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twDarkflame
09/08/09

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Id rather they got around to expanded support for devices for their digital comic book archive.
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Mighty Bomb Jack
09/08/09

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X-Men (90s)! I'd set that ringtone to my boss, so the bad of him calling would be offset by the good of that theme song.
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
09/08/09

@Mighty Bomb Jack: When I am old and Alzheimers ridden--barely able to remember my own name--my children will wonder come to visit me in a nursing home.

"Hows he doing" they'll ask the nurses. "Hes fine." they'll respond. "But he keeps on humming this strange tune no one can identify."

"We've asked him about it, but he never gives a clear answer. All he ever says is..."

"...this ones for you Morph!"
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Mighty Bomb Jack
09/08/09

@OW-Holmes--Upset with Polling: The difference between us, my good man, is that I will make sure that this tune is unmistakable to my children's children's children.

But,

"...this one's for you, Morph!" indeed.
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Meirelle
05/09/09

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[www.gamersyde.com]

Skip to six minutes in. Yeah. We're gonna have that by 2014. Hideo Kojima never lies.
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corpore-metal
05/09/09

@meirelle wants an F-15:

They'd probably start with human sized ones first.
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Meirelle
05/10/09

@corpore-metal, has sympathy for Skynet: what if they already have human-sized ones?
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Meirelle
05/09/09

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METAL GEAR!?
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Roklimber
05/09/09

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Boston Dynamics... hmm... sounds like Massive Dynamic, and it's in Boston. I smell Fringe.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
05/09/09

@Roklimber: My thought exactly. We know they do amazing artificial hands already.
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Elizabeth Weinbloom
05/09/09

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Guns. Awesome.

"Remember hopping for our lives? Do you remember? All that hopping? Yeah? Hopping for our lives? No?"
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lightninglouie
03/06/09

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You know, of all the things I'm looking forward to in the upcoming Ghostbusters game, using the Wiimote to control Egon's Ecto-Gauge probably tops the list. (And yes, I realize it sounds dirty.)
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jeffedsell
03/06/09

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Oh, and isn't the show "Danny Phantom" about Danny's ghost-hunting parents who use Ghostbusters-like tech? (Haven't watched it, but I understand that's the case.)
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Platypus Man
03/06/09

@jeffedsell: If I remember correctly, then yeah, that's basically the case. And if Fairly Odd-Parents is included, then I don't see why Danny Phantom (which I actually quite enjoyed) shouldn't be included, except for maybe the fact that it's mostly the same that Ghostbusters has. Also that it wasn't on the air for very long. They even had the same creator.
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hughie522
03/06/09

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I would complain about the absence of the Doctor's "Timey Wimey Detector", but then that's not really magic (although: any suitably advanced technology and all that. And it's not like the TARDIS isn't bordering on the realm of "magic" already).
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lightninglouie
03/06/09

@hughie522: Don't forget the Fifth Doctor's stalk of celery, which would turn brown in the presence of a particular toxin (and probably went very well with Buffalo Wings).
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Tee for Ten
03/06/09

@lightninglouie: only if accompanied by timey-wimey ranch dip.
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jeffedsell
03/06/09

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This doesn't exactly count, but in "Danny Dunn, Scientific Detective" Danny builds a temperature-based ghost detector. He reasons that because people always seem to get a cold chill in the presence of ghosts, that heat energy must go somewhere. So he builds a geigier-counter-like device for detecting hotspots.
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lightninglouie
03/06/09

@jeffedsell: And thus the seed for a zillion crappy "documentary" series was planted in the minds of future cable TV programmers across the nation...
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KhaiJB
03/06/09

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I put forward CMOT Dibblers Dragon Detector from Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards!

this consisted of a piece of wood on a metal rod. When the woods burnt, you've found your dragon.
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Grey_Area
03/06/09

@KhaiJB: FOOLPROOF!
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Grey_Area
03/06/09

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That is a mighty comprehensive list. Love the Vampire Detection Gauntlet, it would look awesome remade in actual brass.

It's a stretch, but what about the Entroposcope Tuesday Next uses Well of Lost Plots in by Jasper Fforde? It's just a jar of dry rice and beans. If she shakes it and the beans and rice group together, extreme weirdness is imminent.

Not quite Magic, but a technology indistinguishable from same.
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Grey_Area
03/06/09

@Grey_Area: Then there was the carrot Tuesday carried with her. If it began to sprout feathers and demanding crackers she new she was in the presence of the dreaded mispeling virus. Once again, not really magic nor high-tech. Sorry.
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Spiral
03/06/09

@Grey_Area: Wasn't it Thursday Next, not Tuesday Next? Or am I unaware of another alternate universe?
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Grey_Area
03/06/09

@Spiral: I am a moron. Yes it is Thursday, this must be Friday.

I would plead for an edit function but this grievous error should stand as I hang my pointed little head in shame.
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AngryEddy
03/06/09

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Just seeing Egon made my day... Containment Unit, FTW.
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GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
03/07/09

@AngryEddy:
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MrThunderfield
03/06/09

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By a small stretch, maybe Dr. Who's sonic screwdriver?

There's no magic going on in Dr. Who, but some stuff that happens is so extraordinary that it could well be, if it wasn't vaguely explained as scientific or as alien technology.
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Tee for Ten
03/06/09

@MrThunderfield: Agreed. That thing can detect everything from body trauma in "The Empty Child" to the vashta nerada in "Silence in the Library" and almost anything in-between. If tricorders are on the list, you have to have the sonic screwdriver.
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Ghede
03/06/09

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You forgot... nothing? What? WHAT?! Why did I read this if I couldn't make a self-important remark like "I can't believe you forgot X and Y!"
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Charlie Jane Anders
03/06/09

@Ghede: Ha! Well, I can go back and edit out a couple of the listings so you can complain about their absence, if you want....
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Ghede
03/07/09

@Charlie Jane Anders: While your at it, throw in some fictional fictional magic detectors. See if anybody notices.

The Great Gamozgrafyer is the greatest of all! I love the adventures of the mad haberdasher by John Smyythe. It has a special place on my bookshelf of CyberSteamAtompunk fiction.
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