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I prefer to think that Picard is just still stuck in the Nexus and everything that has happened to him since has been a result of magic Nexus fever dreams.

Movie Picard and PIC Picard acted nothing like TNG Picard to the point where they were seemingly completely different people. Movie Picard wanted to make the Borg pay for what they did and literally beat in dead Borg with his fists and snapped the Borg queen’s spine in two with his bare hands while TNG Picard knew things weren’t that cut and dry and even had an opportunity to potentially genocide the works of them and didn’t because ethics and shit. Movie Picard would have drove Hugh up to their doorstep infected with the fractal virus the first chance he had.

PIC Picard… is literally an android I guess? But still old? They kind of ignored that later. So, literally he isn’t the same Picard as TNG Picard.

The Nexus is my head canon.

Any idea how long such a run would take? This kill screen took around 40 minutes I think? I

’m not a Tetris community member but I’m interested in the whole ordeal as a gamer in general and programmer, and these sorts of things are interesting as an intersection of the two. I’ve also been playing Tetris since before it even came out on the NES or GameBoy and still play it in various instalments from time to time. I think I have to consider it to be the perfect video game in concept to this day, and seeing it get so much love after all these years is endearing to those of us who remember its beginnings.

There’s also one weird level that takes 800 lines to clear as opposed to the usual 10.

The trick to getting that high regardless will be making sure not to hit the conditions required for the kill screen to occur, like getting a single line on level 155 which didn’t happen here, and somehow making it past all of the potential kill screens to reach 255. I’m not knowledgable in the ways of NES Tetris to know if this is possible but I’m surely interested in finding out. I’ve read various analyses that say it’s theoretically possible and theoretically impossible so it would be nice to see something definitive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oc9OQw_nn0

You need to get in the refrigerator with them and eat them there.

Watched this over the Christmas break. The best review I had read from someone else was from a post on Lemmy that said something to the effect of “if you set up a TV to play 10 generic sci-fi movies and just changed the channel between them allrandomly you’d end up with a film as cohesive as Rebel Moon.”

rtfm

Even with just one bit and a few switches this seems like the sort of thing Picard could use to send an encoded message to Riker and Data in the future should the need arise.

The truly fancy places call ‘em “frites”, not French fries. That way they can charge an extra three bucks for the fanciness.

Any country in the EU as it’s part of GDPR, for example.

Nohwere? It’s an anagram but it’s not straight up backwards for “nowhere”, at least not quite. Presumably it’s named after the novel, which I knew nothing about before five minutes ago in any event.

Apparently a season 4 too which I was unaware of. There are places you can read, but I’ll refrain from posting, but they wouldn’t be difficult to find if you take a look around.

Did you read the comic continuation? There’s an official season 3 in comic book form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_Season_3:_Civil_War

Techstars is a start up accelerator. They’re pretty well known in their niche with accelerator/incubators all over the place.

Back in the day, I drew this image in whatever the MS Paint equivalent was in KDE:

https://boingboing.net/2006/11/02/hilarious-piechartvi.html

And posted it to the Awful Forums in a thread about funny charts. It blew up and I didn’t notice for years. The joke itself came from something I found in an issue of Toro, which was a sort of Maxim-style men’s magazine that was published in Toronto for a few years. If anyone could ever track down some issues of that magazine they might find the original joke, or at least my original discovery of said joke. The joke itself is probably even older. All I did was draw that exact image, and then a zillion imitators were spawned, but like I say, I was oblivious until like 5 years later when it showed up in an actual presentation I was attending.

Memes spread differently back then, as stuff like Reddit and 4chan were just getting their footing. Email was still a primary carrier, along with a handful of popular sites like Boing Boing and maybe Slashdot.

I think my favourite outcomes from this image were

• seeing the chart appear in the documentation for Google Charts where it was used as an example of some advanced features of the pie charts modules. Edited to add: actually it wasn’t Google’s documentation proper, it was a blog post by Matt Cutts who was a Google dev for years. That’s at https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pacman-graph-in-google-chart-api/. I was thinking it was the actual docs.
• an ironic copy of the chart where the data is represented as a bar chart instead of a pie chart.
• just seeing all the stuff that came out of it, like the alternative drawings, the t-shirts, the posters, all the merchandising, merchandising, merchandising. The image has also literally appeared in print in at least another magazine, in a Finnish newspaper. Just do a Google image search for “Pac-Man pie chart” and you’ll see all kinds of nonsense.

All from a little image I did for the Awful Forums nearly 20 years ago based on a little image from a flash in the pan men’s magazine from Toronto.

That’s my claim to internet fame. But… ironically, I have like no proof. You can find the thread that the original image appears in, but for some reason the specific page that it appears on and the specific comment is missing, along with like a few dozen other comments from that thread. You can see the comments leading up to the image and the comments afterwards talking about how it has been picked up by Boing Boing and some other sites and has effectively become a meme, but the actual comment itself is missing. This wasn’t all that uncommon back then — the Awful Forums had their share of technical mishaps, and data went missing from time to time, so it’s not all that unexpected.

Boing Boing and Wil Wheaton are perhaps the two most responsible for its spread, and a few years ago I had a chance to talk to a Cory Doctorow at a tech conference and we spoke about the image and I confessed that I hadn’t been quite the comedic genius that could come up with that ironic chart, but that I did draw the actual image itself. I just wanted to get that out there I guess.

I sort of happened to me once. I created an image and posted it eons ago (2006), got a few laughs, then promptly forgot about it. A few years later, like five years after the fact, I was following along with a PowerPoint presentation at some work thing and there was my image in the middle of it. Apparently the image had become an office favourite and ended up spawning a bunch of similar images, then t-shirts, coffee mugs, posters, all sorts of things. I started seeing the image in things like the documentation for Google Charts, and in other presentations. It was weird. The image blew up and I had zero idea it had happened. It spread via Boing Boing and Wil Wheaton, believe it or not.

I can only take credit for the image itself, as the joke itself came from a magazine I had read at a dentists office.

So yeah, I can totally see it happening, ‘cause it borderline-happened to me.

K&R for life

They went in the other direction and just made 10 a little bit louder.

Depends on the situation. Sometimes they only find out that the planet they’re beaming down to is actually a 1920’s mafia planet or a Nazi Germany planet after the fact once they get there, and then it’s like, “Bones, Spock, and also random Crewman, we’ve just beamed down to a mafia planet, we need to get some proper clothes before we’re spotted. Oh no, we’ve been spotted, beat these mafia guys up and steal their clothes quick before we’re spotted again.”

Although to be fair those sorts of episodes actually didn’t involve time travel, since they were other planets that for some reason or another became entire planets of mafiosos and Nazis, but the prime directive still applied.

Linus wrote git to be used via email as part of its core design, so that was just the way he rolled back then. GitHub and Gitlab and all the cloud platforms and tooling came afterwards and it took time to reach a critical mass, and even then, some folks stick to what they’re used to.

Looking at Linus’ GitHub profile, looks like not much has changed — 100% commits, 0% everything else.