GuyFleegman
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- Comment on Steve Jobs Rigged The First iPhone Demo By Faking Full Signal Strength And Secretly Swapping Devices Because Of Fragile Prototypes And Bug-Riddled Software 11 months ago:
Ken Kocienda, the engineer who led the team that created the original iPhone keyboard and predictive text system, wrote a book titled “Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs.” So there’s at least one real engineer for you who speaks highly of Jobs.
They aren’t nameless. They write books and go on podcasts, their thoughts on Jobs are available to us. Plenty of them praise Jobs for driving them to do their best work.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 11 months ago:
Right, I said it’s “not bad,” hardly a ringing endorsement. It had some good ideas and concepts but it also has a lot of flaws, which is why it’s quite unfortunate that it’s the best Discovery ever managed.
- Comment on Steve Jobs Rigged The First iPhone Demo By Faking Full Signal Strength And Secretly Swapping Devices Because Of Fragile Prototypes And Bug-Riddled Software 11 months ago:
It’s not false advertising because it did everything it was advertised to do in the introductory demo when it went on sale six months later. Google is the one faking their demos.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 11 months ago:
Right? Moving seamlessly from Lorca to Pike to Vance to Rilliak, it’s remarkable how the most interesting character that Discovery has to offer is consistently the outsider who inherits authority over our ostensible heroes.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 11 months ago:
My problem with season 4 wasn’t that it was slow, but that it was uninspired and by-the-numbers. I had worked out that the DMA was a “stepping on an anthill” situation by… episode 4, maybe? 5 at the latest. So then I got to watch one of the oldest tropes in sci-fi unfold for 8 more episodes, played completely straight. Yawn.
I’d rather watch the B-plot from S01E06 of Babylon 5 to experience that particular story again, at least it would be done in an hour.
- Comment on On the end of Discovery 11 months ago:
Yes, exactly. Season 1 knew what it wanted to be. When it was over, I remember thinking “alright, not bad, I’m excited to watch this show grow the beard.”
But it never did. In retrospect, Season 1 is the strongest season the show had to offer. Each subsequent season got a little worse as plots got more confusing, themes got more muddled, and no breakout characters emerged to carry the show through an abundance of narrative turmoil and worldbuilding strangeness. Above all else, seasons 3 and 4 are just boring. I don’t care about the crew or their mission. The most interesting characters are consistently the outsiders: Pike, Vance, Rillak. I’ll be watching season five out of a sense of obligation and morbid curiosity.
As much as I like SNW, it’s still not quite the show I’ve been waiting since 2005 for: eight curious officers on a ship called Enterprise set in the mid-25th century. I worry that SNW has robbed us of the opportunity to see the classic formula set in the immediate post-TNG era… even though that seems to be what season three of Picard was explicitly setting up.
- Comment on When is season 4 anyway? 1 year ago:
account from “An instance dedicated to nature and science”
asked to provide evidence for claims
refuses
- Comment on When is season 4 anyway? 1 year ago:
Cullen
Seems like he’s talking about… Twilight?
- Comment on When is season 4 anyway? 1 year ago:
It doesn’t. The episodes just get longer and more boring as the show progresses. The cancellation isn’t exactly a mystery.
- Comment on When is season 4 anyway? 1 year ago:
Adira tells Stamets their pronouns, and Stamets says “okay” approvingly. That’s it. That’s the full extent of what you are calling a “big deal.”
You understand that even in a society where everyone is allowed to “just be,” accidental misgendering is still going to happen and corrections will still need to be communicated, right? Marco misgendered Nico on their first appearance, so Nico must have corrected him. Enby representation is only acceptable if actual conversations about gender occur off-screen?
- Comment on When is season 4 anyway? 1 year ago:
A multi episode story arc??"? You mean these 90 seconds? The only way this bit of character and relationship development could be less “heavy handed” would be if it didn’t happen at all.
- Comment on When is season 4 anyway? 1 year ago:
but as someone else pointed out it’s still not super common for gay characters, especially male characters, to be shown as being romantically involved, which can be jarring when you’re not used to it. Dunno, it’s weird.
Yep, many people still struggle with it. What do you think it would take to change this?
- Comment on When is season 4 anyway? 1 year ago:
That’s not a particularly unique perspective, many Trekkies choose to process Star Trek as “historical documents.” There’s a movie about it.
What I don’t understand why you’ve assigned this theoretical camera crew the intent of “get the camera on the gay dudes, stat” when “get the camera on the relationship between the two main characters” is a much simpler explanation. There are entire episodes dedicated to Odo & Kira, Paris & Torres or Trip & T’Pol relationship drama. Stamets & Culber screen time pales in comparison.
- Comment on When is season 4 anyway? 1 year ago:
It’s 24XX, who the hell is still getting bent out of shape about homosexuality 400 years from now?
I’m pretty lukewarm on Discovery, I’ve seen all of it but most episodes only once, so maybe I just don’t remember it. Who got bent out of shape over Stamets and/or Culber being gay?
- Comment on Discount Vulcanoids 1 year ago:
That’s true, it could have been worse. She could have been as stupid as she is ugly.
- Comment on Discount Vulcanoids 1 year ago:
True story, when I was 7 I got this game for Christmas, installed it on the spot and started playing, but this lady was so intimidating that I got spooked, quit, and didn’t touch again until years later
- Comment on Me after 13 straight hours of staring at my cell phone 1 year ago:
Picard uses android
He has unlimited data
I’ll see myself out
- Comment on That Voyager is one clean burning starship though, I’ll tell you what. 1 year ago:
Of course Janeway made the right choice. Anyone who says otherwise is either trolling or sexist. No one would care if this was Picard splitting Guiker or Sisko splitting Quira.
- Comment on That Voyager is one clean burning starship though, I’ll tell you what. 1 year ago:
People don’t hate the episode, they hate the “debate.”
- Comment on Chief O'Brien would not receive another invite to the poker table. 1 year ago:
Pfft, Geordi is the least of Worf’s problems at that table. Data is literally a walking computer, Troi can read minds, and Riker is evidently the greatest poker player who ever lived.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
This line was foreshadowing Lorca’s origin. You see, mirror Musk was actually competent, making him the precise inverse of real Musk.
I don’t care that the timing is suspect and there’s another Musk reference in Discovery, I’ll die on this hill.
- Comment on Rank your favorite Star Trek movies! Be ready to defend your positions! 1 year ago:
EDIT: Apparently everyone on this website is insane
Clearly the inmates are running the asylum
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