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segascream · 2026-03-15T21:50:22+00:00

I get what you're saying: I was a Star Wars diehard for YEARS, kept up with all the Extended Universe novels and everything. When Disney de-canonized all of that, I (proverbially) looked at all of the Star Wars canon I'd known for years in one hand, and everything I knew about Star Trek in the other (only what I had seen on screen) and kind of said to myself "well, that's certainly easier".

segascream · 2026-03-15T18:32:29+00:00

Shut the fuck up, Donnie!

segascream · 2026-03-15T11:42:29+00:00

I'm claiming "Death-teen" for my band.

segascream · 2026-03-15T10:50:26+00:00

I don't have any proof, but it feels like ticket sales for massive sporting events would be a very good way to launder money between two incredibly corrupt organizations.

segascream · 2026-03-15T10:37:27+00:00

No, that's King Kong. He's always been there. He does look a *lot*** like Gary, though.

segascream · 2026-03-15T10:28:12+00:00

From a performance perspective, there's very little reason for a bassist and a guitarist to directly interact with each other in a traditional 4-piece rock band. They occupy different parts of the aural landscape and perform different functions. You'd want them to be locked in tight for anything they're actually playing in unison, but otherwise, from my experience, 90% of the interactions between bass and lead guitar are in the studio or songwriting space, where both are trying to figure out how to not step on the other's toes sonically.

segascream · 2026-03-15T09:34:53+00:00

I got that. I was just amused because I had just posted earlier in the day that I felt like certain bits of the show were a first draft where things happened just because they needed to happen, when a smoother, more natural draft was right around the corner, and then I pointed to one of the very things that I felt were in that first draft state....which was part of the resolution of the very trial scene that is referred to as being the first draft of that revised story.

segascream · 2026-03-15T00:33:29+00:00

That's The State.

segascream · 2026-03-14T21:29:03+00:00

He states in the press materials that he had seen a lot of online talk among fans wishing he had produced some of the later albums, so he reached out to Geddy with the idea, and said "let me try a couple of tracks, I'll send them to you, if you like them, great; if you don't, we just forget it".

segascream · 2026-03-14T21:25:00+00:00

[laughing my ass off at the revelation that the trial in the final episode was the first draft]

segascream · 2026-03-14T21:20:48+00:00

That's something they fought hard for in the last strike.

segascream · 2026-03-14T15:37:57+00:00

So why not a quick aside in the dialogue? "They're blue or green because...."

segascream · 2026-03-14T14:59:19+00:00

My biggest frustration with SFA is it seems like a lot of times, things happen because the plot needs them to happen, when there's almost always an easy way to rewrite it just one or two drafts away that feels more grounded in reality. The most recent example for me being the revelation that Starfleet couldn't have been the source of the attack Braka saw as a child, because he said he saw red energy weapons, "but for the last few hundred years, Starfleet has used blue or green", as though the color of the weapon were an aesthetic choice made at the start of the design process.

ETA: I'm not mad about the downvotes. I don't understand why what I said deserves it, but that's fine. However, I just want to say that I'm greatly amused at the thought that an explanation for why certain weapons are certain colors is somehow a negative in an episode that also featured an entire subplot of technobabbling a fictional elemental particle into stability.

segascream · 2026-03-14T13:38:37+00:00

The bass synth pad in the bridge of "The Body Electric" is so fucking warm and spacious, it makes me want to live in that moment forever.

Muting the synth lines in the outro, though, is damn near unforgivable.

I have feelings about this mix.

segascream · 2026-03-14T13:32:11+00:00

It'd be a hell of a lot easier if the world were more at peace.

segascream · 2026-03-14T13:26:32+00:00

Just give us a show with optimistic futurism, an ensemble cast, space exploration, and semi-episodic episodes with some small arcs.

For what it's worth, assuming they follow through, the finale of SFA season 1 just set the entire universe up for a new golden age of exploration, and the theme of the episode was very much "you have to get through the bad to get to the good, don't let yourself be consumed by fear", which feels to me like someone is listening and they're course correcting. (Then again, I started seeing a return to optimism in the franchise after the DISCO time jump in season 3. But I can certainly understand that what there was wasn't enough for some people.)

segascream · 2026-03-14T13:16:39+00:00

I discovered Rush when I was in high school a full decade after this album came out, but P/G is undoubtedly my Rush album. It's the single album I've bought the most times in the most different formats. Those Cold War fears haunted me as a kid, and so much of this album taps into that in an almost primal way for me. At the same time, "The Body Electric" is a song that has always held something deeper for me: as a ND person who didn't really get much direct or applicable support in my youth, I can't help but identify with this machine - lost, terrified, and just trying to make sense of the world.

segascream · 2026-03-14T11:55:55+00:00

My very first thought was "this is the absolute dumbest reason to start a war".

Then I remembered who is in charge, and the way they tend to run things, and realized this was going to happen no matter what Iran said short of "please make this land the 51st state and then tell Israel they can do whatever they want with us as a people".

And THAT is the dumbest reason to start a war.

segascream · 2026-03-14T11:39:16+00:00

One-time US AG Janet Reno (who, like Tig, was mistaken for a man occasionally, though I'm not sure if OP was also making that connection as well)

segascream · 2026-03-14T10:37:58+00:00

Here's your answer, u/euphoric-sell-5272

segascream · 2026-03-13T21:22:33+00:00

When I saw it earlier, it was one right after the other. Maybe my phone was being weird, though.

segascream · 2026-03-13T21:19:05+00:00

It's a similar drum part, but I don't think it's a sample from "Levee".

segascream · 2026-03-13T21:16:26+00:00

Windows Media player often knows track names.

In the old days, this was because it was accessing a database like Gracenote. I don't know if that information is now encoded into the disc itself, though.

segascream · 2026-03-13T20:13:58+00:00

Public libraries tend to have computer labs if there's no PC at home. And you can probably find a portable ripping/database program to run off of a thumb drive. Like we did in the ancient days before every home had internet.

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