<![CDATA[Comments from Katana_Mind]]> <![CDATA[Comments from Katana_Mind]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Lost Planet Movie Will be Starship Troopers On Ice]]> The games are cinematic enough as they are.

@Sharpless: Indeed.

I just imagine three hours of slowpaced scenes of Solid Snake kneeling next to a fallen enemy that spurts out random dialogue containing [between the wheezing and coughing of blood]:
- I knew your father
- I killed your father
- I AM your father
- Your a clone of a son I never had
- I served with your uncle
- Your sister is really my twin, from the future
- I never meant for any of this to happen
- If you kill me you really kill yourself.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Oh Canada, Bring Me My Zeppelin]]> Whohoo, zeppelins!
Now, if they would only be produced for some other reason than for fossil fuel prospectors. Haven't Steven Seagal kicked all of them out of the northern territories yet?

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on The Future of an Ancient Idea]]> I don't get it.
Are you supposed to do thrusting motions in the air with the male appendage? And do what with the female one? Hold still?
Wouldn't it be totally easier with some form of strap-on [or "snap-on"] with motion sensors in it? Otherwise I just keep picturing some weird sort of penis-waving game.
Which, in itself, would be awesome!

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Molly Ringwald Trapped In A Robolympics Of Death]]> Seriously, what's with so many 80's movie productions and mazes of death?
[I realize that they're there during the previous decades too, but I grew up in the 80's so I automagically tend to think of movies like this.]

It just seems like a logistical nightmare to keep a proper maze of death fully operational and yet safe for a paying/cheering audience.
If it indeed was some highly corrosive acid underneath that beam, how close do you think that people could be to a pool full of it?

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Is It Art? Or Is It LARP?]]> After the last article I follwed the links and did a little webby search myself, and I'm piqued.
It amalgates a lot of the stuff me and my friends have been doing and researching for the last couple of years.

@GenXCub:
There's a good way to LARP and then there's "lightningbolt".

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on The Creepiest Robots Ever]]> Beyond Uncanny Valley.

Very, very disturbing.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on George Lucas Will Change The Way Hollywood Works — Again]]> @Ghede: Plural?
Having one giant Fuck You Money-bin isn't enough?

You, sir, need to look over your life. And perhaps your economical strategy.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on First Look at the "Structural Core" of the Human Brain]]> Man, this is some seriously inverted existentialism.
And, can science get with the program and hire a good copywriter or media manager?
I know this was published in some medical journal, but still...this article needs pizzazz and sparkle and words like "brainotron" and "mind beam" and "artists renderings" instead of those boring neurological pattern print outs.

"Today, scientists believe that the inside of your mind could look like t-h-i-s!" and there'll be sketchy water colorings of unicorns and nekkid ladies and cake.

Firstly I believe that above mentioned thoughts occupy at least 50% of anyones unconscious thought process, and secondly, even if they don't, I think that it would be reassuring to know that it did.

Thank you Science!

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Conquering Humans and Pissed-Off Elves in Hellboy II Animated Prologue]]> Although I'm really looking forward to the film, isn't the whole "and he cleft the magical ring/crown/hat in twain"-deal a little done?

And, not being literate in Magnolia Mythos - where does the "Sons of the earth" live? Hollow Earth? A fold in space/time?
"Men would keep to the cities and Elves would reign in the forests"?

Again, I haven't read any Hellboy, so I'm just going on tidbits and the movies, but as far as I've seen yet, the story itself doesn't come off as very original. But the characters and dialogue does. Which is kinda' interesting.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on G'Kar's Face Forever Frozen In Time, In An Alien Museum]]> I just IMDB:d Andreas Katsulas and realized he was in two eps of Max Headroom.
That was...y'know. Cool.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Wanted Strips White-Collar Rage Bare]]> I'm soooo tired of Morgan Freeman.
Sooooo tired.
Seriously, even if he turned up at my house telling me I was the seekrit descendant of The Prince of Pop and could ejaculate lasers, I'd still stab him in the eye with a fork.

I cry tears of shame for being bored enough to watch "The Bucket list".

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Never Say Someone Will Be Fine During A Shootout With An Alien Spaceship]]> @Charlie Jane Anders: I don't mind low-budget at all. Hell, some of the most expressive art I've seen have been made with stick figures or cutouts. Budget is not the issue.
It's editing and continuity.

And I totally respect that you get a kick out of watching it, but with me it found itself instantly deposited into the mental compartment labelled "crap".

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Time for a Max Headroom Movie]]> Oh yes.
I remember being really stunned by the show as a young'en. It was in such a stark contrast to anything else I remember from that time.
And although I'd totally geekgasm over the opportunity to watch more Max, the fear of it not living up to the original is so potent that I'd maybe rather just have a dvd box set. With commentary tracks. And bonus materials.
And also a new season of "Surface".
How the hell could they cancel a show about humongous seamonsters? Seriously?

