semisimian

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[–] semisimian@startrek.website 12 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I just started a TNG rewatch last night after finishing DS9. Worf looks so weird.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 15 points 1 day ago

From the article: "The company claims One UI 8 brings "multimodal capabilities, UX tailored to different device form factors, and personalized, proactive suggestions." Having used the new OS for a few hours, it doesn't seem like much has changed with Samsung's AI implementation."

If you are curious, the article goes into more detail about the tweaks to the AI layer. I just wanted to provide a TLDR for those keeping up with the general AI shenanigans.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 8 points 2 days ago

I just watched this a few hours ago. Nothing else to add, just neat.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're related, those incestuous, chinless WASPs. Brother takes sister to a formal dance and stops by the pharmacy to get a malt and let Dad get a whiff of sister's corsage. Keep it in the family!

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 45 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Red Room hands out estrogen pills as yet another form of control. If you don't behave, you don't get your daily fix. You can tell the non-compliant girls by the lack of secondary sex characteristics. Ol Washboard Wendy over there is a rebel!

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago

They do, and as a Canadian, they should know that fellow Canadian John Hopps invented the 1st pacemaker. He's even considered the father of biomedical engineering. I dug through trying to find out if he coined the term "heartpacer," no such luck. It sounds like a Dutch translation to me.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 24 points 2 weeks ago

I am outside of the loop and I appreciate your break-down. I am all for paying for useful services, but I have such a backlog of media that I need to watch, I don't benefit from Trakt. I like a paid business model, though

We should all question a "free" app that lets us spend 1 or 2 or 8 hours a day on their platform. We've gotten greedy, thinking that everything should be personal data or advertiser supported. It stinks that Trakt is cutting features while raising prices, all for a pretty simple service, but I think subscription services that protect your privacy are worth funding.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like it's kind of odd to show the main character shilling fake products during an Upfront, where you are courting advertisers so that they can purchase blocks of advertising time "up front." I mean, it's a little meta, but also potentially confusing if you are trying to put your product next to Fallout's.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 3 points 3 weeks ago

That's the part of The Hulk we are all just told to ignore.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 6 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Do you know where you are commenting? And surely you mean "another Star Trek work place comedy," because we already have DS9.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a comedy, so I hope so too! I imagine the planet, being a vacation/pleasure planet, will have a lot of kinks that are taboo to the Federation and that's where you will find the narrative tension as they apply for membership. The planet will have a constitution at odds with the Fed, full of kinks. They might welcome species that have kinks not outlined in said constitution. They might welcome federation citizens that are exploring their non-Fed kinks on this planet.

We've seen plenty of criticism of the Federation's nanny-state. Lately, that criticism has come from the writers of the shows who seem to have lost the narrative that the Federation is our ideal. Sure, it has issues, but none of us should be ashamed of reaching for utopia. I hope the new show is a continuation of the SNW and Prodigy reboot of a less cynical Trek.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 10 points 3 weeks ago

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

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