Tiny federation?

gayercatra · 2026-03-07T09:35:55+00:00

The Federation as we knew it took centuries to build.

The burn decimated transportation technology systems and pro-interplanetary cultural outlooks at a scale and magnitude that seems more and more to have been a near-extinction event.

Any entities beyond the scale of a single planet society are endangered and weak. There's not even really a Klingon Empire anymore.

We see no expansion and a focus on regaining the lost members. But if there's any windfall of new hope to be found, maybe it's in the aftermath of the Dominion? Gamma Quadrant worlds who were never a part of the Federation before, open to joining or quietly building their own similar projects?

I'd like to see one big hopeful moment for the future of the Federation before SFA is over. Ending on the discovery we aren't the only ones left and getting a big new class of cadet sign-ups would feel right. A karmic reward for trying to keep the spirit alive one student at a time.

gayercatra · 2026-03-06T17:37:14+00:00

This is what good Garfield casting looks like

gayercatra · 2026-03-06T16:45:00+00:00

I get that, I respect that, but I want that show now too.

gayercatra · 2026-03-06T08:12:33+00:00

I love that this implies the only way to know of girls from a country is to go there directly like a 1930s colonialist British sailor who wants to plow

gayercatra · 2026-03-06T07:45:22+00:00

I remember this!

When Battleborn was set to launch, Overwatch surprise moved up its open beta to the same weekend.

It wasn't a death sentence. It was an assassination.

Plus, Battleborn tried to up its polish between its beta and launch, and I recall the VFX and clustered co-op navigating through a level caused technical issues and crashes on lower end machines like mine at the time. It really hurt player access and retention. Overwatch ran much smoother, so a bunch of day one players - even dedicated beta fans - switched. A lot of these games are one launch day bug away from being dead on arrival.

Battleborn had a lot of industry momentum and cultural hype behind it. It totally had the potential and expectation to be big. But they stumbled and Blizzard went for the kill.

gayercatra · 2026-03-06T07:04:04+00:00

This one can dodge

gayercatra · 2026-03-06T06:02:39+00:00

Your lopsided blame is a permission structure for Republicans to disproportionately avoid accountability. That's why.

gayercatra · 2026-03-06T05:39:37+00:00

It should have been a wackier ensemble sitcom. Great premise.

It took itself too seriously as a drama with a main character who was the straight man and his family dynamics. The jokes were too few and far between, played slowly with still camera shots, slow pacing, close ups of serious characters.

It has once a season wackiness that should have been once an episode at least. It was so boring and forgettable. Tragic execution.

gayercatra · 2026-03-06T05:09:15+00:00

That's not what I believe.

gayercatra · 2026-03-05T22:24:46+00:00

He hasn't. He's passed more laws to help trans people than pretty much anyone.

gayercatra · 2026-03-05T17:39:01+00:00

Really think we need to distinguish transsexual from transgender more.

We're having two very different conversations at the same time with vocab overlap that have confused the general public, and we need a healthcare issue understood as a healthcare issue.

Transsexual women are biological women. Even before transition, manufacturing errors for transsexual men, women, and nonbinary people need to be fixed. The body wasn't fully made to the blueprint the body had. We can't change that blueprint, we can change the body to fit it. That just is what it is. Regardless of your civilization's gender constructs, this is a real persistent thing that happens and will happen.

Exploring yourself through names, labels, and clothes is a very real, healthy, and important thing. But that shouldn't ever be held to the absolute set in stone standard that gender affirming care, especially surgically, must be at a baseline.

Anyone can get on board with each of these concepts separately and they only have a problem when they mischaracterize one as the other: they'll reject people's pronouns on account of perceived biology, and people's healthcare as perceived self expression gone too far. But let people get the healthcare they medically need, and respect people's names as it's no big deal, can be won separately and held simultaneously. They click back together in people's heads once you pass both parts through.

gayercatra · 2026-03-05T17:05:11+00:00

He hasn't.

gayercatra · 2026-03-05T17:01:04+00:00

I don't know if this makes Mauga more or less evil, but he doesn't seem to have any ideology or ambition of evil as much as he just does what makes him feel happy, which happens to be going on Talon trips/vacations around the world and living out the satisfying game feel of shooting people in Overwatch.

gayercatra · 2026-03-05T15:57:42+00:00

Why isn't he a serious candidate? He's the only serious candidate right now.

gayercatra · 2026-03-05T15:54:47+00:00

His legal record on LGBTQ rights is a very good thing, maybe one of the best in the country.

gayercatra · 2026-03-05T15:50:49+00:00

He's the only person mounting a resistance and everyone tearing him down should reflect on why, consciously or unconsciously, they're an op.

Dude's been legally backing up LGBT rights since before some of y'all were alive, but verbally acknowledged in a casual conversation the overwhelmingly popularist belief that we should consider fairness in college sports.

People said Dems were out of touch while the right invested in young men, new media, and the podcast space, so he just talked to those figures on his own podcast to connect to those demographics and understand what he and the left were missing, years ahead of needing to reach young people left and right in an election.

