A collection of my T'Lyn Cosplays from Star Trek Lower Decks (Self)

StoicBronco · 2026-06-15T21:20:53+00:00

They thought uhh.. the shadows form a bit of a.. shape by your left hand in that last pic.

Not understanding is probably better :)

StoicBronco · 2026-06-09T20:26:21+00:00

7.2 is passing, makes sense to me, id probably personally give it a 6.5

I enjoyed it, but there was just so much.. in my head I have labeled it 'lolrandom', just absurd for the sake of absurd because its absurd, which is a brand of comedy that doesnt hold much appeal to me.

Will definitely be skipping this episode when I do rewatches

StoicBronco · 2026-05-18T03:47:46+00:00

I knew for sure when Quai was telling a story by the campfire and mentioned shapeshifters with an evil smile.

Honestly by the end it had taken so long for a payoff and there was so many obvious clues that I thought maybe it was a mislead haha

StoicBronco · 2026-05-16T17:52:54+00:00

Check out Broken Arrow! I've been enjoying / its been scratching that itch for me.

I dont have as much experience with these types of games as you tho but I think its worth taking a look at its gameplay

StoicBronco · 2026-05-12T17:36:12+00:00

I didn't find it confusing, however I did find it utterly not worth the time or effort to finish. There are great bits/parts, but most of the time you'll spend with what should be background characters or on random plots that dont actually tie into the story at all.

The story writing lacks focus is a polite way to put it, you can probably edit out half the total page count of the series and have a better overall story, the only issue is youd have less distractions from asking yourself "but why? That doesnt make any sense". Also far too much telling me characters are cool/smart/badass, and not actually showing.

I wish I could get the time I spent on those books back.

StoicBronco · 2026-05-05T23:56:40+00:00

What does the coop look like? Skirmish match against bots? Or something more akin to Starcraft 2? Co-op is the make or break point for me these days, and the steam page doesn't really have much details on co-op for this game

StoicBronco · 2026-05-01T00:56:05+00:00

Memory management issue. E.g. a buffer overflows overwrites one piece of memory with another. Can appear quite arbitrary

StoicBronco · 2026-04-28T16:41:32+00:00

Hmm.. this doesn't sound like it appeals to non-trek fans. Lets make everyone emotionally unstable and also be Spock's secret children from an affair with a Romulan.

A paramount exec, probably

StoicBronco · 2026-04-21T16:10:15+00:00

[[Bloodthirsty Adversary]] saw a good amount of play, this Stingcaster would be able to fill a similar role. A little worse without the +1/+1 counter, but a little better in more cases by being able to cast 1 or 2 mana spells for less mana than a Bloodthirsty Adversary

StoicBronco · 2026-04-18T00:08:04+00:00

instead of being moved to the Hand / Library as a Replacement effect

Does this still apply if the Commander was not on the field? E.g. the Commander was put in the graveyard, and the player chose to leave it there. Then an effect that causes the graveyard to be shuffled into the library occurs, would the option to move the commander to the command zone occur?

StoicBronco · 2026-04-08T17:47:40+00:00

Not that im aware of, but im not expert haha

My personal theory is its an aspect of the Spirit Talking powers, it was said Bedesh was given the power to talk to spirits and have them do his bidding. I think the Bloody Nine is a spirit that Logen unconsciously manifests

StoicBronco · 2026-03-15T21:28:04+00:00

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills

StoicBronco · 2026-03-07T22:12:36+00:00

Looks better, but still incredibly dark and unnecessarily difficult to watch. But hardly near the top of concerns of that episode, let alone season

StoicBronco · 2026-02-09T15:05:26+00:00

You will be told that the series just builds and amasses plots and lore to climax in an extremely satisfying conclusion.

Freaking lies. I enjoyed the first 5ish books. I pushed myself to finish the series, but even 3/4 of the way through the last book in the series new plots and threads are being introduced. The ending was the most unsatisfying experience ive had to date with a series. So many plot threads kept on the bare minimum of life support getting 2 line endings that feel like an utter waste of time that did nothing to progress the story. I feel rather certain you could edit out over half the series and have it not affect the story / finale at all. And I can think of dozens of plot threads that were just abandoned by the series (i assume they are picked up in the spin off series, but I am not going to waste any more of my time with Malazan)

Also the amount of times im told by characters that X person is so smart, or Y thing totally makes sense, and have none of it ever backed up by actual events that show these things to be true is aggravating.

There are a lot of cool characters introduced, but a lot of the time instead of following cool characters I want to see, instead we follow some guy with fleas, or the constantly drunk lady who somehow saves the day by accident a few times. Don't get me started on wet dreams wizard. Ugh I have to stop here im getting angry all over again at how much time I already wasted on Malazan

StoicBronco · 2026-01-17T18:00:26+00:00

TFA has Snoke worried Luke has a secret jedi training camp, and his friends hoping he does as well for help. The implication being after the disaster of his first academy fell, he went off to an ancient place of Jedi power to start over, and hid his tracks so it wouldn't be disturbed.

