Miles O'Brien @ SARGE @startrek.website

Senior Chief Petty Officer. Starfleet is in my blood, and I've spent my ent

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Every time my family brings up some character they believe "didn't need to be gay", I start bringing up movies I know they like that have unnecessarily ham-fisted romances that make no sense.

To all the people who think Pacific Rim would have been improved by Raleigh and Mako kissing at the end, you are wrong. There was 0 need for romance in a movie about giant robots beating the shit out of giant alien monsters.

Most action movies don't need their little romance subplots, yet they're everywhere.

Most movies would be mostly unchanged if you took out any romantic entanglement at all.

9/10 times, they're all unnecessary.

But if they're going to be crammed in, they should be representative. Lgbtq+ exist. They deserve representation.

My family has mostly stopped mentioning it around me.

Sorry about that, just a little transporter mishap.

I'll get it sorted right away.

pats pattern buffer gently

I mean, it would have been nice if the game had been finished when it came out.....

But hey, they've fixed nearly every problem I had with the game on launch. Which is infinitely more than most of the companies who release shitty broken games.

Me, thinking to myself: what if this completely illogical and unlikely thing happened RIGHT NOW

Also me, to my wife: why would you think that completely illogical and unlikely thing would happen right now....

I think after years and years of 3d games, I just don't like 2d anymore.

I've become institutionalized by a third dimension...

I don't even enjoy Castlevania anymore and those games were my jam back in the day.

"LOL you either pay whatever GLORIOUS COMPANY SAYS and get NOTHING and you LIKE it or you're trash and deserve to rot in the gutter"

I never could get into terraria, but some days I want to buy it just to support a good developer.

It was as much her own "fault" as it was Wesley's.

Wes created the little universe bubble she got sucked into, but her own subconscious filled it and made things disappear.

It's insane to me that entire fucking countries governments act no different than literal children.

This is stereotypical school yard bully tactics. It's so fucking stupid. People point to specific sad stories as reasons they lost faith in humanity... I point to every country on the planet acting like children any time they have a slight disagreement, or decide they want something someone else has.

K was right. A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals.

This is so fucking dumb.

I love it.

Did you just link tvtropes with no warning?

At this point I'm just going to assume the core was still slightly frozen or close to it when I put it in. I left it to thaw for several days in the refrigerator...

Ah well, a learning experience for next year.

It is precooked, and it's made it up to 120! 25 more to go and it'll be ready to serve, and food got pushed back anyway, so there's still hope.

And offend me dear old ma? She never believed in using replicators.

I once dropped a water bottle out of my backpack, and couldn't find it when I retraced my hike, but I did start noticing tons of trash everywhere.

So I started keeping a trash bag in my backpack, and filling a small bag every time I hike.

I may not have found my bottle, but I'll make sure I clean up more than I left every time I'm out.

I've had plenty of times where I get home and empty my pockets of the trash I accumulated with no can nearby.

And if I try to put something in a can and it falls out, I'm taking it with me because I didn't succeed in throwing it away.

Shrugging ans saying "well I tried" as you walk away isn't even trying.

Being a first time, or even just smaller developer is a nightmare when you compare it against large companies.

You basically don't have a chance if you try to carry your dream yourself, because you lack funding. But getting in bed with larger companies for funding and marketing puts an insane amount of pressure to perform well or go under.

I can totally understand why so many things were over-promised. I can't excuse what we got on release, but I do understand why he lied, even in the weeks leading up to release where everyone who plays immediately knows what's bullshit.

And to be honest, I would likely do the same in some situations.

Like the multi-player aspect where supposedly you would be able to see each other in-game. They really thought with the size of the procedural generation it would take a lot longer for people to meet, even if they were trying to meet up. Unfortunately they forgot to take statistics and probability into account. With the large amounts of people playing, two were bound to end up close enough to meet in the finest few days.

I think they really thought they'd have time to fix it before anyone met.

You'll say anything when it's your future, and the futures of all the people you work with, on the line.

My ham has been in the oven for 2 hours and the core temperature is only 70... I don't think it will be ready when "dinner" starts in an hour and a half...

To be fair, this is the first time I've cooked holiday food in my own oven in my own residence... I've never cooked a ham this big before.

Luckily the mouse has been practicing his sleight of hand, and swapped the cinnamon out with a cinnamon-stick-shaped cyanide capsule he cleverly hid up his sleeve!

So unless you're telling me the bird is also a master magician...

I've found one thing pretty helpful in explaining to people around me how to look at the situation. It's very simplified on purpose. Nuance is dead.

"You and your neighbor inherited your houses from your parents. They hated each other, but you never found out why. Growing up in their house made you dislike your neighbors too, though you have no reason to except any bad things the neighbors do to you because they don't like your parents. You're in the crossfire of anger. So when you and the neighbor move in, you both hate each other still.

5 years go by and the neighbor decides to put up a fence, and the city council says that it doesn't matter where the property lines are, they will set the fence and that's where it stays.

Then for years your neighbor is making improvements to their property, and what used to be half your yard. They begin moving the fence around to suit their projects.

One day your neighbor kicks down your door, sticks a gun in your face, his brothers grab your wife and kids, shoot your dogs, beat your child to death and when you call the police, they sit back and say "they have every right to defend themselves" and start handing them more guns.

now the neighbor is going down the lane, taking over each house and killing 1/3 of the people who live there, at minimum and the city council just shrugs and says "there's nothing we can do, we can't interfere in their internal stuff"

The neighbor keeps yelling to everyone walking by that they are the real victim here. They are being FORCED to do this. Every house has people who want to kill them in it. And to prove it, they grab someone who's been beaten for days, ask them "do you hate me" and when the person tries to attack them they get executed, the people walking by shake their heads and wonder why that person didn't just let them have the house, because surely that would have made the neighbors happy.

The current government of Israel was given land by foreign nations who had no claim on the land, and just compare modern borders with 1950 borders. The neighbors didn't just move out and Israel bought the land. Any look at news from history will show you all their "defensive" actions that resulted in expanded territory. "

If the person sticks around for the whole explanation, roughly 50% of the time they open their phone to look some things up.

I may not be changing anyone's mind, but if I can get them to at least question the official" bullshit then it's a partial success.