JohnnyEnzyme
@JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
- Comment on Interview: Rod Roddenberry Has “High Hopes” For What’s Next For Star Trek, Says New Paramount “Gets It” 2 days ago:
Agree with all that, but:
The problem is is Gene Roddenberry Is not who made star trek what it is.
He certainly was the one most responsible, though. Yeah, there was a huge issue of him taking credit for other peoples’ work, but it was indeed him with the vision, and him constantly perfecting scripts before he turned them over to the production team. Without him there is no Star Trek, period.
Humans are complex, and my read is that he was one of those ‘benevolent dictator’ types who was useful for a while, before everyone had enough of his shit. Berman was kind of similar from what I understand…
- Comment on Interview: Rod Roddenberry Has “High Hopes” For What’s Next For Star Trek, Says New Paramount “Gets It” 2 days ago:
I don’t even know what Star Trek stands for anymore. It just seems to be slogging on for money, for quite a while now.
Even in the original sense, Gene Roddenberry’s high-principled ideals was kind of sabotaged by how he actually conducted himself. That said, a lot of great stories and eps were produced along the way, IMO.
- Comment on Somewhere out there, there may be an alien life form imagining how terrible a planet with molten dihydrogen monoxide in the atmosphere might be. 6 days ago:
Wow, I was prepared for Martian Chronicles or maybe a PKD story, but I love it! <3
- Comment on I designed a board game (creative commons/open source) 1 week ago:
Can the board grow dynamically once a milestone is met? That could solve the early game issue?
Something definitely worth looking at, although it might add more complexity.
Since it’s in the testing stage, maybe add the option to start with a smaller board, even if it can become eventually cramped. I’m still trying to memorise what everything does, and a smaller board would help for testing purposes.
I haven’t tested this as actively as I’d hoped so far, but will continue to take stabs at it, here and there. My ambition is to give you better feedback and advice, as someone who likes testing games…
- Comment on Sky Glows over Paranal Observatory 1 week ago:
What is the, uh… ‘laser-neon’ orange glow to the right?
- Comment on "US Person": is a red flag for financial institutions in Europe 1 week ago:
I hate to recommend the evil empire, but there’s a very good sub on this topic called r/AmerExit. Sometimes a community is too niche to exist on the Fediverse, and one must hold one’s nose and visit Reddit for certain content.
- Comment on YSK: You Don't Actually Have A 'Lizard Brain', Evolutionary Study Reveals 1 week ago:
As the article states, it was much more than just a metaphor, and more of a ‘here’s our current understanding’ thing.
And plenty of people took that seriously IME.
- Comment on Quotes 2 weeks ago:
You’re quite welcome, mate. I’m just helping myself by helping you, haha.
I see what you’re saying about spamming, but if there’s ever a time to spam? Yeah, that would be now.
- Comment on Quotes 2 weeks ago:
If it helps, here’s an online buddy of mine who started a new community 3 days ago:
https://piefed.social/c/newcommunities/p/1813767/comic-strip-editsIt already has 28 posts and 101 subscribers.
Remember to populate your new community with lots and lots of content. I.e., you can’t expect people to pitch in unless you make a notable effort to launch things off. Word to the wise…
- Comment on Quotes 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s what I’ve been saying for 2.5yrs now over at my own community. XD
https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels
That said, most of what I write are mini-articles that take time to put together. Sharing a pic (or quote) is generally much easier, as I do across other communities, and the PieFed scheduler is aces for helping with that.
Anyway, I’ve saved a lot of quotes in graphical format over the years. This weekend, I’ll begin scanning through my media collection and begin moving all those to a separate folder, then I’ll begin helping out by posting them here. I really do love a good quote, mate. 🙂
- Comment on Why are basketball shoes so squeaky? 2 weeks ago:
It was usually concrete, as that’s what most outdoor courts are made of in the States. That’s kinda the whole point, i.e. not wooden floors.
That’s not correct about the NBA-level forces, as occasionally playing indoors instantly produced that range of squeaking sounds. Little kids produced those sounds as well. It’s just the dynamic of sneakers upon wood, essentially.
- Comment on Quotes 2 weeks ago:
I’ll join. The Fediverse needs a quote community outside of .ml, so hopefully you can keep it going.
Note that you should also follow the advice in Dave’s comment, here:
- Comment on Why are basketball shoes so squeaky? 2 weeks ago:
As a long-time streetballer I rarely got a sense of that, playing 99% of the time outdoors.
Actually, most of the bball shoes I was familiar with didn’t have that fine-line design on the soles. It was more usually geometric shapes and stuff…
- Comment on Human Zoo 3 weeks ago:
Fuck… sérieusement ?!
Just put ME in there, instead, as a reminder that we’re ALL naked apes, end of the day.
