SARGEx117

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does that man have a funny U shape on his head?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  O’Neill (two Ls) absolutely would not be just sitting in a bar playing darts. He’d be poking around where he should be, telling Daniel to ask his annoyingly humanitarian questions to make sure DS9 isn’t some weird hidden prison camp (anymore) and probably trying to step in to help assist against the dominion. If it’s Mitchell, above still applies but he’d also be participating. I assume it would have to be Mitchell if the Atlantis team is able to appear, but hey it’s time travel baby! Rules go byebye. Sha’re and Drey’ac could show up too.

  Daniel is always translating for the group, and we only get to hear other languages spoken when Daniel has trouble translating. It’s their version of handwaving why everyone speaks English instead of handwaving as a universal translator (that wouldn’t work if you aren’t on a ship or don’t have a comm badge or are on a planet where no tech works, but everyone still understands each other anyway)

  And Carter would be having so much fun trying to figure out how all the tech works, I think she would demand to see the chief engineer and science officer. Things could get weird if she’s read the Atlantis mission files yet.

  And if it’s the Atlantis team showing up, they’re probably going to assume someone figured out Laiden’s plans, saved Cowen, and now they’re plotting revenge on a repurposed mining station from a long dead civilization.

  Man there are so many actors that have been in both franchises, it’s hard to pick which would be the most interesting in-character interaction to see.

  Jellico/O’Neill would be hilarious. The Nox could sure teach quark a thing or two. I’d love to see Q come face to face with Simmons. Teyla rounding a corner and running into Tucker would certainly be a fight worth watching.

  I wonder, would Teal’c even recognize Ishta as tpol?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spinosarus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Picklebro!

  I miss evenings of monster hunting with friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US judge rules: if you can't prove damages, car-makers can continue to intercept and record customers' mobile phone activity.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “I don’t understand, if you don’t want crushed orphans, just don’t toss them in the orphan crushing machine”

  Well maybe they shouldn’t have an orphan crushing machine in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The biggest question GTA 6 has to answer is: what to do about GTA Online?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Rockstar has been in the business of losing MINE since year 2 of GTA being sold full price with no dlc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “we’re not doing illegal, and no you can’t check.”

  -People doing illegal things

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Atlantis, Ontario obviously⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad the EMH finally settled on a name.

  Richard Woolsey is pretty good. I’d probably choose a different first name, because some little blond shit with clone daddy issues might mockingly call me dick but maybe I’m just imagining things.

  Would you consider “American Liason to the IOA and eventual leader of the Ancient city of Atlantis” a step up or down from Chief Medical Officer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We doing Canada Trek now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sore-ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey they can have my old GPU if they give me a new blank laptop.

  I’ve always wanted to try linux

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love that SNW kept that detail in the uniform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I also am not joking about whether something should be allowed to be dismissed.

  What is a joke, however, is the meme version of “no war in Ba Sing Se” which is what he initially got mad about.

  I’d agree on the core element. They’re constantly questioning what is and isn’t one thing or another. They literally have a talk with data about “what IS art” in an episode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Aliens did a little trolling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. Give me a variety of things to see besides left turns and angry looking small-framed people.

  I’m more of a bill nye guy myself though. Racing never held my interest for long, so for me to keep watching voluntarily they have to be doing things.

  Hilariously though, I love playing street racing games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love that SNW kept that detail in the uniform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Stamets seems like kind of a dick when he mildly disagrees with a joke…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Free trial has expired⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  … As long as you make your next wish to make your own change permanent, in such a way that a genie can’t trick you, sure!

  The question is what do you do with your last wish, now that you contain all the knowledge of the cosmos.

  Maybe there IS a way to wish for infinite wishes without it backfiring on you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love that SNW kept that detail in the uniform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At some point, the people who run a thing no longer know what it’s about. At that time, I think it’s okay to ignore what is “official Canon”

  Disney killed the entire EU to retell the same story we already saw 50 years ago. As far as I’m concerned, it’s okay to ignore that. And I say this as a fan of Mando, and kenobi.

  Honestly there’s no point getting bent out of shape about it regardless of your stance on canon/not since it’s all made up anyway.

  Maybe the real Canon was the profit we made along the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love that SNW kept that detail in the uniform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no alternate time line in Stovokor

  Here we are safe THIRSTY FOR HONOR

  Here we are free TO BATHE IN THE BLOOD OF OUR ENEMIES

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Aliens did a little trolling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  … Where visually, all I see is “left turn. Mild shuffling of cars. Left turn.”

  Accompanied by thousands and thousands of advertisements and loud noises. Not that f1 is much better with ads and loud noises, but at least there’s more than left turns.

