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Anyway, I of course also watched the new Discovry episode. Anyone else find it odd that the Federation would leave a seed vault starship alone with a family of four somewhere months out of reach? That seems kind of silly even if the Burn has stranded it there. Which it most likely didn't, I mean, that family wasn't there for 120 years or however long ago the Burn was. Almost as silly as that ship having no way of detecting a coronal mass ejection or shields to prevent such an event from being problematic. In (by now) time honored Discovery tradition Stamets, Tilly and Madam Irritable (eh, Commander Reno, I guess) treknobabble a bit about how one of the people on board was thrown out of phase while everyone else died. They come up with the idea that one of the vault ship's crew was currently in the process of beaming into the vault when he got showered with a nice helpful dose of beta radiation from the aforementioned CME. Yes, beta radiation, the thing that we know from junior high will not penetrate thin aluminium foil. Let alone an intact starship hull. Oh, and Burnham got upgraded again. She can do it all. Whether it is being Spock's hitherto unbeknownst adoptive sister, a Federation commander and first officer, scientist, counsellor, part time doctor, all around arsehole, all around nice lady, all around nice lady with an authority problem and last but not least, the person who always reaches for the best in everyone. Cue tears. Terrans from the mirror universe are all evil because it's in their genes. Georgiou promptly rejects that idea and says that she's one bad arse mofo because she wants to be. She's interviewed (well debriefed) by a not-at-all sinister looking person with an interest in Terrans from the mirror universe and fake glasses. Holy moly, such suspense. I wonder where this is going, surely nothing untoward happened during the interview there. Lol. edit: Admiral Levi Shur also confirms that the bad guys of the galaxy really are the "Andorian-Orion Syndicate", funny how the Federation and a couple of other Star Empires didn't survive the Burn, but a crime syndicate came out on top and apparently runs things now. Or at least has become Dune's Spacer Guild for the rest of the galaxy. edit 2: I'm going to call it now: The Burn was actually caused by someone from the mirror universe, or is in some way related to the mirrow universe "moving away" from the regular Trek 'verse. It kind of makes no sense to still seek revenge for what Kirk did a thousand years in the past, but hey, that never stopped Alex Kurtzman. It's the same guy that came up with the guy who brings a massively overpowered Romulan mining ship into the past by accident and then waits around to shoot at Spock instead of hauling his arse back to Romulus to warn them about the supernova that will threaten the galaxy and, dunno, maybe conquer their enemies with his hyper-advanced super miner that carries a weapon loadout that would make the Defiant blush. Geez. Am I being too harsh on this tripe?

Curious, does that come up in the series and I missed it or is that meta knowledge from the source material? And go me for finally making it into someone's signature.

I found the ending to be convoluted and unfitting. Kinda came out of nowhere.

It's also borderline hentai at times.

I unlocked the Gunslinger in Enter The Gungeon. Whilst I still have a few items that are not yet unlocked I'll consider that game finished for the time being, and since the Epic version has no achievements I cannot enlargen my e-**** by continuing to play. Achievements might not be content but for me they can give me some decent extra value in a game. All in all not too shabby. For the first 50 or so runs I never thought I'd beat it even once, let alone unlock all characters and kill their pasts. Now... now losing a run only happens when I stop paying attention. It does have - like any rougelite - a decent chunk of RNG, but it's not nearly as bad as other games. Good luck can still get you a loaded run, but bad luck won't give you an unwinnable one like, say, FTL does. Great game, well worth the nothing I spent on it. Doubly so when it makes Epic give the studio the money for a copy sold.

Sailor Moon ist just awesome for its entire run. But I've said it before, I fear Bartimaeus will not like the tone shift in the later seasons. Anyway, this thread convinced me to rewatch the anime. However, watching Sailor Moon is something that lies comfortably in my past, very much long enough ago to only have fond memories of a better time. Thinking back gives me the same good feeling that watching Stranger Things does. Which is part of the reason why I love that show so much even if every season seems to be the same and becomes more and more ludicrous. Rewatching it might break that memory or reaffirm it. Rewatching Disney's The Black Hole for instance broke it. That film is... not good. That didn't bother me as a child, but it did as an adult. Playing the games on my SNES Classic Mini on the other hand simply made me realize that console gaming was awesome in the early 90ies. Guess I'll take the plunge. If my experience is positive then I might just try watching Knight Rider. It's been on Prime for a while now and I don't really have the heart to watch.

