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[–] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Echoing move to SNW. It has a higher budget than older Trek and follows the current trend of "mini-series" storytelling. Older Trek follows older TV rules (wanted 26 eps to a season so a lot of filler to make it so). DS9 would be my other rec with a heavy caveat that if you're not feeling an ep skip it and look it up on memory alpha later, particularly for the first season. As it goes on it gets more into the long form storytelling you'd expect with today's shows, but first few seasons can be a bit rough and there can be a long time between plots being revisited (but when they are they make it count). TNG, Voyager and TOS are mainly monster/problem of the week (Voyager kind of weakly straddles longform and episodic leaning heavily towards episodic). Out of them I'd recommend TNG outside of the first two seasons (first season is TOS scifi tales encore, second season I actually like a lot and has some good eps, but general like is a minority opinion and cast gets retooled in third season anyway).

If you don't mind kids shows also recommend Prodigy (kinda like a Trek ATLA imo).

[–] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure which party, but I've been getting the same notice in the mail every ~3 days with this message and my voting record listed all the way back to 2016 for the past two weeks. Honestly not sure if it's an attempt to intimidate me to vote a certain way because it sure is going beyond "people will know if you voted" to kind of insinuating they'll know who I vote for. Fail point is I don't know acronyms for political groups so I'm not sure which one they're trying to get me to vote for lol

[–] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

My experience here. Had one a place I worked which did breakfast foods (yogurt, breakfast sandwiches, breakfast burritos , etc) with a small microwave slot to heat up after it vended. Food was absolutely gross and it was always dicey if anything it vended was still in date. Only nice thing was the front was see through so you could check which items had visible mold and avoid those...

Was cheaper than the cafe and had better hours (all of them) for my shift, but I don't think the trade off of rolling the dice on food poisoning was worth it lol.

[–] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

If they're trying to do an animated spin off of the live action Barbie movie they have grossly missed the point. People who saw the Barbie movie aren't going to watch an animated movie to see if Ken is finally "kenough". Honestly not sure why they wouldn't stick to the animated movie prescription of promoting their latest line either. It's a toy they can sell and frankly not all of those movies are even terrible. They're not going to win Oscars, but the animated Barbie movies wouldn't have to up their game much to be in the running for animation awards as they're generally pretty meta making them fun for all ages. They had an animated online series (dreamhouse) that was well-acclaimed before the live action movie and actually seemed to inform how some of the live action movie was done.

Really sounds like sitting on a gold mine and then trying to steal the workers' bathroom because suddenly it got the "right" interest via controversy.

[–] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

"After approaching the coelacanth to encourage it to move between two cameras positioned on a custom-made stand, the team turned on the lights. "At this depth, some think that there is no light," says Ballesta. "There is [very] nice light. It's tiny, it's soft, but there is still light. So, it's important to not use too much artificial light. It's like driving in a car at night. If you put your lights on full, you see just in front of the car, and all the rest is dark. If you switch off your lights – and there is a little bit of moon – suddenly you see everything: the road, the mountains, the forest. It's the same when you're deep.""

For anyone else wondering.

[–] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
  • Boardwalk Empire - 1920s-30s period drama about mobsters, prohibition, etc set in New Jersey/Atlantic City
  • Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries - 1920's period detective show set in Melbourne
  • Peaky Blinders - haven't watched it myself, but my understanding is it was pretty popular, 1920s period drama about a gang set in 1920s Birmingham
  • Fargo (season 4) - haven't watched it again, but I've heard good things and season 4 (it's an anthology series, each season is a different cast/story so you don't have to have watched the previous seasons) is 1950s Missouri with gangs
[–] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

From playing d&d with a few definitely... Never had another group try to convince me it's simple math to work out the dynamics of a fireball and how far it would really go in a tunnel system because they wanted to get enemies around a corner too lmfao.

[–] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I love how fed up Damar gets by the end of the war lol

[–] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We've got a lot of reposts though I am working on a write-up of that time a Japanese romance comic had a black heroine's reward be "you turn white".....

 

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[–] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thought the time honored tradition was switching to another channel to watch another show's opener so you'd know what was going on when you switched there during commercial breaks. Just my family?

 

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[–] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If there's going to be more voyager characters I really hope Neelix gets a cameo for an episode. I'd love to see him back in the kitchen with Jankom taste testing lol

 

Weekly Hobby Round Up

This is a weekly catch-all post for casual hobby talk for the community. This post is for breaking drama (the 14 day rule will not apply to this post), news, chat, drama that may not fit the rules or is too short for a post write-up, etc. Bring your own popcorn!

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  • Be civil
  • Follow lemmy.world's posting rules
  • Don't link directly to pirate or malware sites, use screenshots instead
  • No vagueposting (changing names and not naming bands/fandoms/etc is fine, but if your post is so vague no one can understand the drama it will be deleted)
  • Explain any acronyms and hobby terms (not everyone here is in your hobby!)
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[–] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I also thought no one used facetime until I worked retail recently... The amount of people I saw come in on a facetime calls where they both just had their cameras pointed at the ceiling was bizarre and boggling.

 

Hey there! This is obviously a community in the vein of the reddit Hobby Drama subreddit, but I wanted to check in to see where we want to draw a few rules as a community. So to that end:

REPOSTING FROM REDDIT

I did see a few people were interested in having a bot auto repost from the reddit sub and most of our posts are reposts. My question here is should we have an anything from another site (reddit or otherwise) is fair game to repost with proper credit (let's try to keep those links back to original write-ups, I feel this is only fair to the authors) rule or should permission be obtained from the author first for reposts (basically like r/bestofredditorupdates on reddit)?

DRAMA RESOLUTION WAITING PERIOD

The reddit sub has a 14 day waiting period for drama to conclude before a post can go up. As we're obviously a smaller community I don't see the need to be as stringent, but waiving the waiting period could lead to a lot of biased hot take posts. Would the community like to see the waiting period waived, lowered, remain?

ETA: this post is open for discussion until 7/24 so please do add your opinion even if you feel "late" to the discussion! It's my goal to have the community rules updated by Friday 7/28 to fit our community a little better and knowing how our community feels as migration from reddit continues to take place will be a big assist.

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