Infynis
@Infynis@midwest.social
- Comment on Achievement unlocked? 1 week ago:
I read an article recently about how Yellowstone rangers are pretty good at dealing with traffic jams like this, because they happen so often in areas where there are bears
- Comment on Can astronauts jerk off or toss the troff in space? Would their heart monitors would show it to be elevated? Or can or has any two astronauts ever had sex in space? 1 week ago:
Technically it’s in the upper atmosphere 🤓
- Comment on The future of Blu-ray is looking bleak (and that's a bad thing for everyone) 1 week ago:
I fully agree with this. I’m sure the prices are so high to get people to use streaming services or online rentals like Amazon does. At $30/disk though, that’s enough that there isn’t a single piece of media I care enough about to preserve physically. The ones I care the most about are also television shows, so that’s even more expensive. I have nothing but gratitude for the people that are out here buying these disks, and saving them for the rest of us.
I mostly consider physical media to be merch when I buy it
- Comment on The future of Blu-ray is looking bleak (and that's a bad thing for everyone) 1 week ago:
I will still want all my media in my house, in a machine I own, instead of having it stored in a server somewhere.
If what they’re talking about does happen, that would just be personal preference. If you own the media, you can store it wherever you want, be it on your own machine, or on a cloud service if you desire
- Comment on fake it til you make it 2 weeks ago:
Forget ponds, I prefer a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides.
- Comment on Morning Blast 2 weeks ago:
Working from home, I regularly clock in on the toilet
- Comment on Palworld Lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
Every game borrows from other games’ ideas and mechanics
It’s not only games, this is just straight-up how art works. Culture develops over time. Of course capitalism had to get a middleman in there lol
- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 2 weeks ago:
Now that’s an unpopular opinion
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good: The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market? 3 weeks ago:
Turns out you have to make a good game too. Who would have guessed?
- Comment on Hypothetically, if some mysterious force started to jam every radio frequency, how would modern day society adapt to this? 3 weeks ago:
We better not run out of whales then
- Comment on If you begin the Voyager episode "Spirit Folk" at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. 3 weeks ago:
You could try it at 11:49.35 tonight, and report back
- Comment on Boxing Day Status Update 3 weeks ago:
Wait, really? I thought it was the day servants got off to have their gift exchanges
- Comment on Tawny Newsome Says Live Action Star Trek Workplace Comedy Will Explore Life Outside The Federation 3 weeks ago:
I’ve wanted an Outside the Federation show for a while. I hope they bring back Cassidy Yates. More Maquis would also be sick
- Comment on Appreciation 3 weeks ago:
The thing they appreciate most is how cheaply you did it all for
- Comment on If someone murdered me, how long would it take (if ever) until they catch the murderer? 3 weeks ago:
Could even be a copycat using the opportunity to get their manifesto in the news
- Comment on Diamond market 3 weeks ago:
So the answer is just to buy a lab-grown diamond, and then tell everyone it’s real, because once the poors have it, it won’t be cool anymore
- Comment on It be like that sometimes 3 weeks ago:
I do this too! I otherwise don’t listed to music at all, but when I need to be somewhere, it’s the best way to keep track of time
- Comment on ‘Lower Decks’ Series Finale “The New Next Generation” Review, Plus Mike McMahan Interview 4 weeks ago:
Strange New World, despite being a prequel, is a great place to start. Deep Space 9 is also really good for learning about Star Trek, and it’s probably the best written overall. You could also watch a Best of the Next Generation marathon. I’d recommend that over watching the whole thing, because TNG really shows it’s age sometimes.
The most important thing to remember is that most Star Trek shows take a little while to get off the ground. They usually find their feet around season 3 (that’s when Riker grew his beard).
- Comment on ‘Lower Decks’ Series Finale “The New Next Generation” Review, Plus Mike McMahan Interview 4 weeks ago:
You misundstand me. I’m probably one of Enterprise’s biggest fans. It’s just not what I’d recommend for someone getting into Star Trek. It’s tone is different, and the roots of the franchise aren’t easy to see if you don’t know to look for them. I wouldn’t recommend Discovery as a first show for the same reason. Strange New Worlds though is an excellent option.
I’ve actually personally been getting a friend into Star Trek through Lower Decks and DS9. Once she was hooked, telling her there was a Lower Decks crossover in SNW got her onboard there as well. Now we’re kind of watching everything simultaneously lol
- Comment on Is there another term for crafted, interactive activities besides games/video games? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been thinking about this recently. Video Game is becoming such a broad term as technology progresses, and the number of people engaging with them is exploding. I expect, soon, we’ll see distinct interactive arts defining themselves. For now, interactive arts is what I’m going with
- Comment on Yea it's kinda cool and all, but when is XANA gonna make it's appearance‽‽ 4 weeks ago:
Code Lyoko. The symbol was the “face” of their AI villain
- Comment on 'Sonic the Hedgehog' Dodged Every Curveball Thrown at Hollywood to Become a Hit Franchise 4 weeks ago:
For the film’s director, Jeff Fowler, there was only one thing to do: win back that trust, and do it fast.
“The fans needed to know that they were being heard, and they needed to hear that from me,” Fowler said about a tweet he sent out just two days after the trailer was released: “The message is loud and clear… you aren’t happy with the design & you want changes. It’s going to happen.”
Why is this so hard for other businesses to understand? Just listen to people and make what they actually want, stop trying to trick them.
- Comment on ‘Lower Decks’ Series Finale “The New Next Generation” Review, Plus Mike McMahan Interview 4 weeks ago:
The rift stuff only affects the future. Everything that happened in Lower Decks is still fully canon
- Comment on ‘Lower Decks’ Series Finale “The New Next Generation” Review, Plus Mike McMahan Interview 4 weeks ago:
Definitely don’t watch chronologically. Enterprise is the last show I would use to get anyone into Star Trek. Even the original animated series would probably be better lol
- Comment on ‘Lower Decks’ Series Finale “The New Next Generation” Review, Plus Mike McMahan Interview 4 weeks ago:
It could have gone on for longer though. They had more plans. The finale shows they had tons of options.
- Comment on Great tee shirt with words of wisdom that I bet you never realized 4 weeks ago:
Present company excluded
- Comment on The 19th-Century Fight Against Bacteria-Ridden Milk Preserved With Embalming Fluid 5 weeks ago:
This is a great story to share if anyone ever claims a market will regulate itself
- Comment on What do people (as in, IRL) actually think of the [alleged] perpetrator involved in the NYC shooting? 5 weeks ago:
All my IRL friends have been sharing the same memes we see here
- Comment on CEO brains go brrrrr 1 month ago:
That’s not a sign of intelligence, it’s just that he had so much money, he could afford to fail a bunch of times, so he could get lucky every once in a while
- Comment on Claim Denied 1 month ago:
I would never make any baseless allegations. Though, if I were forced to make a ruling, I’d go with self defense