LurkingLuddite
@LurkingLuddite@piefed.social
- Comment on what really happened to the Titanic 10 hours ago:
Sorry Marvin, but nuclear armament is a far cry from Earth shattering!
- Comment on what really happened to the Titanic 12 hours ago:
Yes.
Also, this wouldn’t produce an explosion. There is a MASSIVE difference between supercritical and bomb levels of prompt critical.
- Comment on What’s the difference between anarchy and libertarianism? 17 hours ago:
No and yes.
- Comment on How long until the rise of games with mods turns into user created games. 22 hours ago:
Started as Warcraft 3 custom maps before Dota 1.
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 1 day ago:
That’s an insane exaggeration of consequences, but that game is still uniquely boring.
- Comment on Nintendo Lowers Pricepoint For Digital Versions of Switch 2 Games 4 days ago:
It begs the question why the key carts even exist.
- Comment on Nintendo Lowers Pricepoint For Digital Versions of Switch 2 Games 5 days ago:
They aren’t lowering cart prices, so see the rest of my post as to why they’ll still be paying for their decisions.
- Comment on Nintendo Lowers Pricepoint For Digital Versions of Switch 2 Games 5 days ago:
They’re damned if they do because it’s too little too late and most of their carts are just a keyed license to the game and not the game itself anyways, which kinda’ begs the question why they’ll remain higher priced. They’re damned if they don’t because people don’t have as much disposable income as they used to and Nintendo is wonderful at not enticing anyone with new IPs these days anyways.
They’ve hoarded their wealth too long, and now they get to pay the price, one way or the other.
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 5 days ago:
Yes. I also said there was plenty of silly things.
Two things can be true at once. Especially when there are far more episodes of previous Trek, and not only TOS.
- Comment on My friend Charlie is back.... 5 days ago:
Magnesium is definitely a part of the conversation. It helps neurofunction and muscle signaling, along with cell metabolism. It helps quite a few processes in the body. I wish I remembered more of the processes specifically so I could be more accurate! Most electrolytes have some very important roles, including calcium far beyond building strong bones.
One of many reasons I take multivitamins! Difficult to be too low on most anything that way. … and it supplements my poor diet choices…
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 5 days ago:
Cartoons don’t set lower expectations. They naturally come with a different set of expectations that happens to have more leeway with writing. Especially in comedies vs overproduced “serious” shows.
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 5 days ago:
Fully agreed there! They also do mature topics better than many humor focused cartoons. At least more regularly.
- Comment on My friend Charlie is back.... 6 days ago:
Moreso potassium.
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 6 days ago:
He would be far more correct in the general sense if it were only bigots and idiots complaining that were never going to be fans of a more intellectual show.
New Trek has had lots of criticism from actual, existing Trek fans that want to see the IP flourish into another 100+ episode series. Of course the usual bigots and propagandists also hated on it, but they were always going to! To thusly pretend there are zero honest fans who didn’t like Discovery or Picard, etc, is to completely ignore valid critique.
Star Trek might be different for everyone, but there are many core throughlines that were heavily changed for New Trek. That doesn’t inherently make New Trek bad by itself, but it also means the old fans aren’t just whining to whine.
Maybe they actually have some good points when they’re comparing things that are getting dropped one after the other, not even approaching episode counts that the original hit with three seasons, when the rest of the older series all have significantly more than that.
Yes, they all had silly episodes, so why did these older things with plenty of sillyness garner so many fans? It’s foolish to pretend it’s all bigots and idiots simply saying, “it’s different!”.
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 6 days ago:
The ones who aren’t being dishonest pieces of shit feeding into divisivism are usually complaining about the lack of quality of the writing and/or the overt nature of ‘leftist’ messaging, meaning anything remotely progressive like gay people existing or touchy-feely things coming from guys in a manner where those things are not directly relevant to the plot.
Often times there is some credibility to the complaints of the quality of writing, it’s just the ‘woke’ thing that triggered them to think about why the thing on screen is happening. Instead of noticing that it’s a general ham-fisted nature to the writing (which Trek basically always has in quite a few episodes of all series), they stupidly blame ‘woke’.
That is the power of the brainwashing coming from the dishonest propagandists like Ben Shapiro and their ilk: Legitimate shortcomings become things caused by “the other”, instead of basic variability of quality.
