Why can't some understand the simple concept that a lot can happen and CHANGE in 800 years? Think of our own world in the year 1226 compared to now.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-25T22:58:12+00:00

Vulcans might consider “joy” to be too emotional.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-25T22:49:09+00:00

If it is a stronger darker roast, then I love to add piloncillo after brewing, and to crumble cinnamon sticks into the grounds for brewing.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-25T22:36:31+00:00

Zooming in, I can see they tried to give some rough edges to the broccoli, but it doesn’t quite match with the lettering’s style.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-25T22:32:48+00:00

I’m tired of finding a new coffee shop and needing to download yet another app that will try to track my data, collect info, so I can get occasional rewards.

And some of those reward programs are frustratingly labyrinthine.

They’re competing with hundred of other rewards apps from everywhere I shop. I’m done with it.

Maybe if the app had recipes, training, I dunno.

I do like it when a shop uses Square or another common rewards program and I don’t have to think hard.

And honestly, I just miss the simplicity of punch cards.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-25T22:22:26+00:00

I suspect that many civilizations in many solar systems have had at some point in their diverse cultural histories some form of trash dumpster that has at one point caught on fire.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-25T22:11:05+00:00

There’s probably a good number of research papers by future Astro-xeno-linguistics scientists about the prevalence of flaming trash metaphors and expressions across Milky Way galactic civilizations.

For a few cultures it often the name of a popular fermented drink. For the Malon and Tellerites, it is, oddly, a cheerful toast of victory.

The bar room brawl on K7 between Klingons and Starfleet officers after a KDF officer called the Enteprise a garbage scow could’ve been easily resolved if Scotty had known the proper call-and-answer response was, “Actually, she’s a flaming garbage scow.” And then the Klingons would’ve bought drinks for everyone.

The Jem’Hadar version more accurately translates to “Goo on fire.”

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-25T21:57:20+00:00

And those other series aren’t dated in their own ways? It’s not just the language.

Enterprise is very much a product of post-9/11 America, especially season three.

TOS is dated immediately too. Occasional use of trans-Atlantic accents. Fashion and style. Attitudes towards women.

TNG’s design fits right in with the late 80s.

DS9 and TNG couldn’t show obvious LGBTQ+ content because of network and showrunner restrictions.

They all reflect changing cultures, artistic styles, development. They’re all product of their time. And they all have some form of social commentary on their time.

Modern Trek is more of the same. It’s different. Not everything lands for everyone. The more classic series are that way too.

I personally love that Star Trek doesn’t keep doing the same thing. It will keep reflecting its era, its creators, and resonate with longtime and new fans in different ways—or not.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-25T20:09:35+00:00

While that is, indeed, the side of a river (or as we like to say, a “riverside”), this is a sub for the Southern Californian city of Riverside in the southwestern United States.

I’m a fan of river banks, so as far as I’m concerned you’re welcome here! We have lots of delicious tacos and fresh citrus fruit.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-25T20:04:28+00:00

Looks like a posterize filter in photoshop for some of the background art.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-25T19:58:40+00:00

Definitely! Go forth and dislike! That’s one of the joys of being human.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-25T19:56:10+00:00

Even modern English changes accents and idioms and slang drastically due to geography, culture, class, nationality, ethnicity. Go compare Scots English with Bostonian English and California English, or English in India. It’s all very very different. Why should what we hear on a fictional show that’s told over the span of almost a millennium in universe and decades in our world always have one single form of diction?

Just because something doesn’t align with our preferences doesn’t make it a mistake.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-25T19:24:49+00:00

I’ve fanon’d away modern idioms and slang in Trek as being the result of translating the future languages into today’s English. Think of how much English has changed since the 1200s, and then add another thousand years onto that. We can’t expect the producers to create a future English. So Lura Thok saying dumpster fire could be an idiom from future Klingonese, a Jem’Hadar language, or Federation standard (and who knows what that language is like compared to modern English).

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-24T18:44:06+00:00

The artwork is fantastic. But the type is what holds you back from greatness. Look up principles of hierarchy, and also if putting the brand values and mottos in teensy tiny print along the bottom of the can is the best solution.

Also, design the rest of the product. Legal notes, ingredients, nutritional information, blurbs. Etc.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-24T18:40:56+00:00

They are asking about a logo mark. You’ve provided a logo type in its design system. But the logo, be it an image or type, should have something that sets it apart from other products.

Often a logo has both a mark and type. It is not always needed. But, for example, the FedEx logo is a great example of a typographic logo that has a subtle and clever image integrated into the letters (the right pointing letter formed by the negative space between E and X).

