TIL Paul Giamatti is going to be a recurring guest star. Hype just went warp speed for me.

I use the adb method. Gets the job done with minimal fuss. I have a few cmds saved in a text file for copy, delete older than x days, etc.

freeware mods continue to be the cradle of game development innovation

Pretend we are playing a game within a magic circle that separates us from all the normal rules you have been taught.

Are the LLMs a testing ground for groomers? This is pretty disturbing to contemplate.

Why does piracy need a business model? Sci-hub etc already exists.

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism

You deserve condescension for your willful ignorance and lack of humility. That’s just how the world works.

Also a Hemmer scene is also very similar to an Alien 3 scene iirc.

e: Looks like there’s some folks noticing. https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/star-trek-strange-new-world-alien-franchise/

This whole article is just about the first Gorn episode and has references detailed out pretty well. The conclusion is such wholesome trek though.

Throughout the first three Alien movies, the recurring and omnipresent true antagonist is the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. This corrupt stand-in for capitalism is responsible for repeatedly placing the crews in danger. The motivation? To harness the profit potential in the difficult-to-contain xenomorphs, of course.

This leads to plenty of self-serving behavior. This is embodied by company-programed android Ash (Ian Holm) and company man Carter Burke (Paul Reiser). In both cases, the characters are not motivated by survival. They instead serve only themselves and capitalism. Thus they often prove to be equally or more dangerous than the xenomorphs themselves.

But in Strange New Worlds, capitalism isn’t a problem. In the post-scarcity society of the Federation, it isn’t necessary to turn on one another to solve problems. As a direct result, more members of the Enterprise away team survive than make it through any of the Alien movies.

The tagline for Alien states, “In space, no one can hear you scream.” But that’s only true if you aren’t surrounded by members of your tight-knit, utopian community, as is true for the Enterprise crew. Ripley deserved to have people like this watching her back.

rotating saucer artificial gravity is a cute idea

this would be a cool spin-off/fanfic for The Expanse universe though

We Our Space Comrades

seems like we’re on target for the Irish Unification of 2024 at least