<![CDATA[Comments from brentbent]]> <![CDATA[Comments from brentbent]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on The Little ARG That Failed]]> If you wanted people to respond you should have had scantily clad people on the post card implying that it was some sort of sci-fi/porn crossover and once you had them sucked into it they might have went further into the ARG.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on How Many Venture Bros Are There?]]> doh...it should read, "Course, ole Early was playing with a marked deck and ended up winning but because he's sooo stupid all he won was a tub of red lead paint that he promptly drank thinking it was Kool-Aid."

Me and my slurring grammar.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on How Many Venture Bros Are There?]]> Oh, I forgot, the mad scientist from Robot Chicken built the Matrix that The Venture Brothers reality takes place in because he lost a bet while playing strip poker against Dr. Weird and Early Cuyler. Course, ole Early was playing with a marked deck and he ended but because he's sooo stupid all he won was a tub of red lead paint that he promptly drank thinking it was Kool-Aid.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on How Many Venture Bros Are There?]]> I think The Venture Brothers reality is actually taking place in the Matrix and that Rusty was meant to be The One but JJ absorbed his special The One powers but JJ is too short to be the Messiah. Dr. Girlfriend is really The Oracle and The Monarch is just a program she wrote up to keep herself from getting too bored while waiting for the Revolution to happen. Also, Hank and Dean are secretly lovers but they don't show those clips because it'd be considered too shocking. And Brock sampson is actually sentient vanilla pudding that has taken the form of a Tom of Finland uber-hunk to hide his true identity. And, of course, Billy Quizboy is the Architect. Phantom Limb was nothing but a shared mass hallucination from the time Dr. Orpheus accidentally dropped some of his magic mushroom-peyote pate into the Gotham water supply. And, finally, The Alchemist murdered Master Shake and absorbed his soul and vocal chords.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Enter the Virgin Mothership]]> I'm going to stow away in Paris Hilton's puppy purse! Now I just need to get her interested in Marmaduke sized doggies.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Iain M. Banks: Humans Could Join the Culture via Genetic Engineering]]> Yes, today's science and even what we will have in the upcoming decades won't be enough for us to accurately alter our DNA to change xenophobic behavior but sooner or later we will have that technology and I think it'd be a good idea to remove such hardwired prejudice from our society.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on First Look At The New Star Trek MMO World]]> @EBone: Sisko's dad was cooking food because he loved cooking food and chatting with his customers. Why would he need to get paid? Everything he could want is already his to have--food, shelter, clothing, travel, entertainment, education, medical care, etc. are all free and readily available so those that work do so because they want to not because they have to so they will survive like we do today.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on The Middleman Knocked Our Blocks Off!]]> I'm really surprised at how much I like this show. Being on ABC Family I thought it'd be all hokey, and there are those parts, but the characters themselves are just plain awesome, especially Ida. I love her dresses and her perpetual put downs and looking up Duckling a la'Orange recipes. Who knew androids had to eat food? And I actually like the MM's aw shucks mam personality and his milk drinking. I'd love to see an episode with Tony Shaloub guest starring as Adrian Monk and cringing and freaking as the MM drinks his glass of milk--that'd be priceless.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Why Aren't Aliens Talking to Us?]]> One of my theories, among the many, is that the aliens are well aware of us and also know, from past experiences and AI models, that their presence would freak out a sizable portion of the planet and that the standard fear mongers would proclaim them monsters sent by the devil to tempt us with their evil alien ways, which would result in major wars and deaths across the globe.

I also think the you need to grow up as a civilization before we stoop to contact you is also fairly reasonable idea.

One of my dark ideas is that this is a prison planet for evil beings throughout the Cosmos and that our spirits are dumped here as punishment because the aliens are too enlightened to execute us but at the same time don't want sociopaths and child molesters living next to their children so they ship us off just like the UK shipped criminals to Australia. This would explain why so many humans are utter bastards in regards to how they treat their fellow humans and "lesser" life forms.

