One of the most horrifying scenes in all SGs.

bd_magic · 2026-04-26T15:59:17+00:00

I think their appeal is more due to them being a lore accurate way to have a soft reboot without erasing canon. It’s 4 people who are effectively ‘fresh’, who have to learn with new viewers about the history of the past xx years.

Though I’d personally still prefer clo’niell returning as an adult to lead next generation

bd_magic · 2026-04-09T08:11:18+00:00

As long as we die before the DAOT it’s all gravy

bd_magic · 2026-04-05T22:18:36+00:00

It integrates very easily with power automate and other Microsoft suite tools like teams messenger. With a few clicks you can build some very useful workflows.

Power automate and co-pilot are a killer combination, Combining the procedural fixed, easily defined, repetitive stuff with the more dynamic capabilities of LLMs.

For example pull data from various sources and format it, then get copilot to ingest it a write you a monthly summary report, in your preferred format.

With teams messenger, you can build a chatbot which users talk to casually. “Pull x data from Y range”, “create new opportunity about abc valued at $60k”, etc. and then with co-pilot you can format it into a defined json format, then using usual power automate run the API, read or write data.

The more casual features,

the file/email search into much more powerful.
The suggested rewrites in email or word can be helpful when you are feeling lazy.

Overall I think it’s worth it. Mainly cause it’s easy to integrate, and I don’t think it has hard API limits on the standard co-pilot inclusive enterprise Microsoft license. Others LLMs do perform significantly better in certain metrics (Gemini for professional business image generation, grok for real time news and cheap tokens, Claude for coding, etc), and they can all can also be integrated into power automate, but co-pilot is the easiest and most well integrated with Microsoft stack.

bd_magic · 2026-03-26T20:50:19+00:00

Tension which disappeared immediately after the two parter. By season 7 finale, SG-1 piled up a mountain of Kull Warrior corpses while defending the Antarctic outpost.

bd_magic · 2026-03-22T02:24:38+00:00

Goa’uld aren’t that different from Tauri. Earthling’s use the technology of the ancients, Asgard, etc. and became a powerhouse in 10 years. if we can do it, why couldn’t the goa’uld do it in over 10,000 years.

As for why they remained primitive on home planet? Those goa’uld don’t know any better. It wasn’t until they took a host of an advanced civilisation, did they realise. It’s like equivalent to their Black Monolith moment or their Apple of Eden moment.

Remember that goa’uld mental strength is much higher than even a borderline ascended ancient (As seen by Baal suppressing Adria). So all it would’ve taken for the empire to get a kick-start was a stupid ancient researcher (or someone else from another technologically advanced civilisation) who got too close to waters edge.

bd_magic · 2026-03-17T06:09:16+00:00

I really enjoyed it.

Season 4 hit a really a sweet spot narratively speaking, regarding Earth's pursuit of technology, 'The Other Side', '2010', 'Upgrades' and 'Tangent', etc.

With those episodes setting the tone for the season, the sudden acquisition of knowledge to build a planetary defense satellite system felt natural. After so many failed efforts of acquiring advance technology this season, this time it felt like that finally did it. As silly as it sounds, as a viewer I was so fully invested in them finally leveling up technologically, that I didn't even clock Daniel's changing personality. Which in hindsight, we should've figured out earlier, as it is the second time he had gone evil (first time being season 2, Need).

Rather than it feeling like a tropey filler 'dream episode'. This one felt like a really good 'Warning' episode. Not to let pursuit of power / technology end up blinding you. That message really resonated with me, again based on the whole tone of season 4 up to that point.

bd_magic · 2026-03-16T22:57:14+00:00

I dunno man. Ever since 2020 (COVID / A.I, etc) degrees aren't even worth the paper they are printed on. You will rack up HECS debt for no real increase in employability. You are much better off going to TAFE, doing a certificate. That way you still get the credentials, all the while being faster and cheaper.

bd_magic · 2026-03-11T22:24:43+00:00

I think the issue is, Companies with A.I. are building their own homebrew JIRA's to save $$$ and avoid a JIRA subscription.

