Endymion_Mallorn
@Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.
- Comment on Fare thee well 2 days ago:
They better not have.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 days ago:
I think I was briefly on Richard's forum, but I couldn't tell you what my username was. I was also in the official community that Scholastic ran (and because of being a helpful kid, I actually helped in the server room at Valley Cottage after a sale when there were hardware problems).
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 days ago:
He was a wargamer to start out with. Of course he was going to end up being a massive dick.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 days ago:
That having God in the final episode of Quantum Leap (the original) being played by an actor who was also in the first episode of the series made it much more interesting.
I hope you mean the original series and not the reboot. I don't think he ever admits that's what he is. My personal belief is that Captain Braxton of the Relativity was lying through his teeth to Sam (in order to preserve the Temporal Prime Directive), and directs him to the biggest Leap of his career, Captain Jonathan Archer in the First Contact timeline, because that whole timeline represents "what once went wrong".
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 days ago:
The Ellimist should have stepped in and cushioned Rachel's fall. She didn't deserve what she got.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 days ago:
Here's a take on Lensman - we need more anime versions. Oh, and Jade in DC used to be the best version of a Second Stage Lensman in any media (pity about her brother tho).
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 days ago:
So it went the way of the modern world. It's sad, really.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 days ago:
The Pentagon has "failed" their audit, by trillions of dollars, for over a decade. Most of us have no idea why, how, or where that money went. Out of every part of the show, the idea that the US Military could keep it a total secret from even 99% of the government is the most plausible bit. Consider this - it was an "interesting" research find in Egypt. The US Military convinced (paid) the Met to acquire it (the Met put out a fake and provided a false history, which is what Daniel was working with at the start of the movie). The real thing, lacking the DHD, was brought to what would become SG-1.
Who would ever know? Why would they ever know? Why, in fact, would they ever think to look? Everyone is so thoroughly bullshitted by decades of Egyptology, UFOlogy and Ancient Aliens theories (including von Daniken), that they'd never imagine looking for one machine run by the US military that they don't talk about.
- Comment on All the guilt none of the salvation 6 days ago:
Can we instead get all the salvation with none of the guilt?
- Comment on DIY 6 days ago:
Seems more like an Easter basket stuffer.
- Comment on First Impressions: Heroes of Might and Magic: The Olden Era is an excellent franchise revival, with an unfortunate art style that belies its quality. 1 week ago:
Yup, with the pits and the passwords that are the TOS crew.
- Comment on First Impressions: Heroes of Might and Magic: The Olden Era is an excellent franchise revival, with an unfortunate art style that belies its quality. 1 week ago:
Yup, it's very clearly science-fantasy. Not just a buried space ship (there's another one in either 6 or 7 on Enroth). Xeen is a flat world with two sides - The Clouds and the Darkside. It was launched by the Ancients and there are two AIs / robots who are the real power players in the plot, even though they aren't as prominent.
- Comment on First Impressions: Heroes of Might and Magic: The Olden Era is an excellent franchise revival, with an unfortunate art style that belies its quality. 1 week ago:
I'm happy with playing the Game Boy Color versions of the games (and King's Bounty on Gen/MD). Though I have to admit that Enroth is my least favorite M&M world. I still love Xeen.
- Comment on Cops hassling Santa for not having papers to be in the US 1 week ago:
I mean, I live here in the USA. Laughter is the only response I have left. I'm too tired to be scared, and there's no point in getting angry since there's nothing I can do about it that wouldn't leave me hurt worse.
So the only answer left is to laugh about it.
- Comment on Roundup of Roundup 1 week ago:
Well, education would give us a better sense of what "common sense" needs to mean.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything? 1 week ago:
I learned Russian when I was in school - after having family who left during the pograms. Learning the Russian language, or any language, should not be about politics. You don't learn the language to embrace government policies, you do it in order to better understand the artists and the art they created. I don't have my Russian keyboard, so you'll forgive me - but there are works which work best when untranslated and understanding some context. "We" by Zamyatin, "Master & Margarita" by Bulgakov, a bunch of Tolstoy's works, "Diary of a Madman" by Gogol, "Roadside Picnic" by the Strugatsky brothers, and movies like Solaris and Stalker. Not to mention the poetry.
Learn the language for the art. If it does make you political at all, it'll make you even more opposed to the Chekist in charge.
- Comment on There are two types of scientists: surgeons and cowboys. 2 weeks ago:
Cowboys get results. Not always good or correct results, but by gosh they get a result.
- Comment on Roundup of Roundup 2 weeks ago:
To the vast majority of the population, those two things are the same. Science is what's published and what the lawmakers and journalists see. If most of that is flawed, Science is flawed. if Science is flawed, then the next best thing is "common sense".
- Comment on Anon wants to be fatty 2 weeks ago:
so that's a small lunch for me.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 2 weeks ago:
We need to take back the Thorn. Too many things are written as Ye in fake middle English (or fake early modern) which should be written with the thorn!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Cool The last console I thought had a valid economic model was the 3DO.
- Comment on American exceptionalism 2 weeks ago:
Yup, my ex demanded I get treatment for an abscess two years ago, and this year when I was concerned about it, my dentist (who I went to with an emergency) told me it would have developed into an abscess. Instead it was two root canals.
- Comment on Revelation! 2 weeks ago:
In theory, theory and practice should be identical. In practice, they are not. Please keep safe and know all of your evac routes.
- Comment on Are they the same person? 2 weeks ago:
Well, that was obvious from things he's said and done. But being an actual fascist and having painfully obvious tattoos aren't a 1:1 correlation.
- Comment on Are they the same person? 2 weeks ago:
They always get by on the technicalities, don't they?,
- Comment on American exceptionalism 2 weeks ago:
You seem to misunderstand the American healthcare system. Always act as if you're close to dying, because the insurance companies will kill you with debt.
- Comment on Revelation! 2 weeks ago:
Just don't use this to set California on fire again, please?
- Comment on Are they the same person? 2 weeks ago:
Wait, is the Nazi tattoo real in that picture?
- Comment on An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores 3 weeks ago:
Someone needs to bring a trust-busting suit against Valve.
- Comment on An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores 3 weeks ago:
No, banned is the right word colloquially. The media is not eligible to be distributed in the monopolistic or anti-competitive web service run by Valve. It wasn't banned by a government, but it was indeed banned.