chyron8472

yhwx said:

He’s a he, but he other he’s.

moviefreakedmind said:

Why is that relevant to this thread at all?

Agreed.

Also, I’m a guy as well.

SilverWook said:

Does being Q zapped into an adult mean you can skip Starfleet Academy?

No. The Academy is basically school for officers. Skipping the Academy means enlisting and becoming an ordinary crewman (like Chief Petty Officer Miles O’Brien did). It was unclear how old the Benzite and the Vulcan were in “Coming of Age”, the episode where Wesley tried to apply for the Academy but failed. Also, I’m not sure how old Nog was when he went to the Academy–he just said he was an adult at that age by Ferengi tradition. So I don’t think age has much to do with it.

The Nintendo Switch is the first early-adopter console purchase I’ve made in a LONG time (if July is “early adopter” since it was released in March). I’ve had several other consoles, but they were either purchased well into the life of the console or else bought second-hand (or both). The last console I bought at or near launch was the Sega Dreamcast.

I did not have a Wii U. I would only have considered buying one if it had an exclusive Zelda and/or Metroid title.

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Remember the Dr. Pulaski aging makeup in that Next Generation episode? That looked so terrible.

or Wesley Crusher in Hide and Q (when Riker gets Q powers.)

I think that was an older, muscly actor that just looked really silly in Wesley’s sweater.

Yes, but case in point. It looked so terrible.

ray_afraid said:

Been waiting till I can pick u a Switch to get Breath of the Wild… Well, that’s just not gonna happen anytime soon, so I just ordered it for the Wii U.
It’s arriving Monday and I’m pretty damn excited.

Can you not order one through GameStop? I wasn’t able to find one locally available when I went shopping around for it, but my local GameStop did have Switches available to order and have it shipped to me.

Dek Rollins said:

I also tried reading Jurassic park before that but didn’t make it past 75 pages before I simply lost interest. Michael Crichton wrote that book as an impossibly boring slog. When something is actually happening and meaningful it’s super interesting and well written, and I’m excited for what’s going to happen next, but then that’s all bogged down by three pages of unnecessary technical explanations for things I don’t care about. It’s like he can’t just get to the point. It took all the fun out of what was otherwise an exremely fun read. I might pick it up again sometime and try to finish it, but I can’t see myself spending any time on it soon.

DuracellEnergizer said:

This mirrors my experience with Crichton. The Lost World and Timeline both had intriguing plots, but all the passages spent on technical details simply killed my enjoyment; I abandoned both books before I got halfway through either and haven’t picked up a Crichton novel since.

You know, I had a similar problem reading Daemon by Daniel Suarez. I loved Influx so I started reading Daemon, but the technical junk bogged down the plot too much and I quit reading it. Well, not complex technical explanations of things. The characters would, for example, refer to “IEEE 802.11n” instead of saying “wireless n” or “wi-fi” or “wireless ethernet”; or one character would talk about video games but then think about how he “played Massively Multiplayer Online Games or MMOGs” (it’s MMOs by the way, Suarez -.-) which “are vastly superior in their social aspect” to other games. Let me be clear: people who play games online are not snooty about how their social lives are better than gamers who like single player games.

It just… ugh. People who are knowledgeable about a certain hobby or field don’t frequently extrapolate on the jargon. They use jargon when they’re around people who would understand, and they don’t around people who don’t. But they don’t explain the jargon if it’s not necessary to get the point across. The book Daemon kept using jargon and then explaining what it meant or a character’s opinion about it.

moviefreakedmind said:

Remember the Dr. Pulaski aging makeup in that Next Generation episode? That looked so terrible.

or Wesley Crusher in Hide and Q (when Riker gets Q powers.)

moviefreakedmind said:

I think it’s just a way for Republicans and Democrats to distract from real issues.

Yes. From both camps.

Is there any evidence to show gender reassignment surgery is frequently paid for by the government through the use of military medical coverage? That sounds like a “few and far between” issue.

For myself, I don’t really approve of the idea, and I do kind of agree with the sentiment that one should “make that decision beforehand.” But again, I’m not sure why it’s such a big problem one way or the other that it merits national debate. I mean, of the extremely small percentage of people who are trans, how many of them have the desire to experience military boot camp; and how many of those would make the choice to reassign after enlisting? That feels to me like it would be in the double digits at best. So why is the country all up in arms about it like it’s a huge deal?

chyron8472 said:

Okay, I’ve played plenty of Breath of the Wild by now and…wait for it… I can’t say it’s my favorite Zelda game.

It’s sooo different from the other games. I know people who complain about previous 3D Zeldas being too formulaic, but because this Zelda game so different in style, scope, and difficulty, et al., that comparing Breath of the Wild to Twilight Princess or Wind Waker is almost completely unfair. It’s almost a completely different genre of game.

I’ve been playing this game for several dozen hours now. I don’t recall how many. So much so that I’m addicted to it.

I love this game. It’s fantastic. But the catch is I’ve played several other open world games before, and so certain aspects feel derivative. Yes, the towers in BOTW are better than those in Assassin’s Creed. Yes, the open world action swordplay is better than in Shadow of Mordor. Yes, this game takes solid gamplay mechanics, improves them, adds fantastic story and dialogue, and rolls them into one amazing experience. But sometimes I’m playing the game and I feel like I’ve done these things in other games, even though this does it better.

This is in contrast to other Zelda games, where no one else does it quite like Zelda. If any other game copies Zelda gameplay, it’s them copying it–not it copying them. It’s as though Zelda basically wrote the book on action adventure games. But Breath of the Wild is largely consolidating and improving on existing mechanics from other properties. There are movies that I love that do this–like Star Wars. I love Star Wars. But I haven’t seen the films and serials from which it was derived, and so I don’t compare it to them.

