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finally, i can livestream my ear canal 24/7

there’s a certain poetry to someone making an uncritical game about a technology meant to cheat drivers out of a fair wage using a technology meant to cheat other disciplines out of a fair wage. the venn diagram of people who would make a game about this and make a game with AI is probably just a circle

most european countries, and some countries in south america and aftica. outside of that you’ll need to look into AI-NTSC or AI-SECAM or get a foreign CRT and voltage converter

as long as there’s a vision for a better tomorrow, Star Trek has more to offer

aside from being a great episode of Academy, this episode was also a perfect coda to Discovery. Tilly got to be the person she needed back in the day

that’s the opposite of the point he’s trying to make. he’s not critiquing TNG, he’s parodying bad faith critiques of modern trek by showing how easy it is to turn those criticisms on the show those same people claim to love. he gets especially meta when comparing TNG to TOS, claiming “TOS would never do that” but every single example is something the original series also did. turns out star trek was always about compassion and inclusivity!

would you rather fight 100 tribble-sized sehlats or one sehlat-sized tribble?

unfortunately age verification is now required to touch grass

i personally find bananna audio the most appealing

there’s a saying that goes something like “democracy is a fresh challenge for each generation.” any trek show that shows what we can be without also exploring how we can (or can fail to) stay there is being overly optimistic at best and dishonest at worst. i agree that the execution often fails, especially in Picard and early Discovery, but later Discovery and Academy are shows not about a distopian future but about carving out a utopia within one. Discovery starts out in the SNW era and even in universe everyone can tell how messed up this crew is- note how Pike treats Disco with kid gloves versus how he treats the Enterprise like a ship of adults- but something very interesting happens when they make the jump to the post-Burn future, where suddenly the worst Starfleet has to offer are the best just because they remember how things could be. That offers them and the fallen federation (and the show) a mutual chance at redemption, and Academy is building off of that without Disco’s baggage. Academy sees the same problems you do with the post-Burn galaxy and are working to turn it back into the one you remember. you could argue about the execution still, but the heart is there

it’s funny to think that all of dax’s hosts were mild-mannered before they were joined and then five minutes stuck with dax they start breaking any and every rule. their first thought together after joining is “aren’t you tired of being nice? don’t you just want to go apeshit?”

i didn’t even realize illa meant to be cardassian. but i also didn’t realize that was tawny newsome despite being very excited she was one of the writers so i might just be stupid

hard to say for now other than they both coexisted for a bit, but out of fiction i have a feeling they’re just going to ignore the last two seasons of Picard altogether until a hypothetical Lower Decks spiritual successor where they’ll somehow fix it with a throwaway line. speaking of Lower Decks, that’s probably how they’ll handle it’s finale too considering the multiverse wormhole thing is conspiciously absent from the 32nd century

+1 for Bandcamp. they often run a “bandcamp friday” event where they waive their cut of all music sold that day, so almost everything (payment processors still take a cut) goes to the artist. there are also self-hosted alternatives to bandcamp like faircamp

for me, the foam rocks and rubber foreheads were part of the fun, like watching a magic show where you know where to look. i would be thrilled if all of SNW looked like the TOS parody from this episode, especially if it brought back 24-episode seasons. probably not a common sentiment though lol

Or the moment where he’s, like, “I choose neither” of the bad decisions, that’s not taking responsibility.

this is really interesting considering in the Kelvin movies, that’s considered a strength and one of Kirk’s defining features. one of my favorite tjings about this current wave of trek is how it takes apart the idea of the idea of the perfect, mythic captain. They feel more human this go around, which makes the times they do shine and embody the classic captain archetype that much more powerful

most people join the fedi to get away from shit like bluesky, so until they become actually decentralized i think most fedi instances should block/ban bridges if anything. the current status quo of bridges being around for those who want/need them but are easily ignorable for the rest of us is probably the best case scenario right now

but at least your drunk uncle won’t boil the oceans in the process too

i’d love if they skipped ahead of TOS and did a show set in or after the movie era. bring on the monster maroons!

COBOL is still being updated because, believe it or not, people are still writing COBOL