  I get that people enjoy it, I get why they enjoy it. I just don’t. I’m not even really a fan of f1, but I know if I had to choose, I’d choose f1.

  Apologies to all the Nascar fans here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Aliens did a little trolling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know I don’t have the skills to drive one (at least not yet lol) but those things are engineering marvels.

  I’ve always wanted to see one invert at speed to see if their downforce really is enough.

  I can’t imagine all the materials sciences that go on behind the scenes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Aliens did a little trolling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll take F1 over Nascar any day.

  Disclaimer: I’ve never sat down to watch either, but if the choices are “turn left” or “winding, twisting course” I think I’m going with the one that has more variety.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can all pry my ketracel white from my cold, dead, spicy and delicious hands.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally just rewatched this episode not two hours ago.

  Boims in the back, absolutely dying from a tiny amount, and mariner over here pouring out half the bottle.

  My wife said she would be boimler, because she’s super vanilla about spicy things. Vanilla might be too spicy for boimler though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Admin Unmasks As Alt Account Of Admin Who Was Extremely Banned In 2015 To The Great Bewilderment Of Everyone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the thing…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Best Easy & Hard to Kill Houseplants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had a Dracaena Marginata for about 4 or 5 years now, I’ve had periods where I’ve forgotten to water it for a few weeks, and it’s still going strong. This year I repotted it to let the roots grow out more, and honestly I should have done it sooner, but I didn’t think it was doing this well.

  I’d like to make it grow more straight upright but it’s getting lopsided, even though I’ve rotated it every month or so.

  I specifically chose it because I heard they were hard to kill, and wanted something I didn’t need to be too attentive to if life and depression got in the way.

  It has certainly lived up to its hardy reputation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Holy Hand Orb of Bajor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  …

  Okay I can’t be the only one who read “holy hand job” at first…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still gets it done though⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The things she pulled to keep Voyager rubbing could fill a thousand technical manuals (with all the ways she broke regulations)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still gets it done though⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fine, the Deadelus-ex-machina and Apollo are conveniently on their way to/from earth/atlansltis or conveniently rerouted for vague reasons and will arrive just in time to save the day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still gets it done though⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, when she does fix it in four seconds, she’ll have already told Janeway that she’s going to have to shove the whole crystal mass by hand, and it will require all hands working triple shifts to fix all the problems doing so will create.

  Then she shoves the whole thing, and spends the next two weeks fixing all the damage.

  Janeway sips her coffee after a long night of rest and looks upon her haggard crew and Congratulates them for a job well done.

  She then finds a random ensign to promote in front of Harry.

  The Ship Must Go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one: ... Ambulances:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes a bicycle so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen a carbon fiber fork withstand the weight of a car (equivalent, not an actual full size car)

  I’ve also seen a carbon fiber rear triangle fold from bumping into a rock at an almost-standstill.

  Gotta say, I like the idea of a titanium bike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, for sure they made tons of mistakes, I just thought of that one as the most glaringly obvious “framing issue”. I’ve seen all the episodes as aired and as on DVD, with commentary and special features, because I’m a super nerd, and given your pfp and the fact you know how they framed it tells me you know a thing or two yourself!

  If I remember correctly, they framed it for wide-screen knowing that in the future it could be put out in other formats than TV, so wanted widescreen from the start. Bts footage shows the framing boxes for tv/wide on the monitors.

  I love catching mistakes and weird choices in my shows. For instance: in Firefly, Alan Tudyk is pretending to hold the controls of Serenity because they couldn’t have him up in the normal spot for framing reasons.

  But yeah, I’m actually rewatching SGA now and their weird focus issues (and let’s be honest, terrible backgrounds) are especially bad in season 1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny anecdote about aspect ratios: sometimes TV shows were put out on DVD in a wider aspect than originally aired. This can cause some issues from time to time…

  One of my favorite shows, Stargate SG-1, has a particularly funny scene where two characters walk by a small alcove for a doorway while walking through a ship, and a third character, Sam, pops up behind them as a Hologram to help them out.

  In the wide dvd shot, you can clearly see her crouched, hiding in the doorway, waiting to pop out behind the camera operator. The original 4:3, you can’t see into the alcove as the camera passes.

  There are a few other things here and there that are mostly just actors reacting to various things (or rather, NOT reacting in most cases) but that’s the one that stands out most.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But I wanted to be somebody famous!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I do local theater, and people don’t understand how correct you are.

  Holy shit, Nevin, nobody gives a flying fuck that you have a degree, your line reading is flat as fuck. No I don’t care you starred in Hamlet during your community college days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a simple life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  WOAH. WOAH.

  It’s salted pork, and it is particularly good.