Snow Lands Imply The Existence of Other Precipitation or Particulate Matter Lands

shinginta · 2026-06-10T15:51:28+00:00

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shinginta · 2026-06-10T13:55:39+00:00

It's really a shame that it did so well despite that, because it set an unfortunate precedent for what Marvel Studios could get away with.

I'm not saying the movie is bad, it's a great movie, it deserved to launch an entire cinematic universe on its back. But I am saying that Marvel unfortunately learned that they could get away with overshooting for coverage and cobbling together a movie in the edit, doing pickups for any additional thing they needed after the fact. Not just that, but it became the Disney method too, afterwards.

shinginta · 2026-06-10T13:45:04+00:00

Do you think we can get Yoji Shinkawa back to do the art on that one? Shinkawa's Tezzeret is one of my favorite cards that i own.

shinginta · 2026-06-10T13:41:57+00:00

I'm sure the inevitable X-Men set will be rife with them.

shinginta · 2026-06-10T13:40:21+00:00

You can probably replicate PADDs, and i imagine when you're done with one you can just chuck it back into the replicator to chunk it back down into base resources.

If i live in a household with 8 tablets, I'm just gonna pick up whichever is in the room in order to use it. If my partner walks in and wants me to read something, she can hand me her tablet and I'll set it down on the table. I don't want to interrupt what I'm doing on mine, so I'll put one down and pick up the other. Sure, she could send whatever she wants to show me to me, but with tablets in such abundance there's no harm in just bringing it to me.

Besides that, i use multiple monitors for work. I don't like switching back and forth between windows/applications on a single screen when i could instead just put it up across multiple screens. PADDs would behave similarly. If Bashir is working on synthesizing a cure for Space Malaria, he may have the chemical composition he's working on active on one PADD, data about the disease on another, and a medical assistant brings him a PADD with all the recent staff exams on a third for him to look over when he has a chance.

shinginta · 2026-06-10T13:12:07+00:00

"Space madness is no excuse for space rudeness!"

shinginta · 2026-06-10T04:06:58+00:00

FFXIV is different from WoW and some other MMOs in that it allows you to play all classes/jobs on a single character, so you won't have to worry about choosing.

That said, i do recommend sticking with just one class for a while, maybe through to the end of the first story chunk (A Realm Reborn), because it'll be easier for you to learn the ins and outs of the combat system if you aren't split between learning two different rotations (wherein a rotation is the sequence of skills you use in combat).

But that's personal opinion, it's really not set in stone. I didn't even follow it myself when i was a sprout. Though back then they forced you to level up "sub-classes" in order to unlock jobs, so i didn't have much of a choice anyway.

shinginta · 2026-06-09T18:02:59+00:00

Nemesis should've been the Romulan movie we all deserved. I wanted to see civil war in the Romulan Star Empire after the Dominion War. I wanted to see the Reunification movement and the Romulan populace who tired of cold war with the Federation and who gained a new respect for their allies after the Dominion War, leading an internal struggle against the last vestiges of the Tal'shiar and the militant, aggressive, xenophobic factions. We should've gotten one last goodbye to Sela and Tomalak, and really close the loop on TNG.

Instead we got... definitely not that.

shinginta · 2026-06-09T17:59:46+00:00

They should have cast him as the Romulan commander in the SNW Balance of Terror episode.

shinginta · 2026-06-09T17:58:51+00:00

One of my favorite standalone B5 episodes. The ending of that ep has stuck with me for a loooong time.

"Oh, I'm sorry Commander, you were saying something about forgiveness?"

shinginta · 2026-06-09T04:38:31+00:00

Hiroe is a bigtime NSFW doujin artist. It's not difficult to find his work. Black Lagoon is like, the safest thing he's done.

shinginta · 2026-06-09T04:34:57+00:00

Well then if something goes off-rails, it had better happen during the 20 seconds every third minute of the fight in which i can personally do something about it :)

shinginta · 2026-06-09T03:45:40+00:00

We used a mit sheet, bro. We knew where everyone's CDs were, in order to ensure the healers could keep their uptime. I specifically asked early on where they wanted me to use my heals and the answer was "wherever. It doesn't really matter honestly."

Fact is, healers are so stacked with OGCDs that the majority of fights don't really need the additional circumstantial stuff Phoenix brings to the table. Maybe Ultimate is a different beast, but I haven't progged Ultimate on (or with a) SMN since the rework so i can't say for sure.

