jerakor

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any Trek episodes where they enforce the Prime Directive to protect a developing world within Federation space from an external influence?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  SNW S1E2 - Children of the Comet. This is a tricky one because of potential predestination and the end result being an accidental major break of the prime directive. A warp capable civilization is certain that a comet must destroy a pre warp civilization and refuse to let that change. The issue is that the ship/comet wants the Federation to interfere and does not intend to hit the planet. This is all in Federation space.

  Another in Federation space that is also a loose fit is LD S5E7 - Fully Dialated where the crew must recover Data’s head from an alternate reality that has fallen on a pre warp world. The loose fit here is that the only reason they count as external is that it is Purple Data who is not technically a a member of this realities Federation and thus an outsider.

  Lastly a decent fit but outside Federation space is Prodigy S1E7 - First Con-Tact. The crew first breaks the prime directive by making first contact with a pre warp civilization but then defends it by stopping a Ferengi from influence the civilization negatively. This is outside Federation space though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can't beat the classics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get it, but we should as a community try to be better than that.

  AI won’t fail. It already is past the point where failing or being a fad was an option. Even if we wanted to go backwards, the steps that were taken to get us to where we are with AI have burned the bridges. We won’t get 2014 quality search engines back. We can’t unshitify the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can't beat the classics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That AI is the one you make or at least host. No one is going to host an online AI for you that is 100% ethical because that isnt profitable and it is very expensive.

  When you vilianize AI you normalize AI use as being bad. The end result is not people stopping use of AI it is people being more okay with using less ethical AI. You can see this with folks driving SUVs and big trucks. They intentionally pick awful choices because the fatigue of being wrong for driving a car makes them just accept that it doesn’t matter.

  It feels dumb, it is dumb, but is what happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can't beat the classics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nestle bottling water is bad, so my solution will be to never drink any water and make fun of people who do. This is how it always comes off to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 3 episodes (all shows) for a newbie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Specifically for a new viewer who wants 3 shows that would be different and enjoyable:

  TNG:

  The Inner Light Cause and Effect Lower Decks

  DS9:

  Duet The Visitor Trials and Tribbleations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Advice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who in the world eats hard shell tacos?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't all rooms holodecks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Prodigy has holoemitters on every deck and is able to reconfigure the bridge using them. It is possible but they just need a reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 Wraps Filming⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We have like three entirely reasonable shows all setup that they keep not even touching. All of them episodic, all of them able to both speak to new generations and old.

  Upper Decks: Live action show with the characters from Lower Decks. Primary focus is the main characters coming to terms with the fact that they are good enough to be senior members of a crew. Continue the idea that they are the little ship that could and their missions focus around support rather than flagship or the biggest of the bads.

  Prodigy 2.0: Again live action, with Ella Purnell as a captain who is super in demand and capable and would be fantastic in the role. Focus here is again episodic, when the rest of the Federation has abandoned exploration due to all the BS at the start of Picard, they are the only crew left with the charter to seek out new life and new civilizations. You have an incredibly young but capable cast and easily could bring in some heavy hitters to support them.

  Legacy: This idea has floated around a ton since Picard S3, honestly its the least developed of the ideas and I’d rather see a way to roll it into one of the much better and more fleshed out ideas above. I feel like the final scene in Picard was an afterthought while both Lower Decks and Progidy it was a true capstone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alex Kurtzman Gives Live-Action Comedy Update, Says Star Trek Can “Broaden”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The new 20 episode season is a 10 episode season with 5 webisodes and a cheaper side project like a cartoon or anthology.

  Honestly this is better to me because it enables the good plots of the smaller episodes to get all the focus without forcing some awful secondary plot to fill run time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look Ma, No Batteries! Hands On With Lenovo's Self-Charging Keyboard⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this looks great. I’m not going to run a 20 foot USB cable accross my living room so wireless is pretty much a must. I think the only concern I have is if it discharges if I store it and if so what the bringup time would be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x10 "The New Next Generation"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Normal for a person, but not normal for him. We see him as a person at a very passionate person before he gets his implant who treats the dulling of his emotions as a boon.

  I’d be shocked if the person influencing this writing of his character had never dealt with SSRIs or a similar medication.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lower Decks Eulogizing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No Star Trek show loved Star Trek more than Lower Decks.

  I hope this is not the last time we see these characters. Between losing Prodigy and Lower Decks it has been sad for Star Trek as of late.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 5x10 "The New Next Generation"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rutherford upgraded his implant to be little more like Alternate Rutherford who had a super implant that also blocked out his emotions entirely.

  This wasn’t a story about how his implant was bad at dealing with alternate universe versions of technology. His story was about how he had always used his implant to protect him from feeling emotions. Cranking it up slightly was all it took to finally block him from loving anything. Himself as he is, the Cerritos, Tendi. As soon as he took it out all of those emotions flooded in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen’s early access launch weekend saw over 2300 concurrent Steam players⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every year they relaunch classic EverQuest time locked progression. They did that long before WoW did and WoW hired their studio lead to help them improve their implementation of it.

