Seriously, whoever at CDP greenlit the anime was an absolute genius. Especially spending the money to work with a top-tier studio. Hiring Trigger could not have been cheap, but it turned out to be the best possible advertising they could get.

Nah. Chie doesn't use glasses, and wears a track suit.

No, that's just The Register being The Register. They have a long long history of overly cheeky writing.

Yep, basically. That's the theory, anyway.

(My mom worked for Disney, so can confirm too.)

I could see them doing a sort of Austin Powers or Demolition Man thing where Duke gets thawed out and has to learn about life in the new world. It'd even be an excuse to bring back the "Bombshell" concept of giving him a female partner. He learns about modern nomenclature; she learns to have fun kicking ass and chewing bubblegum. It could work.

"This stuff'll make you a goddamn Raptor Lake Tyrannosaurus - just like me!"

Good thing this didn't happen in America, or there'd be a lot of dead gym rats.

I've suspected for awhile that the recent boom in retro tech is due to how sterile and 'soulless' modern devices are. Cassette tapes have poor sound quality, but the physical act of using them is awesome. They're tacticle, they make cool clicky-whirry sounds. A good tape deck has super satisfying buttons to push. You've got dials and sliders and fidgets that our monkey brains tell us we should play with.

Meanwhile, you get none of that from smartphones. They're some of the most dissatisfying devices to use imaginable. Very little physical or auditory feedback, if any, with 99% of all relevant information being conveyed through artificial onscreen visuals and nothing else. And the screen itself is just a flat featureless piece of glass which is entirely uninteresting to touch.

Hell, even the aesthetics. Every cell phone these days looks and feels almost exactly the same, while there are a ton of different variations in older consumer tech.

I think people are just becoming starved for novel physical stimulation, basically.

My god, it's full of stars!

I remember in the 90s being told I had to turn off my Gameboy during takeoff/landing, which was ridiculous on every conceivable level.

Well, if they ever made a sequel to Being John Malkovich, Nic Cage would be a great new lead.

>In my experience humans also work like this in friend/family groups.

Connie Willis wrote a book about this called (approrpriately enough) Bellwether. Unlike most of her novels, it's not sci-fi, more of a farce on corporate science work. Very amusing, tho.

Time is an illusion. Daylight Savings doubly so.

So pretty much how spaceflight worked in The Fifth Element?

Plus, the concept designs at the top of the article are awesome. I'd love to see them become real!

But hate leads to suffering.

It's over Apple! I have the high ground!

Meanwhile, 90s Sega fans just cry softly into their drinks...

That was one of the core ideas in Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?"

(Ie, the book that inspired Blade Runner.)

Well, amazing or just interesting in some way. Like I saw an interview where he said he took the job on that bad FNAF ripoff movie specifically because he thought it would be fun to play a mute badass.

Although the one I was really disappointed in was "Prisoners of the Ghostland" which seriously should have been a lot better than it was.