klemptor

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[–] klemptor@startrek.website 2 points 1 hour ago

TNG and DS9 are pretty much tied for my all-time favorite. I think both did a great job writing believable characters and conflicts, with compelling standalone episodes and arcs (although to be honest I really hate the pah-waith bits in Seasons 6 & 7 of DS9). For the most part, I both liked and cared about all of the main characters and thought they faced interesting and complex problems that didn't always have perfect solutions.

VOY and TOS are fun in their own ways but more like comfort food than a whole meal, if that makes sense. As a woman I certainly wouldn't want to be a crew member on the Enterprise during TOS, and as a viewer I have to work really hard to ignore the rampant sexism, but can still appreciate it for what it is. VOY is mostly fluff but it does give us interesting stories like Year of Hell. I don't think I'd be friends with many of the crew and sometimes the writing of these characters is frustratingly uneven (especially B'Elanna, which is a shame because she's my favorite of the bunch). I do think VOY suffers from showing a pristine ship for most of its run (which is one reason Year of Hell stood out so much for me). And I hate the stupid catsuit, heels, and makeup on Seven. She's a former Borg drone, none of that is functional or pragmatic. (Obligatory 'Fuck You, Rick Berman'.)

I've watched ENT twice but wasn't crazy about it (my favorite characters were Porthos and Shran). SNW is alright, not great but engaging enough for me to stick with it. I particularly like Number One, M'Benga, and Chapel (and Hemmer, RIP). I don't like Kirk - he's horribly miscast. Funny enough, Anson Mount has enough of Shatner's mannerisms that with different hair, he could've been cast as a modern Kirk instead of Pike. But he's doing a great job with Pike. The writers need to stop messing with Spock being "human" so much. And why are he and T'Pring having sex without pon farr???

DIS is a raging tire fire, I don't know what they were thinking with that show. The writing was abysmal, the plot holes were humongous, the science was ridiculous (seriously, what on earth was the spore drive? And a sad kid caused the Burn? Give me a break!), the tech was completely discordant with what we know about the 23rd century, the characters were written like awkward and/or angsty teenagers, everyone was constantly sharing their feelings and traumas in the middle of a time-sensitive emergency, death was cheated so many times that the emotional stakes around mortality never felt that real (e.g., Culber's resurrection via mushrooms, and sUrPriSe Burnham's mom isn't really dead, and also when Saru miraculously survived his Vahar'ai), Burnham was practically Space Jesus in that she was always the only one who could save the galaxy, continuity with the rest of Trek was broken left right and center, the Klingon redesign made no sense, and I hated how they wasted the Tal symbiont by making Adira just a painfully awkward teenager instead of someone with 5 prior lifetimes of experience to ground them (not counting Gray who was removed from the symbiont and was a kid anyway).... I could go on but you get the idea. I just finished hate-watching all five seasons and will never watch it again. To say something nice about DIS, I was grateful that none of the female main cast wore catsuits, and I loved the Stamets/Culber relationship - it felt real and lived-in.

I only saw the first season of PIC and that was a hot mess too, I really want to finish it so I can say I've watched all of Trek, but I need a palate cleasner first after forcing my way through DIS. Haven't watched LD but people seem to love it so I'll probably give it a shot, though I'm not nuts about cartoons. No interest in PRO since it's for kids, and no real interest in TAS. I might give SA a shot but if it's like DIS I'll be bailing.

Welp you didn't ask for a novel but my power's out this morning and I'm bored, so there you go!

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

April 5th (First Contact day)

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

To be clear, I'm not the person you were initially responding to, I was just offering a reason why someone might not want to do a search on chris chan.

And yeah I still use google, I'm middle-aged and lame, it'll happen to you too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] klemptor@startrek.website -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm not googling it because based on this thread, this chris chan person sounds like a disaster, and I don't want google thinking this is one of my interests.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unrelated: I used to go to tech meetups in my city fairly often. There was one guy who always seemed to be there just for the food. I only knew him by his username ('Lex R' - a programming pun) and never talked to him. Tall skinny dude; if I had to guess, I'd say he was around 50ish.

Every meetup without fail, this guy ate so much pizza. One time I counted 11 slices. He also drank at least a 2L of soda - didn't matter if it was diet or regular, he drank it. About 10 minutes before the meetup ended, he'd put a bunch of leftover slices in a pizza box to take with him. And he had a bottle of some kind in his bag that he'd pour the dregs of all the soda bottles into, and would take that with him too. It was weird because it was a tech meetup, presumably most people were making at least 6 figures.

Until today I had never considered that this might be his only source of food.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 73 points 1 day ago (6 children)

... there are only about 350M Americans. She's saying 74% have been saved.

What a goddamn fucking moron liar.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Man my View Master reels were way more boring than this

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 12 points 1 day ago

And the crucial "Break out of frames!" link which I always appreciated

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Depends how cold the tube grubs are.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I sincerely doubt this is true, but if it is, it's not funny, it's fucked up - she had sex with him under false pretenses. He deserves to know who he's having sex with.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 6 points 2 days ago

You'd have to be an absolute moron to trust them with that much sensitive data.

 

What women-led YouTube channels do you all like? Share them below!

 

Hey friends. I've recently realized that what I thought were freckles is actually melasma, and my dermatologist has prescribed me tretinoin for it. I have very pale skin, generally normal in the winter and a little oilier in the T-zone during the summer, but it can dry out really badly with things like AHA. From what I've heard, tret is pretty drying. My dermatologist recommended that I start with applying it only two nights a week, and using a pea-sized amount mixed into my moisturizer. I use the Tatcha Water Cream moisturizer, which is pretty light and has been great for me, but with tret I'm wondering if I'll need a heavier moisturizer. I'm also worried that my usual double-cleansing will worsen the dryness from tret. I double-cleanse with an oil balm to remove my mineral sunblock, then with the Tatcha Rice Wash to get rid of the sunblock & oil balm residue. But I'm thinking the rice wash might be irritating because it's got a (mild) physical exfoliant, so maybe I need to find something else for my second cleanse?

Does anyone have any experiences to share about dryness on tret, or just starting tret in general? Anything I should be aware of? I'm weirdly nervous about it!

 

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Today CheeseToastie created a new community for women's interests (makeup, women's health, skincare, whatever). I've agreed to share it around so if you're interested, come join us at !WomensStuff@lazysoci.al

 

Ladies, help me choose nail polish for a St Paddy's Day fest this weekend! I will be wearing all the tacky plastic shamrock shit the grocery store will sell me (plus green eyeshadow). Here are the contenders (from left to right):

ILNP - Reminisce
ILNP - 1UP
Cirque Colors - High Society
Cirque Colors - Mood Ring (magnetic)
Cirque Colors - Ethel
Orly - It's Not Rocket Science
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Which one should I go with?

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by klemptor@startrek.website to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
 

Since the last release, I find that gifs won't play in Jerboa anymore. For example, this comment just appears as a static image for me, even when I click on it. Do you see the same behavior?

Edit: solved by user merde alors:

did you enable "auto play GIFs" in settings>look&feel ?

Then close and reopen the app and that should fix it.

 

 

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