IMO, the bigger problem with Trek is Hollywood dumbasses like Kurtzman like pushing messaging more than writing good stories to challenge the alternate POV, which plays right into the shitty propagandists’ hands.
There are plenty of old episodes that would embarass modern Trek with being progressive since they didn’t make it an overt declaration (tell the audience), but showed why the bigoted view was bad. Whereas new Trek loves to just… declare the progressive view as good, and then go on to Main Character the problem away: Poor writing even when you agree with the message.
Sure, there are also quite a few hamfisted episodes of old Trek, but I’d much rather take 24 episode seasons smattered with ham than 10 episodes with an overarching story that loves to simply declare itself superior. It’s so much easier to ignore the poorly written episodes in old Trek when there is so much to take in, especially when there are some gems to find.
IMO, the overproduction is also hurting a lot of newer IPs even beyond being a huge cost. It’s so much easier to gloss over a 6/10 in writing which is inevitable no matter the message, when the visuals and the rest aren’t a 10/10 in every scene. I think it’s one reason why Lower Decks gets so much love. It’s “just a cartoon”, so when the writing nails a mature topic, it feels like a proper treat.
- Comment on its actually worse bc ports are counted twice for 2.0 & 3.0 1 week ago:
One byte is much larger than 15.
- Comment on there goes your ram btw 1 week ago:
Look at that BULGE. …
- Comment on How possibly? 1 week ago:
You clearly do not understand the first thing about this topic. Not only is that pathetic, but… well… that’s just srupidly pathetic of you, I don’t know what else to say…
- Comment on How possibly? 1 week ago:
It’s not a non-seuqitur if you actually understood how “white privilege” worked in the real world. Assumption free means people not judging you based on stereotypes. It means everyone gets a basic level of respect all human beings deserve, until they themselves specifically do something to prove otherwise.
- Comment on How possibly? 1 week ago:
Basic respect and zero assumptions about intent are a solid start. Those ARE NOT privileges, but what any honest person engaging with someone or something should expect… Someone should be able to ask a basic question about a service you are providing with zero assumptions made as to what you expect as a result or a cost, as a basic example.
Seriously, how is this confusing??
- Comment on How possibly? 1 week ago:
Oh I know it. Irony or not, I know what I’m talking about and you’re yapping like a reactionary fool.
- Comment on How possibly? 1 week ago:
Not a dog whistle. I’m most likely more progressive than you, but you keep trying to feel superior to others! That’s definitely not a part of the problem!
- Comment on How possibly? 1 week ago:
Two people can be right at the same time ;P
- Comment on How possibly? 1 week ago:
No, it’s really not a privilege, espwcially for any non-rich, not cleaned up white man. It’s what should be the minimum respect people are given for being conscious beings.
- Comment on How possibly? 1 week ago:
Maybe it’s not all men and using such generic language is akin to saying, “maybe the gays should stop being so flamboiyant if they want acceptance”?
- Comment on How possibly? 1 week ago:
Two things can be true at rhe same rime. FFS, this oppression competition is beyond pathetic.
- Comment on How possibly? 1 week ago:
Nah. Many, many people who come from inside that peivilege are being naive. To think they’re trying to defend the privilege itself is exactly the problem coming from outside the blinders.
The “evil homosexuals” comment is trying to elucidate you to that reality for crying out loud, but noooo, you just want to make yourself feel better by pretending it’s not able to be perceived the same way…
From someone who grew up conservative and now hates conservative values… Your attitude is part of the problem.
Failure to communicate is a two way street.
- Comment on How possibly? 1 week ago:
Instead of ‘male privilege’, “equality” or better, “equity”.
For “toxic masculinity”, I like, “machismo”, or better “toxic machismo”, since not all sorts of masculine pride are harmful.
- Comment on How possibly? 1 week ago:
Stop argum’ing semmantics and understand what they’re saying! This is about communication, not being technically correct.
FFS, your post is exactly portraying the problem.
You even use a much better word: equality. Yet argue in favor of using a less effective word… Truly sad.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 week ago:
They’re moving away because capitalism makes them unaffordable. It has very little to do with how easy it is to grow food or “live” in a city…