Karmashock

Reply to Bioshock Sequel? {Bioshock 1 spoilers) !!!!! in Games Sins Forums

I think a sequel is unlikely... Its more likely that they'll just release a similar game. It sounds like this guy is just thrilled people like the game and thus wants to do a repeat... much like a director making one hit movie and then wanting to make another movie... which may or may not have anything to do with the first one. Personally, what annoyed me about bioshock is that it gave me SO much freedom that it made me upset that I couldn't turn on Fontaine earlier and save raptur

Reply to Time travel/ Looking into the past??? in Everything Else Sins Forums

I think you'd need a telescope the size of a galaxy to get resolution worth a damn at that range.

Reply to Why the future doesnt need us in Everything Else Sins Forums

Depends on your definition of organic. Whether your talking about carbon-based life, or bodies that, much like ours, are capable of self-repair and modification at a low (cellular / molecular?) level. The latter, I would hope, would be here to stay. While the idea of having tiny self repairing machines be the basis of body sounds appealing, it might not be the best approach for our offspring. It might be more suitable to be bui

Reply to Why the future doesnt need us in Everything Else Sins Forums

it's called evolution. We are almost certain to be replaced by a superior species one day, it may as well be one we created. I should hope it's something "of" our creation. It would be very sad indeed to be replaced by a different branch of the great evolutionary tree after we've made such strides forward. Ultimately though, I think our brains are the newest form of evolution on earth. I think

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That robot arm is cool, but I must disagree to that video that says Humans are just monkeys. Humans are way more evolved mentally and socially. We are and we aren't... Would you settle for Super Monkeys? Or Mega Monkeys?

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karma, if you had an implant in your ear that processed sounds from far away and then sent them directly to your brain, your body would stop using its eardrums since they would just get in the way. Oh, I was thinking of the speaker as a built in interface to an internal computer. Allowing distance communication, the ability to listen to broadcasts, or the ability to listen to sound stored on or created by your internal computer. This would mean for example th

Reply to What unit would your username fit in Sins??? in Everything Else Sins Forums

maybe a small to medium sized advent cruiser. Or perhaps just a psi ability... like a shield or something.

Reply to Why the future doesnt need us in Everything Else Sins Forums

Yes but not being able to do math wont A math chip was only an example of such implants. The point was that a cyborg would generally require parts and service to survive that a normal human would not. Consider that I was also talking about people that had cr

Reply to Why the future doesnt need us in Everything Else Sins Forums

actually, it gets me to the point of saying "you cannot say that, because thats absoluting the demise of speculation ". Not really, the point hurts your argument as much as mine. So it's a wash. It's obvious we're speculating anyway. I don't think anyone is claiming to know these things with scientific certainty... and the degree of speculation that is tolerable on a gaming forum's off topic section is almost infinite. So as

Reply to Bioshock Anyone? in Games Sins Forums

By the time that's a problem for you they'll have disabled that part of the copy protection. And even if they didn't, you can just unauthenticate old installs. It's really not that complicated.

Reply to Why the future doesnt need us in Everything Else Sins Forums

unless you have a closet degree in devine knowledge, you do not know that. By the same token, neither do you. So that argument doesn't get you anywhere. by integral I mean nescessary to survival, i.e. the brain would shut down without it, not that peripheral means you put a textbook in your head that floats just out of vision. As an organic component it's going to become dependent on anything that is integrated wi

Reply to SunAge in Games Sins Forums

I've got to say, I'm not really interested in "old" RTS feel... I expect something innovative out of any game I play these days... that or a really good story. And RTS's don't lend themselves well to telling stories. At least not that I've seen. THey're more action orreinted really then even FPS games because you're very much in an artificial environment. You can sort of imagine yourself as the player in an FPS or even an RPG game. But when you've got a God's eye view of hundreds of units that y

Reply to Bioshock Anyone? in Games Sins Forums

meh... if it really bothers you can download the nocd crack that will come out eventually. There's nothing wrong with using those so long as you actually bought the game. I've used them in the past to deal with damaged discs and such...

