I came across this box set and it's really messing me up for a lot of reasons (it is marked TOS despite having characters from all over the place, and for some mistaken reason Gul Dukat is included) but what I really wanted to talk about was Q's inclusion.
Do people usually consider him a villain?
I suppose he has done a lot of things that would be considered antagonistic, with a big one getting a number of Enterprise crew members killed in the first encounter with the Borg, but that seems, at least from his point of view a tough love moment. In the long term, Q did seem to have the survival of humanity as a goal. His judgment of humans was pompous but not villainous.
In the case of sci-fi, most of us are more responsive to online marketing campaigns and this film has the online presence of an Amish priest.
Even then, who is this movie for? Scifi nerds who liked Cloud Atlas but wished it was more incoherent and Roman themed?
That moment is seared in my brain. I remember nothing else about that movie.
This is the one where the guy gets cut in half by a glass door and half of him slides down and you see the gore, right?
Privating protests definitely had some teeth in the short term, but not in the long term
Toothless.
Interesting build from the era where AR rifles were going through a time of rapid iterative improvements.
The tube fore end was still cutting edge stuff at the time. Interestingly, no contemplation of any kind of monolithic rail. There is still a fixed front sight block, which is not just a left over feature, but an intentionally kept one. The front sight is advertised as having tritium illumination.
The fixed Sully stock which keeps the bottom facing slingloop is another sign of the times this was designed in. I think pretty much any high end AR outside of a DMR role (and even then) these days is coming with a collapsible stock. This one comes with a fancy upgraded fixed stock.
I think to say something broadly popular with the voting base and then forget about it after the election. Decent plan TBH.
I literally can't do it every day, as I won't have access to a rack for a good bit, but every day that I do, I'll lift heavy things for butt energy.
Obnoxious late 90s-early 2000s over the top stuff like Limp Bizkit. I don't know what happened. I always hated it until last year and then it just clicked. Please stay back.
Hey, wait a minute! The Simpsons just ripped off a scene from the classic 1989 superhero movie Dead Poets Society. Did they think we wouldn't notice?
this is very similar to the game Kenshi
Thanks! I like Kenshi and plan to play it more once I have a working laptop. I think I pulled some parallel inspiration as Kenshi for some of the style choices.
post it on r/Kenshi on reddit
No, I don't think I will.
The heavy AI integration though? Thats more of an Aperture thing I think?
From what I'm hearing, one of the antagonists is a thinly veiled Rupert Murdoch. Sounds like $120 million to pretentiously explain that Fox News is bad to an audience who figured that out two decades ago.
Baby pygmy hippo in a Thailand zoo. It's not just a lemmy thing (I've seen a few posts about the hippo, but not a flood), but a whole internet thing. All the social media feeds have the hippo as the cute thing of the week because it's a hippo, but tiny.
Eggers seems like an excellent choice to make a period piece vampire movie that is actually effective and doesn't come off as a joke. The Witch was tense and moody when a huge amount of the tension was just characters looking into the woods. Effective because Eggers showed just enough to keep the threat forefront. The Lighthouse was something of a swing and a miss plotwise, being about 15% too confusingly esoteric to keep the tension, but individual scenes and sequences were effective and tense. It was also a very well shot black and white movie. While Nosferatu isn't going to be black and white, it looks like it will have some very desaturated sequences, and knowing that those will be shot in a way where I can actually see what's happening is positive.
The shadow of the hand over the city was great, and I swear a reference to something but I can't quite place it.
The legendary Tony Hawk is back teasing a new game in the long-running skating franchise. Could Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3+4 be real?
“Do not follow me anymore or I will swallow you whole. That much I promise.” Justin’s rating: I don’t think it’s even possible to see and review every single Stephen K…
In this video, James Reeves is joined by Austrian gun expert Wolfgang of Black Trident as we explore the evolution of Austrian military autoloading pistols.Starting with the legendary Steyr 1907 and moving through iconic models like the Colt 1911, Walther P38, Steyr
Target has a fearsome reputation on the internet regarding how far it goes to stop shoplifting. As is commonly told, it is supposed to track repeat small time shoplifters until they have one last theft that puts them over $1000 (or whatever the magic felony amount is) and only then does Target drop the net and get the shoplifter convicted on a felony for the total amount that has been stolen over weeks or months as one charge.
As the story is told, it smells strange to me and creates many, many followup questions in my mind. I think those questions would be answered by reading through a court case. As famous as Target is, I feel like more dedicated online crime news followers would know of the case and how it played out. Can anyone point me at it?
Edit: The tale told here.
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