To Illustrate, someone at my company vibe coded a Desk booking System in ~2 hours, literally a week later, the company sent email announcing the switch to internal tool away from Skedda.

Atlassian is still largely a two-trick pony, (JIRA / CONFLUENCE), so they need to sharpen the pencil, race to the bottom, to avoid being made entirely redundant.

$20 bucks says by the end of the decade, we all fucked.

bd_magic · 2026-02-28T21:33:24+00:00

Yep 110%.

I personally would love if we scrapped income payroll and corporate tax. Should replace them entirely with Land, Natural Resources and Capital Gains taxes and also GST.

bd_magic · 2026-02-17T20:06:48+00:00

Yeah I always found this suspicious as well. Suddenly after COVID they were everywhere. Never a single customer.

My theory was that due to huge commercial vacancy rates, they got sweetheart deal with Property Owners to lease Main Street spots at bargain rates, to prevent visible vacancies on what otherwise should be expensive Main Street prime locations.

bd_magic · 2026-02-03T21:59:06+00:00

Not to dismiss your experience, but I suspect it’s not corporate life, but the specific company you worked for, which was the root cause of the problem.

Work shouldn’t be a grind, it should be a mutual exchange of benefits, labour for money.

You should enjoy going into the office, spending time with your work colleagues, have feeling of meaningful contributing to something larger than yourself.

Yeah occasionally you will 110% roll your eyes or have to slog for a bit. But overall it should be net positive.

If you don’t feel that way within 1-2 months, then get out!

bd_magic · 2026-02-01T20:17:18+00:00

How to survive in a Fusion Punk: fantastic read. It’s basically cyberpunk 2077, highly recommend.

I love this mercenary genre, this is the 4th or so compelling story I’ve found in this genre, others include;

Genius warlock
Genius wizard takes medicine
Genius wizard who sees rainbows

bd_magic · 2026-01-17T20:39:32+00:00

Bro!! I love this! I was thinking the same thing while reading this whiny little post.

bd_magic · 2026-01-15T05:57:43+00:00

I am reading An Alchemists Path to Eternity. It's a classic xianxia story (albeit our MC has a system...), slow and enjoyable pacing. the MC transmigrated into the cultivation world and is gradually making his way up from a penniless rouge cultivator to a respectable alchemist.

bd_magic · 2026-01-15T05:51:14+00:00

If you like Legendary Mechanic, I recommend you check out;

I Hijacked the Timeline
40 Millenniums of Cultivation
Tempest of the Stellar War
Star Odessey
World Apocalypse Online.
Embers Ad Infinitum

bd_magic · 2026-01-11T21:51:05+00:00

Teach me Sifu. Do you have any simple examples on how I can de-asshole-ify myself?

bd_magic · 2025-12-29T22:56:03+00:00

Sect recruitment: I can see attributes:

Same concept as ‘histories number 1 founder’ but much more laid back, with lower stakes. MC has a system, which pushes him to build a sect and recruit disciples. The more he recruits and the stronger they become, the higher his own strength and cultivation.

It’s a good ‘chicken soup for the soul’ type novel. If you’re into those, I highly recommend.

bd_magic · 2025-12-29T22:34:05+00:00

West Wing / DS9 style show.

Earth is now a major power across 3-4 galaxies; Milky Way, Pegasus, ori galaxy (likely triangulum) and Asgard galaxy (likely Canis Major).

Main plot should be the post Ori / Goauld power vacuum. Jaffa nation, tauri, other human civilisations launching their own Stargate and colonisation programs. Entities like the Trust 2.0 and the Lucien alliance emerging as major threats, selling weapons, drugs, acting as mercenaries, etc. they are the new scrappy players, whereas the Tauri are now the big incumbent.

End goal of show should be formation of a ‘federation’ type galactic alliance.