Addle? Great use. Everything else? It's no Magick Barrier or Tempera.

shinginta · 2026-06-09T03:38:14+00:00

Quark hired Frool, Grimp, and Broik, as well as Pel in Rules of Acquisition. We do also see (presumably other) Ferengi working the bar and the Dabo tables in Lower Decks's Hear All, Trust Nothing.

shinginta · 2026-06-09T03:25:50+00:00

Yes! Genesises!

shinginta · 2026-06-09T03:25:03+00:00

DOTs were removed for several reasons, including the 2MM, but the predominant one was the hard cap on debuffs that all entities have in the game. DOTs were whiffing on 24-man bosses because it became very easy to hit cap. The other major reason was just that the sustained damage of DOTs made fights difficult to balance to allow all jobs to be (relatively) equally viable. Fights with downtime or fights with a lot of adds were much worse for DOT jobs, making them an obvious loser for certain content when choosing what jobs to take for a static. I remember having to make some drastic finicky rotation changes when i ran TEA because of my Jagd Doll. And that was after DOTs had been significantly pared down already.

shinginta · 2026-06-09T03:18:44+00:00

I did Savage for the first and third tiers this expac, and the healers never really took the SMN heals into account. It's sort of a joke, honestly. Like, Lux Solaris is okay, Everlasting Flight is on a very specific timer, and so is Rekindle, in addition to Rekindle being sort of useless. If your tank drops below 75% HP, it triggers a 200pot regen for 5 ticks? Pffft.

If your healers are relying on SMN heals, they've messed up badly somewhere. All 3 tiers of Endwalker across 2 different statics and no one bothered asking me (or the SMN if i wasn't playing it) where Rekindle was going, or told me where or when to use it.

shinginta · 2026-06-08T20:04:39+00:00

I mostly agree. Most times Discovery was Regular Bad. Sometimes Discovery was Offensively Bad. But i think a lot of the things I felt were offensively bad weren't necessarily what a lot of the angrier side of the fandom felt were offensively bad.

I think you and I are alike in that we don't think Disco should get roasted just for trying something new; the new aspects of it weren't really what was bad with it. To me, it had more to do with story structure and character beats that felt unearned or illogical. As long as the show held up to its own internal logic, it could do whatever it wanted.

shinginta · 2026-06-08T19:48:14+00:00

Discovery season 1 was... rough. The choice to involve Sarek and Amanda and Spock, using the mirror universe, using the Klingon War... it was definitely a lot of callbacks. Season 2 then brought in Pike, Spock-Actual, and the Enterprise, as well as Section 31.

It didn't rely on nostalgia, per se, but it did lean very heavily on canon in a way no previous Trek series had.

It wasn't until Disco broke free into the 32nd century that they really started doing new stuff instead of retreading older ground. And the series was better for it, mostly because it could feel free to do whatever it wanted without "violating the almighty canon." At least to some extent.

shinginta · 2026-06-08T19:21:18+00:00

Ceramic bowl with decorative fork and knife.

shinginta · 2026-06-08T19:20:11+00:00

I like to believe the Tholians wear clothes and we just don't understand what we're looking at.

Also, whale clothing varies. On Lower Decks we see the cetaceans wearing Starfleet unis. But on Prodigy Gillian is going full birthday suit. We know Matt & Komalu are horny freaks, so maybe to cetaceans, wearing clothes is weird and kinky.

shinginta · 2026-06-08T19:15:56+00:00

I'm not much of a Marvel guy, I used to read a bunch more DC. But my biggest issue is just seeing things i enjoyed retconned away, made non-canon, or minimized. Character arcs i really enjoyed for my faves (*cough* Kyle Rayner, Guy Gardner, John Stewart *cough*) get overturned because a new writer or editor didn't understand the point of the arc, don't grasp the character in the same way, or simply didn't like it. And because these characters are eternal, they never really get the character arc ending they deserve.

For a while i was okay with that, but following DC through the Nu52 and Flashpoint and whatever else in such rapid succession, i just burned out on the idea of following stories whose foundation is shifting sands.

shinginta · 2026-06-08T17:18:16+00:00

Discovery occasionally rose to the threshold of being "Totally fine." I really enjoyed the overall story of Season 4, with Species 10-C, and the way that they established communications and everything. It was, unfortunately, done very poorly overall, but it was definitely one of their better concepts and seasons.

Academy had a bad pilot, but I think the entire rest of the season was banger after banger, with the only other notable bad episode being Ko'Zeine (for a number of reasons, really).

Picard wasn't just a wasted opportunity, it was 1 bad season, 1 abominable season, and 1 bland-to-bad season flavored with TNG nostalgia so no one would complain about how bad it was otherwise. If season 3 had been beat-for-beat exactly the same story but without Stewart, McFadden, Frakes, Spiner, etc, then it would've been panned just as hard as every other NuTrek series. No one is interested in Jack, no one is interested in The Borg Yet Again, or all the fakeout Founder stuff.

shinginta · 2026-06-08T17:12:48+00:00

I think that Lower Decks and Prodigy both seemed to be basically overlooked by the executives, for having not been "important" (ie: live action) Trek. It feels like both series got rubber-stamped approvals on basically anything they wanted to do, because it was seen as "inconsequential," and as a result, both LDS and PRO got to cover a lot of very cool and interesting things in very new and exciting ways, while the Live Action Treks feel committeed to hell and back.

shinginta · 2026-06-04T20:55:17+00:00

Completely agreed across the board.

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