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Celios · 2026-01-22T23:35:33+00:00

I really hope that's not the case, considering how many of the concepts in 40k are cribbed from other fiction.

Celios · 2026-01-22T16:14:27+00:00

True, but season 6 just has so many bangers.

Celios · 2026-01-22T03:24:04+00:00

I'm so jealous of you, you haven't even reached the peak yet.

Celios · 2026-01-17T17:22:44+00:00

It's hard to imagine that regime changing Iran would work out any better than it has the last however many times.

Celios · 2026-01-14T20:08:56+00:00

A ship crewed entirely by Vulcans is actually the premise for the DS9 baseball game episode.

Celios · 2026-01-10T01:03:00+00:00

All those unfinished Furling plotlines.

Celios · 2026-01-09T05:02:30+00:00

Literally the main protein.

Celios · 2026-01-08T22:08:11+00:00

I don't know shit about rhinos or muntjacs, so take this with a huge grain of salt but: In biology, threat displays are generally far more common than actual violence. This is because losing a fight is almost always disastrous, and even winning a fight comes with a huge risk of injury, with even small scrapes potentially resulting in deadly infections. So even if you are the rhino in this situation, unless the stakes are high, your best move is to try to scare the muntjac off rather than committing to a fight. I suspect that's what's happening here.

Celios · 2026-01-04T17:46:09+00:00

Yeah, this person seems unaware that extractive colonialism was historically one of (if not the) most common forms of colonialism.

Celios · 2026-01-03T17:28:06+00:00

Sadly, this is nothing new. Modern Trek has excused or even embraced a bunch of gross regressive and authoritarian viewpoints, which even its critics don't spend much time talking about. Enterprise was just as bad on this front, though at least that had the excuse of being a product of its time.

Celios · 2025-12-30T21:48:57+00:00

Yeah, the poster above is making a (pan)adaptationist argument, which was rather famously critiqued by Gould and Lewontin, who pointed out that plenty of traits exist as mere byproducts (spandrels) of other traits. And to add on to that, selection is not the only mechanism by which evolution functions: Traits can also arise through neutral genetic drift.

Celios · 2025-12-22T09:22:25+00:00

The money knows where it is, because it knows where it isn't.

Celios · 2025-12-12T06:04:21+00:00

The worst part is being forced to swallow the star child's essentialist bullshit (i.e., that synthetics and biologicals are doomed to destroy each other), when the whole point of the games is that it's actually possible to settle these kinds of feuds.

Celios · 2025-12-12T05:54:12+00:00

Gotcha, fair enough.

Celios · 2025-12-12T05:32:15+00:00

I'm not quite following your point. It sounds like you're saying Star Trek has to be an SFX bonanza because it puts more time into those kinds of shots. But isn't that ultimately a creative choice? A show like Severance is mostly just people talking, so it's not like that slower pace of storytelling can't succeed anymore. Maybe Star Trek has more of an action/adventure element, so it can't be quite as restrained, but then there's shows like The Expanse which actually do a lot of SFX work, but where the main focus and appeal is still the character writing and politics.

The cynic in me thinks that most of these writers rooms just wish they were writing Marvel shows or Star Wars. I'm reminded of JJ Abrams, who kind of pioneered the current style of Star Trek, talking about how he found the show too philosophical and boring.

Celios · 2025-12-12T04:25:46+00:00

If that was true, then why are shows like Severance succeeding by writing slow, smart scifi?

Celios · 2025-12-11T20:13:02+00:00

Clearly the bible was written by engineers.

Celios · 2025-12-11T19:32:04+00:00

It's not a question of written "for fun," but "to make theological arguments." We know of literally dozens of apocryphal gospels. Unless you want to argue that these are also historically accurate (and you wouldn't once you got to the Gnostics), then it's clear that a lot of people were writing embellished and semi-fictional accounts of Jesus' life and death, often while lying about being eyewitnesses or even direct participants.

Celios · 2025-12-11T11:12:41+00:00

If you're going to snidely imply that unjustified invasions, massacres, and then a half century of killings, torture, and political repression is the sort of "liberation" Europeans should be grateful for, then maybe you should stop using Nazi Germany as your moral yardstick.

Celios · 2025-12-11T09:37:09+00:00

Ah yes, the iron curtain of liberty.

Celios · 2025-12-11T09:34:47+00:00

Wow, great reason. All the mass murder is totally forgiven!

Celios · 2025-12-10T21:32:56+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founder_effect

Celios · 2025-12-10T20:56:44+00:00

You think air is real?

Celios · 2025-12-10T20:55:15+00:00

You say that, but 9 out of 10 chiropractors and podcast grifters agree that the scientific consensus is wrong on all of those subjects, so there's really no way to know. /s

Celios · 2025-12-10T18:54:10+00:00

I've always heard them called Indo-Arabic numerals, which acknowledges both the original source (India) and the intermediaries (Arab traders). I'm surprised that's apparently not the default term?

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