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  • The superior Voyager game

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  • it's wild how many early computer games were star trek games and yet seemingly all of them were shooty shooty pew pew, going all the way back to 1971. at least the arcade game had the tact to call it a simulation!

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    Hi StarTrek.website, I'm Karim Diané aka Jay-Den Kraag from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, AMA! (Responding to questions Thursday @4pm!)

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  • would you rather fight 100 tribble-sized sehlats or one sehlat-sized tribble?

  • Do you read books on your phone?

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  • i used to be a voracious reader, but as i grew up i slowed down. getting books and then lugging them around was less feasible with Stuff To Do, and this is gonna sound super stupid but i have a hard time getting comfortable reading a physical book. for whatever reason I hold it wildly different depending on if i'm reading the right or left page so i'm constantly moving around

    i've started using libby and now i'm reading multiple books a month again. you need a physical library card but once you have it you havd access to all of your library's digital stuff. in the US you can also get a state library card in some states online, giving you access to even more books. you can also find lots of classics online for free through project gutenberg, and the internet archive has a mix of free and rental books. the latter needs a special app to open them, though, and the only one i could seem to get to work was in italian

  • mastodon age verification

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  • unfortunately age verification is now required to touch grass

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • i personally find bananna audio the most appealing

  • What do you belive is the best reddit alternative?

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  • i am very happy with mbin. a lot of people are insisting there are no other alternatives in this thread but i am literally posting here from mbin lmao. the UI is very slick and it can also reply to microblog posts on platforms like mastodon, givinf you a full viee of the fedi. there are also non-federated alternatives like lobste.rs and i think digg is trying to stage a comeback

  • Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia?

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  • there's a saying that goes something like "democracy is a fresh challenge for each generation." any trek show that shows what we can be without also exploring how we can (or can fail to) stay there is being overly optimistic at best and dishonest at worst. i agree that the execution often fails, especially in Picard and early Discovery, but later Discovery and Academy are shows not about a distopian future but about carving out a utopia within one. Discovery starts out in the SNW era and even in universe everyone can tell how messed up this crew is- note how Pike treats Disco with kid gloves versus how he treats the Enterprise like a ship of adults- but something very interesting happens when they make the jump to the post-Burn future, where suddenly the worst Starfleet has to offer are the best just because they remember how things could be. That offers them and the fallen federation (and the show) a mutual chance at redemption, and Academy is building off of that without Disco's baggage. Academy sees the same problems you do with the post-Burn galaxy and are working to turn it back into the one you remember. you could argue about the execution still, but the heart is there

  • Trill Symbiont Lifespans

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  • it's funny to think that all of dax's hosts were mild-mannered before they were joined and then five minutes stuck with dax they start breaking any and every rule. their first thought together after joining is "aren't you tired of being nice? don't you just want to go apeshit?"

  • Trill Symbiont Lifespans

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  • i didn't even realize illa meant to be cardassian. but i also didn't realize that was tawny newsome despite being very excited she was one of the writers so i might just be stupid

  • [SPOILER PICARD SEASON 3 TALK] What happend with the the new and old Borg after Picard season 2 and 3?

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  • hard to say for now other than they both coexisted for a bit, but out of fiction i have a feeling they're just going to ignore the last two seasons of Picard altogether until a hypothetical Lower Decks spiritual successor where they'll somehow fix it with a throwaway line. speaking of Lower Decks, that's probably how they'll handle it's finale too considering the multiverse wormhole thing is conspiciously absent from the 32nd century

  • There is a movement to rename Halley's Comet to Eilmer's Comet as monk Eilmer of Malmesbury was the first to identify the returning comet.

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  • i can get behind this if and only if we also rename the band to Bill Eilmer and His Comets

  • My Linux distro tierlist

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  • no hannah montana linux??

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    Man uses 99 phones to trick Google Maps into thinking there’s a traffic jam to prove a big point

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  • i think what artyom is getting at is that showing google maps works the way we already knew it worked isn't much of a point, let alone a big one

  • How do you feel on Kirby games?