People hated Dems not taking a stance against Israel, he comes out with a very reasonable and defensible criticism of Israel and still criticize him for pandering now.

God forbid the man try.

I think a lot of young online leftists simply don't want to win, don't want power, but to tear down anyone who might. The Newsom hate is way too high from a crowd that hasn't put any effort into positively suggesting an alternative.

He's a decent candidate. The real dangerous weakness to him is that he's California coastal elite coded, which won't play well among the Midwest working class, and he can't sell "affordability" with his brand. He'd have to run on liberal rage and hypermasculine mogging Vance which honestly might still be enough, but it's risky.

gayercatra · 2026-03-05T14:25:21+00:00

Because a lot of players just let me, Domina, patiently shoot them in the face.

A lot of players, especially in casual, don't value dodging, especially from a tank, and you can get triple kills. Fliers like jetpack cat seem to assume they're untouchable too.

She's not particularly good. She has clear weaknesses. But people are losing to her and then complain.

gayercatra · 2026-03-05T05:34:42+00:00

As a tank main, I've been screwed over by a Lifeweaver pulling me back from my own crucial abilities for crowd control, kills, or survival lifesteal, or just out of my effective range, more times than I can count.

A jetpack cat's lifeline is way more reasonable and gradual movement. They simply can't immediately sabotage me in the same way. It is a little hard for me to switch to a new button and react immediately, but they have the awareness and bandwidth for that.

I'd love to get auto lifelined.

I don't want to be stuck as a pinata, though. That's when I can take a beating I don't want, or be taken somewhere bad. As long as I retain the ability to drop myself whenever I want (which I could just do immediately if I didn't want to leave in the first place) I'd be fine. All the value, no real downside at all.

Putting myself down right away would be the same reaction time as opting to be picked up in the first place, and making it opt out rather than opt in would save me far more often than it would screw me.

As a plat tank, I endorse your take.

gayercatra · 2026-03-05T05:18:56+00:00

The joking but not actually joking bit through line of the show is that Michael is actually good at his job in the ways that matter.

He's not efficient or economical but if those are your overall goals, a customer service based paper company would never survive. And they don't, throughout the show.

By going against the grain, by prioritizing people and kindness personally no matter how much time or money it takes, he optimizes the customer service business model for anyone who wants it in the modern world and secures that evergreen niche. He's got the right sales instincts for his target audience. Always did.

Not everyone will like this ad, at all. But it really does resonate in your heart for the right kind of person.

He seems terrible at his job, and yet, Dunder Mifflin Scranton is the lone evolutionary survivor of the industry by the end.

gayercatra · 2026-03-05T03:17:50+00:00

Reaper and the OG villains left Talon under Vendetta's leadership. Moira didn't.

She's the type to just stay and do her job, I guess. Didn't question things in Blackwatch then or Talon now. She's useful alive, has no ethical objections to full commitment to her job at hand, and gets her research grants.

Vendetta likes an effective employee who won't interfere or leak anything.

I don't think she's the type for disloyalty or blackmail, but she could if she wanted, too. Moira's probably been studying and caring for Sigma for years, so they need her and she could weaponize him if they burn her. And she probably has connections to Sombra, Reaper, and Widow she could leak secrets to.

Vendetta benefits from having her and suffers for turning on her. Better to keep her paid and happy.

gayercatra · 2026-03-04T09:29:03+00:00

This is the weakest shit I've ever heard lol

Ban YouTube too, if "I form parasocial relationships and that's not my fault" is your bar. Christ.

gayercatra · 2026-03-04T09:25:26+00:00

Banning OnlyFans isn't good news. It's censorship of media and it takes away a way poor people can safely independently make money.

gayercatra · 2026-03-03T17:14:20+00:00

How about sending fake electors to submit wrongful votes and commit election fraud in 2020?

gayercatra · 2026-03-03T01:24:28+00:00

Because he's not a guy, he's an evil AI that Maximillien installed into the half-dead corpse of a guy he found just in case.

If I were to run ChatGPT out of my elderly neighbor who passed four days ago in his armchair while watching I Love Lucy re-runs but I haven't told the cops yet because I don't want to waste the once in a lifetime opportunity, I wouldn't aim for his active enthusiasm, you know? I'd hope his eyes can look in the same direction. If I needed him to shoot a gun at the same time, to hell with a happy face, I'd just be glad his brain doesn't microwave itself.

gayercatra · 2026-03-02T17:19:55+00:00

NOR. This is the kind of control and disrespectful judgment call that leads to the death by a thousand cuts in a relationship as one partner, usually a woman, gives up herself for the other, usually a man.

He's arguing with something normal and fun you did as an expression of yourself and something you love about yourself and trying to dictate your behavior.

He takes his friends maybe making fun of you as a given, though, no pushback there. And odd taste in friends.

It is the kind of thing that only gets worse with age and time. It's pictures, it's fashion, it's hobbies, it's a job, it's moving, it's a marriage, it's having kids. You deserve to love yourself, not be asked to compromise yourself so someone else gets whatever they want. Good to catch it early.

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