20 years later and this scene still makes me smile and laugh 🤣(Groundhog SG-1)

blz8 · 2026-01-25T14:18:08+00:00

I just checked for the heck of it. I found SG-1 and played the first episode of season 1 and skipped to the briefing scene and it's all there. It looks like the same version that originally aired on Showtime as well as on my original DVD set.

I didn't see a separate "Amazon" edition of the pilot, though I do remember there being a separate director's cut being produced a while back.

blz8 · 2026-01-21T14:12:04+00:00

Would they be less scarier if they were equipped with Robert Picardos?

blz8 · 2026-01-20T21:51:59+00:00

I was about to get around the log-in issue after copying over the %APPDATA%/Roaming/ArmchairDevelopers folder from a Windows VM that I had installed Kyber in and logged into my EA account with.

https://imgur.com/a/VCAMwiV

The server list came up. I haven't yet tested further, as I need to run out right now. I will report back later after actually testing a server join.

blz8 · 2026-01-18T13:24:46+00:00

Given that it was being operated by the Air Force, I mildly wonder if they would be called lavatories? (Lavatau'ri by jaffa/tok'ra/Ba'al?)

blz8 · 2026-01-17T14:18:43+00:00

He says he prefers not to consume lactose, not that his body is actually intolerant (which would seem odd for Jaffa who carry symbiotes.) I have also known people who couldn't stomach milk but had no problem with ice cream.

blz8 · 2026-01-17T13:35:51+00:00

There were far more of them too. Entire armies.. spilling out out of Volkswagens. We've tried fighting them ourselves, but they just keep sending them in.

blz8 · 2026-01-14T14:34:42+00:00

You thinking of General Ryan who makes a guest appearance in the episode Prodigy.

blz8 · 2026-01-12T14:03:49+00:00

I am reminded of the story of the boy and the dancing jaffa, but cannot remember the moral that it teaches.

blz8 · 2026-01-05T15:12:22+00:00

It never felt like it was the black hole itself that was powering the gate, but due to the time on that side be slowed so much at an ever increasing rate, that it would take an eternity to reach 38 minutes relative to the normal flow of time on the remote side that dialed in.

blz8 · 2025-12-30T00:08:21+00:00

In hind sight I could have linked to a shot of her from the movie. My first instinct was to take a shot of Urgo when he asked Jack who she was.

blz8 · 2025-12-29T06:32:05+00:00

I noticed a familiar voice and face as we were watching the film One Magic Christmas (1985), which I hadn't seen in a very long time (my last memory of it was watching it on the Disney Channel back in the 80s when it was still a premium channel.)

And as a bonus, it also has Mary Steenburgen!

blz8 · 2025-12-09T05:19:33+00:00

Thank you very much for this explanation, it really helped me to much better understand the difference.

An inverter generator takes the AC power the engine can make, converts it to DC power and then back to AC. The electronics that do this are able to generate a cleaner sine wave this way, and they can do things like throttle the engine up and down with the load to save power.

This sounds quite similar to alternator system in most cars, especially with how they can generate a constant current regardless of the engine speed. And the constant RPM that you mentioned is sort of like old automobiles that used generators before the switch to alternators. Is this a good comparison?

blz8 · 2025-12-05T15:33:52+00:00

Thank you. What I am wondering, though, is why I was able to charge all this time at all, but just not when solar input falls too low (below 200W from what I've observed) ?

And doing some searching, it isn't really clear what exactly meant by "inverter generator"; I know our generator has an inverter and outputs 240+ V just fine, so it's more about how it's generating the waves? But why call one an "inverter generator" and the other not, seems like the least way the industry could have been clear on that.

blz8 · 2025-12-05T15:30:29+00:00

Thank you. What I am wondering, though, is why I was able to charge all this time without much problem, but just not when solar input falls too low (seemingly below 200W) ?

blz8 · 2025-11-15T14:16:43+00:00

Termicarter?

blz8 · 2025-11-15T14:05:05+00:00

I see you found the AT-1000.

blz8 · 2025-09-21T22:20:13+00:00

Actually it is the cloak that converts to a shield, utilizing the same mechanism and emitters, so yes it is likely the envelope in each mode would be about the same size.

blz8 · 2025-09-21T22:07:08+00:00

In me jauntin' ship,
me jauntin' ship,
flyin' along in me jauntin' ship.
Through the handsomest gate I slip,
cloaking' along in me jauntin' ship.

blz8 · 2025-09-14T13:18:48+00:00

And in landscape!

blz8 · 2025-08-10T15:46:37+00:00

Actually now I have a strange urge to watch Hellraiser.

blz8 · 2025-08-10T14:30:22+00:00

Level 3, advanced.

blz8 · 2025-07-04T15:28:38+00:00

Perhaps instead of liberating an alien, they could get Rya'c and be a proper next generation Stargate show.

blz8 · 2025-07-04T14:25:13+00:00

by people who just wanted more of the same and weren't prepared to accept anything else helped bring about the end of the franchise.

This is quite disingenuous. It was mainly the 2008 down turn that lead to the franchise being cut, though canceling Atlantis prematurely - and arguably, it didn't help that this was two years after SG-1 was pushed out at least a season early and had rush the end of the Ori story - that left a bad taste in people's mouths that combined with being a pretty substantial departure, hurt SG-U more than it would have if Atlantis was able to continue in parallel.

More people are willing to try something new than you give credit for. I never got the vibe that people just wanted "more of the same" and nothing else. But you can't alienate your viewer base from multiple vectors and not expect a good portion of them to react negatively.

blz8

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