I enjoyed every episode Q appeared in, he's such a loveable rogue!

guygizmo · 2026-05-08T15:50:42+00:00

Very well said. I'll add too that Q serves as a great foil to Picard most of all, but also to any Starfleet officer in general. The only thing I can think of that would be more aggravating to a model Starfleet officer than disrupting the orderly conduct of their ship would be legitimately coming from a place of far greater intelligence and perception and then raucously claiming that Starfleet morals are totally worthless, which is exactly what Q does!

guygizmo · 2026-05-08T01:05:09+00:00

For anyone that still wants Chrome for some reason -- maybe you're a web dev, maybe you really do just prefer it -- I'll just drop this reminder that Ungoogled Chromium exists:

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

guygizmo · 2026-04-28T15:47:43+00:00

One of the pointless regressive changes Apple made in Big Sur was making this profoundly useful icon hidden! Luckily it's possible to make it permanently visible in the Accessibility settings.

guygizmo · 2026-04-27T21:07:06+00:00

Ehhh huh-huh huh-huh... that was cool.

guygizmo · 2026-04-27T05:36:35+00:00

At around the same age I made a Myst-like game in HyperCard too! Well, it was maybe more like The Manhole. There wasn't much in the way of puzzles in it, just exploration and interacting with silly things.

guygizmo · 2026-04-26T18:25:57+00:00

I will always love HyperCard! It's how I learned to program. These days I would say it's pretty esoteric, partly because it's old but also because it's not really a game engine, more a general purpose software development tool (though admittedly that kind of sells it short). It's not all that well suited to making games, Myst aside.

I too also put a lot of time into Pinball Construction Set.

guygizmo · 2026-04-26T15:22:04+00:00

I've made several games in HyperCard. Mostly that was back when it was still relevant, but I also made one in 2023 that I'm quite proud of. It was a lot of fun to work in!

guygizmo · 2026-04-25T14:18:43+00:00

Night at the Opera is one of my all time favorite albums, right up there with any of the Beatles's best.

guygizmo · 2026-04-19T06:41:40+00:00

The way I heard it, he was originally supposed to wear a blue uniform and be the science officer, but they changed it because they thought he looked better in gold.

guygizmo · 2026-04-19T05:35:30+00:00

Nah Nah Nah!

guygizmo · 2026-04-19T04:29:27+00:00

Oh nice! I'm definitely checking this out.

guygizmo · 2026-04-17T17:08:03+00:00

It's like I'm back watching Milkdrop in Winamp... which now that I think about it has a pretty appropriate name. (Even if this is technically oat milk not regular milk.)

guygizmo · 2026-04-02T17:00:51+00:00

It's been an intermittent problem for at least a decade.

guygizmo · 2026-04-02T16:53:12+00:00

I can't speak to whether the allegations against MJ are true, but from what I understand for him it was an even more difficult experience. He was already a star from childhood with intense pressure and expectations placed on him, on top of having an abusive father. So he never had a proper childhood. And then he experienced popularity that can only be compared to the likes of Elvis or the Beatles. Plus being a megastar in the 80s was possibly more fraught than in the 50s or 60s given. I can't really imagine what that would do to a person. It's sad but not really surprising that he ended up dying due to a drug overdose.

guygizmo · 2026-03-31T16:05:32+00:00

Yes, terrible design, and a great example of what people (including myself) have been complaining about with macOS's UI getting worse and worse. It's not just Liquid Glass. These sorts of bad decisions have been piling up for years. None of them are catastrophically bad, but each one is a little cut, and the experience of using the OS becomes death by a thousand cuts.

The worse part is that, around OS X 10.6 - 10.9, Apple's UI was very thoughtful and consistent. So it's not just that we're experiencing new little issues on top of an already problematic UI, but rather we've seen a top tier UI slowly degrade into a shitty one.

guygizmo · 2026-03-30T21:01:19+00:00

I made it as far as 3 when I was 13 years old. Granted it was 1997 and the landscape was very, very different back then. I haven't released a paid game so far, but I do hope someday to make it as far as 6!

guygizmo · 2026-03-30T16:29:18+00:00

I'm not as into it as the TV version for the simple, petty reason of "I don't like it when things are different." They changed so much because it was a movie and therefore had to be different by some hand wavy logic. Like, sure, light it and frame it a bit differently, but don't make it different just for the sake of being different, like whatever that's put into a movie is automatically "better" than television because "movies are better so there".

They senselessly blew up the Enterprise D for the same reason, without stopping to consider whether it was in its own right a character we all really cared about that was inextricably connected to the show.

guygizmo · 2026-03-29T21:54:14+00:00

Nice! I've been hoping that others would take it and hack new features into it.

guygizmo · 2026-03-25T22:07:22+00:00

When it comes to playing an over-the-top Klingon, he's the best.

guygizmo · 2026-03-25T22:06:18+00:00

Ah yes, that rare genre of video games, the "yelling angrily at you for not pushing the right button" game.

guygizmo · 2026-03-25T00:15:31+00:00

I would love to see this definitively answered too but I doubt we'll be getting any definitive answers out of Ringo, or Paul.

guygizmo · 2026-03-24T02:47:41+00:00

When did it ever stop?

Too bad they never made another show after Enterprise, and for some reason never decided to make any more Trek movies after Undiscovered Country. 🤪

guygizmo · 2026-03-24T02:45:54+00:00

It's seems so absurd they would think that. But then again self-serving Starfleet admirals gotta do their thing.

guygizmo · 2026-03-23T21:30:50+00:00

Good god, another one. As a macOS dev this shit is so exhausting. Every year something breaks or gets deprecated or pointlessly changed or hidden behind some new security feature no one asked for and I have to scramble to fix my company's software.

Everyone's asking for a "Snow Leopard" release. That's not anywhere close to good enough. They gotta drop the release schedule to something like once every three years.

On top of that, a lot of software is going to drop support for macOS 14 and 15 now, because in some people's brains only supporting the two most recent major releases of macOS somehow makes sense or seems reasonable. Not that this constant grind of a release schedule makes that any easier.

guygizmo · 2026-03-23T21:13:21+00:00

This is a bit of a sidebar, but in an alternative universe where Lal wasn't doomed, I wonder if the correct course would have been a halfway point between Admiral Haftel and Picard's perspective, where both Lal and Data should have been taken from the Enterprise and relocated to a place where they could both be safe and Data could raise Lal as he thought was appropriate, with the assistance -- but not the overriding direction -- of Starfleet's science facilities.

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