False.

AM bots! Oh shit. I had no affair and I must scream.

No one is talking about the real issue here which is how dangerous it is to create AM bots. What are we going to do when they become sentient and turn on humanity. Clearly, this is what Harlen Ellison was warning us about.

Ray of Frost!

Trophies are meaningless objects we give mostly to children for mostly bullshit reasons to make them feel good about some minor accomplishment, because, you know, they are children. Almost nothing worth doing in life, outside of professional sports is rewarded with a literal trophy. The respect of one’s peers and a…

Patricia, thanks for posting this. Like many humans I don’t have the time or inclination to read reddit all day or follow everyone’s tweets so your curation of the best tidbits is appreciated.

Exactly. It’s impressive how Simmons makes the Shrike work in the novel. On the surface it sounds like something a 12 yo made up: he is twelve feet tall! And covered in spikes. Oh, and he can time travel!

I was hoping it would have some kind of custom virtualization baked-in at a low level to allow it to play games made for Windows. A Steam Machine that plays less then half of the available Steam games, does not appeal to me. The reason my gaming PC is running Windows and not Ubuntu now is so that I can play a wider…

Yeah, it was supposed to be a joke.

Finally!

It’s the prepreorder link. It links to a page where you might be able to preorder in the future.

Few Steam games work on Linux. This Steam Machine better be more than a Debian box.

Rat burgers huh? Your ideology sounds very appealing

I though Brolin as Thanos was the only Thanos in the MCU, just that he was uncredited with the first cameo appearance. Am I remembering that wrong?

The Marvel movies have taken some significant creative risks so, why they so stuck to traditional gender roles is really a valid question.

Yeah, but if the Civil War movie plays out like the comic book even slightly, then a big part of it will be Peter Parker going public as Spider-Man. Otherwise, yeah that would be cool.

Hold on to your butts!

You are in the pocket of big mosquito!

Snark, aside, you’ve made some good points and maybe these books are not as similar as I remember.

Oh, but I love snark. And was willing to cede first!