And, if life is nothing but a vast computer simulation (the odds are in favor of it, supposedly) then the reason why we haven't been contacted is because it's not part of the script the coders came up with or we haven't found all of the 50 golden keys that will activate the "contact with aliens" chapter of the game. ;0

I could go on and on because the possibilities are endless until the aliens show up and explain why they haven't contacted us until now. And, on that note, hey Culture people, drones, and Minds feel free to pick me up and train me to be a SC agent to work with primitive cultures.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Original Star Wars Trilogy To Lunge Down Your Throat]]> email me when they do 11d Star Wars--that I would pay to see at the theater instead of just downloading it.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Who Could Be A Millionaire In 2009]]> When NBC was trying to convince Seinfeld to do a 10th season they offered him a staggering 5 million an episode to stay on but he declined saying he wanted to go out on a high note and not let the series die a whimpering death of mediocrity. If he had done it he'd have made over 100 million for that year of shows.

I'd be quite happy is Tennant beat Baker's record of eight years. Of course, that's only if Tennant maintains his enthusiasm for the show.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Wall-E, Right Wing Hero?]]> @B: there are plenty of small family farms in Idaho although a lot of them are organic.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on A New Explanation for Morgellons, the Disease that Makes Wires Grow Out of Your Skin]]> @allaun: the fibers were studied:

Wymore sent samples of fibers supplied by Morgellons patients to the Police Crime Lab in Tulsa, Oklahoma for analysis. A forensic scientist at the Tulsa Police Crime Lab in Oklahoma searched the FBI's national database, but the Morgellons sample did not match any known fiber in the database.[12] Lab director Mark Boese said the fibers were "consistent with something that the body may be producing," adding, "These fibers cannot be manmade and do not come from a plant. This could be a byproduct of a biological organism."[12]

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on How To Fix Life On Mars: Bring In PRI's Favorite Son]]> @Thorfin: I guess you didn't see David Sedaris on The Daily Show because if you had you would've known he's quit smoking.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Science Fiction That Could Turn You Queer, If Only for a Nanosecond]]> or to not sex your sex
should read
or to not change your sex
doh!

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Democratic Convention May Debut Use Of Poop Gun]]> It has to be true because Cartman got the entire contingent of recorder players to play the note at the same time and everybody pooped their pants and if Cartman witnessed it happening I will take his word that it did indeed happen and anybody saying otherwise is a big stinky doody head.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Science Fiction That Could Turn You Queer, If Only for a Nanosecond]]> Didn't the The Next Generation Section 31 book have a main character who was gay? I think he was also the guy in the First Contact movie that was Borged then shot when he, Worf, and Piccard went outside on the Enterprise to stop the Borgs from using the deflector array to contact the collective back in the Delta Quadrant? Of course, in the movie you don't get to know that he is gay but you do learn about it in the book.

And, of course, in The Culture novels by Iain M. Banks most of the Culture people are pansexual, can change their sex at will with a bit of time, and have sex in public because it's considered as normal as sneezing in public. And to make it even more awesome Culture people can stimulate their glands to create over 300 different drugs including some designed to make sex even more intense so they get to have drug fueled orgies whenever the mood strikes them. In fact, it's considered a bit narrow minded not to have had sex with somebody of your gender or to not sex your sex. Banks is quickly becoming one of my all time favorite writers up there with Gene Wolfe, George R. R. Martin, and Walter Jon Williams.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Will The Sci Fi Channel Water Down The Doctor Who Finale?]]> If it wasn't for torrents I would be contemplating the creation of a class action lawsuit against the Sci-Fi channel for their egregious maltreatment of us Doctor Who fans. I'm going to watch the finale torrent style but I sure do feel for the folks stuck with Sci-Fi deciding their telly fate.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Arby's Roast Beef Sandwich, Now With Beef Confetti?]]> @sicknick: and as soon as we get the Model UN Club off the island we'll take you and your sister to Arbys :)