Reply to The Topic Thread in Everything Else Sins Forums

Never heard of you That's like saying you've never heard of George Washington or SunTzu... your ignorance of my glory does nothing to diminish it.

Reply to Why the future doesnt need us in Everything Else Sins Forums

I'm going to assume that if we have the medical tech to safely put this chip in someones brain, we have hte materials tech to make sure it doesnt degrade. so I think its all null to argue about. That overlooks that the human body lasts as long as it does by regenerating. Most hardware needs to be replaced in an 80 year plus time frame. I don't know if you can get prevent something from degrading. It could also be something like the contacts between the chip a

Reply to Science and sci-fi fun in Everything Else Sins Forums

from what I have seen, dark matter is relatively well supported compared to many other theories about the universe. The only support for dark matter is that galaxies have been observed to spin too quickly. Thus implying that there is more mass there then we can detect with our telescopes. Ergo... Dark matter. Likewise the only support for dark energy is that we've observed that all galaxies are

Reply to Why the future doesnt need us in Everything Else Sins Forums

I would like to see the sources where you get your information and conclusion that "in 2 decades time" the development of AI will exceed human intelligence and capability. From the research I've done online and info from reputable resources, I see a sentient AI far from being able to match a human's ability. We already have a very tough time trying to get a AI to respond to human facial gestures and so forth (this is still being developed at MIT).

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And how is that different from the diabetic that needs insulin shots? The epileptic that needs drugs to control his seizures? The fat guy who needs food to keep from starving? It's different in a few ways. 1. I'm assuming the cyborg CHOSE to be a cyborg and wasn't made one by some accident or affliction. 2. I'm assuming that eventually cyborgs will be the majority of the population. We might still be born as pure humans but perhaps all adu

Reply to Bioshock Anyone? in Games Sins Forums

well, you can just unauthorize your old installs. So it seems like a moot point regardless. They're letting you have 5 active copies of your game at once. That's pretty good considering you only have one disk that will be required when you want to actually play. I'm not defending this kind of copy protection. it seems excessive to me as well. I just don't see how it will actually effect me.

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We have machines that can replace our hearts. Replace, or augment? Both. Artificial hearts have been made that can operate almost as well as transplants. I sincerely doubt they will ever develop a computer "chip" that can replace parts of your brain which handle higher functions. Lower functions like respiration and heartbeat, maybe, but higher functions? Not so sure a

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like, oh my god! are you who I think you are? The one the only... the great and powerful Karmashock.

Reply to Bioshock Anyone? in Games Sins Forums

why?

Reply to The Topic Thread in Everything Else Sins Forums

Do you believe in UFO's/Alien visiting Earth? Depends on your definition. We might be aliens of a sort. Do I believe in alien space craft landing in the 1950s? No that strike me as pure fantasy. Do you think there was a UFO crash in Roswell (area 51)? I find it very unlikely that an alien space craft would just "happen" to crash land right next to a top secret US weapons test site. The planet is a big place... and

Reply to Why the future doesnt need us in Everything Else Sins Forums

A basic assumption in that statement is that AI would not be "of" humanity. I think of that sort of thing a bit like giving birth to a really "different" child. In addition consider that we might slowly transition into machines ourselves. It's already started. We have machines that can replace our hearts. We have machines that can regulate brain function. We have machines that can start to emulate the eye. We have machines that can replace arms. We have machines that can replace le

Reply to Bioshock Anyone? in Games Sins Forums

You can easily bum it off your friend. The game allows up to five different installs currently and you can expand that by authenticating old installs. How many times do you guys install a game? I personally install a game at most 3 times and that's over a period of years. The game is incredible. Seriously... just get it. Securerom is NOTHING like starforce. Starforce modified drivers and in some cases edited the system kernel... which is why it caused so many problems