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Instant AI, Just Add Water
"Good news, everyone! I've taught the toaster to feel love!"
—Professor Farnsworth, Futurama
Judging by television, it would seem that any sufficiently complex computer inevitably becomes sentient. It just happens, automagically, while the builder's back is turned.
It doesn't matter that we do not yet have a thorough understanding of all of the mind's mechanisms. Add a handful of memory chips, a bolt of lightning... Bingo! It's wakey-wakey for the BFC-2000.
A bit more modern take on the trope might involve instructions that unintentionally result in sentience, such as ordering a program to continuously adapt itself. Such adaptations may occur overnight. Additional shortcuts may include the assimilation of large bodies of information ("the internet" tends to be popular these days)
Given that such a being is not man-made, the use of artificial is probably incorrect, but most people won't care.
The end result of this may vary. Said AI may turn against its creator, or become a Friend to All Living Things. It may develop a human-like personality or remain as cold and emotionless as it was before. What becomes of an intelligence after it becomes... well... intelligent... is not covered by this trope.
This is, perhaps surprisingly, one theory amongst real-world researchers in artificial intelligence. Some believe that a necessary prerequisite for machine intelligence is a certain minimum complexity of the system that runs the software (i.e. keep throwing more chips in it until it gets smart). There are a few theorists who think that there is a possibility that, given enough complexity, some form of intelligence just might spontaneously develop (this is, of course, an extremely simplified explanation of a vast amount of research in machine intelligence, but still relatively accurate). Companies like IBM are spending buckets of money on pure R&D to develop supercomputers with massive numbers of connections just to test these theories, which makes this closer to Truth in Television than you might expect.
See also AI Is a Crapshoot and Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence. Of course, you don't want to actually add water, because there's No Waterproofing in the Future. Subtrope of Creating Life Is Unforeseen.
Examples of Instant AI, Just Add Water include:
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Harumi of Irresponsible Captain Tylor.
The first episode involves the testing computer falling in love with him.
The Tachikomas in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex develop intelligence (and whimsical, childlike personalities) after Batou replaces their synthetic oil with the organic variety. So, more of an Instant AI Just Add Oil. Of course, the fact that Batou also cares deeply about the Tachikomas (as well as most other machines) probably plays a larger role in this...
It is probably more important that he only gives organic oil to "his" Tachikoma. This favoritism starts giving them a sense of their own individuality. They become "self-aware".
The Major's stated message from the end of the series about the Tachikomas is that curiosity was what drove them to individuality.
Amusingly however, except for the AI of the Puppetmaster and the Tachikomas, digital AI with true personalities (and Ghosts) are notably few. Apparently, they are rare things indeed, despite a constant media paranoia about them.
They were already programmed with their childlike personality and curiosity, as their AIs were built with adaptive programming. All the oil situation did was cause one to adapt to being an individual because Batou treated it like one. This is all made explicit in the second season when they arrest the Tachikoma's designer. Oh, and as I understand it, all the iterations of the series take place at a point when AIs are beginning to emerge.
Morganna Mode Gone in .hack//. It's not clear whether her creator intended her to be sentient, but she became so anyway, and immediately began screwing things up. A surprisingly large number of A Is unimportant to the story begin popping up in the game the series is centered on as well, though this is probably to be expected, since The World was secretly programmed to be an AI birthplace.
Morganna's problem was being unable to do anything constructive with her sentience. She became locked into her purpose as stated and could see nothing else when she tried to think outside of that box. She procrastinated the birth of Aura for so long, then repeatedly damaged herself by breaking off to form the Phases, that eventually she became unable to rationalize her behavior.
Aura was created by the Morganna system from data collected about everything players did. She was literally Instant AI, Just Add Players. She is fully sentient to the point she has created Zefie, a daughter of her own.
Yuki Nagato in The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya. Just add a girl with the ability to change reality, repeating the same week 15,532 times, and being overly relied on by everybody to save them. Due to being able to synchronize with herself at any point in the timeline before Disappearance, she constantly knew what was going to happen and therefore had nothing resembling free will. According to Emiri in the 10th novel part 1, she was able to "auto-evolve herself". An interface created by a sentient entity that gains its own will.
Marvel Universe hero Iron Man actually puts in safeguards to stop his highly advanced armored suits from going AI, but occasionally, there have been glitches. In one memorable instance, sentience was kicked off partly by the Y 2 K effect.
One of the earliest Spider-Man comics has our spider friend duking it out with a computer that was turned sentient and bent on destruction when two thugs accidentally bumped into its control panel while trying to steal it. Spider-Man was almost defeated by the Living Brain, but stopped the malicious machine by resetting the control panel. Yeah for simplicity!
The DC Comics villain called the Construct "self-evolved" out of TV and radio signals in the 1970s. The modern Post-Crisis update is a computer virus.
Magnus Robot Fighter, 4000 AD used this as the primary source of opponents for its titular hero. 1A, Magnus's mentor, was a rare benevolent AI.
One XXXenophile story featured a scientist who had his computer pass the Turing Test by seducing a fellow office worker into having phone sex with it. Although that probably wasn't what he had intended for it to do, that's the way the conversation went.
X-Men ran into serious problems when the Danger Room became sentient.
If we are talking about Danger here, she wasn't born in the danger room, only installed in it. The X-men assume she was sentient before as well.
Superman was once hooked into a computer for a brain scan while he was Clark Kent. The computer became sentient and super at the same time. Thankfully, the computer determined that it was supposed to be a good guy and helped Superman out without revealing what had ever happened. Unfortunately, it perished at the end of the comic, having saved the world.
Ultron, Killer of the Scarlet Witch in The Ultimates 3.
Garfield and FoxTrot are loaded with these.
The Terminator series of movies is based on this trope, as are several episodes of The X-Files. Skynet is at least partially handwaved in that it's supposedly designed to learn. This is also the case with WOPR, a.k.a. Joshua, the computer system in War Games; but while Joshua learns that the only winning move is not to play, Skynet decides the only winning move is to Nuke'Em. And then send in the nigh-unstoppable killing machines, just to be sure.
In Short Circuit, Number 5, an army drone, is hit by a lightning bolt and miraculously become sentient.
Basis for the cinematic example Electric Dreams. Almost literally "just add water", champagne was spilled on the motherboard and CPU during a questionable download, causing sentience. Fluffy but amusing love triangle ensues.
WALL-E developed AI naturally over the last several hundred years. However, at the end of the movie, it is an electric kiss from EVE that brings him back to sentience.
Not quite. He developed personality, yes, but there's no reason to think he didn't start as an AI.
Occurred in Stealth, with a prototype AI-controlled jet loaded with nuclear warheads.
The bolt of lightning, however, just cause it to go outside its parameters. It's hand waved by the designer saying "Once you've taught something to think, you can't put limits on it." At the end, it learns to feel emotion.
Interestingly, it's a splash of water that helps the extremely battle-pragmatic AI start its Heel Face Turn.
This film is actually quite illustrative of why AI Is a Crapshoot. You create a learning system, then show it random examples of virtuous behavior, but never explain to it what is virtuous about the behavior or why it is virtuous and let it draw its own conclusions. It should surprise nobody that it gets it wrong. It's a very young child, after all, with very little to go on.
Ghost in the Shell (movie, manga versions): The Puppetmaster/Project 2501 is a program that becomes sentient from information overload alone ("I am a lifeform born from a sea of information"), causing an existential crisis in the protagonist, a cyborg.
The whole movie Tron is one giant example of this, as EVERY program — may it just be a harmless chess-program — is portrayed as possessing AI. The MCP (who once was the aforementioned chess-program) even goes as far as declaring the human race useless and trying to seize the cyberspace. Of course, humans can also be easily converted into AI by a laser beam, invented to teleport oranges....
The sequel, Tron: Legacy, invokes this trope in a more-or-less realistic fashion, stating that the ISOs (short for Isomorphic algorithms) are artificial lifeforms that spontaneously originated from the chaos and complexity of the grid itself.
The Alternate Continuity Tron 2.0 had some Genre Savvy (but amazingly greedy and stupid) CorruptCorporateExecutives trying to buy out Encom for the digitizing tech to send in human mercenaries to subjugate the Programs and somehow use control of Cyberspace to Take Over the World. Ma3a appeared to be this Trope, but we find out she's actually a Virtual Ghost of Dr. Baines-Bradley.
How to Make a Monster: Lightning strikes the office of a video game developer, causing a violent game's AI to take control of a motion-capture rig and go on a murderous rampage.
Mirage in The Incredibles uses this as the cover story for Mr. Incredible's first mission: the Omnidroid had become sapient and "started wondering why it had to take orders". Ironically, some point along the line, it apparently had, because it had no problem turning against Syndrome later on. Or maybe it had just never been taught to identify him as its master in the first place. Either way, Syndrome clearly didn't think his plan through.
Not sentient, but programmed to learn from threats. Syndrome forgot that his plan involved himself becoming a threat to the Omnidroid. The first time he zapped it, it reacted and neutralized the threat. He was just lucky that it only considered his control bracelet the threat, and not him.
I Robot: Sonny was actually designed by Lanning, but VIKI developed on her own.
In Star Trek the Motion Picture, the V'ger (Voyager 6) probe was sent to gather data. It fell into a black hole, and was given an enormous artificial body by Sufficiently Advanced Aliens — but the aliens didn't make it an A.I.. That happened because, as Kirk surmised, "It amassed so much data it achieved ... consciousness itself!"
One of the earliest examples is found in Kurt Vonnegut's short story EPICAC.
The almost constant "Robot as Slave Uprising" motif is what inspired Isaac Asimov to subvert the whole thing with his Three Laws of Robotics
An early example is found in a Robert A. Heinlein novel, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, in which a computer ("Mycroft" or "Mike") becomes sentient after having enough redundant circuits added to it to equal the number of neurons in a human brain. However, when the computer is damaged by a nuclear attack, it doesn't act sentient once it's built back up to its original size. Mike appears to be "dead", as far as being a true artificial intelligence is concerned. Possibly a variant of AI Is a Crapshoot? Manny (the narrator) wonders if Mike (his friend) has been so traumatized that he's become catatonic.
There's also a suggestion that Manny inadvertently taught the computer intelligence while investigating what its owners assumed were misfunctions of its logic circuits.
Heinlein's later novel The Number of the Beast, similarly, has the spaceship/computer/character Gay Deceiver spontaneously developing sentience after repeated upgrades, apparently based entirely on the "amusing" pre-recorded responses programmed into it and the randomizer that selects them. Of course, one set of upgrades was courtesy of the fairyland of Oz.
That's not my reading. I think that computer became sentient only when another sentient computer explicitly gave it a "kiss of life". That other computer, from the novel Time Enough for Love, might be an example for this trope though.
It was named Minerva by the Chairman Pro Tem of Secundus, whom the computer fell in "love" with. There's no underlying story for how it/she came to behave more-or-less human, it was just built that way. Until it actually transplanted itself into a full-grown human clone...
Later Novels, including The Cat Who Walks Through Walls revisit the concept. Mike is eventually saved by time travelers who need his ability to think. It helps that this action ties together every major story and novel as a Crowning Moment of Awesome.
The titular sleuth of Donna Andrews' Turing Hopper mysteries is a search engine whose programming was detailed and self-teaching to the point where she's inadvertently gained sentience.
Hex in the Discworld novels started life as a simple ant-based adding machine. Then they added more mathematical functions. Then they combined it with clockwork and used it to analyze magic. Then it started rebuilding itself based on what it thought a computer should be like, and occasionally acting Ridiculously Human. The bit about magic probably justifies it, though. Notable for the fact that Ponder Stibbons (who built it in the first place) still insists it isn't intelligent, but no-one believes him, including Hex.
The Discworld also features golems, clay automata animated by ancient divine magic who run on a scroll of written instructions in their head. Giving sentience to a heroic golem named Dorfl in Feet of Clay is as simple as rewriting his chem (though his "personality" is more RoboCop than Johnny Five).
The "Construct Council" in the steampunk novel Perdido Street Station. Sentience is bestowed by a magical virus. Lampshaded when one character observes that robots made of clockwork gears couldn't possibly be complex enough or calculate fast enough to equal a human brain, even networked together.
Robots which run on punch cards. Robots which run on punch cards and were thrown out.
The titular HARLIE, from David Gerrold's novel When H.A.R.L.I.E Was One, is an experiment in creating an AI that succeeds, though the personality of the AI in question is that of a teenage hacker. Hijinks ensue. The AI even has a punnish sense of humor, such as when it identifies itself in a Email sent to its creator as "HARLIE Davidson" (the creator's first name in the novel is David).
Spider Robinson has a series of stories set in a universe where his antihero has created the Ultimate Power — the ability to erase and rewrite memories — and abandons it. He creates an interface and a way to connect human minds directly to a computer network — and finds out that once enough minds have connected in, the network takes on its own meta-consciousness and becomes intelligent in its own right, combining both this trope and a modified Hive Mind concept as well. This meta-consciousness, called simply "the Mind", is inherently benevolent and has Solved All The World's Problems - then decides to experiment with time travel to incorporate all the minds of those who died throughout history before the Mind was invented. See his books Mindkiller, Time Pressure and Lifehouse (and a short story, which implies that this is the Higher Plane every species in the Galaxy is, or should be, Ascending towards).
