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    Image of zjmuse zjmuse
    05/12/09

    In reply to I'm Going to Kill John Connor
    Make his already alien sized head look even worse in the lights off photo.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/12/09

    @zjmuse: It's just all that wild hair being backlit that makes his head look alien-like. Although, now that I think of it, I never have seen a pic of Matt without some kind of eye covering. Hmm...


    OK, Matt, you alien fiend, quit hiding behind those shades and reveal to us your enormous, black football-shaped eyes!

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/12/09

    In reply to I'm Going to Kill John Connor
    What's up with that blurry thing in the photo? Is that Matt's soul leaving his body in horror?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/12/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Sorry, horror and shame.
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    Hello Mister Walrus was starred Hello Mister Walrus was unstarred
    Image of LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
    05/12/09

    In reply to I'm Going to Kill John Connor
    Thanks for the cool photos Matt. and also a waring to never ever buy this.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/12/09

    @LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M: Not even for a dollar?


    (and, sorry, that was the best version I could find of the Robocop catchphrase)

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/12/09

    In reply to I'm Going to Kill John Connor
    Just because you don't like Roseanne and her three bratty kids, that's no reason to kill off John Connor. Fictional blue-collar sitcom families have enough to worry about without bloggers threatening to kill them.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/12/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: john connor did die. they never won the lottery. and wasn't jackie a lezzy?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/12/09

    @Texas, Texas yee haw_Nick: You're right. And I confused the character name. His name was Dan but he was played by John Goodman. I stopped watching when they replaced the oldest daughter.


    I've got to stop buying "circus tickets".

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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/12/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: "I stopped watching when they replaced the oldest daughter."


    Which time?

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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/12/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: don't feel bad i didn't notice at first either. how could i ever forgot that nasaly, white trash voice "daaannnnn."
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    05/12/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I stopped watching when they kicked Clooney off.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/12/09

    @TheTriStatesBestSide_GitEmStev...: You're confused. She got a DUI in Hawaii, so they had Michael kill off her character when he went in to rescue Ben.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    05/12/09

    @frigg: Isn't that Lost?
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    Image of madog madog
    05/12/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: One of the replacements is the chick on Scrubs now. She's a hottie too now.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    05/12/09

    In reply to I'm Going to Kill John Connor
    So wait, please tell me if I have this right. You wear this thing which makes you look like you have red eyes, then you have to wave your arms around? Do you have to run around as well? B/c that would complete the picture.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/12/09

    @TheTriStatesBestSide_GitEmStev...: I'm thinking to get maximum benefit you would also need to make chicken clucking noises. Or, at the very least, bob your head up and down.
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    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    05/12/09

    @bosskev: Or simply scream repeatedly while rubbing icecream all over your body... whoah...that was weird.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/12/09

    @Bigbadbikernerd: I'm sorry, I'm not understanding. Here's some ice cream. Please demonstrate. On me.


    Now, who does the screaming?

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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/12/09

    In reply to I'm Going to Kill John Connor
    Hmm, photic stimulation with flashing lights. So this is essentially like that Japanese cartoon which accidentally induces seizures--except you're doing it on purpose.
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    bosskev was starred bosskev was unstarred
    Image of Nick Nick
    05/12/09

    @bosskev: pokemon?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    05/12/09

    @bosskev:

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    GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE was starred GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE was unstarred
    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/12/09

    @TheTriStatesBestSide_GitEmStev...: Thanks for that. I was debating which way to go--newsy/informative or Simpsons/funny--when I found the CCN link first.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/12/09

    @bosskev:
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    05/12/09

    In reply to I'm Going to Kill John Connor
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/12/09

    @nutbastard: I love this photo. It's creepy, artsy, and not just a little foreshadowing of technology's future.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/12/09

    In reply to I'm Going to Kill John Connor
    This would be the perfect addition to this particular robot.


    Photobucket

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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/12/09

    @Kaiser-Machead, @nutbastard, @bosskev, @TheTriStatesBestSide_GitEmStev..., @OMG! Ponies!: This is what I LOVE about Gizmodo--five different commenters, five completely different and entertaining viewpoints.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/12/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: So it can give you epileptic episodes while having its own? Sounds like a winning combination.
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    Image of Rory1 Rory1
    05/11/09

    In reply to This Is What It Was Like to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan
    I just returned from Hiroshima. After being there, it pretty much changed my opinion on the whole thing.


