Jason Shankel's discussions

Sounds like BioWare studio would be right at home in the world of BioShock. Read more

Floridaman’s secret identity has been revealed! Read more

Well, once we have self-driving cars and automated factories, there will be no further need for humans. Read more

So we can never use the word “polish” to start a sentence? Read more

Well, sure...otherwise we’d have to wonder where everybody was in eps IV-VI. Read more

Life of a repo man is always intense Read more

He’s not within sneezing distance. But he could have been if he’d run any kind of competent campaign. Read more

Ha ha! Gotcha, suckas! Read more

Yes, but what if there were apes...who escaped? Why has no one ever done a game based on that idea? Read more

Oh, well, okay then. As long as it was a standard retard and not one of those automatic retards. Read more

That is not what is meant by “driving stick.” Read more

I have friends with mental illness. Part of what makes them friends is that they don’t verbally abuse me. No one is under any obligation to just take that because of someone else’s illness. Read more

Because having a mentally unstable person in your life is so rewarding? Read more

Word on the street is that it had something to do with FREEEEEEEE—-EEEEEE—-EEEE—(cough cough, gasp)—-EEEEEDOOOOOMMMMM!!! Read more

I know. I get it. Please see the dozens of other responses where I clarify that I TOTALLY GET that what’s happening here is the apparent distance between the ship and the target is being compressed and therefore the amount of time required to travel that distance is lowered.

I. Totally. Get. That. I also totally get… Read more

Please see the whole rest of this thread where I repeatedly explain that I fully understand that light isn’t actually moving faster but that space is being contracted to allow light to travel a further apparent distance in the same period of time. If “allowing a higher speed of light” isn’t the same thing as making… Read more

British TV is very diverse. They have every variety of white alcoholic police detective you can think of. Read more

Actually, no, the continuum is the same, it’s just compressed. Nothing can outrun a beam of light in warped or unwarped space. This technology makes the apparent distance to a destination shorter, thus the same “speeding up” of the ship (to, say, travel four light years in less than a year) is also applied to any… Read more

You think that’s bad, you should have seen the ending Lucas WANTED to do...

I get it. Please see the whole rest of the thread where I repeatedly clarify that I completely get that space is being warped and that light does not locally speed up.

For old time’s sake, one more time: normally, one could never travel to proxima centauri in under four years. Normally, any object that could travel… Read more