Tango
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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x10 "Tomorrow's Enterprise" 3 days ago:
I would say that the creators need to learn the lesson that GOT teaches: that audiences appreciate greater complexity and a show that doesn’t talk down to them… but then I feel like if they did try to emulate GOT, they’d just assume the lesson is that audiences want grimdark, and they’d make Discovery again.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x10 "Tomorrow's Enterprise" 3 days ago:
It’s not explicitly stated, but the obvious implication is that this was the only time Kirk met Pike.
Fortunately, there’s just enough wiggle room to accept the alternate explanation that Kirk is saying “I’ve known him since his promotion to Fleet Captain”.
The other slightly odd bit of mild discontinuity is that half of the main TOS characters in The Menagerie Part I (Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Scotty) know Captain Pike very very well, but none of them aside from Spock act like they do, nor do they display any dismay at discovering what’s happened to their dear former captain (which Kirk only learns on visiting the base). Spock evidently has known for some time; long enough to have concocted his scheme and write the necessary route into a computer auto-navigation program, at least. But it’s not clear whether anyone else found out before the episode. In any case, there isn’t enough dialogue for these other characters in the episode to draw any concrete conclusions either way.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x10 "Tomorrow's Enterprise" 3 days ago:
The show definitely wants us to consider it a possibility that the reason La’An isn’t on the Enterprise in TOS is because she died. However, we also don’t know why Una isn’t on the Enterprise in TOS. For Una, I’d consider the most likely explanation to be that she got promoted and now commands her own ship. In such a scenario, it could just as easily be that she took La’An with her as her first officer. In that case, Kirk being sad at the mention of La’An’s name could be that they broke up and he took it badly. But we just don’t know.
I do consider it to be quite likely that they’ll stick with Ortegas leaving to become a flight instructor.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x10 "Tomorrow's Enterprise" 3 days ago:
Remember, the Kirk that was talking about her like that was also the Kirk for whom Scotty had died a year ago. By changing that, it’s entirely possible that Uhura changed whatever Kirk was avoiding talking about. Therefore nothing is certain.
- Comment on I regret to inform you all that I will not be purchasing the OoT remake. 4 days ago:
There were Gilligan’s Island remakes?
- Comment on ‘Star Trek’ New York Comic-Con Panel to Feature William Shatner, ‘Starfleet Academy’ Season 2 Stars 1 week ago:
So we’re definitely getting a season 2, then? Last time I checked, it was still being negotiated
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x09 "Once La'An A Time" 1 week ago:
Yeah, now that you mention it, it would have made a lot more sense if Hysperia and Elysian were the same place.
- Comment on Beer garden ready 1 week ago:
This is a shoop, right?
- Comment on Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer 3 weeks ago:
So it appears to be a 1:1 straight remake, but with modern graphics, better sound and probably some improvements to the UI.
I’ll be honest though; I preferred how all the characters looked in the 3DS remaster. Oh well; I don’t have a Switch 2 anyway, so it’s not like I was gonna get this either way.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x04 "A Case of Chiaroscuro" 1 month ago:
Sure but in DS9 Kor is by far the goofiest of the three
musketeersDahar masters. Kang is far more serious and a better fit for this character, and even looks more like Demore Barnes. So making him Kor instead is an odd decision. - Comment on success 1 month ago:
See, this doesn’t really happen to me because doing the dishes is one of my favorite chores. It’s doing the bins that’s a pain in the hole.
- Comment on Painful to recover from 1 month ago:
Should be word of the decade.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 month ago:
I assume it’s mainly that the amount of people went up more quickly than the amount of homes. Demand goes up while supply stays low, and the result is predictable.
I also assume that this is driven by perverse incentive: pre-existing homeowners want their property to appreciate in value, and so they will oppose attempts to build in order to drive scarcity. They will be particularly incentivized to do this if they bought the property as a speculative investment instead of as a home for themselves.
This type of rampant speculation is driven by the market being largely unregulated. Everywhere in the world but especially in the USA, people are forced to seek reliable high-yield investment in order to fund non-state pensions and afford a decent retirement. Governments desperately need to aid this in order for society to not collapse, and so they are held hostage by their own economies, forced to clear a path for pension funds to seek as much profit as possible.
