apprehensively_human
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- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x06 "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" 1 week ago:
The moment the planet exploded during the opening act I was certain that Kirk was daydreaming up some action since he was literally just complaining about how bored he was.
As the episode went on I was no less convinced, but began to wonder if maybe there was some alien interference that was transforming his desire for action into either a shared dream or some simulated experience for both crews.
- Comment on Battlefield 6's beta has only been running for a day, but it's already suffering from a FPS curse with cheaters breaking out the wallhacks 2 weeks ago:
Counterpoint: you could not have TPM and secure boot requirements that needlessly alienates a large player base of Linux users.
- Comment on xkcd #3126: Disclaimer 2 weeks ago:
Seeing any em dash in the wild makes me immediately suspicious
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time" 2 weeks ago:
I’m going to have to watch the episode again to give it a fair chance, but I think I agree. The characters were acting pretty much exactly like the teenagers you see in a cliche slasher film.
I know that the episode has to happen, but discovering a facility like they did during a dig should have called for a thorough study before proceeding, but they just strolled in. Chapel even gave a sample of her blood to an unknown alien mechanism just to see if the door would open.
Then when they walk in the first thing they should see are a couple of corpses lying on the ground, but it takes them several minutes of wandering around the room before noticing. Scanning the bodies reveals that they died a long time ago of starvation; possibly a hint that they were trapped and sealed in maybe? At this point Spock should have deduced that the door was going to lock.
They also lost contact with the Enterprise pretty much immediately, but with the front door still wide open it doesn’t occur to them that it might be a good idea to set up a comms relay. These are 8 skilled professionals that just waltzed in here without a plan or backup, and then lost contact with their only support and chose to keep going anyway.
And then Gamble, in full view of everybody, and after just hearing the chief of security say not to touch anything, grabs the shiny glowing orange sphere of destiny and holds it up for a good last look.
From here most of the rest of the episode is actually really good. I enjoyed the puzzle of them figuring out that they’re all still in the same room.
I didn’t enjoy so much the explanation that Gamble is brain dead but is somehow still being controlled by a non-corporeal being. If his body is moving around then surely there are still signals in his brain indicating life. I suppose this could be explained by the entity taking control of his lower brain functions only.
And finally I don’t know why they made such a big deal about crossing the invisible bridge to reach the door. After taking a single step the bridge is revealed to be solid, so why couldn’t they have just stuck a toe out or thrown something to see what would happen? Or hold on to Chapel by the arms and carefully lower her down over the edge.
Just so many unnecessary risks taken again and again this entire episode.
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 3 weeks ago:
In fact Gareth Coker’s soundtracks for Ori are so good, they are one of the few video game OSTs that I’ve bought on vinyl. That and Signals from the Outer Wilds.
Pure magic and they definitely helped make the games.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
I adored Moss (mostly for its theme but also for the highly innovative gameplay) but I haven’t had a VR system in some time. This one might be first on my list to buy if I ever get into VR again.
- Comment on Why Space Is Actually Warm! 5 weeks ago:
Sorry, I think I understand the video but my question was only tangentially related
- Comment on Why Space Is Actually Warm! 5 weeks ago:
ELI5 please:
Apollo 13 is one of my favourite movies of all time, but one thing that always sticks out to me when I watch it is when they need to shutdown all systems to conserve power, the spacecraft becomes cold enough for the inside to freeze. I’ve looked this up and it is something that actually happened during the real emergency, but I’ve never been able to wrap my head around how a capsule with three people inside is able to freeze when the exterior is exposed to direct sunlight.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x01 "Hegemony, Part II" & 3x02 "Wedding Bell Blues" 5 weeks ago:
I’m glad Ortegas is finally getting a subplot. In the previous seasons she’s always felt like she was missing “her” focus episode which other members of the crew like M’Benga got. All she had was “I fly the ship” which was a bit lame.
