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wrog

@wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net

genuine Internet Old Fart (if you're under 40, I have email that's older than you are).
sometime Democratic activist/party-hack & professional clueless, middle-aged white guy. He/him.
Math/computer-science degrees + physics courses. Music theorist by marriage.
Seattle area resident; orig. from New Jersey. Former Microsoft.
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moira, to cycling
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I was really pleased with this cleanup filtering until I noticed what it was doing with diagonal roads. :(

(Yes, this is part of the redo project with better tools. I'm also taking the opportunity to improve the background King County map.)

wrog,
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@moira

Problem with all of these is they have "Lake Forest Park" in them. I'm now officially tired of cities with 3 nouns in their name that aren't actually any of them. Please do something about this. kthxbai

wrog,
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@moira

also looks like whatever filter you used for versions 2 and 3 was effective at getting rid of those annoying bike paths. Good job.

(maybe I should write a Lake Forest Park filter)

cdarwin, to random
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New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act

and he won’t do it
https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/new-york-times-editor-joe-kahn-says-defending-democracy-is-a-partisan-act-and-he-wont-do-it/

wrog,
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@cdarwin

"NYT fully believes they have no obligation to stop the fascist attack on America. They’ve finally said so explicitly."

It should be noted they did this the last time around, too (lots of glowing articles about Hitler in the mid 1930s).

wrog, to random
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so... what pissed me off the most about the JJAbrams Star Trek movies:

seeing the trailer for the 2nd movie with Benedict Cumberbatch and Alice Eve, realizing that JJ had found the perfect re-casting for Gary Mitchell + Elizabeth Dehner and that this was obviously going to be a re-imagining of "Where No Man Has Gone Before."

Note that, generally, a pilot is made before the showrunners have fully figured out the worldbuilding/etc. There'll always be mistakes + stuff that no longer makes sense in the series context that eventually develops.

This was especially true of WNMHGB.

For a reboot/reimagining, that's what you need to re-do. Good episode, but so much to fix: Middle initial on the tombstone is the least of it.

1/4

wrog,
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And of course, dropping a rock on Mitchell would never have been enough to kill him.

That was clearly all staged for Kirk's benefit, to get him to go away and never come back so that they could enjoy their super-powered utopia in peace or fuck off to infinity and start the Q or whatever it was they were supposed to have done.

Naturally, there turns out to be Something They're Missing and they have to come back to get it … with suitably horrific consequences for humanity if they should succeed.

The plot writes itself.

2/n

wrog,
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And ALL of the property destruction you see in that trailer is completely explainable in terms of Mitchell's powers (Dehner's too; even in the original episode, once she gets her shit together, she goes from 0 to 60-Full-Ass-Beam-of-Death in no time, even if the 1966 special-effects/budget couldn't do it justice -- really needed to be detonating half of the landscape behind him whenever she missed).

Even if the movie were to end on a single half-destroyed ship fleeing the multi-solar-system battlefield with a message,

"Dear Organians/Metrons/Treylane's-People/ANYBODY:

We've well and truly fucked ourselves now. PLEASE HELP.

kthnxbye,"

it would still have been magnificent.

I was so looking forward to that movie.

3/n

wrog,
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Instead we got this completely lame rehash of Wrath of Khan, the original version of which, I might remind, was basically the culmination of TOS -- one of the best things they ever did with that cast + Ricardo Montelban in top form.

(I will still put Doomsday Machine in 1st, but that's me...).

I mean, maybe JJ could have found a way to make it better, but the odds were so stacked against that happening, it was ridiculous.

A complete waste of opportunity.

ok, I'm done.

4/4

lowqualityfacts, to random
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We made a comic about Achilles.

wrog,
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@fkamiah17 @DaPickle @lowqualityfacts

THEY WERE JUST COUSINS!

wrog,
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@fkamiah17 @DaPickle @lowqualityfacts

wait, what?

(I was talking about Achilles & Patroclus; no idea how one squeezes Biden into this one;

in fact, ew...
)

wrog,
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@fkamiah17 @DaPickle @lowqualityfacts

ok, educate me: where does Biden show up in the Illiad?

(I know he's old, but...)

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