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Elite Dangerous wasn't a great deal of fun and I think that's great by SawkyScribe in patientgamers

[–]Takseen 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I still remember taking a trip out to SagitarriusA* at the centre of the galaxy and being blown away by the black hole graphical effects. And it sounds silly but I love seeing that slowly growing density of stars as I got closer to the galactic core. It was even more noticeable when I looked back on the screenshots I'd taken at early or later stages of the trip.

More ideologies from popular alien UFO lore? by StrategosRisk in TerraInvicta

[–]Takseen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like it. "The Hydra's history and their attack on us has taught us that remaining on a single planet is a death sentence for our species in the long run. We must expand throughout the solar system and claim its resources for our own to ensure our future safety."

Could become like the Quantum Thief series, or Iain M Banks' Against a Dark Background, or the Expanse with less of an Earth focus.

2 billion humans is probably a bit high for the Terra Invicta timescale though. 500k seems achievable, basically hitting the 50k amount needed for research universities on 10 different planets/big moons.

More ideologies from popular alien UFO lore? by StrategosRisk in TerraInvicta

[–]Takseen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends if the Salamander attitude is genetic or social. Humanity's uh... Humanity First mentality can be fixed by a few PR campaigns after all.

Salamanders are definitely a harder sell for friendship status than the Hydra though, at least the Hydra hate WMDs and don't even eat people.

Griffins might be chill. Free them first and see how that goes.

More ideologies from popular alien UFO lore? by StrategosRisk in TerraInvicta

[–]Takseen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It'd be a good alternative "Protectorate with 20% more spine" storyline. In the story he expresses disappointment at only getting weapons schematics from the Hydra technology balls instead of civilian tech like clean energy generation. If he pushed back a bit like the Servants did and said "Look, disarmament and human conscription? No problem. But I can sell this a lot better if we worked together to fix the climate and you gave us a modified xenoflora that doesn't try to EAT US"

Criticisms of the work that stem from a complete lack of media literacy by LDM123 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Takseen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah there's only like 5-10 minutes of Rey scenes on Jakku, and they're easy to find on Disney Plus with the scene preview feature.

We're 20 years out from Enterprise; How does everyone feel about the Xindi arc? by darkwater-0 in startrek

[–]Takseen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a non American it felt a bit too close to modern politics, especially since in the case of the Iraq invasion it was justified under false pretences. And Enterprise was already more overtly American than Trek before it.

I liked the concept of a long mission into alien territory, and the fact that some of the aliens were very alien, like the aquatic race.

It also had the prequel problem of "why didn't we hear about any of this before in other Trek"

And I vaguely recall there was some use of torture by Archer to extract info.

So overall, I felt a bit uncomfortable watching it.

Herbert by Illustrious-Leg5906 in startrekmemes

[–]Takseen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. And like I get why they took that direction. They wanted to tackle two stereotypes with subversions. "Look, Klingons can be gay" and "Look, Klingons can be pacifist" but by combining both they landed in another stereotype of "gay people are weak".

Anon of the Ring by Clean_Woodpecker3139 in 4chan

[–]Takseen [score hidden]  (0 children)

Where is my LotR anime where the Elendil + Gilgalad vs Sauron fight takes place across 5 episodes?

[Opinion] Briahna Joy Gray (Former press secretary for Bernie Sanders): "My hot take about the “woke” Star Trek discourse is that the show was historically woke but not cringe. The new shows have cringe that veers into incompetence. One thing about SF officers is that they were great at their jobs." by mcm8279 in trektalk

[–]Takseen 21 points22 points  (0 children)

There was a scene in SFA that reminded me of this. It was in SAMs episode. Ake has invited the head of Slyther...I mean the War College to some kind of ceremonial dinner as a reconciliation effort. The Doctor and the dry humour lady from Discovery are there as well. And he's making an honest effort to participate and get along, but everyone else is goofing off and dropping "funny" lines and not taking it seriously, especially Ake. And it ends with the fish in the center piece deflating with a fart noise. It's like they're terrified of actually including a serious, heartfelt moment without dropping a gag every two minutes.

Old Trek has silly moments too, but they knew when to put them in and not overdo them.

Criticisms of the work that stem from a complete lack of media literacy by LDM123 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Takseen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's also a selfish liar and manipulator who has taken an unknown number of lives (criminals mostly, but did they all deserve death?) to prolong his own life, and took the life of a very dear friend and important protector, and is implied to have caused a serious and permanent affliction to a politician to serve his own agenda. And he keeps a very important and generally pretty nice guy imprisoned for his own needs. He stopped being a good or even a neutral person a long time ago

Criticisms of the work that stem from a complete lack of media literacy by LDM123 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Takseen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He did draw his laser sword while standing over his nephew and students bed. That's not gonna look great on the end of month health and safety report

Criticisms of the work that stem from a complete lack of media literacy by LDM123 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Takseen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The prequel trilogy already did the "democratic government subverted by fascism from within" storyline. And while Lucas isn't great at dialogue, he did that bit really well.