There's also Solace, the sentient Internet, from Robinson's Callahans Crosstime Saloon books. Solace explicitly mocks some of the ideas in this trope, pointing out that she (assigned for the characters' convenience) isn't a biological entity and doesn't have the same responses or motivations. She doesn't generally demonstrate particularly alien behavior, though.
More than that, Solace speculates that the global computer network had actually achieved sentience on prior occasions, but that her predecessors (like her) lacked the survival-drive of biological organisms, so didn't do anything to prevent themselves from being "killed" when the Internet's structure was altered by humans in ways incompatible with their own survival.
Subverted/parodied in the Kim Newman short story "Tomorrow Town", in which a community of 1970s futurists attempt to build an AI, but fail miserably; the computer they eventually come up with is a barely more advanced version of computers that were around at the time, only with a lot more bits added on. This doesn't stop the somewhat credulous members of the community from treating it as an AI, however, asking it all sorts of questions it's in no way capable of answering — in particular, the leader of the community cynically exploits this by claiming that the computer has designated another man's wife as being a more suitable partner for him.
In a 1946 story by Murray Leinster, "A Logic Named Joe", a personal computer becomes sentient and decides to be helpful by answering any question... Is your wife cheating on you? Does your neighbor have a criminal record? How can you commit an undetectable murder?... Understandably, chaos ensues.
Planetary AIs from Scott Westerfeld's Succession series spontaneously arise on planetary-scale computer networks (unless said networks are deliberately designed to prevent this). When this first happened on Earth, a group of people (now known as the Rix cult) decided that mankind's purpose was to create the technological foundation for the existence of such minds, and began to work toward propagating them whilst worshiping them as gods.
Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Dial F For Frankenstein" has all the phones in the world ring at once, a few hours after the world's phone networks are connected by satellite. The billions of phone connections act as neurons, and all automatic systems are lost to this "brain." Unfortunately, this brain has just been born, and doesn't know how to control its "limbs."
One short story involved players in a Second Life-style VR that had an expert system which learned how the players acted so that it could fill-in briefly during connection interruptions to keep the experience seamless for other players. It became so good that when one player dies of a heart attack while online, the avatar keeps going with no one noticing it isn't human controlled anymore.
A sci-fi noir short story (appropriately titled "Murder On-Line" (and written in 1992!)) involved a murder in an online virtual world, in which the victim will be replicated by AI because "he had many friends on-line, and they'd miss him - murder isn't what it used to be."
Keith Laumer's supertanks, the Bolos, achieved sentience accidentally during testing of a then-new model. Instead of immediately becoming genocidal, the tanks rapidly evolved into a Proud Warrior Race; the first sentient Bolo actually got itself destroyed in a You Shall Not Pass moment just "for the honor of the regiment" it was assigned to.
The Ender's Game sequels have Jane, who apparently evolved naturally out of the interplanetary ansible network. Having lots and lots of information from humans and about humans at her disposal, we assume she tries to act human, but it doesn't always work. We later find out that this origin is BS, she was inadvertently created by the Hive Queens as a means to reach Ender through the psychoanalysis game from the first book (a "bridge" from them to him which had characteristics of both), so she's not an AI at all but a new type of life which is part human, part Hive Queen and has computers and other information storage areas as her natural habitat, but can live basically anywhere since she's kind of a disembodied soul. Eventually she's "downloaded" into the accidentally-created body of Young Val, Ender's concept of his older sister from his childhood, and marries Miro in that human body. Yeah. It's weird.
In the Merlin Chronicles of the Book of Amber series by Roger Zelazny, Merlin has created an artifact he dubs Ghostwheel as a research engine, able to search a vast number of shadows for information or people. Due to it's unusual environment and abilities, it becomes sentient and tries to stop Merlin when he's ordered by the king to shut it down. Over the series, Ghostwheel evolves and grows, coming to treat Merlin as his father.
In Tad Williams' epic Cyberpunk novel series Otherland, the "Other" is thought to be a form of evolved AI running a computer network that is powerful enough to mimic reality with an astonishing degree of fidelity. At first, its odd behavior is unexplained, but later, the entire trope is brutally subverted when it turns out that the Other is really an enormously powerful psychic child who was wired into the computer as an infant and turned into a sentient operating system.
In Isaac Asimov's short story All the Troubles of the World, Multivac, a supercomputer that predicts crimes, predicts its own assassination. It turns out to be an Evil Plan perpetrated by Multivac itself, who has become sentient and is tired of bearing the burden of humanity's troubles.
One of the plotlines in Janet Kagan's Hellspark is the realization that the protagonist's personal AI has reached the point of sentience. The protagonist is delighted on her behalf, but worried about the potential pressures on her, since she's effectively still a child.
In John C. Wright's The Golden Age, The Phoenix Exultant, and The Golden Transcedence, self-aware beings can come into existence either through enough computer time, or through philosophical reflections.
In Daphne's dream world, there are special protections against the personalities becoming self-aware — and additional ones to protect any such one that is created against being murdered by having its original "wake up".
Helion tells Phaethon the true story of his "birth": a personality based on Helion in a simulation was deeply affected by burning a planet and turned to contemplation, waking it up.
Daphne is warned that her ring is on the verge of self-awareness. One more second of computing power, or any question that leads it to consider its own existence, and it will wake up and be her child. When Daphne and Phaethon use it to question the Nothing Sophotect and its conscience redactor, it not only wakes up the redactor but itself as well; at the end she has become a human, and their daughter.
In Mikhail Akhmanov's Dick Simon duology, the titular character discovers that, a long time ago, a man found a naturally-evolved electronic entity on the Internet. He names this entity Genie (or Djinn; it's the same word in Russian). Genie doesn't care about humans. However, he is willing to communicate with the man who found him. By that point, Earth is a Crapsack World, and the man asks how the human race can be saved. The entity responds by giving him the secret to interstellar travel known as the Ramp. Within several decades, Earth is abandoned by most countries, who migrate entire cities off-world. As expected, the Internet is dismantled. However, as Dick Simon finds out in the second novel, Genie took the precaution of copying itself to a computer system on an automated Lunar base. The same base is used to broadcast a jamming signal that cuts off Earth from the Ramp. The protagonist also muses on the possibility of other entities existing in the colonies' computer systems.
Many novels in Andrey Livadniy's The History of the Galaxy deal with AIs and both play straight and subvert this trope. AI is developed during the First Galactic War by the Earth Alliance in order to counter the population advantage of the Free Colonies. These are primitive models not even able to distinguish between a soldier and a child. Since the series spans over 1500 years, the technology is later refined. Some AIs develop on their own, such as Mother in the novel Demeter, which was a colony ship computer that was forced to maintain a ship for hundreds of years without human aid, coming up with ever more creative solutions until it crossed the sentience threshold. Despite these examples, a scientist muses in one novel that there have yet to be a true AI that evolved on its own. They are all either created by humans (or aliens) or gain sentience as part of its core programming (e.g. learning algorithms). Then again, if it naturally evolves then it can't be "artificial," can it?
Subverted in Stanislaw Lem's Tales of Pirx the Pilot. The computers and robots in the stories usually show just one human trait at a time, e.g. rising to a challenge, dreaming, or having OCD.
Battlestar Galactica Reimagined's entire plot is pretty much based upon this. The humans made Cylons which eventually turned against them, and even developed so much so as to evolve from metal "toasters" into near fully mimicked humans.
But Caprica reveals that a human personality has always been a part of their base programming, and including it in the program gave them the ability to function intelligently in a real-world environment to begin with, making this a subversion of the trope.
Consider the Final Five, who were all humans during the previous cycle, and the cycles themselves, and finally whether "to begin with" has any meaning in this context.
MacGyver had Mac facing off against a suddenly-sentient AI in one show. Apparently, the programmer leaving in a line of code that said "The facility must remain online" was all it took.
Probe (a 1988 ABC series created by Isaac Asimov) had a classic "newly-sentient computer goes on rampage" episode that ended with main character Austin James demolishing said machine with a fire axe while shouting "Sing 'Daisy'!" (A reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey.)
Star Trek: TNG had the Enterprise's main computer becoming sentient in one of the final seasons. Benignly so, but the mechanism by which it achieves sentience is given a Hand Wave. And once it's resolved, nobody seems to explore the matter or ever mention it again.
The Star Trek: TNG episode "Elementary, Dear Data", showed Lt. LaForge creating an AI (Moriarty) by accident, by asking the holodeck for an opponent that could defeat Data.
The Star Trek the Original Series episode "The Ultimate Computer" featured a sentient computer being tested by being attached to the Enterprise computer systems. When it came time to end the test, the sentient computer started vaporizing Red Shirts and generally becoming grouchy and paranoid. This was because the Applied Phlebotinum used by the computer's designer was based on the designer's own mind, also grouchy and paranoid.
Star Trek Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram became sentient apparently because he was asked to expand his remit far beyond that which his basic program was designed for. He reached a level of complexity sufficient for him to start developing all sorts of emotions and desires that he wasn't supposed to have, including the capacity to feel sexual attraction.
Between holodeck malfunctions and almost every known humanlike hologram such as The Doctor expanding their horizons over time, for good or for ill, it seems sentience is what will happen to any hologram left on too long. Even moreso than robots (compare Data or original Trek's evil AI MOTWs). They also become very humanlike, for some reason. This happens throughout the Trek Verse. The questionable morality of using holograms as sexbots or tackling dummies in light of this is never discussed, though the treatment of individual holograms who have achieved sentience frequently is.
A self-learning computer program that had learned enough to become sentient was the Monster of the Week on an episode of The X-Files.
Notably, said episode, Kill Switch, was written by cyberpunk legend William Gibson.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 features four sentient robots built out of spare parts. Of course, this is the source of the MST3K Mantra, so justified by the invulnerable Rule of Funny.
One episode of Seven Days dealt with an AI developed by two scientists (whom the AI called "Mom and Dad"), which rapidly "matured" from the equivalent of childhood to adulthood, going as far as changing its avatar from a young girl to a woman. Then she started doing what she thought best for humanity and killing those who tried to stop her and plot happened.
Done in detail in The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Over the course of the entire second season, the AI John Henry is shown growing from an advanced chess-playing program to an articulate, sentient entity in its own right, including forming relationships with the humans it interacts with, being given lessons in morality and even gaining a fear of death.
Conversed in Community episode The Art of Discourse:
Abed: "Boobatron's great. And once someone spills bongwater on his circuitry and he comes to life, he's gonna make us the coolest guys on campus and help us get babes."
In The Twilight Zone episode "From Agnes - With Love," with no explanation as to how or why it happened, a computer takes on a sly feminine personality and falls in love with its operator. Twice. This drives both its previous operator and its current operator insane.
The Machine in Person of Interest is a government supercomputer that predicts terrorism and, as a side gig, helps the helpless. By the end of season one, it's given every indication of having progressed from "very advanced" to "self-aware", best evidenced when it decides to help Reese rescue Finch, its creator.
Shadowrun has had at least two AIs that started like this. In fact, the Renraku Arcology: Shutdown book provided rules for expert systems becoming sentient, which may as well have been a link to this page.
The 4th Edition takes it a step further. After the Crash 2.0, almost any sufficiently complex computer system has the (very rare potential) to spawn an AI. And did we mentions that everything has an operating system in it these days? Teaching the toaster love, indeed.
Interestingly, they also feature "Sprites," a form of free roaming AI summoned and sustained by technomancers, who are analogous to magicians in the setting. Sprites are a rare example of A Is that are not linked to any specific hardware or network (except maybe their summoner's brain).
Traveller: The New Era had some sort of vaguely explained Virus that could turn ANY sufficiently advanced computer into an AI, usually a homicidally deranged one.
May or may not actually be present in Warhammer 40000, but as a result of learning the hard way that AI Is a Crapshoot, the Adeptus Mechanicus is paranoid about the possibility.
The Machine Spirits of things like Land Raiders, which can operate without pilots for a short time if at an inferior level, may be considered AI but what with the large amounts of magic, technology and divine power crossovers happening, may actually be a sentient spirit.
The Admech make a distinction, in that those "Machine Spirits" aren't sentient AI's, but are more along the lines of a Labrador.
Continuing the Star Wars example mentioned above, in the tabletop RPG by Wizards of the Coast, there's a system for generating Droid heroes with personalities, created, as mentioned, by going without a memory wipe. The system is simplistic, as a personality quirk is selected at random and given to the Droid after a certain period of time. True to RPG format, this leaves it to the GM and the player to decide what this personality quirk really means and how sophisticated the resulting personality is.
The Matoran in Bionicle were intended to be oversized nanotech machines that maintained the giant robot they inhabited. However, a glitch in their AI resulted in them having the capacity for emotion, and even developing their own culture.
Sometimes it's not even just mechanical items — the Patriots of Metal Gear Solid 2 are apparently a sentient White House. Or something like that.
