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Behold! The work of nightmares. They laughed. Sneered. Called me mad. So what if a hundred souls died in pursuit of having the ultimate power at my command? Let's see them laugh now, when The Wrath of the Heavens burns them away. Mwahahahahahah! Or, in other words, I've been playing a good deal of Sunless Skies. Managed to craft what seems to be the ultimate destructive force in the game. Fashioned from nightmares. Literally. Ah, the joy of Failbetter Games.

When I think of Archer all that comes to mind is One Night In Sickbay. Not dissing Scott Bakula here. He did a fine job, given the circumstances. Most of the crew did, except maybe Jolene Blalock. If Disney hadn't created a new canon TFA would have been set around the time of Legacy of the Force. Darth Caedus (Jacen Solo) would lead the Galactic Alliance against a group of freedom fighters. Han, Luke and Leia would all do weird things that make no sense and excacerbate the situation instead of helping it. It even features a superweapon being destroyed. Centerpoint even worked similarily to the Starkiller Base by firing hyperspace laz0rs if needed. Eh... uhm... eh. Oh, right. Chewie would be dead. Can't have that.

You're right, it's not a good argument insofar as Star Trek isn't an established product that needs to fulfill certain criteria to be called such. I still think the analogy works well enough to showcase the issues fans have with Star Trek discovery and that they're not simply drinking your coffee black vs. taking it with cream and sugar type issues. Maybe cheese and vegan cheese might have been better. But it wouldn't have played as well off SM117's original line. Some style over substance must be allowed. Rule of cool and all. I'm fairly lenient when it comes to changes if the final product is worthwhile. Or at least becomes so, something that happend with e.g. Stargate Universe which arguably made even a worse transition from goofy fun sci-fi to a character based drama with a sci-fi background (because the new Battlestar Galactica was hot at the time). Fans didn't like it because it was too different from the other Stargate shows. I liked Stargate Universe and the new Battlestar Galactica (up until that final half a season at least). STD is... bad Star Trek and bad TV. By all rights I shouldn't even be watching this. I still do largely because I'm a little Sheldon when it comes to watching TV shows especially if they feature season or show spanning storylines and it's on Netflix anyway. I don't think Kurtzman knows anything at all. Everything he did resulted in being a jumbled mess with flashy visuals and Discovery is no different. Maybe they could hire Orci and Lindelof to help him for any further seasons, wouldn't that be aweseome? edit: With my recent Star Trek rewatching (currently in the middle of TNG) I've learned two things: TOS holds up really well, production values nonwithstanding of course. TNG's first two seasons no longer seem so bad after Tillybabble and Archerboredom.

The divisive fanbase of a given franchise says "My coffee is made with 2 sugar and 1 cream, if someone else makes it any other way then it's not real coffee!" in their ignorance which stirs, it's even worse when a the franchise is succeeding on terms they do not particularly like. Star Trek Discovery is the perfect example of this. No, not at all. Star Trek Discovery is black tea sold as coffee. People who like coffee (regardless of how they enjoy it) rightfully complain about it not being coffee - even if it also contains caffeine and can also be taken with cream and sugar if one so desires.

Tonight I dreamt that ShadySands and I were dealing a drug similar to Meth except that it also severly prolonged life and granted enhanced reflexes and strength. We were trying to get some people out of prison and since I have no idea how Shady looks like my brain just substituted his avatar. Meaning, essentially, that he was represented by Captain Sisko. Lessons learned: Don't read the forums, play Sunless Skies and watch an episode of Breaking Bad before going to bed.

Me too. 21 years ago, with this: Back then I didn't understand why a large portion of metal fans disliked Hammerfall. These days, yeah... I get it. I still like Hammerfall but it really is pop music with distorted guitars. Heh.

I've replayed Link's Awakening only a few weeks ago. The game is probably as good as ever, I don't really care for the updated visuals but depending on the price I might just grab it for the updated music. That game had some great pieces even on the original Game Boy...

The best one of these was in Tides of Numenera where you can skydive to your final death right in the first minute of character creation. Too bad the rest of the game didn't quite live up to it.

