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There have been debtors prisons in history where you are required to live in a jail cell that you can leave to go do work to earn money to pay your debt.
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Cojawfee posted:There have been debtors prisons in history where you are required to live in a jail cell that you can leave to go do work to earn money to pay your debt. Being enslaved to pay your debts was a thing in ancient Mesopotamia.
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Jan 4, 2021 09:31
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Facebook Aunt posted:(I think this has been a thing at times in human history?) 
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Jan 4, 2021 09:51
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A GIANT PARSNIP posted:It appears that every map is garbage because everyone shares a border when it's convenient for the plot. Some fans have gotten their nerd on though and calculated that at warp 9.9 it'd take a year to cross the z axis in the milky way, so there's plenty of "height" in the galaxy for everyone's borders to twist around each other. I'm pretty sure the map in the TNG A Final Unity game did indeed have lots of border z-axis wrapping on their 3D map.
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Jan 4, 2021 14:52
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I also read someone who put way more thought into this than I have mention that you’re dealing with very small islands of solar systems in 3 dimensional space, so there might just be negotiated “lanes” between the empires where only their ships are supposed to be, “neutral zones” where no ships can be, and beyond that everything else is just whatever. Maybe you have something akin to “territorial waters” so far from the center of one of your solar systems, but space is really fuckin big so the whole idea of a territorial map is likely junk anyway.
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Jan 4, 2021 19:49
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These maps indicate two dimensional thinking.
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Jan 4, 2021 20:35
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MichiganCubbie posted:These maps indicate two dimensional thinking. Mostly they indicate two dimensional display technology
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Jan 4, 2021 20:39
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MichiganCubbie posted:These maps indicate two dimensional thinking. Nice reference.
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Jan 4, 2021 21:46
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MichiganCubbie posted:These maps indicate two dimensional thinking. Stops copies me!
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Jan 4, 2021 22:15
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Goddamn, the Admiral and Ossyra negotiating a new Federation was legitimately interesting and I was seriously hoping that Michael and Co. would liberate Discovery only to have the Admiral tell them it doesn’t matter because the Armistice is worth pursuing.
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Jan 5, 2021 01:59
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should've had their escape attempt break a basically agreed upon armistice just to drive home how much the crew of that ship sucks rear end
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Jan 5, 2021 02:07
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Verviticus posted:should've had their escape attempt break a basically agreed upon armistice just to drive home how much the crew of that ship sucks rear end To be fair, it's the duty of captured officers to try to escape if possible. Even if that weren't the case, the idea that an agreement would be scuttled because prisoners who had no idea what was going on in the negotiations (which they could only assume were taking place) escaped is silly, even for Discovery.
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Jan 5, 2021 03:20
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tarlibone posted:To be fair, it's the duty of captured officers to try to escape if possible. Even if that weren't the case, the idea that an agreement would be scuttled because prisoners who had no idea what was going on in the negotiations (which they could only assume were taking place) escaped is silly, even for Discovery. ok this then: they reach an armistice and admiral dad communicates to her that its going on and all she needs to do is sit still for 8 seconds without crying or whispering and then she fucks it up
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Jan 5, 2021 07:04
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Preview pics for this week's ep:   I was extremely confused by the first one until I realized that's probably how the holoprogram depicts Adira. Anyone want to ID what race they're depicted as?
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Jan 5, 2021 18:07
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Preview pics for this week's ep: Clearly bonearian, from Bonearia Prime. You can tell because of the bone ears.
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Jan 5, 2021 18:14
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New and improved S3 klingons
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Jan 5, 2021 18:14
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Preview pics for this week's ep: They're a Xahean. Queen Po from last season is one of these.
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Jan 5, 2021 18:19
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xahean I think edit: 2 slow
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Jan 5, 2021 18:19
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Looks like a pretty neat EDM concert
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Jan 5, 2021 18:26
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Huh, is it me or do the Emerald Chain goons remind anyone else of Federation Troopers from Blake's 7?
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Jan 5, 2021 18:39
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I'm no fancy big city screenwriter but I really feel like Discovery should stop having people say things and then immediately have the opposite thing happen. Why even leave the line of Tilly threatening to blow up the ship in the script if you're going to have her just immediately not do that for no reason. Why have Book say there's no way to morph around a big thing in the galactic highway if the ship is just going to immediately do that.
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Jan 5, 2021 18:41
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Yvonmukluk posted:Huh, is it me or do the Emerald Chain goons remind anyone else of Federation Troopers from Blake's 7? THANK YOU it’s been bugging me the last week.