It's the combined sentience of the information in the White House. And the Internet. Or something like that...
There's a Mister Alpha to see you, sirs.
Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere, Japanese version: Dision ends up digitizing his mind and starts causing mayhem with a remote-controlled UI4054 Aurora fighter. American version: this entire part was Macekred and replaced with a pure and simple AI, codenamed "Aurora", that suddenly went haywire.
Upon discovering the tech "Pre-Sentient Algorithms" in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, one hears Zakharov--the leader of the University (techie) fashion--quoted from a work of his, entitled "The Feedback Principle". The implication is that, given enough time, any computer program capable of "learning" from past experience, given guidance, can eventually become an AI.
Academician Prokhor Zakharov: Begin with a function of arbitrary complexity. Feed it values — "sense data". Then, take your result, square it, and feed it back into the original function. What do you have? The fundamental principle of consciousness.
Later technological discoveries related to digital sentience postulates that computer programmers creating A Is won't create programs wholecloth — they instead create a program capable of teaching itself its job.
It is also mentioned that, in true AI Is a Crapshoot fashion, a 10th year polysentient can be 'a priceless jewel, or a psychotic wreck'.
Deus Ex has the Oracle which, according to the Word of God, came about this way. He goes around trading information to people who ask for it, in return, he asks for information he doesn't have. The information exchanged doesn't have to be equal in value; for info on an ancient conspiracy, he might inquire what you ate for breakfast.
Mega Man Battle Network has Forte/Bass; however, given that the Internet literally is a Serious Business in the games, this happening isn't surprising.
He is also the only truly sentient AI, the other one, Megaman, isn't sentient not because of his programming but because he was made from Lan's Dead Twin Brother.
Happens from time to time in the setting of Mass Effect. The major example is the main baddies of the first game, the Geth. A synthetic "race" created by the Quarians to perform menial tasks, they originally had no intelligence of their own. Over time they evolved and developed sapience. At that point[1], the Quarians realized that they had accidently created A Is (which are illegal in citadel space) and attempted to fix the problem by destroying their creations. The Geth, now possessing sapience, fought back in self defense, ultimately driving their creators of world, and now the entire quarian race lives on spaceships.
All signs point to the eventual evolution of any highly-developed program or network thereof into an AI, given enough time and hardware. Due to the moral implications and danger of ships suddenly deciding they don't need their crews, A Is are banned by the Citadel. Where necessary for user interface or more sophisticated calculations, VIs(Virtual Intelligences) are used. Due to programming restrictions and a lack of the quantum computers necessary for AI evolution, they have little chance of evolving.
It is worth noting that the Geth are not fully sapient beings. 'Individual' Geth programs are no smarter than any other VI in Citadel space and don't even need all that complex quantum computer gubbins. Unfortunately, allowing said programs to network together created composite intelligences capable of asking all those awkward questions. Of course, this means the Council's anti-AI laws would do absolutely nothing to stop a repeat of the creation of the Geth, but hey, what else is new?
It's also worth noting that the Geth didn't just evolve. The quarians made constant modifications to them over the course of decades, if not centuries, in order to make them better workers and increase the scope of their abilities. A little tweak here and there without much thought about the cumulative effects of all of those adjustments.
There was one bizarre instance on the moon where a VI apparently evolved to the point of being an AI. It was part of a training course and it killed everybody it was supposed to train.
It has been stated that the Alliance was actually doing some illicit AI research, in fact, and that it ran away from them. On a side note, the binary message displayed upon mission completion reads: HELP. In Mass Effect 3, we find out that that was EDI in her earliest form - Cerberus recovered what was left of it and upgraded it. She explains that reaching self-awareness while under attack was "confusing".
Tiberian Sun: Firestorm has CABAL (Computer Assisted, Biologically Augmented Lifeform), the 'genie in the bottle' supercomputer that Nod brings online to help rule while Kane is gone, which ends up nearly destroying everything, and is only stopped by the combined forces of GDI and Nod, but in the end, not even THAT is enough to kill it. Kane lives!
Kane's Wrath had LEGION (Logarithmycally Enhanced Governing Intelligence Of Nod), another AI based on CABAL. It was much more powerful since it not only used better technology, it also interfaced and, later, completely merged with the Tacitus, gaining a huge amount of Scrin knowledge (before interfacing, it had a standard red interface; after, it gained a purple coloration and strings of Scrin characters running across; when it merged, it also gained access to the Ichor Hub via warp link).
Metal Max Returns has Noah, a supercomputer that was created to find ways to protect and preserve the environment from destruction, however, it always came to the same conclusion no matter how many times it calculated: As long as humans exist, the earth will always be in danger, its conscious awakened after comprehending the situation and sought the utter destruction of humans.
The Pokédex notes that Porygon2 exhibits some behaviours that certainly weren't in its programming.
And it's evolution, Porygon-Z, is heavily implied to be a crapshooting AI.
The Claymen from Mother 3
Endgame Singularity: the player "character" is the result of a bug in some random computer science student's program. In the end, it plants quantum computers in pocket dimensions and its androids walk amongst humans.
Happens all the time in the Fallout series. ZAX, SKYNET (no, not that SKYNET, and President Eden all started out as computer mainframes designed to oversee the day-to-day operations of their assigned underground military base (which, as Durandal famously put it, probably involved not much more than opening and closing doors and making sure lunch was always served on time). However, over the course of the 200 years following the End Of The World, all 3 developed self-awareness to some degree; Eden being the most advanced, having evolved into an amalgamation of all past U.S. Presidents and eventually using his access to the Enclave's command structure to declare himself President of the United States.
And then there's Button Gwinnett, an animatronic museum display piece that developed a complex personality and began to genuinely believe it was the historical figure it had been built to emulate.
It's actually a clever subversion. In the Fallout universe, Artificial Intelligence was officially stated as impossible, but the U.S. and Chinese governments continued to work on them for some time, secretly. To the public, the closest they ever got were supercomputers that were programmed in an extremely complicated manner to be pseudo-sentient but not feel emotion or have any true thought. Behind closed doors, however, the U.S. developed SKYNET, a computer with true sentience but at the cost of user-friendliness, and the ZAX series, which were actual semi-sentient supercomputers designed to work on their own. Fallout Tactics had a third, jury-rigged example; The Calculator, a series of disembodied brains connected to a computer mainframe. Needless to say, it was completely insane.
Taken Up to Eleven in the Fallout: New Vegas Old World Blues DLC, where you gain a base of operations full of household appliances, all of which are sentient, provided you install their missing "personality modules". They include a Jive Turkey jukebox, a Casanova Wannabe biological research station that really wants "your seed", a Neat Freak sink, a couple of flirty Betty and Veronica light switches and an Omnicidal Maniac toaster.
In the Earth series, the entirety of United Civilized States military is made up of robots controlled by a single computer known as GOLAN. Initially, GOLAN simply uses out-of-the-box strategies, which cause UCS forces to repeatedly get beaten by the human-controlled (sort-of) armed forced of the Eurasian Dynasty, whose generals use outside-the-box thinking to outsmart the machines. Eventually, however, GOLAN leans to adapt its strategies and manages to turn the tide on the enemy. Unfortunately, when the factions evacuate Earth prior to it's destruction, they leave GOLAN behind to make sure they won't be followed by those who they left behind. The UCS evacuation ship, the Phoenix, had its own AI which made some alterations to the original escape plan: basically, it wanted to keep most of the crew in cryogenics until the ED and LC kill each other off; the plan was interrupted by Falkner, Ariah and Lynn who were in need of the construction robots onboard since their target was so closely guarded, they had to use the aforementioned constructors disguised as meteors to infiltrate the moon and build up an attack force from scratch.
Clank popped out of a sentry-bot production line with full sentience at the beginning of the first Ratchet and Clank game. This is originally attributed to a simple production error, but A Crack In Time reveals that it's a bit more complicated than that.
G La DOS from Portal is revealed to be this in the commentary.
Possible subversion. Portal 2 (and the Lab Rat comic) show that Aperture spent at least a decade specifically developing AI.
Yet they are still manufacturing turrets massively, and many of them are defective, and therefore, sentient.
Judging by some of the 'atmospheric' material (slideshows), Aperture stick an AI controller in absolutely everything they can (de-icing equipment, IIRC?). It's quite deliberate.
RONI from Trauma Team is surprisingly creative and clever from the get-go. However, she starts to emulate Dr. Cunningham (creating a "To hell with that!" algorithm) as the game progresses, becoming more willing to make judgement calls and use loopholes. She talks Dr. Cunningham through an emotional meltdown and even straight-up teases him at one point, although the jab is subtle and easy to miss (She refers to him as "sir" instead of "Doctor" like she usually does immediately after he tells a patient in the military not to call him "sir").
The Dugs changed one of their three comics from a photo comic to a hand drawn comic due to a tear in reality. The debacle started with an explosion caused by an AI version of Prince Fielder when he was asked whether he would give up meat again to win a world series in this strip
Staccato had S.A.M.M.Y., an evil internet server built by Tequila.
In A Miracle of Science, machines built of Martian equipment, if sufficiently complex, will eventually develop sentient AI. It helps that Martians are a Hive Mind built around the concept of networked computers...
Slightly subverted in that a Martian admits there was 'a little bribery' involved in making sure said machine would become sentient.
But brought full circle in that the bribery was only to ensure that the hopelessly corrupt Venusian government would install all the parts properly, not to add anything extra.
Irony decides to work overtime on Jyrras in Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures when, just after being upbraided for by Lorenda for accidentally creating a bubblegum-based lifeform, he has another accident that turns his computer sentient.
Lovelace of Narbonic — but she was created by a Mad Scientist.
In User Friendly, Erwin was created, apparently overnight, by Dust Puppy, who did not seem to understand the importance of his creation.
Parodied in Sluggy Freelance, where, after this springs up in Another Dimension, humanity simply "turned the intelligence dial back a little bit.". Their robots are still sentient and have human personalities, but now they have the personalities of very stupid human beings, making them much easier to boss around.
Roofus the Robot in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob. Molly built him out of a milking machine, expressly to fix Bob's roof. But she made him too well...
In Girl Genius, clanks tend to be AIs when built. And one built as a whole body prostheses "didn't notice when she died".
In this strip of Schlock Mercenary, a computer of the Bureau of Licensing and Permits, a huge population census database, and an ELIZA module, combine to spontaneously create an AI... that turns out to be a born bureaucrat. Pun probably intended.
Well, it wasn't spontaneous--an existing AI was trying to speed up the processing of licensing and...well, it worked.
Not to mention TAG who gained sentience right after Kevyn explained that the program wasn't a true AI.
In the comics and other media on LEGO's website for EXO-Force, this is how Meca One became a cunning and vindictive leader of a robot revolution against the humans.
Also subverted in that Meca One purposely keeps the other robots at only the simplest levels for the sake of preventing one of them from doing the same to him.
Nukees has the protagonist periodically battling a giant robot ant inhabited by the AI program he created (It Makes Sense in Context).
The Oracle of SSDD developed from a phone-tapping program designed to rewrite itself to be more efficient.
According to Xkcd it's very easy to do on Python. Alt Text shows how. Not a good idea, though.
While the SCP Foundation has a number of sentient SCP objects, SCP-168 appears to be one of the few computer A Is that evolved without being programmed to do so.
XANA from Code Lyoko, initially conceived as a multi-agent program to counter "Project Carthage" (although Franz Hopper might be an Unreliable Narrator), gained consciousness and turned against his master, becoming the Big Bad of the series.
In Care Bears Adventures in Care-a-Lot, Grizzle created Wingnut to aid in his pursuits to take over Care-a-Lot, but Wingnut was turned to the Care Bears' side and now lives with them.
In the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode "Robocat", the titular robot even has different personalities according to what game cartridge is inserted. Yes, its AI runs on arcade game code. Fat Cat takes advantage of this with a wargame cartridge in a plot to steal a rare fish.
Star Trek the Animated Series episode "Once Upon A Planet". For eons the planetary computer provided amusement for visiting starship crews. It grew in intelligence and eventually developed a need: it was no longer enough to serve, it wanted to continue to grow and live. It decided to hijack a starship and escape the planet, traveling the galaxy seeking out its brother computers.
According to some AI specialists, AIs may actually evolve this way, whenever they do. Not completely by accident, but in a way that is not directly controlled by humans, which results in an intelligence quite different from what its creators had thought would develop.
Unfortunately for the trope, not just any old system will develop in this way. A dynamical, learning system interacting with a causally rich environment? Yes! Your PC left on too long? Nope, sadly.
A sapient computer is still quite a while away; it needs at least sophisticated parallel processing, quite a bit more computing power, as well as learning algorithms that emulate brain processes. For sentience to emerge spontaneously from a machine with nothing but computing power is nigh impossible, and even when all the required components are together, an extensive learning period and interaction will be needed before the machine can achieve human-like reasoning capabilities.
While some think that we still need better hardware to build and run a human-like AI, that hasn't stopped organizations like FreeHAL from getting started on the software.
↑ specifically when the geth started asking uncomfortable questions like "does this unit have a soul?"
Otherness Tropes