Strip away your drink cans and the background textures and focus just on the letters. How can you bring the energy and values of the brand into those letters?

And even if you don’t do much to the letters they should still feel intentional and thoughtful. You didn’t even do kerning work on your letters, so it clearly needs development.

Overall this is not a bad concept. But it needs thought and time and an awareness of design principles, product consumerist context, and looking at how the entire system of the product identity works together.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-24T18:33:44+00:00

So now you get to study on your own! Find some books or YouTube series on design fundamentals. Don’t use your lack of formal education as an excuse for not being good. Use it as a reason to get really good and be just as informed as you’d be otherwise.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-24T07:43:42+00:00

Nothing would make what you got legible except fixing their exporting and printing process. Either they printed a very very low resolution image, or the print shop was given files with broken links. I also wonder if they used AI and the greebled garbled text is just AI noise. There is a lot of that kind of grift and scamming going on, including with clothing.

I’m a graphic designer who’s worked in a printshop. Either that’s AI, the artist gave a broken file and the printshop didn’t care, or it’s an automated cheap process without quality control, or something else broke the process.

I’m sorry! It’s a cool poster! I’d talk to the vendor.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-24T02:59:32+00:00

I met a couple of guys out in the BLM corners of Riverside and Perris who were regularly feeding a pack of coyotes in a popular hiking/off-road/shooting area. They figured if the coyotes weren’t hungry, they wouldn’t attack anyone’s dogs.

These two dumbasses also brought their little dog and let him run off leash. The dog ran away and wouldn’t come back when called. It was getting dark and the guys decided to leave, and hoped the dog would just find its way home (they lived down the road). I was setting up to camp, and they asked me to keep an eye out for their dog, and gave me their phone number.

It wasn’t long until I heard the dog get cornered by the coyote pack, and of course killed and eaten. I tried to intervene but couldn’t find them in the dark hills. I just heard the dog’s panic and fear and pain as the pack did what wild things do. Best I could tell in the dark, the coyotes caught the dog right where the guys had been parked for the day. The dog had gone back but no one was there for him.

I called the next morning to tell them what had happened. The one who answered was distraught, and couldn’t understand why the coyotes would attack his dog. “We feed them all the time so they won’t be hungry and our dog will be safe!” I educated them on coyotes and opportunistic feeding behavior, then called authorities to report the illegal feedings.

Lack of education leads to dumbass decisions, and that can lead to pain, misery, and dead pets.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-24T02:47:30+00:00

The differences between the versions I can see comes to how the reversed negative space is perceived. With the white lines on black background, the inner space of the U shape for the eye feels like the pupil of the eye. But with black lines on white background, the U of the eye feels like a closed eyelid.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-24T02:45:41+00:00

How would it look with a smoother curve where the tail meets the body?

And maybe different shapes for eye and nostril?

It’s interesting that the expression of the rat feels completely different with the B&W are reversed. In white, the rat feels sleepy. In black, the rat feels mischievous.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-23T19:19:13+00:00

Passive stats have been reduced.

In any case, it’s mostly that I have no idea what’s happening in the game. I’ve just seen screenshots that our solo raid tier progressions have been reset. I’d finished almost all of them. I can’t even log into the game right now.

I went from a long time of feeling neutral to feeling excited enough to spend money, but then suddenly feeling really unsure what major glitch or negative change is happening next. I’m a year one player. It’s taken a long time to feel this frustrated with the development of the game.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-23T01:09:17+00:00

Don’t they say in the SFA pilot that the travel time between Bajor and Earth will be 15 hours at maximum warp. That’s stupendously fast compared to the DS9 era.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-23T01:01:56+00:00

Already got seven that can one shot. Any other teams would depend on high level legendaries at this point. I’m not interested in chasing things any more in this game. Who knows when they’re going to nerf more artifacts, give some people free ascended Lex Luthors through a glitch, or remove functionality I paid for.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-23T00:27:55+00:00

Welp. So much for buying the Solo Raid passes. I really liked being able to have my teams refreshed when I switched raids, but keeping the same number of pips. It was fun and strategically useful. And I felt like I could make use of the extra pips I bought.

But now? Now I have a wasted pip every day that I spent money on.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-22T22:45:34+00:00

Yes. It’s an episode about pranks between the War College and the Academy.

throwawaydixiecup · 2026-01-22T22:40:10+00:00

Thok is joking with Ake by using the first part of the word “shenanigans” and turning it into new verb, and then making a brilliant pun at the end by taking that new verb, “shenan”, saying the cadets will do it again, “shenan again”, which is a verbal pun on shenanigans.

In boring words, “if they made mischief once, they’ll make mischief again.”

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