I woke my family screaming "NO!!!" upon reading the synopsis for the upcoming Enterprise episode "Regeneration. What the hell is wrong with B&B (Brannon Braga and Rick Berman), or whoever is responsible for this. I wasn't expecting the show to stoop to this level of gimmickery for at least several seasons (even worse with the T'Pol pon-farr-ish episode supposedly coming up), and, even then, I thought they would at least try to maintain some degree of continuity (the 200 year thing (to try to cover the first Borg attacks on Federation outposts along the Romulan neutral zone in TNG) is complete BS, especially considering that subspace transmissions travel faster than the fastest starships, and Voyager would have only taken 70 years from the Delta Quadrant; most importantly, the Federation will know about the Borg, and that'll just completely fuck up everything). Yes, it is interesting in establishing continuity with First Contact (while destorying continuity with the rest of the series), but that isn't why the creators did it. Don't be a damned apologist for the shows obvious deficits. I know and understand the pain a Trek geek feels with each easily-avoidable continuity break, like this, and I used to, like others still do, make up ridiculously implausible and just plain desperate explainations for this incompetence/apathy on the part of the creators, but I'd rather cut off the cancerous testicle than let the cancer spread. Either give the show some decent writers and general creative control (ie, kill B&B in some horrible, painfull way), or cancel the fucking series while it still has some damn dignity left.
On the other hand, last night's episode "Cogenitor" was the first episode of Enterprise I've ever seen which actually had a reasonably original story (trigendered species and a crewmember's fuck-up with cultural interference, clearly meant to establish the principles behind the future prime directive) and which didn't do a hollyood-liberal hippocritical pussy/cop/whore-out, and have the end be all preachy, with a thousand years of injustices and hatred completely reversed with a single visit and impassioned speach by the captain (are you listening, Voyager?). Kudos on that, but the episode was still dull as an old dog's balls.
Riker fucked out of necessity, the Trip only wanted civil rights for the cogenitor, not love or sex (presumably impossible, anyways). No, that distinction really isn't that important, but the point of both episodes and characters' relationships were entirely different. And, for God's sake, if you're posting anything other than a goatse link, use your damned account, not AC.
I woke my family screaming "NO!!!" upon reading the synopsis for the upcoming Enterprise episode "Regeneration. What the hell is wrong with B&B (Brannon Braga and Rick Berman), or whoever is responsible for this. I wasn't expecting the show to stoop to this level of gimmickery for at least several seasons (even worse with the T'Pol pon-farr-ish episode supposedly coming up), and, even then, I thought they would at least try to maintain some degree of continuity (the 200 year thing is complete BS, especially considering that subspace transmissions travel faster than the fastest starships, and Voyager would have only taken 70 years from the Delta Quadrant). Either give the show some decent writers and general creative control (ie, kill B&B in some horrible, painfuil way), or cancel the fucking series while it still has some damn dignity left.
On the other hand, last night's episode "Cogenitor" was the first episode of Enterprise I've ever seen which actually had a reasonably original story (trigendered species and a crewmember's fuck-up with cultural interference, clearly meant to establish the principles behind the future prime directive) and which didn't do a hollyood-liberal hippocritical pussy/cop/whore-out, and have the end be all preachy, with a thousand years of injustices and hatred completely reversed with a single visit and impassioned speach by the captain (are you listening, Voyager?). Kudos on that, but the episode was still dull as an old dog's balls.
They didn't die: they evolved! quite long ago they became graphic adventures.
Nethack is still one of the greatest games ever. Everytime Slashdot posts an article about it (last one), there's a mass Geek orgasm of relating stories, gloating about accomplishments and a general outpouring of affection, both past and present.
Although, I guess the genre is dying, gradually, through a sort of Darwinism, as text adventure players tend not to get out and, you know, breed, much.
On the way. I don't believe for a second that they'll ever finish it, though. Also, out of curiosity, one day, I downloaded and installed a crappy "one ring" plugin. Completely killed the game for me, it was no longer any fun.
Rather than waste moderator points and get meta-modded down for the first time ever, just to recitify a drunken begrudgement, I will post a reply:
I hate you damned trolls, whether you know you are so or not, who complain about the posting of legitimate news, invoking the logic that since the perpetrator ($foo) of said news ($bar) had previously had the power, motivation and/or ability to do whatever the story is reporting on. The fact that $foo did do $bar is what makes this news. Yes, $foo did previously have the power and motivation, but the fact that they finally put it into use for $bar is what makes this news. People who are affected by or interested in this are influenced by the fact that this has actually happened, so reporting it is both necessary and a good thing. Not doing so is ignoring what is inherently news (a new event, having bearing on numerous people) and for nerds (of or pertaining to nerdly things, the function of the internet, in this case).
