Oh wow. This is a really old post. Since I wrote that, I've watched the entire series and most of the movies, so yes, I did love it. I hated the Crusade spin-off and gave up on it pretty quickly, but the rest was really good. I was surprised how quickly I came to accept Londo as a serious character despite his crazy…

Wow. I had to look that up. The bat thing led me to a forum post where people said things like "Why would they [secular scientists] define bats as mammals, when the Bible clearly calls them birds, unless it's to undermine God?" I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not...but judging by the people I knew way back when I…

That's a really strange title. Is it a movie about fatty acids, or is that just a coincidence?

Lol. That white grid space dream sounds great.

I haven't seen Sherlock yet, and saying that he guesses makes the show really unappealing. I just started watching Elementary and so far I really like it. Every deduction actually has reasoning behind it (at least in the first few episodes that I've watched). Even though there have been a few small assumptions it's…

Yeah, there is likely no way to manually cover every possibility when programming a robot to be fairly autonomous, but the thought of a robot using its "best judgement" is a little terrifying.

Maybe it's just my imagination, but I thought they started working on the new graphics two or three years ago. I was sure this trailer would finally be using them.

I'm hoping that someday a person will combine this tech with some sort of post-hypnotic suggestion in order to create a video game. No need for expensive graphics, 3d modeling, or advanced AI, just some suggestions planted in the player's mind. They'll naturally fill in the blanks themselves, so the amount of detail…

In most cases, when I have a lucid dream the existing "play" ends so I don't have to fight against too many things. I generally end up alone in the dream world, although I have had some discussions with imagined characters a few times. I've only had one or two where I felt completely in control and didn't have to…

I don't think that would fit with Asimov's laws, at least the way I understand them. Even if you say that the robot didn't harm the person directly, the other part of the first law says it can't allow a person to come to harm if there's a way to prevent it. In addition, the third law says that robots must protect…

When I saw the title of this post, I was sure it'd be making a statement about the effects of alcohol by claiming that a bartending robot would be breaking Asimov's laws. The actual video was a bit less interesting, but still decent and pretty well-made.

Is there a connection between the Combine and Xen? I've never read/heard about that.

Well, it's LEGO that you can't run out of. That was always my issue with real LEGO.

From what I've read in the past, that way of acting often causes these sorts of lawsuits to fail. If a company has known about something like this for a year and did not take steps to protect their IP, then there's a decent chance that they'll lose on the grounds that they basically gave up ownership.

The music they're making/re-envisioning for the game (two tracks on their site at the moment) is pretty great too, in my opinion. The NYC Streets concept track reminds me a lot of Metroid Prime, which is maybe a bit weird for Deus Ex but I love it.

Tomb Raider was an interesting game. I've played some, like the Legacy of Kain series, where it was the story that kept me going despite gameplay I didn't always enjoy.

I was really expecting the article to get into that. It seems far more interesting, as you said. I want to know how bad you'd have to make the certain odds in order for the average person to reject them in favor of something less certain.

Yep. I'm guessing their focus was just on making it work, not making it look perfect, but it does make it less appealing in my eyes.

An easy fix, sure, but if the hole has existed for over a year there are likely a lot of people with compromised account information.