Honestly, I feel like we crossed a line at some point where nudity in movies feels unnecessary.
I'm not sure if it's the proliferation of porn in our society, or being more conscious about everything pandering to the male gaze, or the huge number of rapists in powerful positions, or just being cynical about everything, but I can't remember the last time I saw nudity in a movie or TV show that didn't come off as exploitative.
I love Elite and it's definitely amazing in VR. For everything in a ship I agree with you, NMS is childish in comparison.
However, NMS is attempting a way more multi-cultural galaxy, and I often wish Elite had more diversity in aliens, and more interesting planets similar to NMS. Especially when Elite has so much grind to do rep etc. I wish just once I'd be doing a delivery quest to an acid jungle planet covered in hostile turtles, instead of yet another dead planetoid with a few outposts sticking out of it.
No Man's Sky is an incredibly uneven experience. The one thing it does better than its peers is the variety of aliens and flora/fauna. There are easily 30 hours of fun in just exploring around and seeing some cool alien vistas and ecosystems, trying to survive on ice or acid planets etc. The game gives you good reason to visit them too.
However, it sort of falls apart after that. The space flight, mining, and combat aren't nearly as good as (e.g.) Elite, the quests are pretty meh, the base building is okay but it falls down on automating production of anything you actually care about (I.e. it's mostly aesthetic, but it can be cool to have a home base in a neat spot). Some of the recent updates added things like big carrier ships, and the game contrives to give you one to captain with a quest... But that sort of obliterates the ship progression.
You may have more fun with something like Elite or X4 depending on what you're looking for, but if you just want to fuck around and see neat stuff on your own timeframe, NMS could definitely justify its price tag.
As Carlin said: it's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
Ah, okay.
That Tawny Newsome show sounded like such a cool premise and angle on the universe, could have been great but yeah I assume it got axed.
Academy also has an S2, not sure if that drops first.
Honestly, I'm kinda happy for Trek to go on hiatus for a while. The Discovery era has been more miss than hit, especially if only considering the mainline live action shows (DSC, PIC, SNW) and with the Skydance acquisition I'm not looking forward to Ellison Trek.
Maybe in another few years, with fresh writers and show runners who are actual Trek fans, etc. but for now, give it some distance and let the influence of Kurtzman/Orci/Abrams be left behind.
The current exploit was found with AI and released (after it was found and kept secret by the original dev in the hopes of keeping GTA VI runnable) but the other infrastructure is still basically the same as it ever was. Post jailbreak, running the Linux ELF loader you're booting a pretty standard Linux kernel and distro.
If you're interested in PS5 Linux, I wouldn't let the drama over the exploit get in your way.
That said, until it can reboot without involving another Linux machine to deliver the payload, it's a fun trick but you might as well just buy the SoC for $250, a Steam Machine, or build a PC to have a better supported Linux flow.
Haha, I phrased it that way to note that it was a ratings decision. Anyway, hope you like it.
It's just awful. The second to last episode includes a good little speech from Archer that really works as a bookend of the show. Then the last episode completely crashes and burns trying to bookend the entirety of 90s Trek. If it's your first time, you kinda have to watch it, but just know a lot of people (myself included) don't consider it canon and skip it on every rewatch. It's that bad.
It's probably more evenly split than VOY. The show builds in a reason for everyone to get semi-naked and it leads to some pretty egregious scenes for the male 18-49 demographic, but there are plenty of cases with shirtless or underwear clad men too. Everyone on the show is attractive and fit even by TV standards.
Watch Enterprise. It's a divisive show in the community, mostly because it made a decision to be "sexier" and then got dark in response to 9/11, not to mention the whole theme song debacle or the must skip series finale...
However, there is also a lot of good Trek in there and some insight into humanity post First Contact but pre Federation. You owe it to yourself as a fan to at least give it a chance.
Personally I could do without gore, torture and weapon fetish bullshit as well, but I've also never looked at an action extra getting shot in the head or a stuntperson being lit on fire and wondered if they felt exploited or if they felt pressured to sexually gratify some powerful exec that could ruin their career.