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I tried it. All I saw was a comment box between two lines with a single dot (our asterisk?). I typed a name into the comment box and clicked convert to list. It didn't seem like anything happened. Then I realized that maybe my work's firewall prevented some parts of the page from functioning as designed, so I tried to use my phone. When I went back to the list, it said I had 0 items and that I already voted on that list. I didn't see a way to modify the list from that point.

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#2  Edited By slinkdickens

@sterling said:

Isn't there a phone app that already does this?

There's like a billion things that already do this.

Everything that I know of that does this well require the user to wear something. If this device works well, it will my preference since you don't need to wear anything.

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@ianh83 said:

Can anyone enlighten me how a device that sits beside my bed might record any meaningful information on the quality of my sleep? I don't even see how it would detect that I'm asleep in the first place with a useful level of accuracy.

I have about as much faith in this as I have in a nintendo ds game telling me how intelligent someone is.

If it's proper biomedical tech that works and is based on real science then awesome.

I don't know about other hospitals, but I know that if you do a sleep study through Kaiser, they send you home with a digital video camera to record you while you sleep. Then you take it back to them and a doctor (or someone) looks at it and analyzes it. AFAIK, this is the typical method of analyzing sleep problems.

I have no idea what's happening on the backend of that exchange, but I can't believe that a human being is actually watching hours upon hours of people sleeping. My guess is that they use software to do some analysis in broad strokes and flag potential problems that a doctor then reviews. Maybe that's what Nintendo is doing here.

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Swastikas are a symbol with a rich artistic and cultural history. However, it is synonymous with racism and hate because of a relatively short period in history where a group of fanatics used it as such. It's sad that the thousands of years of this symbol are overridden by a few decades of use by racists, but it is the unavoidable truth.

Equally tragic is the tarnish of the Aryan heritage, now tied to white supremacy instead of the ancient Persians.

My point? GamerGate is similarly unavoidably attached to hate against women. If you try to use GamerGate to voice a reasonable concern, no one who matters is going to hear you. The hashtag is toxic and taints anything you are trying to say. Just as I would be a fool if I opened an ancient Persian artifact exhibit with a swastika decorated banner titled "Aryan Nation" and didn't expect the value of the exhibit to be drowned out by controversy over the hate and racism the title and symbol evoke, anyone who uses the GamerGate hashtag and thinks that his voice will not be drowned out by the hate and sexism it evokes is a fool.

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Pure speculation based on wearing a tin foil hat whilst staring at the 3 symbol picture: The circle represents a Steam OS. The brackets represent a console. So, middle pic is Steam OS inside a console. Last pic is Steam OS outside of the console paired with another Steam OS, so maybe a cloud service.

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Hi, I also have the issue where the audio plays twice after reaching the end of a video. Not a big deal, but I like having a video on as I go to bed. It's kind of like having the TV on with a sleep timer. So, this problem essentially doubles that timer for any given video. Not a critical issue, but annoying.

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@extomar said:

For other games, it would be considered a failure of design not tutor the player enough to accomplish the first task. Why is okay for this game?

The main point of the article is that this is not okay and is the reason the game fails to catch on outside of Japan.

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@mezmero said:

Are the Lutece's really brother and sister? It felt like there is an implication that they're actually the same person from different realities. I've read comic books. Some realities have the same people as different genders. It would make sense to team up with yourself to make better science. I might be missing an important story beat or voxophone.

There's a voxophone out there where they say they are the same person. Lady Lutece talks about how fascinating it is that they are the same person in different realities with the only difference being a single chromosome.

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@rockyraccoon37: it's a commentary on game making and the nature of sequels in the industry amongs other things. Also, inception doesn't have anything to say? What?

I was thinking the same thing. Inception is not the example you pull for a movie that didn't have anything to say, but I don't want to get into it since this thread is about Bioshock Infinite.

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@ghostiet said:

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I agree with SlinkDickens. I think the story was pretty wild and ultimately thought provoking, but it seems a little unfinished and broke its own rules at the end. If Elizabeth was talking to Booker proper about to be baptized (not the Booker who just destroyed Colombia), he would have no understanding of who Elizabeth was and what was happening. I get what you're saying about her unrestrained powers, but that's a conclusion you've come to only because it's the only way the ending makes sense, not because the fiction tells us that's what happens.

No. This is not a story concerned with time travel, but parallel universes. She is not taking him back in time. You're saying that the game pulls it out of its ass, but it doesn't: when Booker rejects the baptism at the same place, he remarks that this is actually not the place where it happened - it's something Elizabeth created herself and it resembles the real thing just enough to illustrate a point to Booker. During the ending, she's not talking to the Booker who got baptized, she's talking to "our" Booker. Elizabeth is forging a replacement reality for the "Comstock" branch. The universe A and universe B split still exists, but now the branches are "Booker rejects the baptism" and "Booker decides to get baptized and drowns".

Also, anticipating anyone who will ask about the grandfather paradox - there is none, because there are no time loops. Never. Similarly, the realities are not looped and they do not determine themselves. There's not a thousand splits during the baptism, just two. The multiple "Booker visits Columbia in the Comstock reality" 'verses result from the Luteces experimenting with how they can fix things.

The story is most definitely about time travel in addition to parallel universes. You can read into/make up all the rationale you want, but the bottom line is that I didn't buy into the ending. It's one of those endings that does a huge info dump which conveniently sidesteps the rules of its own fiction in the last moments just so there can be a nice twist at the end. Yeah, you run around some, but ultimately you're getting a monologue wrapped in a veil of minimal interaction.

Another problem I have is that there is absolutely nothing to indicate that Booker's character could become Comstock. He never mentions anything about believing the ideals in Columbia or coming close to buying into them. It feels totally cheap to suddenly say that Booker is Comstock at the end. The more I think about it, the more I realize that the 'Comstock is Booker' twist is there purely for shock value. I almost the writers decided on this twist in the 11th hour since its a helluva thing not to foreshadow.