Comments from Cin

Cin commented on William Gibson And Rod Serling, Together At Last

Mon, 05 May 2008 08:45:15 PDT

@lazyeight: In the short story anthology Burning Chrome, 3 stories take place in the Sprawl, the same setting for the Neuromancer Trilogy.

1. Burning Chrome (about Case's mentors)
2. New Rose Hotel (also made into a terrible movie... but it had Chris Walken in it so it's ok)
3. Johnny Mnemonic

And yes, Molly Millions, Sally Sheers, etc, they're all the same woman. The storyline of Johnny Mnemonic matches the backstory that Molly briefly mentions in Neuromancer perfectly, thereby giving the unfortunate epilogue to the short story.

Cin commented on Valve Would So Love To Make A Kids Game For The Wii

Fri, 02 May 2008 05:43:24 PDT

I'd rather have them go to Nintendo headquarters and show them how to make a motherfucking online system work.

Friend codes? REALLY? I mean give me a fucking break Nintendo. Now merging Valve's Network with the Wii, THAT would be sick.

Cin commented on FFVII Director On Chances Of A Remake

Fri, 02 May 2008 05:21:34 PDT

@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

Cin commented on Valve Asked Microsoft To Build Steam (Microsoft Said "No, Thanks")

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:48:47 PDT

I liked V1 of Steam because it was very simple and did the job it needed to do. I HATED V2 of Steam because it ran worse, had an unnecessary and ugly GUI, and was much buggier.

V3, the current version, is much improved however. Haven't hit any bugs yet and they added tons of features. And the GUI reminds me of the bastard child of 1 and 2.

I'm just happy MS didn't make Steam or else we'd be paying for it @_@ Free is always better

Cin commented on Super-Fast Evolution Means Capricans Would be Hideous, Not Hot.

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:10:34 PDT

@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

Cin commented on Super-Fast Evolution Means Capricans Would be Hideous, Not Hot.

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:09:26 PDT

@monkity: I'd hardly call the combined populations of 12 planets a "shallow gene pool" ;)

Cin commented on Super-Fast Evolution Means Capricans Would be Hideous, Not Hot.

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:21:56 PDT

Sorry, thought the post didn't go through the first time, I'll stop now >_<

Cin commented on Super-Fast Evolution Means Capricans Would be Hideous, Not Hot.

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:21:36 PDT

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.

Cin commented on Super-Fast Evolution Means Capricans Would be Hideous, Not Hot.

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:20:03 PDT

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.

Cin commented on Super-Fast Evolution Means Capricans Would be Hideous, Not Hot.

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:18:19 PDT

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. And widespread trading would nullify the habitat effects even further. Just because Japan can'[t really grow beef, doesn't mean they can't eat steak.

So to argue they'd look different from Earth humans? Sure! Different tech. Different food, etc.

But look different from each other? Go back and take an introduction to human evolution class for god's sake because you clearly slept through it the first time around.

Cin commented on Georgian UAV Films its Own Demise in Russian MiG Attack

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:51:26 PDT

@LyriCa1z: Not really. A MIG vs an ex-soviet bloc UAV is kinda a no-brainer :P

Cin commented on Battlestar Galactica's Secret Cylons Tell All

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:49:06 PDT

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. I'm an officer in the Colonial Fleet. Whatever else I am, whatever else it means, that's the man I want to be. And if I die today, that's the man I'll be. "

Cin commented on Trashbot Is Son of BigDog, Phil Collins and Homestar Runner

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:02:49 PDT

The behavior reminds me a bit of a Tachikoma from Ghost in the Shell... Or maybe it's just the legs :P

Cin commented on Beware Giant Radioactive Turtles of the Soviet Era

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:42:26 PDT

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

Cin commented on Will Steven Spielberg Eviscerate "Ghost in the Shell"?

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:52:44 PDT

@Log1c: Oh God, I'd LOVE to see Ghost in the Shell made by Robert Rodriguez...

Cin commented on Now You Too Can Draw Someone You Can Pretend Is From Star Wars

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:57:47 PDT

@knownspace: Thank GOD I'm not the only one who thought of that XD

Cin commented on Scientists Use Superconductors to Get Spacecrafts Hovering

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:12:06 PDT

I read about this several years ago. They were specifically working with a compound of mercury, barium, copper, and some other things that I forget. But yeah, the energy required to cool it down enough to do that has always been too great. I don't see why this is news now, since the situation seems to be exactly the same as when I first read about it a few years back...

