GraniteM

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GraniteM,

We want a gift! But only if that gift is money!

GraniteM,

Wait, I’ve heard this story before!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/83db43fd-af8c-4756-9682-b70faa09ad38.jpeg

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This was the first version I saw.

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Ro’s first appearance comes well before the Federation knew the Prophets, let alone the Pah Wraiths, to be literally real.

Riker calling out Ro for her earring isn’t great, when compared against his acceptance of Worf’s baldric. If I were trying to find a defensible reason, I might go with the idea that Bajor used to have a rigidly enforced caste system, and the earrings indicated one’s caste, so it is possible that Riker assumed that Ro was trying to adhere to the old system which would fly in the face of Federation egalitarianism, and that he was less familiar with how Bajor’s treatment of the caste system had changed during the occupation.

GraniteM,

Vermont has also Essex Junction, Proctor, Middlesex, Shaftsbury, and Hardwick.

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Typical Doctor Who episode

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Or you can buy up a bunch of real estate, get filthy rich off of rents, and finance the morally good decisions out of your own pocket, trivially breaking the core conflict of the end of the game. Seriously, I did this by accident. I just figured it would be a good idea to hoard a shitload of gold just in case, and it turned out that I was right.

GraniteM,

I like to imagine that a mirror universe / mind swap / space madness episode is always fun for the actors. After playing the same character for years they get to try out something different. Must be a nice change of pace.

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Just like tequila!

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I assumed that he’s overslept is dreaming about stopping time, meanwhile his boss is leaving eight furious voice mails because his phone is on Do Not Disturb.

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Once I assumed that my kid could and would destroy everything that she touched, my outlook on life got a lot better. She’s actually not all that destructive at all, so most of the time I’m pleased with how well she’s doing, and when she does destroy something, I simply acknowledge that the truth I had previously assumed is being confirmed.

GraniteM,

Unironically, why would anyone expect anything that happens after you die to be any less arbitrary and unpredictable than anything that happened while you were alive? Could be nothingness, but it could just as easily be Poseidon, or Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Kitty Cat Thanksgiving.

GraniteM,

Having seen Avery Brooks give panels at cons, I can confidently say that all the times when Sisko got space madness or was holosuite transformed into a Bond villain or was otherwise acting like a madman… all of those performances are the real Avery Brooks, and the stolid, restrained, level-headed Sisko is the character that Avery Brooks uses his formidable acting skills to pretend to be.

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Bajor isn’t part of the Federation, so they don’t have immediate access to all Federation tech. Also, even when they join, I’m not convinced that the Federation just hands new members everything. The Prime Directive is all about not interfering in a society’s natural growth, and although achieving warp travel is the major barrier to initiating First Contact, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were additional steps along the way once a planet has joined the Federation.

GraniteM,

Looks nice. Non-reactive. Quark talks about gold-pressed latinum having a distinctive clink, so the gold would be a part of that.

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My SO and I say that all the chips they’re exchanging during the Enterprise-D poker games are exchangeable for sexual favors.

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What does that do to the moonshine market?

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I’ve been out of the loop on most of the recent series, but there still isn’t really cursing like this in Star Trek, is there? I remember thinking it felt really natural to have the BSG reboot characters yelling “Frak!” all the time. Even though it was technically a PG cuss, the way they made every use of it come out so Anglo Saxon-sounding. It just makes sense that every once in a while someone’s got to get some swears out, even in space.

GraniteM,

Boy you Starfleet officers sure are a contentious lot!

Does everyone learn the same gravity in school or is it different everywhere?

So, I learned in physics class at school in the UK that the value of acceleration due to gravity is a constant called g and that it was 9.81m/s^2. I knew that this value is not a true constant as it is affected by terrain and location. However I didn’t know that it can be so significantly different as to be 9.776 m/s^2 in...

GraniteM,

Dimitri, come to the window! I have a stopwatch and questions about the local density of the Earth’s crust!

What's your favorite compilation album?

I’ve been really enjoying the Red Hot Organization’s “No Alternative” and “Dark was the Night” recently, both because they raised a lot of money for AIDS research and because they do a great job of capturing the 90s alternative sound and 00s indie sound respectively, and it’s got me thinking how much I love...

