There’s a company near me called the Telamon Corporation, which is the name of the Dragon from the Wheel of Time. So it’s not just cyberpunk, there’s fantasy as well
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You can type in things that you like at certain parts of the game, as well as things like nicknames, and then the villagers will incorporate those things into their dialogue
Chronological order has to be the worst way to get into Star Trek lol
Enterprise is not popular (though I personally didn’t mind it), and Discovery is terrible. Then you go from the absolutely amazing Strange New Worlds, to the hokiest Original Series. You must be getting whiplash
I didn’t manage to get that far into Discovery, but I liked Stamets. It felt like he was the only member of the crew that had any business being a Star Fleet officer lol
I loved that in Lower Decks s3e1, they had the female characters in cool, modern future clothes, like in Discovery and Picard, but then the male characters wore the old-school color blocked nonsense. At one point, Rutherford actually says, “…my shirt could be more asymmetrical…”
Piracy isn’t a problem of price, it’s a problem of convenience. Five years ago, when there were less streaming services, and they had better libraries, way less people pirated stuff. Now that there are more of them, and their libraries are worse, piracy has become the convenient option again.
That’s the problem with the libraries. At this point, most streaming services only really have a handful of things on them that any given person will want to watch. I used to use Netflix almost daily. Now, I can’t remember the last time I opened the app, because there’s never anything I want to watch
Right, and what I’m saying is that because of these trends, there are really two options: pay for all of the services (or have a password sharing network), so you have a decent selection of shows, or, don’t pay for any of them. We’re getting to a point where a single streaming service isn’t worth the $12 it costs because it’s inconvenient and empty. I don’t expect it to get better.
He would definitely be coyly keeping up his charade, like he did with Julian throughout the show, but Mariner just keeps citing all this actual evidence that Star Fleet has on him now. I could totally see a scene where he says something along the lines of, “You underestimate me, Mariner. I may be a simple tailor, but I am still a Cardasian. We are a hardy people.”
And then she responds, “Didn’t you get addicted to a pain relieving device, implanted in your brain to make you resist torture, because the station was a little too cold?”
Garak ends up really liking her because of her competence, and willingness to call him out, which gives him opportunity to practice his lies, that he hasn’t had for a long time on DS9.
As a compliment to the thread about near death experiences I’d really like hearing people’s experiences of losing consciousness under general anesthesia and what’s it like coming back....
I recently had that one medical procedure that no one likes to talk about. They had to put the IV in the webbing between my right ring finger and pinkie, because I was so dehydrated that they couldn’t hit a vein anywhere else. That was by far the worst part.
Once they were set up, they wheeled me into the OR, I chatted with a nurse for a minute or two, thought about commenting on the music, and then I woke up in my original hospital room with my girlfriend. It only took me a couple minutes and a cup of water to feel normal again. My girlfriend was very disappointed.
Then, we just got discharged, and I walked out, no problem. I actually went to get labs done that I needed for a different doctor. About an hour after I woke up, I felt a bit shaky, but that was it. It’s was the least intrusive thing ever. It felt like I just skipped part of the day and then continued as normal
Big Tech companies are finally getting the names we thought dystopian megacorps would have
Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren’t straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic
'Still hard to believe': Moorhead teen hooks a billfold full of money on Lake of the Woods (www.inforum.com)
Buy junk food so we can give a shit for a limited time and penny pinch at the same time! (lemmy.world)
Girl kissing rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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A Classic Sidecar (midwest.social)
Mostly wanted to post because I feel like I did a really good job on the sugared rim lol...
Wow! If I had a nickel for every time a Trek show had a blind engineer, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Right? (startrek.website)
Transcription: A side by side picture of Star Trek Strange New Worlds character Hemmer and The Next Generation character Geordi La Forge.
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A Central African lyre made from a human skull, antelope horns, skin, gut, and hair. 19th century CE - Amazing Today43 (amazingtoday43.com)
Neelix be all like "hold my leola root, i got this" (feddit.de)
Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap. (www.businessinsider.com)
Sooner or later, everything old is new again....
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Have you ever been under general anesthesia? What was it like? Did anything strange happen?
As a compliment to the thread about near death experiences I’d really like hearing people’s experiences of losing consciousness under general anesthesia and what’s it like coming back....