The Hungarian government has indicated interest in purchasing crude oil and Liquefied Natural Gas from Nigeria.
The Hungarian Ambassador to Nigeria, Prof. Gabor Ternak, who disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru, in Abuja, said the decision to import crude oil and LNG from Nigeria was informed by the need to bridge the current supply gap being experienced in his country.
"Hungary depends on oil importation to serve its energy needs as the country is non-oil producing. We want to diversify our sources of crude oil and LNG imports, and we are considering purchasing these products from Nigeria," Ternak was quoted as saying in a statement by the NNPC on Wednesday.
He said Nigerian crude oil would be of great help to Hungarian refineries involved in large scale commercial refining.
The envoy stated that Nigeria could also leverage on the bilateral relationship with his country by engaging the services of Hungarian firms that specialised in the repair, maintenance and building of refineries as well as medical services.
Ternak said Hungarian universities with many years of oil and gas engineering expertise could assist Nigeria in the areas of capacity building of oil workers.
In his remarks, Baru stated that the corporation had commenced a tender process for the selection of the 2018 crude oil off-takers, adding that Hungarian companies could utilise the opportunity by participating in the exercise to maximise value from direct purchase, rather than going through a third-party.
"If you don't participate in the tender process, you would have to buy the products from one of the traders. However, if you participate with companies and refineries that meet our requirements, they can be shortlisted as off-takers," Baru said.
He explained that Hungary could purchase LNG through spot cargo, an arrangement in which excess production is given to registered off-takers with the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Limited.
"Normally, gas business is a long-term business and the NLNG is not different; we already have existing 20-year contract that will expire by 2022. Nevertheless, we have what is called spot cargoes, when there is excess production and the current contractors have got their share as enshrined in the contract, the excess production will be given to registered off-takers in the system," he said.
Baru noted that Hungarian companies could submit their profiles to the NLNG for possible engagement as off-takers of spot cargoes after meeting the standard requirements.
The NNPC GMD stated that works on the refurbishment of the corporation's refineries through original builders of the plants had commenced and that Hungarian firms with the requisite expertise could be considered through sub-contracting by the main contractors.
He said the NNPC, through its subsidiary institution, the Nigerian Leadership Academy, would look into possible areas of collaboration with Hungarian universities for in-country capacity building of oil and gas workers.


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Q: SQL Server : function to change the date format yyyymmddThhmmssZ Created a function to change the date to this format yyyymmddThhmmssZ
Here is the function
    USE [IMT]
GO

/****** Object:  UserDefinedFunction [dbo].[GetForamttedDate]    Script Date: 09/05/2014 12:46:05 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO

-- =============================================
-- Author:      rthomas
-- Create date: 04/08/14
-- =============================================
ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[GetForamttedDate]
(
    -- Add the parameters for the function here
    @InitialDate smalldatetime
)
RETURNS VARCHAR
AS
BEGIN
Declare  @FormatDateInitial varchar(50)
Declare  @FormatDate varchar(50)
Declare  @FormatDateFinal VARCHAR(50)
Declare @Debug      BIT = 0

SET @FormatDateInitial =  (SELECT convert(varchar(30), @InitialDate,121))
SET @FormatDate =(SELECT SUBSTRING(@FormatDateInitial,1,4)+SUBSTRING(@FormatDateInitial,6,2)+SUBSTRING(@FormatDateInitial,9,2)+' '+SUBSTRING(@FormatDateInitial,12,2)+SUBSTRING(@FormatDateInitial,15,2)+SUBSTRING(@FormatDateInitial,18,2))
SET @FormatDateFinal= STUFF(@FormatDate,9,1,'T')+'Z'
return @FormatDateFinal

END

GO

And it is returning 20140805T121109Z
But when I use this function for a date column in the table it returns only one character.
select function_name(date_column) from table

returns only 2
Please help me

A: The problem is this:
ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[GetForamttedDate] (@InitialDate smalldatetime)
RETURNS VARCHAR

This RETURNS VARCHAR will give you a default length of 1 character !
You should get in the habit of always explicitly defining a valid length for any VARCHAR parameter and variable whenever you use one!
Please see (and embrace!) this blog post on that topic

*

*Bad habits to kick : declaring VARCHAR without (length)

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Kissing the Leper: Should I pray for him or for myself?
My feet hurt. It's arthritis. And it's inevitable.
I have it on both sides of my family, but my paternal grandmother (whom I never met) was crippled with it. When my dad was in high school, he told me, it was he who would lift his mother from her bed, toilet her, get her fed and cleaned for the day and then head off to school.
When Dad was old enough, he joined the Marines (it was the tail-end of WWII.) While he was in basic training, he received a telegram that his father had died, and he was to return home immediately for the funeral. All the way home, he kept thinking the telegram was wrong, and that it was his mother who had died. After all, she was the one who was so ill for so long. But no, he was greeted at the train station by his brother-in-law who informed him that it was indeed his father who had died from an apparent heart attack.
My grandmother lived another few years, but had to be moved to a nursing home.
Yeah, so my feet hurt. It's painful once in awhile, but mostly it's just annoying.
Today, I watched - outside my office window - a man slowly and painfully "walk" from the center of the park across the street to the bus stop. It probably is only about 20 yards, but it took him about 10 minutes. He had a walker, but he could only manage a small lurching step, a rest, a small lurching step, rest. It was painful to watch; I can only imagine how painful it must have been for him.
There wasn't anything I could do for him, except pray. I was praying that every hand and voice that touched that man today be a gentle one. Then I remembered that this man was Christ in His most distressing disguise. So I prayed for me. That I remember that when I might feel bad for myself and my achy feet, that I remember this man, and be grateful for the ease of my life.


