>> ^rosser99:

Cat leg replacement, which is just several thousand dollars more expensive than the common practice, total cat replacement.


I'd give more than a few thousand to have my favorite cat back.

This is my favorite comment this week, just so you know...but please don't tell my kitten I said that, though.
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Cat leg replacement, which is just several thousand dollars more expensive than the common practice, total cat replacement.

>> ^budzos:

Wonderful for the cat but my brain keeps wanting to see it as exposed lower leg bones, with the flesh ripped off. Maybe color them black or something.


Yeah, I think they need to make him some little fuzzy black slippers or something.

Also see http://videosift.com/video/Oscar-the-bionic-cat-part-2

combine this with the new human technology of artificial life and humans will be one step closer to being God the Creator (you know, the character from those age-old novels).

Bionic pets: you don't need to shovel their poo.

Heh, thanks for letting me know about Better Off Ted, great show!

And it turns out the Veridian Dynamics ads are suspiciously absent from the Sift, so i added one. They're a little hard to find though, embed is disabled on most of them.

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>> ^Crake:

Why do I get the feeling that working at Festo is a lot like working at Aperture Science?


I think it is more like Veridian Dynamics myself.

>> ^Crake:

Why do I get the feeling that working at Festo is a lot like working at Aperture Science?


I think it is more like Veridian Dynamics myself.

Forgot to turn the bionic legs on.

>> ^d3bas3r:
>> ^ponceleon:
A pity he didn't review Shadow Complex... definitely one of the best games made in a very very long time. If you own a 360, you are REQUIRED to download Shadow Complex. It is Metroid/Castlevania mixed with a bit of splintercelly tangent thrown in... HIGHLY recommended!

I second this recomendation. It is a good game.


Third. $15 very well spent. The character progression was awesome; it was empowering to go from a pistol and flashlight to being a double jumping, assault rifle wielding, bionic armored badass. I made my first playthrough over a couple days, and I'm about to go back for round 2.

Gamers today are seriously spoiled.

They don't even have health boxes on the ground in FPSs any more - you just go hide around a corner for 5 seconds and you regenerate up to full. It would seriously blow a kid's mind that people would take the time to beat games like Super Mario Bros 2 or Bionic Commando. I did it, and the thrill you get from beating a hard game is much better than any of these checkpointed/infinite retries games we have today. (Of course, Contra was so ridiculously hard I only beat it with the Konami Code.)

While I loved Bioshock, I hated how bloody easy it was since you'd just pop out of a resurrection chamber every time you died. I'd get bored during a Big Daddy battle and just keep respawning on him over and over again until he went down... about halfway through I decided to just ignore the chambers entirely and play the game without dying.

I'm one of the few who actually beat Bionic Commando on the NES. You know, the game that was intensely impossible to get through on certain levels? The one with no save feature? The one that took nearly six hours to play through? Yeah, that one.

But at that time, games like The Legend of Zelda, Mike Tyson's Punch Out, and Contra, were the fun games. Before that time, for computer games, was ones like Empire, Wing Commander, Space Quest, and even Zork. And before those games: Pong. While the graphics of games have improved tremdously, the game play has remained a constant.

Castlevania 2, Rescue the Embassy, Russian Attack, Jackal, JAWS, and others, were enjoyable games for their day. COD, WoW, EQ, and others, that are popular now, will soon be retired in favoror of newer, more graphic intensive games in 5-10 years.

crap, no bionics?!

very cool animation.

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