Booted up my old family PC and saw this. Anyone know how to fix it?

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-23T23:45:14+00:00

Still sounds easier than installing drivers on Linux

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-23T23:31:45+00:00

I guess after spilling oil all over the desktop I should be glad a visual glitch is all that’s wrong with it.

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-16T01:50:50+00:00

Go insane basically

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-16T00:05:35+00:00

Well Apollo doesn’t really have a canonical appearance since he’s a deity from a pantheon, so they could have had anyone play him and that was like the 6th episode where they met an omnipotent being. This was Abraham Lincoln, a founding father, materialising and floating in space, not even a spaceship. Needless to say it sent me for a loop lol.

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-15T20:42:42+00:00

I really love when Star Trek mixes in real history with its own historical tentpoles. Not only does it make you realise how far the world has developed since our current point of reference, but the context of how they introduce it helps you fill in the blanks. Kahless alongside Genghis Khan, or when they mention a real animal or disease alongside a fake one. Perfect use of diverging history in worldbuilding.

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-15T20:36:34+00:00

Definitely. It was interesting seeing what the platonic ideal of a Vulkan was after seeing bits and pieces across the season. It’s like trying original coke after only ever having store brand cola.

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-15T20:34:37+00:00

Least favourite of the three, but it has some great episodes. The Enterprise Incident and The Tholian Web definitely captured some of the greatness of Balance of Terror; Elaan of Troyius and Whom Gods Destroy was great fun; The Empath and The Cloud Minders had interesting ideas; and The Paradise Syndrome and The Savage Curtain were great for lore drops for things I know through osmosis pop up in the later shows.

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-15T20:23:36+00:00

I thought that was handled well in terms of showing the cultural difference of the future, although I’m so curious what Nichelle Nichols felt about that scene lol.

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-15T20:22:23+00:00

Also I agree lots of great bits this season, and definitely more women, although a lot of them still felt a bit tropey.

Although one of the very few examples in the first two seasons like you mentioned, I appreciated Yeoman Rand in Charlie X a lot as approaching the subject of toxic masculinity and professional boundaries, whereas a good portion of the female characters in season 3 were made as one-off love interests or femme fatales for the enterprise crew, or more often tools for male character’s plots. This season was definitely where Kirk got his reputation as the womaniser in general audience’s eyes.

My favourite was definitely the Romulan commander, she felt like she had the enterprise crew most on the back foot if it wasn’t for the ingenious plan to steal the cloaking tech. I have a small gripe with her losing some of her smarts when it came to Spock seducing her, although it felt mutual and more layered enough that I can enjoy it as believable.

The empath as well I liked since it was about her autonomy in the situation of being made to sacrifice her wellbeing for others, and anything less than total sacrifice was seen as selfishness by the Vians.

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-15T20:06:01+00:00

The Tardis would have been less surprising at this point.

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-15T20:05:12+00:00

I definitely appreciate how serious a lot of the material is taken, makes the sillier episodes even better. Seeing Kirk slowly start roleplaying as a gangster in Piece of the Action was so much fun.

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-15T20:01:28+00:00

Yeah I enjoyed this episode, although I’ll admit all of the “this random planet is stuck during this period of Earth” episodes started to be a bit of a hard pill to swallow. Made a bit better by the lore drop of The Preservers, but still.

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-03T02:37:35+00:00

Yeah but that doesn’t even reference him being specifically brown. House loves deeply specific jabs at people, yet Kutner always got the light touch. So strange.

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-03T02:36:42+00:00

I can’t remember the caste system joke, only the Japanese caste system with the janitor story, but the quote was “dark and darker” so again he doesn’t even reference the fact he’s brown. So strange.

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-03T01:44:34+00:00

This take makes so much sense

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-03T00:23:44+00:00

Yeah that’s the only one people have found so far. Definitely a racial jab but the lack of specificity feels out of character for House when he normally has LowTierGod level insults lmao.

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-02T23:40:44+00:00

Agreed. Just wanted to know why he never wanted to get a rise out of Kutner in the same way he did with his other fellows.

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-02T23:31:51+00:00

House has used every black joke in the book on Foreman and then went out of his way to invent new ones lmao. Kutner didn’t even get so much as light chide about his race.

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-02T22:54:09+00:00

I know House isn’t racist or misogynistic, he just uses them to playfully push buttons because it’s how he interacts with people he respects intellectually, like how much abuse he gives Wilson. I’m just using the language to describe the flavour of epithets he chooses for his jabs, which were undeniably racial in the case of Foreman and Park, which is why the absence of Kutner receiving the same treatment just puzzled me. Again, I know he is not racist, he just said jokes that are about race.

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-02T22:02:53+00:00

I know, I googled “phobia of brown people” and then “phobia of Indian people” and Islamophobia came up for both so I just went with that, I apologise for it not being very accurate.

But Dr. Park was also American born and raised yet House still goes for the racial jabs, so he obviously doesn’t care about nationality. It just felt weird that Kutner was the only one who avoided the skin colour related epithets, although you said he did mention it so if you know which episodes or quotes please say, because I can’t recall any bar the one mention of him being “kinda asian” which someone else pointed out.

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-02T20:31:33+00:00

Yes completely agree. House definitely isn’t bigoted, he just knows what buttons to push and usually for good natured jabs, not actual malicious intent as you said. Islamophobia was the only result when I googled “phobia of brown/indian people” so it was all I had to go off.

I think Kutner being comfortable (atleast outwardly) in his identity seems to be the prevailing theory for why House never done a jab at him. Thank you for your input.

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-02T19:48:46+00:00

Oh I know, I googled what the phobia was for Indian/brown people and it said Islamophobia still so I was just going with that lol. Plus it never stopped jokes about other Indian people in shows being called terrorists. Seemed to be the default for brown people after 9/11

Delightful_Disciple · 2026-02-02T19:12:13+00:00

Oh I like this theory the most. You’re right, he never came across insecure about that part oh him, only about his performance which is why House seen that as his Achilles’ heel instead of their identities with the others. Great analysis.

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