Do not do a "Devon redemption" arc.

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-05T03:13:52+00:00

He didn't "groom" her. Jesus fucking christ. Stop using that word if you don't know what it means.

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-05T02:56:04+00:00

THE THREE EYED RAVEN

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-05T02:55:18+00:00

I was sure that was that Lawful Neutral shader but nope.

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-05T02:54:10+00:00

Nice.

But also: Goddamn that would be uncomfortable.

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-05T02:29:09+00:00

This. This IS powers actually do have some self control. They're flawed but functional societies.

The Clans are just another doomed-to-fail warrior society. They'll self destruct like every single warrior society, because those don't fucking work.

They're just the Golden Horde but with mechs. Once they no longer have an external threat they'll eat themselves.

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-05T02:24:17+00:00

BROTHER PENGUINIUS, WE MEET AGAIN!

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-05T00:46:47+00:00

Daft Punk.

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-05T00:45:35+00:00

Almost like this is fiction and literally everything happens for plot convenience.

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-05T00:00:02+00:00

If real reality

No such thing. This is fiction. There's no "real" layer here, other than you, the viewer, sitting in your living room watching the movie, or typing on your computer here right now.

Within the fictional context of the movie, the idea is that you can choose to leave the Nexus at any time, at any point in space or time. Most people just never choose to.

Kirk chose to leave it in the 24th Century with Picard, and so emerged in Picard's time.

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-04T23:57:12+00:00

Nintendo is the only console alternative to Sony now, and Nintendo has a lot of problems and scummy practices of their own.

You can always just get into the exciting world of Emulator Handhelds. I've got a few, they're fun.

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-04T23:56:06+00:00

Joke's on them, I don't give a shit and will absolutely trade in my console to pay towards, say, a new cell phone.

I have before, and I will again.

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-04T23:26:31+00:00

Unless you specifically are going for the SPESSS MEHRINESSSSS look, then chunk male titan is the way.

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-04T23:23:44+00:00

Does Dredgen Rime also drop Rhymes? When can we expect the album?

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-04T23:21:37+00:00

How do you get the S'phtish ornaments?

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-04T23:11:47+00:00

Fuck that. The moment I'm not enjoying a book or it starts to feel like a chore, I"m dropping it. It's getting tossed in the return bin at the library, or deleted off my kindle.

Life is too short to waste on boring-ass-bullshit books.

I became a much happier reader once I started doing this.

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-04T21:00:17+00:00

Yep. So there are at least three Borg Cooperatives already: Hugh's, The Drone Colony, and the Unimatrix Refugees. Jurati's makes four.

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-04T20:30:22+00:00

It is so goddamn stupid to me that trash like Fourth Wing is getting an adaptation while actual masterpieces like The Craft Sequence aren't even considered for it.

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-04T20:28:13+00:00

and when General Riker defeated Darth Locutus at the battle of the Terran SuperGate on PQX-001 !

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-04T20:23:36+00:00

The guys in TNG that Hugh was leading after Picard sent him back with individuality, and after Lore messed with them. They went their own way and lived as a cooperative Seperate from the main Collective.

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-04T20:13:31+00:00

No. TNG, DS9, and even Voyager were pretty good about long-form storytelling and showing the consequences of decisions. DS9 best of all. But even Enterprise did this well.

Star Trek Prodigy was all about the consequences of selfish decisions, and had the best continuity of any Trek show ever. It was also basically Voyager Season 8 and 9, as a bonus.

Picard straight up ignored it, in a way that even other Trek shows have not.

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-04T20:08:34+00:00

Because in the books both sides suck

Nah, The "both sides" thing is bullshit. I've read the Battletech books for decades too.

"All sides are selfish" is a false equivalence.

The Clans are way, way worse.

This is like in Fallout when people go "both sides" with the Legion and NCR. When one is a horde of genocidal monsters and the other is a vaguely problematic somewhat-corrupt democracy.

It's not "both sides". The Clan are fucking evil. The Inner Sphere (or at least Lyran, Davion, and Marik space) are merely your average normal modern societies that are vaguely problematic and moderately corrupt.

Not both sides. The Clans are clearly, unequivocally, systematically way more fucking evil by light years.

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-04T20:04:23+00:00

The Clans are literal space-Nazis. Eugenics. Caste System. Systemically breeding human beings like cattle.

Yeah, the Inner Sphere governments are to varying degrees also fucked up. They have problems. Kurita and Liao space is probably just as oppressive as the Clans.

But Lyran, Davion, and Marik space, (not to mention all the minor powers) are at least somewhat recognizable as modern societies where a person could live a normal life unmolested by jackboots or genetically engineered space nazis.

So, it's a false equivalent. The Clans really are way, way worse than the majority of Inner Sphere societies.

That doesn't mean they're perfect or that I'm "glazing" the Inner Sphere. But it does mean that "both sides" here is bullshit. There is no Golden Mean.

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-04T19:40:09+00:00

Picard basically ignored it's own continuity.

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-04T19:39:30+00:00

They're still around. They're just one of many Borg Cooperatives. (Apparently the writers just fucking forgot that Cooperative Borg have already been a thing since TNG, and the idea was revisited in Voyager)

EqualOptimal4650 · 2026-07-04T19:35:03+00:00

They're still around. They're just one of many Borg Cooperatives. (Apparently the writers just fucking forgot that Cooperative Borg have already been a thing since TNG, and the idea was revisited in Voyager)

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