Things don't seem to look very bright for Erdolf in Turkey right now. The Lira's not doing so well either and his son-in-law wants to resign. Or has resigned, or something like that. Must be kinda bad when even your extended family jumps the ship.

Tracked down the weirdest database update conflict in the history of update conflicts. It ended up being a query that was meant to update complimentary data and didn't account for the very unlikely case that the complementary and the current record are actually the same. It's probably better if you don't ask how that can be. (the answer is of course user error, what else could it be)

Kinda goes for all food. Looking delicious and being delicious are, sadly, separate things...

Stop talking to yourself.

Whenever I fire up a game of Baldur's Gate I am, every time without fail, impressed with how good the ambient sounds in the game are. I sometimes just turn off the music to stroll through a woodland area or two listening to the breeze and the chirping of birds. I think I'll go face the new Lord of Murder once again. Yes and no. CS focuses more on the tactical element of the XCOM games. Strategy is limited to a small city map and sending your squad members on missions, trainings or giving them tasks to do (help with research, gather money, etc.). It's a fun, albeit short game that was worth the 20€ they asked for it when it launched.

Luzianus you mean? I thought of him immediately when I saw that picture. I guess Luzi, oby and Qis will still be meme-ish posters here on this forum long after everyone who actually read their posts will be long gone.

Guys really, be a little empathic with Donald J. Trump here. He caught COVID-19, lost his job and is about to be evicted from his home... a tragic story if I ever heard one!

We also learn that millennia is both the singular and plural of millennium, and the sphere data has finally merged with the Discovery computer to form the Andromeda AI.

With a name like that he sure is part of the Jewish world conspiracy and an enemy of the people, therefore an enemy of Trump. Which makes no real sense because Trump is supposedly Cyrus the Great reborn, who was decidedly not an enemy of the Jews. Great, now I'm confused.

You mean very exciting sham. If Trump loses then only because Democrats commited massive fraud with mail-in voting!

That you cannot distinguish between them just shows your lack of taste, can you flaunt your pedestrian views some place else? Just kidding. But yeah, cost was the major factor. Dark Matter creator Joseph Mallozzi talked about that after the cancellation a bit while he was desperately trying to find someone else to pick up the show before they had to scrap all the sets. He didn't, so that's that. What's worse is not only that they cancelled Dark Matter, but that it was the best rated (with DVR factored in) SyFy "original" at that point and by every performance metric it should have been Killjoys that got canned.

People are like that sometimes. Back when Take That split up there were 14-year-olds commit suicide over it, writing letters of farewell stating that without them they have no reason to continue living.

No way, it just means Satan won with some heavy voter fraud.

Yeah, uhm. I hear a sound too, but it's certainly not victory.

People latch onto everything that they can which might save their world view when they see it crumbling apart. That's how you get reptoid leaders, microchips in vaccines made by Bill Gates, the mysterious servants of the Coudenhove-Kalergi plan trying to eradicate the white race (like Merkel and Soros, although at least Merkel is ALSO a shapeshifting reptoid), or whatever else floats your fancy. Hollywood people keeping little children in underground bunkers to feed of their life energy, or ancient alien theories. Well, wait, no. Ancient aliens doesn't belong there. They at least try hard. Still ridiculous, but at least they're trying. And they're fun. It's only suspicious when it favors the other side. God-Emperor Cyrus reborn, Great Tangerine in Chief, Donald I of the United States simply must be re-elected else all is lost. I mean who else will bring about the rapture/apocalypse/glorious new age?

Project "Veritas" is as much about the actual truth as Pravda. Not entirely sure why Sky News Australia is even giving... oh, wait. Australia. Yeah, figures.

I just killed The Lich in Enter The Gungeon. Which was kind of surprising to me. I was trying out the Rainbow Run modifier and that worked very much in my favor. Blank Bullets, Vulcan, Ancient Hero's Bandana meant that boss did... absolutely nothing. Just stood there shooting at it. So the next time I get to the boss I'll probably die the miserable death I expected while trying to learn his bullet patterns. And I probably used up all the drop luck this game's ever going to give me. Also managed to unlock the shortcuts, the boss rush mode and the Super Hot Watch.

Is the US running a protection racket in Poland? Otherwise it's good for the economy, those soldiers spend a good deal of money wherever they are stationed - which is why removing US troops was used to threaten Germany (and a lot of US troops are to be moved/rotated out of Germany) and Poland got increased troop numbers as "thanks" for their continuing support. What other problems they might bring, US military bases also bring lots of dollars with them.