Doug
@Doug@midwest.social
- Comment on Jane's Ways 10 months ago:
No lizard?
- Comment on "Cowabunga" would make a great warp phrase 10 months ago:
Maybe Conn? They let Wesley do it
- Comment on "Cowabunga" would make a great warp phrase 10 months ago:
I don’t know that I’d be thrilled with any of them as doctor honestly. I’d definitely take Mikey over Raph though. Your lineup is definitely superior.
- Comment on It's that time of the year again! 11 months ago:
Yes but he serves a different community
- Comment on what did you expect? 11 months ago:
I expected you 6.2 stardates ago
- Comment on Directed by JJ Abrams 11 months ago:
Didn’t watch Gravity Falls but as far as I knew they were confirmed gay, admittedly in the finale.
There was also a gay cop in Onward
I also don’t agree that Finn was a minor character, he was a regular focal point in two movies much to the annoyance of the same conservative groups.
I’m by no means suggesting Disney is anywhere in the neighborhood of acceptable. Gay characters have a tendency to be tiny roles or unpromoted movies (I watch a lot of movies and I hadn’t seen anything for Strange World before it released). I’m just saying “never” is probably inaccurate for modern Disney.
- Comment on Directed by JJ Abrams 11 months ago:
You mean the Disney that conservative groups got mad at because two women had a split second “kiss” in a movie, or the Disney that made Song of the South?
- Comment on It's Jeffery Combs. It's always Jeffery Combs. 11 months ago:
And Robert Duncan McNeill was not-Tom Paris before he was Tom Paris.
Or was he Nicholas Locarno before later being not-Nicholas Locarno
- Comment on It's Jeffery Combs. It's always Jeffery Combs. 11 months ago:
Also a Hirogen in Voyager, Smallville, SG-1, Chuck, you’ve seen him a lot probably regardless of what you usually watch.
He’s also the voice of Venom in the most recent Spider-Man game
- Comment on It's Jeffery Combs. It's always Jeffery Combs. 11 months ago:
That’s just a side effect of early warp testing
- Comment on Unlimited Suffering! 11 months ago:
Let’s not forget that space station was made by the people who he fought in the war. That’s got to figure in to those unmentioned psychological scars.
- Comment on every damn time ... 11 months ago:
No, but I’m gonna run his code anyway
- Comment on Unlimited Suffering! 11 months ago:
Spent years in exile on a desert planet while being hunted by former apprentice
Dealt with two generations of whiney Skywalker men (mostly joking)
- Comment on Making plans 11 months ago:
Or even just a board game night.
Maybe it just means boring guys. Drinking is a secondary activity, not a primary one.
- Comment on Risa Quiz ... Who is this man 11 months ago:
I think the answer you’re looking for is
Yes
- Comment on USS Nauvoo 11 months ago:
I’m doing my part!
- Comment on Cope 11 months ago:
I’ve seen some positive talk about TMP recently for one.
Aside from that it’s easy to find people falling in to the “the new stuff sucks. The old stuff is way better” about pretty much anything Trek or not.
Even your list doesn’t fit with the old adage of the evens being good and the odds being crap.
- Comment on Cope 11 months ago:
I think Beyond was my least favorite of the newer ones personally, but I’d still put it above the last time I watched Motion Picture so it seems silly to me to trash those while elevating all the old ones.
Star Trek is a universe of things between campy and serious. It’s possible enjoy them all, or ignore the ones to don’t.
- Comment on Cope 11 months ago:
Will you let that be your final battleground?
- Comment on Cope 11 months ago:
Yesterday the thing you love was the crappy new thing and lots of vocal assholes hated it.
Today you can choose to be the vocal asshole or just enjoy the thing you enjoy, no false praise needed.
Tomorrow the crappy new thing will be fondly remembered and the vocal assholes of today will seem foolish and, in part, pretend they never hated today’s thing.
This is true across various properties. The fact that you think “we don’t want to hear your constant whining” equates to “you have to praise the thing I like even if you don’t like it” really says something.
- Comment on When is season 4 anyway? 11 months ago:
It may seem like it, but August 2022 wasn’t three years ago.
Even if it was that doesn’t really seem so disqualifying after we’ve just had a new season of Futurama and anticipate a new season of King of the Hill.
Orville may not have the financial draw, but I bet Seth had more fun with that than any of the animated stuff.
- Comment on Harry Mudd does not represent the best of humanity 11 months ago:
- Comment on Captain Malcolm Reynolds of Starfleet- Real! 1 year ago:
That seems troublesome
- Comment on Discount Vulcanoids 1 year ago:
Probably because you were in the wrong franchise not to mention the wrong ship
- Comment on Discount Vulcanoids 1 year ago:
In weird things I don’t need to remember but do the patch notes for that included a change to the self destruct mechanism regarding whether it was only a bluff tactic or you could actually self destruct.
To make things more odd I can’t recall which way the change was. I think it was to actually be able to self destruct.
- Comment on Which is which though? 1 year ago:
Gilded gibbons
- Comment on There are exactly two types of Star Trek fans 1 year ago:
Cause I got Faayyy of the harrrrr🎵
- Comment on Which is which though? 1 year ago:
The girl’s gig to give the gift of gifs
- Comment on When someone corrects your code 1 year ago:
I didn’t want to come off dismissive asking how often you’re talking about those specific kinds of plants but maybe it’s a relevant question after all lol
- Comment on When someone corrects your code 1 year ago:
I think you and I have very different experiences. I rarely see that kind of correction if ever.
When you’re in a public space you never know when your words are being consumed by an ESL speaker. I think the best approach is natural yet accurate. They’re going to encounter contractions when dealing with native speakers, but the difference between it’s and its, for example, can be tricky so try to use them as taught.
Spelling mistakes can absolutely be an issue. It’s already hard enough to figure out English spelling without native speakers making it worse. Add on to that the difficulty in any added language of working out near homophones, let alone actual homophones.
I knew someone who was pretty decent with English as their third language but had trouble keeping Texas and taxes straight. I know another guy who is American and uses no in place of know. That one threw me for a while before I figured out what he was trying to say.
I will admit, I do like that “technically” the plural for octopus is “supposed to be” octopods (pronounced like oc-tip-o-dees) but that’s a fun “fact”, not a correction I’ve ever tried to make.