Cin commented on Your Computer Sucks, Get a New Graphics Card

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:58:51 PDT

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... so I have the best of both of these hypothetical rigs XD

Cin commented on Trapped On An Ice Planet With A Robot That's Freaking Out

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:55:03 PDT

@Mathmos: First of all, most of Earth's oxygen is produced by algae. Second, how do you know that maybe that planet isn't just experiencing an ice age? The Earth's atmosphere didn't evaporate during our ice age, why should it necessarily do so during others? We were once an "ice planet too" lest we forget...

Cin commented on Iron Man Armor Now Comes With Proprietary Software

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:30:45 PDT

@knownspace: And yet he has also set back software development years by not complying with standards (*cough*IE*cough), allowing limited users to affect core system files, using anti-competitive tactics to suppress rivals (aka, stifling innovation), and allowing an insecure OS to dominate the market (the Kraken botnet has nearly half a million machines enslaved, including 10% of Fortune 500 companies).

For all of his philanthropy, there is also the damage he has done to the industry that he was in for so long, which may take decades to repair

Cin commented on Kohijinsha SR8KPO6S is 7-Inch UMPC With Optical Drive

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:40:13 PDT

First of all, the manufacturer is spelled Kohjinsha, not Kohijinsha

Second, the bottom promo in this link from their website has the price for this model:

[www.kohjinsha.com.sg]

About $1600

Cin commented on Fashion Model Clobbers Ninjas -- But What Is It About?

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:37:34 PDT

@b-a-n-a-n-a-s: Did you just imply that a superpower for a woman would be being a man? XD

Cin commented on Ultraviolet Goes Noir In Anime Remake

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:34:28 PDT

From what I'd read, it was a half decent movie that had like 45 minutes edited out by the studio, making the plot seem completely random, rushed, and barely watchable (which it is).

I kinda saw some potential in the movie, but it really did need more time and more... something.

Cin commented on Gigantic Cargo Sailboats to Replace Oil-Guzzling Cargo Fleets

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:11:16 PDT

Everything old is new again...

Cin commented on One Pill Could Cure Radiation Sickness

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:35:34 PDT

@Crimson (PS3 ID Black--Tiger): Ummm, no duh? The Japanese Miracle from GitS cleaned up fallout, thus making the area habitable and safe. This just mitigates the effects of exposure to lethal amounts of radiation. They're no even close to the same thing. Did you even bother to read the article before making assumptions about what they're talking about and making an unnecessary clarification?

Cin commented on A Bright Future Vision, For A Change

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:14:11 PST

When everyone's happy it makes for boring storytelling. Even in utopian fiction, the actual story has to do with the struggles of individual characters. Dystopia fiction is appealing because everything has a story in a way. Nothing is simple, everything has a history.

Cin commented on A Video Peek Into Batman Gone Anime

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:49:00 PST

@medeasin: "The Batman" is utter garbage. Go get "Batman: The Animated Series". Now THAT was a Batman animation that was worth watching. Between reinventing many villains (like Mr Freeze) to be more serious and complex, to being often very adult oriented (at least in season 1), it's a minor masterpiece in my opinion. And Batman actually acts like a DETECTIVE in a lot of it, trying to figure out wtf he's doing before diving in face first.

Hopefully this will keep to heart some of the things established in B:TAS

Cin commented on A New Glimpse Of Doctor Who Season Four

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:05:49 PST

@Metropolis: Ummmm, you realize that Summer Glau has a professionally trained dancer since the age of 12 right? Her specialty was ballet, and it was what got her her first role (a ballerina in Angel). It's also the reason she can pull off half the moves she does in Firefly/Serenity (ie, lying prine on the ceiling and the dance-like fighting style)

Cin commented on Val Kilmer's KITT Has Mastered Growling And Deadpanning

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:10:13 PST

I HATE the voice -_- the old KITT was several orders of magnitude better

Cin commented on You Have Ten Seconds To Reach Minimum Safe Distance

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:46:52 PST

@Jeff-Minor: I think the sequence on the Proteus and the spider bots were the only thing redeeming about that film, and it was all downhill pretty much right after that scene. So kudos, you managed to drop a gold coin into a turd :P

Cin commented on In 1976, A Board Game Tried To Crack The Glass Stratosphere

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:51:04 PST

I was thinking more along the lines of "The suit's not pressurized"...

Cin commented on 2018, with more wireless and even less privacy

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:21:23 PST

Yeah, half of these have kinda already happened, especially the last bullet point, about news aggregation, which basically describes an RSS feed practically word for word.

Then again, the WSJ's predictions of the future kinda strikes me like asking your grandfather about the future... We've been expecting holographic TV for decades now, always thinking it's "Just around the corner".