Thank you. It felt to me like her entire character development arc has been her coming to terms with being a great pilot? But yet at the beginning of the series we didn’t have any sense that she had self confidence issues or was anything less than outstanding.
She’s always been an excellent pilot, but then we had a single episode where she briefly loses her memory and with it her sense of identity because now her entire thing is “I fly the ship.”
- Comment on Donkey Kong Bananza | Review Thread 5 weeks ago:
Bethesda
- Comment on PSA: If the first Smart Search in Immich takes a while 1 month ago:
Seems to work really well. I can do obscure searches like Outer Wilds and it will pull up pictures I took from my phone of random gameplay movements, so it’s not doing any filename or metadata cheating there.
- Comment on PSA: If the first Smart Search in Immich takes a while 1 month ago:
Which model would you recommend? I just switched from ViT-B/32 to ViT-SO400M-16-SigLIP2-384__webli since it seemed to be the most popular.
- Comment on Subnautica's Original Creators Have Been Removed From Unknown Worlds "Effective Immediately", As Krafton Makes Concerning Leadership Changes 1 month ago:
When Below Zero came out it was clear that they had no idea what made Subnautica special, which was something that a sequel had no hope of replicating.
Fear of the unknown and the drive to explore deeper. Once you’ve completed Subnautica you are a god of the sea, and that knowledge and experience cannot be lost.
- Comment on A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud 1 month ago:
Managed service provider. Basically corporate IT.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 1 month ago:
This song is new to me, but I am honored to be a part of it.
- Comment on Hey PC game developers, please follow Stellar Blade as an example for PC optimization in the future, because it absolutely rocks 2 months ago:
Daily reminder that Chris Sawyer coded Rollercoaster Tycoon by himself in x86 assembly. In a cave, with a box of scraps.
- Comment on Day 341 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
I don’t know if this is an unpopular opinion, but I much prefer the original N64 models and textures over the 3DS.
Maybe it’s just nostalgia but I feel like the 3DS graphics have aged much worse since it released.
- Comment on xkcd #3074: Push Notifications 4 months ago:
[INFO] A user has paused notifications
- Comment on PSA: If your Jellyfin is having high memory usage, add MALLOC_TRIM_THRESHOLD_=100000 to environment 4 months ago:
I’ve been having memory leak issues with my Jellyfin container, so I fired it up to see if it has a MALLOC variable set and it immediately crashed my server. Now waiting for the OOM killer to do its thing.
- Comment on Release FreshRSS 1.26.0 5 months ago:
I host my own Matrix server and wow is it ever a terrible feeling, knowing that material from another server just slides its way into mine and gets immediately cached.
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 5 months ago:
Containerized holodeck clusters.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 months ago:
They changed their logo gasp
- Comment on place yer bets 5 months ago:
Except that 2028 would also be our window to do something about it before it disappears back into space. There needs to be a plan now, even if that plan is to wait and see where it’s going to hit.
- Comment on Single-photon LiDAR delivers detailed 3D images at distances up to 1 kilometer 6 months ago:
Do they compete with the 1500 megawatt aperture science heavy duty super-colliding super button?
- Comment on Ditching Spotify and YT Music 9 months ago:
Lidarr also serves as a music organization tool. You can set up rules for folders and how music files should be renamed. It can also apply metadata tags automatically.
- Comment on I won’t be reading the replies 9 months ago:
Plus the verbiage is all wrong, it doesn’t follow the template.
Cumulative upkeep {R} You gain protection from wordy (Something is wordy if it has four or more lines of rules text.)
- Comment on Selfhosted alternative to Spotify 10 months ago:
It’s a bit of a process to get it going, but it’s worth it for me so that I can use my phone to cast directly without needing to use a smart home device.
- Comment on Selfhosted alternative to Spotify 10 months ago:
I use plexamp as well, I think I bought Plex Pass specifically to have it.
You can install a headless plexamp client onto a Raspberry Pi and have it hooked up to an audio receiver for seamless music casting.
- Comment on Complex Creation 10 months ago: