However, I hated the suggested romantic tension between Caleb and Genesis, fortunately it didn’t went further than that.

I think they did that well. Spent one moment of “is this…?” and then moved on. Felt very young adult to me, but I also hope that’s the last of it.

Yeah, I liked the episode, nothing felt out of place in individual scenes, but you’re right it does feel like they were trying to fit too much story into too little time. There’s like four B-plots in there.

Yeah, big difference between “Starfield 2” and “Starfield 2.0”, one is a sequel, the other is a version.

I have played the first 4 or 5 sectors now and it does hit a lot of the highlights but not every episode (although there may be some randomness to what shows up). I fucked up and entirely skipped Tuvix though.

Wesley (the boy?!)

True to your username, I heard the clip haha

the director thinking Geordie was an alien

Ugh. How did Stuart Baird end up directing this when you have a huge bullpen of Trek actor/directors that could’ve done so much better? Frakes is right there and did fine on First Contact / Insurrection. LeVar Burton himself, or even Roxann Dawson or Robert Duncan McNeill would have been available by then (although most of their directing credits come later).

I could understand if they went outside for someone that had a track record of decent movies, but Baird had little experience directing before Nemesis and apparently none afterwards.

Hi Karim, big fan of your work in Academy! Jay-Den’s backstory is already an all time great Trek episode.

My hard hitting question is personal: Coffee or tea? More generally, favorite drink?

It’s thoroughly mediocre. I will watch it if I’m watching the TNG movies, but probably not standalone. There is definitely some cool stuff in it, and I also like Tom Hardy and Ron Perlman, but as you note I don’t think it really pulls it all together. And then there are things I hate, like dune buggies, B4, and the fact they fucking killed Data.

It is especially bad as the last TNG movie. The TNG era crew should have got their Undiscovered Country epic last ride but Nemesis isn’t nearly conclusive enough. At least we’ll always have “All Good Things”.

Cronenberg’s Law: For every Garnet there’s a Brundlefly level freak of nature.

Btrfs has a bunch of features and is one of the contenders for the “next” filesystem. Ext4 is utterly bulletproof though and has good enough perf so it’s still your best bet unless you specifically want to use the advanced btrfs features.

I encourage you to watch it and form your own opinion (just make sure to get past the first ten minutes of the pilot, the tone shifts dramatically).

Captain Ake runs the Academy and commands the Academy ship, the Athena, which is used to do more hands on training but isn’t the flagship by any stretch. She’s more like a principal than a professor. The other main characters are cadets, with some strong supporting characters too.

IMO it’s the first live action Trek show in the new era to come out firing on all cylinders and it’s great to see.

Yes, but in context it’s not a big deal. A lot of it is contrasting her with her peer, the chancellor of the war college, who is uptight. Ultimately, she’s less military commander, or even explorer, and more chancellor of a school full of students and in that capacity it makes more sense to generate a relaxed atmosphere. When the situation calls for it, she can be serious as well.

She just has her own style, but people want to be negative because she’s not Picard-ing hard enough or some dumb shit.

It’s always great to see someone scratch their own itch, so kudos. However, I’m curious what the actual pain point is? Does your mouse not sample fast enough? Noticeable input lag on a gamepad? Seems like this would be a bug with the implementation if it needs to be overclocked to fix…

Are you putting Linux on it, or are you looking to run MacOS?

If you’re doing Linux, doing a GCC cross tool chain (with a tool like crosstool-ng) should be a good start.

I wonder if history will look back on contemporary kid pics like this.

“Born just in time for the bottom to fall out of the Western economy, get a worthless degree, and hold three jobs to survive under the rule of a pedophile cabal that started WW3”

Even if you did, 90% chance they’d charge you a few hundred bucks just to tell you to put Vaseline on it. 10% chance it turns black and they get to charge you big money to save you the trouble of cleavering it.

… Fuck insurance.

People just want to make snarky comments about the second amendment because we’re not shooting ICE agents in the face. They don’t want to hear about the things our communities are actually doing.

My own community hasn’t been hit as hard as MN but we’ve got rapid response hotlines tracking ICE, getting people with cameras and signs on them at the blink of an eye, and resource support groups for the undocumented.

Apparently that counts as nothing to a bunch of people that probably haven’t lifted a finger against their own government despite the fact that fascism is almost certainly rising there too.

That story made no sense. That guy is a glorified forklift, why would you simulate a body/that much intelligence when the computer could just do its job without being capable of resentment?

Oh, that makes more sense, but then “unsigned” void?

Okay, U8, sure, but a boolean is U0? Surely U1 if you absolutely must…

Looks great! Always a nice feeling to complete a build… For now at least.