  I’m not recommending it, just saying you could still go experience it today. I’d maaaaybe recommend it over Pantheon but it is close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen’s early access launch weekend saw over 2300 concurrent Steam players⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s EverQuest. If you liked Classic/Kunark era EverQuest then you might like this game. The gameplay is very simplistic and heavily leans into you needing to manually go out and build a group of people that have the right classes. You go to an area and kill the same mobs over and over for a couple hours and hope you get something neat or a level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a 100% perfect addition to THE core combat light puzzle platformer games. It also has an age range of 0-99 by both having cute jokes and references that would appeal to older folks while never being even remotely offensive.

  Also yea, what else was there? Closest was make Wukong which primarily crushed the market because it again proved that the new or smaller studios can absolutely give a better AAA experience than the big studios these days by focusing on delivering a game not a storefront

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have any recommendations for casual games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead of playing games, go outside, touch grass, undergo the series of organ implantations that are required to become a Space Marine. The only thing holding you back is yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have any recommendations for casual games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same could be said for any game. The value mostly of a game is the controlled progression with little impact. If I go start power washing the driveway and then stop at a moments notice to go take a shower and head to work I’m gonna leave a giant mess laying around and a half done driveway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean the issue with TikTok is that they give the data and videos over to the Chinese government to be able to mass process it and search for vulnerabilities or enable social engineering attacks on the US government.

  Meanwhile Twitter/X is totally different in that they give the data and videos over the US government to be able to mass process it and search for vulnerabilities or enable social engineering attacks on US citizens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays spin the bottle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Middle school kids he mighta done nothing wrong at all. Those kids at that age are terrors and will oust people from a friend group for the dumbest reasons imaginable.

  Sucks because that person may have done everything right and years later still can’t trust people or open up to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best (or least terrible) Flag Officer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Admiral April and Admiral Forrest are both solid options.

  I think April did a really solid job of showing what a great but imperfect leader looks like in Ad Astra per Aspera.

  Forrest was supportive and helpful. Willing to bend the rules to support his people rather than vice versa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where to start?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Syndication is also called reruns, when the show is rerun out of order on TV at a standard Timeslot. Like for me TNG was on every night at 7pm M-F. It was shown in random order as far as I know with I believe them skipping less popular episodes, I honestly never noticed if they did hits for a bit then did a rerun through it or what.

  The first season of TNG is considered weak as a heads up, similar for DS9 though DS9 has some bangers in S1, TNG is mostly weak. That said if you like it, you’ll LOVE the rest.

  SNW is fantastic and I really recommend it, it is certainly New Trek but it’s a MUCH better successor to the legacy than Discovery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where to start?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Start with the best episodic episodes of TNG and DS9. Most of us were introduced to Star Trek out of order, it isnt like modern TV. 90s TV and prior was focused on syndication.

  My recommendations would be, TNG: Darmok, Tapestry, The Wounded, Inner Light, Cause and Effect, Lower Decks (The episode that inspired the show). For DS9: In The Pale Moonlight, Duet, Trials and Tribbleations, The Visitor (Rest in peace Tony Todd)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuckery⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The oldest profession traded in it so they are arguably the original currency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK."⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, if you want more leftist policies than right, vote and work with Democrats at the federal level and try to get Ranked voting in more places. Exactly like Bernie has. Continue to support your third party in local until they become able to actually get folks elected to even a Senate post. As long as the Green Party can’t even manage to get the most hippy district in the nation to get a single House Rep elected you might as well just cast your vote for Bob Ross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: 73% of Amazon workers are considering quitting after 5-day in-office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea but moving out of country doesn’t normally come with you also getting to work less hours for more pay. Leaving Amazon for a competitive offer does.

  High performers can do whatever they want, giving them a reason to leave like this is silly. Treat your employees like they are too immature to balance their work and life and you will end up with immature employees.

  At the end of the day the question is do you want results or do you want butts in seats. If you run a factory it’s fair to want butts in seats. If you run a creative endevor you should want results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ReBoot s1e1 - remastered and uploaded by Mainframe themselves⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The intent is to make the distributed version more true to the real original. None of us got to see the original. The original is a bunch of data on various machines. What we saw was a low quality save file of the original, cut down and watered down to the specs of 4:3 CRT televisions and broadcast hardware of the time. That version develops artefacts not intended when distributed on modern media.

  Now this probably isn’t using original source files but it is possible. Remaster as a term also is used when they take the final master copy and rerun it through more modern technologies to get a cleaner output which is what I expect happened here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ReBoot s1e1 - remastered and uploaded by Mainframe themselves⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Remaster doesn’t change the original art or animation. Sometimes it is a rerender of original source files. Sometimes it is a treatment of the existing master files. It just adds fidelity to the picture and sometimes audio. Fixes things like low framerate, weird lighting effects, that kind of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't look now⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  2060 job posting, Quantum Stability Engineer.