SteleTrovilo @ SteleTrovilo @beehaw.org

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Ever since BitWarden got mired in capitalism, I've been dreading that something like this would happen.

I like life imprisonment for heinous people specifically because it seems like the less merciful option. Look at how many mass shooters and terrorists also take their own lives during the act - suicide is one of their objectives. If we can capture them alive and make them live in a small room, eating unexciting food and sleeping on thin mattresses for decades still to come - that's the ultimate rebuke to their ideologies of death. Execution, on the other hand, is giving them what they seek.

It's amazing. I am a Japanese learner, and being able to find Japanese words quickly - with English definitions and explanations - is very useful.

Wesley transports the Protogies to what appears to be Gary 7’s office as it was seen in “Assignment: Earth”.

I need to watch this episode sometime.

Law enforcement has been collecting fingerprints for over 100 years now, and the history of using fingerprints for other reasons goes even further back.

The error here is that we decided to start using an easily obtainable piece of data as a "lock" on our phones and computers. For many reasons, it's better to use a password or PIN.

I'm always glad to see Canon Connections. Thanks for all your efforts!

The topic was asking for examples; got any?

I decided to try to stop swearing in college, to see if it would improve my attitude - and to see if anyone would notice.

Both turned out to be true. People found me pleasant to work with and hang around. I recommend it, personally!

If you're a crew member on the Enterprise D, you have died. Probably more than once. Between Timescape, Cause and Effect, Yesterday's Enterprise, and All Good Things, the ENT-D has been blown to smithereens with all crew on board multiple times.

Voyager did this too, but far fewer times that I recall.

It's actually much more similar to how they kept using Majel Barrett as the voice of the computer across multiple series.

And it makes sense in-universe for The Doctor to be 800 years old and still working; it's not like they're contriving a way for Harry Kim or Phlox to be there, much as we may want to see them again.

I had no idea it was even released.

Voyager S1E3, "Parallax". It didn't make much of an impression on me as a kid, but watching again recently - and knowing the direction that the characters grow - it's actually a pretty compelling character-based drama. And the Maqui-Federation tension is thick here.

I've had the impression that in the Mirror Universe, it was only the humans/terrans which behaved differently. Everyone else we see seems like their usual selves (accounting for different circumstances of course).

The DS9 episodes throw a wrench in this of course, with Kira being a very different person and the oppressed terrans being sympathetic.

In regard to the Breen, I would note that Star Trek Adventures: Klingon Core Rulebook says "They only present themselves to non-Breen in full-body suits that hide their identities, and their bodies disintegrate when they die while wearing those suits. While this is an admirable trait – it means Breen cannot be taken prisoner, an attitude in line with the teachings of Kahless – it has made it impossible to determine the true face of the Breen." This is a pretty cool explanation for how Worf could be right even after Kira and Dukat stole their suits.

I know STA isn't canon but I still like this reasoning.

Hacker News works fine. Can't vouch for the others, since I don't touch corporate "AI" if I can help it.

This is the second Star Trek season premiere that features the destruction of a Soong-type android, after Picard S1E1 "Rememberance" introduced and murdered Dahj.

There are a whole lot of "templating" libraries which do what you're asking for. I have used Hiccup for Clojure and Giraffe for F# successfully, and you can probably find others for languages you already know.

Splatoon 1 actually had local multiplayer - it was 2-player only, but for those of us with kids, it was good enough. Split screen multiplayer in Splatoon 2/3 would've been great.

Pretty much nothing you said is true, it was not "designed from the ground up to be frustrating" and the other statements are too vague to even bother attacking. "Not even wrong" is the phrase that comes to mind.

You didn't even mention an example of a game which would count as "something good".

No and no. I was disappointed and a bit upset, but not traumatized. Though if someone told me that the beginning of S1E5 was traumatic for them, I'd believe it.

I do believe people when they say they enjoy S3. Even though the story was just a bunch of reheated plot elements from other Treks, there is some joy to be had viewing it as a TNG reunion special. It's "Return to Mayberry" to the tune of BSG 2003, nothing more and nothing less.

(In contrast, Star Trek IV is the best TV reunion special ever made. Everyone's playing an exaggerated version of their 1960's personas and having a blast. It too is a bunch of reheated plot elements - the probe is awfully similar to Nomad and V'Ger at first glance, and "let's time travel to insert current year" was already the plot of two different TOS episodes. I'm trying to think of how a hypothetical good Picard season could've tapped into the same energy that STIV did.)