Buddy of mine and I were talking about this recently. Using the horn in CA indicates you’re possibly ready to get out of the car and escalate things. That being said, yes, most CA drivers tend to be oblivious and do not yield right. As someone who spent a significant amount of time commuting on Highway 1, it’s…

You’d be amazed how many of these people record so much evidence of their crimes, it’s mind-bogglingly stupid. But it does make prosecution a lot easier.

Cable and Bishop have always been dicks. The times they’ve been written otherwise tends to be the exception.

Preach, let the culling continue!

Why not? The character’s story is hardly tied in any significant way to their sexuality and in the vast majority of stories might as well be asexual. Her face is very angular and will probably work well with the aesthetics of the character.

Executive: ‘Why do I have to us MFA?! I have a really tricky password.’

I think I’ve read upwards of 30k pages of Malazan material and I’m still pumped for Forge of the High Mage. Tayschrenn is just an interesting character, you hate him so much in the first book, but Esselmont and Erikson manage again to take a character that starts off as horrible and make them interesting. It’s not…

Use of Weapons, Excession, Matter, and The Hydrogen Sonata I think all have great visual set pieces to build a movie or series around. Consider Phlebas does also, but it’s also the book where Banks seemed to still be kind of feeling out what the Culture novels would become, so it’s a bit uneven. Surface Detail would…

Agreed, good to see Cyclops get his due. Storm still leads my X-Men team though.

This is also a central premise to the series as a whole, the ‘Dark Forest’ solution to the Fermi paradox. It’s a viable solution to the paradox certainly, but I wouldn’t put it terribly high on the list. As solutions go, I think it’s also rooted in a certain amount of cultural xenophobia.

On the battlefield that will definitely be a problem and an escalating arena of technological innovation, and in that regard, I completely agree, the consequences will likely be horrific.
For a SWAT team though, it will be a game changer. Really, in a lot of first responder situations this has a huge number of…

Agreed, I think we need to keep people in the loop, but definitely better sending hardware through the door.

I didn’t play BG3 because it was D&D, I played BG3 because it was Larian and the Divinity games were great, the fact that it was D&D and BG3 was a bonus really. About all I hope for from them is another great turn based RPG.

Stephen Webb’s 2nd edition of Fermi paradox solutions will probably cure any ideas about extraterrestrial visitors. Just one of the solutions is the simple fact that our galaxy experiences a supernova every 100-150 million years or so, bathing an area of something like 100 light years radius in life cleansing gamma…

One of the interesting things about this video is the robot’s ability to explain its reasoning. It suggests the possibility of Russell’s idea that AI should be focused on questions as opposed to certainties, as in, when it’s not sure about a given course of action it asks for human input before proceeding.

As an IT person I think that would be really boring.

They did a good job of portraying Paul’s conflict with the ‘narrow path’ forward. Chani sees a power hungry version of Paul because that is what she needs to see to survive.

Dune (both movies), is the blueprint for how you adapt a science fiction property this old, and quite frankly, this dated. There’s a very slavish point of view that demands some kind of loyalty to source material, almost a fanboy purity test, that’s just ridiculous, especially for science fiction, which by its very…

That might work well actually, even if it’s just people answering their phone as he’s walking by then looking at him strangely.

I’m curious how they’ll do the phone scene in the airport, it’s such a great scene, but is so oddly dated now.