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galenanorth posted:Being able to verbally add "default setting" or "random variety" would fix this. In fact, if it works like social media, there'd also be "most popular variety within the past week/month/year/of all time" options and some interface where you could upvote and submit new replicator recipes for some variety. You'd put a dish into the replicator, tell the computer "submit new submarine sandwich recipe", and the computer would automatically filter out submissions that don't meet the base criteria for the variety of food. Somewhere there'd be a chef determined to get the title of best new original recipe of the year. Computer, beef stroganoff. I'm feeling lucky.
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Son of Sam-I-Am posted:Computer, beef stroganoff. I'm feeling lucky. The scary metal BDSM chair materializes with every iteration of "I'm feeling lucky."
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Nov 9, 2018 20:21
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Computer, one bowl of chili, no beans. ...recipe not found? What?
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Nov 9, 2018 22:21
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Computer, meat, one bag
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Nov 9, 2018 22:30
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Computer, create a burrito so spicy it is capable of defeating Data's anus
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Nov 9, 2018 22:53
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simplefish posted:See, I get the whole thing about "Computer, create an X capable of Y" and people's reactions to it. It's even more amazing than that, because the computer apparently does have intent sensors. It read the real meaning of Geordi's request -- to make Data feel what it's like to have to play through a game like a normal person, to stumble along and be clueless and have to figure things out -- and concluded that doing so strictly within the confines of a Holmes-style narrative was impossible. So it leveled the playing field by giving Moriary the ability to literally think outside the box.
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Nov 10, 2018 00:42
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HD DAD posted:Computer, meat, one bag Computer, one ugly bag of mostly water. I'm feeling lucky.
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Nov 10, 2018 04:24
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*computer trills for a few moments; spits out a clone of Guy Fieri*
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Gonz posted:*computer trills for a few moments; spits out a clone of Guy Fieri* No Guy would be long dead, the new host is Joran Fieri
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simplefish posted:See, I get the whole thing about "Computer, create an X capable of Y" and people's reactions to it. Computer, create a mod capable of banning simplefish.  (USER WAS PUT IN A TINY BOX ON SOMEONE'S TABLE FOR THIS POST)
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My problem with SG1 was that, despite the odd episode where a member of the public might find out, or that they eventually clue in foreign governments, the show never really addresses the morality of what the US Air Force is doing. I used to imagine what the reaction would be if George Bush came out and announced that for years the US military had used an ancient wormhole to contact alien societies, had embroiled the entire Earth in a number of intergalactic wars and that the Earth had narrowly avoided invasion and/or destruction several times, all in complete secrecy and without even the knowledge, let alone the agreement of other countries. I doubt it would go down well.
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I want to go through the wormhole machine at Cheyenne Mountain. Let me do it.
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Michelle Yeoh is apparently in talks for a spinoff about Empress Georgiou, presumably a Section 31 based show. 
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Comrade Fakename posted:My problem with SG1 was that, despite the odd episode where a member of the public might find out, or that they eventually clue in foreign governments, the show never really addresses the morality of what the US Air Force is doing. I used to imagine what the reaction would be if George Bush came out and announced that for years the US military had used an ancient wormhole to contact alien societies, had embroiled the entire Earth in a number of intergalactic wars and that the Earth had narrowly avoided invasion and/or destruction several times, all in complete secrecy and without even the knowledge, let alone the agreement of other countries. Sounds like something we would do tbh
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MikeJF posted:Michelle Yeoh is apparently in talks for a spinoff about Empress Georgiou, presumably a Section 31 based show. I know, it's so lame. They're throwing any old poo poo at the wall. They have no clue what Star Trek is about. They just want gritty espionage and guns galore.
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Alan_Shore posted:I know, it's so lame. They're throwing any old poo poo at the wall. They have no clue what Star Trek is about. They just want gritty espionage and guns galore. I dunno, sounds about right to me: 
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Hmm yes, a perfect equivalence that holds up to absolutely any scrutiny whatsoever
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McSpanky posted:Hmm yes, a perfect equivalence that holds up to absolutely any scrutiny whatsoever Buddy, that's  , you need to stop trekkin yourself so seriously
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simplefish posted:Buddy, that's Yes I should stop exposing myself to STD, it's infectious.
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McSpanky posted:Yes I should stop exposing myself to STD, it's infectious. I see what you did there. 
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Let's name our new show Star Trek Discovery! What do they discover? That war is... Bad? loving PRINT IT!
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It’s pretty telling that midway through the season they veered hard left away from the Klingon war and ignored it for as long as possible until the finale. And even then it amounted to “oh yeah, it’s over”. Idk I’m probably a bad trekkie not immediately dismissing season 2 as flaming garbage months before it airs. Cautiously optimistic.
