The humming the cat is attracted to is actually the dark gods of the abyss speaking through the Xbox in an infernal tongue. Hence the purring sound the cat is making; its speaking through the yawning gap in reality the Xbox creates in the tongue of its fellow creatures of darkness.

I would assume that's what they're probably going to do, yeah. Pick characters that the TV show cuts out for brevity and use it as a springboard to go parallel to the episodes.

The article says that it's based on the TV series, so none of those - presumably they're going to tie in the episodes with the new season coming out next year.

Heh, that reminds me of a fantastic little historical tidbit I once read. In the 8th century the Lombard king of Italy sent a bishop by the name of Liutprand to the court of the Byzantine Empire as an ambassador. After fourth months there he sent a letter back to his master, which consists entirely of him complaining…

The problem is that some of these don't come across as well wishes in the same way the phrase 'I'll pray for you' tends to come across as passive-aggressive rather than as a demonstration of empathy.

Pretty much the same thing with me, albeit with slightly different parameters.

I'm not sure if you've read the books or not (don't worry, I won't spoil anything) but that scene with Dany, I think, was handled much better on the page than it was on the screen. As I recall, it took place in a camp shortly after the slaves were released from Yunkai, and she was just walking through small groups of…

Because he's an intelligent, funny person who frequently has interesting and cogent things to say about the issues faced by society today?

"Every one of them. I know lots of people say that "he's keeping it reeeeeal" but... he doesn't HAVE to rape all the women in his books. I'm just sayin'."

I have to give Bungie credit; regardless of any of their other faults, nobody can do scenery and design porn quite like them. Ye gods.

I would argue the opposite, actually. I think it's a testament to video games' growth as a medium that the best storytelling moments or atmospheric vistas or what have you don't have to involve (in this case) firefights and explosions. Considering their reputation as mindless shoot-em-ups, moments like this are very…

For one thing, it's only 'simulating' a single action potential, or 'signal' down a neuron's axon. It's not a model of a neuron at all, it's a model of the propagation of a signal along a chemical gradient. Since the average neuron looks like what's pictured and not a linear line, he only has about a dozen more to…

Crowdsourced classical music by Jeremy Soule? I'm there in a heartbeat.

You don't have to 'hate' a company to advocate a boycott. They are an important part of getting messages from consumers across to large companies, particularly when you have spectacular lapses like this one that don't seem to have an end in sight.

"The game kinda seems like a Saturday morning cartoon version of Blade Runner or something."

Urgh. Something about that trailer is really grating with me. I'm not sure if it's the chunky animations of the characters or the oppressive layer of grimdark or the red goa'uld eyes or what, but it's actively making me wish they just left the franchise dead and buried in the shallow grave they found it in.

Yep. Incidentally, one of the most amusing anecdotes I've ever heard came from a museum director that speculated that somewhere in the Vatican there's a drawer full of all the marble and bronze penises they've chipped off of their statues in the last few centuries.

It is a double standard, absolutely. But our culture is weird that way; we won't bat an eye at showing people getting shot and killed on television, but the merest sight of a woman's nipple is enough to send people into a moral tizzy.

Considering the breeding ground for hospital-based superbugs prostheses would pose, they could absolutely harm others.