Comments on: Technophobia: 10 Cautionary Tales for Gamers

By: Michael Rousseau

Michael Rousseau — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:08:48 +0000

Several years late, but check out Evolver. It touches on the dangers of games becoming too realistic and issues like rampant AI.

By: Chris Person

Chris Person — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:07:22 +0000

“I reject your reality, and substitute my own!”

-Dungeonmaster
-Adam Savage from Mythbusters, by way of Dungeonmaster.

Possibly the only good thing to come out of that movie.

Also, eXistenZ counts for a few reasons:

1. It has guns that are made from the leftover Chicken Bones in Jude Law’s meal
2. It has one of the best instances of the “Infinite Phillip K Dick Solipsism Loop” ever. Like, know that part of a movie where a person wakes up from a dream, then they wake up from THAT dream, then they wake up from the dream AGAIN? Imagine that with VR times three and you have the end of that movie.

Also, I was going to add the failed Robin Williams Comedy “Toys” to the list, but I’m going to be doing a video Mashup with it soon and 11 is a weird number.

By: SpatulaOfDoom

SpatulaOfDoom — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:07:52 +0000

Have a happy Halloween everyone! Enjoy yourselves tonight!

By: librarian

librarian — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:07:09 +0000

DAMN IT! It crossed my mind, then slipped it again.

While it wasn’t a parable, it was pretty freaking cautionary, extremely technophobic. A fine addition to the list.

Edit: ADDED!

By: zort

zort — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:28:21 +0000

in hopes to annoy you, I’ll say eXistenZ wasn’t too bad either.. or was it?
gotta go get brainscan for tonight now.