Reva
@Reva@startrek.website
- Comment on Gen Z is ditching iPhones for $100 'feature phones,' and the numbers don't lie 1 year ago:
I just don’t buy new ones. I have a Nokia E90 Communicator and that’s it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
All of these are just willfully misunderstanding the point of these things to the point of idiocy.
- Usually, the rigid time constraints are shown to not work, and something else happens that solves the conundrum. Either that or the engineer overestimated the time with regards to security protocols, testing and so on, implying that cutting time will be significantly more risky.
- The shields are offline because power generation is failing. Diverting power from life support is the last resort, implying that either we get the shields online at the expense of long-term life support for a small chance at survival, or keep them offline for a guaranteed death. It makes sense to divert power from life support.
- They are frequently in unfamiliar or entirely deserted locations. Who has every close space station in mind at all times? Are you implying that someone on a long highway cannot be surprised by the distance to the next gas station if gas runs out?
- This never happened.
- This never happened.
I always held the opinion that “treknobabble” was largely internally consistent and made sense within the established technologies of the universe, with notable exceptions in the biology department (TNG: “Genesis” anyone?). I dislike when people make fun of Trek engineer speech as if it was completely incoherent made up words á la “it’s a unix system”. “Treknobabble” is consistent and believable, and I don’t think it’s cute to insinuate that it’s all some kind of silly in-joke.
- Comment on Braga: ‘I still cringe when I hear it.’ Apparently, it was a long road to the franchise’s most despised title music 1 year ago:
I liked the song when I was a kid and watched Enterprise (and I liked Enterprise in general) but growing up, the sheer American nationalism throughout the series was pretty unwatchable. Still leagues ahead of the all-American new Trek.
- Comment on Starfield has gone gold. Preload tomorrow on Xbox/Microsoft Store, and on the 30th on Steam (Bethesda on Twitter) 1 year ago:
According to this article, they sent out the codes today and the embargo may lift on September 1st.
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- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
What, being European?
- Comment on YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures | The platform will also take action against videos that discourage people from seeking professional medical ... 1 year ago:
“Big pharma” has better things to do than produce purposely harmful medicine. Fortunately, poisoning your customers is a big danger to profitability. If at all, a “traditional medicine” approach that was not a scam would be immediately adopted, marketed and commodified by the pharma industry, not suppressed and fought.
- Comment on YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures | The platform will also take action against videos that discourage people from seeking professional medical ... 1 year ago:
That argument falls apart if the scientific world is imperfect in some way. It was not that long ago that “race sciences” were a rather undisputed thing, even worse if you get into the psychiatric field, eugenics and all.
- Comment on YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures | The platform will also take action against videos that discourage people from seeking professional medical ... 1 year ago:
On the one hand, good on them for removing conspiracy theories and harmful fake medical information. This is an important step to preventing this kind of abuse and grifting.
On the other hand, “discouragement of professional treatment” is pretty vague. In a world where there are such massive issues within psychiatry especially, with forced clinic stays, abusive “therapies” like conversion therapy, irresponsibly administered medication and plenty of bigotry within the medical community when it comes to hot issues like intersex people, trans people, narcissism or schizophrenia, discouraging some people from going to that is an important part of disability and mental health activism.
I hope this will not be used in that way.
- Submitted 1 year ago to startrek@startrek.website | 0 comments
- Comment on Star Trek executive producer wants more Strange New Worlds episodes, and I’m nervous 1 year ago:
What quality? It has the writing and acting quality of Big Bang Theory.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
Your entire account is video game porn mods catering to horny men who are afraid of or disgusted by real women.
It’s not about “being comfortable with people’s bodies”, it’s about shaming women as “prudes” if they do not feel comfortable the power dynamic that often comes with sex in hetero society (especially with straight men) being shoved in their faces and told to participate. “Stop being a prude” is the equivalent of “smile more (for me)” or “start wearing less”.
I do not have to participate in men’s power fantasies about fictional women because they never talked to a real woman and think that boob armor and 2B’s design are the pinnacle of womanhood and “liberating sexuality” while the only thing it does is making them into sex objects to be stared at and thirsted after like some kind of predator-prey dynamic or product to buy at the market. There is nothing liberating about it.