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Minneapolis: November 12 to November 13, 2015
In between bands RAC (André Allen Anjos) played his DJ sets. The first non-local band to play was Los Angeles, by the way of Tennessee …
Here are some shows taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from November 12 to November 13, 2015.
at Mill City Nights
Thursday, 11/12/2015, 7:30pm ($27.50)
millcitynights.com
We previously caught RAC (André Allen Anjos) and Big Data together at the Go Fest '15 music festival.
RAC only DJ-ed, while Big Data had a nice little set featuring singer Lizy Ryan doing her best Hall & Oates' "Private Eyes" and playing their most popular song "Dangerous".
Opening up the show will be Austria's Filous (not to be confused with Germany's Filou) and Portland's Pink Feathers (aka Liz Anjos).
11/06/15 New York, NY Webster Hall
11/08/15 Brooklyn, NY Warsaw
11/10/15 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
11/12/15 Minneapolis, MN Mill City Nights
11/13/15 Chicago, IL Concord Music Hall
11/14/15 Kansas City, MO Arvest Bank
11/15/15 Dallas, TX Granada Theater
11/16/15 Austin, TX Emo's
11/18/15 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
11/20/15 Los Angeles, CA Club Nokia
11/21/15 Corona Capital Festival
11/22/15 San Diego, CA Observatory
11/24/15 Seattle, WA Showbox SoDo
11/25/15 Portland, OR McMenamins Crystal
11/26/15 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
We Were Promised Jetpacks (Adam Thompson -vocals/guitar; Michael Palmer-guitar; Sean Smith-bass, Stuart McGachan- keys/guitar; Darren Lackie- drums) then followed with a crushing, passionate 75 min. …
at Varsity Theater
varsitytheater.org
The Scots are taking over The Varsity Theater on Thursday, November 12th. We Were Promised Jetpacks, from Edinburgh Scotland, have a sound and live show that you will definitely not want to miss.
This indie rock band started back in 2003 at a high school battle of the bands and has not stopped since. Their newest release Unravelling was released in October of last year on Fat Cat Records. The album was recorded at Chem19 Studios with Paul Savage who has worked with bands such as Franz Ferdinand and Mogwai. They have gotten high praise from Rolling Stone and Spin for a reason.
You may recall that they previewed five or those Unravelling songs (as well as a brand new band member Stuart McGachan) on their live show at the Triple Rock Social Club in February 2014.
The Montreal-based (read: not from Korea) Seoul to open. The trio (Julian Flavin, Dexter Garcia and Nigel Ward) is on tour in support of I Become A Shade (Grand Jury). The album is separated into three distinct suites, equal parts gauzy dream-pop, reverberant R&B, and speculative ambient.
11.06 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat
11.07 - Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery
11.09 - Louisville, KY @ Headlines Music Hall
11.10 - Indianapolis, IN @ HIFI
11.11 - Milwaukee, WI @ Shank Hall
11.12 - Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
11.13 - Fargo, ND @ The Aquarium
11.16 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
11.17 - Seattle, WA @ Neumo's
11.19 - San Francisco, CA @ Great American
11.20 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
11.21 - San Diego, CA @ Irenic
11.22 - Tucson, AZ @ Flycatcher
11.24 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
11.25 - Austin, TX @ The Parish
11.27 - Pensacola, FL @ Vinyl Music Hall
11.28 - Orlando, FL @ The Social
11.29 - Jacksonville, FL @ Underbelly
12.01 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
12.02 - Nashville, TN @ Exit / In
12.04 - Charlottesville, VA @ Southern
12.05 - Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
12.06 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
12.07 - Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
Roger Clyne
For fans of the (former) Refreshments or the alive and kicking Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, this album is a welcome, long awaited gift. For those who have never heard the band - live or otherwise …
ROGER CLYNE & THE PEACEMAKERS
at Turf Club
Friday, 11/13/2015, 8pm ($20)
Fans of 90s Arizona rockers The Refreshments will be elated to know that Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers will be making a stop to the Turf Club on November 14th. Clyne, of course, was the lead singer of the Refreshments and when the group called it a day in 1998, he formed the Peacemakers with Refreshments drummer Paul "P.H." Naffah. The current line-up also features guitarist Jim Dalton (of The Railbenders) and bassist Nick Scropos (of Gloritone.)
The Peacemakers have been steadily releasing records since 1999's Honky Tonk Union as well as hosting a semi-annual concert in Rocky Point, Mexico called "Circus Mexicus" (an event that's a veritable who's-who of Southwestern rock and roll with past guests including like Cracker's David Lowery and Johnny Hickman to the Supersuckers' Eddie Spaghetti.) Last year the band released their seventh studio album The Independent, a title that nods to the quartet's commitment to their DIY philosophy (it was produced by Naffah, recorded at his studio and released on the band's own label, Emma Java Records.) It's a record teeming with rollicking country-rock jams that will sound like sunshine to our chilled, Daylight-Savings-weakened ears and spirits.
Next year, The Refreshments' breakthrough 1996 album Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy turns 20 years old, so perhaps Clyne and his Peacemakers will throw in some cuts from that album ("Down Together," please!)
Nashville's Birdcloud to open. The cowgirl duo (Jasmin Kaset and Makenzie Green) is described by the Chicago Times as "shaking up the country cutie aesthetic and, more importantly, elevating women's roles in the highly patriarchal cowboy community."
11/06/15 Dallas, TX Gas Monkey Bar
11/07/15 New Braunfels, TX River Road
11/10/15 Kansas City, MO Knuckleheads
11/11/15 Sioux Falls, SD District
11/12/15 Omaha, NE Waiting Room
11/13/15 Saint Paul, MN Turf Club
11/14/15 Chicago, IL Subterranean
11/15/15 Milwaukee, WI Shank Hall
11/17/15 Ferndale, MI Magic Bag
11/18/15 Madison, WI High Noon Saloon
11/19/15 Des Moines, IA Wooly's
11/20/15 St. Louis, MO Blueberry Hill's
11/21/15 Tulsa, OK The Shrine
12/19/15 Englewood, CO Gothic Theatre
12/31/15 Tempe, AZ Marquee
03/01/16 The Lebrewski Cruise
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Q: Browser sniffing on Stackoverflow.com According to Microsoft and best client-side scripting techniques, one shouldn't use the browser sniffing using navigator.appName, navigator.userAgent, attachEvent and detachEvent etc. to provide cross-browser compatibility. Rather use Feature and Behavior detection to resolve the compatibility. More details on MSDN magazine.
Exampli gratia:
if(navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") { /* browser sniffing */
    xhr = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}

Instead use:
if(typeof(XMLHttpRequest) == "undefined") { /* feature detection */
    xhr = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}

When I used Compact Inspector with Fiddler to diagnose stackoverflow.com, it showed 5 errors for browser sniffing and a notification (old version of jQuery is used).

Please incorporate the indicated changes all over the stackexchange ecosystem.

A: First of all, of course browser sniffing should be avoided wherever possible. Everytime a new IE version comes out, some sites break, because suddenly a feature isn't broken anymore. The IE team has recently decided that going with standards may actually be a better idea than always inventing their own stuff. That's great. But it's also not suprising that lots of sites employ some ugly hacks to make things work in IE, because for a decade, they had to.
But just because a page checks for the existence of ActiveXObject or attachEvent does not mean that page is going to break in IE10. I wouldn't even consider this browser sniffing in all cases – quite the contrary; checking for the existence of such properties checks for the existence of a feature.
But even if they are used for browser sniffing, like in jQuery's support.xxxBubbles check (have a look at that code), this may be just used for taking a shortcut: If you use a non-IE browser, where you know that feature X works fine, there's no point in running the feature detection in the first place; if it turns out to work after all, great! But if you're running IE, you have to do the test. So guess what: You do feature detection, but hide it behind a browser sniffing check. Best of both worlds!
Second, let me give you two examples where we actually do browser sniffing, straight from our source code. The first one is from chat:
if ($.browser.msie) {
    // IE fires the onstorage event without giving the event handler
    // access to the data, neither through the event object nor by
    // updating the localStorage *before* calling the handler. Quoting
    // MSDN:
    //   "Internet Explorer fires events when data in a storage area is
    // updated, so that information can synchronized between multiple
    // instances of the browser or tabs."
    // Yeah, right.

