Fundamentally, science is about factual observation and "logical" reasoning.

Not the way I do it.

But seriously, the fact that an attempt to hold video game journalists to an ethical standard...

Hey look, I got one!

You people who believe in the singularity very obviously don't know how a computer works. It's simply an electric abacus; look at schematics for an ALU or a logic gate. How many beads do I need to put on my abacus before it becomes self-aware?

The danger is anthropomorphism; it's simply too easy to fool people into believing they see sentience where there is none. Evil people will use this to their evil ends.

Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. At 1:35 A.M. Eastern time it runs out of disk space and crashes horribly

And the developers promise a Day One patch and announce DLC.

Machines have a history of blowing up or falling apart, but not of becoming evil and maniacal murderers.

I don't know if you ever had to change the RAM in an older Dell computer, but one nearly bit my hand off.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm living in a computer simulation being run on a computer. And I'm starting to get the feeling that it's a poorly optimized console port from Ubisoft.

I blame ethics in game journalism. Because bitches, man....

How long will it be before "scientists" say exactly the opposite again?

I've lived long enough to see everything become unhealthy and then healthy and then unhealthy again. And it's always based "on science".

The fact is, everything will kill you. That's why I only eat bacon, chocolate ice cream and bourbon whiskey. I may start smoking again, just to be ahead of the curve.

So, you're telling me the $300 I paid to the Journal of Experimental Onanism to publish my findings was a waste of money?

Damn. I've already printed up my CV and that paper is at the top of my list of publications. I suppose I should have been suspicious when I saw that the editors that were assigned to peer review my paper were Jack Meihoff and Richard Gazinya.

Yeah, what's up with that? I usually see at least a half-dozen JEs from you ever week. They're my excuse for drinking early.

$450 million is nothing to Apple. They find that much under the cushions on the sofas in the Apple lounge. They spend more than that every week on KY and poppers.

Yeah, me too.

I'm pretty sure a DS is sort of an updated version of one of these things:

http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/sli...

I already know what I'm gonna do with mine.

Boom, motherfuckers.

I can't speak to the accuracy of your argument or your citation, because I just don't know, but out of admiration, I'm going to end every one of my Thanksgiving political discussions with family members with "Boom, motherfuckers."

This isn't so crazy.

I know for a fact that having a hot girl blow on my dice helps me make that eight the hard way.