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TNG: Descent, Part II Data is a tool of Lore, Jeordi gets brain-drained, Picard gives speeches and Riker and Worf rally Hugh. Okay, I guess. My brother pointed out that having a top ranking ships office be able to be so easily manipulated by an outside signal seems to really be a huge problem for Data and the crew of the Enterprise, which I hadn't really thought about but...yeah. If Lore could easily send a signal to dampen his empathy logic routine, then how easy would it be to just send Data wild whenever you wanted? Lower Decks "Cupid's Errant Arrow" Mariner suspects Boimler's new girlfriend is an alien predator of some kind. A silly episode that plays off on a story trope that happens a lot with Star Trek (stories about two people meeting and falling an love and one of them isn't what they seemed).

Supēsu Kobura aka Space Cobra aka Space Adventure Cobra, episode 2 "Kikai! Jigoba" aka "The Mysterious Zygoba!" This episode is all about giving depth to... Cobra is trying to leave Earth when he runs into a woman, Vivi, with a problem. Naturally he can't resist helping her as... Animation was still solid period TV animation. Less bright neon lights, so less trippy than the first episode, but still plenty of that 70s style to go around. Also, is it me or does Zygoba's motivation stem from...

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You know, there's something that really bugs me about this twitter conversation. Using etymology to build a logical argument. It just doesn't work. Contextually, if the people of the time didn't intend for pioneer to be a military term, regardless of its origin it wasn't a military term (also the root for pawn, peon and pioneer all come from the Latin for foot, but its easier to make a word sound bad if you use pawn and peon which have highly negative connotations NOW rather than using foot which doesn't). Speaking of bad, we refer to tough, admirable people as 'badass'. Which is turn is derived from 'bad' and 'ass'. Bad derives from Middle English (badde - "wicked, depraved") which in turn is believed to derive from Old English bǣddel meaning a "womanly man". Ass derives from arse which in turn derives from proto-Germanic arsaz meaning "buttocks". Therefore using the etymology logic displayed above, calling someone badass today means you think they have womanly buttocks for a man, because the actual intended interpretation of today is irrelevant in the face of where the terms originally derived and their original use. Anyhow, I don't get why people feel the need to rely on tortuous 'logic' based on word etymology which ignores the actual use of the word at the time of its use and in the context that would be understood at that time. I see it crop up from time to time and just don't get it why people think it supports their arguments.

It's the original ending of the Broadway play. Interestingly, that isn't the original ending of the film. The Broadway end tested badly with film audiences so they shot a happier, slightly ambiguous end for the original theatrical release. The original 60s film the Broadway play is based on has its own sorta downbeat ending.

The MegaTen games have had adult protaganists (Persona 2: Eternal Punishment's protagonist is an adult reporter for a teen magazine, Strange Journey's protag is a military man) but most tend to be high schoolers. I've heard that Japan sees high school as a time for learning and experimentation and that's why so many protaganists in stories (video game or not) are in high school; those with adult characters have the adults as people whose jobs give them the freedom to investigate and explore (reporter, military, royalty, martial artist traveling the world to train, mercenary).

Big Trouble in Little China

Heinz introduces Mars Ketchup

Must have had to renegotiate music licenses for the remaster.

Yup. You don't really start seeing a lot of people going hatless when outdoors in old photos until the mid-to-late 50s. My understanding is as more modes of transportation and buildings were being climate controlled, it led to hats, scarfs and gloves declining in popularity as functional items, as you weren't spending the majority of your time at the mercy of the outdoor temperature. I think some hats as business attire and for fashion took longer to winnow away.

November 19.

Yes, I hope things end up well and fine.

I can imagine it'd get frustrating having that happen.

That marble machine was neat, but a bit disappointed it wasn't actually music from Marble Madness...

Get them enchanted for a high armor class. Actually, are they like rings and cancel each other out if enchanted, or are they cumulative? I actually kind of agree with this. I hate it when to improve AC you have to switch to some stupid looking armor set (like the Dwarven armor in Skyrim or something that looks terrible and makes everyone look the same). I guess it may also depend on whether the game is striving to be a simulation at some level or not. Most fantasy RPGs aren't.

That's ceremonial armor, AFAIK. The Lord wearing that wouldn't be fighting in it and, again AFAIK, comes from a period when armor was becoming more for ceremony than utility anyhow. If worn in battle, a sword that glances down the torso could easily get stopped on the knobby outcropping and the tip of the blade guided inward past the armor, something that doesn't make the armor terribly useful in a fight. Similarly boobplate with cleavage could deflect armor off the boob towards the inner chest, the place you don't want blades to go. Anyhow, if I'm correct, I don't think anyone would be complaining about cleavage baring or boobplated ceremonial armor provided the Lady in question didn't run out of the castle in it to start fighting rampaging ogres outside the gate. (anyhow magic throws the whole thing in a high magic setting because, theoretically, you could have a magic ring that gives you a better AC than plate mail and fight buck nekkid).

In one of those weird things, a local bookstore started getting untranslated photo-novel books from Japan and one of them that my brother picked up* was (as they seemed to be for movies rather than TV series) 1982's MACROSS: DO YOU REMEMBER LOVE? This was prior to Harmony Gold's mash-up ROBOTECH, so it was a bit surreal when a year or two later Robotech hit the air and I recognized the character, ship and mech designs. Not sure why the bookstore decided to start getting in untranslated photo-novel's from Japan; it wasn't a specialty book store (that would be a different story, but that was untranslated manga I picked up and right now I'm blanking on just what title I did pick up there). Speaking of Robotech, I believe there have been releases for Super Dimension Macross outside of Robotech - did Mospeda or Southern Cross ever get non-Robotech releases in the US? *I picked up a three or four volume photo-novel version of 1979's Castle of Cagliostro and one for 1980's Cyborg 009: Legend of the Super Vortex...my brother's second series was 1982's Andromeda Stories.

Yeah, I'm not crazy about the # of games creep (in the NFL or the NBA, but the latter is a different thread entirely).

Hahaha, that's kinda sad. I mean it'd be nice if we managed to roll on into a post-season of some kind, but still we used to have this kind of start and already be mathematically eliminated from the post-season 8 games in. lol.

Lol, you have a point. Hahah, well it definitely reminds me of some other 70s-early to mid 80s anime's I've seen (Gatchaman, Yamato, Getter Robo, Mazinger Z, Fist of the North Star, Tekkaman the Space Knight) in production value. Style is different, Terasawa's character design being both in keeping with the period but a bit chunky as well and the use of sort of the trippy colors is a bit different.

TNG - "Descent, Part I" Okay, so Borg attack the ship (!) acting weird (!!) singling Data out (!!!) who has an emotional reaction (!!!!) of anger and joy (!!!!!) and not one person on the Enterprise goes "Hold up, the only other times Data has had a surprise outburst of emotion its been at the hands of Q and Lore - maybe we should double check these clearly abnormal Borg to determine if they're emitting some form of communication/radiation/technobable forcing an emotional response out of Data...?"(!!!!!!) I like Lore as much as the next guy, but the lack of response to try to understand what's happened to Data from the crew kinda borders on irresponsibility. And it was obvious it was Lore not Q. Lower Decks - "Moist Vessel" Kinda okay episode, with Marriner and her mom ironing some things out, but a little silly too (but I guess to be expected).

What are they normally called? I've never had grilled cheese for breakfast before, but its what I thought of when I read "Cheese griller".