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Human Ovulation -- Caught on Tape!]]> @Chrysla:
'Tis not a guy, it's German and means "middle pain".
Which I learnt after wiki:ing it. Also I learnt that 20% of women supposedly suffer from this once in a while.
When I asked my female co-worker she thought it was bogus. Anyone else? Is the ovulation pain relatable?

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Exclusive Clip From "Fat Guy Stuck In Internet" New Adult Swim Series]]> Don't forget our old pals Space Ghost - coast 2 coast, Harvey Birdman and ATHF. Ah, and Squidbillies. That show was beyond weird, but I like that. And weed.
I've got a lot of love for Adult Swim.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on New Heroes Babe Is One of Us]]> I stopped caring about Heroes a long time ago.
The addition of a character exploring the "grey areas" of super-theivery ain't enough to attract my interest.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Han Solo Is Not a Loser]]> I know that Grey's not for me, but I think we all have our guilty pleasures. And when watching/reading/playing them I think all of us enjoys a little sneaky nerderie.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Toad Tongues Are a Key Ingredient in Robot Muscles]]> I want some of that venomy spit!

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Cool and Crap Awards of the Week]]> The Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it "access" to -- and "full control" of -- any kind of computer there is. And once the info warriors are in, the Air Force wants them to keep tabs on their "adversaries' information infrastructure completely undetected."

Man, this has to be one of the best orders ever placed by the military. My only question is - why did they wait so long?

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on East Germany's Buried Cyborg Army]]> @Efflux:
One of my greatest gaming moments.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Sergey Brin Riverdances With Alien Warriors On Doctor Who]]> @Dunny0:
This explains why mobsters always go out into the desert to dump their "yard trimmings".
Now I Know.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Sci Fi Channel Brings You Superheroes In The Suburbs]]> @ggodo:
Ah, but only the initial issues, penned by Alan Moore.
As soon as he left Top Ten it became total drivel. Seriously, the difference between the first two issues and the latter ones are astounding.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Power-Armor Vs. Nano-Tech Super Soldiers, In G.I. Joe]]> Being more of a He-Man person m'self, I can't really get my juices flowing enough to really care about this. That being said, am I the only one who thinks that the Stormlady's outfit looks like it was originally tailored for someone else?
It looks like a friend talked her into going to a S&M-club [it's going to be FUN] and let her choose her gear out of a wardrobe several sizes to big.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Recognize Everyone You've Ever Met With Smart Goggles]]> I understand that this is a protoype/demo and that what we're supposed to think about is the potential it will have in teh future. And, yes. I would totally have these.
When they're released in a non-jackass edition.

Thing is, we're gonna need a bran modification to go with these, since there is going to be so much information avaliable and the possibility to zoom with one eye while the other scans the Net for info and I'm thinking that our generations brains are just going to go *pop* and burst something vital and then...we're going need these. As suggested above.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on We're All Friends In Hulk-Land, Says Edward Norton]]> @Tim Faulkner: Hahaha. You had me agreeing with you all the way til you went and brought the last two Cronenberg pics into the discussion.
Although I totally concur with your analysis/conclusions about The Prestige, the stereotypical and shallow presentation of russian mobsters in "Eastern Promises" was disappointing.
But, I have to give props for the nekkid-Aragorn-fighting-in-the-sauna-sequence making the movie memorable, at least.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Your Future Will Be Filled with Promiscuous Friends]]> It seems that this article forgets about one key element in the whole "lax attitude towards befriending [and then doing] new people"-argument, and that is follow-up.

So many opportunities got lost during the days before social networks. Cool people you met at festivals, over at friends or just out clubbing. Now, you can almost always get in contact with them again, and thusly cultivate a relationship where before that wouldn't have happened.

And of course sex enters into that equation. When you have a thousand acquaintances, of totally differing levels of depth, it tends to dawn on you that, just as there are several ways of "having friends" or how you interact differently depending on the crowd, there are different ways to enjoy sex with varying levels of commitment.

This is not teh future. This is now.
And it is good.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on ...And Then WHAT Happened? The Silliest Scifi Plot Twists]]> I'll cast a vote for "The Abyss".
The movie is tight in ambiance, narrative and character development up until the last fifteen minutes.
Everything up until then had been about an escalating psychological tension between the crew and their different agendas/feelings for the aliens.
And then *kapow* first contact, second contact - not enough? - huuge fuckoff underwater alien city [practically neighbours with the human facility]. Although contact had previously been conducted through the very shy and impish water-tentacle, we now have mutual understandings and communicate freely and, hey, the aliens can take their city/construct topside and thus save some guys in a boat.

