every last one of them.

And he hasn't changed a bit!

Hooray! :D I feel like there should be some sort of rainbow pouring out of my computer screen now. :P

I agree with you, but I've never seen downplaying gender differences as an attempt to make "everyone the same..." Quite the opposite, really. I think it's focusing on gender differences (not the way you're doing, but the way traditional and conservative people often seem to do so) that makes us all the same — that is,…

Most religions do seem hardwired to consider women to be subordinate — but to continue to win supporters in the modern world, they need to try and hide this as much as possible... until inevitable cases like this, when the facade crumbles, and it becomes pretty obvious what they really think.