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Jan 5, 2021 18:43
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Cross-Section posted:They're a Xahean. Queen Po from last season is one of these. I knew the look was familiar! Good eye Since the finale is this week, I'm posting to remind myself of my prediction that the Xaheans will ultimately be responsible for solving the dilithium crisis once Su'kal is dealt with
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Jan 5, 2021 18:48
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So I've been wondering why they wrote the holodeck so that it's species-swapping people going into it and...is it just so they can triple-layer Adira's identity issues? That's the only narrative reason I can think of, except Adira doesn't actually have identity issues. Gender isn't in doubt and the trill stuff got settled a long time ago. e: Oh yeah, they got Doug Jones out of his makeup. But Adira was very deliberately shuffled onto the planet when there wasn't really a reason for them to be there, so I'm presuming there's an important payoff coming there. Alchenar fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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Jan 5, 2021 18:59
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Alchenar posted:So I've been wondering why they wrote the holodeck so that it's species-swapping people going into it and...is it just so they can triple-layer Adira's identity issues? It was very obviously done as an excuse to let Doug Jones show his weirdly charming British face
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Jan 5, 2021 19:02
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Any one notice how actors that play face prosthetic major characters are always surprisingly old?
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Jan 5, 2021 19:08
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Alchenar posted:But Adira was very deliberately shuffled onto the planet when there wasn't really a reason for them to be there, so I'm presuming there's an important payoff coming there. Lol If there's any real point to it at all, it isn't even about Adira, it's about Stamets getting to say that there's I could be wrong, but I'm not going to be tricked into expecting a meaningful payoff from Discovery
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Jan 5, 2021 19:09
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Cojawfee posted:Any one notice how actors that play face prosthetic major characters are always surprisingly old? Michael Dorn didn't seem any older to me than Worf
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Jan 5, 2021 19:10
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The Bloop posted:Michael Dorn didn't seem any older to me than Worf He was a forehead alien, I'm talking about full face prosthetic dudes like Odo and Gul Dukat.
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Jan 5, 2021 19:13
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when the actor's face is going to be completely covered anyway they don't have to cast the most attractively young looking people weirdly enough most of the best actors on star trek tend to be covered in prosthetics
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Jan 5, 2021 19:16
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Cojawfee posted:Any one notice how actors that play face prosthetic major characters are always surprisingly old? This is definitely a thing, but also I think Doug Jones looks bizarrely young for 60.
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Jan 5, 2021 19:29
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HD DAD posted:This is definitely a thing, but also I think Doug Jones looks bizarrely young for 60. He just gets taller instead of wrinkley
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Jan 5, 2021 19:31
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Wheeee posted:when the actor's face is going to be completely covered anyway they don't have to cast the most attractively young looking people I'd have to imagine an older actor with more experience is better capable of selling the character under all the rubber too.
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Jan 5, 2021 19:34
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Cojawfee posted:Any one notice how actors that play face prosthetic major characters are always surprisingly old? Doug Jones has been doing prosthetics in movies/TV since the 90s though. Javier Botet's only 43, and he's been doing it for about 15 years.
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Jan 5, 2021 19:35
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Drink-Mix Man posted:I'd have to imagine an older actor with more experience is better capable of selling the character under all the rubber too. It's not always the case, e.g. Mandalorian but Odo played with inches of rubber on his face and drat he was good at it. Miss Rene greatly 
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I was going to ask if Bill Irwin had ever done Star Trek, only really knowing him from seeing him dance his rear end off in Legion, but goddamn he was SoKal lol
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Jan 5, 2021 19:40
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Spanish Matlock posted:I'm no fancy big city screenwriter but I really feel like Discovery should stop having people say things and then immediately have the opposite thing happen. Tilly may have been willing to blow the ship, but she wasn't actually able to do it because the Sphere Data won't let the ship be destroyed that way. Remember?
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Cojawfee posted:He was a forehead alien, I'm talking about full face prosthetic dudes like Odo and Gul Dukat. Alaimo was 51 when DS9 started, Andrew Robinson 51, René Auberjonois 53. Casey Biggs was 41 when he started playing Damar. If the Ferengi count as full face aliens, Armin Shimerman was 44, Max Grodénchik 41, and Aron Eisenberg 24, so it's not like any of them were ancient.
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Jan 5, 2021 20:02
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Combs 40-50 for his roles, half and full?
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Facebook Aunt posted:Tilly may have been willing to blow the ship, but she wasn't actually able to do it because the Sphere Data won't let the ship be destroyed that way. Remember? No because that's a plot point that hasn't been mentioned since a whole season ago. e: like, the sphere data won't let someone use the computer to self-destruct the ship, but it will let itself get deleted by the Emerald Chain unless it goes to hide in the bots? Is it in control of the computer or not? The writers absolutely forgot the ship can't self-destruct. Alchenar fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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