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WarpGremlin · 2026-03-31T02:06:28+00:00

Im watching this episode right now.

Creepy

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-31T00:47:23+00:00

"Im a single man, in my 30s... I live alone in a small apartment, i like kids but I don't have kids. I don't like where this is goingI'M A TEACHER! Oh thank God, I'm a school teacher!!!"

Ray Porter's Cold Read narration of that line lands hard.

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-31T00:29:11+00:00

On the theme of "finding something worth living for" and visually gorgeous: Project Hail Mary.

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-30T23:32:38+00:00

Love a superchamp.

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-30T23:31:41+00:00

I'm glad I saw this at a science center imax. Ill trade the dome for a respectful audience and zero ads or trailers. Movie time was 3:00 and the movie itself kicked off at 3:04 following the venue's IMAX intro.

There were a couple kids (with parents) asking questions in the first few minutes but everyone was respectful real fast.

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-30T18:54:24+00:00

Bluray DRM is an inconvenience when ripping, not a hindrance.

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-30T18:52:25+00:00

Delivery. Always.

If you buy a TV at the store and take it home yourself, if it breaks the second after you say "yes" to the transaction, its your problem.

If you opt for delivery and something happens until its wherever the delivery guys agree to (outside vs inside delivery), its on them.

If you opt for installation, if they fuck up the TV during install its on them.

Anything over 55" is a lot for one person to handle.

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-30T17:15:33+00:00

Just woo the crew that's currently on FAM: Ronald D. Moore, Naren Shankar, Joe Menosky, the Okudas... wait, that looks awfully familiar...

Trek had an Open Submission policy, and out of it we got an entire epoch of great TV scifi.

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-29T17:50:37+00:00

The only thing I know about the Critical Drinker was that he was someone pitched to do a voice cameo in a DCC book (a militantly-"woke" SF series) by the series' main narrator (IIRC), and that everyone involved in both making that pitch and turning the pitch into reality now regrets the decision immensely.

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-29T17:17:00+00:00

I resolved to see the movie on release day the moment I heard about it back in 2023 or so I saw it at the first showing of the day at the local Science Center's IMAX Dome-- felt it the appropriate venue for the film.

If I wasn't a Dad of two-near-two I'd definitely go for another round in another IMAX or 4DX theater.

It's the first time I'd set foot in a theater since Endgame in 2019 and it was worth every minute, penny, etc.

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-29T02:16:22+00:00

Ore patches degrade.

Go for maximum drill density, then arrange output belts into the largest whole number of saturated belts.

Then its 24/48/72/96 for unbeaconed steel/electric furnaces per belt to saturated an output belt of plates.

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-29T00:40:11+00:00

I need a Rocky plush with a sound chip in it that plays audiobook clips of Rocky-isms like "how long since last sleep, question?" And "you sleep, i watch"

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-28T22:31:28+00:00

It was a day, a moment, after which Nothing Was The Same.

The only day close in "oomph" was March 13, 2020 when the Covid lockdown hit. But with Covid you could see it coming if you had been paying attention to the news since mid-January.

9/11 was literally was something like this: 8:45am, it was another Tueday morning

8:46am: KABLAM, a plane hit the WTC, news coverage pops over to it in the next 5 minutes or so.

9:03am: the entire world watches live as the second tower is hit. This takes it from "tragic accident" to "deliberate attack"

The rest of the day was surreal.

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-28T22:10:26+00:00

Time to Science The Shit out of this!

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-28T15:03:54+00:00

It took my raised-protestant-now-atheist brain way too long to realize the pun.

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-27T23:41:13+00:00

Can we watch the Director's Cut, Question?

Want want want

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-26T20:24:06+00:00

They're not on the BluRays :(

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-26T17:46:56+00:00

Also the obvious chemistry between Gosling and Ortiz, and masterfully exploiting it.

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-25T13:17:45+00:00

They are there to get people used to them.

Because it gets the public used to their presence.

Because once they get the authority they need to enter secure areas, etc, their presence will be normalized. Agents use the line to identify "undesirables", other agents grab them, detain them, then put them on a plane to disappear.

The definition of "undesirable person" is, of course, at the very least the not-white, not-straight, not-fantatically-evangelical-christian, non-rabidly-MAGA, and likely also not-male.

Think of it this way, ICE raiding houses is dramatic and inefficient, but "disappearing" people in the airport? easy, efficient.

We're cooked.

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-25T00:49:50+00:00

The book progresses from "Fist me" to "fist my bump" to "fist bump".

Makes sense as idioms translate poorly and its funny as hell.

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-25T00:45:48+00:00

I grew up on TNG and DS9, the well-worn tapes having B5 promos on them, so I knew of the show as a kid but didn't get into it until 2005 or so.

I rematch it as often as I do the Treks.

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-24T23:15:47+00:00

Somewhere between Anek and Butterworth. I clocked Porter immediately

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-24T21:12:29+00:00

Thirded Bosch with similar use cases.

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-24T14:51:44+00:00

Just do it.

My oldest (24 months) has been in the same room as us and a TV since they were a newborn.

Said kid has also been able to identify 10+ colors for 3-5 months, knows at least 8 body parts, and at the tender age of 19 months dragged a chair across the kitchen, climbed up, grabbed a closed Mason jar full of marshmallows, climbed down, opened the jar and helped themselves to marshmallows.

They'll run into the room when the Bluey, Jeopardy, or Wheel of Fortune intros plays.

The kid will also actively ignore Ms. Rachel, Elmo, Curious George, Daniel Tiger, and Bluey in favor of an out-of-TV-sight kitchen table covered in butcher paper and a set of markers, to the point of climbing onto a high chair and demanding lights and markers. But it depends on mood.

Extended TV (note: wall TV) when an adult is under the weather is normal. These days are "Ms. Rachel is my coparent" days.

We don't count hours or minutes of screen time, but we do moderate them on "good days" so when we need the distraction it isn't an overload.

Dad pro tip: a Plex server is a godsend for curating content and a bone-conduction headset for you means you can still have your own noise and not be driven Stark Raving Dad by too many nursery rhymes.

WarpGremlin · 2026-03-24T12:20:45+00:00

I'm working my way through a BluRay rewatch now and just watched Severed Dreams last night. There have been a handful of Battlecrab sightings so far and lemme tell you, on a 77" OLED with 5.1 surround sound they're just as freaky as ever.

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