i've been thinking lately the big divide in klingon culture is honor and glory. they're not exclusive but they do conflict at times and the divide is in which of the two a klingon values more. worf's obviously way big on "duty and honor". the guys who love romulans are big on glory.

"this tennis ball has a gold fringe, which means we are playing admiralty fetch"

I love this scene from The High Ground. The collegial brainstorming (*without* playing Twenty Questions with the computer), Wil Wheaton's performance... and of course, the warp core. :)

i don't know how many times i need to say this: *delaware is not a real state* it is a fictitious place. it is a fraudulent assertion of the united states federal government. it is a fake idea. like, come on. there's no fuckin' way. "delaware" yeah, sure, whatever.

didn't know Char had a guest spot on South Park

tried to add music to my iphone for the first time. dogshit experience. it keeps trying to create an album for every track (YES the tracks all have the same album tag). now i'm digging out my old android phone to use for music. long-term i might check the local pawn shops to see if they have ipods

bernie madoff telling us we're in danger from ponzi schemes so we better give him all our money. go build a submarine already

dude looks like he's one of those supermarionation puppets out of Thunderbirds or Fireball XL-5

I know this is a grognardy gripe, but I'm grumpy with how modern Trek increasingly treats warp drive as being just like Star Wars hyperdrive. And I get that VFX is its own shitshow of dysfunction and exploitation, but come *on* please don't just rip off the starstreaks coming out of lightspeed.

this one dream i had, there was a filesystem being graphically represented and someone was all "and here are where the mouse drivers live" and it was a little house and the garage door opened and a little car with a little mouse wearing clothes drove out

remember the worms games? where you played a bunch of little earthworms shooting bazookas and missiles and exploding sheep at each other? those cute murderous lumps of pink flesh? isn't it heartworming that some of those got the call to be on the cast of Bob's Burgers

daylight savings time is the government telling everyone they all gotta change their bedtime at the same time

At this rate I think there's good odds we see South Korea and/or Japan possessing nuclear weapons by 2029.

anyone else absolutely done with seeing that fuckign "straight to jail" meme? i don't want to see fred armisen's face ever again

i wonder why these guys hate the CFPB so much ohh

A blink-and-you'll-miss-it Star Trek reference in the fourth episode of the Dirty Pair OVA

monty hall presents: the trolley problem

Write and/or call your state officials and tell them they need to safeguard infrastructure against federal sabotage. Cite this incident as an example if you need to.

Remember to spread a little joy, even if it will be fleeting

That actor watched A Few Good Men and thought Col. Jessup was right.

taking a walk seems to be less "feeling better now" and more "not being disappointed later that I didn't get a walk in" these days

seen in a pizza joint in downtown columbus in 2018

advertising is a bizarre, semi-conscious system of patronage, amplifying and distorting works of art as its undead limbs of money twitch and writhe across our culture

that time Riker and Picard got catfished by a holodeck character so the IT contractors could hijack the Enterprise

bimetallism but with uranium and plutonium

there ought to be a buddy movie where Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev go on an adventure while ducking the Secret Service the whole way. obvious setup for a sequel where they do the same in the Soviet Union.

money is corrosive

it's depressing that making another The Voyage Home is such an absolute non-starter. *everyone* has either seen or knows someone who has seen "the one with the whales," it's the most successful Trek movie ever, and yet making a Star Trek that doesn't end in a battle and/or fistfight is unthinkable

If you're making a space opera and the soundtrack doesn't go big on tympani at some point then you fucked up big time

spinning up a new character for a tabletop RPG feels like homework, in the most pejorative sense I can muster

Do you ever wonder how many gigawatt-hours get burned on bad or redundant software? I'm not even talking about crimes against humanity like cryptocurrency or ~~*~generative AI~*~~, but just banal shit like daily antivirus scans running on umpteen-million Windows VMs scattered across the world.

I remember hearing Tubthumping on the radio when I was a kid and for whatever reason my brain heard "I get knocked down" as "I get no towel"

It's funny to me that the most visible Dirty Pair reference in Star Trek looped around to becoming animated again.

who do i have to bribe or blackmail to get strikethrough text implemented on this website

we used to be able to make light from glass, metal, and gas. now you need a semiconductor fab

Sometimes people point out that the Star Trek TNG art folks were putting in Dirty Pair references (which, yes, means that anime IS real in Star Trek), but in fairness Dirty Pair started it.

It's incredible how The Critic predicted AI/deepfake bullshit thirty years ago as "Phillipsvision"