Recent content by Spyre2k

On the Independence day Wi-Fi reference, even today we have pretty shitty security on a lot of things. But the only reason we need it is because other people can't be trusted not to abuse the access. However in a race of telepaths that are all united on a single goal of conquering worlds there...

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Yeah, because those who try to classify anything that happens anytime after an Apocalypse are basically clamming that anything modern is set in the "Dark Ages". Because the whole idea of the Dark Ages was the Post-Apocalypse period that came with the fall of the Roman Empire. The term Apocalypse...

While Firefly was a great series it is not Post Apocalyptic setting, it is a Post-Post Apocalyptic setting. A Post Apocalyptic setting is set either at or shortly after the Apocalypse. While the was an Apocalypse in the past it takes place after Civilization has been rebuilt. Now if the Firefly...

I prefer the more mechanics heavy games because the story based ones I think give to much leeway. As mentioned in the podcast the mechanics ones seem to have more weight because it is a lot harder to hand wave away a mistake. And sometimes some of the most interesting and amusing things can...

The argument of the video is that science can't explain why or meaning behind things and thus it's can't reveal truth. But why and meaning are things open to interpretation and are subjective things, just like any other opinion. Where as truth is something that is factually correct. Like it...

Have they done something different with their video stream? I can't view this or ZP. I haven't had any problems with other videos earlier during the week. It seems similar to the issue I have with blip.tv in that one day it just stop working. So I've just stop watching those podcast. Lot of...

Modern games seem easier due in large part to the frequency of saving. A lot of the older games were based on the arcade model of every time you sit down to play you start from the beginning. This means that you have to get every move along the way as perfect as possible or you start over...

Well the "problem" with the American Dream is that it doesn't quite mean the same thing to everyone. Thanks to heavy marketing in the 50s most, like George Carlin, talk about it in reference to the House with white picket fence and being married with 2 kids living happily in the suburbs. This I...

I think this video covers quite nicely why capitalism is not Imperialism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wy4Sigqd3A&

I think Nintendo should pull up stakes as Bob put it. It's hold out is mostly in having it's own console, but the Wii seemed little more than a fad. They need to do what other companies have done and just switch over to making games since that's where their real strengths seem to lay. They...

On the topic of Automation making it so no one has to work, I think this is highly unlikely. What instead you see is a shift to more technical jobs as they need people to run those machines. The mass unemployment however comes from lots of unskilled labor jobs being replaced with skilled labor...

I'm surprised they choose this video as their first on the escapist as it seems very bias. I checked their youtube channel and the other 8-Bit episodes seem to present two differing philosopher's points of view on a given topic and then ask which you thought was right. As for the topic at...

On global warming and other environment issues I think there is a lot of apathy because like you said they do sound crazy. And making more extremely claims doesn't actually help their cause it hinders it. Like mentioned earlier how we all grew up basically hearing doom and gloom where we should...

The talk of Benevolent AI manipulating things reminds me of Person of Interest. In it they are exploring that idea but also pointing out AI won't necessarily have the same values as us. The "Evil" AI in it is basically trying to take over the world but when discussing it with the "Good" AI...