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Comment by aashay | Hacker News Reader

>“Over months and months, he inflicted unfathomable psychic damage, making the victims feel vulnerable in their own home, while avoiding detection.”

So he's a hacker AND has psychic powers? Man oh man.

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Obviously "psychic damage" refers to the mental trauma caused by the types of anti-social attacks that were being done to this family.

Yeah, pet peeve. Psychic != psychological. Irregardless, don't make me beg the question.

Not that I want to be pedantic, but since we're being pedantic...

psy·chic

1. of or pertaining to the human soul or mind; mental

psy·cho·log·i·cal

2. pertaining to the mind or to mental phenomena as the subject matter of psychology.

via our friend dictionary.com

If sarcasm went by my head (and I think it may have, since you said irregardless), please ignore this post.

Yes, sarcasm, to both commenters. It was about shifting connotations diluting original meanings and not so much about pedantry. I stopped fighting "begs the question" years ago and simply accepted that it means something different now. We've lost psychic the same way (see great-grandparent post).

He hacks your computer and your mind. Due for release spring 2012 in a theatre near you.

Three movies from '89 to go with your comment and username. Prison (1988), The Horror Show (1989), and Shocker (1989).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shocker_(film)

This thread was reminding me of it even before your electromagnetic remark...

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