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“recent trend” as in like when mass effect did it 16 years ago?

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It looks like Skyrim in space and I don’t really get why anyone was expecting something else

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so it’s star trek

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the funniest thing about people who constantly complain about “nutrek” is that half of them haven’t even seen TOS so the show that’s “real trek” to them is literally just the nutrek og fans were saying ruined star trek in the late 80s

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and they’re probably right. they’d honestly just be stupid to charge less.

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these damn fools porting it to the two most popular platforms instead of the one you in particular wanted. they should fire whoever made that choice smh

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Wasn’t pretty much every character outside the main cast voiced by James Doohan, Majel Barrett, or Nichelle Nichols?

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you could also just crop it out in most of them

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mom said it’s my turn to suppress the youth vote

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cabrón, i need to see your balls

Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x09 "Subspace Rhapsody"

LoglineAn accident with an experimental quantum probability field causes everyone on the USS Enterprise to break uncontrollably into song, but the real danger is that the field is expanding and beginning to impact other ships—allies and enemies alike....

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Kirk and Uhura are real ones for never telling McCoy that Spock had a phase of being proud to be human until he got dumped by Nurse Chapel. He never would have let him live it down.

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Yeah. I really don’t get why people are so opposed to the idea of a musical tbh

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I think the difference is that a lot more English speakers watch anime as it’s airing in Japan now. Anime used to have to be at least somewhat interesting for someone in the west to even be aware of it, but now we get to see all the shit they’re putting out that never would have made it over here before.

mastodon.art defederating calckey firefish social. Cites behavior of lead project dev (dotart.blog)

mastodon.art has decided to suspend firefish.social from their instance due to issues with its administrator. The administrator of firefish.social was found to be boosting posts from a known harasser on another instance. mastodon.art takes a firm stance against racism and suspending full instances in these situations is part of...

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god fediverse drama is so dumb

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What does redistricting have to do with a Senate seat?

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my cat came from a hoarder and the shelter said she might not be very well socialized because there were so many cats that they wouldn’t have gotten much human attention, but she literally never stops meowing

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It’s not like this situation was unmanageable before kids had cell phones. You call the school and they relay it to the kid.

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the fact that even malware developers can’t write something in rust without making sure you know they wrote it in rust is hilarious to me

Can someone give me adivice on how/where to get back into star trek?

As a kid i loved watching the next generation and deep space 9 with my dad. Ive always liked sci fi, more of a (stargate fan) and wanted to get back into star trek, but Im just so lost on timelines and whats going on. There are like 6 kirks and I have no idea how/where to get started with watching this again.

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I would recommend skipping TOS as a show, and reading the James Blish adaptations of it and TAS.

This seems like a crazy suggestion to me. Kirk, Spock and McCoy’s onscreen chemistry is half of what makes TOS work.

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I love the original animated series. It’s really laid back and relaxing and they get to do weirder stories. TOS would never have Kirk learning magic so he can fight in a wizard battle to save Satan.

Anyone else out there who actually really loved Discovery's S1 style of Klingons?

I am the kind of person who enjoys “big weird” scifi like Stanisław Lem. Stories about trying to relate to and find common ground with something so alien that the prospect of even understanding is basically hopeless. Star Trek usually doesn’t do stories that, which makes sense as it often uses alien races as allegories or...

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The augment virus was a really dumb idea and I’m perfectly happy for them to ignore it and never feel the need to write a plot to explain the fact that designs will change over time in a 60 year old sci fi franchise.

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it seems like the kind of thing that’s obviously an out of universe design choice. it’s like asking for a lore reason why the male Enterprise crew members stopped wearing eyeshadow after Kirk’s five year mission.

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It doesn’t matter if the Klingons, at the time of TMP, were intended to be a total retcon, because DS9 made lines of dialog that make that impossible

are you talking about Worf’s “we don’t talk about it with outsiders” line in Trials and Tribble-ations? Because I also think it’s ridiculous that people took that line so seriously. It’s a little meta joke in a comedic episode that solely exists to celebrate nostalgia for TOS. I don’t get how you can take it as serious confirmation that Klingon’s appearance changed in universe in that context.

