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    Image of disatess disatess
    10/18/09

    In reply to Rorschach is Not Sinestro... Yet
    No, He`s all wrong for the part ,sinestro is tall ,smart and very arogant (excuse the misspell).

    I know that Jackie Earle Harley is good actor , he made a great Rorschach , despite the rest of the movie . But I think the part is simply wrong for him . #greenlantern
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    Image of Starwatcher Starwatcher
    10/18/09

    In reply to Rorschach is Not Sinestro... Yet
    Haley's definitely got the insane-looking skull for Sinestro. #greenlantern
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    10/18/09

    @Starwatcher: I dunno, I really think Sinestro needs an English accent. Which I realize is odd, because he's an alien, but whatever. #greenlantern
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    10/18/09

    In reply to Rorschach is Not Sinestro... Yet
    Oh, and Guy Gardner? Mr. Bruce Campbell (or, alternatively, if he's too old, Will Arnett) #greenlantern
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    10/18/09

    @Wookie1972: Very good choices, but I think Bruce would be a much better Guy Gardner, Will Arnett is too...wiry. I think Bruce would fill out the roll better, literally. #greenlantern
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    Image of Guitaratomik Guitaratomik
    10/18/09

    @Wookie1972: I think both of them are too old. Guy Gardner should be one of the younger ones shouldn't he? #greenlantern
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    10/18/09

    @Guitaratomik: I thought Gardner was around the same age as Hal, maybe even a little older. He became a GL later, but I thought he seemed a little older. Arnett is at most a few years older than Reynolds. #greenlantern
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    Image of MIster_C MIster_C
    10/18/09

    In reply to Rorschach is Not Sinestro... Yet
    I Haily I truly do, but not as Sinestro #greenlantern
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    Image of Guitaratomik Guitaratomik
    10/18/09

    In reply to Rorschach is Not Sinestro... Yet
    Yeah, as much as I love JEH, I really don't think he'd make a good Sinestro. Sinestro needs to be more regal and....taller. I've heard both Hugo Weaving and Paul Bettany thrown around as ideas from fans and I think those choices fit much better. You could probably do better than that even. #greenlantern
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    Wookie1972 promoted this comment Guitaratomik was starred Guitaratomik was unstarred
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    10/18/09

    @Guitaratomik: Considering that the model for Sinestro was David Niven, I think you're closer with Weaving or Bettany than Haley. My first thought was Guy Pearce (also for the Riddler), but another that comes to mind is Hugh Laurie (possibly a little too old). #greenlantern
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    Image of Guitaratomik Guitaratomik
    10/18/09

    @Wookie1972: I think Sinestro should be a bit older than Hal. He should be more a father figure than a brother so Hugh Laurie would actually be pretty interesting. #greenlantern
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    10/18/09

    @Guitaratomik: Any one of them could pull off the sophistication. Haley... I'm sorry, but he seems to play a lot of seedy characters. #greenlantern
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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    10/18/09

    @Guitaratomik: Yeah, Hugo Weaving could pull it off. Love to see him slinging the green. #greenlantern
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    10/18/09

    In reply to Rorschach is Not Sinestro... Yet
    i like how this article ninja'd in. guess the otehr one was posted in error?

    anyways i dont see him so much as sinestro, but again i have only seen him as rorshach. i dont want the christian bale rasp treatment on sinestro. #greenlantern
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    Image of Graeme McMillan Graeme McMillan
    10/18/09

    @GreyHammer: See below - I'd accidentally posted a story Meredith had already posted earlier this week, so figured everyone'd prefer something they hadn't already read.

    I do, however, like the idea of me as ninja. ;) #greenlantern
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    10/18/09

    @Graeme McMillan: ah ok cool. yeah i wondered about that.

    i hope the green lantern production gets ironed out. i have been wanting to see this movie for a long time it seems. #greenlantern
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    Image of Graeme McMillan Graeme McMillan
    10/18/09

    In reply to Rorschach is Not Sinestro... Yet

    To all concerned: Yup, this is a replacement for the duplicate Nathan Fillion/Greatest American Hero post that I unknowingly repeated from Meredith. Lest it be said that I stole a Fillion pic from you, however: #greenlantern
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    Image of k4man k4man
    09/25/09

    In reply to 10 Best Robot Bodies To Jack Your Brain Into
    still no Ship Who Sang?
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    09/25/09

    @k4man: Oh ack... You know, I really did mean to include that!
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    09/25/09

    In reply to 10 Best Robot Bodies To Jack Your Brain Into
    "while the actual people (and robot, in Bender's case)"

    I would suggest that Bender is clearly a person, just not a human person.
    -Kle.
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    Image of phoenix phoenix
    09/24/09

