Solumbran
@Solumbran@lemmy.world
- Comment on How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves. 6 days ago:
As far as we are from the death of art I guess.
- Comment on Are disabled people and the elderly going to survive another Trump presidency? 2 weeks ago:
You did, and if it wasn’t intentional then you’re the one needing a better education. Actually, this is probably so basic that it’s not usually taught.
- Comment on Are disabled people and the elderly going to survive another Trump presidency? 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes sorry, you said that Trump was actually less or equal of a threat for survival than Harris.
“If it was possible with A, then it is possible with B” implies that B is less restrictive than A. Which in this case means that you said that surviving Harris is more/as hard as surviving Trump.
You can’t do the “it’s not what I said, calm down bro” lie on a written conversation.
- Comment on Are disabled people and the elderly going to survive another Trump presidency? 2 weeks ago:
A guy who wants the death of many people and goes more and more insane/senile being put at the head of a country after multiple comments admitting that he’d like to form a dictatorship is, for you, the same as an averagely crappy politician being elected?
At Hitler’s election would you have said “heh, minorities had it hard before, but they’ll survive” too?
- Comment on Are disabled people and the elderly going to survive another Trump presidency? 2 weeks ago:
What a stupid comment.
- Comment on How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?! 2 weeks ago:
Let’s give them leftist fascism and see how they react.
- Comment on Meet the Star Trek: Section 31 Crew 2 weeks ago:
This is incredibly pathetic and badly written, if sounds like a 14-years old fanfiction. So I guess people who liked the episodes about section 31 will like this.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Ah, amazing, one of the worst parts of the franchise brought into a movie, what’s not to love
- Comment on what's stops one from scavenging the best parts of old phones and putting them into a new one? 3 weeks ago:
There were modular phone projects that were killed by google.
But it’s intentionally hard to do it otherwise, to make more money out of broken phones.
- Comment on Why does it seem the majority of protests in the US are to oppose something while so many protests in other countries are looking to influence improving something? 5 weeks ago:
Nothing actually. As can be seen with the current situation.
- Comment on What the hell even is Diet Coke? 2 months ago:
Yeah, this comment is the real cancer.
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 2 months ago:
The inability to remove files from your drive is quite a lot.
And DRM-free games on steam are not that many, most have at least something that closes the game if you don’t have steam running and I’m a bit sick of having to use goldberg every time I want to use a game without starting steam.
Of course GoG has a lot of (pretty bad) issues, but it’s like comparing a cold to a cancer, it’s absurd. Steam is actively destroying both game ownership (by allowing more and more DRM methods, now with games telling you to accept 5 different terms of use all indicating that you are heavily tracked while using the game for example) and game quality by encouraging the shittiest game, with a main page being completely unusable if you don’t filter out keywords such as nudity, nsfw, mmorpg, etc. GoG isn’t to that extent. Other things exist and if for example Itch had a better interface and search system it would unequivocally be the best game platform I am aware of as of now, sure. But trying to say that GoG and steam are the same (or that GoG is worse) is really not possible to do unless you actually don’t give a shit about games.
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 2 months ago:
Hm, do I prefer renting games, or owning them for the same price…?
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 3 months ago:
Having fewer nazis and more “enlightened” centrists is considered far left nowadays
- Comment on Is investing in real estate immoral if you use it to buy your first home? 3 months ago:
Housing handled by the government leading to removing the requirement to take a loan to buy a house is an option. Landlords are never a mandatory thing, it’s absurd to think so.
- Comment on SDCC: ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 3 Has A Lighter Una, More Romance, Genres, And Scotty 3 months ago:
Oh no
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
“Friend”
- Comment on New Things Gen Z Considers as Cheating on Your Partner 1 year ago:
Ok boomer
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
Strong.
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
Having the knowledge and memories of Jadzia should be enough for her to know better, especially after a life of a few centuries. A 300 years old trill that actually acts like a 20 years old does nothing apart from eliminating the interest of trills. If they learn nothing from one life to the other, the symbiot is meaningless and so is the concept of trills.
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
The main interest of science fiction is to explore the moral and social effects of current, past or hypothetical events and technological discoveries. It could be basically called “philosophy through futurology”, and sci-fi without morals is just that, futurology.
Star Trek from the very beginning was like that, with things as simple as explaining that peace, unification of humanity, democracy and elimination of poverty and starvation are all linked and necessary to have a good world.
I guess you’re one of those “stop making shows political” people? Sci-fi shows are by essence here to teach morals, and even if it is unintentional the concept of imagining a future where humanity grew implies applying morals to the show. It’s not avoidable.
- Comment on 1 year ago:
The legend that defends rapist pedophiles, sure. Get the fuck out.
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
Sisko was shown as “morally dubious but the end justifies the means” as in the end no one even scolds him for basically destroying a planet, and Odo was shown as “poor lonely changeling who wants to find his origins” and everyone forgives him no matter how much shit he does, because “they are my people” or something.
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
The show, shows them like that, with Bashir literally getting recruited after playing James Bond in the holodeck many times and that’s actually one of the arguments that Sloan uses to justify why he should join. Malcolm Reed, who “surprisingly” is also a british character feeling like he’s the coolest guy ever, who is too cool to even answer when someone asks if he likes the food, turns out to be from section 31 too. And in discovery, a certain emperor joining section 31 after showing a lot of “cool moves” and high-tech gadgets that are probably possible to find in some James Bond movie.
