Repelle
@Repelle@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I would. Vance is awful, but I have zero faith in his ability to hold onto trump’s cult. Things get much scarier once trump has had time to establish himself more.
- Comment on Koa-light-Speed 1 month ago:
The universe is balanced on the back of a giant koala! Why is he smiling? What does he know??
- Comment on Interview: ‘Lower Decks’ Cast Talks Character Growth, Season 5 Finale, And Not Saying Goodbye To Star Trek 1 month ago:
Hoping with zero evidence that the end of lower decks is just because they’re getting promoted out of the lower decks and the characters will all return in a new show: “The Next Next Generation” (or maybe “Upper Decks”)
- Comment on ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Makes $7M In Thursday Night Previews, Receives 36% Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score – Box Office 2 months ago:
Why couldn’t they just make a sequel to birds of prey? That movie was great and Margot Robbie was fantastic.
- Comment on Krillin 2 months ago:
I fucking love rice. Sometimes I scoop some rice out of my rice cooker and eat it straight off the paddle. It’s also great with other things!
- Comment on Do deaf people play media with sound on? 2 months ago:
FYI, We know the way is in Samoan and Tokelauan.
Fun fact, Disney worked with the University of Hawaii on a Hawaiian language dub of the movie and Auili’i Cravalho voiced Moana in that version as well. I watch it on occasion to practice my very poor Hawaiian language skills.
- Comment on Menacing Moon 2 months ago:
The
shipsmoon hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t. - Comment on ocean depth 3 months ago:
Apparently Everest is 157 miles tall?
- Comment on Worst examples of Treknobabble 3 months ago:
A few months ago I bought some old (quite good) speakers. My first step, of course, was to use a calibrated mic to measure them. One measured way better than the other. Took them apart and realized at some point someone had connected wires incorrectly on one of the tweeters. Do you know what this means?
I REVERSED THE POLARITY AND FIXED MY AUDIO PROBLEM. That day I became a Starfleet Engineer.
- Comment on Happy Star Trek Day! What was your first contact? 3 months ago:
TNG aired during my childhood, and I did watch it, but the occasional TOS marathon is really what got me into it.
- Comment on Do lesbians like boobs as much as straight guys? 3 months ago:
Am gay; can confirm.
- Comment on Lord of the Rings Characters: Screen Time vs. Mentions in the Books 3 months ago:
Not at all, I really like Boromir’s story, but that’s why I’m surprised. I feel like his development got a lot of attention, and even though Faramir was around for longer in the story, he never seemed quite as prominent to me. I guess that duration made up for the attention boromir got early on, though.
- Comment on Lord of the Rings Characters: Screen Time vs. Mentions in the Books 3 months ago:
Biggest surprise to me is that Faramir has more mentions in the books than Boromir.
- Comment on This is a painting of Commander Riker fighting Godzilla. 3 months ago:
Only the Gorn are truly immune, and this makes me think Godzilla is just the final form of the gorn.
- Comment on [Discussion] Of all the films you’ve gone into blind, which one truly stands out as your favorite find? 3 months ago:
The Matrix in the theater was just amazing not knowing anything going into it. I thought it was gonna be some generic sci-fi action popcorn flick and was so wrong. Honorable mention to Knives Out and Everything Everywhere All At Once, both incredible movies in ways I didn’t expect.
- Comment on two things I came away with after watching DS9 - Past Tense today. 3 months ago:
Sisko says “Maybe it was Bell”, I like to think it was, that Bell had the hacking skills to do it himself.
- Comment on two things I came away with after watching DS9 - Past Tense today. 3 months ago:
The images in history changed from the real bell’s face to sisko’s which to me says it wasn’t a predestination paradox, the real bell did it the first time, and sisko did it the second.
- Comment on Only Honk 4 months ago:
How can there be no genders if they’re revealing ganders which are expressly male?
- Comment on How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk 5 months ago:
“You folks” for life. Why was this not an option?
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 5 months ago:
True for most of the franchise, but the ferengi are eventually. Also, I’m not sure if the federation prevents member worlds from continuing to have their own internal economies that could be market based. My guess is that they don’t and the ferengi will continue to use money for a long time.
- Comment on Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise 5 months ago:
They were the reason I stopped watching when it first aired. I’m glad society is catching on.
- Comment on Searching for the "most representative" Star Trek episode 7 months ago:
Now I want to suggest this trilogy: a private little war, the last outpost, “mugato, gumato”
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 7 months ago:
One game breaking bug on a playthrough is still pretty bad.
- Comment on Searching for the "most representative" Star Trek episode 7 months ago:
I wanna say “the corbomite maneuver” from TOS. I think it’s one of the best episodes of all, but most people don’t so i think it’s okay from the its all downhill perspective. It has everything: Kirk mentoring, an extremely powerful alien of the week, solving problems without fighting, but still tense situations. Such a great and representative episode.
From TNG maybe First Contact. Good intro episode as you get intro to the federation through the eyes of an alien of the week. The alien-chasing woman may be not a good thing to show depending on the person you’re showing it to, though.
For DS9, in the hands of the prophets. Doesn’t require much backstory unlike a lot of DS9, great ep, classic ethical debate/social commentary, and the majesty that is Vedek Winn.
For Voyager maybe distant origin. Great ep, doesn’t need much backstory, also great commentary on society
- Comment on 8 months ago:
Even though I didn’t enjoy the movie, I’m still sad that Paul McGillion wasn’t cast as Scotty for the 2009 film. He’s both Scottish and Canadian, so perfect for carrying the torch.
- Comment on Today I found out: snakes have two penises 8 months ago:
Just like Klingons.
- Comment on New ‘Star Trek’ Movie in the Works at Paramount from ‘Andor’ Director 11 months ago:
I read and reread “Abrams’ Bad Robot” as “Abrams’ bad reboot” several times before I got it right. I guess the mind sees what it wants to see.
- Comment on Possible headcanon reason why consoles always explode on the bridge 1 year ago:
The rocks eat the eps plasma and turn it into console lights and computer food.
- Comment on Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to delay electrification 1 year ago:
Wikipedia quotes 30% for diesel generation. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_generator (see typical operating costs)
According to the EIA, natural gas has the highest efficiency at around 43% as of 2015. Coal, oil, and nuclear plants all fall around 33%, with nuclear keeping a slight lead. www.energyandcapital.com/articles/…/76858
Additionally I did specifically say that electricity would still be better for cars unless hydrogen production were such that more suitable uses were fully supplied.
- Comment on Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to delay electrification 1 year ago:
That is absolutely true. But if the hydrogen production increases the power plants overall efficiency from 30% to 50% (estimates are in that realm) then the overall efficiency of the system is competitive, since as compared to current nuclear generation the efficiency of the hydrogen production is greater than 100% as we’re using energy that is waste in the current system.
Of course, using electricity in that model is still more efficient so long as the markets for better uses of hydrogen aren’t saturated, but if we went all in, then it might be possible for it to be the case.