StarryPhoenix97

@StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta acquires AI agent social network Moltbook⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, scrolling on lunch. Will read when home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta acquires AI agent social network Moltbook⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  14.8…BILLION! FOR A WEBSITE WHERE BOTS TALK TO EACH OTHER!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Coalition of 30 Major Publishers (including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins) Sue Anna's Archive Over 'Staggering' Copyright Infringement, Seek Injunction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool. Now that the Tech companies have pilfered it they’re going to shut it down. There are a ton of books on there that aren’t even worth money anymore. They’re out of print or 1-2 editions behind the scholarly current.

  This is just bullshit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m already pissy about them constantly trying to have my cc data everytime I make on online purchase. Windows asks, Google asks, ebay ask, and then my browser asks.

  The answer us always no.

  To ID verification, My discord is a decade old. If you can’t do math well enough to guess that I wasn’t 8 when I made it then that’s a you problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forget cereal bars, what's your flavor of drug in the morning?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It works…at first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek has more to offer or it has to end and stop producing more content?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really wish we got a Captain Seven show or mini series. I had been saying “Captain Annika Hansen” to my friends since Picard commissioned her. Then it happened! One of the best moments in Star Trek. Seven of Nine becoming Captain of the Enterprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek has more to offer or it has to end and stop producing more content?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For Wheel of Time I can think of only two narrative choices that pissed me off as a book fan. In general I just accepted that it was a new turning of the wheel. Things would play out a little differently. No big deal.

  I put it aside for a bit and then it was canceled. That hurt more. Star Trek at least had told it’s stories. It can end gracefully. It deserves that much.

  People don’t like endings. I’m one of them.

  But, if you force something to continue past it’s time then you start making the property as a whole…less than the some of it’s party.

  • The last two seasons of supernatural were rough for that.

  • Much of the Hulu Futurama is cringe-y

  • Stargate (while admittedly problematic in premise) got bad with the Ori.

  Each of those shows had multiple ending seasons that were almost perfect, if they had been allowed to end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek has more to offer or it has to end and stop producing more content?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Star Trek is great. It’s always been great. The problems with it are, in part, manufactured for engagement.

  It has bad episodes, and some series are worse than others, but it’s something we need.

  It dreams of a better future and each series touches on the problems of our modern age in a way that is inclusive.

  As some people age, they out pace the societal equalitoes that star trek advocates for and they get angry at it. We haven’t solved the problems of TOS or TNG, but we’ve muted them somewhat.

  If I have one legitimate complaint for Star Trek it isn’t that it’s ‘woke.’

  My complaint is that it is more often starting to suffocate under the weight of its own history and lore. Most new content will somehow reference the old content at least once.

  Discovery did great stuff with the Trill and non-binary stuff that just…made sense. In general Discovery was really good in it’s last few seasons. I like Starfleet Academy too. I think it exists in the franchise and in the present world well. It’s a meta narrative about figuring out what Starfleet will be going forward. I haven’t watched a Star Trek show that i didn’t find something of value in.

  Searching on YouTube you would think it’s the worst show ever. (It’s not, but I don’t think it will get the standard three seasons to figure out it’s formula)

  All of this is just context for my answer to the question.

  As a Star Trek fan and an Ally I do think it’s time to let it rest. Maybe not forever but for now.

  We need it’s hope but we also need something that isn’t clinging to the past (again why I really like Starfleet Academy because in some episodes it discusses this in meta narrative)

  When you constantly have writers catering to the shows history, producers sabatoging production, and agitators stirring the pot for any number of reasons then it’s time to let it rest.

  I want a future star trek that isn’t called star trek. I want a show that is loud in it’s statements of social justice but chooses it’s moments to scream them so it can actually touch the hearts and minds of the people watching it. Star Trek is for everyone. That can’t change.

  We do still get that, but with it is always the weight of the franchise’s history.

  I hate The Burn(more accurately i hate the cause of the burn), just like in doctor who I hate The Timeless Child.

  I also understand that these writing decisions are often made as a way to try to keep the franchise fresh. A new series wouldn’t have the baggage of having to navigate history and could tell the same kinds of stories.

  We have to accept that Star Trek is almost like scifi’s version of the Simpsons. It’s done everything. If it continues then it may continue like The Simspons. That is to say stale. Relevant only by way of the fact that it is making references to current cultural issues and it’s own history.

  I don’t want that for Star Trek.

  P.s. Burnham was a good captain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My birthday is 1.1.0001