    I understand these people who talk about how it stopped the war etc, etc, etc...


    But it's not as easy as all that.


    What about the 20,000 koreans that were killed instantly who were living in the city at the time? Or all the children who were born with birth defects even decades later?


    After seeing all that I saw & read, I just can't be down with killing hundreds of thousands of people with a single bomb ever...

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    Image of A Pimp Named DaveR A Pimp Named DaveR
    05/11/09

    @Rory1: I respect your opinions and your feelings on the matter, but I don't think you're seeing the real choice. You're only asking half the question when you ask "What about the 20,000 Koreans". The other half of the question is "were their lives more valuable than the lives that would have been lost in the alternative?" People -- lots of people -- were going to die no matter what. Vast numbers of Hiroshima residents probably would have died during an invasion. Vast numbers of US and Japanese troops would have died as well. You're right that it's not as easy as "drop bomb, stop war, everything's great". It's far, far more complex than that. And part of the problem is we only know the consequences of what DID happen. We don't know the consequences of what DIDN'T happen.


    If we had perfect knowledge of all possible outcomes, and we knew with 100% certainty that dropping the bomb cost 50,000 Hiroshima lives, but that not dropping the bomb would have cost 1.5M lives on all sides, then dropping the bomb would clearly have been the superior choice, both morally and tactically. But we don't know the alternative with 100% certainty, and we never will. And that's why it's a difficult subject.

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    Image of pixelchild pixelchild
    05/11/09

    In reply to This Is What It Was Like to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan
    should we have dropped the bomb on germany as well?
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    Image of A Pimp Named DaveR A Pimp Named DaveR
    05/11/09

    @pixelchild: The atomic bomb was meant to be dropped on Germany. The B-36 (which was conceived in 1941) was designed to be able to drop it (or conventional bombs) on Berlin from bases within the US should England fall to the Nazis. By the time it was an operational weapon, Germany had already surrendered, of course.


    If Germany had hung on until that point, though, I think that consideration would have been given to droppin an a-bomb on Berlin, for precisely the same reason it was used on Japan: to shock the country into surrender. I don't know that it would definitely have been done, but I'm sure it would have been considered.

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    05/11/09

    In reply to This Is What It Was Like to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan
    Why not make a multiplayer POV from the plane? Where the explosion lights you up and then the plane gets shaken and then you're surrounded by hundreds of thousands of angry Japanese ghosts which you have to suck up with your "soul gem sword" to power your next level Enola Gay Musou attack?
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    Image of PaddyDugan PaddyDugan
    05/11/09

    In reply to This Is What It Was Like to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan
    interesting discussion; apparently there are 3 opinions 1. killing is good; 2. killing is bad; and 3. killing is good when it's me doing the killing.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/11/09

    @PaddyDugan: 4. killing is justified under some circumstances.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    05/11/09

    @PaddyDugan: Sometimes people need to be killed. The world really is better off without some people in it.


    As for war and killing? They're kind of mutually exclusive. You think we're blase about it now? Back during the civil war people used to picnic on the hills overlooking battles.

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    Image of armendni armendni
    05/11/09

    In reply to This Is What It Was Like to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan
    that game is kinda messed up. who wants to nuke people? oh yeah america
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/11/09

    @armendni: uh, and pakistan, and north korea, and iran, and the taliban banana, and everyone else in the world.


    you sir, are a buffoon.

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    05/11/09

    @armendni: Ah yes, another simplistic comment from the peanut gallery about something they know NOTHING about historically.
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    Lite: hates Illinois Nazis was starred Lite: hates Illinois Nazis was unstarred
    Image of IP IP
    05/11/09

    In reply to This Is What It Was Like to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan
    Somebody set up us the bomb.
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    Image of A Pimp Named DaveR A Pimp Named DaveR
    05/11/09

    @IP: Take off every ZIG!
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/11/09

    In reply to This Is What It Was Like to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan
    So, would a game like this be allowed in the App Store, or only if it had music by Trent Reznor?
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