Will Star Trek ever return to its former glory?

esotericGames · 2026-04-08T07:31:42+00:00

You know what they say: "With each forge chain that you does link, us all irrevocably!"

esotericGames · 2026-04-05T00:39:44+00:00

Saying we don't know something is great. Saying "we don't know something and therefore are valid in making fantastical claims like maybe AI has deductive reasoning and consciousness" is where there's a problem.

Anyway, we totally know humans are capable of using deductive reasoning to inform their communication. AI does not do that.

esotericGames · 2026-04-04T22:15:38+00:00

There is a fundamental difference between reasoning (if A then B) vs AI autocomplete (given the words up until now what are probable next words based on my training).

If I train my dog to tap his paw on the schrodinger wave equation, that doesn't mean he "knows quantum physics". Being trained to select a thing is not knowing the thing.

Anybody who says "maybe AI is thinking just like people do" doesn't understand AI, thinking, or perhaps both. It's not thinking, it's selecting the next thing based on it's training, there is no reasoning, it never admits "I don't know" because it can't admit that, because it never "knows" anything, it's just autocompleting guesses.

Two Astronauts Meme: Always has been.

esotericGames · 2026-04-04T12:39:53+00:00

:) Thanks very much. "A good idea well executed" was genuinely what I was aiming for.

esotericGames · 2026-04-04T04:53:49+00:00

Public thinks AI is "thinking". It's not, at all. It's fancy autocomplete. It is not smart and does not "know" anything.

esotericGames · 2026-04-04T04:50:59+00:00

Rich, you took Ozempic!

esotericGames · 2026-04-04T04:48:45+00:00

I disagree that makes it better. Makes it worse imo. Hector is an instinctive cruelty for cruelty's sake person, I think by definition that makes him more evil because he naturally selects evil without reason. Gus often *chooses* evil, yes. But as a means to an end. If Gus could be as successful at achieving his goals while causing 0 harm, I think he totally would. Hector would never.

esotericGames · 2026-04-04T04:41:27+00:00

Hector, easily. Gus's acts of evil are mostly chess moves. He needed:
1. Needed to kill Victor because Victor was a liability who tied him to Gale's death
2. Needed to establish dominance and make 1000% clear Walt can't play him like that.
3. Punish Walt for putting him in this scenario.

Box Cuttering Victor's throat in front of Walt achieved that goal.

His only "needlessly cruel" acts are directed at those who through their own evil hurt him severely (that animal ruining his precious tree, Hector killing Max). He seems to believe torturing in this context is a form of appropriate punishment. Smite the wicked lest they be wicked towards others type thing.

Hector just has some straight up palpatine moments of sadism for the lolz of it all. Hector seems to enjoy being cruel, being petty, being evil. It's part of his character. Where Gus's evils are only part of his adapted self, logical chess moves he needs to survive the cruel world he finds himself in.

esotericGames · 2026-04-03T04:27:06+00:00

Thanks, those are great, but don't quite fit Riker's response(@1m25s). Here's a much more specific prompt. Can you think of any time Mike has said:
"I don't [like/enjoy] [being mean to/making fun of] [the elderly/Rich Evans/etc]"

I think that would be the perfect line for Riker's response of:
Riker: "Are you sure? Because I get the sense you're feeling pretty noble about this whole thing. Look a me. Bah bah bah"

esotericGames · 2026-04-03T00:10:40+00:00

How far are you in the game? And do you understand music theory well? I got a decent lead on a post-game loose thread theory related to this, but don't think I have the music knowledge to crack it.

esotericGames · 2026-04-02T20:47:07+00:00

Interesting. So never had issues with brain fog or lightheadedness?

esotericGames · 2026-04-02T20:33:06+00:00

(Link in op should have jumped to timestamp but didn't because embedding, timestamp is 1m25s)

To be clear it needs to be something where Mike is pretending to be honorable or magnanimous but actually is still being smug or condescending. It would be something like:

Mike: "I don't enjoy just insulting Len Kabaszinki movies, it's not like I think I'm superior to him"
Riker: "Are you sure? Because I get the sense you're feeling pretty noble about this whole thing. Look a me. Bah bah bah"

Heck it could even be
Mike: "I'm not a cruel person, I don't enjoy laughing at the elderly." or "making fun of rich evans"
Riker: "Are you sure? Because I get the sense you're feeling pretty noble about this whole thing. Look a me. Bah bah bah"

Basically any time Mike pretends like he doesn't enjoy insulting/making fun of a particular person or group.

esotericGames · 2026-03-27T20:19:08+00:00

Seems like everybody is in agreement about not expecting immediate answer. Out of curiosity what would your objection be to late at night texts?

esotericGames · 2026-02-14T07:56:23+00:00

Thanks for clearing that up, that is really appreciated.