    In reply to 10 Best Robot Bodies To Jack Your Brain Into
    Wow. This list hit the mark in so many ridiculous ways I can't even start. Well played. :D

    Much love for including ZERO-enabled mobile suits on the list too; I had all but forgotten about them. And much much love for including GiTS on the list; I think you were right yesterday - more intuitive inclusion on this list than yesterday's. And Gally! Well done. ::salutes::
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    Image of CodenameV CodenameV
    09/24/09

    In reply to 10 Best Robot Bodies To Jack Your Brain Into
    Neon Genesis Evangelion only gets honorable mention?! well let me tell you,,,,,,uh, wait.....wait no, Evas aren't remote-controlled at all if you're "piloting"them that would have to be under yesterday's "things to download your soul into"....my mistake.

    But why doesn't Io9 have a dedicated anime column? You like Gundam, you like Ghost in the Shelll....
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    Bill-Lee promoted this comment CodenameV was starred CodenameV was unstarred
    Image of CodenameV CodenameV
    09/24/09

    @CodenameV: yet you take time away from reporting on anime stuff to report on a bad Witches of Eastwick remake, et al....anime is great, but just as the Oscars dont' consider scifi to be "mature", scifi doesn't like anime.
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    Image of LiC LiC
    09/24/09

    @CodenameV: Evangelion sucks. The mecha/aliens plot is used quite a bit - maybe Evangelion was the first, I don't know, but there is a lot of sci-fi anime out there.

    Evangelion sucks. (I just had to repeat it)
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    Grey_Area promoted this comment LiC was starred LiC was unstarred
    Image of MrTim MrTim
    09/24/09

    In reply to 10 Best Robot Bodies To Jack Your Brain Into
    No love for tabletop role-playing games in either of these lists?

    Shadowrun has riggers (a term that, I believe, was originally used with this meaning in Walter John Williams' Hard Wired) who plug into drones and vehicles either directly or remotely, giving them enhanced reaction time and finer control over the vehicle.

    There are at least two transhumanist RPGs I know of that allow for player characters to copy their personalities into digital form: the out-of-print but not out-of-stock Transhuman Space from Steve Jackson Games and the Creative Commons Licensed (and therefore free in PDF; just Google "Eclipse Phase RPG free download" and poke around a little) Eclipse Phase from Catalyst Games.
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    Evdor promoted this comment MrTim was starred MrTim was unstarred
    Image of Evdor Evdor
    09/24/09

    @MrTim: It also has Deckers, who log directly into the internet, most well known for putting the brakes on any Shadowrun RPG EVER.

    Also, io9 needs some tabletop RPG love, of the sci fi variety.
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    Image of Bismod Bismod
    09/24/09

    In reply to 10 Best Robot Bodies To Jack Your Brain Into

    In EarthBound Ness and his friends must have their souls placed in robot bodies in order to travel through time because time travel destroys organic matter. Though technically this seems like complete transference rather than remote control, they get their bodies back afterward so I thought it fit better in this post.

    Oh, and by the way, play EarthBound.
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    techgoddess: now with more tech than goddess promoted this comment Edited by Bismod at 09/24/09 4:38 PM Bismod was starred Bismod was unstarred
    Image of AutonymousPrime AutonymousPrime
    09/24/09

    In reply to 10 Best Robot Bodies To Jack Your Brain Into
    In the "Ghost in the Shell 2.0: Man Machine Interface" comic, Motoko Aramaki encounters multiple versions of her self (or shells) which have split off and are operating individually, causing a bit of a philosophical headache for her original (or is it?) self.
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    Chip Overclock promoted this comment AutonymousPrime was starred AutonymousPrime was unstarred
    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    09/24/09

    @AutonymousPrime: I thought that was the principle issue in the original movie: Major Kusanagi is riding on the canal boat through a flooded Tokyo, looks up, and sees a woman eating in a second story restaurant that looks exactly like her. Until then, she had assumed that her ghost (consciousness) had been copied from her original body into the cyborg body. But now she's faced with the possibility that she's just an AI much like the artifact she and Section 9 are hunting.
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    Image of dumanue dumanue
    09/24/09

    @Chip Overclock: it was, or so I got from that sequence as well...that's one of the strongest points in the movie to me...the musing on what makes a soul a soul...
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    09/25/09

    @dumanue: That's my take on it too (and one of the things that makes it such a great movie: raising these kinds of existential questions... something Roger Ebert alludes to in his review BTW).
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    09/24/09

    In reply to 10 Best Robot Bodies To Jack Your Brain Into
    Forget those microbots in Futurama. I'd rather have the worms. They're like organic versions of nanotechnology making you, stronger, faster, smarter....

    Just keep away from my pelvic splanchnic ganglion...
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