You said, "First, they have to note you move, which takes a moment for the eye to register with the brain, then it takes a moment to adjust, which then takes that 1/5 to 1/7th of a second to do," but that is not correct: "reaction time" is in fact the time it takes for the eye to register with the brain, to adjust,…

Average reaction time is about 1/5 of a second. In professional athletes, this is more like 1/6 or 1/7th of a second. A little googling around on neural synapse speeds and signal processing time from finger to brain comes up with a minimum of about 30ms to perform the act of pulling the trigger. So, a highly…

Average reaction time is about 1/5 of a second. In professional athletes, this is more like 1/6 or 1/7th of a second. A little googling around on neural synapse speeds and signal processing time from finger to brain comes up with a minimum of about 30ms to perform the act of pulling the trigger. So, a highly…

I think you're probably right about a lot of what you say here, but without specifics & concrete examples of the phenomena you mention, it just sounds like a lot of vague generalizations that kinda want to agree with, but can't see any reason why this is the actual situation rather than your own vague impressions of…

Understood! It's been a big topic here in the US for decades. A video like this is likely to get a fair bit of attention in the US whenever it's posted, but I'm not sure that means it's the reason it was posted to begin with. Likely to get hits does not mean it isn't asking a relevant question or making a relevant…

You said, "but hey, easy page views" which is a sort of round about way of implying that they are taking a non-issue and whipping up controversy for page views. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but either way if you hold that view, it is one that transgresses the subjective line of your own thoughts on the morality…

yep, deep in that uncanny valley there

I would think that he might have avoided capture of any sort by ditching the chopsticks. The more traditional bump-distraction & pickpocket would be harder to catch on tape, looking much more natural.

I really don't enjoy this new headline trend of "X <insert adjective> things for whatever" Why not? Because it smacks of the SEO nonsense/fluff farm writing for spammy sites and "1 crazy secret trick for losing weight" ads.

What does it say about me that I could not keep by xbox working after multiple replacements, and ultimately got rid of it when it again stopped working and was no longer covered under warranty?

While I can't explain Amazon not selling much of the hardware directly, the Ad recommendations *might* be accidental, though it would be quite a coincidence, and betray a bit about shopping habits that are slightly embarrassing for Nintendo: A lot of this stuff is automated by Amazon based on shipping habits and…

Hey, have some respect! The man is literally a living god.

My impression of gawker comment systems, as a reader of multiple gawkers sites preceding any comment system, is that there has been very little overall improvement in each iteration: Each new version is just awkward in a different way. I'm not saying they're much worse— or really any worse— than other comment systems,…

Buttons: There are too few on that controller. Each successive console generation has not just done a "+1" to the naming scheme (ps1, ps2, ps3, etc) but extended the promise of more buttons! I demand at least 1 more button, preferably an even half-dozen, and maybe a mounted 20-sided die I roll and have the system…

Driver issues for video cards are still a factor... I have had to track down beta drivers and fiddle with customizing inf files when the appropriate official driver was not available, all to fix game-breaking issues, all within the previous 6 months or so.

Even aside from the technical problems, there is still the philosophical issue of the copy problem: Given the ability to resurrect from backup or some such, there's no reason why you would need to wait until you're dead for the backup to be instantiated. Then there are two of you. Clearly you, the original, is not…

From what I have read about the management style of Dyack vs. Nintendo, they game was great despite Dyack, not because of him— Nintendo kept them on a short leash and didn't buy the BS he was selling.

I disagree in a variety of ways... first, that getting someone's back up deliberately is an effective strategy in persuasion. Perhaps in a classroom where the context is known and frequently the point of discussion is to challenge assumptions, but it a more public context, especially on the internet, I have never seen…

Why say "privileged" identities? That is such a loaded term, replete with condescension. (I don't get the sense that you meant it that way though) You can simply say "maginalized" and "not marginalized" and avoid getting someone's back up prematurely.

I second this completely. Slitherine games have some along these lines.