I have an old PCI TV tuner card. It predates the digital TV switchover so I have a card that can’t be plugged into modern motherboards for which no signals are broadcast. Plus I’m sure there are no 64-bit drivers ever made for the damn thing. At this point it’s ewaste.

Your version is better.

Finding out after you’ve fucked around isn’t terror.

Timothy McVeigh was a terrorist. This guy’s a vigilante.

they look delicious.

I’ve had my S10 since new. My 16th birthday present. Still perfectly roadworthy and ready for a day’s work.

How about the position they put Riker in? “You will prosecute this case and you will do a good job of it and if you don’t I’ll immediately rule in favor of the prosecution.”

The Vulcans do a lot of ritualistic and mystical stuff but the difference is the shit they do seems to actually work.

We first see planet Vulcan during Amok Time. Spock pops the one stiffy he’s allowed every decade so they rush him home to get laid only for his wife to invoke her right to a cucking ceremony.

Next time we visit Vulcan, they’re inches away from awarding Spock the medal for Most Dead Inside but he’s disqualified at the last minute.

The Search For Spock is entirely about reuniting Spock’s soul with his dead and resurrected body. Mind you, Spock died of radiation sickness from fisting a warp core in the previous movie. His torpedo casket miraculously soft-landed on the Genesis planet, and existing there as a corpse resurrected and quickly aged his body but kind of as a caveman, no education or socializing. He had copied his mind into McCoy. So they go get his body, and bring his living yet blank body and the guy his mind is in to Vulcan. Sarek then asks T’Pau to do the brain FTP ritual. She replies “What you ask hasn’t been done since ages past and then only in legend.” It’s played as if Sarek is just now springing this on her, like he didn’t call her up at the start of this going “Hey they’re gonna go get my son’s body, can you do the brain FTP ritual for him?” He puts T’Pau on the spot and yet they’ve got the two slabs and the gong there all ready and she nails it on the first try.

BREAKING NEWS: I was making a joke about it being the File Transfer Protocol ritual but in re-watching that scene they call it the Fal-Tor-Pan ritual so it canonically IS the FTP ritual and now I’m going to bed because my day won’t get better than that.

To recap: They have a ritual for “Here’s his blank but living body and a guy with his mind in him, could you fix this?” just ready to go. This scenario has come up at least once before in Vulcan history so it’s still in their high priestess training manual.

And it WORKS. They’re not a bunch of superstitious faith healers they produce demonstrable results. It involves robes and gongs and magic words and priestesses standing around but it’s all real (in-universe). How much of it is for the sake of ceremony and how much is science is up for debate but they get it done.

Star Trek just isn’t good at big wars. Single battles where “Oh shit there’s a borg cube coming” can be tense and exciting but I’m way more into the ethical dilemma or space mystery mind screw episodes.

I think that’s the main problem with Enterprise. Someone fresh out of Voyager’s writing room said the phrase “temporal cold war” without thinking about what those words meant first, and then they said “Fuck it, let’s go full Starship Troopers.”

Only Growler I have is from a brewpub that doesn’t exist anymore. They did gangbusters business in a walkable downtown area selling pints over the bar. They decided to move across town to the part where pedestrians never go to focus on retail sales of packaged beer and were out of business within 6 months.

Compact pickup trucks. I got one of the last S10s made and it’s older than the average Tiktokist.

I means a bottle for transporting beer here, I’m guessing like all British slang it means genitalia?

A New Hope is pretty good.

Super Mario World is my answer to “If someone who never played a video game before asks you to introduce them to gaming, what will you start with?”

Possibly becasue it’s a major entry point for me into gaming, but it’s also colorful, specifically designed to be beginner and child friendly, it’s whimsical, the controls aren’t that complicated (though there is a deep end to that pool) and being a 2D platformer it’s maybe not nausea inducing to people not used to 3D graphics.

Imagine killing yourself over NC State.

I was right, you’re a troll. Eat sand.

I remember reading about someone who listened to Popcorn for 24 hours and it had an effect on them.

We wish you were using Linux

We wish you were using Linux

We wish you were using Linux

Have a debloated new year!

15 different renditions of Popcorn.

Nope. My argument is not absurd because not using any of them is an option. You realize that’s a thing you can do, right? Give none of them your attention?

Okay, you have issues. Or are a troll. Or are a troll with issues.

I consider Twitter a dead platform because it is a nazi hellhole and I strongly recommend everyone just stop using it.

At this point though I do genuinely believe Facebook is worse because they’ve had a direct hand in at least one ethnic cleansing during my lifetime. Elon may quack like a duck but Zuckerberg swims, flies and waddles like a duck. I strongly recommend everyone just stops using Facebook and Instagram as well.

BUT ANYWAY, let me ask this: What’s stopping Elon Musk from buying Bluesky, badging it as X2 and doing the whole thing over again? Bluesky is currently a private for-profit company operating mainly on venture capital, just like Twitter was when it was a startup. It’s never going to support itself on its own revenue, that venture capital will eventually run out, there will be an IPO, it will suddenly be open to the whims of shareholders who will demand dark patterns and engagement at all costs and everything that has made the rest of the internet suck and they won’t care if their algorithms boost genocidal messages that erupt in widespread violence as long as their dividends come in.

It’s just a nope from me, and everything you will ever say will further convince me.