JohnnyEnzyme
@JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
- Comment on Admin team update 1 week ago:
Love you, Sunaurus! (altho that’s kind of an American expression which perhaps… doesn’t mix culture-wise very well in terms of where you’re from, haha *sweating*)
It’s been an honor to serve…
Myself, It’s been a *total* honor to be part of your excellent (incredibly carefully-run) instance. For my part, I’ve tried to bring positive light to lemm.ee specifically, and Lemmy as a whole, across the last 15+mos. So thank you* SINCERELY* for giving me that chance, plus for expediently handling a couple of distressing issues that I barked about, here and there!
In terms of financial gratitude, it seemed like last time I tried, I wasn’t able to get my PayPal to get y’all a donation (in retrospect I think I should have tried via GitHub?), but let me know if there’s anything else (that or otherwise) I can do for you, please.
Also, via my occasional interactions with the new lead, I’ve had a quite satisfactory time interacting with @EllaSpiggins@lemm.ee, and I want to greatly thank Ella for that, too. ^^
Just… here it is:
thank you SO MUCH, you wonderful folks, you. ❤️ - Comment on Thoughts on TAS Theme 3 months ago:
Oh, rabbits!
- Comment on Thoughts on TAS Theme 3 months ago:
Well, if you’re looking for absolute perfection in a ST theme, good luck. It’s not like Mike Post or John Williams were writing these suckers.
That said, I thought Alexander Courage did a hell of a job on the original.
- Comment on Thoughts on TAS Theme 3 months ago:
I find it ever-so-slightly pompous with all the horns, but otherwise, a cool remix of the original theme.
- Comment on Interview: Nicholas Meyer On Why ‘The Wrath Of Khan’ Endures, And His “Toxic” Memos With Gene Roddenberry 3 months ago:
Roddenberry from what I’ve read in multiple places sounded like a huge asshole to me, and nowhere near the ‘Great Bird of the Galaxy’ he liked to self-label himself as. Now yes, a very talented asshole, whose vision started the franchise, and certainly who put in much work on TOS (along with many other talents), but nevertheless a real PITA on a personal level who wound up burning most of his bridges.
Point is-- if Meyer lost his cool with him as a young guy, I wouldn’t be very surprised.
- Comment on The "Friendship is Universal" poster from SDCC 4 months ago:
And… what symmetry would THAT be, dude?
- Comment on The "Friendship is Universal" poster from SDCC 4 months ago:
It’s been a long, loooong time since I’ve uttered these words, but: THAT ABSOLUTELY KICKS ASS. (or Romulan posterior, whatever)
Now, there’s always going to be a quibble, so here’s mine: Leonard Nimoy was about 6’ in actual height, and I believe Jon Frakes is about 6’3" - 6’4," right around Michael Dorn’s height, for example.
Still-- I get it. If the artist is trying to suggest the outsized influence of Spock, I understand. I mean, Shatner was utterly magnificent in his role, but Nimoy was also right there with him, a brilliant, iconic presence that helped turn TOS in to what might have otherwise been “Lost in Space.”
- Comment on The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes: The most overrated metric in movies is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip. 5 months ago:
People glom onto the only entity bothering to do benchmarks/reviews/ratings/whatever, or at least the only popular one, even if the system is totally bogus.
I don’t get any of this, really. MetaCritic and IMDB are also huge, and use alternate weighting systems, I believe. You can also just google the movie and underneath the ‘big three reviewers,’ there’ll be a bunch more quality review sites, like NYT, The Guardian, Ebert’s site and so forth.
So for anyone who wants to get a spectrum of opinions, it’s really not that hard. Not unlike how one should get reliable news.
- Comment on Time's Up: Biden Won't Withdraw, He Can't Be Removed, and His Reelection Appears Sunk 5 months ago:
RFK Jr
He’s also anti-vaccine and a conspiracy theorist disinformation-spreader. You know… a complete lunatic, and pretty much the last person to lead the Democratic Party. No surprise he went independent, then.
Anyway, Biden’s administration record has been superb (r/WhatBidenHasDone), so no matter his age, he obviously has a great team working for him. America better hope to hell he wins, or the ship is sunk.
- Comment on Paul George dishes on ‘disrespectful’ year of LAC negotiations 5 months ago:
Plus, guys at this level / age / injury history rarely seem able to acknowledge that they’re not worth what they once were, and that it could be a really bad idea for a team to overpay them. No doubt part of that involves their agents spurring them on.
The reason the Sixers did it is mainly because they’re getting desperate to make a good run with Embiid.
@Phegan@Phegan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution? 5 months ago:
if it’s once a year. If we did it every night…
Around here (MidWest city), fireworks go off every night for a month before, and then a month after the fourth. And I don’t mean a small amount, either.
Basically, most of summer is devoted to fireworks play, with the fourth being a deluxe version of the “fun.”
- Comment on Trying to use PayPal to do a Ko-fi donation... 5 months ago:
Thanks, Ella!
Yes I agree, some privacy payment info would probably help folks like me in future. I don’t have much experience (nor confidence) in this area and could frankly use a slight bit of hand-holding, haha.
- Comment on Trying to use PayPal to do a Ko-fi donation... 5 months ago:
I’ll try again tomorrow. I’m having some trouble here today.
