Snowcano
@Snowcano@startrek.website
- Comment on Love 2 days ago:
Yo that comm badge is sweet! Did you buy or make?
- Comment on The Undiscovered Country: Why is the galley set so worn out? 3 days ago:
Wow I never knew about all the bts drama of this film! Also found this illuminating:
Frank Mancuso, Sr. – who had been intimately involved with Star Trek ever since Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – , did not really want to end the Original Crew run on The Final Frontier low note, especially with the 25th anniversary of the Star Trek franchise coming up, and wanted one more film, but found himself seriously hampered by the strictest of budget limitation: under NOconceivable circumstance was a potential new film to exceed the budget of The Final Frontier, not even by one dollar.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 4 days ago:
I hope the detached nacelles go the way of the S1 Discovery Klingons. They just look so goofy.
Yeah to say nothing about detached hulls! Like what’s with the Intrepid hulls also being detached and floaty? Seems like a system where you have to rely on transporters (I’m assuming?) to get between parts of the ship isn’t great fault tolerance in the event of something going wrong.
Detached shenanigans aside, I definitely didn’t mind how Athena ‘folded her wings’ after coming out of warp, that was badass!
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away" 5 days ago:
Man, those scenes with Braka and Awe were really something. Wasn’t sure how I was going to like Giamatti in this series but I’m kinda digging him.
- Comment on "And you people, you're all astronauts on... some kind of star trek?" James Cromwell announced for STLV to celebrate the 30th anniversary of First Contact. 6 days ago:
- Comment on *Star Trek: Starfleet Academy* 1x05: “Series Acclimation Mil” 1 week ago:
Oh wow, good find about Avery’s lines being from the spoken word album! I was hoping he had come into the recording booth as a cameo but whatever, it was beautiful either way.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 5x05 "Series Acclimation Mil" 1 week ago:
Oh man, it started a little… extra shall we say, but that was really something special! I did not expect this series to be this good.
- Comment on San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) | Rufus Wainwright Orchestral Recording 4 weeks ago:
I overall loved the choice to use it and orchestral arrangement especially, really got my attention after all the action and made me lean in to the moment and the show. What I didn’t love was Rufus Wainright’s overly syrup-y vocals. Really would have preferred the original remixed with the orchestral arrangement.
That said, I do wonder if over time this is going to grow on me and become another Faith of the Heart. 😁
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 4 weeks ago:
Totally! I haven’t loved the post-Burn setting but the way this show is already contextualizing it, and the optimism it’s doing it with is already starting to change my mind.
And it’s even carrying over being the shoes into real life, which is one of the things I love most about Trek and its good to have this out there. There’s some nitpicks, as there always are, but so far I can deal with them, especially if it stays consistent. 🖖
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I wasn’t aware of the Stellaris mods at the time I grabbed Infinite, but I have to say that I honestly don’t mind dipping into it from time to time. I guess there’s bugs and balance issues and whatever but apparently I’m basic enough that I haven’t noticed. It getting abandoned does make me quite angry though.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 5 weeks ago:
I started keeping a Note on my phone titled Game Diary with different sections for games I’m playing, and write down what I was doing, my train of thought and what I wanted to do next, things I had to check on our fix etc, at the time I put it down. It’s helped immensely when I come back to something after a while and encounter exactly what you’re talking about.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It’s common for terrible acts to go unpunished. There are lots of movies and shows where the bad guy wins. Many where you can’t even tell who the bad guy is. But they’re still good stories.
That’s kind of my point though, the show failed to make any statement about it, including this one. In fact, what you say here would have been an exceptional statement to make, especially considering the post-9/11 backdrop of this season’s arc. Instead they were just like, “ANYWAY, time for some timetravel shenanigans” or whatever the next season was doing, I don’t recall. That absence of comment is the failure the show makes is what I’m really saying.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I think the character decisions were motivated, intentionally difficult to wrestle with and especially relevant for the time it was made. I think what makes the show unforgivable for it however, is the complete lack of consequences for those transgressions.
- Comment on Achievements 100% 2 months ago:
No no no. No one should ever watch the remakes. The OG show and End of Eva movie, while not perfect, are an extraordinary and focused (again, with a few exceptions and missteps along the way) artistic expression from a soul in pain trying to understand and work through their traumas, the kind of exercise that some of the best art comes from.
The remakes are nonsensical meta garbage about Anno (the artist in question) trying to leave behind this behemoth IP empire that accidentally created and desperately wants to be free of, to the point that he couldn’t even finish the damn things himself.
While I appreciate the sentiment, I truly regret the time I spent watching the remakes.
- Comment on Backups of Backups 3 months ago:
Have detailed descriptions for others how to retrieve your data in case something happens.
Lots of great advice here but this stands out as a really good bit that a lot of people (including myself) need to consider.
Weekend proooojeeeeeect! 🎵
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Anyone know what the reaction screenshot is from?
- Comment on Readdeck vs Wallabag? 3 months ago:
I was really enjoying wallabag for a while, but after an update (or something?) the container no longer connects to the db and I haven’t been smart enough to figure out why yet.
BUT when it works it’s got a nice interface and the Firefox extension clips articles quickly. Biggest downside I’ve run into is the iOS app can’t make highlights or annotations, and it sometimes randomly reloads an article while reading and ‘forgets’ its place.
- Comment on Day 469 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 months ago:
Oh snap, I didn’t know that! Excited!!
- Comment on Day 469 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 months ago:
Dude when this was included in PS Plus I got fucking consumed by this game! It’s beautiful and brutal and relaxing all at the same time. I would play a Hawaiian playlist on the Spotify all while playing and it was supremely chill… until I died from shark or diarrhea. Like I say, an interesting cocktail of stress and relaxation. Happy to see it getting some love.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 months ago:
Seriously! I’m absolutely baffled by the comments here talking about how analog clocks are somehow this bizarre anarchism from the distant past that is just sooooooo difficult to understand. Wtf has been going on over there??
- Comment on Hey Lois, remember the time when it all came tumbling down? That was sweet. 3 months ago:
Unexpected Komm süsser Tod! ❤️
- Comment on Breaking news 4 months ago:
This had my wife knocking on the door and asking why I was laughing in the bathroom.
- Comment on Where is Immich going to be in 1 year? What's your prediction? 5 months ago:
Manual ordering of images in albums is an absolute must before I adopt any image management system. It’s wierd to me that seemingly none of the FOSS systems support it (considering that most of us are datahoading control freaks).
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 9 months ago:
Awesome, cheers!
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 9 months ago:
Which courses do you recommend?
- Comment on The therapy I can afford 9 months ago:
How do you access this output?
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #9 10 months ago:
God, I love these posts.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 10 months ago:
This post is pure unfiltered 100% awesome! I find I’m frequently having anxiety attacks these days because of… <gestures at everything>, but reading this massive in-depth writeup, just letting me soak in a hobby I love but don’t have much time for as I’d like, has relaxed me more than anything has in months. Thank you so much! 🙏 I’ll definitely be keeping an eye out for these in the future!
- Comment on "There's So Much Heart": 'Starfleet Academy's Tatiana Maslany Drops Update for Upcoming Star Trek Show 11 months ago:
Same! Even though I’m not excited about this timeframe in the Trek universe, I just became exponentially more excited knowing she’s involved.
- Comment on Who says S31 gets to have all the fun? 1 year ago:
That’s what bothered me the most. Like okay, in the moment you gotta make a shitty call, I get it. But then never going back to make it right? What the hell is that? That could made a great ep in itself, where you have to deal with the price you paid in order to win.
But nothing, not even a throwaway line. Ugh.