So that’s why I’m perplexed about where Breath of the Wild sits on my personal list of favorite Zelda games. It’s wonderful, but it’s derivative; while the other 3D games are original but formulaic. And I don’t mind the formula because it just works.

Tuvok mentioned that the Prime Directive stunned to apply, and Janeway said that they were already involved whether they wanted to be or not.

I also had problems getting through Xenocide back in the day. Xenocide and Children of the Mind are much more… “cerebral” is how Card puts it, than the first two books. Plus, I couldn’t stand Han Qing-jao at all. I think audiobooks help in some respects with books that can be a bit of a slog, in that the narrator continues on at pace and doesn’t stop to make sense of technical or philosophical whatsit.

I did also listen to Jurassic Park on audiobook, and I liked it. However, I think the movie was better in that it seemed to have the right number of action sequences. I think Crichton could have cut both the T-Rex at the waterfall and the Raptors in the lab from the book, and the story would have flowed better for it. I did like Nedry’s death in the book better, though. It was so much more of an aptly gruesome end for his character.

But seriously, I highly recommend the Expeditionary Force series–at least the first book, Columbus Day. Humor hooks me in to a serious storyline, and I cracked up laughing at the main character’s description of that stupid ice cream truck.

Can we please cut down on the Bible-bashing? I understand many of you don’t believe, but seriously.

I’ve been listening to plenty of unabridged audiobooks lately. I’m currently re-listening to the books in the Ender’s Game universe)–and am currently on book 2 of the Shadow series, Shadow of the Hegemon.

Before that, I was listening to Expeditionary Force, books 1 and 2.

Any word on Episode V?

I like Dukat. I did like him better before he converted to following the Pah-Wraith. After that, he was more like-to-hate.

I like the writing for almost the whole show, but I can’t watch the episode where Nog moved into the holodeck after losing his leg. It’s too intense.

TV’s Frink said:

TV’s Frink said:

How is it that people who don’t like certain aspects of Star Trek (or Trek at all, for that matter) are jerks and trolls?

Why didn’t we get an answer to this question?

Is it because there is no rational answer?

It’s because I’m not interested in discussing it further. I already made my point as clear as I can make it. I’d rather change the subject at this point.

I don’t know why the showrunner would say “the Klingons are not consistent.” It’s TOS (the show) that differs from the rest. From Star Trek III onward, the Klingons are fairly consistent in appearance; and inconsistencies are addressed in the Affliction/Divergence arc of Enterprise.

About the biggest unexplained inconsistency with them is the change in Worf’s cranial ridges.

Handman said:

chyron8472 said:

Now if you would kindly shut up, that would be appreciated.

I thought you came here to hear what other people are saying.

[insert witty retort]

TV’s Frink said:

I can’t quite figure it out either. I thought he doesn’t like that people complain about Star Trek because it somehow prevents him from talking about the things he likes about Star Trek, but…

¯\(ツ)/¯

Let me put it simply for you: I’m not fond of jerks and trolls.

Now if you would kindly shut up, that would be appreciated.

TV’s Frink said:

chyron8472 said:

I’m saying I like liking things; it’s harder to openly like them around people who dump on them; and I wish people talked more about what they like about Trek rather than what they hate about it.

Seems like that’s your problem, but whatever ™.

One doesn’t have to acknowledge it to be their problem for them to still have a problem. If someone has a sour attitude, it’s not necessarily just everyone else’s problem if said person doesn’t notice it in themselves nor care.

So no, it’s not my problem.

TV’s Frink said:

this is someone making no arguments at all other than “why doesn’t everyone like what I like?”

That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying it’s a bummer that people seem to like to complain a lot–especially on the internet. (“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” -Oscar Wilde)

I’m not saying people have to like what I like. I’m saying I like liking things; it’s harder to openly like them around people who dump on them; and I wish people talked more about what they like about Trek rather than what they hate about it.

TV’s Frink said:

Why do people care so much about what other people think about a TV show?

Why do people care about anything anyone ever says about anything?

Because that’s what relationship is. That’s what community is. People find friends more easily in things with which they have a common interest. It’s why this forum (or any forum) exists in the first place.

Honestly, I don’t see why you even asked that question.

Tried catching up on this thread from where I last visited, and all I’m hearing is: “DS9 sucks because…”; “Kelvin Timeline sucks because…”

et al. ad nauseum.

This is why I think Trek needed to be rebooted. Because trying to please the current fanbase was increasingly exceedingly difficult to accomplish.

It makes it hard to talk about why I like things if people keep blathering on about why they suck.

TV’s Frink said:

Trump is desperately trying to change the subject.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/07/10/trump-accuses-james-comey-of-breaking-the-law-based-on-a-misleading-fox-news-report/?utm_term=.ff1259352317

"Breaking the law, Breaking the laaaw…

Breaking the law, Breaking the laaaw…"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyxLGSMtqtM

chyron8472 said:

Okay, I’ve played plenty of Breath of the Wild by now and…wait for it… I can’t say it’s my favorite Zelda game.

It’s sooo different from the other games. I know people who complain about previous 3D Zeldas being too formulaic, but because this Zelda game so different in style, scope, and difficulty, et al., that comparing Breath of the Wild to Twilight Princess or Wind Waker is almost completely unfair. It’s almost a completely different genre of game.

I think I know what my issue is: I haven’t been doing much of the story. I’ve been doing as much of the main quests as I needed to, and then wandered off on a personal quest to activate all of the towers, or get enough supplies to purchase ancient armor, or [insert another random activity].

When I get into the story missions, the story and the dialogue are fantastic.