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- Comment on Oxygen 1 week ago:
I googled this and that’s enough internet for today.
- Comment on we love those power laws 2 weeks ago:
Nuke hurling trebuchets are an underexplored fantasy tech.
- Comment on can't stop won't stop 2 weeks ago:
Are you an old lady? That was his thing.
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
Humans starting with the Venerable trait is OP.
- Comment on evangelism 2 weeks ago:
I have watched those exact guys eat an organization I worked for alive. At the end, they had like… 10 business consultants and 1 junior engineer. At an electronics engineering company.
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 3 weeks ago:
I would not be surprised if the real target market is rich preppers who want this thing to patrol their bunker.
- Comment on LEARN THE DIFFERENCE PEOPLE 👏👏👏 4 weeks ago:
Drink her essence!
- Comment on Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract 4 weeks ago:
“Don’t be evil.”
- Comment on clearly aliens 4 weeks ago:
Graham Hancock has entered the chat.
- Comment on ah, conservation 5 weeks ago:
They only lived east of the Great Plains until we started building cities and planting trees, as they need high, safe perches for nesting and sleeping. When humans created that for them, they expanded westward all the way to California and started competing with other species of owl.
So, yes.
- Comment on Who would you rather hang out with: Romulans or Vulcans? 5 weeks ago:
I think I’d rather hang out with Romulans, but if I’m seeking some kind of professional service, Vulcans every time.
- Comment on The AI-generated hell of the 2024 election 1 month ago:
wave of lawsuits that might eventually grind this whole industry to a halt.
Holy wishful thinking Batman. With the amount of money that’s at stake that will never be allowed to happen.
- Comment on Here’s the Elon Musk interview that got Don Lemon’s show canceled 1 month ago:
The rich go insane because the people around them enable them to believe their own bullshit and set no boundaries with them. This is SUPER bad for humans psychologically and causes us to lose touch with reality.
- Comment on Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears 1 month ago:
They’re the people who never would have touched it, because it was too technical, had too high a barrier of entry, and saw it as niche.
Yep. My dad uses Facebook, Reddit and Youtube now. I remember having conversations with him where he was confused about why anyone would ever want to use Facebook and what the point of Youtube is… it just wastes time. When I first exposed him to AMAs I thought he would be interested in, in like 2012, he was like “It’s really cool that you can talk to this person, but there’s so much noise and joking around… how are you supposed to follow it all?”
Now he posts on reddit for help with home improvement projects and watches youtube channels about classic cars and how to fix your garage door opener and talks about stuff he saw his other Boomer friends post on Facebook. It’s a weird roll reversal, because now I’m like “I’ve left every single one of those enshittified platforms.” But it took him years to get on them. It would take him even longer to get off.
- Comment on know the difference!! 1 month ago:
There’s a renfair trubador song waiting to be written here.
- Comment on Schrödinger's Van 1 month ago:
I assume this van contains a superpositioned state where it might be full of candy or it might be full of duct tape and Velcro cuffs… but you can’t know unless you get into it.
- Comment on Modern beauty standards 2 months ago:
You dislike big butts and you cannot lie?
- Comment on it is a good day. 2 months ago:
Songs will be sung…
- Comment on Pi Day: Boomer Humor Edition 2 months ago:
Old jokes always circle back around.
- Comment on brilliant as silver 2 months ago:
Depends on who you’re fucking.
- Comment on Anatomically Correct 2 months ago:
Do NOT let my mom hear you say that what she does with crystals and auras is not ancient or medical in any way…
- Comment on Anatomically Correct 2 months ago:
Based on the image, my mind went straight to:
Name: Skulvic
Type: Undead
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
No. Appearing: 4-8
Armor Class: 5
Hit Dice: 2
Move: 12
Attacks: 1
Damage: 1d4 (bite)
Special Attacks: Psionic abilities (Psychic Crush), chilling bite (save vs Paralysis or be paralyzed for 1 round).
Special Defenses: Immune to mind-affecting spells and abilities, immune to poison, sleep, paralysis, stunning, and disease. Half damage from cold and electricity.
Magic Resistance: 5% per hit die
Size: Medium
Morale: 12
XP Value: 3,000
Description: Skulvic’s are created by clerics of evil gods from the bones of those who’s lustful appetites in life drove them to commit shameful acts. The Skulvic appears as a grotesque amalgamation of a humanoid skull fused with the pelvis of a humanoid creature, walking on leg bones. Its empty eye sockets flicker with malevolent psychic energy, and its bite carries a chilling touch that can paralyze its victims.