- Comment on This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum. 3 weeks ago:
I see it from PieFed.Social. I’d absolutely love it if we got more FV content here, such as NodeBB. :D
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Really? What about it do you miss? (presuming)
- Comment on Comic Strip Edits 3 weeks ago:
Earlier, I noticed Dave’s top-voted comment to help get more eyes on the place:
https://piefed.social/c/asklemmy/p/1817118/dear-fediverse-why-is-my-community-not-visible-and-yes-it-s-public#post_repliesNot quite sure how that all works yet, but I guess I might need to do that for my own community, plus an upcoming one.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
You think? With those things you mention, you can make a product that pushes the right buttons, hits the right notes, and be done with it, letting it sell itself on its own from that point forward.
Now compare that to relaunching a whole platform and keeping it alive with investor money until it eventually and hopefully ‘makes it.’ Seems like a considerably different thing to me.
I’m reminded of the Arsenio Hall Show which ran from ‘89-94, did well for its time, but whose shelf life kind of naturally expired. They tried to bring it back in 2013, but cancelled it after a single season, because… nostalgia could only prop it up for so long. Or something like that.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Keeping in mind that I didn’t use Digg much back in the day, I don’t really understand the idea of re-launching a service that fell out of use in the first place.
Or if MySpace (etc) was to relaunch with modern features, could it expect to succeed out of nostalgia, or something..?
- Comment on One good thing about getting into a new relationship is that you get to re-tell all your best jokes and stories 3 weeks ago:
Yes. And just like a standup comic, you get to refine them with every iteration.
Every relationship partner gets to hear a more polished, expanded repertoire, so the more the merrier. :D
Of course the flipside is when your stories have fallen out of vogue, or you’re cognitively at the level of Grandpa Simpson. Nobody wants to hear that shizzle, man.
- Comment on what is this 3 weeks ago:
I was addressing OP’s need.
It’s up to Lemmy.World to determine how they want to handle the acct / community.
- Comment on Comic Strip Edits 3 weeks ago:
Btw, what do you think about adding this one to the sidebar? It’s got a similar spirit, and I plan to keep contributing to both communities:
lemmy.world/c/outofcontextcomics
!outofcontextcomics@lemmy.world
- Comment on Comic Strip Edits 3 weeks ago:
I’ve just added three I had in the hopper.
I might contribute some completely original ones once in a while, but I’m not a big fan of spending time monkeying around with graphics. “Nietzsche Family Circus” is easy, because it’s already set up as a tool. Same with “Build Your Own Meat,” which I’ll try to share in coming days.
Otherwise I’ll probably be on the lookout for stuff like the “Dennis is a Menace” tribute / satire stuff by other people. Anyway, good to see you finally started this project!
- Comment on what is this 3 weeks ago:
Every single post in that community seems to be like that.
Seems like it might be a bot acct just following… well, whatever script that might be for.
- Comment on Heavy snow when you're a kid is a dream come true, heavy snow when you're an adult is a nightmare. 3 weeks ago:
Under… standable.
- Comment on Heavy snow when you're a kid is a dream come true, heavy snow when you're an adult is a nightmare. 3 weeks ago:
I still love it as an adult, but I don’t have to drive through it, so there’s that!
To me, snow looks nice, feels nice, is bright and cheerful, and muffles sound wonderfully. It’s fun to play with and walk through. Ice on the ground is another matter though, which is when and where I break in to my ‘penguin shuffle,’ so as to avoid slipping and falling.
- Comment on The Spread of Homo sapiens 3 weeks ago:
Well, they specifically said “hominims,” which has a tight definition that I explained above.
- Comment on As soon as people could read, ages ago when they had fuck all to do they sat down and wrote (books, letters) for fun. Now, when people have fuck all to do they write internets for fun. NO CHANGE! 3 weeks ago:
The whole world was basically creating thread and weaving full time.
That’s an underrated point, and (seems to me) severally under-emphasized in various historical fiction and such. Also could be kind of minimized / hand-waved away by many because it was (I’m guessing) seen as ‘poor persons and womens’ work,’ with the rights of both of such groups commonly dismissed across history, going back ages…
- Comment on This is my greatest achievement in retro gaming 3 weeks ago:
I was gonna say… most likely all those carts are already dumped and archived at ROM sites, right?
But if this is one ethical person who wants to do things completely legally, I can see the point.
- Comment on The Chemist’s War 3 weeks ago:
…the prevalent thinking at the time was “they deserved it”
This seems to be a prevalent thought across the States, right to this day. Sure, there’s no doubt a general, human nature component to it, but it seems to me that it’s got extra venom in the US, and I’m not totally sure why.
One idea might be that there are elements of Puritan thinking that seemed to flow in to the permanent national culture, and of course, medieval Christian thinking in general probably promotes the thinking, as something that flows out of the whole ‘good and evil,’ ‘heaven and hell” mindset.
Bah, sorry for going way off tangent like that, but it got me thinking…