That said, I'm still waiting for that breathing-under-water-fluid.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Hello! I Will Do The Flying Motorcycle Dance For You!]]> @Whyaduck: I also spotted the assless chaps and briefly thought: "Alright, gayfest in the back of the cargo plane", but then I realised that the guy was probably just wearing skin-coloured pants and I was a little disappointed.
But then the bandana/beard-guy landed and everybody cheered and that left me with a sweet sensation of closure...'cause I think we all know what happened right after the clip ended.
Manlovin' and coke.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on More Monstery Goodness in New Hellboy II Trailer]]> This trailer looks so good that it makes me feel as excited as an 8-year old. I can't really remember when something made me feel that way. Y'know, except for when I was 8.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Knight Rider Series To Have More Special Effects, And Maybe A Dog Detective]]> I'd watch Knight Boat.
But only if Simpsons writers wrote it.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Scott Baio Is 21 ... And Telekinetic [NSFW]]]> @bluewyvern:
"and she tries to cover herself, but it's too late 'cause I've already seen everything."

Classic.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on What Copyright Ruling Really Means For Superman]]> I'm also of the opinion that we need a major overhaul of the copyright laws. My hope is to digital micropayments where a IP-owner can recieve due compensation in such a way that he can survive on selling his/her works in smaller batches. This would enable most creators to skip the middlemen, which in turn would keep down the prices for the consumers.

Sure, if you want to sell your IP because it gives you access to better distribution, legal help, branding etc, that's fine. The problem is that the copyright laws in so many cases stifle creativity and where crafty businessmen use a system they were part of setting up to patent, and hoard, everything under the sun.

I choose to naively beleive in a world where execution of an IP is rewarded by the consumers.

I myself work in the games industry, and there are Non-Disclosure Agreements for everything. Of course a publisher will want to protect their investments, but, if you look at reality, at what games are being published....it's not t-h-a-t inventive, is it?
It all comes down to execution. [well, that and marketing, but that just ties in with the Old System] What games you subjectively view as "better". And the same goes for any media, in my book.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Ultrathin, Rubbery Circuits Bring Us One Step Closer to Google Brain Implants]]> @corpore-metal: If you choose to wear one of those goofy looking bike helmets with wires and little blinking lights instead of having a cool jack directly into your skull, that's your perogative.
I laugh danger in the face! I will live the dream of a fully opted cybernetic body, damn the consequences.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Ultrathin, Rubbery Circuits Bring Us One Step Closer to Google Brain Implants]]> @Jeff-Minor: To paraphrase Mrs. Jackson: "you are n-o-t alone".
I'm wondering why the antennae have to be ontop of the cranium? It seems so very Jetson-esque. I'm gonna have mine behind my ear, and behind the other ear there'll be a skulljack so I can mainline my pr0n and stuff.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on What Novels Span The Most Aeons?]]> Theres a book called "The Bible" which starts at the creation of everything as we know it, goes on to make some dips in human history, and then foretells the end of human existence/universe and ultimate transportation to another plane called "heaven". It's pretty much all-encompassing.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Provigil is the Cocaine of the Twenty-First Century]]> First there was that piece on labmonkey assraping to see how HIV got transmitted [io9.com] and now getting them hooked on coke?
This might be a moot point, but monkeys have it bad.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks]]> Going back to Cloverfield for a sec: Personally I really liked the fact that I did not connect with the characters. Monster movies tend to juxtaposition evil/good in such a formulaic way that you already know how things are going to pan out by merely holding it in your hand.
Cloverfield was different in that aspect. I could immerse myself in the experience of "wtf would I do if my town suddenly was under attack?".
"War of the Worlds" tried, with an eerily similar scene, to convey that trundled mass hysteria of tons of scared people getting onto a ferry. In Cloverfield it was a bridge. The scenes handled basically the same reactions, but, in Cloverfield, thanks to the POV and the totally random and generic main characters, I felt what the crowd felt.

I think that it was a clever way to tell a story, and I would'nt mind seeing at least two more iterations of it. One traditional big budget, no-bars-hold-explosions-and-tits-action movie, and one, of course, from the perspective of the monster itself : )

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on Alien Invaders Enjoy Airbrushed Portraits, Smirking]]> It's been a long, long time since I had a grasp of the Marvel Universe it seems. I only recognize Wolverine and som part of me thinks the green skin and ribbed chins indicate Krulls.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on When Heads Explode]]> A-ha!
I thought summit was wrong.
When I got my sweaty little paws at the Rutger Hauer/Mimi Rodgers-extravaganza it was called "Wedlock"...y'know, since it was a play on words. Since the inmates were "wed" to eachother.
[www.imdb.com]

But, I'm guessing it was realeased under another title in The States.

]]> <![CDATA[Katana_Mind commented on The Pros and Cons of a Google Brain Implant]]> I was having drinks with some friends before hitting the town. I left the apartement a couple of minutes before eveyrone else to have a smoke [the ladies like it] and I saw a pay phone. Not having seen a pay phone, less used one in mebbe 15 years I decided to call one of my friends up.
Once everyone realised that I was calling from a pay phone they all started laughing. So retro, dude.

Hai. When can I has teh brain implants, pls?

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