That misses the point. The point is not to make robots with human flaws, the point is to make robots with a capacity for high level problem solving in a chaotic system, something that humans do pretty well, but robots currently do not. No matter what level the roads are “fixed to” there will always be entropy, there…

You severely underestimate the chaotic nature of real-world roads. Navigating them requires constant perception, adaptation, improvisation and to a certain extent, intuition. I don’t know what roads you drive on, but a logic board is an adequate analogy in only the most primitive sense. Maybe in a sterile simulator,…

You can robot-ize the vehicles’ behavior, but you cannot robot-ize the world that those vehicles will have to respond to. As yet, there is no area of robotics that carries out improvisation and adaptability-intensive tasks as well as their human counterparts. (If there is please, do elucidate.) The ‘impending’ world…

Thousands? Wrong, it in the dozens... maybe.

Fair enough, I never noticed that. I think the point though is that there is little to no context given to the player and almost all of these low level encounters are populated by people dressed as minority/”urban”/poor stereotypes. It’s just a little off. Maybe the full game will make things clearer, but for now its…

Yeah, Kirk called this game a right-wing fantasy in one of the podcasts (referring more to the good-guys-with-guns-fix-the-world thing) and I can’t get that out of my head when I play now. Doesn’t help that your character is basically dressed like a militia member. I came upon two guys looting a body or something and…

I’m hoping this game is half as good as Destiny- though if it is, the beta doesn’t show it. It’s a beautifully realized world, but being in it and doing stuff in it (the beta) was just not that fun. I wish I knew more about what else I’ll be doing, but the beta was just too small a taste. A kind of bland, cold,…

What will the division do to entertain? This is the question. Destiny entertains with a high-action power fantasy that comes from tight gunplay, fluid movement and empowering abilities. The progression and community/multiplayer elements are important design choices, but the core entertainment comes from the world and…

As an avid Destiny payer and reader of this destiny fan site who invariably skips/skims all of the JRPG, manga and anime content here, (just not my bag, for the most part), I want to thank you guys and your podcast for teaching me that it is not in fact Dragongrampa, but something else, apparently spelled and…

Well, you sort of answered your own question (the second one), as did the article: a lot of non-enthusiasts don’t associate Audi and VW, so the brand distance right now avoids that VW-are-cheaters- TDI taint. Overall though, I think the point is that for the foreseeable future, electric cars that are any good are…

I can go on! Do you remember the Information Superhighway? It was something we learned about -from a magazine. How about some CompuServe? or Prodigy? Remember when someone nice invented WebTV which I think was the internet, but for the elderly. Did you ever make cards for people using Print Shop on an Apple IIe that…

Born in 1980, wrote my earliest writing assignments on a typewriter with white out, then an electronic typewriter, then later, an early mac. Used Encarta waaay before there was Wikipedia, was the first kid at my school to have a beeper (pager(that my mom MADE me have)). Some of my contemporaries don’t ‘get’ twitter.…

Vigilante Missions. The part where Michael gets in the cop car in V and nothing happens is just so poignant. Going all the way back to III, vigilante missions were always a blast.

This post was mad inspirational, but...

Show me I’m being pessimistic: Where else in the consumer world (or elsewhere) do we have robots that reliably replicate improvisation and adaptability-intensive human tasks? Why do we think automated cars will be a broadly functional thing any time soon? Not just being a dick, I’d love to see the examples that prove…

Does this thing open? No? Welded Shut? ok.

I disagree that it looks like the Volvo, but whatever these images are they are giving me wood.

I was with you all the way up to the part where you started talking.

The hater-y thing I have to say about Kung Fury is that it doesn’t at all feel like the thing its lampooning. The handheld camera is very 2000's, the snap zooms are very 70's the crappy digital compositing is out of place too, since the 80's mostly used greenscreen/optical printing / rear projection for those types of…

Came for this gif, was not disappointed.