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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x09 "Terrarium"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I try not to pick everything apart. It’s just some things are so ‘in your face’ to me my brain goes into an error loop.

  Especially when you are looking at something thats only purpose is atmosphere vs something that affects the story.

  In this case the floating rocks are merely set decoration whereas the orbit through the atmosphere is a pointless artifical timer to add unneeded drama to a situation that already has enough. (And also already has another artifical timer with the vaccine d plot that is only there to make Una the episode’s ‘bad guy’)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x09 "Terrarium"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Yeah it could be, but still - it was unneccessary. Just having a close orbit would have given the same amount of extra (unneeded) drama.

  2. That would just make it even worse that they were dicking around instead though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x09 "Terrarium"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Currently watching it. Just had to come here to bitch before I can finish it lol.

  1. I know Star Trek has never really cared about the science behind it all, but come on - the moon that travels through the gas giant’s atmo having any atmosphere nevermind a breathable one is just stupid - just have it not pass through the the gas giant’s atmosphere for christs sake.

  2. Stupid artificial constraints. Come the fuck on - if the vaccines are soo damn important, why wouldn’t you rendezvous first before dicking around. I know it’s happened plenty of times throughout Star Trek, but this one feels particularly egregious to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always with the red flags⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Willing to do managements job for them’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Through “no fault” of the company and years after the purchase.

  Its not the companies fault he couldnt be assed to :

  1. Diversify his email addresses in the 1st place
  2. Update his email address.

  When you put all your eggs in one basket, you’ve really got no one else to blame when you then decide to throw the basket away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Star Trek use TrekLit for streaming shows?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotcha, never heard the term alpha to omega to describe start to finish or origins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When idiots ride my ass I slow down.

  Im driving the speed limit in the right hand lane and you ride my ass - I let off the gas to the minimum speed (here its usually 45mph)

  Im actively passing in the left lane and you ride my ass I let off the gas.

  When the idots back off I speed back up. If they start riding me again I slow back down. After a few times of this they usually pull their heads out of their asses and back off/ properly change lanes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with that is people would still do the same stupid shit behind the pace cars which would just cause the same issues.

  The only way traffic pace cars would work is with better fundamental training (and enforcement of that training [meaning cops would actually have to regularly ticket people for tailgating]).

  Especially here in the usa there are hardly any barriers to getting/keeping your license.

  There is a massive amount of drivers who either shouldn’t be on the road at all or with heavy restrictions like not allowed to drive at night, not allowed on the highway, not allowed to drive certain classes of cars (kinda like other countries do for motorcycles because there is zero reason for any joe schmoe to just be able to legally get behind the wheel of something like a supercar on public roads)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sad thing is its more than just a few idiots.

  The idiots are the majority. So stupidly self absorbed they constantly screw themselves over trying to “get theirs”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨best episodes for people who've never seen star trek?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, SNW gives itself time to breath. When I was rewatching the 1st couple of seasons in anticipation of 3 I honestly forgot how fast things actually happen because of those breather episodes.

  (Having said that I do feel like this season has a few too many of those episodes.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Star Trek use TrekLit for streaming shows?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been a while, is the Destiny trilogy the one where we learn the Borg origins?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Star Trek use TrekLit for streaming shows?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really wish hollywood and audiences would embrace animation more.

  Theres sooo many good stories that could be told or told better/easier by embracing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x08 "Four-and-a-Half-Vulcans"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At first I didn’t really like this episode because of how off as Vulcans they seemed. Like they were overacting pretending to be a Vulcan.

  But then I started thinking “well it kinda makes sense - they aren’t “real” Vulcans but a blend” and thankfully the whole Katra thing basically said the same thing.

  Basically hardware-wise they are Vulcan and software-wise they are still human and as a result the 2 “systems” have trouble working together.

  I loved Patton as Doug - even if it didn’t really make sense to me with everything we know about Vulcans.

  In the end though it’s just another episode that makes me sad this is a prequel and all the great character development will get thrown out.

  I’m especially mad they keep developing Spock specifically. Ethan Peck has done such a great job portraying Spock working on understanding and accepting his 2 halves that this show ends up being a disservice to both him and Leonard Nimoy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In regards to 1. I disagree - there are plenty of flawed things that are still my taste - just like this game is.

