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- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 1 week ago:
IMO “woke” is a red herring when it comes to criticism of newer star trek. Some people hate things for this reason, but it obscues a more interesting discussion.
The real dimensions of value are the writing, the vision, what each series considers “action”, etc. I think it’s a distinction between what you’d expect from a Star Trek movie and a Star Trek TV show. They’re for different audiences, and I think Discovery, STA are going for a much wider market appeal (in varying degrees) and it changes the narrative structure, pacing, etc. I think they’re exploring the audience space with variations on Star Trek themes to grow the francise, and sometimes it’s to the detriment of what some people like about Star Trek - and sometimes it brings in new people.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 1 week ago:
It’s alright; I think I’m too old to be the target audience but that’s ok. Seems to be directed at teens.
Every scene is so busy and glossy. The robots going around bear an uncanny resemblence to the Star Wars prequels (“it’s so dense; every single frame has so many things going on”). The teen angst and romance doesn’t exactly fit into what star trek means to me, but we did get a bit of that here and there. Like in Discovery, IMO there’s too much focus on exceptional individuals and less on teamwork. To me it seems like it’s trying to be many things at once. Star Wars, Marvel, and Harry Potter mixed up in a Star Trek setting. I’m a bit sad we aren’t pretending Discovery was a bad dream, but I can live with it.
… but, there is some star trek here, and I like those parts.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Opening Title Sequence 5 weeks ago:
I forgot that it was playing about halfway through, it’s quite bland.
- Comment on Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen 4 months ago:
you smashed your little ships
- Comment on Highwave, makers of the Hotjo (as seen on DS9), will be restocking the Deep Space Purple color on Friday, November 15. 8 months ago:
My partner hates this mug with a passion. Maybe I should get one 😅
- Comment on BREAKING: EA releases C&C source code under GPL3! 8 months ago:
I played the heck out of the Renegade demo, it scratched a FPS RTS itch I didn’t know I had. I wonder if it holds up?
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 25th 8 months ago:
Is the experience at all spoiled by the game’s popularity? It’s a great game in its own right IMO
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 25th 8 months ago:
I’m playing World of Goo, a physics game from 2008 that I bought in a Humble Bundle forever ago.
I tried it again on a lark and it holds up, I got sucked in. Classic physics game. One level takes me less than 15 minutes to complete, but it varies significantly.
There are interesting conflicting pressures in the game: you want to build with as little as possible, because the building material are your little dudes you’re trying to get to safety. Gravity exists, and weight distribution matters: sometimes you must harness this fact to win.
Some levels are about building methodically, carefully choosing where to use the corpse of a sacrificed little dudes, because it is an immutable choice.
Other levels are about dynamics and timing, and you can get tantalizingly close to saving your entire team in these levels.
Its old, its cheap, it should run on most things~1~. Strong recommend.
1: not android: NetFlix did one of their closed market acquisitions making “free” games here
- Comment on compost.party: a repurposed smartphone running on solar power. It's a web server pieced together from scraps, humming in the attic of an apartment building. 8 months ago:
I like this idea! There might be an increased danger of a battery explosion: it’ll be near bright sunlight, away from where people will see it, with an old battery. I wonder if there are battery diagnostics that could provide an early warning?
I’m sure most of us have a fistful of old phones somewhere, the idea of using them for something is appealing.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 11 months ago:
Same, workspaces are great!
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 11 months ago:
It’s still Firefox, so it’s the same. I installed uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, no different there.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 11 months ago:
I’m trying zen-browser.app now. It’s also an open source fork of Firefox. The UI is much changed: vertical tabs and workspaces. It was a bit of a shock, but it’s growing on me.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 11 months ago:
Librewolf has some trouble with some websites. For example, it won’t load one of my own that makes a GRPC request over TLS, stating that the certificate issuer is unknown despite it being the same certificate used on the accepted-as-secure page the request is made from.
I’m trying zen-browser.app now. It’s also an open source fork of Firefox. The UI is much changed: vertical tabs and workspaces. It was a bit of a shock, but it’s growing on me.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 9th 1 year ago:
$11 is wild for all that!
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 9th 1 year ago:
The New Order was enjoyable vengence porn against Nazis, it’s a good time; maybe I need that again!
I’ve been playing the heck out of Harebrained Schemes’ BattleTech; I haven’t binge-played like this in a long time. It never feels fair; 2-1 odds is typical, but it’s always possible. Pretty satisfying to overcome unfair situations. Makes me feel smart and capable! Plus, jumpy stompy robots!
- Comment on Star Trek - Fleet Command - Lower Decks 2 Part 1 2 years ago:
500 internal errors in console, video doesn’t play