GraniteM,

The soundtrack to Dirty Dancing sent me off in directions of 1960s dance and doo-wop and also 1980s pop in a big way.

Brazil Classics 1 - Beleza Tropical, was compiled by David Byrne from Talking Heads and has some incredible Latin stuff on it.

Hugh Masekela – The Chisa Years 1965-1975 (Rare And Unreleased) has some African jazz and funk that sounds like nothing else and is what American funk would sound like five to ten years later.

Pomegranates, from 2009, is a compilation of pre-revolution Iranian funk that is shockingly listenable.

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I use a two-step process of MakeMKV to do the initial rip and then Handbrake to convert to a more reasonably sized video file. Maybe there are more efficient options, but this one works for me.

GraniteM,

If someone wants to run a serious third party campaign at any level from dog catcher on up, I’d applaud them for their effort. But if all they ever do is come out of the woodwork for major state or federal level elections and threaten to play spoiler, I have a hard time imagining that they have any serious goals in mind beyond being deeply annoying.

GraniteM,

Let Bartlett be Bartlett!

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Leave them all in. Remasters are for restoring a work to as close as possible to the way it was meant to look when it was released, and nothing more. You wouldn’t look at a painting by da Vinci or Vermeer and say “Hey the perspective is off there,” or “That kind of bird doesn’t belong in that time and place,” and then “fix” the painting in the process of restoring it.

The creator(s) made a series of decisions during the original process of creation. Maybe some of them were mistakes, but they were their mistakes to make, and not anyone else’s to try and second guess after the fact. Once you start down that path, there’s nothing preventing George Lucas style special edition madness.

GraniteM,

I’ll have it explain complicated topics using familiar frameworks. As an example, I had it run through various superheroes and villains and match them up with appropriate philosophers. This conversation was how I settled on the idea that Lex Luthor has a lot more in common with Ayn Rand than Friedrich Nietzsche.

GraniteM,

I read an idea a long while back that I’ll repeat:

A spy game in the style of Splinter Cell, except you aren’t the guy, you’re his handler. You tell him “crawl under that laser,” or “wait a moment, there’s a guard… okay now go!” or “input the following sequence to disable the doomsday device,” and he more or less listens to what you tell him to do. The issue is that the more you fuck up and get him hurt or killed, the less likely he is to listen to you. So you have to build up a relationship with your spy by giving him good instructions in a timely fashion and getting him to complete missions successfully. Over the course of the game, as you progress, you’d be able to tell him to do more dangerous things because he’d trust you more. Playing the game successfully would make you feel like you and your spy were a well-oiled machine, working together to take down supervillains and criminal syndicates.

GraniteM,

And that’s why every carpenter bee horror story starts with “There was a knock at the door…”

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Remake of Three’s Company with Garak, Julian, and Dax sharing an apartment, and Quark as the landlord.

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“As we all know” style conversations, where characters reiterate things that they all know for the audience’s benefit.

[A bunch of assassins sit in a smoke-filled room.]

Billy Cuththroat: Did you hear about Sneaky Sam? He betrayed The Organization.

Susan Slipknot: You never betray The Organization! The Organization is the most dangerous secret cabal in the world!

Pete Poisoner: What was he thinking?! Everyone knows that if you betray The Organization, they send their invincible team of Cleaners after you!

BC: The Cleaners! Everyone knows that they’ve never been defeated in a war of assassins!

SS: And as we all know, the Cleaners are led by the most fearsome Cleaner of all, Mr. Clean!

PP: Mr. Clean! He only ever kills using his left thumb, and he never leaves a trace, as as all know!

BC & SS [in unison]: As we all know!

GraniteM,

This dude right here looks pretty cool https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/05639730-d16e-408a-8da0-c318aced1b13.jpeg

Voice Ruler (pawb.social)

A screenshot of a tweet from @zumo_zd, which reads “I like it when this happens”. The attached image is a drawn mock-up of an IMDb-style page of “Popular Voice Actor Man, known for Lord Darkness Edgeman from Blood Dying and Screaming”. On his list of roles, this casting is listed, but he is also listed as voicing...

GraniteM,

Every character voiced by Jim Cummings vs. Every character voiced by Frank Welker, no holds barred, go!

GraniteM,

Damn, I’ve got to go change the combination on my luggage!

