kieron115
@kieron115@startrek.website
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 14 hours ago:
“Everything is working fine. What do we even pay you people for?” “Everything is on fire! What do we even pay you people for!”
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 17 hours ago:
Whoever is fixing your computer absolutely despises you if you’re a smoker. Tar gets everywhere.
- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 5 days ago:
strange new worlds has some legitimately good trek. i wish they’d experiment less given there are so few episodes per year but overall it’s excellent. you still get your adventure of the week while having a few loose continuing threads (and the major thread of Pike’s inevitable end. spoiler alert?)
- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 5 days ago:
This question comes up a lot, and I always respond with Carbon Creek. Is it the best Trek? Hell no. But what it is is a story that requires no knowledge of Trek. Anything relevant to a new viewer is brought up by Tucker or Archer at the dinner table. And it does introduce a new viewer to some key lore about the history of humanity relative to this wider universe, as well as what a wide reach the Vulkan’s had in developing the alpha and beta quadrants.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 5 days ago:
The thing is, for it to be an evolutionary advantage it can’t be common. That’s one theory behind why grandmas aren’t more common in species.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 5 days ago:
ADHD brains seem to approach problems in generally more innovative/non-traditional ways than neurotypicals. It can also foster intense motivation in people. Bill Gates, for example, has been open about his struggles with ADHD. Many scholars believe that Albert Einstein struggled with AuDHD (ADHD with autism, which wasn’t in the American DSM until fairly recently).
thebrainworkshop.com/…/successful-people-with-adh… www.additudemag.com/…/famous-people-with-adhd/
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 5 days ago:
on your mecha tail, duh
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 6 days ago:
If you have an erection lasting more than four hours please contact your doctor.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 6 days ago:
it encompasses a few genres of live action japanese tv/movies but i was thinking like power rangers/super sentai.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 6 days ago:
I’m supposed to be cleaning but now I’m laughing too hard imagining some “saturday morning cartoon” tokusatsu show about a squad of mecha-grandmas.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 6 days ago:
I think it’s less common in northern america than in other continents.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 6 days ago:
I posted this further down but you would enjoy it if you haven’t seen it already. The end of the video supports your statement. Why Your Grandmother Is an Evolutionary Mystery
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 6 days ago:
Yeah. The idea is that, since our offspring take SO long to mature and take so many resources relative to other animals, that it makes more sense at some point for mothers to devote their resources to existing children rather than focus on trying to have more.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 6 days ago:
Except that it isn’t a religious thing. Human’s are something of an evolutionary anomaly in the sense that the only other animals on earth who go through menopause are a few species of whales. There’s a whole evolutionary theory tied to it called [the grandmother hypothesis] (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis). Or you can watch this PBS video about it if you don’t feel like reading. It’s pretty interesting really.
- Comment on Anon watches youtube 2 weeks ago:
Don’t be jelly bc you can’t afford a talent agent
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 2 weeks ago:
Some plants make some bitter compounds when they go to seed so I would guess not.
- Comment on A dedicated section in my Steam library 2 weeks ago:
I’m not even getting better frame rates but boy oh boy is the system latency lower.
- Comment on A dedicated section in my Steam library 2 weeks ago:
Not natively Linux but it runs just fine under Proton (although maybe not the default version)
- Comment on A dedicated section in my Steam library 2 weeks ago:
Somewhere in Chapter 2 my Windows 11 install got corrupted to the point where a recovery upgrade wouldn’t even run so I installed CachyOS. I’ve played a good 4 hours so far and if anything it’s running better under Proton. The QTEs feel snappier.
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 4 weeks ago:
I’m more interested in these bail peprs, I wonder what the conversion rate is?
- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for the response, good points all around. The fingerprinting is the most convincing argument to me but I think the accessibility issue you bring up is more important.
- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 4 weeks ago:
I thought graceful degradation in terms of web design was mostly just to promote using the latest current browser features but to allow it to fall back to the feature set of, say, 1 or 2 previous browser versions. Not to support a user completely turning off a feature that has been around for literal decades?
- Comment on Cheat Codes Activated 4 weeks ago:
9/11 listed separately from historical tragedies =|
- Comment on Off topic 4 weeks ago:
I’d imagine that makes plane flyovers amazing.
- Comment on Off topic 4 weeks ago:
I recently moved my center channel speaker to above my TV and that has helped dramatically with audio clarity. No more coffee table blocking the voice channel.
- Comment on Off topic 5 weeks ago:
That’s the same configuration I have, with a Denon amp doing the atmos processing. I had some rear upfiring speakers also but I ditched them because my ceiling is too high for the heights to work anyway D=. Even without the heights though you get SIGNIFICANTLY improved positional audio. Things like panning from front to rear are seamless, especially with timbre matched speakers.
- Comment on Off topic 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, full disclosure I have a full atmos system and it’s a noticeable improvement in positional accuracy over even DTS-HD Master. I wish there were less expensive solutions though so that it could go mainstream.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 5 weeks ago:
If you’re still using firefox, right click -> copy clean link. works most of the time.
- Comment on Off topic 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure but Dolby Atmos might be responsible for some of it. Dolby Atmos lets the engineers assign coordinate values to each sound “object” in the scene, then your receiver takes that information, along with the room calibration mic info and your speaker layout, and actually generates the channels itself based on the listeners “position” within the scene. Maybe engineers just not putting as much work into making discrete channel audio mixes anymore when the “gold standard” no longer uses discrete channels.
- Comment on Off topic 5 weeks ago:
In the early days of television, directors really only had the choice of using theater trained actors since those were all that existed. Theater actors are trained to speak in that way so that they can be clearly understood on stage even without mics. But people don’t actually speak that way, and modern directors seem to have a preference for “natural performances” so I wouldn’t necessarily blame the actors. They may just be doing what they’ve been directed to do.