CeruleanRuin @ CeruleanRuin @lemmy.world

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I'm speaking in historical terms here. By new I mean within the past couple of decades.

Certainly not the majority, but being "mainstream" doesn't require a majority.

Nice. Thanks.

It doesn't work on mobile, does it? I tried to place a pixel using my phone and got nothing.

Learning to solve a Rubik's cube isn't exactly "low effort".

Joke's on you, those are just the low level s31 interns, whose job it is to distract you from the actual operatives.

Not necessarily. They've already seriously retconned Pike having foreknowledge of his fate, and used that burden to expand his character immensely. They did a similar thing to Chapel by having Boimler accidentally spoil the fact that she and Spock don't end up together, and that has been further built upon to allow her to grow as a character. There are enough big gaps in canon to play around a lot.

I think of it like a historical drama. For, say, a show set in the thirties, you know the next decade is going to be all kinds of hell for every single character, but they don't know it, and the dramatic tension of that is something that can be used to write stories that you can't do otherwise.

The podcast Hello From the Magic Tavern has a whole spinoff podcast where its fantasy world characters play "Offices and Bosses".

Nobody ever accused Abbott of being a good person.

If Sync brings more users to Lemmy, that's a net win for all of us here.

"Yippeeeee!"

Let's be honest here. Wanting to be a talking animal isn't really any less weird than wanting to yiff one.

Trying to distance yourself from the latter by claiming the former is a futile effort.

Sure there've been talking animals since humans have been telling stories, but what seems to be new is the rando who's always there in the comments to say "Yo, I'd totally tap Tigger's ass", "That Coyote character is a snack."

The problem is where the mainstream lies. In Islam, the mainstream is fundamentalism. Of course, fundamentalism is a problem for Christianity and every other religion too, but right now that is not the mainstream of those sects. And that is why Islam gets criticized more heavily than other religions.

Fundamentalism is cancerous wherever it lives.

Those streams of projectiles like deadly tentacles flailing around the ships are incredible. Would love a game that could replicate that.

It's just as well. Where would you even put them all?

It's a combination of both. Studios typically will mix the end result for the highest-end sound setups, which most people don't actually have. If you're lucky enough to have a full surround with the ability to properly dial in equalizer and other settings, you probably won't have a problem hearing the dialogue even when it's mumbled. But on conventional tv speakers, it can easily get lost in the mix.

I've used subtitles for most of my adult life, ever since having kids. First it was so I could watch without waking the baby, and then it was so I could follow along over all the noise in the house. And I never went back. So as sound mixing changed and got muddier, I guess I didn't notice, because I was already used to not being able to hear half the dialogue anyway.

But then you also have that very specific window of time when a lot of stuff especially SFX was done on video that can't be upscaled. Babylon 5 fans weep.