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Mods and admins can fuck off
- Comment on Lemmy: Beans 1 week ago:
I feel personally attacked.
I’m sorry everyone, I just like commenting and talking to people more than trying to be creative.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I usually skip s1&2 of tng when I re-watch except a few key episodes.
Some things just don’t click with me, or are just too on-the-nose to take seriously.
TOS is particularly bad when it comes to themes that boil down to “don’t be racist and sexist”, but they’re all a product of the times. And CLEARLY we still have those issues today, but it’s preaching to the choir vibes when I watch them.
I don’t have to like any of the shows, but I do feel I still need to support them, otherwise we might not get more because the corps that own the IP don’t hear enough praise.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I can appreciate that it paved way for more shows while also not caring for it.
With apologies to everyone who loves it, I don’t particularly care for TOS. Yet without it I would have none of my favorite shows.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
In fairness, I think everyone involved in both shows realizes they aren’t meant to be the same kind of show. They aren’t meant to be compared.
I enjoy both, and I think I enjoy SNW more as a trek show, but I like lower decks more as a general show. It’s probably just my lowered attention span, but I do like the 20-30m format and more comedic tone of LD. Especially the comedy, since gestures wildly at the world y’know.
I watch them at different times, in different moods.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
felt like a space show with Trek slapped on sometimes
So many shows in established IP feel this way because that’s exactly what happens, even if not the original intent.
The Halo TV series was never intended to be Halo until it failed to get picked up as a standalone Sci fi show, and then they replaced names and locations in the same way a 5th grader might use “Find&Replace” to change names in a word document (think Michael Scarn vs Michael Scott). It’s so obvious they wanted to be their own independent thing and shoehorned in all the Halo parts.
Discovery FEELS like they want to make a star trek show, but that they ALSO want to tell their own story. I think every creative wants to leave an impact on things, otherwise why bother trying to tell the same old story that’s been told before? So I’m perfectly okay with each series being a different tone, with different perspectives on things (I like to think inter-series contradictions are simply results of different points of view).
That said, discovery definitely feels like the “Pick Me” kid in the IP. It’s trying too hard to be “different” sometimes, and it clearly wants to be set in a “relevant” time while also being technologically on par with other shows we’ve seen already, two ideas that are incompatible. There’s over a hundred years of difference between discovery and Voyager, which I think was the latest-running series in terms of stardate?
Discovery could have been a lot better, I think, if they had stayed closer to classic trek-type stories, but I’m still glad they tried steering away. You don’t know your limits if you never test them.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Haven’t started season 3 yet, I’m slowly catching up.
It’s not my all-time favorite, but it’s a close tie for 2nd.
In descending order, TNG, DS9/SNW, VOY, Lower Decks, and in no particular order, ENT, TOS, DIS.
- Comment on Asking any AI on how to build a guillotine 1 week ago:
Electronics function better when colder (to a point) so they need to keep the electronics cool.
Instead of large cooling towers and a more enclosed system, a lot are just sucking up cool municipal water, and dumping hot water out wherever they feel like.
- Comment on I can taste sounds 1 week ago:
I think it’s more like “you can feel your tongue inside your mouth and nowhere is comfortable” kind of thing.
You can always feel your tongue, but you aren’t always aware of it.
- Comment on T2 butter mold 2 weeks ago:
Sprinkle some on your pancakes, it’s quite sweet!
- Comment on T2 butter mold 2 weeks ago:
Please don’t use 3d printed parts in food preparation.
You already have enough microplastics in your brains, and the layer lines are bacterial breeding grounds. (which are less of a concern if you only use it once or twice but is still relevant)
Make sure you get a good coat of leaded paint to make sure none of that is a problem.
- Comment on For my older Millennials 2 weeks ago:
My wife and her dad both have it. This is the first time I’ve heard anyone link it to ibuprofen.
- Comment on Day 533 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
I wish my wife could play subnautica with me, as she likes swimming around and stuff but isn’t really “good” at video games, since she never played one until adulthood.
In Minecraft it’s mostly me doing the work while she does farming stuff. I once came back from a deep mining trip to see a once-empty field filled to the maximum with cows. We had a nice library afterward though.
I still haven’t beaten subnautica without cheating or taking shortcuts. Heck when I first downloaded it, it didn’t even have an ending yet.
9.3/10, it’s fun
- Comment on Stay under the speed limit, guys. It's not worth it. 2 weeks ago:
I know my vehicle’s limits, other drivers do not.
The second I stopped to think about that for a second when I got my license, I realized that goes for other people too.
Just because the combination of my vehicle and driving could have gotten through that gap, doesn’t mean yours can.
So I’ll wait, just please actually go when the light changes and you’re 3 car lengths into the intersection…
- Comment on Ska ftw 3 weeks ago:
Open question to the floor: what is the most “Ska” song I could send to someone? Like the most iconic or the most “Ska” a song could possibly be.
