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  • What is the most controversial TV finale?

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  • it's both ironic and cruel that throrough SG-1 and early Atlantis they made the season endings so ambigious so often just in case there would be no next season, and then they do a left-field ending like this that would have been fine enough if the next season had them flying back to pegasus episode 1, so naturally this finale ends up being the finale finale. of course!

    i'd love to see an animated movie pick up from there and wrap everything up- that way some of the original cast can come back but not all of them are needed and they can continue the story without needing to explain why atlantis was on earth for 20 years

  • If you could travel back 50 to 60 years and introduce one piece of modern music to a band or a musician of the time, who would you choose and what song would you expose them to?

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  • jim morrison predicted that some day a single person will be able to produce a full song with machines but never lived to see it happen, so i'm not sure exactly what but i'd definitely show him something entirely arranged and rendered on a computer

  • If nothing else, I will say it's been a long road...

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  • also worth checking out Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1 if you haven't already, both have a lot of Trek in their DNA (and in B5's case there was cross-polination in both directions)

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  • i think about this every time i open outlook on my phone and have to wait a full minute for it to load and hopefully not crash, versus how it worked more or less instantly on my phone ten years ago. gajillions of dollars spent on improved hardware and improved network speed and capacity, ans for what? machines that do the same thing in twice the amount of time if you're lucky

  • Is Dune derivative?

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  • i've heard this called the Seinfeld effect, where Seinfeld was so influential on sitcoms that built off of it that it seems generic in hindsight

  • ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt: Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete?

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  • appropriate given they've been screaming "DON'T YOU WANT ME" at disinterested parties all this time

  • What is your most "Fuck you, this is actually awesome?" take?

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  • i still think Balan Wonderworld was awesome. the single button controls were refreshing after three decades of controller bloat, the suits felt like a fun evolution of the character switching from LEGO Star Wars, the game is full of weird nooks and crannies that constantly had me thinking "i can't believe they thought of that," and the music and art kick ass. there are definitely areas that could be improved and i think we were all hoping for something more kinetic from Sonic Team alum but it's still ultimately one of the better AAA games in the last few years. i still don't understand the backlash, especially after the crickets Naka's previous and signifigantly worse game Rodea the Sky Soldier got

  • Sources to purchase mp3s?

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  • +1 for Bandcamp. they often run a "bandcamp friday" event where they waive their cut of all music sold that day, so almost everything (payment processors still take a cut) goes to the artist. there are also self-hosted alternatives to bandcamp like faircamp

  • Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?

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  • thank you!

  • Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?

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  • can anyone recommend a good read into the actual developments happening with ATproto as of late? i've seen a lot of insisting lately that things are changing/have changed but no one's saying what exactly is or has changed

  • What do you think of the future of the Internet? Will the "Splinternet" become reality for most of the world?

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  • i think it's becoming an inevitabiliy. when you have the EU passing laws preventing data collection and US states like mississippi requiring it, eventually the laws become incompatible and your only options become serving a different site to every jurisdiction or just blocking large swathes of the planet. i think unfortunately we're in the last years of there being a singular "the internet" as things shift from nations reactively geoblocking sites to sites proactively geoblocking themselves

  • 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed

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  • what confuses me the most about these videos is the call to action. go back? that's not how time works!

  • Recently released documents and holophotos prove that Admiral Janeway's logs from Voyager's mission weren't as complete as we were told.

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  • "captain, why does our annual antiharassment training have a chapter on the transwarp barrier this year?"

    "they had to rewrite the whole class after the Voyager logs were declassified. this was the biggest overhaul since first contact with the Xyrillians"

  • What should be the ONE universal controller layout that everyone would agree on?

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  • as someone who has never had a playstation, knowing now the original semantic meanings of the playstation glyps i think they're the best compromise IF we go back to their original meanings. they had it right the first time with hlw intuitive it is to have O being confirm and X being cancel, and it'd keep Nintendo people somewhat happy because confirm is still the far right button. maybe they could also release a version with reversed or hotswappable buttons, using the current PS layout (which in this case would be O on the bottom and X on the right) to throw a bone to the xbox crowd because this compromise doesn't do anything for them otherwise

    or like another commenter suggested, we throw out the diamond button layout, too tainted by the competing standards of the console wars, and use the gamecube layout like God intended

  • What should be the ONE universal controller layout that everyone would agree on?

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  • amen! i'm not bothered by different glyphs as much as i am by everyone making the primary button different (although i guess now xbox and ps agree) and that just doesn't happen with a physical controller that has an obvious hierarchy of buttons. plus B A and X all being in a line makes them all accessible with the natural wiper motion of the thumb, way easier for my arthritic mitts to find their way around than two rows of two

  • Starfleet HR is in for a nice report when they get back

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  • would you have to turn off the safeties in order for your hair to actually be cut?

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  • https://youtu.be/X7R2Vl_hcCA?si=mfgmIxuL11dE3qzA

    i usually don't catch most of the lyrics the first or second go around, so anything i hear for the first time basically sounds like this. because of that, i treat vocals like any other instrument- is the tone good? is it carrying a good melody? only if i like a song enough to listen multiple times (because of or in spite of the singer) do i start to pick up the words, which can elevate the experience if they're good but if they're not, nothing gained and nothing lost.

  • Should large Fediverse instances and Bluesky encourage, not require, users to opt-in to bridges that connect the Fediverse to Bluesky and other non-fedi social web platforms?

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  • most people join the fedi to get away from shit like bluesky, so until they become actually decentralized i think most fedi instances should block/ban bridges if anything. the current status quo of bridges being around for those who want/need them but are easily ignorable for the rest of us is probably the best case scenario right now

  • Robert who?

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  • tim is short for robertim

  • Scott Bakula Eyeing Star Trek Return In President Archer Series Pitch From ‘Enterprise’ Producer

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  • the bakula is bakula