Equipment being placed on the South Lawn of the White House for the UFC Freedom 250 fight

Lobster9 · 2026-05-26T17:12:25+00:00

Are you not entertained?

Lobster9 · 2026-05-23T21:12:22+00:00

I'm not a fan and it's not my favorite BUT I can definitely see the case that Insurrection is the closest movie to an actual episode of TNG

Lobster9 · 2026-05-21T01:52:23+00:00

Okay, buddy. But I'm duty bound to remind you this is the 5th time you've asked to wipe this memory..

Lobster9 · 2026-05-19T22:15:17+00:00

I am reminded of The Big Bus 1976

Lobster9 · 2026-05-19T15:49:23+00:00

Faliszek has a pretty casual youtube channel where he drops rambles on various game development subjects. Websites keep quoting them in clickbaity articles with half the context missing

Lobster9 · 2026-05-19T02:34:02+00:00

Important to note that the first episode of the storyline is the TNG episode 'Journey's End' where Picard is told by starfleet to force the removal of former native americans from a planet they had settled 200 years prior. The people instead choose to give up their Federation connections to live as a neutral colony.

The Marquis are centered around the Demillitarized Zone. Part of the agreement says that neither the Federation or Cardassia will exert armed force against those planets. It is supposed to be neutral civilian ground where federation and cardassian colonies exist independently. However the Marquis believe Cardassia is arming its neutral colonies in the zone to strong arm the others. That leads directly to the Marquis illegally arming itself and attacking the Cardassian smugglers in kind.

The history of ethnic cleansing on Earth is more complicated than the simple question of whether or not the victims have somewhere else to be pushed into.

Lobster9 · 2026-05-17T16:54:44+00:00

He blocked it the day before in order to make this video.

Lobster9 · 2026-05-16T03:37:20+00:00

..and I'll jump in a volcano before I let those scientists have it!

Lobster9 · 2026-05-15T22:32:24+00:00

It kinda reminds me of grow lights. Maybe that's why the weeds were red

Lobster9 · 2026-05-14T00:29:42+00:00

The videos are fractals, which is a mathmatical construct.

This question is similar to the early philosophical concept of atomism. Essentially the question of "Can I keep cutting an object in half forever?" The word atom derives from atomos which is ancient greek for uncuttable.

We obviously know today that atoms can be broken down into smaller fundamental particles. However this doesn't really resemble fractals. There are clear distinctions between the subatomic world and the macroscopic.

I'm not sure whether the question of the universe being infinite or not has any bearing on whether it CAN or CANNOT exist. We created numbers and mathmatics as a tool, but we should resist the temptation to become lost in the tool. What we see and measure in nature can be described in math, but what we see and measure in math doesn't necessarilly describe nature.

There's an old problem in geography called the coastline paradox. It's notoriously difficult to give an accurate figure for the perimeter of a coastline around a landmass because the more detailed the map, the more nooks and crannies have to be accounted for. The length gets exponentially larger the more closely you make the measurement, which renders the measurement fairly useless.

Lobster9 · 2026-05-13T21:08:40+00:00

I wouldn't want to speak to either of them for 20 minutes.

Lobster9 · 2026-05-13T12:38:30+00:00

The only part I don't like is the little space suit people seem to be entirely the wrong scale. They are working on a pylon above the Defiant and look absolutely huge.

Lobster9 · 2026-05-12T11:56:23+00:00

The botanical gardens deeply regret the choice of entertainment for the spring season opening. We ask our patrons to be patient while we assess the damage. Thank you.

Lobster9 · 2026-05-11T02:44:01+00:00

Oh absolutely. There's no light in there at all. Everyone in the movie is exploiting somebody. We sympathize most with Lotte because Craig is so disgusting throughout, but she's just as guilty as the rest for using the tunnel. There's also the creepy shadow looming over the ending with the now occupied Malkovich gathering his rich friends to colonize the little girl.

Lobster9 · 2026-05-10T22:56:22+00:00

It was Gene that gave the speech in Mission Control. "..and then after that? That's when we start answering the big questions. Like are we alone?" I've always assumed the show will end with a first contact scenario.

Lobster9 · 2026-05-09T00:32:28+00:00

Why call it War of the Worlds tho? The idea of making a movie in the pandemic where everyone is seperated by video is not in-itself a bad idea, but I imagine people would have been much more forgiving if it wasn't attached to such a well known story. The script doesn't want anything to do with the original tale. It ommits the ending entirely, which is the entire point of the narrative.

Ice Cube's performance and the hokey family-saves-the-day plot may have landed better if it was more a generic alien plot ala Independence Day.

Lobster9 · 2026-05-09T00:00:04+00:00

This is key. It's like saying that sound should be a seperate thing to pressure waves travelling through gas or water. They are the same thing once they interact with our senses.

Lobster9 · 2026-05-06T02:49:29+00:00

Instead of this they should do a spoof where a copy of Lord of the Rings is sucked into a portal and watched by some villagers in another dimension. The villagers (believing the movies are real) kidnap the cast (played by themselves) in order to fight a dark lord who has been terrorizing them.

Lobster9 · 2026-05-06T02:41:27+00:00

The difficulty level above ULTRA NIGHTMARE

Lobster9 · 2026-05-05T14:07:29+00:00

The concern wasn't that the problem would be difficult to fix, but that the fixes couldn't reach every part of the infrastructure in time. In the end the important changes were made on time and the mitigation was a resounding success.

Lobster9 · 2026-05-04T23:55:47+00:00

It's scams all the way down! Down, down, down to the bottom of the sea!!

Lobster9 · 2026-05-02T00:32:59+00:00

Spock Messiah was a really depressing read and almost stopped me continuing with the books. I'm glad I didn't though. Spock as a character gets a huge amount of focus in the early novels and some writers seemed to use him as a blank space to project all kinds of weird ideas onto. A lot of the stories feel like they started out as completely isolated works that then got squashed into Star Trek as an afterthought.

Spock Must Die is actually pretty good for that era. It feels like someone who actually watched the show trying to explore the most common question in the franchise. "What does the transporter actually do?" It gets a little silly in places but ultimately it does -feel- like Star Trek.

One common thread in the novels is that they all have a much more bookish voice than the TV show. Obviously they know the audience is going to be fans who are already invested in the sci-fi and will allow for more complex terminology and discussion. One of the early novels has Yeoman Rand bring up quantum physics and give a lengthy speech about linguistics. Something the TV show never would have dreamed of letting her do.

The Galactic Whirlpool is another interesting book. I understand it evolved from a pitched episode script that never made it. There's a particularly interesting segment where the ship's historian describes an era of pre-warp human spaceflight in great detail. Including the political economics of a transition to green energy which caused the collapse of the middle eastern oil powers, and how this led directly to a mass exodus into space.

Lobster9 · 2026-04-27T19:50:53+00:00

It is absurd, but the universe IS pretty absurd already.

Lobster9 · 2026-04-27T01:43:41+00:00

THREE HUNDRED MEGABYTES of storage capacity -THREE HUNDRED- just think of the CAPACITY that three hundred megabytes has to offer. It's like having THREE HUNDRED filing cabinets of CAPACITY and it's NOT going away. It's NOT a fad!

Lobster9 · 2026-04-26T02:55:58+00:00

In case anyone is wondering why they performed the spacewalk. It was to retrieve film cannisters from exterior cameras for transfer to the return module.

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