To be fair, if you were Mark Millar, wouldn't you drink as much as you can to dull that pain?

As I said when I saw the trailer: they lost me at "Mark Millar".

I don't read short stories and generally avoid novellas unless they're bundled in at the end of a novel (like Concrete Jungle at the end of The Atrocity Archives). I just don't find them satisfying. Partially, this is because I'm a "burst" reader- I tend to read novels in short segments, usually less than a chapter at…

Technically, it's not "downhill" when you're burrowing.

I'll remember this yesterday. You won't.

The first Matrix is mostly a simple action movie plot with great special effects and an absolutely incoherent premise. The backstory of the universe is a joke- so much of a joke that even when the movie was new my friends and I mentally retconned the "battery" premise to "human CPU".

So, instead of "Busy, Busy Town", it's "Busy, Busy LV-426"? That'd be amazing.

You say that like the first Matrix movie wasn't an incoherent mess, plot-wise. It's action sequences held together with fridge-logic.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the story is an incoherent mess, the acting is flat and uninspired, and the whole experience is visually stunning, like everything else the Wachowski's have ever made.

Wait, there's confusion over this? Riddick, while having a very dramatic and easy to follow character arc, is in no way the protagonist of the film. Who even thinks this? Do we need to write a Richard Scarry version of Pitch Black so that you can hope to follow the already extremely simple plot?

UGH! A gay man a villain!?! Bigotry! Discrimination! Lets take away their free speech! /how people say Feminists and queer people will react whenever I suggest I want queer villains.

I didn't know Sean Bean died in this! I love it when Sean Bean dies!

For ecological concerns to apply, humans and artificial intelligences would need to inhabit the same biosphere, which doesn't really seem to be the case. We could start positing some sort of geoengineering to convert the Earth into an AI-compatible biosphere, but that just brings us back to, "how would an AI be…

I think machines already think, and I know because I'm one of them. I am a human being, an instance of a general class of self-replicating machines which all thing, more or less, often less.

Yes, I get that my point was a little off target from the thrust of the article, but the whole "reversing entropy is impossible (without energy)" is one of my pet peeves.

You know what's absolutely impossible? A system going from chaos to order.

When I do dabble in fiction, I generally flip a coin to determine what grammatical gender to apply to a character, because I have the great privilege of not giving a shit.

THE MAN WITH NO NAME HAS A NAME IN A Few Dollars More. Sure, it's a nickname, but it's not a nickname like "Blondie"- it's the name that everybody knows him by. When you say "Monco", people know who you mean.

Have I talked enough about my Star Trek themed improv team? I don't think I have. We have a show tonight!

Intelligence is not a thing that happens "on levels". We have intelligent systems that are far more intelligent than humans- in very specific ways. Dogs are clearly better able to reason based on olfactory stimulation than humans are- and that's not just because of their sense of smell. They actually can think about…