canis_majoris
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- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 3 days ago:
It means you own nothing!
- Comment on Searching for the "most representative" Star Trek episode 6 days ago:
I really like The Drumhead from TNG. It establishes the nature of Star Trek at its most essential. It’s mostly a talking episode, although there’s some action with an explosion, which is perfectly average to me. It gives you a feel of the dynamics of some of the politics in the universe, which I think is a great way to get people involved. It’s got one one of those great Picard speeches that puts a badmiral in their place, solving the problem non-violently. It’s also a great parallel to any slippery slope security tightening after a major event happens, which is basically always a timeless message of avoiding overreaching authoritarianism at all costs.
Another TNG one I’d pick is probably The Ensigns of Command. It’s another example of an episode that’s mostly talking, a little bit of action, with a non-violent resolution. It’s fun watching Picard come up with inane legal bullshit to deal with the very strictly by the books alien species, satisfying their requirements in a way that meets his agenda while also being within the rules.
Honestly, I could rationalize different episodes all day, but since those were the first two that came to mind, I’ll just leave them at that.
- Comment on Boeing Starliner Flight of NASA Astronauts Is Scrubbed 1 week ago:
Honestly it’s a surprise they even completed the spacecraft at all.
There’s a bunch of rundowns on how Boeing used to operate for defense and aerospace contracts. They used to do “cost plus” which is essentially a blank check. Boeing was so used to just running around with other people’s money that when they introduced the fixed cost contract, they were unable to be cost effective because they never had to be before.
It also doesn’t help that Boeing uses about a billion subcontractors. There’s a whole story between Boeing and Aerojet Rocketdyne regarding the development of the propulsion systems, which involves a lot of corporate bullshit resulting in siloed work teams and a massive lack of trust.
SpaceX was totally vertically integrated the whole time, so their teams were building all of the components in-house and didn’t have to deal with subcontractors. With Boeing, probably 100 hands touched every single piece before it was finalized, and that costs so much extra money that would have been affordable under cost plus but is not affordable with a fixed cost.
It’s an honest-to-God miracle Boeing finished anything. They cut so many corners and blew off so many tests that they’re finding things like this on the launch pad, while SpaceX is literally landing and reusing boosters for almost every launch.
- Comment on Sword-wielding man attacks passersby in London, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring 4 others 2 weeks ago:
Not bleeding social policies dry?
- Comment on Strange goblin creature 3 weeks ago:
Behold, Plato’s man!
- Comment on Anon is in love 5 weeks ago:
If she’s not running locally she’s not your gf.
- Comment on Chad Diogenes 5 weeks ago:
He’s also the one who told the Emperor to move out of his sunlight..
Man, what a guy.
Alexander the Great comes up to you and says “if I was not me, I wish I were you” and your response is “If I wasn’t myself, I’d still wish to be myself”.
Unfathomably based.
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 1 month ago:
Lemmy sucks at sourcing but rocks at being opinionated.
- Comment on 10 Harsh Realities Of Rewatching The Matrix, 25 Years Later 1 month ago:
Lemmy needs a federation-wide source and citation rule.
Shit like this that’s garbage and obvious clickbait shouldn’t be so prevalent. Yesterday I saw a “science” article posted from Unilad.
Seriously? Come on guys.
- Comment on Interview: Alex Kurtzman On The Influence Of Fan Feedback And The Legacy Of ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ 2 months ago:
That’s interesting. Toronto often fills in for other major metros that are more expensive to film in like Chicago or New York relatively effortlessly. San Francisco seems more difficult to fill in for. I’m interested in how they pull it off as a local Torontonian. I’m hopeful to see random locations I know when they venture off the campus.
Either that or it’s just going to all be inside Pinewood itself. From what I understand it has some of the largest stage space available in the region.
I would love to tour the studio one day.
- Comment on Reddit gets ready for IPO, setting a top valuation of $6.4 billion 2 months ago:
It’s also only valuable if people keep contributing to it. It’s highly likely the majority of current existing reddit data has been largely incorporated into many LLMs prior to the API access limiting. Google paying them 60 million dollars is a hilarious pittance to keep training their LLMs, given how much money AI services will likely generate off of the training data.
I don’t actively use reddit anymore, but when I need an answer to something that isn’t programming-related, it’s usually the top source on any given web search. That kind of content is basically the only stuff I would give a shit about. I can’t imagine how much absolute garbage you have to sift through on the platform to get reliable training data. Maybe the ratio is terrible and that’s why Google paid so little.
- Comment on Reddit gets ready for IPO, setting a top valuation of $6.4 billion 2 months ago:
Actually part of their IPO paperwork lists WSB as a potential positive benefit to the stock, in terms of having a clear userbase that will theoretically help sustain the value through shenanigans. That, to me, however, sounds like a securities violation waiting to happen.
I don’t check reddit anymore. Does WSB actually consider this stock to be, uh, actually valuable? Every corner of the internet I’ve seen discuss this topic have all noted how worthless they think the shares are going to be. My money is on them shorting it.
- Comment on Reddit gets ready for IPO, setting a top valuation of $6.4 billion 2 months ago:
I think it has to do with karma count.
I had two accounts, one had been scrubbed and was mostly used for commenting, and the other was a porn alt.
The porn alt has hundreds of thousands of karma and it got multiple IPO messages while the original, older account got nothing due to being sub 5k on posts.
- Comment on Reddit gets ready for IPO, setting a top valuation of $6.4 billion 2 months ago:
“Our company doesn’t make money, it also is projected to not be able to continue to make money. We’ve attempted multiple ways of monetizing the userbase, all of which has not recouped costs. We value ourselves at 6.4 billion dollars.”
lol, she said.
lmao.
