mercano
@mercano@lemmy.world
- Comment on SHUT UP EDDINGTON! NOBODY LIKES YOU! 4 days ago:
A commodore is a one star flag officer. Commodore, rear admiral, vice admiral, admiral.
- Comment on SHUT UP EDDINGTON! NOBODY LIKES YOU! 1 week ago:
Counter argument: Geordi’s in a gold admiral’s uniform.
- Comment on Confusion on Trek Eras 3 weeks ago:
It’s super annoying, but even though they’re all airing at the same time, Picard, Lower Decks, and Prodigy all take place at slightly different times. At least they’re consistent with TNG stardates, where 41000 is 2364, and each 1000 stardates equals one Earth year, so you can get a year from a captain’s log entry. From Memory Alpha:
Lower Decks: 2380-2382
Prodigy: 2383–2385
Picard: 2399-2341 (Ignoring flashbacks)
I miss the TNG / DS9 / VOY era, when shows airing concurrently all take place at the same time.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas release 20 years ago today. 3 weeks ago:
Such an upgrade over the previous two. Three whole cities to explore, plus the countryside. They managed to stream the world data from the disc as you moved about, so no more loading screens between islands like III and VC had. This was the first GTA where you could swim, so water was no longer a death trap, and the first to introduce skills, so you could swim further and faster as you got better.
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 4 weeks ago:
The idea was one computer on the LAN would hold the “talking stick” (the token) and transmit whatever data it needed to, then pass the token off to the next computer in the ring. If a computer received the token and didn’t have anything to transmit, it’d just pass on the token. The problem would be detecting when one of the computers in the loop had gone offline or crashed and taken the token with it. After some amount of time with no traffic, some system was responsible for generating a new token and an amended turn order. Similar problems existed when a new computer wanted to get added to the rotation.
- Comment on What is the best closing scene in the entire Star Trek Franchise, and why is it Kirk, Spock, and Bones singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"? 1 month ago:
Also Spock’s “If I were human, I believe my response would be, ‘Go to hell.’ If I were human.” I love the dry wit we get out of old Spock from time to time.
- Comment on James Darren, Teen Idol Actor in ‘Gidget,’ Singer and Director, Dies at 88 2 months ago:
Computer, end program. 🫡
- Comment on Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement 2 months ago:
I love how, despite Musk’s best efforts, 3/4 of the internet still calls the site Twitter.
- Comment on Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week 2 months ago:
The way this usually works out is you loose all the good employees and you’re left with the dregs who were unable to find another remote position in time.
- Comment on Yakuza Dev To Receive Excellence Award For Sega Model 2 / Model 3 Emulation | Time Extension 2 months ago:
The 90’s Star Wars arcade game would be nice, but it’d require a licensing deal with Disney, so it’s probably never going to happen as a Yakuza minigame.
- Comment on What's the oldest game anyone here has played in 2024? 2 months ago:
This thread reminds me I need to get over to Funspot. They’ve got a great collection of classic arcade and pinball machines. Web site claimed 600 games, but some of that is newer stuff, or mechanical games like Skiball and Wack-a-mole, which aren’t video games. Probably 300 vintage units, though. Haven’t made a pilgrimage this calendar year, though, so it doesn’t count.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
You may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
- Comment on AM RGB 65 Mechanical Keyboard Takes Inspiration From A Nintendo Icon | Retro Dodo 3 months ago:
All we Americans get is the logo in the Special Star Road.
- Comment on 🥬grocery shopping🥬 4 months ago:
My mind to your rind.
- Comment on Factorio: Space Age Expansion Releases October 21 4 months ago:
Setting the release schedule around vacations and holidays. Sounds like the devs have a respectable work / life balance.
- Comment on A company called GamesCare has created their own version of the Sega Neptune called the GF1 Neptune 4 months ago:
A Neptune was going to be a Genesis / MegaDrive with a built in 32X, so yes, there are plenty.
- Comment on PlayStation has no games! 4 months ago:
I know it was later in the console’s cycle, but the PS3 had Grand Theft Auto V. Yes, GTA5 has been the most recent installment in the franchise for that long.
- Comment on A lot of people say this is their favorite PlayStation 1 game. 4 months ago:
When the first one was in development, the lead designer was going leave the games industry and go back to university if it didn’t do well. In addition, SquareSoft was on the brink of bankruptcy, meaning this game could very well be the final game either of them were going to release.
- Comment on Describe an episode in the worst possible way 5 months ago:
Janeway and Paris get it on.
- Comment on Star dates – is one day equal to 0,07 SD in TNG? 6 months ago:
It also removes an emphasis on any one particular planet’s day or year.
- Comment on There can only be one! 6 months ago:
That’s not that prick Lewis Zimmerman, it’s that prick Richard Woolsey.
- Comment on The Best Moment in Deep Space Nine's Greatest Episode Is a Punch Left Unthrown 7 months ago:
The last scene is a little heavy handed with its foreshadowing, but it’s one of my favorite bottle episodes.
- Comment on I hope you all had a great Holiday 7 months ago:
- Comment on Favourite developers 8 months ago:
Coffee Stain Studios. In house, they’ve developed Goat Simulator and Satisfactory. They’ve also published Valhiem and Deep Rock Galactic.
- Comment on Gowron would like to see you in his office 8 months ago:
This is the same actor that yelled at us to, “experience bij” in the TNG VHS board game, so he hardly has the moral high ground.
- Comment on Why do I get the feeling Tom Paris' unspecified crime might have been storming the Federation capital? 9 months ago:
The story I heard with Ro on DS9 was Michelle Forbes didn’t want to commit to a full-time TV gig, wanting to pick up more movie roles.
- Comment on Password security is important 9 months ago:
In the Star Trek universe, you announce your password to the room every time you use it.
- Comment on What's your favorite game you played this year? (Doesn't have to be released this year ) 10 months ago:
Spider-Man: Miles Morales got its Steam release in November of last year, but I didn’t get to it until after New Years. The Steam Deck handled it really well, which just makes me pissed that Insomniac signed a PlayStation exclusivity agreement for Spider-Man 2.
- Comment on Pushing down on you... 11 months ago:
It’s the terror of knowing what this world is about, watching some good friends screaming "Let me out!”
- Comment on Pushing down on you... 11 months ago:
