UlyssesT [he/him] @ UlyssesT @hexbear.net

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Space Hitler felt kind of bad about some things and made some space friends and promises to make the next Space Reich a little nicer. No need for Space Nuremburg, for real.

It was an experience explaining to my wife (who only watched SNW and Lower Decks and The Orville and only knew about TOS from secondhand sources) that Kirk would totally strike a truce with the Gorn... and that's why some of them were just chilling, having a nice wedding in Lower Decks that Rutherford rudely interrupted.

I was generous, even patient, with Strange New Worlds and enjoyed it for the most part, if only because it was not Discovery and its tiresome contrarian "what if evil people... adorable scamps? What if everyone is kind of an asshole? What if moral ambiguity makes the audience feel very very smart while justifying whatever the writers want to show without feeling bad about it?"

It's a massive, massive red flag when someone goes the "Terran Empire/Section 31 did nothing wrong" route.

It's very common in zone chat on Star Trek Online. Some fascists just hang around Earth Spacedock all day there, posting nonstop fascist screeds, and if they're ever actually out in their ships, without fail it's "ISS" prefix with names like "AYN RAND."

Disclaimer: Yes some people play bad guys in their games, but I don't think just playing the part involves hours-long rants about why the (slurs here) need to be wiped out in zone chats.

EDIT: I think I'll add "fervent Discovery apologists, especially ones that stan for space fascists after contrived apology arcs," if only because of their repeated tendency to feel very smart to the point of undue arrogance about contrived "what if mass murdering dictators... actually good once the protagonist buddies up with them?" bad writing cliches.

Another Torment Nexus that is already well underway.

Shut up, Stormy!

In related techbro grifting news, after NASA got its budget slashed over and over again and more and more of its operations shifted over to

https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/i-am-definitely-going-to-be-dead-before-mars-spacex-extract

This is a giant invitation for hackers to look for more vulnerabilities.

All so some rich assholes can have yet another yacht.

Well, I self published already, for better or for worse. If even those vaguely lefty publishers wanted to me to tweak an entire novel trilogy, that'd probably involve massive rewrites too. That makes me wonder what might be left.

Would the vaguely lefty publishers want me to drop the revolutionary war entirely, or remove the pivotal (and namesake) mecha from it?

If I brought my novels to a publisher, I'd have to remove just about everything I wanted to say in them in favor of "nonpolitical" pretenses with a lot of extra pandering, and even then it'd be just for a chance at additional reach with a big cut of each sold book going to the very same corpos that had just sandblasted anything of value I wanted to say in my work.

Palantir

Top tier blue curtain bazinga torment nexus enjoyers here.

V8 Energy is pretty good. The caffeine amount is relatively low and the ingredients are decent.

is not a plot device

Unfortunately, for him, it totally was and continued to be.

Megaforce was 70s Command and Conquer.

David Lynch's Dune. It was weird, inaccurate to the book in remarkable ways (wtf is a "weirding module") but I sincerely love it anyway.

EDIT: Sting as Feyd-Rautha screaming "I WILL KILL HIM" is amazing and the music absolutely slaps too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm5VP3of-dA

Oh yeah?

Hell yeah!

:SickoStitch:

I'm less cynical about SCOTUS

Is it cynicism when I'm following their actions and expecting more of the same? The SC makes shit up after the fact and finds ass-pulls to make it sound like the Constitution said that. That's why, effectively, the POTUS can't commit crimes as long as they are arbitrarily determined to be "official acts" now. They already announced we're ruled by kings. How much further need it go?