Thanks, now I'll be listening to Candice all night long... edit: And also back to cheesy power metal (which of course is awesome):

We watch Robot Chicken Star Wars it once a year at the office. My face is a big letter T! Trust me, I drunk better when I drive. :D

Speaking of Discovery, they're still not fact checking their Treknobabble when it is based on real life scientific concepts. Sure, build an impromptu lightning rod to dissipate a charge of hundreds of GeV. Nevermind that an electronvolt isn't a unit of measurement for the electrical charge and even if tit was, hundreds of billions of electronvolts would still be ridiculously small. And they fight a computer virus by developing digital antibodies. The episode tried to be Star Trek and it felt off. There's something - perhaps inherently - wrong with taking a concept that would have fit nicely into The Next Generation and overlay it with this need for frantic action that permeates all of Nu Trek. It's almost Bayesque at this point. Cut, spark, action, lightning rod, useless Treknobabble, omg suspense someone's in danger, cut, cut, cut, RED ALTERT, cut, cut, stupid jokes about Saurian colds, cut, cut, cut, Tilly babble, cut cut, OH DO YOU REMEMBER DAVID BOWIE'S SPACE ODDITY? cut cut sparks cut explosion cut cut cut cut WE FAIL TO TRACK SPOCK IN 6 MINUTES PEOPLE cut cut OMG SUSPENSE cut cut cut sparks cut LET'S DRILL A HOLE IN SOMEONE'S SKULL WITH A STUPID DRILL, cut, cut, AAAACTION BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM. Set to the theme of an episode that's about learning to communicate and interpret the intentions of something alien in both the A and one of the B plots. And yes, this is pretty much hyperbole. It also doesn't help that the entire dialogue is ridiculous. I can't recall a Trek episode that made me facepalm this much just by having people talk to each other, and that includes an episode of Enterprise where Trip gets pregnant by fondling crystals with an alien girl. "I had a cold last week. It sucked!" Yeah, what are you, five years old? Do you need mommy to help blow your nose? There's one good thing about this episode, it showed that Sonequa Martin-Green is a good actress. Her scenes with Saru were the high point of the episode, but they were in service of I guess that's what you'll get if you let a writer from Desperate Housewives come up with a story and have the writer of story driven films like Resident Evil and Tekken adapt it into a screenplay. And the episode title spoils the A-plot unless you know nothing about Greek mythology.

The first Commandos is definitely worth checking out, should be cheap enough on GOG. It also is, uhm, kinda hard and unforgiving.

Understandable. There are also a lot of economic concerns and realpolitik alone demands that the UK gets a workable deal out of leaving - with potentially getting an easy way back if they wish. A lot of euroskepticism comes from the people being fed up with the EU catering to the economic interests of those seen to run it. Never mind that this is technically not correct because everything needs to be unanimous and pass the parliament (both of which are elected either directly or indirectly) but the people would never blame their local governments for what are apparently issues of the European Union - even though they actually cause them. One needs to look no further than the fact that the EU keeps being called undemocratic in spite of the fact that the leadership is made up entirely by the elected governments of the member nations.

Not that I like to invoke the slippery slope argument because more often that not it's just a load of manure but I'd say giving the UK a charitable deal that maybe even makes it too easy to come back (maybe even with the special snowflake status) would lend more credence to the euroskeptics and cause other nations to go for a painless exit the moment they see an advantage in it. The UK needs to have their cake and eat it and the EU needs to look at this as an opportunity for reform. That would be painful so it's not going to happen anyway. The EU will do what it always does, subject everything to the economic needs of a few and generate more anti-EU sentiment. Fitting that it would culminate where it began with the Wicked Witch a long time ago.

There's a lot of anti-EU sentiment coming from the big players getting a pass on issues smaller countries wouldn't. Like France not conforming to the Maastricht convergence criteria without repercussions or Germany being allowed to discriminated against foreigners using the Autobahn. The absolute worst of these was the UK with their special snowflake status. So yeah, Volo, but... no. The EU was willing to cut the UK a deal far better than anything they deserve because they're all spineless chumps. If the EU and its officials had as much as an ounce of self respect they'd have sent them packing with a no deal, hard Brexit right from the start. Y'know, in order to make an actual example of the UK and brng back some of the trust lost, if that is even possible. That doesn't mean that Germany isn't abusing their power and influence for every advantage they can get of course and with the UK gone our butt budies France and Germany are going to dominate even harder, but that's a different topic entirely.

Technically it's just a sunny side up but Lord Zipacna offers eggs on Lost: Zipacna definitely makes good eggs, ey?

I'm pretty sure Jeri Ryan takes the cake though, she had to wear outfit so tight on Voyager that it interfered with her circulation and she once even passed out from it. Although speaking strictly from my teenage toxic male gaze the results were... impressive at the time.

Season 5 was the high point of the show. Get ready for a lot of James Darren singing from now on.

Speaking of braised meat... ^^

As far as I know that was a byproduct of Aspyr's Android port.

I use STD mainly because I'm a manchild and a neckbeard. But as Sikso said so well In The Pale Moonlight: I can live with it.

Had blood drawn for a full workup. Figured now that I'm in my mid 30ies I better start o make use of our commie health care.

I just tried the GOG version on Windows 10 with a GTX 970. Worked without a hitch. Saw Taris and quit though, so that's one issue that's not ever going away...