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  • i just rolled credits on Forgotten World (the one where you can become a car) last night and i was blown away. Forgotten World is largely a 1:1 conversion of the 2D games into 3D with the notable exception that you can't float higher than your jump height, so that does raise the skill floor noticably. still, just getting to the end of any given level is easy-peasy, but some of the challenges and collectables are definitely tricky. the 3-star portal stages in particular can be a real challenge, and there's also a post-game world i haven't tried yet. i think the switch 2 version even has a post-post-game. ultimately, though, if challenge is an important factor for you, you'll probably be better served by another game

    kirby and the amazing mirror deserves a shout-out for being difficult in it's own unique way. it's a metroidvania but many of the doors are one-way just like in regular kirby, so it's easy to fuck up and go the wrong way and have to restart. the platforming and combat are both still very easy but that does you a fat lot of good when you hit a dead end!

  • Do you feel like popular media using a game of Chess to depict a "battle of wits" to be too cliche/cringe?

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  • Do you feel like popular media using a game of Chess to depict a "battle of wits" to be too cliche/cringe?

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  • "Perhaps, Mr. Bond, we can make a wager. Should you win our ultimate contest of wits, I will allow myself to be captured, but when I win, you shall be at my mercy. Mwahahahahahaha! so now only one question remains- Strategos, or Warhammer?"

  • What do people like about Star Trek Voyager?

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  • Part of it is that Voyager has the unenviable role of being one of TNG's two successor shows. The other was DS9, and everything looks bad sitting next to DS9. Part of why DS9 was able to do the wild things that it did was because the writing team had minimal supervision and were allowed to go buckwild- paramount were keeping a closer eye on first TNG, and then Voyager. Because of that, Voyager plays it safe and worships the status quo even when the fiction is begging to go in another direction, and the whole series has this feeling of having been written by committee. This even frustrated the writers, one of whom left the show out of frustration to go write the Battlestar Galactica reboot, which is essentially gritty, serialized Voyager

    that said, I watched the whole thing and largely enjoyed it. you kind of have to meet it where it is, and accept that major plot details get glossed over and everyone takes turns holding the idiot ball. for me, the characters are what salvages the underwhelming plot. being a smaller ship, younger characters like Kim and Paris are able to be movers and shakers, giving the show a coming-of-age quality not found again until LDS and Progidy. Janeway is great when she's not holding the idiot ball, it was really awesome seeing a captain who came up through science instead of command. When the blue or gold shirts give most captains a solution to a problem, they're glad the problem it solved, but Janeway would get excited about the solution itself, sometimes even finishing Belana's sentences.

    Neelix had never so much as heard of starfleet, and had none of the training or skills even a crewman would need, but his good nature and see-a-need, fill-a-need ethos arguably makes him the most starfleet person on the boat. Kes is similar, with the added twist of dedicating herself to a voyage she won't live to see the end of.

    People say it was good that she left because there wasn't much to do with her character, but to me that's nonsense. Not being able to see her come to terms with her mortality and how that intersects with her psychic powers was easily the show's biggest missed opportunity.

    the doctor is an interesting inversion of the good idea/meh execution pattern because his concept is unremarkable- essentially a rehash of Data learning to be human, just accidentally and with sarcasm- but the execution was incredible. later on when 7of9 joins the cast, she displaces him as The Data but he remains a main character and takes on a mentorship role which allows him to develop even further

    all in all, it's a show full of then-new and brilliant ideas that regularly fumbles the execution. and that isn't for everyone, especially with the plethora of other great trek out there. but if you watch it and are able to forgive the not great scenario writing you might enjoy it nonetheless

  • “Food JPEGs” in Super Smash Bros & Kirby Air Riders — Seth Larson

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  • this is the kind of hard-hitting research i like to see! now i want to try a mont blanc...

  • Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles.

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  • there's definitely a non-zero number of people who self-diagnose as something to feel "special," but for every one of them there are five people who are autistic or ADHD and need accomidations but won't get them because the people around them think they're doing them a favor by insisting they're not "broken." you don't want your kid to be the first thing, sure, but also make sure you aren't causing the second thing- if you're in doubt, the right person to ask is a psychologist or a psychiatrist. however, that can be very expensive, hence the whole self diagnosis to begin with

  • how to download more RAM

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  • they have three tabs open in chrome

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Starting to wonder if this guy even went to medical school...