Also, please excuse any errors, grammatical, repetitive, pertaining to spelling or logical in this post; as I stated before, I am somewhat inebriated. Remembering the mantra "never mod while drunk", I have opted not to, and have thus posted this reply, instead.
I was captain on my JV Football team, things are looking good for Varsity (disclaimer: Canadian, so we don't have a fucking stadium, major network coverage or personal Nike endorsment contracts like US high school athletes). Actually, my nerdiness led to this situation: there were no big guys to hold up the line (again, Canadian, so somewhat fewer Big Mac butts), so my then borderline-overweight, slightly out of shape ass was recruited (further gratuitous American bashing: I was among the fattest kids in my school, and my gut was more of a slight protrusion). The sport grew on me, and even some other nerds, and none of the more traditional jocks had anything against us. As a matter of fact, no geek was ever physically abused by a 'jock', in the entire school, and the verbal abuse was mutual and not deeply hurtful or emotionally scarring. In fact, it mostly went the other way, with 90lb albino dwarves taunting the Quebecois players for their accents and loose mothers.
I nearly shit myself with surprise, last year, when I overheard one day at practice, a huge 'jock', 'roid monkey, who's started on the Varsity team since 8th grade and had been offered football scholorships to multiple US schools, talking about the inner workings of IP and the finer points of running and maintaining an FTP server. Upon further conversation, I learned that he had always been a serious gamer, and not just the latest 'ooh, shiny' 3D shooter type, either. I'm talking serious classics, like Civs 1 & 2, and a game collection of over 50 (no RPGs, though; no one could not be an amorphous blob after a good bout of Nethackia).
The point of this shamelessly self-indulgent, incoherent rant is that this particular stereotype is not true. Or maybe its just not true anymore. Or maybe Canadian culture is a lot more tolerant, understanding and equal. It seems that I don't know what I'm talking about, and this whole 'tolerant, understanding and equal' thing has made me ashamed of what I've become, in my old age. Just mod me up, dammit!
Quite Clearly, on such a planet, any life there would have twin head tentacles. The Japanese would love it. (If you don't get it, don't bother looking it up)
Slashdot Mirror
I woke my family screaming "NO!!!" upon reading the synopsis for the upcoming Enterprise episode "Regeneration. What the hell is wrong with B&B (Brannon Braga and Rick Berman), or whoever is responsible for this. I wasn't expecting the show to stoop to this level of gimmickery for at least several seasons (even worse with the T'Pol pon-farr-ish episode supposedly coming up), and, even then, I thought they would at least try to maintain some degree of continuity (the 200 year thing (to try to cover the first Borg attacks on Federation outposts along the Romulan neutral zone in TNG) is complete BS, especially considering that subspace transmissions travel faster than the fastest starships, and Voyager would have only taken 70 years from the Delta Quadrant; most importantly, the Federation will know about the Borg, and that'll just completely fuck up everything). Yes, it is interesting in establishing continuity with First Contact (while destorying continuity with the rest of the series), but that isn't why the creators did it. Don't be a damned apologist for the shows obvious deficits. I know and understand the pain a Trek geek feels with each easily-avoidable continuity break, like this, and I used to, like others still do, make up ridiculously implausible and just plain desperate explainations for this incompetence/apathy on the part of the creators, but I'd rather cut off the cancerous testicle than let the cancer spread. Either give the show some decent writers and general creative control (ie, kill B&B in some horrible, painfull way), or cancel the fucking series while it still has some damn dignity left. On the other hand, last night's episode "Cogenitor" was the first episode of Enterprise I've ever seen which actually had a reasonably original story (trigendered species and a crewmember's fuck-up with cultural interference, clearly meant to establish the principles behind the future prime directive) and which didn't do a hollyood-liberal hippocritical pussy/cop/whore-out, and have the end be all preachy, with a thousand years of injustices and hatred completely reversed with a single visit and impassioned speach by the captain (are you listening, Voyager?). Kudos on that, but the episode was still dull as an old dog's balls.