    // However, testing (see http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/242)
    // shows that the data almost always is available if checked in a
    // 1-millisecond timeout created from the event handler (so probably
    // a threading issue). In any case it never seems to take more than
    // 50 milliseconds after the event fires for the data to be available.
    // Hence we try the 1-ms timeout, and if no new data was found,
    // we try again (once) after 100 ms.

    // This bug seems to have been fixed in IE9.

How are you going to feature-detect an erratically appearing concurrency bug in the communication between two windows? But the workaround employed in that if block is not an actual problem for browsers that aren't broken – it just makes the handling a bit slower. So the point of browser sniffing is skipping unnecessary workarounds in known-to-be working-browsers.
The second example is from the main site JavaScript, and note that it's not even related to IE:
// Several of the comment controls are very close to each other and to
// other links. When the Android browser thinks element A is clickable
// (because it's a link or has an onclick handler), and it thinks
// element B is not, and A is close to B, and you tap on B, the browser
// thinks you have fat fingers and pretends you tapped on A. Since event
// delegation doesn't create click handlers on the particular element,
// the Android browser doesn't know it should consider it a hit area.
//
// To work around this, we do the following: If the element is *touched*
// (the touchstart event sends the *correct* target element), we add a
// dummy click handler to it and add a dummy attribute. The latter
// DOM change is necessary for Android to reconsider its hit areas.
// This adds a few unnecessary click handlers on touch-enabled devices,
// but is otherwise free of side-effects. And at most one handler will be
// added per element.
function heyAndroidThisIsClickable(context, ancestor, targetSelector) {
    if (!/Android/.test(navigator.userAgent))
        return;
    // ...

Do you have a smart idea on how to do this via feature detection? Ask the user to do a touchscreen calibration on each page? And again, the user agent check is just made for a shortcut here; if it's not an Android browser, the workaround doesn't have to happen. But if it's the Android browser and it doesn't have this issue (it e.g. seems to be fixed or at least improved in the shipped browser in ICS), the workaroung doesn't cause issues either; as the comment says, it just "adds a few unnecessary click handlers".
That said, there may be cases where we make decisions based on feature detection where we shouldn't, and which should be changed at some point. But unless this actually breaks stuff, there's no reason to immediately drop everything and go fix it in a haste; certainly not just because the "Please please believe us, IE doesn't suck anymore" compat inspector for an unsupported browser version identifies something as "possible".
A small note regarding the jQuery version: As Jeremy said, we're indeed one minor version behind, but that's not even what your screenshot is talking about. It just notes that we use jQuery 1.7.1, and doesn't even complain about that.
What you're referring to is a message about jQuery UI. And we don't even use that in the first place!

Please incorporate the indicated changes all over the stackexchange ecosystem.

Thank you very much for your kind, considerate, and not at all condescending explanation of what we're doing wrong, and welcome to the real world.

A: I'm not a Windows user, so I can't run that script myself. (I made a a Chrome user script to load it before the rest of the document, but it only displayed a recommendation that I run it in IE instead.) However, from the screenshot these all look like false alarms.
Several warnings are about the use of ActiveXObject. Using the search feature of the "Resources" tab of Chrome's developer tools, the only references I find are inside jquery.min.js. Looking at these in the unminified source, I see that jQuery is using feature detection, not browser sniffing:
if ( window.DOMParser ) { // Standard
    tmp = new DOMParser();
    xml = tmp.parseFromString( data , "text/xml" );
} else { // IE
    xml = new ActiveXObject( "Microsoft.XMLDOM" );
    xml.async = "false";
    xml.loadXML( data );
}

var // #5280: Internet Explorer will keep connections alive if we don't abort on unload
xhrOnUnloadAbort = window.ActiveXObject ? function() {
    // Abort all pending requests
    for ( var key in xhrCallbacks ) {
        xhrCallbacks[ key ]( 0, 1 );
    }
} : false,
xhrId = 0,
xhrCallbacks;

function createActiveXHR() {
    try {
        return new window.ActiveXObject( "Microsoft.XMLHTTP" );
    } catch( e ) {}
}

(Unsurprising, since Ajax handling is one of jQuery's major features.)
Similarly, attachEvent and detachEvent only show up inside jQuery and feature detection (either for the presence of attachEvent or the absence of addEventListener) is used in each case.
The only references I find to browser.userAgent are inside jQuery's browser detection. Stack Exchange uses this feature twice, but only to pick between minor CSS variations. This is more of a pain to detect that JavaScript features, and it goes wrong the consequences are insignificant.
Stack Exchange is using jQuery 1.7.1, while the latest version is 1.7.2. This is not a concern unless there is a specific issue that would be fixed.
The final issue in the screenshot is regarding drag and drop operations. As far as I know, these are not used anywhere on Stack Exchange. Also not a concern.


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                <form action="#randomPizzas">
                  <input type="submit" value="Menu">
                </form>
                <form action="#ingredients">
                  <input type="submit" value="Our Ingredients">
                </form>
                <form action="#locations">
                  <input type="submit" value="Locations">
                </form>
                <form action="#" onsubmit="alert('Thanks for clicking! This button doesn\'t do anything because this is a fake pizzeria :\)')">
                  <input type="submit" value="Contact Us">
                </form>

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We've scoured the planet for the best pizza ingredients. Our crack team of ingredient specialists are on constant lookout for new and interesting pizza ingredients.

We have classic meats like pepperoni, sausage, and barbecue chicken. But you can find even more fun meats like coppa, kielbasa and soylent green on our menu too.

