{"id":71,"date":"2007-11-14T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=71"},"modified":"2007-11-14T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T21:26:00","slug":"why-anime-might-not-be-the-best-medium-for-blindsight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Why Anim\u00e9 Might Not Be the Best Medium for Blindsight&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Courtesy of Che Gilson, who brought you last month&#8217;s Manga&#8217;ld <a href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/2007\/10\/excessively-graphic.html\">Theseus crew<\/a>, a somewhat-less-than-fearsome interpretation of the once-scary aliens in Blindsight.  (Personally, I&#8217;d have liked the &#8220;weapons&#8221; illo more if the board had had a nail through it.) The existential dilemma of a nonsentient intelligence giving rise to a thought-bubble is left as an exercise for the reader.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/fc01.deviantart.com\/fs23\/f\/2007\/311\/3\/4\/Scrambler_Weapons_by_spiderliing666.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/fc01.deviantart.com\/fs23\/f\/2007\/311\/3\/4\/Scrambler_Weapons_by_spiderliing666.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/fc03.deviantart.com\/fs22\/f\/2007\/311\/1\/9\/Scrambler_Camo_by_spiderliing666.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/fc03.deviantart.com\/fs22\/f\/2007\/311\/1\/9\/Scrambler_Camo_by_spiderliing666.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m going to see Blade Runner.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>Ridley Scott promises this is the last time.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>It better be.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Che Gilson, who brought you last month&#8217;s Manga&#8217;ld Theseus crew, a somewhat-less-than-fearsome interpretation of the once-scary aliens in Blindsight. (Personally, I&#8217;d have liked the &#8220;weapons&#8221; illo more if the board had had a nail through it.) The existential dilemma of a nonsentient intelligence giving rise to a thought-bubble is left as an exercise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blindsight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}