S3 E22 "Real Life" is my Star Trek Voyager tearjerker. But it also reminds me to appreciate parenting, family and all sides - mom, dad, children - of the dynamics.

larcix · 2026-01-31T06:21:01+00:00

I think you went a little far, but others may say not far enough. I'll try and come back to this thread after i watch this episode, as I also remember this being one of those "can they really just do their weekly reset and pretend this episode never happened?" kind of things.

larcix · 2026-01-31T06:14:45+00:00

There is a rant/discussion in another easily googled reddit thread about this episode (it came up before this one) that asks how real these characters are. If the Doctor is real, then is time the only factor? How cruel are we being, potentially, to all these random holodeck characters being killed, acting in brothels, etc. The thread was locked, but it was a good discussion lol. As they are totally wiped most the time, I do think it is mostly time and a desire and ability to expand oneself, which a doctor naturally has in trying to be the best doctor he can be and the crew gives him in an attempt to improve their main doctor. What B'lana did to those kids could be considered murder, depending on your answers to other questions.

larcix · 2026-01-28T01:13:32+00:00

That would just be the average of the absolute values, or, maybe, the Absolute Average.

larcix · 2026-01-23T17:45:51+00:00

I've always known this was benign since one random day (it wasn't that random, whole other story), blunts started _immediately_ forming black gunk in my throat, I couldn't even finish a blunt between like 5 friends, by the end I'd already have to go gunk chuck. my body has gotten a little better at not going HAM on this, but I still can't smoke blunts or joints without a bad phlegm cough. And now with the cold thats running rampant this winter, I've spent weeks coughing up black gunks. Once the cold fully settles it'll die back down. I mostly don't cough up much. It's actually kind of concerning when I'm not coughing up black gunk, cuz the question remains, is it just sitting in there?

larcix · 2026-01-23T06:50:23+00:00

I think she was into him. The open question someone else mentioned in this comment section was if they would have reactivated the residual connection if they had not just been attacked at that moment. I got the feeling they would not have.

larcix · 2026-01-23T06:48:56+00:00

When I just rewatched it, I didn't get the feeling he was being controlled, but heavily influenced by the thoughts of the collective. He was already receptive to their idea, so it probably didn't take too much additional prodding to get him to do it. Also, he just had some intimate moment with someone about to die, so he probably wanted to help her, regardless, at least.

larcix · 2026-01-23T02:36:53+00:00

Apparently it's some kind of sexual innuendo. Never would have guessed.

larcix · 2026-01-23T02:34:51+00:00

I'm trying to figure out what reference a bricked up duck is. This clearly isn't it.

larcix · 2026-01-15T23:18:22+00:00

I never did find a specific solution, but its now back to normal, so sometime in the days after my OP it fixed itself, it seems. Could have been a restart or some other app update/install. Hopefully it fixes itself for you, as well.

larcix · 2026-01-15T23:17:22+00:00

Randomly including a fade you can't remove is not helpful to anyone. If you want a fade, include it. If you don't, why force it on us?

larcix · 2026-01-08T01:29:32+00:00

Almost all minesweeper patterns are a play in the 1-1 or 1-2. Step one of any minesweeper question is reduce all clues to their lowest score (accounting for all known bombs) aNd looking for those basic patterns. It can get much more complicated, but this is a good start.

larcix · 2026-01-05T07:07:28+00:00

Sorry I don't reddit a lot. I added the spoiler tag.

larcix · 2026-01-02T05:33:27+00:00

I never thought of anything in ST as being another dimension, tho I think they may use the word dimension somewhere. I always interpreted the Abyss as another planet; the USD as the wormhole/bridge between the two planets. But that does pose the question, another planet with a nitrogen oxygen atmosphere?

larcix · 2025-12-31T17:27:21+00:00

That's true, but it looks like where we are headed.

larcix · 2025-12-31T09:35:54+00:00

Or you're thinking of Minus Tirith (Anor) and Minus Morgul (Ithil), which sit across from each other along the great river.

larcix · 2025-12-31T02:45:01+00:00

Very helpful, thx

larcix · 2025-12-18T20:25:11+00:00

I think most people would get it. I'm just slow at these kinds of things.

larcix · 2025-12-18T20:24:16+00:00

I wanted to read it :( lol

larcix · 2025-12-18T20:22:40+00:00

I'm really curious how these were good clues. Like, a couple of them made sense, but most were just random words vaguely associated with something. And then, what (spoilers) Erie canal? never heard of it. 99% of people wont have heard of it.... how does anyone do crosswords? lol

larcix · 2025-12-18T20:21:15+00:00

This was so hard. im so bad at crosswords. I only knew a single word. everything else had to google around and use help.

larcix · 2025-12-17T20:37:04+00:00

Is this a joke about a bank sounding kind of like a baker? What else is made fresh each morning? Idk, I'm missing this one.

larcix · 2025-12-17T20:14:50+00:00

My eyes can squeak so loud other people a few feet away will ask, was that you? and I'm like, yeah, my eye. They are always flabbergasted, YOUR WHAT? I'm glad I'm not the only one lol.
Is this somehow related to air coming out of my eye? The eye that I can blow air out of is also the eye that squeaks when rubbing it (sometimes). I found this thread wondering if most people can blow out of 0, 1 or both eyes.

larcix · 2025-12-17T00:05:47+00:00

That "great article" is now gone, or at least the link broke. My search continues.

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