Endymion_Mallorn
@Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 7 hours ago:
It was absolutely important to the community, and outlasted the Alliance forums. I wish we had a good place like that anymore. Has anyone opened an m/Animorphs in the fediverse yet?
- Comment on Fare thee well 2 days ago:
They better not have.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 3 days ago:
I think I was briefly on Richard's forum, but I couldn't tell you what my username was. I was also in the official community that Scholastic ran (and because of being a helpful kid, I actually helped in the server room at Valley Cottage after a sale when there were hardware problems).
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 3 days ago:
He was a wargamer to start out with. Of course he was going to end up being a massive dick.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 3 days ago:
That having God in the final episode of Quantum Leap (the original) being played by an actor who was also in the first episode of the series made it much more interesting.
I hope you mean the original series and not the reboot. I don't think he ever admits that's what he is. My personal belief is that Captain Braxton of the Relativity was lying through his teeth to Sam (in order to preserve the Temporal Prime Directive), and directs him to the biggest Leap of his career, Captain Jonathan Archer in the First Contact timeline, because that whole timeline represents "what once went wrong".
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 3 days ago:
The Ellimist should have stepped in and cushioned Rachel's fall. She didn't deserve what she got.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 3 days ago:
Here's a take on Lensman - we need more anime versions. Oh, and Jade in DC used to be the best version of a Second Stage Lensman in any media (pity about her brother tho).
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 3 days ago:
So it went the way of the modern world. It's sad, really.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 3 days ago:
The Pentagon has "failed" their audit, by trillions of dollars, for over a decade. Most of us have no idea why, how, or where that money went. Out of every part of the show, the idea that the US Military could keep it a total secret from even 99% of the government is the most plausible bit. Consider this - it was an "interesting" research find in Egypt. The US Military convinced (paid) the Met to acquire it (the Met put out a fake and provided a false history, which is what Daniel was working with at the start of the movie). The real thing, lacking the DHD, was brought to what would become SG-1.
Who would ever know? Why would they ever know? Why, in fact, would they ever think to look? Everyone is so thoroughly bullshitted by decades of Egyptology, UFOlogy and Ancient Aliens theories (including von Daniken), that they'd never imagine looking for one machine run by the US military that they don't talk about.
- Comment on YSK about Duverger's Law 6 days ago:
I'm not exactly set on "brighter", but at least it will be "different". Right now, I feel like something has to give. Voting alone won't get us out of the hole we've been buried in. Trusting the same people who lied and brought us to this point won't get us to a better place. I'm really not against a different path that makes push come to shove anymore, is all.
- Comment on YSK about Duverger's Law 6 days ago:
The thing is, what's your preference? Disappointment on a regular basis, or transparent hate and naked greed? Destruction can only last so long, but a slow slide into depression can last forever. Voting Red often ends up being the accelerationist choice as much as support for their vile beliefs.
- Comment on YSK about Duverger's Law 6 days ago:
The problem is that many people see the system ending up with "vote blue AND the fascists get their way". It ends up being totally discouraging.
- Comment on Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan 1 week ago:
This needs to be the standard. I don't understand how we ever allowed it in the first place, really.
- Comment on All the guilt none of the salvation 1 week ago:
Can we instead get all the salvation with none of the guilt?
- Comment on DIY 1 week ago:
Seems more like an Easter basket stuffer.
- Comment on First Impressions: Heroes of Might and Magic: The Olden Era is an excellent franchise revival, with an unfortunate art style that belies its quality. 1 week ago:
Yup, with the pits and the passwords that are the TOS crew.
- Comment on First Impressions: Heroes of Might and Magic: The Olden Era is an excellent franchise revival, with an unfortunate art style that belies its quality. 1 week ago:
Yup, it's very clearly science-fantasy. Not just a buried space ship (there's another one in either 6 or 7 on Enroth). Xeen is a flat world with two sides - The Clouds and the Darkside. It was launched by the Ancients and there are two AIs / robots who are the real power players in the plot, even though they aren't as prominent.
- Comment on First Impressions: Heroes of Might and Magic: The Olden Era is an excellent franchise revival, with an unfortunate art style that belies its quality. 1 week ago:
I'm happy with playing the Game Boy Color versions of the games (and King's Bounty on Gen/MD). Though I have to admit that Enroth is my least favorite M&M world. I still love Xeen.
- Comment on NetChoice Wins Permanent Block of Louisiana Age Verification Law, Protecting Free Speech and Parental Rights - NetChoice 1 week ago:
Okay, so it's a win-win. I'm not against the option of profit when it increases freedom.
- Comment on Lesbian orgy 1 week ago:
Was an even longer one essential to the plot of Ghost in the Shell, then?
- Comment on Cops hassling Santa for not having papers to be in the US 1 week ago:
I mean, I live here in the USA. Laughter is the only response I have left. I'm too tired to be scared, and there's no point in getting angry since there's nothing I can do about it that wouldn't leave me hurt worse.
So the only answer left is to laugh about it.
- Comment on NetChoice Wins Permanent Block of Louisiana Age Verification Law, Protecting Free Speech and Parental Rights - NetChoice 1 week ago:
Never stop your enemy when he makes an error in your favor.
- Comment on Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the true story 1 week ago:
Ah, my sympathies then.
- Comment on Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the true story 1 week ago:
Garish yes, but it was great for color-blind people.
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 1 week ago:
Their deal with Google for Widevine is separate from Mozilla, basically.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 2 weeks ago:
I learned Russian when I was in school - after having family who left during the pograms. Learning the Russian language, or any language, should not be about politics. You don't learn the language to embrace government policies, you do it in order to better understand the artists and the art they created. I don't have my Russian keyboard, so you'll forgive me - but there are works which work best when untranslated and understanding some context. "We" by Zamyatin, "Master & Margarita" by Bulgakov, a bunch of Tolstoy's works, "Diary of a Madman" by Gogol, "Roadside Picnic" by the Strugatsky brothers, and movies like Solaris and Stalker. Not to mention the poetry.
Learn the language for the art. If it does make you political at all, it'll make you even more opposed to the Chekist in charge.
- Comment on Mbin v1.9.0 release (stable) 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely! But I admit that I like the *bin softwares (K & M) because it's the only one I've seen that really seamlessly integrates multiple parts of the Fediverse, and the new combined view makes it even smoother now.
- Comment on Mbin v1.9.0 release (stable) 2 weeks ago:
I am an Mbin user. I love it.
- Comment on Judging by how many users on the internet telling Americans to "just move to another country lolz", people must think immigration laws are very lax or something... (it's not) 2 weeks ago:
Not only the laws and the costs, b there's also the fact that I just don't want to change the way I live. There's nowhere on Earth that has the things I have here, and I own land (admittedly only .25 acres, but still).
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
90% of the Internet is made up of lurking.