I also missed the part about using Github, and of course I don’t know what my options are for that either.
So for virtual CC, I’ll try setting that up with my bank, altho it might be a little bit of a long-shot. As an alternative, would you recommend something like… “Privacy.com” I seem to recall?
- Comment on Trying to use PayPal to do a Ko-fi donation... 5 months ago:
Thank you.
I’m indeed living in the USA at this time.In which case, do you have any thoughts about how I might make a donation to this instance? TBH I’m a bit scared about giving out my credit / debit card info, so I tend to err on the side of extreme caution.
Just set up an acct with one of those four agencies, I imagine?
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- Comment on Happy cakeday, lemm.ee! 6 months ago:
So this is coming up on the one-year anniversary, when I was beyond frustrated with Reddit, when I decided to ‘jump in to the FV,’ and was matched up with this particular random instance / site.
Dudes… I feel like I’m the luckiest person in the universe.
OP has not only taken his personal time to help me across multiple various issues, but even resurrected my community when I accidentally deleted it a couple months ago(!)
Our little Euro-art community, such as it is, would simply NOT be possible without OP.
I am BEYOND grateful, sir. <3
- Comment on Jokic having fun at the horse race 6 months ago:
You can tell by how miserable he looks, being knocked out of the playoffs and having to find other things to do. :P
- Comment on Robin Curtis Looks Back at Star Trek III: The Search for Spock For Its 40th Anniversary 6 months ago:
Good stuff; thanks for sharing.
The contrast between Curtis’ outgoing personality versus the character she played reminded me a bit of Jeremy Brett playing Sherlock Holmes. I would think one’s native personality would peek through the stoniness of the role from time to time, regardless.
- Comment on Nikola Jokić, Jayson Tatum, LeBron James Headline 2023-24 All-NBA Teams 6 months ago:
LeBron James Headlines…
This seemed like hyperbole until I remembered that achieving ALL-NBA at 39yo is unheard of. Maybe in other major sports, but I don’t know that it’s ever been done before in the NBA.
I still have Wilt, Jordan and Kareem on my Mt. Rushmore, but it’s going to be damned hard to argue against LeBron as the hooved, horned animal when his career is done.
- Comment on [Game Thread] 23-24 MAY 2024 - Conference Finals Game 2s 6 months ago:
It’s hard to see the Pacers slowing down the Celts too much, and yet look what happened in game 1 before disaster struck.
Still, I’d love to see the Celts not given a huge rest before facing the West champ. From the ESPN schedule, it looks like a West game 7 could happen on June 3rd, with the finals starting on June 6th, giving the West a mere two days off, potentially.
- Comment on Whoa...! I was editing one of my community documents, and suddenly the whole community disappeared. Can you help? 7 months ago:
Dear lord, you’re the best!
- Comment on Whoa...! I was editing one of my community documents, and suddenly the whole community disappeared. Can you help? 7 months ago:
Oh, oh, oh…
I’m in tears right now
- Comment on Notice for all moderators: please check the lemm.ee moderation policy 7 months ago:
Can I have my community back, please?
- Comment on Whoa...! I was editing one of my community documents, and suddenly the whole community disappeared. Can you help? 7 months ago:
I did try logging in that way and then clicked around the stuff you mentioned, damn.
Still nothing.
- Comment on Whoa...! I was editing one of my community documents, and suddenly the whole community disappeared. Can you help? 7 months ago:
Thanks, tried it just now. Got this:
- Comment on Whoa...! I was editing one of my community documents, and suddenly the whole community disappeared. Can you help? 7 months ago:
Yes, “DELETED BY CREATOR” was the very first thing I noticed! 😠
Right so, I looked around the upper-right, but didn’t see much of anything like a “Restore” link. Now I did try pressing the “Joined” button, and now it looks like this:
Ugh, so now I’ve made the whole situation somehow worse?
Oh, but check this out-- I have a “homepage” community under my same ID ( lemm.ee/u/JohnnyEnzyme) and noticed that the EDIT button, for example:
Which weirdly sits right next to the trash-can icon, for example:
So… I guess probably I touched the one whereas I meant the other??
Thing is-- such a thing was almost *inevitable* as someone who tried to keep updating our site documents (resources and FAQ).
- Comment on Whoa...! I was editing one of my community documents, and suddenly the whole community disappeared. Can you help? 7 months ago:
Exactly, thanks.
All of our individual post URL’s seem to still be there, but the front-page seems to be weirdly in a “deleted” status. - Whoa...! I was editing one of my community documents, and suddenly the whole community disappeared. Can you help?lemm.ee ↗Submitted 7 months ago to meta@lemm.ee | 15 comments
- Comment on 🚨 Nikola Jokić Named NBA MVP 7 months ago:
In Shaq’s head, he is motivating him
Uh… sure.
- Comment on 🚨 Nikola Jokić Named NBA MVP 7 months ago:
I have nothing but scorn for Shaq’s whiny reaction based on his chronic unease with other big men, but… I do have to admit that he was the effective league MVP for quite a few more years than he ultimately won.
So in a general sense I’m not that bothered by his saltiness when it comes to MVP’s.