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Then I think you just want a totally different thing from star trek than me. imo Star Trek has always contradicted itself a lot, and I’m much more interested in the stories and characters, and I’m fine with the world being somewhat vaguely defined. There are so many things that don’t really make sense that people just gloss over, like Balance of Terror claiming that Romulans somehow have an empire in the 23rd century without having warp drive. Star Trek has been retconning stuff so much since it started that it’s weird to me for people to suddenly start caring about it when Discovery came out.

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I liked this episode, but I thought the opening Lower Decks bit was pretty unfunny. Is the actual show different? It felt like all of the characters were trying way too hard to be quirky and the jokes didn’t really land for me.

Enough with the Mark Zuckerberg Love (jogblog.substack.com)

The article criticizes recent media coverage portraying Mark Zuckerberg as “cool” again based on his success with Threads and a shirtless photo he posted. The author argues that Zuckerberg’s photo looks like that of a middle-aged man cheating on his wife, and that Threads’ success is questionable given it is mostly used...

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he’s in good shape, but he’s not like unbelievably ripped or anything. the author just seems furious he has a hobby for some reason

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plex/jellyfin server with wireguard running on your router would probably be a good setup as long as whatever device they’re using supports wireguard

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which apps? I tried jellyfin and plexamp works better than any of the jellyfin android music players I tried.

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finamp is missing enough features to me to make plexamp worth paying for to me (not automatically switching to transcoding on mobile data, not supporting opus transcodes)

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if a new user is using a distro that doesn’t use systemd they fell for a meme

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That’s what I mean though, why would a new user be running alpine as a desktop os?

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I wouldn’t really consider matrix lightweight

AI model output quality decreases when trained with AI models (futurism.com)

“Our primary conclusion across all scenarios is that without enough fresh real data in each generation of an autophagous loop, future generative models are doomed to have their quality (precision) or diversity (recall) progressively decrease,” they added. “We term this condition Model Autophagy Disorder (MAD).”...

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I don’t think LLMs are intelligent, but “does it work the same as humans” is a really bad way to judge something’s intelligence

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unpopular opinion i kinda liked tumblr better after the cumbrains left

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Some fan discourse I’ve seen on mastodon suggested “oh look there’s the AR wall” like its some kind of bad thing

AR wall is just 21st century matte painting

Mark F***king Zuckerberg Is Not Your Friend (catvalente.substack.com)

I recently listened to a “tech” podcast host drone on for 45 minutes about the “Elon vs Zuck” cage match and this piece perfectly captures the frothing, screaming stream-of-conciousness in my brain at the thought of seeing another discussion about Twitter vs Threads/Insta/Face/burning-sh*itpile. I felt some small amount...

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I’m glad I’m apparently not online enough to have any idea what she’s pissed off about

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yeah, I know about Threads, I just haven’t seen any of this zuck fanboying that she’s talking about

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Andrew Robinson wrote Garak as bisexual in A Stitch in Time so it’s an idea he’s had since shortly after DS9 ended at the very least.

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Yeah, I know, and I think it definitely shows in the first scene between Bashir and Garak, but I was just pointing out that even if you thought he was lying about it being his original intention for the character, it’s something he put down in writing 23 years ago, so it’s definitely not something “new” he came up with to seem progressive.

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I don’t think he ever claimed that the writers of DS9 thought Garak was bisexual, just that that was how he played him, and his novel proves that that’s not just an idea he recently came up with.

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i am begging fedi users to understand that threads and instagram use the same account

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when I used mastodon for a while, people would talk about how great not having ads was, but there were a lot of people asking how they were supposed to sell commissions without an algorithm making people see their posts as if they didn’t consider that advertising.

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they’re right about mastodon being light on the shitposts. it feels like it has all the self-importance of annoying twitter users, but none of the fun parts of twitter

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this article doesn’t really make it sound any different than twitter other than not allowing porn

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twitter already seems pretty brand safe judging by all the brands on it though.

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if by “their users” you mean people who use rebuilds of RHEL ig

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their helmets are made of a special ore that blocks the radiation. it’s a goofy explanation, but there is a reason why they act differently than the enterprise hull

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