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I’d be happy to be wrong, but it seems unlikely that anything with an optical drive would be the most durable.

This is obviously lower stakes, but by and large Stewart as an influence on the writing did no favors for Picard, and I will stand by the argument that what little we’ve heard of Mark Hamill’s ideas for Luke are wholesome but also basic AF.

Do comics do ghost writers?

Would that create an entirely new and disgusting set of problems for a comic about Bev Crusher? 🤣

“Retro” consoles with thermal paste and system batteries…

When… when I got a PC, of course. I didn’t even know “cd” as a command yet, so X-Wing went straight to the root of the C drive. So did Battlechess.

The dudes at Radio Shack were very chill about reinstalling DOS and Tandy Deskmate.

Very cool. Exactly in the spirit of the post. I’d only just learned about passive backplane designs on retro machines too. Thanks!

In many places, yes. A couple even use adhesive stamps.

I get a little sad every time Sam is on. Death by rubber dog vomit seems like a very yucky way to go.

Yes, that part is good, but the director and execs were piling on in a way that felt personal and IMHO unprofessional.

It is, and you can absolutely understand her motivation.

I also read the linked article on Genevieve Bujold and that was brutal. The men in charge of Voyager fuckin’ hated her.

Strong for this season, but the gimmick of genre homages on every episode (even the Martians were pretty pulp-serial in their production design) has really backfired, I think. When everything’s special, nothing’s special. As someone who got stuck in watching one summer of Young and the Restless with his mom one summer in the late 80s, the parody itself worked pretty well, but I found myself mercilessly slicing that nostalgia away to lkook at the story itself in a way that I wouldn’t if it had been slipped into a more “normal” season as a breather.

Overall, it was okay, the crew manipulated into dealing with some stuff that they didn’t want to, and knowing that stubborn Pike had to be the one to pull them through. I’m an absolute sap for pulling dad heartstrings, though, so that part came together nicely for me, and as the one time where we even briefly explore the fact that some ST characters end up living double or triple lifetimes due to cosmic events.

And, if we can channel 30 Rock for a moment… lemmy.world/…/853ad834-2855-48d8-bef1-0e8ff9a12bc…

Dallas, I’ve never had an issue. Houston, I got all kinds of zits and pilling and was thinking about getting or making a filament dryer before we moved. Both can be pretty humid, but the difference between 60% and 90% is significant.

Late to the party here, but I did have some uncomfortable flashbacks to stories about Anton Yelchin when I saw how M’Benga was injured.

Overall, strong for this season, but that’s a bit of a low bar.

What’s on display is, thankfully, a set of replicas, but if you want some additional Vesuvius nightmare fuel, look up the boathouses of Herculaneum. The recent Tom Hiddleston “documentary” was an odd thing, but it did do a pretty good job dramatizing and humanizing that day. I reckon it will become a staple of high school and freshman college classes that touch on Ancient Rome.