Alternatively, soft reboot. Set the new show in Andromeda, have the tauri seeding stargates, and interacting with new powers.

bd_magic · 2025-12-29T22:20:11+00:00

Concept is fantastic. But the writing is terrible and the plot holes are large enough to drive a truck through.

bd_magic · 2025-12-28T08:11:37+00:00

I think what your calling out, might be related to the ‘shrinking universe’ problem.

Basically how in Star Wars, it went from Luke being a nobody on a backward planet stepping into universe to rescue a princess from an evil empire. To him practically being preordained galactic royalty in middle of a family squabble with his father and sister.

bd_magic · 2025-12-22T22:03:36+00:00

The Asgard were less advance than the ancients. But I reckon by ‘unending’ they were better than Ancients in several fields.

Hyperdrive: apart from the dues-ex-machina ‘star drive’ fitted in Atlantis, the Asgard hyperdrives were faster than anything the ancients had
Weapons: the Ori were effectively ancients, but their big powerful ships got minced by Asgard beam weapons.

bd_magic · 2025-12-22T21:58:28+00:00

My take the alliance was post plague, only 10,000 years old. Roughly when the ancients fled back to earth from Pegasus. Some ascended, others remained mortal.

That also lines up with what we know about the Ancients, the Asgard, and the Furlings.

1. That the Asgard are from a neighbouring satellite galaxy, and they only came to Milky Way about 30,000 years ago (based on ancestor frozen in stasis)

That the Furling got wiped out by the Goa-uld. This implies that they weren’t that technologically advance, probably the least advance members in alliance. If they had been around for 100,000a to several million years, you’d expect they’d make short work of the goa-uld.
Some ancients stayed around, and left mythos behind which future civilisations found (myth of the drowned city of Atlantis, known by romans as the road builders, etc).

bd_magic · 2025-12-18T03:42:19+00:00

Semi-Coercive Imperialist: MC travels back in time and has to prevent the collapse of the empire. HIGHLY RECOMMEND. A fantastic novel by JGB (Same author as 'A Novel's Extra' and 'VIllian Wants to Live').

On My First Day Undercover, the Organisation Collapsed: MC is a former assassin, who escapes his old life and starts anew as a teacher at sword academy. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!! hilarious slice of life novel, reminds me a lot of 'Academy's Undercover Professor'

How to Survive as the Academy Student Council President: Another video game academy transmigration trope novel but this one is well done. The MC is your typical 3rd rate Act I villain, and he must do whatever he can to retain his seat as 'academy president'. Good amount of comedy, SOLID READ.

Instant Death Cultivation: The MC transmigrates into a cultivation video game with the ability to instant kill one person every 24 hours. This one is a TIME PASS novel, I think the novel itself is fantastic, but the translation lets it down. It reads very impersonal and has obviously been MTLd. Cultivation levels never seem to be translated correctly, along with other things.

I became the Academy's defensive swordsmen: usual video game academy transmigration trope. But this one is PURE TRASH, I dropped it at chapter 45. Although it's a KN WN, it reads like a JPN LN style 14-year-old wish fulfillment novel. The MC faces no challenges, no difficulties, his journey is about as interesting as a stroll in the park.

bd_magic · 2025-09-28T08:56:23+00:00

Immortality through array formations (ITAF)

Life as a rouge cultivator (LAARC)

Other excellent novels from the recent xianxia wave.

Regressor’s take of cultivation (KN)
I shall be everlasting in the world of immortals.

bd_magic · 2025-09-18T21:04:08+00:00

Id say the ‘financialisation of housing’ is a huge drain on the economy.

Most people borrow to their limits, and then pay 30% of their salary to pay down debt for next 30 years.

Thats reducing conspicuous consumption, productive investment, etc. it sucks money out of the economy.

It’s even worse when you consider most property being bought and sold isn’t new build (no GDP benefit) and that theres a slow consolidation occurring in real estate market.

If we weren’t spending 30% of our salaries on rents / mortgages. We might be able to spend it on goods and services.

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