Jason Shankel's discussions

I’d pay $5 to have the DA crew discover the wreckage of the Normandy. Read more

I know. Please see the whole entire rest of this thread for the many times I clarified that I understand that the speed of light remains locally constant and that this tech is about warping spacetime.

My point is that this warping of spacetime allows vehicles to travel, say, four light years in fewer than four years… Read more

I’m not disagreeing with the theory. I’m arguing that causing a lightbeam to cover 4 light years in 1 year constitutes speeding up light. That’s it. Read more

I once worked for a not-so-well-known director of better-known action films. I screwed up a phone call and he told me I’d never eat lunch in this town again. “This town” of course...being Culver City.

Turns out he was right. Read more

There you go... Read more

Army of Lydias. Read more

Thanks! It’s an older article and we’ve changed software a few times. Not sure I got the pending notifications back in the day. Read more

Fucks given: 0 out of 0. Read more

Sadly, I haven't figured out a way to get io9 to pay me for a three-word article :) Read more

Well, blacks should take white advice on the proper use of the n-word. After all, we invented the damn thing. Read more

Oh, now don't be ridiculous. Their deaths won't be all that horrible. Read more

"Tetsuo! I am going to shoot you now!" Read more

Everything is awesome. Read more

That's above my pay grade. Just trying to understand the idea as presented. Read more

Basically, though some sort of propulsion within the bubble would probably be necessary as well. But essentially, yes, the vehicle is not moving very fast in local space. Thus my comment about "speeding up light." We're not, of course, really increasing the local speed of light. But rather, the spacetime bubble… Read more

If only women ran the world...everyone would be in Spanx. Read more

Yeah, I'm completely familiar with that idea. Please see the rest of the thread where I clarify over and over and over and over and over and over again that I totally get that light isn't moving faster inside the bubble but that the bubble is carrying both the ship and the light along.

Okay, I'll clarify it one more… Read more

Why do people bitch about game reviews? We all knew it would be some free-to-read bullshit. Shut the hell up, don't read it and let your lack of clicking on the story do the talking. Read more

Wing Chun is pure awesome. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Badass.

Actually, it's about ethics in game journalism. Read more