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HD DAD posted:It’s pretty telling that midway through the season they veered hard left away from the Klingon war and ignored it for as long as possible until the finale. And even then it amounted to “oh yeah, it’s over”. Remember the promotional material saying "We're going to tell the origin of something in the Star Trek universe that's never been fleshed out before" and that turned out to be "Klingons like war?" Good times. And then they went into the Mirror Universe because "we did the thing/met the people the real shows did first but then we forgot and/or classified it so the continuity isn't hosed" worked out so well for Enterprise.
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season 1 of discovery owned and I'm sure season 2 will be even better now that introductions, setup and general season 1 growing pains is out of the way also I'm really, really late but this this thread title is just absolutely perfect
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HD DAD posted:It’s pretty telling that midway through the season they veered hard left away from the Klingon war and ignored it for as long as possible until the finale. And even then it amounted to “oh yeah, it’s over”. They'll lay on the fanservice thick and back off the grimdark poo poo just enough that certain people will point to this and post a bunch of shill articles about what a massive improvement it's all been and how the show has "really come into it's own" etc. Worst case scenario CBS actually listens to the hordes of chuds inhabiting every comment section and Star Trek continues it's march even further into thematically inappropriate right wing conservatism I mean
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Bohemian Nights posted:season 1 of discovery owned and I'm sure season 2 will be even better now that introductions, setup and general season 1 growing pains is out of the way I'm not sure "Potatoes O'Dyin" will ever be beaten
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A particularly erotic bag of mostly water
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The Bloop posted:A particularly erotic
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Calypso is the best thing DIS has done, and probably the best thing to come out of Trek since probably ‘99. Shame it’s only a one-off written by someone not working on the show proper.
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It's one of the 'Short Treks' episodes that are like 15 minutes long or something that are only available in the US because Netflix didn't want them.
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Nov 12, 2018 16:31
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Yeah but what is it and what is it good. I know the premise someone wakes up 1000 years in the future, just spoil that poo poo cause I ain't ever gonna watch anything in AllAccess
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Yeah but what is it and what is it good. I know the premise someone wakes up 1000 years in the future, just spoil that poo poo cause I ain't ever gonna watch anything in AllAccess Aight so the Discovery has apparently been abandoned for 1000 years, with the final order to the ship’s computer being to wait for the crew to return, which they obviously never did. During this, the ship’s AI evolved to a point where it has some kind of emergent consciousness (and it’s a lady!). An injured dude in an escape pod flies by, which Discovery catches in a tractor beam and brings in. Turns out, he’s human, and they’re at war with a galactic superpower called the V’draysh. Dude hasn’t seen his family in 10 years since he’s been soldiering around, and is desperate to get back to his planet of Alcor IV to see them again. He and the ship’s lady AI bond over their mutual loneliness, culminating in a really well-done scene where, as thanks for taking care of him, he helps her create an avatar for herself and re-enacts a dance scene from her favorite musical with her. There’s some romantic tension there, but they both realize he needs to go home to his family. She preps a shuttle and sends him off, ending with the AI replaying the dance between herself and the dude on the bridge in remembrance. The writer has since confirmed that the V’draysh is a corruption of the word “Federation”, implying something happened in the interim millennium where poo poo went sour. e: essentially it’s just a story about two people being really kind to each other, and it’s just nice. HD DAD fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Nov 12, 2018 |
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It's a really nice play on the myth of Calypso from the Odyssey. And it's way better than DS9's take on Brigadoon.
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The interpersonal story is nice, but... did the writer really have to say "oh btw the Federation turns evil." Christ on a cracker Discovery couldn't miss the point of Trek harder if they'd made the whole crew Section 31 operatives.
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HD DAD posted:Shame it’s only a one-off written by someone not working on the show proper. He's not working on Discovery, but he's the head writer for the Picard show. Cythereal posted:The interpersonal story is nice, but... did the writer really have to say "oh btw the Federation turns evil." He... didn't? The Federation being at war does not mean that the Federation turned evil. In fact, we have even seen the Federation be at war without being the bad guys.
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It doesn't, but I'd rate it at like a 90% chance it will with the current writers. I'm sure we'll find out, the basic premise of Calypso feels like it's setting up some kind of time travel to the future plot. There was a big Reddit post today of people discovering the old Federation cartoon concept with a Federation in decline and most of the posters loving the concept of the broken utopia and a 'realistic' fallen setting and it just reminded me of what I bet the current writing staff thinks is good. Maybe I'm just even more pessimistic after the news of the proposed Empress Georgiou Section 31 show. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Nov 12, 2018 |
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The idea of humans and allies REFORGING the federation is a good one but not a show about living in the broken federation
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Yeah, the federation is gonna die, that's how people think these days. Nothing gold can stay, every organization falls to corruption, what is good for the many eliminates individuality, all that bullshit.
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:The idea of humans and allies REFORGING the federation is a good one but not a show about living in the broken federation On the Starship Andromeda, hope.... lives again.
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