SARGE
@SARGE@startrek.website
Mods and admins can fuck off
- Comment on Lemmy: Beans 1 day ago:
I feel personally attacked.
I’m sorry everyone, I just like commenting and talking to people more than trying to be creative.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I usually skip s1&2 of tng when I re-watch except a few key episodes.
Some things just don’t click with me, or are just too on-the-nose to take seriously.
TOS is particularly bad when it comes to themes that boil down to “don’t be racist and sexist”, but they’re all a product of the times. And CLEARLY we still have those issues today, but it’s preaching to the choir vibes when I watch them.
I don’t have to like any of the shows, but I do feel I still need to support them, otherwise we might not get more because the corps that own the IP don’t hear enough praise.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I can appreciate that it paved way for more shows while also not caring for it.
With apologies to everyone who loves it, I don’t particularly care for TOS. Yet without it I would have none of my favorite shows.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
In fairness, I think everyone involved in both shows realizes they aren’t meant to be the same kind of show. They aren’t meant to be compared.
I enjoy both, and I think I enjoy SNW more as a trek show, but I like lower decks more as a general show. It’s probably just my lowered attention span, but I do like the 20-30m format and more comedic tone of LD. Especially the comedy, since gestures wildly at the world y’know.
I watch them at different times, in different moods.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
felt like a space show with Trek slapped on sometimes
So many shows in established IP feel this way because that’s exactly what happens, even if not the original intent.
The Halo TV series was never intended to be Halo until it failed to get picked up as a standalone Sci fi show, and then they replaced names and locations in the same way a 5th grader might use “Find&Replace” to change names in a word document (think Michael Scarn vs Michael Scott). It’s so obvious they wanted to be their own independent thing and shoehorned in all the Halo parts.
Discovery FEELS like they want to make a star trek show, but that they ALSO want to tell their own story. I think every creative wants to leave an impact on things, otherwise why bother trying to tell the same old story that’s been told before? So I’m perfectly okay with each series being a different tone, with different perspectives on things (I like to think inter-series contradictions are simply results of different points of view).
That said, discovery definitely feels like the “Pick Me” kid in the IP. It’s trying too hard to be “different” sometimes, and it clearly wants to be set in a “relevant” time while also being technologically on par with other shows we’ve seen already, two ideas that are incompatible. There’s over a hundred years of difference between discovery and Voyager, which I think was the latest-running series in terms of stardate?
Discovery could have been a lot better, I think, if they had stayed closer to classic trek-type stories, but I’m still glad they tried steering away. You don’t know your limits if you never test them.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Haven’t started season 3 yet, I’m slowly catching up.
It’s not my all-time favorite, but it’s a close tie for 2nd.
In descending order, TNG, DS9/SNW, VOY, Lower Decks, and in no particular order, ENT, TOS, DIS.
- Comment on X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 2 days ago:
4,000 hungry children leave us per hour from starvation, while BILLIONS are spent on BOMBS
CREATING DEATH SHOWERS
- Comment on Asking any AI on how to build a guillotine 4 days ago:
Electronics function better when colder (to a point) so they need to keep the electronics cool.
Instead of large cooling towers and a more enclosed system, a lot are just sucking up cool municipal water, and dumping hot water out wherever they feel like.
- Comment on I can taste sounds 5 days ago:
I think it’s more like “you can feel your tongue inside your mouth and nowhere is comfortable” kind of thing.
You can always feel your tongue, but you aren’t always aware of it.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Forgive them
Nah. Just forget them.
- Comment on T2 butter mold 1 week ago:
Sprinkle some on your pancakes, it’s quite sweet!
- Comment on T2 butter mold 1 week ago:
Please don’t use 3d printed parts in food preparation.
You already have enough microplastics in your brains, and the layer lines are bacterial breeding grounds. (which are less of a concern if you only use it once or twice but is still relevant)
Make sure you get a good coat of leaded paint to make sure none of that is a problem.
- Comment on UK ‘not entirely clear’ what it means for US to ‘run’ Venezuela 1 week ago:
As a us citizen it’s very clear what the US government wants it to mean.
Do what we want or we will hurt you and your neighbors. Anything said or done before Demented Don took office is irrelevant, just do what he wants. Or thinks he wants. Or what his handlers want. Or else.
Having perused international laws myself, but not being a lawyer, I’d say “YES THE US FUCKING VIOLATED INTERNATIONAL LAWS”
- Comment on For my older Millennials 1 week ago:
My wife and her dad both have it. This is the first time I’ve heard anyone link it to ibuprofen.
- Comment on Day 533 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
I wish my wife could play subnautica with me, as she likes swimming around and stuff but isn’t really “good” at video games, since she never played one until adulthood.
In Minecraft it’s mostly me doing the work while she does farming stuff. I once came back from a deep mining trip to see a once-empty field filled to the maximum with cows. We had a nice library afterward though.
I still haven’t beaten subnautica without cheating or taking shortcuts. Heck when I first downloaded it, it didn’t even have an ending yet.