- Comment on TrekMovie.com: Patrick Stewart Reveals New Star Trek Movie Script Featuring Jean-Luc Picard Is In The Works 4 months ago:
I just watch the third season and pretend all of the random references to the early seasons happened in a more logical way.
I knew somebody who was running a “what could have been” Star Trek TTRPG campaign based around episodes of Voyager that could have been executed better, I think I would love to run a campaign that had plot elements from Picard’s first two seasons as a personal headcanon.
- Comment on All 10 TOS And TNG Star Trek Movies Exit Paramount+ For Max And HBO (Again) 4 months ago:
Nebulous copyright licenses.
- Comment on Dave The Diver Surpasses 3 Million Sales 4 months ago:
Is Nexeon considered indie?
I thought they were a huge South Korean studio.
- Comment on When should I start showing someone new to Trek new shows? 4 months ago:
A lot of LD won’t land as much if you don’t really know all the references. I guess it’ll be the opposite of what most of us experience which is the original content and then the references, it’ll still be fun to have all the references show up in LD and then uncover them in live action.
- Comment on [PSA] Battle.net broke in Wine / Proton - here's how to fix for Steam Deck / Linux 5 months ago:
Season of Discovery launched and I was so upset this morning when I couldn’t log in. I had to install everything through Steam, even though on this machine I’ve been using Lutris.
- Comment on Conservative Party is still receiving large donations from individuals and companies with links to Russia 5 months ago:
This has been a consistent thing for like a decade now though. It’s super clear that the Russians have been obviously influencing all manner of conservative governments across the planet.
Just take money out of politics entirely. Nobody should have PACS or donations or anything. You campaign on your ideals and not on flashy advertisements.
- Comment on Star Wars Undertakes Universe-Shaking Changes After ‘Ahsoka’ | Dave Filoni has became the Chief Creative Officer of Lucasfilm. 5 months ago:
Filoni was always the true heir to the empire. Clone Wars was already proof of that, because he had the power to listen to George Lucas and say “no”, acting as a filter for the outlandish bad ideas that Lucas often comes up with.
Only thing I’ve ever seen his name attached to that I absolutely hated was that Resistance show that lasted two seasons, had a packed star-studded cast (including a lot of the original actors from the sequels like Oscar Isaac), but was just an awful show because nothing makes sense about the sequel trilogy. Had some cool character designs, had some cool monsters, but overall didn’t really tell a satisfying story. I think he was only an exec producer on this show though, so he probably had very little day to day involvement compared to, say, Ahsoka.
Everything else Filoni has directly lead has been fantastic. I never understood why the hell they had Kathleen Kennedy at the top when Dave has been an important part of the franchise even before Disney bought the rights.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Season 5 Voice Work Resumes; Tawny Newsome Tells Us About Recording Return 5 months ago:
When I knew it was Mike McMahan who ran the TNG S8 Twitter account, I had total faith. He’s a true fan, he wrote the show with reverence for the material despite it being jocular in tone, which is impressive and what made me fall in love with the show.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Season 5 Voice Work Resumes; Tawny Newsome Tells Us About Recording Return 5 months ago:
Lower Decks is my favorite.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Steam’s big picture does a lot to remediate some of the challenges of working with a controller in a desktop environment. The ROG Ally additionally has switchable modes between desktop and gamepad and it allows for mouse movement with the thumbsticks and stuff in addition to the touch screen.
It also has this app called Armory Crate SE which is basically an Asus-branded game launcher like GeForce Experience where you can fine tune settings on each game.
- Comment on The Escapist murica-fires Editor-in-Chief - loses Yahtzee Croshaw and entire video team in hours 6 months ago:
They always had alternate content, it just generally sucked.
- Comment on The Escapist murica-fires Editor-in-Chief - loses Yahtzee Croshaw and entire video team in hours 6 months ago:
I remember following the Escapist when they transitioned to YouTube, after probably longer than a decade of hosting their own stuff on their own service. I remember seeing all these shows they had spun up, but they all had exponentially less viewership than anything with Yahtzee in it.
I tried to get into the other creators on the platform but only Yahtzee had any staying power for me. Extra Punctuation was great too when Jack started coming in. I’ve been a fan of Jack’s since his Red Letter Media days, when he was doing Pre-Rec with Rich Evans.
- Comment on Report: Bungie CEO blames layoffs on waning interest in Destiny 2 6 months ago:
Destiny’s onboarding for new players is literally the worst. If you don’t have a veteran guiding you into the game it’s literally impossible to pick up. You want more interest in the game, then make it easier to actually pick it up instead of flat replacing the starter content.
- Comment on Diablo IV is free-to-play on PC through Battle.net until Monday 6 months ago:
They already released it on Steam and discounted it 25% - what a fall from grace.
- Comment on Matthew Vaughn Quit ‘X-Men: The Last Stand’ Over Fake Script Written for Halle Berry: ‘I’m Out of Here’ 6 months ago:
Nichelle was the reason she was so into Star Trek. She was her idol more or less. It was really empowering to Whoopi to see a black woman on the bridge and it gave her tons of hope for the future.
- Comment on Matthew Vaughn Quit ‘X-Men: The Last Stand’ Over Fake Script Written for Halle Berry: ‘I’m Out of Here’ 6 months ago:
Something similar happened to Whoopi Goldberg when she was hired for Star Trek Generations. They said she would be actively working with Nichelle Nichols, who ultimately had nothing to do with the project. In the opening scene when she is rescued from The Nexus by Chekov her reaction of shock is genuine because she was told up until that point that it would be Nichelle who was starring in that scene.
Hollywood sucks.