if they ever do an oral history of the development of that series, it will be a juicy read.

I agree. I've never been interested in meeting any of the cast of any of the shows, buuut if I got the chance to meet any of them I would absolutely choose disco so I can ask how it went down.

It's just the same story, Netflix picked it up then declined to renew.

Their process ignores gems like Scavenger's Reign and workhorses like Prodigy in favor of, I dunno, bean counting?

... the removal of the hair, having done hairless Klingons with J.J.’s films. So I’d personally already gone through the Internet backlash, and so when Bryan said, ‘Yeah, we’re going to do bald Klingons, like it’s gonna be tricky, man.’ And so everyone was salting the broth.

Sometimes you just gotta keep making the same mistake until you learn. At least this guy is humble and practical about it.

cries in Scavenger's Reign

Yeah really fun premise slathered in boring characters.

If I recall it devolved into some CW-flavor bullshit revolving around the girl, who is her real father, why is she special. Blah blah blah.

I love seeing Picards priorities on full display.

Picard walking Beverly to beam down to her lover:

You go girl!

Picard receiving Beverly's resignation:

Umm nobody leaves me. Data, find me everything you can on Ronin.

Upon further reflection

My humble contribution, Kai Winn

For Archer I can also imagine:

Rod Stewart's "Faith of the Heart"

Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping"

Katy Perry's "Roar"

For Janeway the only song that comes to mind is Rage's "Killing in the Name of" because fuck you she won't do what you tell her.

RIP Escapist Magazine

This reminds of a scene from a movie I recently saw.

The “founder” of McDonalds hyping up fake powder milkshakes for franchisees so they don’t have to spend money on real ice cream.

The enshittification marches on.

Ahh Deathwish I haven’t thought about that in years but yeah it does have white flight, brown gangs, and one NYC architect-cum-vigilante savior.

Dare I ask you to go further?

What’s an extreme example of a crypto-rightwing-coded-80s-flick?

I won’t say no to more of this

My brutal but fair take:

I feel the bigwigs for Star Trek would sacrifice us all, in a heartbeat, for their own Grogu to get the kiddos buying merch.

I had to blow the dust off this one https://conanzeromus.ytmnd.com/

praised for its seamless open world, amazing bosses and freedom of choice.

repetive mini bosses and dungeons, rather empty open stretches in the overworld

These can be true statements from players with different engagement levels.

If you only do the content you stumble across toward the end, it may well feel boundless.

But if you cleared every annoying catacomb, every gaol, etc then you start to see the seams and artifice.

I guess the boss funneling is accurate, because the entry toward the Morgott bottleneck is technically a funnel.

In fairness I adore the bosses because they made me level up as a player and now Consort Radahn is my absolute favorite boss to spank.

The real universal praise should be for the jump button 🙏

Hell ya! One of Quark’s finest scenes:

They have weapons. You have weapons. Everyone has weapons. But right now, no one has a clear advantage. So the price of peace is at an all-time low. This is the perfect time to sit down and hammer out an agreement. Don't you get it? Attacking the Cardassians now will only escalate the conflict and make peace more expensive in the long run. Now, I ask you, is that logical?

I want to believe in the age of enshittificiation that The Martian Chronicles will take on a new life.

It’s so bleak how it ends with highways and diners everywhere.