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“Exactly. I used to love the thrill and danger of the ER, but it just doesn’t have that appeal anymore.” She laughed grimly. “I guess a broken arm pales in comparison to raiding Society bases.” They fell silent for a moment as they came to a stop on the path, both simply wa...
we are looking slightly askance at screen-sci-fi AI, though not nearly as badly as Fritz Lang did at the beginning, and its reputation has been improving. The trend line (that red line) shows that it’s been steadily increasing over the last 90 years or so. As always, thelive chartma...
I do want to credit the interface designer for including 3D coordinates. Sci-fi can fall into the trap of treating spaceships as if they were seagoing vessels floating on a 2 dimensional surface like the sea. Props for acknowledging that the ship is moving through three dimensions. AndCartesia...
Where its predecessor – made by BioWare and not Obsidian – is a fantastic addition to the Star Wars universe, complete with a twist worthy of comparison to the famous one in The Empire Strikes Back, KOTOR II takes the venerable IP and pulls it in a completely new direction to make it...
I get why there’s a side-by-side pair of cards. People are much better at these sorts of comparison tasks when objects are side-by-side. But ultimately, it conveys the wrong thing. Having a face down card that flips over implies that that face-down card is the one that Johnny’s ...
Technology is at the very heart of this plot. And while it could have played out with lots of gee-whiz wiggling-chart nonsense,Far from Homeputs in the work to make the interfaces believable, germane to the plot, and still pretty amazing. Sensational. Spectacular, even. ...
or functional constraints of the spinner to say why these screens would be necessary or useful. I have a suspicion that a live camera view would be more useful than the circle-within-a-circle view, but gosh, it sure iscool. Here’s the shot fromAlien, by the way, for easy comparison...