- Comment on Be a punk rocker 1 month ago:
How would you know?
- Comment on Be a punk rocker 1 month ago:
Hopefully this has been instructive in how you can’t trust the Internet, especially YouTube/TikTok. Since from your perspective I am also an anonymous Internet rando, I suggest that you distrust what I have claimed too, and see for yourself by looking up the movie’s wikipedia article or some other source that’s more trustworthy than an anonymous Internet rando. It’s important to develop that habit - to verify things for yourself, and to figure out which sources you can rely on.
- Comment on Be a punk rocker 1 month ago:
In the Captain America movie we learn that the current [MCU] President was near the same blast that created the first Hulk. Yadda yadda, the President becomes the Red Hulk and ends up in jail. Harrison Ford plays the President and he’s sorrowful for what happened and Captain America is also sad.
No, the president (a formerly retired US army general named Ross who had been hunting the Hulk for years) is revealed to have holding a character from the first Hulk movie in prison for years and forcing that character (Samuel Sterns, AKA The Leader) to use his incredible genius to do two things: 1 - help him with his heart condition (which was what had forced his retirement in the first place) and 2 - help him win the presidency. It is then revealed that The Leader, instead of simply curing his heart condition, has been seeking revenge by dosing him slowly with a substance that has turned him into another Hulk; this one red.
The Leader then instigates a series of events which politically embarrass Ross and put him under increasing stress in the hopes of triggering a public hulkout which will ruin him. In this, he succeeds, and Captain America is forced to fight the Red Hulk without killing him. Cap eventually succeeds in calming him down, at which point he reverts to Ross and his promptly imprisoned in super-jail.
- Comment on Be a punk rocker 1 month ago:
What? Brave New World ends with Captain America putting the president in jail. I have no idea what would make you think the movie promotes an “obey no matter what” policy. That you would even suggest that it does leads me to suspect that you’re not being entirely honest here.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I think the main goal of the Maquis was not to evoke sympathy for them, but to put the main characters in interesting moral/ethical quandaries. Both TNG and DS9 did “forced relocation” episodes where the narrative focus was on the fact that there were no “right” answers, only “less wrong” ones.
- Comment on Languages 1 month ago:
Gaeilge: awww, you guys are adorable
- Comment on Pikachu 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure the Black Panthers only worked because MLK was doing a good/bad cop thing.
- Comment on In tentacle monsterd we trust 🫡 1 month ago:
for all de public
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 2 months ago:
Just do what you can, when you can. It’s all any of us can do.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 2 months ago:
Because I don’t trust anybody who tells me things I wanna hear like “you bear no responsibility; it’s somebody else’s fault”.
Oil companies couldn’t sell if nobody was buying. The idea that the world can be fixed and I won’t need to sacrifice a thing is a little too good to be true.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 2 months ago:
>>"Spoiler alert: it’s not you”
>>proceeds to display a chart of companies who sell a fuel we all use
- Comment on Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister 2 months ago:
I don’t disagree; I’m just pointing out that the judge was unlikely to be targeting the barrister for any political reason. Courts always discourage any overly obvious suggestion of jury nullification, regardless of the case being tried or whether it does or does not relate to Israel.
- Comment on Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister 2 months ago:
The whole point of a jury system is that jurors aren’t morons.
- Comment on Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister 2 months ago:
Given that even before his closing statement, the judge had already warned him not to encourage jury nullification, he can’t have been that subtle.
- Comment on Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister 2 months ago:
With an argument like that, it sounds like you have a lot of contempt for the court system. So if the barrister also argued in open court that “ignoring all law and evidence is the right thing to do”…
- Comment on Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister 2 months ago:
Juries can practice jury nullification if they want and nobody can stop them, but barristers aren’t supposed to suggest it. Imagine if, say, a prosecutor told an Israeli jury that they didn’t technically need evidence to arrive at a “guilty” verdict for a Palestinian defendant, just “their conscience”. Jury nullification can’t become just another trial strategy, or the whole legal system becomes worthless.
- Comment on get a job you loser 2 months ago:
It really is hard to find a job where you can go home at the end of the day and feel like what you did that has benefitted the human race at all.