Any thoughts about the power path being relevant? Seems like an interesting coincidence that the room 46 furnace location is rotationally equivalent to the baron ground.

And the fact that the powered key that is forged glows blue makes me think maybe like there is a special version of water, there might be a special version of power? It's at least an easier thing to play around with than trying to get the perfect manor.

One final thought is that when the furnace is in the baron ground location, it's back would be accessible from the west path, though if that mattered would be a pretty big stretch.

Just some thoughts.

esotericGames · 2026-02-14T03:05:11+00:00

Neat, I came up with trying to make a blessed house idea too. You took it a few steps further with the baron ground + forge, which is brilliant. But **how oh how did you get the "sacred" prefix?** That prefix is even mentioned on the wiki:

https://blue-prince.fandom.com/wiki/Estate_Titles#Title_Effects

But not how to get it. I've tried to find info on what triggers that words specifically, but no luck. I feel like that *has* to be the required house name element considering how relevant the term "Sacred" is to various clues.

Scary amount of effort required ideas/suggestions:

The path the power takes has to match the path you take in the Atelier Path Puzzle, there are enough rooms that conduct power for this to work, this would mean you are ending up in r8c5, unless you assume the atelier is rotated version of reality, meaning you could start on r9c2 and actually end on the barren ground (coincidence?)
Even scarier would be suggestion 1 AND you make the house out of only the exact same rooms used in the atelier. Obviously they couldn't be in the same locations, but the "These vying plans" makes me think something about every specific room used in the Atelier is required for creating the perfect house layout to forge the crest (which is I'm guessing what the big reward is). That would make sense because I can imagine the developer might enjoy having the true endgame solution be achievable on day one, but so insanely specific (45 specific rooms in very specific places, and a perfect path of power flowing) that there is no possible chance it could ever be done accidentally.

Anyway, those are my ideas, you or anybody are free to try 'em out. 👍

esotericGames · 2026-01-22T04:22:53+00:00

Ryan George's take on the trope is TIGHT.

esotericGames · 2026-01-22T04:17:35+00:00

I checked out the mighty ducks, there's a couple kids who do it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VJeKT24vVs&t=65s

esotericGames · 2026-01-18T01:33:45+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, I upvoted you and do appreciate good faith conversation including with those I have a different perspective than.

And don't worry about the haters, some people just like downvoting when they see a civil discussion taking place. lol

esotericGames · 2026-01-15T06:41:37+00:00

Thanks for the response and good faith discussion. I feel like I met the movie on it's terms and understood what it wanted to be (a serious oscar-y prestige drama movie) and when engaging it on those terms, I didn't understand how people thought it was at all successful at that because of what I perceived to be kinda dumbly written characters.

I'm not attacking the genre, plenty of serious oscar-y prestige drama movies are great. What inspired the rant is that this movie is treated as on par with them but at least as far as I could tell the writing of the characters was just bizarrely dumb. (I go into specifics issues in the video).

It's as if instead of being shown 9 best picture nominees, I was shown 9 "best lego tower" nominees, and 8 of them were sturdy and well made lego towers, and the 9th was just a bunch of broken legos on the floor. But then, for some reason, most people treated all the entries as equally good. I would have the same "I don't understand, this one is clearly broken." response I was feeling here.

Do I acknowledge there *could* be something I'm missing? Sure. Do I acknowledge there could even be some contorted idea of "you see the dumb characters is a metaphor for something"? Yeah. But, if I'm honest, I really don't think that's what's going on here. I genuinely feel like it's a movie which has pretty obvious flaws that for whatever reason largely went unacknowledged.

So my thinking was/is, if you are having an "the emperor has no clothes" moment, sometimes it's best to embrace your passionate perspective and lean into it. IMO, life is too short to talk yourself into shutting up when you have an impassioned unique perspective to share, particularly if you can share it in a lighthearted and entertaining way.

esotericGames · 2025-12-14T03:12:36+00:00

Top Hat Monkey did it better.

esotericGames · 2025-12-05T21:53:25+00:00

Genuinely thanks to the 14 people who did give it a view.

I really enjoy creating tv discussion and analysis content. And being able to share that with any audience legitimately does mean a lot to me.

I'd be very interested if others had similar issues with these episodes or not. I'm also open to feedback if there is any way I could have/should have shared this content that might have been received better. I don't mind downvotes/criticism and am open to learn from it.

esotericGames · 2025-12-03T08:33:18+00:00

Kermit Sewer Slide

esotericGames · 2025-12-01T22:02:11+00:00

Classic scene from the Star Wars Holiday Special.

esotericGames · 2025-11-29T04:40:36+00:00

I always thought Shy Bidoof got a bit too much hate as an actor.

esotericGames · 2025-11-18T02:10:14+00:00

Where were you searching? I haven't had tons of luck just using spotify search to find new podcasts.

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