I never, not for one moment, believed Snyder actually understood Watchmen. I mean, it’s a comic that deconstructs the idea of superheroes beating down their enemies by depicting those beatdowns in graphic detail to show how ugly and horrible such a thing would really be.

Snyder’s take on this was to take that violence…

So... is this Marvel’s apology to Tony Stark at the expense of Steve Rodgers? Or are we just trying to screw up everyone in equal measure?

Maybe easier to wear it, but being recognized is unlikely, and, besides that, the MCU Avengers aren’t seen much. There was the battle of New York, in which there’s maybe some blurry footage (the Civil War trailer shows really good footage, but it’s not clear where it came from. I imagine it’s satellite footage or the…

Okay, so, first off: I love Hawkeye. I think he and Black Widow get too much crap for being underpowered. I’m not saying they aren’t underpowered, but I don’t think that makes them useless. They aren’t your go-to people in a superfight, but they’re a damn sight more subtle than Thor, Iron Man, or Hulk. (I’ll admit,…

That makes sense, but it still seems weird to have a one sleeve outfit instead of just going no-sleeves and wearing an arm protector. Especially as it looks like a fairly light fabric and, speaking as the world’s shittiest archer, you really want something thicker to protect your arm.

I was just trying to explain this to someone over e-mail and struggling... and here you summed it up perfectly in forty words. Bravo!

“What happens when a crack team of commandos goes up against a bunch of kids with powers but little training? They get smoked.” Surely that’s a reason for the government to have access to some powered people.

The thing is, having the government be completely inept and corrupt pretty much fits the original problem. Iron…

Ah, fair enough. The implication in the video was that it was possible to avoid registration by just... dropping being a superhero. (Which, being hypothetically illegal anyway, isn’t really asking too much.) Which I suppose non-powered people like Tony could still do, but would kinda leave a lot of other people…

Yeah, that’d be where it falls apart then. That’s sort of the problem with events like these. It’s hard to work out exactly who should be doing what without details that aren’t provided. Like the act apparently working off a very vague definition of “superhero” or a very specific but overly broad one, which could…

That’s fair, though I’d say it’s at least justifiable. The Superhero Act basically says “It’s still illegal to do this illegal thing unless you get officially sanctioned to do it.” The Mutant Act says “You need to register because of who you are.” While the former moves closer to the latter, there’s still a pretty…

Like I said on my other comments here, I didn’t read the comics, so I could be way off. But couldn’t they have arrested Cap’ under current vigilante laws? If he’s acting as a vigilante, and not granted legal authority by law enforcement, he should be already breaking the law. It’s just a case of actually enforcing…

Disclaimer: Didn’t read the comics, may be way off, feel free to school me if I am.

That being said, I don’t really think it’s a liberal/conservative issue, as more of a writing issue. I’m betting most real-world liberals would not go out of their way to support people putting on masks and fighting crime. If anything…

From what I saw in the video (so please do correct me if I’m wrong) the superhero registration act and mutant registration aren’t really comparable. Mutant registration means if you are a mutant, you have to register. End of. The way the Superhero Registration Act is explained here, if you are a superhero you have to…

I don’t disagree with that persay, but it’s not about telling the AI what to think, it’s telling the AI what to do. If you tell an AI to increase your profits, it’ll do that, for sure. Where it goes beyond its programming is that the AI is the one who comes up with how to do that. It may decide to lay off workers, it…

The specifics of the test don’t work well, but the general idea is still solid. If a machine is intelligent enough to emulate consciousness to the degree that it is impossible to tell if it is or isn’t conscious, we have little choice but to treat the machine as conscious. The same way we can’t actually tell if other…

I fully admit, I’m not well versed in this topic, so I’m a little disappointed in this article. Mostly because it talks about the dangers an AI poses, but it’s a little unconvincing without any details on how the AI actually poses a risk. Say a computer doesn’t want to be shut off, for example. The article says it…

As someone who thinks the dangers of AI are way overhyped... that is a bad thing, or it can be. Machines do EXACTLY what they’re told. Sort of like the fictional genie, it’ll grant your wish exactly, but you may not like how, and you may realize it was a badly thought out wish later on.

That’s not saying much. Philosophers don’t really agree on anything. It’s a system that generates potential answers, not definitive answers.

Psychologists are pretty stumped too, however.

It’s not so much about if other people see him as a beacon of hope as much as Superman acting like one. It’s fine to explore the varying ways of how people might react to Superman, as long as Superman being the best example he can be. One of the things that made the Nolan Batman films work was that Batman was supposed…

Can I just state my general hatred for the “There’s precedent in the comics” argument? Of COURSE there’s precedent in the comics. They’ve been running for a very long time and have had several interpretations of any given character as different writers come and go. Hell, there’s precedent in Doctor Who for the Doctor…