Combat: In combat, Skulvic relies on its psionic abilities and its bite. It is an opportunistic predator, lurking in dark places and ambushing unsuspecting victims. It unleashes bursts of psychic energy to disorient foes before closing in to deliver its chilling bite.
Psionic Abilities: Skulvic can possesses a range of psionic powers (at the DM’s discretion), but usually lurk in the shadows and rely on Psychic Crush to ambush their victims.
Habitat/Society: Skulvics are created by clerics of evil deities and may be found patrolling around the sanctums and hidden meeting places of such cults.
Ecology: Skulvics are undead creatures driven by a hunger for psychic energy. They feed on the life force of their victims, draining them of their vitality with each chilling bite. Those who fall prey to a Skulvic often become mindless thralls to the clerics who control them.
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- Comment on OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material 4 months ago:
On both sides even.
- Comment on In a way, Tasha Yar's fate actually worked out really well for the series 5 months ago:
This is a Lower Decks episode that badly wants to get made.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Season 5 Voice Work Resumes; Tawny Newsome Tells Us About Recording Return 5 months ago:
The ONLY reason we have Paramount+ is because my wife wanted to watch some soaps on it (IDK even which ones, I couldn’t be less interested). But I WAS like “Now I can watch Lower Decks! Sweet.”
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 5 months ago:
They were always shown as the sort of cool, James Bond/Batman-like agents that everyone admires for getting their hands dirty for the sake of everyone else.
I don’t think I’ve ever encountered anyone but you with this take. I’ve certainly never heard anyone say “Oooh, Section 31 is cool, I admire them,” but I’ve had LOTS of conversations about how uncool they are. The main characters don’t like them, they’re ALWAYS an antagonist / obstacle. I understand that’s what you see, but I don’t think the experience you’re having is very universal.
The lack of accountability for me shows that starfleet does not mind a group above the law, which immediately removes the idea of starfleet/the federation working on democratic principles.
Star Fleet DOESN’T work on democratic principles, it’s absolutely a military organization, with a military hierarchy and agenda, that has a STRONG scientific and exploration mandate.
The FEDERATION works on democratic principals, but Section 31 has ALWAYS been portrayed as an illegal, unsanctioned organization working within Star Fleet, that, simply lots of factions and elements with Star Fleet support or align with (Fascists gonna fasc, even in the Utopian future, and people with that minde set are going to be drawn to the closest thing to a military organization around).
Yes, it echoes with a lot of modern things. But what is the point of making science fiction if all you show is a world that didn’t evolve in over 300 years?
Um… there’s a LOT wrong with this, as there are all kinds of points to making Science Fiction, and showing all sorts of things. And one of them is VERY MUCH showing the kinds of things that are wrong with our world, starting conversations and raising awareness. There are lots of points to making Science Fiction. You don’t have to like all of them. You don’t have to like Chuck Tingle or Space Raptor Butt Invasion, but it has a point (and it’s actually a really positive one, if you look past all the pounding and dinosaur love).
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 5 months ago:
I don’t think the message of Section 31 has EVER been that it was “good / necessary.” It’s always been cautionary. Like: Even in a Utopia, this thing can exist, people will support it, people will argue it’s necessary. I’ve always thought the message was “Why do we tolerate this shit and you assholes who insist it’s necessary?? Why do we let you get away with it? Why do we pull the wool over our own eyes and look the other way?” It continues to be a good story to make Americans talk about.
In DS9, Section 31’s machinations badly backfired and stealing the cure from them and giving it freely to the Changlings is what ended the war.
In Picard, Section 31’s bullshit literally created a terrorist who brought the Borg back and set them loose on Starfleet, again.
In Disco… IDK. I don’t like Disco and I only half watched that season. They made um… an AI that tried to take over?? I guess, it was bad and Star Fleet was complicit.
One of the most important parts of the story, I think is how even in the Utopia of the Federation, we never see anyone being held accountable for Section 31’s actions. My takeaway from this is “a call to action that perpetually goes unheeded and is never heard in numbers great enough to make a real difference” which is a VERY true and tragic lens for the modern world.
I don’t think I’ve ever thought of S31 as being pushed as a GOOD thing. More like shown to us in the spirit of “Stop, children, what’s that sound, everybody look what’s goin’ down.”
- Comment on Star Trek: DS9 Was "Never Going To Go Into A Movie" Says Kira Actor 6 months ago:
Which is too bad. A movie would be the perfect way to wrap up the Ben Sisko story.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x06 "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place" 7 months ago:
I did not ship Rutherford and Tendi until this episode, though I assume they’ll drag out a will they / won’t they scenario for at least a few more seasons.