Zorque
@Zorque@lemmy.world
- Comment on What happend with the the new and old Borg after Picard season 2 and 3? 33 minutes ago:
Odo (and I think someone else) do suggest reasons, like a virus or genetic engineering.
How did Enterprise plot out the changes?
Mind you, I’m not trying to imply that Enterprise didn’t have a unique and interesting storyline all its own. I think it did, but they absolutely followed in the footsteps of DS9s own homage.
I think, in the Enterprise episodes, they implied that only a small population of Klingons underwent that change. So there would still be Klingons who appear as they did in TNG (and the movies) and beyond while allowing for the more human appearance of those in TOS. I dont know about Discovery, as I’ve not watched it, though.
- Comment on What happend with the the new and old Borg after Picard season 2 and 3? 13 hours ago:
Technically there was a throwaway comment in DS9 before the Enterprise episodes. I only mention it because they basically took the lines from that episode and combined them all into one story.
- Comment on 35 Years Ago, Star Trek Retroactively Created New Canon, And No One Noticed 6 days ago:
They had a conflict, sure, but by now means a major one. They made mention of other conflicts as well, like with the Zenkethi.
That doesn’t mean their society was all about war and conflict, it means they had border disputes. Conflict with smaller groups, like the Cardassians and Zenkethi, would not have nearly the effect as one with a much larger, much more powerful foe like the Klingons, Romulans, or eventually the Dominion (as shown in DS9).
With the latter, they have to specifically dedicate their resources conflict and war. With the former its mostly peacekeeping. Making sure their colonies and allies are defended while still being able to dedicate the majority of their resources to exploration and diplomacy. They won’t simply overrun the Cardassians, or the Zenkethi, as they’re likely potentially able to do (as im sure is implied with the Terrans in the mirror universe), as that is simply not part of their ideal.
Conflict with the Cardassians, or other smaller powers, is simply the price of being a large power. Conflict with a power more matched to their resource level, like Klingons or Romulans, would have more if an effect. Thus what you see in Yesterday’s Enterprise.
- Comment on 35 Years Ago, Star Trek Retroactively Created New Canon, And No One Noticed 6 days ago:
That story didn’t contradict established continuity, just added to it, right? Its not a situation of “we’ve always been at war with Eastasia”, it’s a situation of expanding on what already exists to provide more depth.
I think this kind of flexibility is good… but it also highlights problems I have with certain aspects of modern storytelling. Namely things like The Flux in Doctor Who and The Burn (which I, admittedly, have not watched stories for, only read wiki articles) which seem to fundamentally affect every aspect of the universe at once with far reaching consequences that fundamentally change the nature of the universe of that setting. They do so for the sake of one story, then everything after has to accommodate for this, not because of interesting storytelling elements… but because the storyteller wanted to raise the stakes.
I think the initiating premise of Picard had this, with the destruction of Utopia Planetia causing a massive shift in how Starfleet, and The Federation as a whole, operated.
Alternatively, something like the Dominion war, which had a similar effect on the universe, didn’t encapsulate it as a singular event meant to shake things up. Rather it was a slow build over time that actually showed what was happening as it happened. The story wasn’t “Oh no, thing happened, what do we do?” It was people living their lives as the world moved in a direction they had to deal with.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 2 weeks ago:
“Amazon announces a cheap way to bank on an existing franchise”
- Comment on Me, a Lemmy instance admin, looking at the new Digg 2 weeks ago:
Name recognition.
- Comment on Rockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if he ever made a game about driving Lady Di off a road with papparazzi…
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 4 weeks ago:
No Man’s Sky has added thousands of generic resource gathering tasks by now!
I have tried playing it maybe half a dozen times and come to the same conclusion each time: “This is it?”
It’s a great game for wasting your time in the most banal tasks possible, but not much more.
- Comment on Games then vs now 4 weeks ago:
Games back then also had to fit on a specific chip in the cartridge. A lot of them would probably have had a lot more fluff if they had more space to put it on.
- Comment on Add a third, larger bar for "knowing the right people" skills 5 weeks ago:
Shocking how I fit all these criteria and still only got two interviews.
And I’m probably pretty lucky.
- Comment on Add a third, larger bar for "knowing the right people" skills 5 weeks ago:
Nah, the biggest slice is knowing how to game the application algorithms they use to choose who to even interview.
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 5 weeks ago:
The hotels receipts I’ve seen (I worked approving travel expenses, so I’ve seen a lot) they differentiate between specific locally mandated fees and their own fees (which is probably part of the legislation that compels them).
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 5 weeks ago:
Unfortunately they also come with scurvy 😔
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 5 weeks ago:
“Yeah, we’re gonna do this new fangled form of piracy. It’s like the old way, but without the boats and parrots and stuff. We’re just stealing stuff now.”
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 5 weeks ago:
…Pirate hardware?
- Comment on Stardew Valley Creator Says 1.7 Update Will Contain 'More Character/Social Stuff' and a New Farm Type 1 month ago:
I think I have it on every game system I have, unless they released an N64 version…
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 1 month ago:
By that logic, no media exists (and also always exists) as it occupies a superposition of both being on and not being on physical media.
What the fuck are you talking about? It’s both digital media and physical media. They can not exist without each other. The only difference being that physical media bought in a store is permanently stored on its own medium… and considering we’re talking about permanent storage anyways… what difference would that make?
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 1 month ago:
That’s still physical media, though. Just one you “create” yourself. You could say “This isn’t a hunk of plastic, therefore I’m not contributing to e-waste”… but that only matters if you decide to throw away the game after making a copy.
Drives still fail eventually, just like disks and cards.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked? 1 month ago:
Works that way on my Samsung as well, you just have to hit the circle button instead of the larger bluetooth button that encompasses it.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked? 1 month ago:
*doesn’t make enough money.
Things that mostly work with occasional minor problems that are easily diagnosed and fixed are still profitable… they just don’t maximise profitability.
- Comment on Apparently, all YouTube Rewinds have been unlisted as of today. 1 month ago:
Marketing videos, mostly. Ostensibly they’re original videos showcasing some of the talent and content from the previous year. The last couple of years have been particularly bland, though, as I understand it.
- Comment on Apparently, all YouTube Rewinds have been unlisted as of today. 1 month ago:
Maybe they just don’t know and are asking for community context.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 1 month ago:
You can believe that an answer can be found scientifically. You can have faith that what you see with your eyes, and that what happens during experimentation is accurate and not a fluke or trick of some sort.
Just because religion dominates most belief, and there are strong religious groups that hold that belief and faith are binary with no wiggle room whatsoever does not mean that it’s the only way they can function. On can still test faith and belief without losing them, and changing those beliefs to what holds more truth.
Holding that that belief and faith have no part in science… is a belief in and of itself. A particularly contradictory one at that.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 1 month ago:
Ah, if it’s one of the definitions, it must be the only definition.
- Comment on Gravity! 1 month ago:
But hey, she listened. Thats something most never do.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 1 month ago:
Such as? Perhaps if you specified on what they’re getting a pass for people could be a little less blind.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 1 month ago:
As long as that house exclusively uses Linux.
- Comment on 'tis the season 2 months ago:
Nah, that’s only like a third of earth’s population, why should they matter?
- Comment on Do you have resting bitch face? 2 months ago:
They’re not necessarily happy, just not as angry as they look. Their neutral face just looks angry, grumpy, or otherwise in a negative state that isnt an accurate accounting of their current feelings.
- Comment on Nearly all drivers say headlights are too bright 2 months ago:
Their height probably wouldn’t be as much of an issue if they lamps were properly hooded/aimed as well.