I liked the commentary. I find in sci-fi a short parallel to our world is often not seen as a jab because the veneer of sci-fi is enough to disguise it for most people.
I asked my partner if he noticed the commentary and he didnโt at all ๐
I think youโre right in that itโs better to be subtle.
The thing about audiences is that they span the gamut, so a little bit of in-your-face is likely seen as warranted for that spectrum of the audience, and a little bit of subtle for observant viewers casts a wider net.
Although I find Doctor Who to be among the least subtle in whatever it tries to do in the genre so, anything over the top kind of feels like it fits in the show as long as they intersperse the season with less obvious commentary as well. My partner only complained that everyone was running around and screaming the whole time ๐
Letโs just hope nobody interprets using proper pronouns as leading to a nuclear apocalypse ๐ซฃ
Itโs mostly sold as alternate history for the space race, but itโs first and foremost a drama.
Drama about people that happen to go to space in an alternate world.
Drama about people having sex with >! their dead childrenโs best friend who they also raised once their parents went to space and died, the repercussions which amazingly happened for multiple seasons, itโs kind of weird. !<
The driving force of the show is not the alternate history.
Iโm especially thinking of โtrypophobia.โ There are others, but itโs the worst. Iโll start out by correcting the word, at its most basic level: these motherfuckers have trypophilia. Yeah, I fucking said it....
Itโs like you put a voice to the part of my brain that gets annoyed when bloggers bring it up.
I remember first reading about it on the blogosphere and it blew up ever since then.
Seed pods give me the heebie jeebies and thatโs about it. Probably an evolved aversion to bee hives and wasp nests that was useful once upon a time, just like spiders and snakes.
Myst IV was made by Ubisoft Montreal. They had some heavy hitters on the team, Mary De Marle is an excellent writer and went on to do amazing things! Jack Wall, the composer that did Myst iii became a very productive video game composter.
URU wasnโt a side project, it was cyanโs big bet that nearly tanked the company. They had other side projects like a third party QA and testing department that kept them afloat. URU got cancelled before launching properly.
Myst V wasnโt meant to exist. After losing so much money on URU, Ubisoft pressured Cyan to put their unused assets from URU into a game that would sell. So they slapped it together with the Myst name that was more recognizable. The game plays and feels just like youโd expect.
Obduction was their big comeback and return to form. Myst-like game without the baggage of the old franchise.
I havenโt stopped playing Overwatch since it came out, still getting on with friends 2 or 3 nights a week and putting in a few hours (and Iโm still awful lol). I also still log on to Battlefield 1943 from time to time to get in a few matches....
Oh my god. I played those when they came out, except the newest one.
They were good for its time for the people who loved Myst games and then sought any adventure games that remotely resembled point-and-click adventures. We played really cool but definite imitators like Schism Mysterious Journey, The Longest Journey, Atlantis games, and The Journeyman Project.
Then came a developer called Microids with another pre-rendered point and click: โAmerzoneโ, everyone played that.
Once we got used to low-budget point and clickery it was only natural that when Microids came out with Syberia we all played it and loved it in the vacuum of adventure games back then. I wouldnโt recommend it to anyone blindly as they were a product of its time.
I still have to play the newest Syberia and Longest Journey, for nostalgiaโs sake only.
As people age, their thirst reflex tends to diminish or reduce. There are a few reasons for this:
The hypothalamus, the part of the brain that regulates body functions like thirst, becomes less sensitive to changes in the bodyโs water levels. As a result, older adults do not feel thirsty even when their bodies need more water.
Kidneys become less effective at concentrating urine as one ages. This means older kidneys lose more water during the process of filtering and eliminating waste from the blood. However, the reduced thirst reflex does not signal the body to drink more water to compensate for this loss.
Levels of hormones like vasopressin, which help the kidneys conserve water, tend to decrease with age. This further impairs the kidneysโ ability to retain water and increases the risk of dehydration if fluid intake is not sufficient.
Physical changes like loss of muscle mass and a slower metabolism reduce the overall fluid needs of the body. But the thirst mechanism is not adjusted accordingly, leading to inadequate fluid intake if one relies solely on thirst.
In summary, age-related physiological changes in the brain and kidneys undermine the bodyโs ability to sense dehydration through thirst. This is why it is important for older adults to drink water regularly, even when not feeling thirsty, to maintain proper hydration.
In a personal note, at 40 years old, in noticing this effect already.
Tbh this isnโt a bad take. The books revolutionised science fiction writing and it deserves credit for that but that was 1942. They havenโt aged well. But nuclear powered everything is funny to read about from todayโs perspective. I loved that the show actually mentioned nuclear powered ashtray as an Easter egg.
Asimov forgot to even acknowledge women existed until much later. So the show is less gender swap and more actually including women at all ๐
I know you can visit some theme parks at certain times of year to avoid many children, however what I mean are theme parks built more for imaginative and fun-loving adults....
Iโm surprised nobody is talking about accidentally flash-boiling in the microwave. Is that because they microwave the tea bag in the water in the cup? Because if you have clean water without the teabag, you could get a cup of exploding water in your face after you disturb the cup.
Maybe there is enough lead in the water to prevent this in America.
I use RO-filtered water and for fun we safely discovered it does flash boil in the microwave.