Riker fucked out of necessity, the Trip only wanted civil rights for the cogenitor, not love or sex (presumably impossible, anyways). No, that distinction really isn't that important, but the point of both episodes and characters' relationships were entirely different. And, for God's sake, if you're posting anything other than a goatse link, use your damned account, not AC.
On the other hand, last night's episode "Cogenitor" was the first episode of Enterprise I've ever seen which actually had a reasonably original story (trigendered species and a crewmember's fuck-up with cultural interference, clearly meant to establish the principles behind the future prime directive) and which didn't do a hollyood-liberal hippocritical pussy/cop/whore-out, and have the end be all preachy, with a thousand years of injustices and hatred completely reversed with a single visit and impassioned speach by the captain (are you listening, Voyager?). Kudos on that, but the episode was still dull as an old dog's balls.
If you were drinking so much you need jet power to cool at a rate equal to your consumption, you're perception may be so reduced, as well.
I've had to delete more than most people have ever had.
That's not true! That's impossible!
Isn't transliteration fun?
I don't know, Executor looked pretty damned expensive.
If you thought the RIAA was bad, wait until we're up against someone who has half a clue about technology!
I'll RTFA when pigs land on the moon.
taH pagh taHbe'. DaH mu'tlheghvam vIqelnIS. quv'a', yabDaq San vaQ cha, pu' je SIQDI'?
7. Text Adventure
They didn't die: they evolved! quite long ago they became graphic adventures.
Nethack is still one of the greatest games ever. Everytime Slashdot posts an article about it (last one), there's a mass Geek orgasm of relating stories, gloating about accomplishments and a general outpouring of affection, both past and present.
Although, I guess the genre is dying, gradually, through a sort of Darwinism, as text adventure players tend not to get out and, you know, breed, much.
*Geek Orgasm*
my eyesight probably is to ...
as @ is to DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
On the way. I don't believe for a second that they'll ever finish it, though. Also, out of curiosity, one day, I downloaded and installed a crappy "one ring" plugin. Completely killed the game for me, it was no longer any fun.
I hate you damned trolls, whether you know you are so or not, who complain about the posting of legitimate news, invoking the logic that since the perpetrator ($foo) of said news ($bar) had previously had the power, motivation and/or ability to do whatever the story is reporting on. The fact that $foo did do $bar is what makes this news. Yes, $foo did previously have the power and motivation, but the fact that they finally put it into use for $bar is what makes this news. People who are affected by or interested in this are influenced by the fact that this has actually happened, so reporting it is both necessary and a good thing. Not doing so is ignoring what is inherently news (a new event, having bearing on numerous people) and for nerds (of or pertaining to nerdly things, the function of the internet, in this case).
Also, please excuse any errors, grammatical, repetitive, pertaining to spelling or logical in this post; as I stated before, I am somewhat inebriated. Remembering the mantra "never mod while drunk", I have opted not to, and have thus posted this reply, instead.
1 barebones server - case, slightly fire damaged. Used to host www.exbitlabs.com.
Most frigid place in the universe? They've already shown Janeway's quarters.
Ba-dum-ch-OW! That hurt!
I nearly shit myself with surprise, last year, when I overheard one day at practice, a huge 'jock', 'roid monkey, who's started on the Varsity team since 8th grade and had been offered football scholorships to multiple US schools, talking about the inner workings of IP and the finer points of running and maintaining an FTP server. Upon further conversation, I learned that he had always been a serious gamer, and not just the latest 'ooh, shiny' 3D shooter type, either. I'm talking serious classics, like Civs 1 & 2, and a game collection of over 50 (no RPGs, though; no one could not be an amorphous blob after a good bout of Nethackia).
The point of this shamelessly self-indulgent, incoherent rant is that this particular stereotype is not true. Or maybe its just not true anymore. Or maybe Canadian culture is a lot more tolerant, understanding and equal. It seems that I don't know what I'm talking about, and this whole 'tolerant, understanding and equal' thing has made me ashamed of what I've become, in my old age. Just mod me up, dammit!
A little less "krak" for your "smoka" pleasure?
(Score:-1, Trekkie/Obscure)
Quite Clearly, on such a planet, any life there would have twin head tentacles. The Japanese would love it. (If you don't get it, don't bother looking it up)
Don't feed the trolls
Don't worry, I'll do it myself.
/me pimpslaps himself
... a little late, don'tcha think? Oh well.