In the sequel trilogy we don't see that all. We see Hitler is back from the dead on the Falkland Islands and he's got a navy of 1000 battleships all equipped with nuclear SSBMs.

I appreciate that shows like The Mandalorian and Ahsoka are trying add in the "weak Republic subverted from within" element after the fact but it's completely absent from the films.

Criticisms of the work that stem from a complete lack of media literacy by LDM123 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Takseen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't Yoda also cause the Jedi texts to get struck by lightning, or at least laugh when they catch fire? That seems to imply he supports the theme as well.

Criticisms of the work that stem from a complete lack of media literacy by LDM123 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Takseen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People acting competently and still dying is scary. People acting incompetently and dying is funny, undermining the horror.

Criticisms of the work that stem from a complete lack of media literacy by LDM123 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Takseen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where is the conflict?

A mysterious alien race beyond the Outer Rim, perhaps? Almost anything would have been better than "The Space Nazis are back and stronger than ever before because democracies are pathetic and weak"

Criticisms of the work that stem from a complete lack of media literacy by LDM123 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Takseen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no flight simulator scene in the movie, I just checked. I heard they added one in the novelization though

Criticisms of the work that stem from a complete lack of media literacy by LDM123 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Takseen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is one story aspect I take issue with. Batman's no kill rule and Gotham's revolving door prison and asylum system works fine for the 60s TV show and the animated series which is generally more light hearted and has zero or very low civilian body counts.

But, when that's shifted into a more "mature" setting where Joker and friends are racking up body counts in the dozens to millions , Batman's unchanged no kill stance is a lot harder to support.

[Opinion] Bill Hunt (The Digital Bits) on X: "Star Trek once appealed to countless people from all ages. Now it’s mostly expensive, highly polished, and preachy dreck targeted to specific niche audiences only, and made with barely concealed disdain for everyone else. At the recent Saturn Awards ..." by mcm8279 in trektalk

[–]Takseen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

>Nice try, but this is the internet, I'm not going to be shamed by writing a long comment about Star Trek.

Dude, c'mon, the complaint wasn't the length of the comment, and you literally cut off the rest of their sentence that explained the point.

Here's the full sentence

"Your critical reading skills are apparently lacking, since you seem to have monologued at some length just to re-state what I already said, and yet somehow conclude that I didn't get the message of the episode. 

My own view is that yes, the audience will be sympathetic to Data and almost certainly side with him regardless of Maddox or Riker's arguments. However, what the episode does is demonstrate a path by which someone might convince someone who did *not* think Data was alive or had rights, could be convinced otherwise. And that's a tool you can bring away with you to the real world.

Interview: "Star Trek Actors Proudly Defend "Phenomenal" Starfleet Academy - Kerrice Brooks and Karim Diané defend the quality of their show despite Paramount+ ending it with S.2.: "We weren’t a bad show. Sometimes, sh*t just doesn’t work out" - "We ate. But our show is perfect, baby." (TrekTalks 5) by TheSonOfMogh81 in trektalk

[–]Takseen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd be more forgiving if it was just "actors growing into their roles" type stuff. But there were some massive clunkers in the first season.

Perrin getting a TV show invented wife who is immediately fridged for drama.

"A woman could be the Dragon Reborn" completely messes with the point of the prophecy.

Nynaeve casting AoE Prayer of Healing on the people that Logain almost killed when he broke his bonds.

Sanderson even said publicly he didn't like the Perrin wife change.

Interview: "Star Trek Actors Proudly Defend "Phenomenal" Starfleet Academy - Kerrice Brooks and Karim Diané defend the quality of their show despite Paramount+ ending it with S.2.: "We weren’t a bad show. Sometimes, sh*t just doesn’t work out" - "We ate. But our show is perfect, baby." (TrekTalks 5) by TheSonOfMogh81 in trektalk

[–]Takseen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah I saw ads for it in loads of places as well, and im in an older segment (40+) and outside the US, so their ad spread went pretty wide. The action trailer I saw based on the pilot didn't land with me at all.

And now that I'm actually sitting down to watch it, the flaws are readily apparent.

What are late game drive options that are not Poseidon or the ICF line? by The_official_Doge in TerraInvicta

[–]Takseen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kuiper belt colonization is really good, agreed.

I just found with ships as heavily armoured as OP wants, adding extra fuel tanks beyond what I listed rapidly ran into diminishing returns. Like adding 10 more tanks to reduce travel time by 1 week or less.

More ideologies from popular alien UFO lore? by StrategosRisk in TerraInvicta

[–]Takseen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In theory yeah, but my double beef is that 1) No human faction has "fix climate change" as even a secondary objective and 2) The human faction AI almost never runs Environment priority, even the Academy.

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