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on $30 TV Dinner Features Porcelain Tray, Free Range Chicken]]> @Dakine: most industrially farmed chickens are kept inside, never see the light of day, and are in such tight quarters that they have to chop their beaks off so they don't peck each other to death as they stand atop their own poop and are fed daily antibiotics as preventitive medicine because the conditions tend to cause the chickens to get sick if they don't. Free range means the chickens were raised the way chickens used to be raised. And no, I'm not a vegetarian but I am unwilling to buy meat where the animals were pretty much tortured the entirety of their lives.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on The True Meaning of Starbuck's Bonfire]]> You've got bad info! Starbuck is doing nothing more than roasting some marshmellows and drinking a few brews with some of the gang while they bitch about how much Earth sucks. The drinking and depression continues until it erupts into a drunken orgy that results in everybody not looking one another in the eyes for the rest of the season.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Spray-on Skin Coming to a Drugstore Near You]]> Now the question is if they perfect this technology if you chopped your head off could you end up being two people? The headless body grows a new head and the bodyless head grows a new body. If it worked, you could keep chopping your head off until you had an army of yourself to take over the world. Muahahahaha!

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Who is the Gayest Robot in Science Fiction?]]> How could you forget H.E.L.P.eR. from The Venture Brothers? He is capable of queening out sans dialog and his arms flail about more than the Lost in Space robot regardless of his name. I had to stick up for my fellow queerbot seeing how my icon is the Venture Brothers' skull graphic tho that's not too obvious with its current, ahem, shrinkage.

Also, if Bender is anything he's robosexual cuz we all know he only inputs the fembots even the one voiced by Bea Arthur, although it would be cool for a mirror universe Bender to be gay. And I adore when Bender looks at robot porn schematics and gets all hot when the fembots remove their chassis.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Doctor Who's Year (And A Half) Of Hell]]> Top notch episode all around save for Billie Piper (perhaps her woodenness was meant to reflect a part of her spirit was missing, perhaps the crossing from universe to universe ripped a part of her soul away?) was and the cheesy temporal cockroach, which I thought would've been much better as some sort of glowing, plasma based time leech CGI that'd been pretty easy to do although I do get the nod to classic Who uber-cheap monsters. Remember the dinosaur head on the stick where you could actually see a bit of the stick? I also loved the cloister bell ringing. During Midnight's Confidential the sound FX guy was saying how they like to use FXs from the classic era and thanks to them the cloister definitely sent a sense dread down my spine.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on A Rip In Space-Time Gets You Laid, In New Futurama Movie]]> Did anybody else think Fry was kinda sexy in the death ball outfit?

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on First Look At Stargate Atlantis Season 5]]> @IHateNewYork: it leaked onto the internet torrent style so no you didn't miss it airing.

As much as I will miss Sam I'm happy to see Robert Picardo (the snarky but lovable EMH from Voyager) replacing her. Looks like a great season is ahead of us!

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Refuses Bathroom Access to 5-Year-Old, Who Then Has Diarrhea In Front Of Them]]> @Concerned_Citizen: when you meet the Wizard will you ask for a heart first or a brain?

"Can't somebody think of the children?" said with all the histrionics of Reverend Lovejoy's wife can muster.

Our civilization is surely going downhill when people think they are being rational when they proclaim that the possibility of a one in a million insurance accident takes precedence over a five year old child's needs. Even if the parent knew the child was sick, which they probably didn't because, you know, five year olds aren't masters of their bodies, human decency requires you to help if it is feasible. Taking the stupidity of the anti arguments you can easily say that if you were in an accident and bleeding to death that nobody except trained professionals like EMTs and police officers should assist you because the kind stranger that helped out might end up being sued by the person they helped.

You can either put your humanity first or you can put your checkbook and job first--it's your choice.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Famous Climate Scientist Goes Postal, Tries to Lock up Big Oil CEOs]]> Can't we just build a bunch of air conditioners to cool the planet down? Algae powered air conditioners the size of stadiums from sea to shining sea!