9.3/10, it’s fun
- Comment on Stay under the speed limit, guys. It's not worth it. 1 week ago:
I know my vehicle’s limits, other drivers do not.
The second I stopped to think about that for a second when I got my license, I realized that goes for other people too.
Just because the combination of my vehicle and driving could have gotten through that gap, doesn’t mean yours can.
So I’ll wait, just please actually go when the light changes and you’re 3 car lengths into the intersection…
- Comment on If the Bond franchise hadn't been sold to Amazon, it was possible we could have seen a movie with the US as the bad guy. 1 week ago:
We also didn’t need multiple movies with Russians as the bad guys, yet here we are.
- Comment on Nigerian Village Bombed by Trump Has 'No Known History' of Anti-Christian Terrorism, Locals Say 2 weeks ago:
I can’t count how many times I’ve heard someone near me say something about how minority groups in the UK are just going around stabbing each other or shooting up drugs, and also immigrants are stabbing everyone and doing all the drugs, and also the teenagers are getting wasted every night… Etc…
Like… What possible news source could you be basing this off? I’ll admit I don’t keep up with global news like I could, but it seems pretty stab-free in the UK and that’s why it’s such a big deal when it does happen.
Also just this past month I’ve heard someone talk shit about gun control because of a shooting in a relatively gun-free country “look how that helped them”… Uhhhhhh yeah let’s just ignore all the mass shootings in our own backyard that don’t even make news anymore because it’s so frequent.
Reality means nothing to these people, only what they(re told to) feel at that particular moment.
- Comment on Ska ftw 2 weeks ago:
Open question to the floor: what is the most “Ska” song I could send to someone? Like the most iconic or the most “Ska” a song could possibly be.
- Comment on Massive Rainbow Six Siege breach gives players billions of credits 2 weeks ago:
Who asked for that??
If I had to guess? Children/minors who don’t like setup time.
- Comment on Massive Rainbow Six Siege breach gives players billions of credits 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, ruining play experiences by locking things behind paywalls is a terrible thing to do.
- Comment on Asking any AI on how to build a guillotine 2 weeks ago:
I’d rather just use the internet and look around for an hour or two.
Wastes way less water and power than asking a single question of an LLM and I’ll have a much better idea of how to accomplish my goal.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never heard a girl use those measurements.
Women, however, use them frequently enough.
Sorry for being pedantic but it rubs me the wrong way when people refer to women as “girls”
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 2 weeks ago:
What elegance might even an extra millimeter of chassis space produced?
People really don’t seem to understand that in the electronics world, one single millimeter can make worlds of difference.
You absolutely can cram so much more stuff in “dumber” electronics, but phones are even more constricted in design, because they need to send and receive signals of different types, so feedback and signal noise are concerns.
Adding in even slightly more space allows for much better design, because you have more tolerances to reduce signal noise. It allows dozens of wires for camera sensors to route better. A 20% longer battery life. Heck, just being slightly more ergonomic and less droppable is a bonus to slightly thicker phones.
I didn’t even consider signal noise until I got into fpv drones and rc stuff, it can mame a ton of difference if you have a single wire 2mm out of place. (and crash your drone because the motor interfered with your antenna)
Thiner≠better.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 2 weeks ago:
Of course, it doesn’t yet talk in Majel Barrett’s voice yet…
That can be arranged. I’ve heard they recorded her saying a bunch of frequently used words/phrases, as well as phonetic sounds, so that her voice could be used in the future for the computer. I’m not sure how true that is, but I am a little afraid to look it up.
I’ve always hoped to hear her in the new trek shows.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 2 weeks ago:
I started out using PS but when they decided to be a subscription model, I started using GIMP.
I can’t stand trying to use photoshop anymore, and while I would love the user experience to be improved and the interface to be a little more intuitive, I’ve never been able to not do something I needed to do on gimp.
Maybe my needs are more simple than a lot of people here, I’m definitely not a photographer so if you’re using it often enough, I suppose it could be better to use photoshop.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t made it past s3 of Quantum Leap yet, but the bit with god sound super dumb, so I’m hoping you’re right and I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Krycek in X-Files was a piece of shit and I hated him. 10/10 performance from Nicolas Lea. Haven’t finished the series yet.
Damn, I keep burning myself out by binging a series and never finishing them…
- Comment on Millennials are giving up on the thought of ever buying a house and experts estimate fewer will become homeowners 2 weeks ago:
So selfish, they’re depriving good hard working land
leecheslords of the money they’re entitled to! Millennials these days just don’t understand they’re taking food out of rich people’s mouths. - Comment on I wonder what humans do when they’re not taking showers. And where does all this water come from? And how did I become sentient? 3 weeks ago:
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was “Oh no, not again.”
- Comment on Oh yes daddy credit please 4 weeks ago:
It makes perfect sense when viewed from “the credit companies work with lenders to ensure your credit only rises if you’re constantly in more and more debt but still paying it like an obedient little wage slave”