Cin commented on William Gibson And Rod Serling, Together At Last, at 8:45 AM on May 5 @lazyeight: In the short story anthology Burning Chrome, 3 stories take place in the Sprawl, the same setting for the Neuromancer Trilogy. 1. more »

Cin commented on Valve Would So Love To Make A Kids Game For The Wii, at 5:43 AM on May 2 I'd rather have them go to Nintendo headquarters and show them how to make a motherfucking online system work. Friend codes? more » [kotaku]

Cin commented on FFVII Director On Chances Of A Remake, at 5:21 AM on May 2 @vig0r: I thought the same exact thing when I saw the tech demo :) Especially since the 10 year anniversary just passed. They probably wanted to do 13 first to get used to PS3 development, so that they do a better job on 14(VII 2) :P more » [kotaku]

Cin commented on Valve Asked Microsoft To Build Steam (Microsoft Said "No, Thanks"), at 5:48 AM on Apr 30 I liked V1 of Steam because it was very simple and did the job it needed to do. more » [kotaku]

Cin commented on Super-Fast Evolution Means Capricans Would be Hideous, Not Hot., at 7:10 AM on Apr 25 @Knirfie: Yes I know, Kobe beef, but they have trouble raising cattle due to their small amount of land. I meant it mostly as an example of importing, as most of the beef in Japan, afaik, is not home grown more »

Cin commented on Super-Fast Evolution Means Capricans Would be Hideous, Not Hot., at 7:09 AM on Apr 25 @monkity: I'd hardly call the combined populations of 12 planets a "shallow gene pool" ;) more »

Cin commented on Super-Fast Evolution Means Capricans Would be Hideous, Not Hot., at 10:21 AM on Apr 24 Sorry, thought the post didn't go through the first time, I'll stop now >_< more »

Cin commented on Super-Fast Evolution Means Capricans Would be Hideous, Not Hot., at 10:21 AM on Apr 24 PS - If they had the same standards of beauty that we do, they'd actually look just as, if not MORE attractive, because attractiveness helps you find a mate, and produce offspring, passing on those genes to your children. Someone get these hacks out of here. more »

Cin commented on Super-Fast Evolution Means Capricans Would be Hideous, Not Hot., at 10:20 AM on Apr 24 PS - If they had the same standards of beauty that we do, they'd be MORE attractive, as that helps them produce offspring, and therefore pass on that trait to their children. Good god these people knew nothing. more »

Cin commented on Super-Fast Evolution Means Capricans Would be Hideous, Not Hot., at 10:18 AM on Apr 24 Oh lord here we go. The guys who decided that this study applied to humans need to have their biology licenses revoked. Natural Selection acts on genetic adaptations that allow an organism to survive. Culture all but nullifies the effects of natural selection. Ever since we stopped letting the infirm die, ever since we stopped using only our bodies to find food, ever since we created modes of transportation, evolution has been affecting us less and less because someone who can wrestle a tiger with his bare hands no longer necessarily survives better than someone with a rifle. Being at the top of the food chain makes evolution much less effective, if it's even still happening to us at all. And since we can assume that since all the colonists came from Kobol, they likely had the same technology, the same seeds for food, etc. more »

Cin commented on Georgian UAV Films its Own Demise in Russian MiG Attack, at 5:51 AM on Apr 22 @LyriCa1z: Not really. more » [gizmodo]

Cin commented on Battlestar Galactica's Secret Cylons Tell All, at 7:49 AM on Apr 21 I didn't like the idea of Tigh being a Cylon either, but I LOVED the speech he gave when he found out. "My name is Saul Tigh. more »

Cin commented on Trashbot Is Son of BigDog, Phil Collins and Homestar Runner, at 1:02 PM on Apr 15 The behavior reminds me a bit of a Tachikoma from Ghost in the Shell... more » [gizmodo]

Cin commented on Beware Giant Radioactive Turtles of the Soviet Era, at 8:42 AM on Apr 15 Translation: -It's so huge! ::machine gun fire:: -I think it's gone ::they see the turtle:: -It's coming back ::some more gunfire:: -Don't waste ammo, it's ineffective more »

Cin commented on Will Steven Spielberg Eviscerate "Ghost in the Shell"?, at 7:52 AM on Apr 15 @Log1c: Oh God, I'd LOVE to see Ghost in the Shell made by Robert Rodriguez... more »

Cin commented on Now You Too Can Draw Someone You Can Pretend Is From Star Wars, at 11:57 AM on Apr 11 @knownspace: Thank GOD I'm not the only one who thought of that XD more »

Cin commented on Scientists Use Superconductors to Get Spacecrafts Hovering, at 11:12 AM on Apr 11 I read about this several years ago. more » [gizmodo]

Cin commented on Your Computer Sucks, Get a New Graphics Card, at 11:58 AM on Apr 10 What's funny about this is that, after working at an internship all summer, I got an nVidia 8800GTX, an Intel Q6600, plus 4GB of RAM... more » [gizmodo]