I remember really liking Encounter at Farpoint when i was a kid
Rewatching it more recently, I realized Diana's "PAIN! I FELL PAIN!" was her sensing the audience's reaction to the horrible episode
Like... It had a single episode worth of good episode in there but they left the other half in that should have hit the editing room floor
ETA: I had to look up what season 5 episode 2 is, and yes, that's an excellent representation
I'd argue that the second pilot of the original series, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is also a excellent overall introduction to Star Trek: cerebral rather than action oriented, the focus on the people and their relationships both with each other and their own humanity, asking questions of the audience to make us think, solid message ("absolute power corrupts absolutely")...
But definitely skip the original pilot, The Cage, in its standalone form. Watching that, we were damned lucky it didn't get shitcanned fully right then and there
Or see that and think "they'll have better opportunities going to a better university" when for the most part people don't really care where you got the degree, just that you did, it's vaguely relevant, and accredited
If you can do that for a fifth the cost and no outstanding debt, seems foolish to pay what the big unis are commanding
Also, congrats to your kid, that's a great field to be in right now
When i first started there, I did, just out of habit, but when i was approached about it, I removed it without hesitation... Never did download it or install it again, but every time i downloaded the main program, within a day I'd get someone saying Oracle was coming after us again and ultimately we just stopped allowing it altogether because having to deal with Oracle's bullshit just wasn't worth it, I'd rather pay VMware than deal with Oracle's bullshit for a free product that they can't figure out their own license for
Well... Now VMware is owned by Broadcom and is apparently being dismantled from the inside so i may be looking for a third option soon (that isn't HyperV... It works fine but I've always found it hit or miss for Linux, which is like 100% of what I virtualize on my desktop)
I like them, they were a pretty important foundation for my taste in music. I didn't really get the hatred of them that seems popular of late, I can't help but feel like at least some of that is just people following the trend, but it doesn't change my enjoyment of it.
Does them being popular somehow make them worse? I don't understand this take... What's wrong with liking what you like, without regard to what others like, either way?
I dunno, if every time I hear a band it feels like nails on a chalkboard to my very soul, I think saying I hate them is perfectly valid without requiring any actual effort beyond trying to get that music to stop while I can hear them and wanting to discontinue conversation about them
Hate doesn't have to be any more active than avoidance
Indifference, on the other hand, implies not caring that the music is playing
I can't even use virtual box at work, every time anyone downloads it, Oracle sics their licensing trolls at us, ignoring the fact that it's free for all outside of the extension pack
Which keyboard you talking about here? The epic IBM Thinkpad keyboard that Lenovo replaced with chicklets around the T430/530 era? The best laptop keyboard ever?
Honestly, I don't care if all my phones going forward start having the port again, I'm sure it'll make a lot of people happy, but I'll still likely be using Bluetooth because it's just more convenient for me
Which was the point. That I feel like you missed. Or misinterpreted. Either way... Cool?
I've seen a lot of people, including servers and diners, defending tipping culture.
Sadly.
I'm on the side of tipping while in a tipping culture, but only because of the crap way servers are payed and they're the only ones hurt by protesting through refusing to tip. Otherwise, it's a practice that needs to die.
I remember really liking Encounter at Farpoint when i was a kid
Rewatching it more recently, I realized Diana's "PAIN! I FELL PAIN!" was her sensing the audience's reaction to the horrible episode
Like... It had a single episode worth of good episode in there but they left the other half in that should have hit the editing room floor
ETA: I had to look up what season 5 episode 2 is, and yes, that's an excellent representation
I'd argue that the second pilot of the original series, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is also a excellent overall introduction to Star Trek: cerebral rather than action oriented, the focus on the people and their relationships both with each other and their own humanity, asking questions of the audience to make us think, solid message ("absolute power corrupts absolutely")...
But definitely skip the original pilot, The Cage, in its standalone form. Watching that, we were damned lucky it didn't get shitcanned fully right then and there