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  • I think it's amazing when done right.

    But

    Almost every time I've been to a 3d showing they have the screen adjusted wrong or in the wrong aspect ratio and it messes everything up.

    I have a buddy with a home theater and a 3d projector with synchronized LCD glasses and 3d blu rays in that context are great.

  • It's even funnier when you hear the Sisko's initial description of the defiant.

    It's a warship, nothing more, nothing less.

    And also

    No families, no science labs, no luxuries of any kind...

    Meanwhile it's almost as big as the OG Enterprise which did in fact have a regulation size bowling alley inside.

    So all that space, basically just for engines and guns on the Defiant.

  • I was listening to the Security Now podcast a couple of months ago and Steve Gibson spent a fair amount of time talking about the challenges arising from trying to communicate with a spacecraft from that far away. Random but fips can happen from all the crazy space radiation along the way or it can just be written to memory incorrectly because of said space radiation and you're not going to replace the hard drive on a 1977 space computer that far away from Earth.

    Last time they had an issue with data corruption the communication antenna ended up pointed the wrong way and they had to "shout" the command and hope that the probe would "hear" it so that they could get the antenna pointed back the right direction.

    Hard to imagine that those 2 have been out exploring space for 46 years.

  • I've always liked the idea of running a set of parks like 6 flags or something. Parks your friends can visit and ride the rides like RCT3. Amazing. Heck even proper multiplayer could be fun on a game like this. Yet another feature or OpenRCT2. Especially when Parkitect and Planet Coaster exist, why even bother if you aren't at least going to try?

  • As someone with literally thousands of hours in RCT 1 2 and 3 combined this looks genuinely awful to me.

    OpenRCT2 (RCT2 Mod) has better animations and most likely more quality of life features. Really RCT1 looks better and smoother than this and it did so on a pentium 4 CPU in 2003.

    I don't understand how a 24 year old game is making this new one look so awful. To be fair, Chris Sawyer captured lightning in a bottle for the first game, but come on! You're telling me a huge studio with millions of dollars and tops of personnel can't do better than this?

    Yeesh.

  • Mmmmm Content®. I sure do love Brand™. My favorite thing about Property© is all the Merchandise™ I can buy related to it.

    Seriously, I loved Gargoyles as a kid. I loved the animation style and I loved the darker subject matter that I as a kid got to experience. As an adult, I have no use for another CGI filled paint-by-numbers show with milquetoast stories and hours of filler. And I sure as heck have no desire to give Disney any more money to support it.

    Sorry for the grumpy pessimism.

  • I see the freeform option and I have tested that out. It's the closest to what I want to do.

    I just wish I could click the split screen mode and only choose 1 app to run in the top 50% of the screen and have the other half just be black.

  • I've been running crunchbang++ on an older laptop since they updated to the latest Debian release.

    I love how simple and speedy it is and since it's based on Debian 12 and GTK 4 I can still run all my software super easily.

    It's also become my go-to live distro.

  • I can personally guarantee you how nice ultrawide is and beats 2 small monitors every day. I have had one for 6 years and can't go back. Windows makes it easy to snap left and right.

    I use a program called PowerToys FancyZones to divide my ultrawide monitor into 3 equal sections that I can snap to as well. I suggest checking that one out no matter what you end up going with

  • My main takeaway from this episode was the Romulans and Vulcans being the same and what the implications on that for Starfleet and Spock especially.

    Romulans are like Vulcans? Does that make Vulcans bad? Romulans good? Spock is already the different one on the bridge? Will the rest of the crew believe in Starfleet ideals or will they turn on Spock and allow racism to rule the day.

    Tie this to treatment of Japanese civilians in the US during world war 2 (something Sulu's actor was unfortunately quite familiar with). Are all members of a race bad because the governments are at war? Obviously not but this is a common refrain from the ignorant and afraid during conflicts.

    Ultimately the Enterprise and the Romulan captain stop seeing themselves in terms of soldiers fighting for their side and instead as 2 people caught in the middle of the fight between their governments. The Romulan captain's sacrifice in the end exemplifies the realization. Rather than continue the conflict and drag both sides into a brutal patriotic conflict, he sees the humanitarian cost of such a conflict and therefore, the intrinsic value of life of both sides.

    The episode wants to drive hope the point that people are people, no matter nationality or political conflict. At the end of the day we are all the same. Despite Stiles racism toward Spock, Kirk and by extension the Federation-idealized humanity, will have none of it.