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- Comment on Best character in the entire franchise (OC) 9 months ago:
I don’t love most Lwaxana episodes, but that one and Half a Life are wonderful.
- Comment on What women want 10 months ago:
God damn right I’ll do Picard.
- Comment on For real though, I think about this at least once a day 10 months ago:
My favorite example of this is from The Chase, where they discover the origin of all humanoid species in the galaxy, probably the most important discovery made in the history of Starfleet, and it’s never mentioned again.
- Comment on Is it time for 6G already? Traffic analysis says yep 10 months ago:
When I had a Pixel 6, there was a bug that caused awful battery drain when on 5G, so I changed the preferred network setting to LTE for like a month while waiting for them to fix the issue.
It had NO effect on my regular use at all. Running speed tests showed that my max download speed was significantly slower while using LTE, but that’s obviously not indicative of real world usage. If there was any difference between LTE and 5G in terms of page loading, media streaming, etc during regular daily activities, it wasn’t perceptible.
- Comment on Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents 10 months ago:
I’m in the same boat. I make drives that require refueling even if I leave home with a full tank once every other year (Philly to Indianapolis). Even with a very high range EV, that would probably require multiple recharges each way, so that’s not a great use case for EVs, but you know what? That’s what rental cars are for. I’ll happily get an EV for the 99% of driving that I do within three hours of the Philly metro area and rent an ICE car for the at worst annual trip I take that isn’t convenient in an EV.
Of course, this is all theoretical for me because I drive a company car and so don’t have much choice in my vehicle, and I probably won’t have to buy my own car until that job perk goes away.
- Comment on Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na.... 10 months ago:
Shatgorn!
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
It’s wild that in the few instances where the generative AI feature would actually work quite well (summarizing lists of distinct instructions), it often pushes long-form video instead.
- Comment on If you begin Star Trek: Voyager episode Spirit Folk at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's Eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight 10 months ago:
Yeah, it’s definitely a bad episode, but it’s really just a pretty bog standard “new technology goes haywire” Trek episode. It was a good episode for RDM acting-wise, and the makeup effects for Paris’ deterioration were pretty great.
- Comment on MRW hologram Barclay is trying to rizz up Seven in "Inside Man" 10 months ago:
Because at the point that this episode occurred, Hugh wasn’t really an ex-Borg yet. He wasn’t part of the overall Borg collective, but he was part of the rogue Borg, and whether or not he was fully an individual read probably still up for debate.
- Comment on My favorite gender 10 months ago:
Agreed. He doesn’t have any trouble interpreting or expressing feelings, it’s just that he’s kind of a prick with an identity crisis.
- Comment on It's Time to Ditch Evernote for One of These Alternatives 10 months ago:
Holy shit, $170 a year for pro? Who on Earth thinks it’s worth that? SAAS is generally an infuriating model, but I definitely think I get $100 worth of use out of Office 365 over the course of a year. Evernote is just not that useful.
- Comment on Sisko explains it all 10 months ago:
“For you, the day Elim Garak graced your ready room was the most important day of your war. But for me, it was a Tuesday.”
- Comment on Exxxocomp (NSFW) 11 months ago:
Penis Hamper
- Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs 11 months ago:
I’ve survived layoffs at companies where we were told that following the cuts, we were going to get leaner and more agile and more efficient.
I’m sure you’ll be just shocked to learn that what actually happened is I ended up doing twice as much work to pick up the laid off people’s slack, and at the end of the year got a smaller bonus than the previous year, along with a raise that didn’t cover inflation. Overall company profits, of course, hit a record high.
- Comment on Who's the MVP of the MPV's? 11 months ago:
It’s Solok and it ain’t close.
- Comment on And this is why I no longer have cable. 11 months ago:
Say what you will about the entertainment merits of Real Housewives and Kardashian shows, at least the stars of those shows signed up to have their drama exploited for ratings. The producers of shows like Hoarders and Intervention are morally bankrupt. TLC is basically an entire network devoted to turning people’s mental health and addiction crises into spectacle for cheap entertainment, and it’s absolutely disgusting.
- Comment on Aww, did somebody get addicted to white? 11 months ago:
Yeah, but then all the dealers start singing happy birthday as they bring my crack out to me and it’s really embarrassing.
- Comment on Having to re-teach your parents how to work the smart T.V. 11 months ago:
Set your browser up with a good private DNS. I use Control D, which you can use to block a lot of annoying crap.
- Comment on Give thanks to the healers. 11 months ago:
Did she really have to? Nurses act independently in regular medical settings, but when there’s a doctor with the sum total of a civilization’s medical knowledge available 24/7, everyone else is just a pair of helping hands.
- Comment on The reverse shark-jumping 1 year ago:
The actual behind-the-scenes reason is much funnier.
- Comment on Molly is the one I really feel sorry for. 1 year ago:
Yep, “happily married” is definitely a phrase that comes to mind when I think of Miles and Keiko.
- Comment on Bi women love Star Trek. Source me. 1 year ago:
Same.
- Comment on Phasers set to "Bitch please" 1 year ago:
They had a black woman in a respected, professional position with an officer’s rank. The same with an Asian man.
And a Russian in a trusted role. That was a pretty big deal during Cold War times, too.
- Comment on I’m guessing a character from TOS? 1 year ago:
Best boss I ever had!
- Comment on I’m guessing a character from TOS? 1 year ago:
- Comment on For anyone who wasn't aware, the 1990s show Gargoyles is basically a TNG reunion. 1 year ago:
What I love the most about that episode is that Mr. Freeze was a total joke villain before B:TAS. They took a guy whose entire existence was just dumb ice puns in non-serious stories and they did… that.
- Comment on For anyone who wasn't aware, the 1990s show Gargoyles is basically a TNG reunion. 1 year ago:
Incredible show. Gargoyles and ExoSquad were the cartoons of my early adolescent years.
- Comment on Resistance is Futile. This is some dope fanart 1 year ago:
I was SO hoping that the nubbin bugs would make an appearance in Picard.
- Comment on A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades 1 year ago:
I have a Pixel 6 and it’s like they specifically engineered this thing to be as drop-prone as possible. Without a case, it’s SO slippery.
- Comment on Here we go again 1 year ago:
Why are you glad it won’t?