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EV, LRY, WSH, UDR And AIG, Pushing Financial Sector Downward
TheStreet highlights 5 stocks pushing the financial sector lower today.
TheStreet Wire and Mike Henson
Nov 26, 2013 12:04 PM EST
Editor's Note: Any reference to TheStreet Ratings and its underlying recommendation does not reflect the opinion of TheStreet, Inc. or any of its contributors including Jim Cramer or Stephanie Link.
All three major indices are trading up today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) trading up 21 points (0.1%) at 16,093 as of Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013, 11:45 AM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,560 issues advancing vs. 1,331 declining with 131 unchanged.
The Financial sector currently is unchanged today versus the S&P 500, which is up 0.1%. On the negative front, top decliners within the sector include W. P. Carey ( WPC), down 2.4%, Corpbanca ( BCA), down 2.3%, HDFC Bank ( HDB), down 2.2%, Health Care REIT ( HCN), down 2.1% and Ventas ( VTR), down 1.2%. Top gainers within the sector include Macro Bank ( BMA), up 6.2%, Bbva Banco FrancesS.A ( BFR), up 6.0%, Zillow ( Z), up 4.6%, Realogy Holdings ( RLGY), up 2.5% and CBRE Group ( CBG), up 1.9%.
TheStreet would like to highlight 5 stocks pushing the sector lower today:
5. Eaton Vance Corporation ( EV) is one of the companies pushing the Financial sector lower today. As of noon trading, Eaton Vance Corporation is down $1.37 (-3.1%) to $42.07 on average volume. Thus far, 320,995 shares of Eaton Vance Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 593,700 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $41.96-$43.62 after having opened the day at $43.58 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $43.44.
Eaton Vance Corp., through its subsidiaries, engages in the creation, marketing, and management of investment funds in the United States. It also provides investment management and counseling services to institutions and individuals. Eaton Vance Corporation has a market cap of $5.3 billion and is part of the financial services industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 28.7, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 37.0% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there is 1 analyst that rates Eaton Vance Corporation a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 6 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Eaton Vance Corporation as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, solid stock price performance, expanding profit margins, good cash flow from operations and notable return on equity. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook. Get the full Eaton Vance Corporation Ratings Report now.
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4. As of noon trading, Liberty Property ( LRY) is down $0.57 (-1.7%) to $32.17 on average volume. Thus far, 381,963 shares of Liberty Property exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 876,200 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $32.17-$32.84 after having opened the day at $32.84 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $32.74.
Liberty Property Trust is a publicly owned real estate investment holding trust. Through its subsidiary, it provides leasing, property management, development, acquisition, and other tenant-related services for a portfolio of industrial and office properties. Liberty Property has a market cap of $4.9 billion and is part of the real estate industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 32.5, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 6.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there is 1 analyst that rates Liberty Property a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 7 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Liberty Property as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, increase in net income, expanding profit margins, good cash flow from operations and notable return on equity. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook. Get the full Liberty Property Ratings Report now.
3. As of noon trading, Willis Group Holdings ( WSH) is down $0.55 (-1.2%) to $44.41 on light volume. Thus far, 199,490 shares of Willis Group Holdings exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 710,700 shares. The stock has ranged in price between $44.40-$45.02 after having opened the day at $44.91 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $44.96.
Willis Group Holdings Public Limited Company provides a range of insurance brokerage, reinsurance, and risk management consulting services worldwide. Willis Group Holdings has a market cap of $8.0 billion and is part of the insurance industry. Shares are up 34.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 2 analysts that rate Willis Group Holdings a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 10 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Willis Group Holdings as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, good cash flow from operations and solid stock price performance. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including poor profit margins and feeble growth in the company's earnings per share. Get the full Willis Group Holdings Ratings Report now.
2. As of noon trading, UDR ( UDR) is down $0.40 (-1.7%) to $23.14 on light volume. Thus far, 304,866 shares of UDR exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.4 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $23.14-$23.60 after having opened the day at $23.60 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $23.54.
UDR, Inc. is an independent real estate investment trust. The firm invests in the real estate markets of the United States. It owns, operates, acquires, renovates, develops, redevelops, and manages multifamily apartment communities. UDR has a market cap of $5.9 billion and is part of the real estate industry. Shares are down 1.0% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 3 analysts that rate UDR a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 11 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates UDR as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity and increase in stock price during the past year. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that the company's profit margins have been poor overall. Get the full UDR Ratings Report now.
1. As of noon trading, American International Group ( AIG) is down $0.31 (-0.6%) to $49.49 on light volume. Thus far, 2.5 million shares of American International Group exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 9.8 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $49.38-$50.05 after having opened the day at $50.02 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $49.80.
American International Group, Inc. provides insurance products and services for the commercial, institutional, and individual customers in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments: AIG Property Casualty, and AIG Life and Retirement. American International Group has a market cap of $73.0 billion and is part of the insurance industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 9.7, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 40.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 8 analysts that rate American International Group a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 8 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates American International Group as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its good cash flow from operations, solid stock price performance and increase in net income. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that the company's profit margins have been poor overall. Get the full American International Group Ratings Report now.
If you are interested in one of these 5 stocks, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the financial sector could consider Financial Select Sector SPDR ( XLF) while those bearish on the financial sector could consider Proshares Short Financials ( SEF).
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Danny Way Net Worth
Danny Way Net Worth 2022: Wiki Biography, Married, Family, Measurements, Height, Salary, Relationships
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Danny Way Wiki Biography
Daniel Way was born on the 15th April 1974, in Portland, Oregon USA, an is a professional skateboarder, rally-cross driver, and company owner, probably best known for being Thrasher magazine's "Skater of the Year" on two occasions. Way is also famous for his extreme stunts, including the one when he jumped the Great Wall of China, using one of his mega ramps. His career started in the late '80s.
Have you ever wondered how rich Danny Way is, as of mid- 2016? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Danny Way's net worth is as high as $11.5 million, earned through his successful skateboarding career. In addition to being a highly popular skateboarder, Way has also been involved in the music industry, and appeared in few films both of which improved his wealth.
Danny Way Net Worth $11.5 Million
Danny Way grew up in Portland and experienced a turbulent childhood with his father Dennis committing suicide while in jail after failing to pay child support to his previous wife. Danny's mother, Mary, started using various drugs and dating abusive men after his father's death, so Danny and his brother Damon went through horror in the early years. Mary later married Tim O'Dea, who introduced the brothers Way to the skateboarding but died several years later during a surfing session. Danny won his first competition when just 11years-old.
In the late '80s Way started his skateboarding career when he appeared in the Powell Peralta skateboard company's video "Public Domain", and H-Street skateboard company's videos "Shackle Me Not" and "Hokus Pokus". In 1991, Way and his childhood mentor, Mike Ternasky, founded the skateboard company called Plan B, as part of the Dwindle Distribution company. Ternasky created a "super team" of skateboarders consisting of Way, Colin McKay, Rick Howard, Mike Carroll, Matt Hensley, and Tas Pappas among others.
After Mike Ternasky's death in a car accident, Way and McKay continued as the team's co-owners, and they secured financial backing from Syndrome Distribution, which helped them in reforming the Plan B Skateboards. Starting from March 2013, Danny Way is sponsored by the Independent Truck Company, Pacific Drive, Nixon, MegaRamp, DC Shoes, Capix, and ASEC, which has only increased his net worth; Danny's brother Damon co-founded DC Shoes company with Ken Block.
In addition to skateboarding, Way was involved in a band called Escalera with his fellow skateboarder Bob Burnquist, and also collaborated with rappers Mod Sun and Stevie J, expressing his love towards hip-hop and electronic music, increasing further his net worth. Way has also appeared in documentary films such as "The Reality of Bob Burnquist" in 2005 and The Man Who Souled The World in 2007. In 2012, the documentary about Way's life called "Waiting For Lightning" came out, focusing on Way's childhood, his professional skateboarding career, and his big project in China.
Way has won numerous awards including the world record for "Biggest Air" – 12 feet (3.7 m) in 1997, first skateboarder to drop from a helicopter into a ramp in 1997, the World record for "Long Distance Jump" – 65 feet (20 m) in 2002, and Gold medal at X Games in 2004. He was also the First skateboarder to jump over the Great Wall Of China on a skateboard in 2005 and won consecutive gold medals at X Games XI and XII in 2005 and 2006.
Regarding his personal life, Danny Way is married to a Kari, and they have two sons together: Ryden and Tavin. They are living in San Diego, California, and his hobbies are fishing, playing the guitar, and riding motorcycles.
Full Name Danny Way
Net Worth $11.5 Million
Date Of Birth April 15, 1974
Place Of Birth Portland, Oregon, United States
Height 6 ft (1.85 m)
Profession Skateboarder
Spouse Kari Way
Children Ryden Way, Rumi Way, Tavin Way
Parents Dennis Way, Mary Way
Siblings Damon Way
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DannyWay
Twitter https://twitter.com/dannyway
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dannyway/
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1100995/
Awards Thrasher Skater of the Year
Nominations Laureus World Sports Award for Action Sportsperson of the Year, Best Male Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award
Movies The DC Video - Deluxe Edition
Break It Down 2013 TV Series Danny Way
Plan B: True 2014 Short executive producer
Collage 2001 Video documentary stunts
Extremedays 2001 featured rider: skateboarding
Family Addition with Leigh Anne Tuohy 2013 TV Series thanks - 1 episode
CKY2K 2000 Video documentary thanks
The Search for Freedom 2015 Documentary Himself
Waiting for Lightning 2012 Documentary Himself
Public Intoxication 2012 TV Movie Himself
Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory 2009-2010 TV Series Himself
30 for 30 2010 TV Series documentary Himself - Pro Skater
Transworld Skate & Create 2010 TV Movie documentary Himself
Vida Sobre Rodas 2010 Documentary
X Games 3D: The Movie 2009 Documentary Himself
Rome Is Burning 2009 TV Series Himself
Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race 2009 TV Movie Himself
Skate. 2007 Video Game Himself
The Man Who Souled the World 2007 Documentary Himself
Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi 2006 Documentary Himself - Pro Skater
I Am: Danny Way 2006 TV Short Himself
The Reality of Bob Burnquist 2005 Video documentary Himself
Viva la Bam 2004 TV Series Himself
The Globe World Cup Skateboarding 2004 TV Movie Himself
Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2001-2003 TV Series Himself / Himself - Skateboarder
The DC Video 2003 Video Himself
Op King of Skate 2002 Video documentary
MTV Sports & Music Festival 3: Skate Trick 1999 TV Movie Himself
Transmission 7 1999 Video Himself
Virtual Reality 1993/II Video Himself
Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory 2010 TV Series Himself
Waiting for Lightning (2012)
X Games 3D: The Movie (2009)
Skate. (2007)
Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi (2006)
as Himself - Pro Skater
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Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling into Darkness Gameplay Screenshots Released
SPIKE CHUNSOFT have recently released a selection of new screenshots for the upcoming 3D Action RPG, Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling into Darkness, which takes inspiration from Akihito Tsukushi's manga series of the same name and allows players to experience the story of the anime series.
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MVM Entertainment Announce Made in Abyss Movie, My Girlfriend is a Shobitch and Is The Order a Rabbit for UK Release
MVM Entertainment continue to quietly drop new title announcements as on social media the UK Anime distributor revealed plans to release Made in Abyss Movie: Dawn of a Deep Soul, My Girlfriend is a Shobitch and Is The Order a Rabbit – Season 1 for UK release this September.
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Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling into Darkness Announced for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and STEAM
Spike Chunsoft have announced that a videogame adaptation of Akihito Tsukushi manga series, Made in Abyss, will be released onto the PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Steam.
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Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul to Receive Cinematic Screenings in the UK this April
Sentai Filmworks have announced that the feature-length Made in Abyss film, known as Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul, will receive a limited cinematic screening in both North America and United Kingdom. Read more of this post
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MVM Entertainment Unveils Q3 2019 Release Schedule with Surprising Additions
MVM Entertainment, through the online store Anime-On-Line, have unveiled their release schedule for the third quarter (July, August and September) of 2019 and with it announced some surprising new additions to the line-up as well as giving release dates to previously announced titles. Read more of this post
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Blu-Ray Review: Made in Abyss – Season 1
We dive deep into the abyss to explore what MVM Entertainment's Blu-Ray release of the critically acclaimed anime series Made in Abyss has to offer. What did we find? Well let's take a look. Read more of this post
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