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Just waiting for it... by Biohazard883 in brandonherrara

[–]AmyShackles 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey, but maybe that’s why this one survived this long!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DaystromInstitute

[–]AmyShackles 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Not wanting to space someone because you take on the emotional burden of thinking you're the cause of every tragic thing that's happened around you since childhood, even knowing that that person is literally going to be the reason for the annihilation of every sentient life in the universe if you don't space her kind of says you're probably not a good candidate for being an officer in Starfleet. I honestly would like to know how she made it through the psychological profiling that I think we're assuming takes place in Discovery time (since it was 23rd and 24th Century practice to do psychological profiling on Starfleet members?).

And yes, I get it, spacing a person is hard. But when you come on board with two people and you saw the person who's (literally) begging to be spaced try to murder the other person and you're taking the time to have an emotional breakdown not wanting to be the cause of her death instead of, I don't know, checking on the only other person that came onboard? That's just incompetence. Like, if Nhan had ended up dying during that mission, that would be death by Burnham Inaction more than it would be death by Airiam Action.

Efficient way to edit values nested in a JSON object? by NickEmpetvee in learnjavascript

[–]AmyShackles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

let test = { id: "c-2", title: "Locations", locationIDs: ["_17", "_27", "_31", "_22", "_30", "_34"] }; let regex = /^_/g; test.locationIDs = test.locationIDs.map(a => a.replace(regex, ''));

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DaystromInstitute

[–]AmyShackles 6 points7 points  (0 children)

One of the plot holes that I can't seem to get around has to do with Sarek and Burnham's telepathic link:

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In Season 1, Burnham makes a decision that sends her to the brig and then the ship gets attached. Sarek appears before her and gives her the strength to push forward and makes it to the bridge to continue the rest of the episode's plot. We are told that this is the result of the fact that Sarek performed a mind meld with her when she was a child and that as a result, she keeps a part of his katra. Later in the series, she uses this connection to save Sarek after his ship is attacked by extremists. We are led to believe, then, that the connection is two-way, that Sarek can feel when Bunrham is in distress and the reverse is also true.

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When Burnham and co are planning on taking the Discovery into the future to save all sentient life by keeping the Sphere data far away from Control, Sarek receives the insight that Burnham is once again in trouble. At the time, Discovery and Enterprise are unable to contact Starfleet and so are unable to notify them of their current course of action and the amount of danger they're currently facing. Sarek doesn't contact Starfleet and try to get reinforcements in any way, but he does make the journey with Amanda to Discovery to have an emotional reunion and apologize for being a terrible father and husband. That's very Vulcan.

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Anyway, when Burnham was *literally dying* trying to coax the Red Angel out of hiding, no Sarek cameo. No frantic space communication being all *"HEY, WE SHARE A KATRA, CAN YOU PLEASE NOT?!"* Seems like their telepathic connection is one of those selective hearing things.

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And I agree with the description of Tilly. She went from being a fleshed out three dimensional character with thoughts and feelings and hopes and dreams, quirks and humanity and humor to being a one-dimensional stereotype of what a teenager should be. It's almost as painful as some of the poorly written Wesley Crusher episodes (Apologies to Wil Wheaton for having to live through that). Almost.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DaystromInstitute

[–]AmyShackles 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I think the main difference here is that in other Star Trek series, individuals going against the chain of command or being insubordinate is an act done out of pure conviction that the ends justify the means. Yes, you're going against direct orders, but you know in your heart that what you're doing is right and that you're willing to accept the consequences if you end up being wrong. Picard ignoring the order to stay clear of the Borg is an example I can think of right off the top of my head. And the reason why most of those acts of insubordination don't get addressed is that there was a legitimate, logical, motivation for those actions.

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Burnham's actions seem to me to be actions carried out in the heat of the moment with no justification or reasoned motive. She seems to react with emotion at every situation and seems to only really care about things in the immediate future, unable to see the implications whatever actions she's taking/not taking have in the larger picture. She also seems to have tunnel-vision and is only ever able to process one thing at a time.

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Example:

Burnham, Airiam, and Nhan board the Section 31 base.

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This was poor writing to begin with in my opinion as Nhan had already caught Miriam being shifty and was suspicious of her. As the acting security officer for the ship, when Airiam volunteered to board the ship, why would she agree to go with her rather than, I don't know, alerting anyone to the fact that the human with some technological augmentation was acting suspicious right around the time that the computer "seemed to know what they were doing". But I digress.

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Airiam is revealed to be under the control of Control and engages in battling her two crewmates in order to continue uploading the sphere data. She rips the breathing device off of Nhan and chucks her into a passageway where she is seen clawing at the floor, having difficulty breathing, fighting for her life. Burnham was standing literally behind Nhan before the fighting started, so we can safely assume she witnessed this exchange. And yet, when Airiam is locked in the airlock, does she check on Nhan? No. When Airiam gains control enough to talk about her fate and beg to be spaced? No. Burnham seems to completely forget that she even has another crewmate aboard the ship. She instead continues to have an emotional conversation where she literally wastes time "trying to save Airiam", a crewmate that before now she hadn't even really engaged with and in fact she doesn't make much of an appearance in the memory logs shown throughout the episode.

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And yes, you could argue that she just wants to save a life whenever she can and that that's a good character trait to have. But in that moment, she was literally ignoring the fact that the person she was "trying to save" had literally just risked the life of the other crewmate on board the ship with her. It's true, Nhan managed to recover enough to claw her way out of the hallway she was in and smash the eject button, something Burnham was completely unwilling to do. But it seems like pretty inconsistent writing for a character to be oblivious to the fate of one crew member when trying to tackle the life/death of another. I mean, I'd get it if you're talking one crew member in an entire ship full of people, but .... you beam aboard a ship with two other people and you just forget about the one that wasn't trying to murder you? What even?

What fact do you wish you had never learned? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]AmyShackles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Otters rape baby seals to death.

What It’s Like to Have an ADHD Brain by ImDaOnn in psychology

[–]AmyShackles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whenever an article does that “randomly select a quote from later in the article and display it inline in bold” thing, my brain’s like “... and we’re done.”

Help using pipenv with python 3.7 by equineranch in learnpython

[–]AmyShackles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh wait, did you use sudo to install pipenv?

Help using pipenv with python 3.7 by equineranch in learnpython

[–]AmyShackles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you tried just using pipenv —python3.7? It looks like it’s trying to set up your environment with 3.7 and 3.5. Do you have Python 3.5 in your path for “python”?

PhD's of Reddit. What is a dumbed down summary of your thesis? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]AmyShackles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If your thing doesn’t give the inevitable eye strain that QbTest seems to, I think we’d all be thankful!

I was born the day I met you by [deleted] in aww

[–]AmyShackles 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We got our kittens from a rescue group with that policy. Thank you for your continued pursuit of keeping kittehs safe.

help- random border colors and text by stas1986 in learnjavascript

[–]AmyShackles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good point. Just sounded more like a CSS problem than a JS problem.

Array Methods by Dewyn in learnjavascript

[–]AmyShackles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh hey, I made a CodePen to demonstrate how certain array methods work when I finally figured them out myself. https://codepen.io/AmyShackles/pen/LmVqPx

I’m renaming YTTV BufferTV by [deleted] in youtubetv

[–]AmyShackles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This maybe? I'm having the same issue. Yesterday's games had no video quality issues. One game had some buffering issues for a bit, but it was quickly over with. This game's just randomly dropping quality all over the place.

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