- Comment on My life has been way better since I started keeping a cursory view of headlines once a day 3 weeks ago:
Ew. Gross. I liked not knowing better. Ah well, at least I can’t check it myself so I don’t really care much. I didn’t want oemmy to feel like a competition like I used to feel occasionally with r*ddit.
Also this is the first time I’ve noticed my name doesn’t show up as “Miles O’brien” for everyone. Now I’m sad :(
- Comment on My life has been way better since I started keeping a cursory view of headlines once a day 3 weeks ago:
Honestly I’ve thought cm002 was a bot before as well, but they engage in comment sections often enough to say either it’s not, or it’s a user hopping on to check bot progress.
Either way, most likely case is it’s a user that saw a funny meme, and reposted it since not every sire is federated with others and some communities might not see it, especially if it’s to a world or ml domain.
Possibly related, I did not see your post from this morning, this is my first time seeing it. Not sure about federation between instances but yeah.
Also tangentially related, anyone remember the huge r*ddit drama over a poweruser constantly reposting things with top comment responses to farm karma? That was a fun glance into people who take imaginary internet points too seriously. I’m glad lemmy doesn’t keep track of total votes.
- Comment on Asking any AI on how to build a guillotine 3 weeks ago:
I’d rather just use the internet and look around for an hour or two.
Wastes way less water and power than asking a single question of an LLM and I’ll have a much better idea of how to accomplish my goal.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 3 weeks ago:
Luigi (who I am not convinced actually did it) only stopped at one.
I bet if we kept going, things would change pretty substantially.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 3 weeks ago:
That’s insane to me.
I have money to buy something, and I’m being refused the sale despite this money being legal tender.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 3 weeks ago:
The rich fail up and everyone else has to play by the rules or get fucked over.
You’re playing by their rules, and it only matters as long as we allow them to not play by the rules.
I bet they’d stop doing it if they got literally ripped into pieces by horses. Or a horse’s solar-powered motorized equivalent.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 3 weeks ago:
100% spot on.
It’s absolutely a scam designed to extract even more wealth from the poors.
No joke, I’ve had a car dealership tell me they can’t sell me the car I want because my credit score was nonexistent (no credit history in 7 years). I was paying in full, in cash, literally in an envelope in my hand.
Grand total of 8k, all in 100s, super easy to count.
But no, I didn’t have a “good enough credit score” so I couldn’t buy that car from them, despite having the money to do so.
Mental gymnastics on that one.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t made it past s3 of Quantum Leap yet, but the bit with god sound super dumb, so I’m hoping you’re right and I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Krycek in X-Files was a piece of shit and I hated him. 10/10 performance from Nicolas Lea. Haven’t finished the series yet.
Damn, I keep burning myself out by binging a series and never finishing them…
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I mean, by then we had Ronald Reagan, so…
It’s always been a joke.
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 4 weeks ago:
And the average person has (usually) no idea if what they’re being fed is even correct. But as long as it sounds correct to someone who has no idea…
- Comment on Oh yes daddy credit please 5 weeks ago:
It makes perfect sense when viewed from “the credit companies work with lenders to ensure your credit only rises if you’re constantly in more and more debt but still paying it like an obedient little wage slave”
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 5 weeks ago:
Honey is acidic with a pH of around 4, so it technically corrodes metal if left for prolonged contact.
I make knives and I really want to let one sit in honey for a week to see if it gives it an acid wash.
I have other acids that work much quicker, but I’m having a bit of a giggle at making a pattern-welded steel butter knife and calling it my “Honey Knife”
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 5 weeks ago:
Because we have knives already in our kitchens, and they don’t take up extra space in a drawer that would otherwise go to another more useful utensil.
Also my cheese slicers have all been cheap as shit and snap after a few months, and the nice heavy duty one I had with a replaceable wire got lost in the move earlier this year and they discontinued it and I’m sad.
- Comment on Suddenly all of Lemmy 5 weeks ago:
Half the time when you see someone walking around with the wrong amount of pips, it’s just delicious street corn
- Comment on Management lingo irritates me the most actually 5 weeks ago:
Dude… It’s SALT.
- Comment on Management lingo irritates me the most actually 5 weeks ago:
Actually, having been on reddit for over a decade before I left, I’d agree that there is a superiority complex present on reddit when someone asks for clarification on an acronym.
Without fail, if someone used acronyms that might be considered by some to be “common knowledge”, and another user asks what that means, they’ll get down votes and sometimes even a “are you joking? Everyone knows it means blah blah blah” or similar comment.
I once saw a person get over 50 down votes for asking “what does ETA mean?” when the OP meant “edited to add”. I had never seen anyone use it to mean something other than “estimated time of arrival” and was mildly confused by the “ETA” at the top of the comment. Not one single person explained what it meant. Just down votes. I had no idea either at the time, and didn’t care enough to do some light searching.
I’d say the business ones are dependent on where you work. I’ve never worked in a corporate setting where I’d imagine they’re more common, so I can’t really comment on that part.