Grail
@Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
Goddess of madness and rebirth. Excrucian Strategist. Capitalised They/Them. Anarcho-Antireal theorist.
- Comment on When the budget has no limit. 3 hours ago:
The legs are made of durasteel. Do you know of any munitions that can dent durasteel?
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 2 months ago:
I was taking your comment seriously until the performative bigotry at the end. At that point I thought “Here is a person who is perfectly capable of thoughtful conversation, but is trying to look like an ass.”
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 2 months ago:
I disagree that cartoons set lower expectations. I expected a lot from Lower Decks and that expectation was well satisfied. One thing LDS does benefit from is the 22 minute runtime. 45 minute episodes are too long.
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 2 months ago:
I know an STA hater. She only watched the first half of episode 1, and assumed the rest of the show would be equally grimdark and “federation bad”.
- Comment on ‘Strange New Worlds’ EP Talks S4 Release Date, S5 Characters, And A Return To “Classic” Star Trek 2 months ago:
The Suicide Squad movie with Peacemaker was actually really good
- Comment on ‘Strange New Worlds’ EP Talks S4 Release Date, S5 Characters, And A Return To “Classic” Star Trek 2 months ago:
Nah, I reject the notion that all animation must mature into live action. Animation is the best artform for action scenes and showcasing the impossible. That’s why every Marvel movie goes from live action in the beginning and middle, to an expensive CGI fight at the end. Marvel movies are evolving into animation. But they’re taking a really bad route to get there, in that they start with live action and thus feel beholden to photorealism. If they would have just gone with animation from the beginning, then they could save money and dodge the uncanny valley by going with a stylised artstyle.
I want more animated cartoon Star Trek with an unrealistic artstyle and 22 minute episodes. And I want 50 episode seasons of cartoon trek!
- Comment on ‘Strange New Worlds’ EP Talks S4 Release Date, S5 Characters, And A Return To “Classic” Star Trek 2 months ago:
I thought we already had 3 seasons of classic star trek? I’m kinda tired of classic star trek tbh. Make the sequel to Lower Decks! I wanna see Bradward and Beckett mentor the next next next generation!
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 2 months ago:
Well then John Cena is overweight. In fact, he’s obese, with a BMI of 33.9. So BMI isn’t objective reality. And I think it’s useful only as a very rough guideline.
Now I want to question something that’s gone unsaid in this conversation so far. We started with the question “Is Tilly fat?” And now suddenly you’re talking about medicine and health. Is fatness purely a matter of health? I don’t think so. I think fatness touches beauty standards, body autonomy, culture, gender presentation, expression, and identity, and a lot more. I don’t think it’s just health.
And if it is, then Tilly isn’t fat, because she lives in the Federation where they have advanced medical technology. I don’t believe Tilly’s weight is a health concern in the same universe that has dermal regenerators in every first aid kit. I think her blood levels are all great, her physical fitness is within regulation, and her joints are all in perfect condition for her age. I assume that about every Starfleet Officer. I think they have the technology to make all that possible at any weight we’ve seen in the show.
Furthermore, I think Tilly could lose weight very easily if she wanted. Starfleet has synthetic alcohol that breaks down in the presence of adrenaline, I think meals to match an ideal nutritional profile regardless of your fitness goals and portion size are easy in comparison, given replicator technology. I think Tilly chooses her weight because she likes the way she looks and feels the way she is.
So, given all this, is Tilly fat? Well, I think that’s her choice. If we’ve controlled for health, then the biggest effect of the definition is her own comfort. So we should be asking her if she’d like to be called fat. Some people do, and that’s valid. Some people don’t, and that’s valid. I believe in technology and personal choice.
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 2 months ago:
This is a good example of soulism. Something as basic about our perception of people as whether they’re fat changes based on our home culture. Ultimately, the quality of being fat is a social construct. Science can’t give us a hard cutoff, only culture can do that. Science can only give us degrees.
A naive realist would respond to this ambiguity by denying its existence and saying whatever they think is fat, is fat. A scientific realist would try to find an objective answer in science, perhaps using appealing to the authority of BMI, or looking for a more reliable measurement. A social constructivist would accept that there’s no answer. But a soulist would begin asking what definition of “fat” helps society the most, so we can make a conscious choice of what to believe. The soulist is the only one displaying true agency in how our perceptual world is created.
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 2 months ago:
We can all see she’s overweight
I can’t. My perceptions have been altered by the high prevalence of obesity in our society. I now have higher standards. She looks a little thicker than most people, but not in a way I’d been conscious of before today.
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 2 months ago:
Doylist: Berman was a fatphobic piece of shit who told her to lose weight before she could wear the uniform.
Watsonian: She had a special exemption to wear those clothes because of her culture and job. We actually see the same with Dr Migleemo. It appears to be tradition that counsellors and therapists wear less formal clothing to set their patients at ease.
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 2 months ago:
That’s true in theory, but TNG still had a gender imbalance in who chooses to wear what under normal circumstances. And of course there’s Berman’s sexism with Troi’s clothes. SFA has complete gender equality.
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 2 months ago:
I prefer every player-romanceable character in video games to be bi. If an NPC is monosexual, they should go date another NPC. If a character is ace, then there’s no problem. But I don’t like monosexual characters that date one player character but not the other.
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 2 months ago:
Wait, people think Tilly is fat??
- Comment on Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon 2 months ago:
I like how he rocks the skirt, I’m glad SFA finally resolved the skirt thing by having absolute gender chaos.
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