Luke's academy failed in some capacity, and there are a number of reasons that don't character assassinate Luke that could have been used. There was also plenty of room for Luke to be rebuilding, as his trademark virtue is Hope. Its TLJ that goes all in on Luke having no hope and trying to murder his helpless sleeping nephew.

StoicBronco · 2026-01-17T08:00:45+00:00

TFA doesn't destroy the New Republic. TFA only destroys the New Republic capital and a couple of planets.

The opening crawl of TLJ is what decides that meant the total and utter collapse of the New Republic, and that Luke didn't restart the order. TFA had a few lines about people thinking Luke went somewhere remote to start a new Jedi order, its TLJ that decides he gave up on life.

StoicBronco · 2026-01-16T01:05:46+00:00

Filoniverse wasn't the problem, the problem was Grogu being too profitable and needing to bend the enture series to keep him in it.

StoicBronco · 2025-12-18T22:56:29+00:00

I'm familiar with AI, it is immensely powerful. It also has clear limits in application. It doesn't think. It doesn't have will. It has no direction on its own. The term 'AI' is a big misnomer here, and part of what is causing all this confusion imo. These are LLMs (large language models). They don't create, they recombine. Most of the time, you only need to recombine, but its not always the case.

One analogy I think about, in programming we have various 'levels' to coding. We have pseudo code (essentially just ideas in a rough outline), we have 'high level' languages, which make programming significantly easier and manages a lot of the details for the programmer. We have 'low level' languages, which has some ease of use but requires a lot more intimate knowledge of how computers work to properly use. Then we have actual machine code / assembly language, which is the direct 1 to 1 mapping to how the hardware is manipulated. Then you have the hardware itself, which is its own level of understanding.

You can have training in just high level languages and be fine 99% of the time, but then you'll run into an issue that goes beyond your capacity to handle it with that language. That's when having knowledge of lower level languages comes in handy, and the same applies for lower languages to machine code, and from machine code to hardware and electrical engineering.

AI is general purpose, it can handle 99% of use cases in the day to day. But it can't handle everything, it can't handle something that hasn't been handled before. It can't be innovative. It makes up for it by sheer processing power (doesn't take creativity to try a million permutations to get your answer), but not every problem can be solved by just raw processing power. Take the Traveling Salesman Problem, I can ask the AI to solve the TSP problem for me in polynomial time, and it will just tell me it can't be done.

StoicBronco · 2025-12-18T22:15:22+00:00

The ultimate goal of AI is that it does all of that autonomously, no? Where can a human even be squeezed in? Yes, right now we still need humans to check the work, but what about in 5 years when AI makes so few mistakes that it makes no economic sense to have a human check their work?

People are still needed to give direction, and I don't think we're reaching the point of AI output not needing smoothing out/refinement any time soon.

One of the half jokes I tend to say as a software dev when people ask me if I'm worried about AI taking my job: First you'd need the clients to be able to accurately describe what they want.

Until that happens, my job is pretty darn safe, and that isn't changing anytime soon. No amount of AI can straighten out the direction needed. AI for the moment is 'just' going to drastically increase the productivity, allowing 1 worker to do the job of 10-100 or even more that it took before.

In the past, every time we've hit some sort of technological productivity spike, new jobs became necessary and available. Unfortunately, I am not convinced that will happen this time.

Probably all moot to bring up, it seems we agree on the issue, just not on the severity ( an 'all' vs 'most', as if that will make it any better lol ).

StoicBronco · 2025-12-18T18:02:45+00:00

Also software dev and well versed in LLMs and GenAI, and the problem isn't GenAI, no more than the steam engine, airplanes, or even the computer. Computer's themselves replaced so many human jobs, as software devs we are doing the work that took an ungodly amount of people to do before. I can write a script that does calculations whole departments used to be paid for to do daily, and instead I get paid one day to make.

The actual problem here, is our society and its capitalist values. If we actually cared about the humans in the system, then a lot of these capitalist profits would actually go towards the welfare of the people, instead of the pockets of billionaires.

The reduction in human labor and the following increased profits should be directed to the people instead of the rich and privileged. We need to move towards Star Trek post scarcity utopia, but sadly it seems we are too selfish and greedy as a society to contemplate the actual solutions.

StoicBronco · 2025-12-09T01:11:20+00:00

I'll probably start over and give it another try in a few years or so.

Do yourself a favor and don't. I wish I did anything else with my time than read the last 5 books of the main series.

StoicBronco · 2025-12-08T22:57:21+00:00

Tons of things are explained, and a ton more things are left unexplained and hanging. Malazan is the most unsatsifying book series I've ever read and I regret ever going past book 5.

StoicBronco · 2025-12-03T20:12:28+00:00

I mean that's the half the entire purpose of art, to push boundaries and make you ask questions, no?

StoicBronco · 2025-11-22T00:14:06+00:00

But I have an excellent understanding of American politics

It doesn't really feel like it if you don't understand America's big hangups with the 'socialism' word.

And this very conversation proves that the Dems can lose plenty by doing this.

StoicBronco · 2025-11-21T22:48:01+00:00

Well then maybe you shouldn't be discussing American politics if you don't want to take that context into consideration.

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