ShranTheWaterPoloFan
@ShranTheWaterPoloFan@startrek.website
- Comment on Introducing Raspberry Pi 5 1 year ago:
Because it’s what they will buy, it’s what I’ll buy. And it suits their argument. Calling people out for not reading the article when they are quoting a price from the article is silly though.
That being said, I don’t really buy the comparison between the optiflex and the pi. It’s like saying you can buy a perfectly good Geo metro as opposed to building a kit bike.
- Comment on Introducing Raspberry Pi 5 1 year ago:
$80 for its 8GB
It seems like people really aren’t reading the article.
- Comment on Showing the destination before the journey - Dragon Warrior 1 year ago:
I think the later DQs are enjoyable, but they feel stagnant.
It’s my problem with many games. Rarely does something new come along. This is likely a function of age alongside growing up when video games were new and completely different ideas and genres were formed. There is still innovation, but I feel JRPGs haven’t had anything new in a long time.
- Comment on Showing the destination before the journey - Dragon Warrior 1 year ago:
I don’t remember dragon warrior 2 being that bad. Maybe it’s a ROM issue, maybe young me was more comfortable with a constant grind.
3 is special. It shows it’s age, but it’s very very good.
4 is a little more uneven, but I think it’s the first RPG to change your perspective/main character across the story. Also it has the best story of any JRPG I have ever played.
- Comment on Showing the destination before the journey - Dragon Warrior 1 year ago:
The first four dragon warriors/quests were surprisingly ambitious.
DW is one of the first console RPGs.
DW2 is in many ways the template for a generation of RPGs, with progressively gathering party members and opening up the map via gaining new travel modes.
DW3 is still amazing. The party creation and job system is done better than most other attempts at it. And returning the old world was so cool.
DW4 had a true multi-perspective narrative with a detailed story. Unlike anything else that had come out before.
Later DW/DQs stopped innovating as much as stagnated, much as the entire JRPG genre feels stagnant.
- Comment on The brief career of lemmy shit posting mod space weed kid 1 year ago:
I can think of no punishment more severe.
- Comment on Unity boycott begins as devs switch off ads to force a Runtime Fee reversal - Mobilegamer.biz 1 year ago:
I’m confused about what you want.
Mods literally got replaced by reddit because they refused to capitulate.
I’m not a fan of reddits choices, but if I was deeply involved in a community I’d consider staying to be part of that community still.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
That was aggressively awful.
- Comment on I mean, they were stuck there for like more than 26 hours.. 1 year ago:
Sure, but there is a world of difference between 1700 and today, and an even bigger difference between today and space faring civilizations.
I think the idea that changelings had universally negative experiences is crazy.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x01 "Twovix" & 4x02 "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee" 1 year ago:
It reminds me of the future Borg from Voyager.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x01 "Twovix" & 4x02 "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee" 1 year ago:
I love that episode.
And the moral of “I can get stuff just by asking for it!” Is a real lesson.
- Comment on Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse? 1 year ago:
I agree with their politics, I just feel that plot took a hit to allow them to soapbox more. Aliens lost what made them alien and became humans with make up.
My issue isn’t the message, to me it felt like the lecturing of DISCO with fart jokes.
- Comment on Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse? 1 year ago:
I was really disappointed with the most recent series of Orville. I feel they moved from social commentary to being preachy and smug.
The biggest example of this is the time travel episode in season 3. You have someone who has established a life and has kids and real character growth, who wants to be able to live the life they established after being abandoned for 20 years. On the other hand you have Seth McFarland saying that it’s bad. There isn’t any real discussion of what right is, it’s just McFarland saying that he’s right and then circumventing any resistance. It ends with McFarland being smug he did the right thing and having no self reflection on the damage he did.
To be clear, I’m all about social commentary in my sci-fi but I feel like anything interesting is diluted to make it a closer parallel to earth. The Moclans went from a unique all male species, to having a rare minority that allowed for discussion of trans rights, to in season 3 being 50-50 split and a tired gender war trope.
I think the Orville has gotten lazy and moved further and further away from having interesting plots to talk about big ideas and moved more towards character driven drama and lazy hamfisted commentary.
- Comment on Jellico did nothing wrong 1 year ago:
She was meant to be a foil against Data, but came off as hating him.
I think it’s because Brent Spiner was so damn charismatic as Data.
- Comment on Jellico did nothing wrong 1 year ago:
Like SNW or DISCO?
- Comment on Jellico did nothing wrong 1 year ago:
The only thing he did that was questionable was set up 4 shifts. That’s a big change and having engineering work around the clock is a bit of a dick move.
- Comment on They’ve grown up online. So why are our kids not better at detecting misinformation? 1 year ago:
People under the age of 25 tend to be really bad at the Internet. The number of times high schoolers or college kids are mystified by how I’m able to get information quickly from search engines is beyond me.
I’m not surprised they can’t tell what’s real, they can’t search for tiny details like “transmission time to Mars” or “gravity on mercury”.
- Comment on What's Your Favorite, Not at All Epic, Star Trek Quote 1 year ago:
“the soulless agents of orthodoxy!”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Don’t join the army.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Not exactly, they look like earth octopus but are backwards and ungrateful. They have built no statues to bajoran fishermen.