<![CDATA[Comments from royen]]> <![CDATA[Comments from royen]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on Hand To Mutant Bone Blade Fighting In Mutant Chronicles Trailer]]> @Sissymary: Game. Sort of a mash-up between (originally) Swedish role-playing games Mutant and Kult, and then injected with a giant dose of Warhammer 40,000.

]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on Jericho Ads Appear More Often On TV Than Jericho]]> Maybe it's just that fans of the post apocalypse are starved for good TV? I mean, before Jericho it was the The Stand miniseries in 1994.

Still, I agree it's time we let go...

]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on A Gene That Makes You Really Horny for Men]]> And in other news, swedish researchers have found that the brains of homosexual men and women are more like their respective opposite sexes.

Partially retarded/partially brilliant Google translation of swedish newspaper article below.

[google.com]

]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on Discover The Secret Of Lost. Maybe.]]> I have several problems with this theory, but mainly: what _can't_ be explained through time travel? Just seems a bit too deus ex machina-ey to me...

]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on Brace Yourself For Cancer-Horror And The Lost Cyberpunk Novel]]> Hehe, "Extreme Short Stories" could mean they're extreme in brevity rather than in content.

]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on Quantum Internet Could Protect Batman's Secret Identity]]> @papercup mixmaster: Several things, actually. TOR (The Onion Router) mentioned in the article works by routing messages randomly through a number of nodes (ie computers). The address to each node is encrypted in a separate layer, with the actual plaintext message in the innermost layer, and each layer is stripped before the data is passed on to the next node, so it's very difficult to trace a message back to its origin.

Also, on a fundamental level, measuring a quantum system introduces easily detectable disturbances into the system. Attempting to, say, intercept a cryptographic key would be immediately detectable. Some even claim that the act of intercepting a message would render it indecipherable due to the errors introduced.

]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on William Gibson And Rod Serling, Together At Last]]> Guy: - I wish... that... someone would make a Neuromancer movie!
Genie: - Done!
Guy: - Great... Wait, what? That's not what I wished for!
Genie: - You should have been more specific.

]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on East Germany's Buried Cyborg Army]]> Awesome. In fact, it looks Outpost awesome, even ...

]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on Why Mike Mignola Draws the Best Fight Scenes Ever]]> Awesome! Must get my hands on the Amazing Screw-on Head pilot ...

]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on How To Bring The Weird In Your Near-Future Stories]]> Aaand ...

(wait for it) ...

sixthed! Great post, by the way!

]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on Failure of the Planet of the Apes Hypothesis]]> Sorry if someone's already pointed this out, but some scientists argue that higher intelligence is in fact detrimental to the survival of a species. While humans are positively thriving (although you could argue that we are slowly "intelligencing" ourselves to death), the second and third most intelligent species are close to extinction.

Still, given the size of the universe and the time its been around, you could write something clever about monkeys and typewriters here.

]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on The Complete X-Files on The X-Files]]> Hey, I'm watching X-Files right now (it was a bit too creepy for me when it first aired).

Gibson Trivia: Darryl Musashi, one of the characters in the William Gibson Episode 'First Person Shooter', is recycled in Pattern Recognition. Or at least his name is.

]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on How Far Is Jericho's Eric Green Willing To Go?]]> Gah, I refuse to accept that this was the end. Sure, the first season was kind of slow at times, but come on! It's 24 without the stupidity! How could anybody NOT like this?!

]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on Now That Plagues Are Played Out, What Should Be Movies' Next Apocalypse?]]> I'll take Nuclear Holocaust over any of those every day. With New Ice Age as a distant second.

I could also go for a nano-cloud disaster movie where, at the pivotal scene where everyone thinks the nano-bots have just disappeared, the main scientist guy realizes that, oh noes, they're multiplying like crazy to block out the sunlight and kill everyone for good! My god! And then some very unlikely plan saves the day. Remember where you read it first.

]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on Return to the Future Past of "Gamma World"]]> @AdamL: Actually there are two. Sort of. One's a fan-made version [fallout-rpg.narod.ru] , and the other one [pnp.fallout.wikia.com] is by J.E. Sawyer.

]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on Jericho's Attack On Corporate Dominance, Sponsored By Sprint]]> @guibom: I agree. Some people cite not getting the bigger picture as the reason they stopped watching. The show is called 'Jericho', though, so I guess the focus on the eponymous town shouldn't come as a surprise.

]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on Neal Stephenson's New Novel Remains Shrouded in Mystery]]> @kstop: I'd really rather see his books made into tv. Among several reasons is that the plots would not have to be condensed nearly as much, and tv is generally less stupid than movies these days.

By the way, The Diamond Age is being made into a six-part miniseries by the Sci Fi Channel. Though ya'll probably already knew that.

]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on Neal Stephenson's New Novel Remains Shrouded in Mystery]]> Ha! This actually sort of made my day!

]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on Dogoid Robot with No Head Moves in an Eerily Lifelike Manner]]> On the next episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles: The gang goes to Boston!

]]> <![CDATA[royen commented on Which Parallel World Deserves Its Own Novel?]]> Tim Berners-Lee never invents the internet. This comment is never made. Oh, the paradox!

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