I can see VR being used for work, but I just don’t see it being used for play. The isolation factor is too much of a problem.

I’m not 100% sure how old I was, but my first exposure was the arcade version, converted from Donkey Kong. I’d have been 6 or 7, probably.

I’m getting the sense that Donald Glover is in a different movie from everybody else.

Before you can “solve” consciousness, you first must prove it exists. I don’t believe humans are conscious. I’m a human, and I’m not conscious or self-aware.

I spent most of the book hoping that Isaac and Lin were going to be side characters, and that on the next page, the *real* protagonist of the story would show up and spare me more time with those insufferably dull people.

I love stories about terrible people doing terrible things to each other. But for that to work, the characters have to be interesting, and nothing about the characters in Perdido Street Station was interesting.

There’s no there there. At the end of the book, I just felt like I hadn’t read anything at all- it literally left no impression on me. I spent most of the time hoping something would happen that would grab my attention, but nothing ever did.

I hated this so much that I’ll never read anything by China Miéville again.

Shit, it’s just a trailer, I know exactly what happens in the movie, and I’m still sitting here sniffling. How do they do that?

Mail them a bucket of chum?

Enh, I’d be less certain of that. Mass hysteria is a very well documented, if poorly understood phenomenon. I’ve seen small cases of it myself, where under unusual situations, absolutely crazy ideas and behaviors immediately become norms of behavior.

So, what you’re telling me is that Some Asshole is fucking with my shows. Fuck that (dead) asshole.

> stellar dialogue on Firefly

If you actually watch the show, while Dutch definitely is the matriarch of their little organization, in that both the men respect her and will take her orders, they’re really a team- a group of peers working towards the goals they mutually agree upon.

So… that sounds more or less like the book. The book was delightful brain candy- a giant Mary Sue that somehow remained entertaining.

I don’t think, ergo, my thoughts cannot be biased, because I don’t have any. I can’t think of a time I’ve thought about anything.

I hope there’s a whole movement to rename the city back. When the USPS tried to change the spelling of “Pittsburgh” to “Pittsburg”, it lasted for like, 15 years before the public outcry to fix it caused the USPS to cave (which is also why Pittsburgh is one of the few “-burgh” cities in the US).

They could have forged the agreement without dialogue and with acting right in the street.

I don’t think that at all. Maybe it’s because I was adopted, but I definitely don’t think there’s any special, magical bond between a biological relative. Khlyen is obviously an adoptive father.

I feel like that’s a combination of lazy screenwriting and shitty direction. It would have both been in character, funny, and efficient if D’av just stole the grenade in the first place. “I’m taking this.”