Lots of uses of “AI” are so people can deny responsibility. They feed in their history of discrimination, tell the machine to replicate it, then go, “it can’t be discriminatory, it’s an AI”

Octoprint is great, connecting the printer to somebody else’s computer is crazy

Watch Jessie Gender instead

The only game I’ll play with strangers is FFXIV.

Exactly, actually alien aliens have been pretty rare in Trek. Usually they’re stand ins for some human culture or ideology. Even the horta had pretty familiar and understandable motivations. These gorn are pequenino tier alienness.

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Real name and face on the internet guy doesn’t get to have an opinion on tracking.

You being able to track engagement is bad, actually.

Capital G Gamers hate Kotaku and also women

Xenomorphs with a whole ass technological civilization are another level of scary

Hysperia operates its technology and society with a sort of ren faire aesthetic, calling the fusion reactor a dragonsbreath flame for example. They know what’s really going on though, it’s just a very elaborate cosplay.

The big one is Chapel and Spock. She goes straight from pursuing him to leaving him without much of any actual relationship in between. Pelia doesn’t get to do much as the chief engineer, and Ortegas barely gets any screen time at all.

I don’t understand this idea that fewer episodes is better. Basically my only complaint about SNW season 2 is how rushed it felt.

Most of them come already full of games. Don’t worry about whether that’s legal.

How many people are actually seeing the names of your home machines?

Elon Musk naming shit after Culture ships while being Joiler Veppers.

Yes, hence the constant efforts to create and enforce artificial scarcity, from DRM to NFTs.

And it’s not just software. The same ideology leads to locked dumpsters full of food behind grocery stores and shoes and coats cut open before they’re thrown away at the end of the season.

There is no ethical way to monetize software because the unethical thing is capitalism itself.

Sam Kirk appears on screen already dead and played by Shatner in TOS s01e29 Operation–Annihilate.

A federation C-SPAN would have to be done really carefully to not be Berman’d.