Y’all just want to jerk off to women. Just admit that you just want to jerk off to naked women. It has nothing to do with “being open about sexual topics”, or about sexual liberation, it has everything to do with getting your dick hard and thinking it’s some kind of political statement at the same time. Male (or male socialized) savior syndrome.
BG3 clearly, obviously caters to sweaty D&D neckbeards’ fantasies about “smeggsy” women, mid-tier fantasy writing and fulfilling their power fantasy of murdering, fucking indiscriminately, and avoiding responsibility at the same time. It’s the entire concept of the game. It is made by and for typical Redditors. There is nothing liberating about a porn game. There is no authentic romance, no negotiation of consent, no talking, no connecting as human people, there is only “playersexual” NPCs handcrafted to get predatory men horny who think they’re entitled to women’s (and these NPCs’) bodies and attention. It’s a power fantasy.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
I don’t mind sexuality and romance, not even in my games. I do mind what amounts to fan service porn and constant sex shoved in one’s face. The article makes good points.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
I mean, it was Greece.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
As a European, I spent college doing academic work and being an adult.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
It’s worth noting that the “decline” option is very often downright mean or abusive, so you get guilt tripped into sex.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
I feel the same; it’s probably because the way these characters are written in a very “cishet” way just do not evoke my experiences with romance or sexuality at all.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
Who needs interesting writing when you can make sex and fart jokes every five seconds?
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
Play a porn game then, not an RPG.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
How the hell is this “realistic”? Everyone being playersexual, animal sex scenes around every corner?
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
Truly, we will only reach a peak progressive egalitarian society when we are back to treating women like sex dolls. So right bestie.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
Some of us grew up. The others insist that “mature writing” means “haha sex penis”.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
I don’t want every one of my games to be turned into porn. I am not a teenage boy who was taught that sex was the epitome of humor and life enjoyment. I want a little more mature writing than that.
Besides, the way that these game developers write sex scenes and romance could not be further removed from my lived experiences.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
Completely agreed with the PCGamer article. I quit playing the game because it reminded me of Kojima’s handling of female characters and it just made me really, really uncomfortable that so many NPCs seem to be written only to be horny. BG3 genuinely, hands down, plays out like a porn game very often. I don’t want to play a porn game. I want to play a CRPG.
It is entirely unnecessary and forced and I can only wonder what kind of gamergate people were involved in the decision making there.
- Comment on What's a faction/group/alien race in Star Trek most similar to the Tech Priests / Mechanicus in Warhammer 40,000? 1 year ago:
Absolutely the Pakled.
- Comment on AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble 1 year ago:
That’s exactly why most socialists propose free re-education and social support for those coal workers so they can take different jobs in, for example, renewable energies.
Firing an entire industry without any support to follow up on those who lost their jobs is tyranny. No content writing house is seriously interested in helping their “AI”-replaced workers to resettle in a different job.
- Comment on AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble 1 year ago:
I agree, yeah; but to an extent, people who write extensively about “AI ethics” also are part of the AI hype. Making these word probability models look like some kind of super scary boogeyman that will destroy literature, art and democracy is just cynical PR for them.
- Comment on AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble 1 year ago:
Yeah, but that is a very real ethical question about usage of it as a tool. We could have the same discussions about any kind of machinery. Those are fine questions to ask.
I am more talking about those “ethical questions” that assume the so-called “AI” might be sentient, or sapient, destroy the entire world, destroy art as we know it, or have any kind of intent or intelligence behind their outputs. There’s plenty of those even from reputable news sources. Those that humanize and hype up the entire “AI” craze, like OpenAI does themselves with all this “we are afraid of our creation” sci-fi babble.
- Comment on AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble 1 year ago:
As someone who has worked in an academic manner with LLMs, it is infuriating that we are even discussing whether we can “trust” a statistical model that imitates language. It’s a word generator. It’s not a black box. We know what it does. We developed it. It’s like having a society-wide discussion around the ethical ramifications of keyboard auto-suggest on your phone.
- Comment on Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’ 1 year ago:
Girl: “Hey you look kind of like my grandma :)”
… How is this in any shape or form offensive? Let alone homophobic? Fucking cops, man.