GraniteM,

Phineas Gage had a iron bar blown through his skull by an unexpected dynamite detonation leaving a hole that a person could reach through from each side and touch their fingers on the inside, and he lived for years afterwards and held jobs and everything.

Then again, John Ritter died when his aorta just spontaneously unzipped inside of his chest. The human body is wild.

GraniteM,

I want you to catch him… and then let him go. And now… the hunt can truly begin!

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DM: The enemy champion approaches. He is eight feet tall, fully armored, and a seasoned warrior.

David: I select my sling.

DM: Okay, so that does 1d4 bludgeoning damage–

David: Hang on, let me tell you about all my buffs and saved up Holy Favor points…

DM: -___-

GraniteM,

There’s a badass scene in the book This Immortal where a guy kills another guy with a sling.

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NO WAY!!

GraniteM,

This is the store brand. Costs ⅔ as much as brand name, contains the exact same ingredients.

GraniteM,

I like Cold Take, too, so now I wonder if that is also part of this mass resignation event.

GraniteM,

Rubber hot water bottle. It is so nice to have when you’re sick or achy.

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Any time I see “Directed by LeVar Burton” I know I’m in for a good time. He was fantastic at directing episodes with heavy interpersonal stories.

GraniteM,

My toddler has been watching Moana a lot, and it’s got me to notice a deeply annoying phenomenon.

In the flashback vision scene, the voyagers are singing, and it’s subtitled “[SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]”. Now, if we’re not meant to outright understand what they’re singing, it’s fine if they don’t add English subtitles, but I feel like it’s deeply disrespectful to not add subtitles in the language in which they are actually singing.

I’ve noticed versions of this in a few other places, where the subtitle just reads something like “[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]” instead of an actual French subtitle. If the viewer speaks French, then they would understand the audio, and if they were hard of hearing but could read French, then they would understand the subtitle, but they’re not going to get a bit of benefit out of SPEAKING IN FRENCH. It annoys the shit out of me.

GraniteM,

The thing is that you kind of have to define “worst” and “film” in order for the answer to make sense.

Like, you’ve got movies like the 2019 Cats where it was a pervasively horrible movie in multiple different ways, but it was absolutely not boring, and I kind of think everyone should see it. See also The Super Mario Brothers Movie with Bob Hoskins, or Star Crash from 1978.

And then you’ve got things that barely qualify as movies. Things like Manos: The Hands of Fate, or Troll 2, or Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, where, yeah, they hired actors and a director said “Action!” but… like…is it really a movie?

There’s different categories for bad movies. There’s “Mainstream Piece of Shit that Should Have Been Better,” there’s “Insane Microbudget Fever Dream,” there’s an axis from Boring to Glorious Trainwreck. All of these complicate the question and merit their own consideration.

All that said… it’s the Star Wars Holiday Special. It’s a totally fucking brutal experience. There is virtually no good reason to ever watch it, except to say that you have, and I don’t necessarily think it’s worth the time. It’s irredeemable.

GraniteM,

I went through a few mp3 players and none of them were exactly what I wanted so I bought a Moto G7 Power and only ever use it for playing locally stored music via the BlackPlayer app.

I wanted something with Bluetooth and an aux jack, USB-C charging, and expandable memory. Tried a few different devices and none of them ticked all of the boxes, or else they had other issues that made me send them back. The only issue I have with the G7 is that it’s a full sized phone, when I’d really prefer something smaller. The next time I go through an upgrade cycle, I’ve been looking at one of the little Unihertz models, but that might be another year or more so we’ll see what’s on the market by then.

What sci-fi stories bring out a strong emphasis on family (self made or born into) to you? (lemmy.world)

For me I would say “The Expanse” is a huge one. If there was ever a self made family, the crew of the Rocinante is one of the best. The amount of time they spend together and how they congeal into life long partners and friends in the face of some truly awful events is really inspiring to me.

GraniteM,

To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Heinlein, but probably not in the way that you’re thinking.

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Navigational shields deflect bits of dust and micrometeors away from the ship so that the hull isn’t constantly being bombarded by interstellar debris so small that it doesn’t merit navigating around or pushing out of the way with a tractor beam. Essentially, they are the absolute weakest form of ship defense, and the laser weapons described don’t even pose a threat to them, let alone the actual defensive shields intended for use in combat.

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