I use it in a proper glass tea kettle though. It stay clean for months now, it used to get messy in a few days using tap water. I also think tea steeps tea better in low TDS water. From an osmotic point of view, that makes sense.
Our RO-filtered water also flash boils. And flash freezes!
Distilled water is okay now that diets are more complete with vitamins. Especially if youโre eating your veggies. But that would be expensive and unnecessary ๐
โI stopped listening to you when you said you didnโt like โStar Trek.โ I know what happened because your mouth kept moving after that, so Iโm assuming you apologized,โ - Jon Stewart...
But I took the saying โadopt and shop responsiblyโ to heart and looked up what a responsible breeder has to do to be considered one.
Genetic tests determine if the dogs have known genes that cause diseases. If one of the parents has a recessive gene for a disease that wonโt express in the pups because the other parent doesnโt have it, you can keep dogs that have desirable traits like excellent personality, lack of anxiety and general health in the gene poolโhelping to maintain genetic diversity while not passing down a disease.
The kennel clubs (CKC) have started helping to reduce inbreeding by keeping track of the lineage of dogs and avoiding inbreeding by calculating the coefficient of inbreeding. The COI is a metric used in dog breeding to measure the level of inbreeding in a dogโs pedigree. It is an excellent tool for an institution that used to inadvertently encourage inbreeding because they created standards. Can more be done? Yes, is this a step in the right direction? Yes.
Itโs worth noting that genetic tests donโt know everything, they might only test for a handful of the 20,000 or so genes and we donโt know what all genes do, and some genes are benign in some breeds and dangerous in others. This is why x-rays and elbow and hip assesments of the parents are still important. Itโs also why meeting the parents of you puppy is important. If you donโt like them, you wonโt like their pups.
On top of that epigenetics massively impacts the behaviour of pups. This is especially true if the grandmother of a puppy had a happy stress free life. Yes, we now know that improvements from nurture not just nature can be inherited. Dogs with happy lives produce happy dogs.
A responsible breeder will have done all of this, as well as done early socialisation and desensitization for the first eight weeks of the pups and many more considerations like limiting the amount of times they use a dam. These tests and assessments would have cost them around $10,000 for the dam and sire.
I wrote this insane response because if typing this on a meme educated one person who might get a dog, then the world is just a little bit of a better place.
As cute as that sounds, for dogs, reducing separation anxiety is counterintuitive.
The more emotional both departing and returning is. The more it hurts them when you leave, the more separation anxiety develops.
In an ideal world, when you leave your dog for the day, saying nothing when going and a professionally distant โgreetings puppyโ when you return will reduce anxiety for a dog when left alone. This doesnโt work by itself; you have to teach them to be alone slowly and carefully.
It was so good for its time. I loved it so much as a kid. I especially loved the portable pattern buffer being a great in-universe solution to explain how a game character can carry many different weapons. It fits so well into the universe that I half expected to see such a thing on the shows someday. It would have been too disruptive to plot development for the characters always to have what they need with them, though.
Thanks for the giveaway, amazing to see you in the fediverse!
I started using symbicort for post infection inflammation and irritation. I havenโt had a cough longer than a day for years now. Existing over the counter cough medicine should be outlawed for lack of efficacy.
Season 1 (Series 14) Episode 1 Discussion Post (sh.itjust.works)
I figured this should be made for everyone โ I didnโt see one already.
โFor All Mankindโ Renewed For Season 5; Apple Expands Universe With Spinoff Series โStar Cityโ (deadline.com)
Meme phobias are an unacceptable insult to every person with real phobias.
Iโm especially thinking of โtrypophobia.โ There are others, but itโs the worst. Iโll start out by correcting the word, at its most basic level: these motherfuckers have trypophilia. Yeah, I fucking said it....
I never finished, and I'm not going back. (lemmy.world)
I saw a recent post that 60% of playtime in 2023 was spent on games 6 years or older. What 6+ year old games are you playing?
I havenโt stopped playing Overwatch since it came out, still getting on with friends 2 or 3 nights a week and putting in a few hours (and Iโm still awful lol). I also still log on to Battlefield 1943 from time to time to get in a few matches....
Texans scramble for VPNs after adult sites go dark: Here are some great ones (www.pcworld.com)
Drink up (i.imgur.com)
You only know you need it once it's gone (lemm.ee)
AppleTV โFoundationโ production paused (appleinsider.com)
Not a good sign.
Are there theme parks specifically for adults?
I know you can visit some theme parks at certain times of year to avoid many children, however what I mean are theme parks built more for imaginative and fun-loving adults....
US Embassy press release: Let us unite in our steeped solidarity and show the world that when it comes to tea, we stand as one. (twitter.com)
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JJ "Too Philosophical" Abrams (media0.giphy.com)
โI stopped listening to you when you said you didnโt like โStar Trek.โ I know what happened because your mouth kept moving after that, so Iโm assuming you apologized,โ - Jon Stewart...
They're good dogs, Brent (lemmy.today)
Fun with the fuzzy friends (lemmy.world)
Is anyone experiencing this high background usage with Sync? (i.imgur.com)
3 hours in the background seems a lot to me....
Star Trek Resurgence Giveaway (startrek.website)
Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing fine and are well prepared for the winter holidays!...
It's not just COVID anymore, or a triple-demic. Welcome to the 'new norm' of seasonal illnesses (www.cbc.ca)