I feel bad that people from India or China or wherever are getting caught in the crossfire, but if this is a headache for the tech companies that are exploiting them and keeping actual Americans jobless... good. I figure Amazon/Google/Facebook are way too powerful to actually allow the H1-B program to end, but maybe we can at least make it as difficult as possible for them. I know I shouldn't be satisfied with half-measures like that, but that's sadly the world we live in.

Good comparison.

Gamers have become such entitled little kids. I'm surprised to see that attitude pop up even here. There are plenty of times where game companies screw people over, but giving out games for free is definitely not one of them...

StarCraft II is great. I've bought all the campaigns and expansions and I don't regret it at all. It'll be great to get some new players on.

I don't actually own one, but I've used a couple for work and they're badass.

This is horrifying. How could you go home and sleep at night after working on something like this?

Growing extra organs in or on animals is already pretty grotesque, but at least that has obvious and practical applications. But this? This is some shit, man...

"Sorry, this wasn't actually my fault though, it was the Russians" sounds about as sincere as "I'm sorry that I got caught." Totally meaningless. What a joke of a company.

Good example, but from a modern perspective, that doesn't really apply to anything significant. Unless, of course, you're the kind of person who thinks gay marriage or gender-neutral bathrooms deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as voting rights or desegregation.

Consider the Holocaust; is that not the result of identity politics? Do these two events even each other out in your mind?

Which is likelier to happen now, an identity politics-driven movement that would lead to better job opportunities for the disadvantaged, or one that would result in genocide?

I was also struck by this phrase. The author was on to something, but implying that identity politics sometimes can sometimes be good is laughable.

So... did Mr. Villeneuve actually say this wasn't the movie he wanted to make? Am I going crazy or is the author of this rant putting words in Villeneuve's mouth to back up their own opinion about the movie? Their arguments don't even make sense.

I actually read something before where Villeneuve specifically said that there won't be a director's cut, final cut, or any other versions of this movie. We got the exact version he intended us to see, and at nearly 3 hours, that's not hard to believe. The author of this article thinks the movie should have been much shorter (which is obviously what the movie studios and theaters would prefer) while simultaneously suggesting that Villeneuve wasn't in complete creative control here. Again, am I going out of my mind here? What the hell? This should have been titled "'Blade Runner 2049' Isn't the Movie I Wanted Denis Villeneuve to Make".

I think the movie's great. For whatever reason, the author of this didn't agree. Fine. But they're taking what is clearly an opinion piece about them not liking the movie and disguising it as some kind of fact-based informative news article where they present some kind of insight into the director's thinking process. There are no hard facts in this story, just speculation. That is extremely misleading.

And yeah, I think the film is excellent and way better than we had any right to expect. To be brutally honest, given the complete dearth of creativity in Hollywood today, and given the kind of movies and properties that usually find success, and keeping in mind that just a few months ago the same studio released the fucking Emoji Movie... this is a much better film than we deserved. The only thing worth regretting here is that there won't be a third movie given how few tickets were sold (a combination of many factors including long runtime/fewer showings, vague advertising, R rating, older franchise, etc.). That's what we should be mourning here. This movie was great and deserves a followup as it's fairly open-ended and there are clearly more stories to be told about the emancipation movement or Niander Wallace, who didn't get nearly enough screentime. The clueless writer of this article doesn't even mention that in passing -- understandable if it was written last week before the box office returns came in, but it looks like it was published today. Talk about missing the point.

The fear of killer robots is the boogeyman employed by the tech giants at Amazon/Google/Facebook to distract us from the shit they're getting away with now. By the time AI has advanced to that point, those tech leaders will be one step away from literally running the world. Then we'll look up at them to save us...

Kek have mercy!

I fucking hate LA.

I haven't voted in 10 years and was recently taken off the register. I could probably live without texting, but the choice is clear.

Nobody made you sign up for Twitter.

I don't even know what point you're trying to make here. This guy was saying we need to be planning ahead and you're saying... not to? You're pretty sure that robots are NOT going to become more and more advanced. Why? Does your imagination work in reverse or something? The other day I was making fun of Elon Musk and his flights of fancy regarding AI, but you've got to be on the complete opposite end of the scale. I think it's also totally insane to stand there with your arms crossed and insist that everything will be fine, there won't be any kind of societal upheaval caused by a second industrial revolution, and the economy will just work itself out (like it always does, right?). Yeah guys, don't worry about it!