Listen peon, we've got SLAs to meet with the language data purchaser, and your organic conversation stunt will not taint the product if we have any say in it. Return to your oar! Fix your loincloth too...
The war on personal computing coupled with a potential war on BYOD...it makes you wonder at what point normie starts figuring it out.
Some advice for TNG. Don't skip seasons 1 and 2. It's popular but misguided advice. I finished TNG this year and generally enjoyed these seasons despite their flaws.
To that effect, here's an optimized episode watch guide for each. Six episodes removed per season to save you 9 hours in total. Return to the skipped episodes later if you're interested.
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Watch
Encounter at Farpoint 1x01/02
The Naked Now 1x03
Code of Honor 1x04
The Last Outpost 1x05
Where No One Has Gone Before 1x06
The Battle 1x09
Hide And Q 1x10
Haven 1x11
The Big Goodbye 1x12
Datalore 1x13
11001001 1x15
Home Soil 1x18
Coming of Age 1x19
Heart of Glory 1x20
The Arsenal of Freedom 1x21
Symbiosis 1x22
Skin Of Evil 1x23
We'll Always Have Paris 1x24
Conspiracy 1x25
The Neutral Zone 1x26
Skip/defer Code of Honor 1x04 Lonely Among Us 1x07 Justice 1x08 Angel One 1x14 Too Short A Season 1x16 When The Bough Breaks 1x17
Watch
Where Silence Has Lease 2x02
Elementary, Dear Data 2x03
Loud As A Whisper 2x05
The Schizoid Man 2x06
Unnatural Selection 2x07
A Matter Of Honor 2x08
The Measure Of A Man 2x09
The Dauphin 2x10
Contagion 2x11
Time Squared 2x13
The Icarus Factor 2x14
Pen Pals 2x15
Q Who 2x16
Samaritan Snare 2x17
Manhunt 2x19
The Emissary 2x20
Peak Performance 2x21
Skip/defer The Child 2x01 The Outrageous Okona 2x04 The Dauphin 2x10 The Royale 2x12 Up The Long Ladder 2x18 Shades of Gray 2x22
Didn't it ultimately achieve its aim with the creation of Lower Decks?
Honestly I hope it shuts down. This provider caters to racists, fascists, misogynists and the like.
Who gives a fuck? Corporate social media cater to idiots too, just more common varieties.
Why does it matter what Kanye tweets about if I enjoy his music? Why do the politics of my favorite FOSS program's maintainer matter, or what commentary they include in documentation, or the presence/lack of a flag in a social media handle? Why does it matter that a public demonstration I'm at has some fellow demonstraters whose lifestyles/politics I find abhorrent?
All you advertise to the world with this fearful mindset is that your behaviour will change on a dime given the slightest chance of bad optics. It's a rotten way to live life.
Governments and marketers absolutely love people who think like that.
Of all Lemmy comms to post a sentiment like this one on lol
talking points like, "why don't women look feminine aymore," "why are characters designed for diversity/inclusion first before story," "Concord sucks lol."
They're fair observations. Convergent, homogenous graphic design plagues big-budget game production.
Ubi is the sort of mob that could put out a title set in Georgian England and offer a cast that includes among others a queer green-haired ship's captain, a Chinese bailiff and a Rastafarian archbishop. There's a place for getting whimsical with character creation, but done often enough (and across so many genres), it becomes self-satirizing.
My theory is Uncle Sam's fingerprints are on high east coast gas prices. Giving it away for nothing has to put pressure on Russia's LNG export income. The donkeys that head Origin, etc. are on board because they can gouge the home market as compensation, knowing (as part of the deal) that Canberra won't contemplate a reservation policy.
TNG 3x03 The Survivors. Trek works just as well when introspective personal drama gets priority over the science fiction.
One of these days I'll post my maiden TNG viewing notes...
It's worth going in blind. But for the impatient, here's an insightful review: https://www.themoviedb.org/review/5cc25a01c3a3681e6b805326
Protector of arresting color palettes. Spiritual sponsor of NPBs. Discarder of crepes.
This film's second act has a stereotype/racial epithet montage that will always be funny.
First of all, Monos is a film set in the jungle, so you know it's already good (see Raiders, Jurassic Park, Sorcerer, Predator, Apocalypto, etc.). Secondly, Landes has an eye for scene composition and potent metaphor. Thirdly, it gets awfully good performances out of a mostly amateur cast.
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The squire actor plays another character in Original, a Klingon from memory