  I can enjoy something and still admit the problems it has. I don’t need to ‘justify’ my enjoyment by pretending something is perfect or doesn’t need improvement.

  That would be like saying a person I like has zero flaws or issues. Just patently untrue. EVERYBODY has something they need to work on themselves even if they can’t see it.

  If you can’t tell the difference between constructive and destructive criticism that’s something you need to work on lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the only game that actually has a redemption arc?

  I can’t think of any other game that was so panned for so many things that turned it around like Hello Games did.

  The only other games I can think of with any sort of redemption arc the main issues were because of bugs not swaths of missing features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t really help, but I find NMS space combat feels a lot better to me in VR.

  The added immersion really covers up the “on rails” feeling for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But you end up “exploring” the same stuff over and over.

  Theres no reason to actually explore a planet - pretty much everything you want to do/see is taken care of at any random spot you choose due to the single biome planets.

  You’ve got like maybe 6 different versions of flora depending on the enviroment type. If your lucky they give you a color change too so instead of all green tree A you’ll get a red tree A .

  Now I know it can be explained away by the games lore, but when the main goal of the game is to explore it doesnt really help.

  It doesn’t even matter how many galaxies/universes you jump to - it’s all still the same limited number of assets with the same limited color wheel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨redwoods⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really hope I get the chance to see them in person before I die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it is a flaw. Because those “smaller things” are little more than virtual fidget spinners.

  They offer a few fleeting moments of novelty and thats pretty much it. They have little to no relevance to the gameplay loop or are opposed to the gameplay loop.

  I can “build” a settlement that does next to nothing and I can’t even design it the way I want.

  I can build a base that is practically lifeless, but I have to be carefull because terrain will respawn. Or base foundations float on top of terrain.

  And all the things I can build I’m lucky if theres 3 different skins I can choose from to try and make something “my own”.

  And then of course lets not forget about the near literal mile wide inch deep the games oceans are. Heres a submersible. We will force you to use it for a couple missions and then theres no real need or point to it. All the oceans are the same shallow boring experience.

  Here im being slightly facetious but only slightly :

  You’ve seen one ice planet? Guess what - you’ve seen them all.

  One glitch planet- you guessed it youve seen them all.

  Tropical planet - oh look this ones sky is a different color, but still the exact same type of tree as that other tropical planet 40k lightyears away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intelligent Design⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, best case scenario it would be chaotic neutral

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, i wonder if generative ai would work for a procedural game like this. Any ‘errors’ could just be written off as alien flora/fauna or a glitch in the simulation.

  My biggest problem with exploration in NMS is how quickly it all becomes the same thing.

  Hell if they just made planets multibiome that would go a long way to eliminating that cookie cutter feel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mile wide, inch deep. I’ve no doubt (as excited for this update as I am) that this will be the same.

  Basically they just add a framework for new features and then leaves it there without building it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flashbang!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t decide if its aww or ahhhh!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ideal car⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So this person’s nickname is pervert, right? My brain just keeps turning it back to pervert lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bungie CEO Pete Parsons retires: With Destiny 2 sentiment at an all-time low and pressure from Sony growing, Parsons has decided it's time to 'pass the torch' and head for an exit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I lost interest when I first tried Destiny 2 years after it was 1st released and realized they didn’t seem interested in new players.

  Too many storylines merging and diverging before you have any idea whats happening.

  It was like reading a book (and it’s series) out of order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right! just look how locked down android has become since the early/mid 2000’s.

  You don’t even have full control of your sd card anymore (if you’re lucky enough to actually have a phone with an sd slot.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two weeks notice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a general rule of thumb - fuck 2 weeks notice. Do companies give you any notice before they derail your life?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I cant say if it’s because of the sex stigma in the usa or because it’s just weird

  Context could make it better I guess - like maybe the sons a sex/porn addict or something along those lines.

  But you said this particular context makes it worse (and the only worse context I can think of right now is she had it molded to herself) so I would have to say it’s pretty abnormal.

  my mom bought me playboys back in the day somewhere around my 14th/15th birthday and I was pretty weirded out by that relatively ‘benign’ act.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One day😔🤞⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  acceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I require nothing more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look it all the space for activities!