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a spicy development I did not see coming 

1 hour ago, ThreePi said:

I personally have only ever used the website via a browser. I generally only read and post comments, I'm not making new topics or posting media.

Same here. I do 99% of my reddit browsing on desktop 

Honey I Joined a Cult

plays a lot like a slightly less fiddly version of Prison Architect

Starfield looks way better than I expected 

14 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

Man, Blizzard's ad agency really earned its fee this time!

 

Was in NYC for a few days but the haze had not hit yet when I walked by this billboard 

6 hours ago, SoberChef said:

All around, Double or Nothing 2023 was a solid show (even if the build yet again wasn't quite the best ... but I'll still take it over the alternative.)

 

The 4 Pillars match, JFC! No words, just none. Left me speechless at how insane crazy talented all four of the young men are in the ring. Really something special they are no doubt about it, so happy I've watched their evolution over the last 5 years.

that has kind of the been the way with a lot of AEW PPVs over the last couple of years, mediocre build capped by absolutely banger shows

4 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

I'm really at a loss as to the overall strategic point of this Belgorod excursion as there is a less-than-zero probability of it amounting to anything more than an mere annoyance for Moscow.

Actual Ukrainian boots on Russian soil is going to have real psychological effects far beyond any physical or material ones even if they are only their for a few hours. Ukraine invaded(maybe) a city in Russia. Not a cruise missle or a drone but troops 

Good to see high budget "original" scifi

Watched it last night, it was great. The main deadite is best horror villain of the last few years.

honest question here, is she even cognitively able enough to resign at this point? Is there a 25th amendment like device for senators?

it is pretty clear at this point that they have found a way to hang a lot of western gear off MiGs over the last year

Saw 20 new posts since this morning and assumed he died,  should have known it was an argument about something tangentially related 

2 hours ago, Jason said:

 

Those staffer salaries are way low for them to be pulling this shit. 

those staffers essentially get to be an unelected Senator, they are getting an absurd amount of power and influence

The Roddenberry achieve just put a rather meticulous recreation of each Enterprise bridge and you walk around them

Enterprise XCV-330 (c2100) - Roddenberry Archive

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The Roddenberry Archive: Legacy of the Starships Enterprise

Thoughts on the whole season. Obviously a night and day improvement over the first 2. Characters acted like themselves for the most part and speaking of acting everyone brought their A game this season. I honestly think this is the best work Burton, Frakes and McFadden have done in these roles over the course of the last 35 years. The what is the deal with Jack plot went on too long but that was the only major misstep this season.

Things get wrapped up a little to neatly at the end but that is just Trek for you. Like from the look on Sidney's face after she gets deborged she has the full memories and realization of the things she did while she was a borg, a whole lot Starfleet just became meat puppets to murder a whole lot more of Starfleet, Troi is going to be putting in some serious overtime. Don't like the Titan-A getting renamed either, yeah ships in Trek get renamed but not ones that have earned the suffix honor.

1 hour ago, Jason said:

 

We absolutely do not need more Section 31 stuff and it remains absolutely bizarre that Discovery gave Space Hitler a warm fuzzy sendoff with the entire crew adoring her.

calling her space Hitler is putting it lightly, she committed genocide on mass scales and fucking ATE people

some cool behind the scenes on the new old set. they even went to the trouble to recreating the look of a technical flaw/challenge from 80s set building that could have been fixed with modern LEDs but it wouldn't look exactly the same

It is worth noting that the one ship that the bridge crew retook control of and then was destroyed by the rest of the fleet was the Excelsior, as of last season that was the ship that Elnor was assigned to, dude can't catch a break.

Wonder if Majel Roddenberry's lines were cobbled together from old dialogue or if they finally got around to making the AI voice of her, she supposedly recorded piles of phonetic sounds that could be used before her death but with the crazy advances in voice AI over the last couple of years you can probably just feed in all the sound clips of her from the various series and get something really really close.  

6 hours ago, Jason said:

Oh apparently the ship Shelby was on was the Enterprise-F, that's probably what the headline I saw was talking about. I completely didn't register that it was an Enterprise, I seriously thought it was Voyager.

They said something along the lines of "NCC -1701F leaving Spacedock" but it does a have a similar shape to a lot of new starfleet vessels. 

I figured the D would be making an appearance since they dropped a line about something being in hanger 12 earlier in the season, it is the cheapest and easiest of fan service but fuck it this is supposed to be the send off for this crew give it to me. It was cool seeing all the bridge consoles light up with modern effects/set building techniques.

I was hoping it wouldn't be the Borg because I feel that has been done to death at this point but the Pah-Wraiths just didn't fit into a TNG story and bringing in a totally new big bad in the last 2 hours would have been a bit much so I guess we were kind of stuck with them.

some nerdy thoughts now, Starfleet is going to be completely wrecked now personnel-wise, did everyone over the age of 25 just get killed, even after our heroes deborg everyone is there going to be anyone left over the rank of ensign? Like did we just lose the entire cast of DS9 and Voyager?

12 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

Looks like we're gonna have to wait longer for the second season:

 

Arcane Season 2 Won't Be Ready This Year - IGN

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Arcane fans are eagerly awaiting the second season of the League of Legends animated series, but the wait will extend beyond 2023.

 

 

They can take all the time they need. I don't care if it 4 years between seasons if they can keep up with the quality of the first.

My thought against Armus is that Troi is familiar with him and she didn't mention anything about recognizing "the darkness" that was around Jack

if they don't reveal EVERYTHING about Jack in the first 5 minutes next week I am going to be pissed, this is dragging out way to long.

This episode was an improvement over the last couple of weeks, gave all the characters something to do, loved seeing the gang around the conference table again.

Stabbing Changelings is very very dumb even if they are mutated Changelings, we saw one get shot in the head last week and pop back up 2 seconds later.

AEW  is going to Wembley. That will be their largest show by a huge margin but I don't see how they can possibly get anywhere close to selling it out. It seats 90,000+

2 hours ago, Jason said:

 

The main thing that bothers me with the Vadic backstory is that it seemed like more of the "Section 31 is an official organization where the members run around with distinctive black badges" stuff we've gotten since Discovery (or apparently the JJ movies? I don't remember much about them at this point though). In Discovery it can at least be handwaved away that they were forced underground after how out of control they were portrayed as getting in Discovery, but showing this as being in the Dominion War timeframe...in Deep Space Nine they were very explicitly a shadow organization nobody was sure was actually real.

 

I guess Ross turning a blind eye with the genocide virus means they must have had SOME kind of presence SOME high level people knew about, but an entire Section 31 space station doesn't exactly scream "shadow organization".

not only S31 super clandestine in DS9 it felt like the tiniest thing out there, like if some show runner in the 90s said that S31 was Sloan and 10 other operatives I would have believed it