As for starfleet, if it is a military organisation under a democratic regime, then it has to follow the same laws and regulations. I am not aware of any military group that can blatantly ignore the law and face no repercussions, in any (pseudo) democratic government. And Discovery doesn’t portray it as illegal at all, explaining that it is at the center of almost all of starfleet’s decision (if I remember properly, an admiral explains that all decisions are first processed by a computer owned by S31, to get an automated suggestion of the decision to take). Such a central element cannot be simply hidden, it has to be allowed by the federation.
As for science fiction, I do not agree. Science fiction is about taking another time/place/context to put the focus on current problems, whether by exaggerating/worsening them, removing them, or isolating them. If you show earth in 300 years and nothing changed, it’s not science fiction, it’s just a fiction that does nothing except change a date. By not showing any difference in how illegal groups like that are handled, the show doesn’t say that it is bad, but instead implies that it is something that never changes. And it is said directly, that S31 existed for a very long time and that it is still here, which implies that it will never leave. Which in turn, encourages apathy on the subject, telling the viewers that it is useless to fight against such groups, they’re just a “constant of the universe”. It is probably not the intended message, but it is the result.
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
Ezri was a weird thing, most of the toxicity was with Jadzia. But Ezri still chased Worf even though he was avoiding her, started things again then stopped everything for one of the most ridiculous reasons I’ve ever heard. On its own it might not be toxic, but since it sort of still is Dax, it adds on top of Jadzia’s crap.
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
The difference is that the problems of the older shows were in other times where the concept of discrimination wasn’t as well defined as now.
The original show tried fighting against violence, racism, sexism, but lacked the objectivity to do so, yes, but it was at a time closer to nazis than it is to us (and let’s not kid ourselves, at a time where americans were much more friendly with fascists than leftists). And TNG was visibly trying to keep a moral aspect to the show, and while often failing they were also often succeeding in surprising ways, to the point of even questioning things like genders, 30 years before the question became a more public one. I have a lot to criticise around it, but the good overweights the bad; this is not the case with recent shows where it’s hard to find a single episode without a dubious concept or production choice.
When Discovery decides to show rape scenes, it is a conscious choice, someone had to say “go on, pretend to be raping him”, it’s not a small mistake. The only similar one in TNG is the early racist episode that even Frakes described as “a racist piece of shit”, but it was what, 40 years earlier? I don’t apply the same judgement on something produced now, where the problems of discrimination, objectification, rape culture, etc, are much more known and defined. It was never good, it was never excusable, but now it is not even acceptable.
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
They were always shown as the sort of cool, James Bond/Batman-like agents that everyone admires for getting their hands dirty for the sake of everyone else.
For DS9, they were for example showing that their solution would have worked, but that it would be immoral; but giving the cure to the changelings was a bet, that was much more risky than killing them all.
For Discovery, what I really didn’t like is that everyone seemed to know about it, an admiral explains that all starfleet decisions are first sent to Section 31 (as far as I understood), which makes it central to starfleet. And they also mention one guy murdering/torturing/?? an innocent ambassador by mistake and not being punished for it.
The lack of accountability for me shows that starfleet does not mind a group above the law, which immediately removes the idea of starfleet/the federation working on democratic principles.
Yes, it echoes with a lot of modern things. But what is the point of making science fiction if all you show is a world that didn’t evolve in over 300 years?
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
The way I saw it, it felt like they were saying that starfleet command is corrupted and using S31 as a way to get things done no matter how illegal they can be. Which is why when getting caught they would deny down to the existence of it all.
But that’s my interpretation, I admit.
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
I’m not exactly religious, quite the contrary.
My ethics and morals are based on what I try to make a good ideal: not liking discriminations, authoritarianism, objectification of people, that kind of stuff. If you want to put me in a box, “leftist” would probably be more accurate than “religious”.
I understand perfectly well that a show can give a million different messages based on the interpretation. But there are still many things that, if not objective, can be said with a good degree of confidence. What I criticised is not about shows not demonstrating a perfect world where nothing is wrong, but about them showing immoral (according to my previous paragraph) things in a positive light.
My motivation is simple: Star trek started as a show questioning the world and the notions of bad and good, working almost at a philosophical level (which is the point of science fiction), and it doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. What I try to do is to question what the recent shows contain, and to create some awareness on the reasons that lead me to believe there are many moral issues in them.
And yes, there are many opinions. But one will have to hold very, very strong arguments before I admit that it is morally acceptable to not be inclusive, to objectify people, to tolerate fascism, etc.
If you want to call it trolling to easily dismiss it, fine. The point is to try to make people think more (and not just react to gut feelings) if they are open to it, if they’re not they’re not going to ever agree with me anyway, that’s the magic of cultural bubbles.
- Comment on The horrible morals of a show supposed to teach them 1 year ago:
Some things were like that. There was also Sisko using bioweapons for a personal vendetta, Odo not fitting in and constantly trying to go with the changelings who are a group of fascist racist violent manipulators, etc.
I’m pointing out the problems that for me are important whether or not other parts are not as bad, or even good. DS9 had good surprises, for example the evolution of Rom and Nog.