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Maybe it’s just me but I really don’t like this show as much as I thought I did at the beginning. I think I was so happy to have the original formula back that I kinda glossed over a lot of the problems. Still love the cast and set designs and stuff, but as amazing as Ethan peck has been acting as Spock, the writing around him has been ridiculous (how many Spock-in-awkward-situations episodes do we need?) and doesn’t sit with his characterization in TOS. They talked about explaining Spock’s smiling in the second pilot, but his saying “Ah yes, one of your earth emotions” makes so much less sense with all the exploration of emotion he has done here.

I didn’t think it would happen, but I really wanted it to. Michael Dorn was so passionate about it, and i love the character

As much as I want to say fuck yes, they should first go back and watch those old scientists.

N64 games were $70 in the 90s. We’re still way below that with inflation

For me the production was unlike anything I had seen to that point. Just incredible. Gameplay, however, did little for me. Perfect game to watch someone else play in my book

Go Birbs!!!

Best battle system in the series. Biggest complaint for most people is how slow it starts. For me it’s how long it takes to get my favorite characters.

Hoping with zero evidence that the end of lower decks is just because they’re getting promoted out of the lower decks and the characters will all return in a new show: “The Next Next Generation” (or maybe “Upper Decks”)

A few months ago I bought some old (quite good) speakers. My first step, of course, was to use a calibrated mic to measure them. One measured way better than the other. Took them apart and realized at some point someone had connected wires incorrectly on one of the tweeters causing it to be out of phase. Do you know what this means?

I REVERSED THE POLARITY AND FIXED MY AUDIO PROBLEM. That day I became a Starfleet Engineer.

TNG aired during my childhood, and I did watch it, but the occasional TOS marathon is really what got me into it.

I don’t care, as long as it’s Squirrel Girl.

Sure, that’s why I qualified with “for its intended purpose”. It’s not a great classroom map but it is perhaps the most historically important projection. The problem is this idea of “Mercator bad” has entered public consciousness. For example, the start of this thread mentioned “how not-great the mercator is” without any such qualifications.

https://youtu.be/vVX-PrBRtTY?si=EJI98A0zZR6zkURc Im sure there were people who felt this way before this episode, but it really exploded in public consciousness afterward.

Yeah, it’s actually a really great map for its purpose of navigation, which is a pretty damn important aspect of map usage. I’m tired of everyone shitting on it because of that scene in west wing.

Only the Gorn are truly immune, and this makes me think Godzilla is just the final form of the gorn.

Sisko says “Maybe it was Bell”, I like to think it was, that Bell had the hacking skills to do it himself.

The images recorded in history changed from the real bell’s face to sisko’s which to me says it wasn’t a predestination paradox, the real bell did it the first time, and sisko did it the second.

On the one hand, Mauna Loa is misspelled and misplaced. On the other hand, the big island is now the bigger-than-Texas island, and I enjoy that.

This makes sense, I’ve largely been trying to use it for things I do regularly, and I’m pretty senior, having been in the industry for some time, so I tend not to be asking the questions that will have a million examples out there. But then again, these are the sorts of things that it will need to be able to do to replace people in industry.

I’m amazed how overstated llm ability to program is. I keep trying, and I’ve yet to have any model output so much as a single function that ran correctly without modification. Beyond that it has made up APIs when I’ve asked about approaches to problems, and I’ve given it code to find bugs and memory issues I think are fairly obvious and it fails every time.