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Bet On Who The New Doctor Will Be]]> If we get a female doctor in the future, which I am all in favor of, I'd love to see her companion played by Alan Partridge.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Welcome to the Culture, the Galactic Civilization That Iain M. Banks Built]]> I want to thank io9 for getting back into reading books again via Banks' works. I have been checking out io9 for 3-5 months (can't really remember how long) but one of the earlier articles was about 20 novels I just had to read to be a true fan of sci-fi and one of them was Consider Phlebas. Well, a few weeks ago I was at the evil Hastings (a friend went in there to look for a British motorcycle magazine) and I was perusing the new hardbacks to kill time and they had a trade paperback version of Phlebas there and my mind actually remembered the article and after reading its blurb on the back, on a whim, I bought it. (All hail the mighty stimulus checks for their part in this story.) A few days later, after a visit to the local indy bookstore that I prefer to patronize, I had ordered five more of his books. To me, Banks' writing is what sci-fi should be. A big inspirational thank you to io9 and its staffers and, of course, Iain M. Banks. On a nice synchronicity note Matter was released on my birthday :)

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Where's Starbuck?]]> @Coxswain: Since the Cylons' goal was the genocide of humanity I could easily see them seeding their weapons to maintain long levels of radiation so those that escaped the actual blasts can be killed by the radiation--remember when Helo was on Caprica he needed to keep taking anti-radiation meds to stay alive. Regarding the "Earth" planet we have too little knowledge to know what happened.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Google is NOT Making us STUPID]]> teh googles makes me smarts than him so hes all so blah blah blah yr so dum win hes teh bastad. plus, i luv googling peeps!

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Punk'd! Charlie Jade Moves To Graveyard Shift]]> When do we pool our money together and start the io9 channel so we can air science fiction 24/7?

Wrestling is NOT science fiction, it is fantasy; homophobic guys watching bearish hulks in underoos perform homoerotic battle ballet is pure fiction invovling zero science. :)

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Where's Starbuck?]]> For those saying Nagasaki's quick recovery from radiation means the battle on whatever planet they are on had to be recent neglects to take into account that the people who bombed the planet might have had technology more advanced that could keep a planet radiated for years, decades, centuries, or even more. If quick clearing radiation was the situation they could go back to the colonies (if the Cylons were taken care of or a peace treaty was signed) as it has been three years since the initial attacks there and that radiation would be mostly gone but that's only if they used our Earth 2008 type nukes not Colonial or Cylon based far more advanced nukes that might, by design, keep the ground radiated far, far longer.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Batwoman Will Finally Come Out]]> Where's my Captain Homo?

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Battlestar Galactica Goes Planet of the Apes]]> Great episode! I had to rewatch the Earth landing/decimated pan three times cuz it was so delicious.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Best Doctor Who Episode Of The Year]]> This is the first Dr. Who in ages that got my pulse racing towards the end when the Doctor was all helpless and everybody was being manipulated into murdering the Doctor. I absolutely adored this episode and I, unfortunately, went into it thinking it was going to be mediocre based on the preview from the previous--boy was I wrong! And I even got my wish from last week where I posted that I hope the Doctor's psychic paper/sonic screwdriver don't help him out of a situation and that's exactly what it did. I also like we never got to see the monster; that the engineer pointed out something moving but that was it and that it was never explained. Instead, we realize that humanity is just as bad as any monster under stresfful circumstances. Of course, I already knew that but to have it so starkly displayed was brilliant.

RTD(OBE) you deserve a round of applause!

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on "The Happening" Is the Biggest Intelligent Design Movie of the Year]]> I wonder who's gonna clean up all that scientist jizz?

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on OMG! We Come From Space!]]> @Triborough: I agree, Cthulhu will probably devour the souls of kids first, quite prescient for the state of Virginia to realize that.

]]> <![CDATA[brentbent commented on Can The US Learn Anything From Health Care In Other Countries?]]> @Bladefist: Medicaid/Medicare is one of the best run insurance programs they only have a 3-5% overhead cost while private insurers have 14-18% overhead thanks to absurd upper tier salaries--nobody in the government is going to make a seven figure salary let alone eight--corporate jets, and retreats at four star hotels on the backs on the backs of the customers.

]]>