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- Comment on WHERE ARE YOUR COSHH FORMS, MR. FREEZE?? 2 months ago:
I feel like “why doesn’t Bruce Wayne improve Gotham” is the comic book equivalent of “why didn’t they use they take the eagles to Mordor”.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 7 months ago:
The result would be a genocide, but this time you can identify the jews by not having a star of david anywhere on their body.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x05 “Empathalogical Fallacies” 8 months ago:
It’s probably for the best that they didn’t use voyager as an example about how Vulcan emotions can infect other people…
- Comment on "You know Ben, I'm glad I killed your wife" 9 months ago:
This always seemed like the cheapest way to manufacture tension for me.
There are serious core philosophical differences between Sisco and Picard. There are multiple avenues that could have been used to create conflict and tension.
Instead we get Sisco hating Picard because he blamed him for that shit with the Borg. At best the first impression of Sisco is that he’s kind of an idiot. If you dig deeper Sisco is a victim blaming asshole who hates Picard for serving as a meat puppet after getting brutally violated by the Borg.
You could have just switched the reason for Sisco to hate Picard to the fact that he had his chance to strike a fatal blow to the Borg and refused for reasons Sisco would see as sanctimonious.
- Comment on Microsoft addresses the huge Xbox leaks: here’s Phil Spencer’s full memo 9 months ago:
Investors generally want to get a positive ROI. They don’t want to tank the company to the point where it can be acquired by another company for pennies on the dollar.
Look at Nokia. When they hired a former Microsoft exec, they weren’t expecting him to tank the entire company so it could be acquired by Microsoft.
- Comment on Microsoft addresses the huge Xbox leaks: here’s Phil Spencer’s full memo 9 months ago:
Honestly if you read the actual email I think there could be significant legal trouble ahead.
Spencer talks about how the main barrier to acquiring Nintendo is that they sit on a mountain of cash. He calls that unfortunate. He then proceeded to state a company with connections to Microsoft had just bought a lot of Nintendo shares, and how they could work with said company to make such an acquisition a reality.
The company in question publicly bought a massive amount of Nintendo shares. They then proceeded to pressure Nintendo to invest more capital instead of sitting on the cash pile they have now. They did this under claims that such a move would be beneficial to Nintendo in terms of ROI. However, it would also result in Nintendo being more vulnerable to an acquisition from Microsoft if any of those bets don’t pay off.
In short, it could be argued that Microsoft worked with investors to tank Nintendo so they could buy it. That’s a huge deal and will probably result in a shitstorm.
- Comment on Why shouldn’t firearm manufacturers be held accountable for the use of their weapons in crimes? 9 months ago:
I think most urban liberals would ban hunting given the opportunity, but have enough self awareness to realize that’s an untenable position.
- Comment on Strange New Worlds continues to rank in the Nielsen US streaming top ten 10 months ago:
So it’s basically a tale of two seasons.
Season 1, IMO, has the same flaws as discovery with more coherent writing. The plot jumps from point to point, the characters are underdeveloped, etc. It doesn’t have any “this is not only extremely stupid but feels like the writers didn’t actually bother watching star trek” moments, but it still isn’t good.
Season 2 feels like a true modern tale on Trek. They manage to truly respect the old lore while bringing in new moral dilemmas. The characters are more developed and taken in interesting directions. They managed to sneak in a line that gives a decent explanation as to why things don’t 100 percent match up in canon. There’s also one episode that I would put up there as an all time great across every series.
So I would say slog through Season 1 for the joy of watching Season 2
- Comment on Tale as old as time 10 months ago:
I mean let’s be real here they had every right to be concerned. TNG had serious problems in the beginning and had some pretty big flaws even as the show got going. Off the top of my head
- The first few episodes (besides Q) were straight trash. Even if you take out the ample racism and sexism, they still kinda suck
- Worf didn’t become a thing until Yar died. He was just kinda there. Also his hair looked ridiculous
- Riker was half as sexy in terms of looks and a quarter as sexy in terms of personality
- Picard was a dick. Not firm but fair. A straight up dick.
- They straight up got rid of crusher for a season
- The Ferengi were awful. Not like in a “lol what shenanigans is Quark up to now” but in a “TOS Gorn” way
- Comment on ‘Blue Beetle’ First Reactions Are In: “My Favorite Post-Nolan DC Film” 10 months ago:
I feel like the white guy with a checkmark lecturing an unimpressed Latino about how the movie is great because of the representation even though the plot is completely generic sums up this article real well.
- Comment on What is the worst US state to live in generally? 10 months ago:
That’s a great anecdote, but your wife is in the minority. Statistically speaking, Texas enjoys high rates of inflows in terms of domestic migration while upstate NY suffers pretty big outflows.
- Comment on Star Trek executive producer wants more Strange New Worlds episodes, and I’m nervous 10 months ago:
To be fair with Ortegas they lean heavily into the thrill seeking flyboy archetype.