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Sash! posted:Dr Pepper has never contained prune juice or prune flavor and the strange thing is that no one has any idea where the idea came from but it is a really common misconception. It was me, from the start.
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dr_rat posted:Yeah honestly that sounds like some of the more realistic diplomacy stuff star trek has done. Two governments lifting a few historic embargo when they suddenly find themselves war time allies. You'd think they'd have more things to worry about, but you know there will be diplomats in long meetings about stuff, and they know how to press an advantage, and why not. Got to give the papers back home something good to report
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Watched the DS9 episode where a second Emissary shows up and tells everyone to bring back d'jarras, and it made me think how impractical it would be in a rigid worker caste system to have a dedicated artist caste. Like you're not allowed to do any job except one that requires people to buy luxury items from you.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Has anyone made “raktajino” before? I haven't tried any recipes myself, but this passage from Klingon For The Galactic Traveler by Klingon language creator and culture contributor Marc Okrand should be instructive on what to look for: quote:Though not native to the Empire, Klingons have developed a way to make coffee (qa'vIn) (caffiene?) particularly strong, both in flavor and in its effect as a stimulant, and it is a very popular beverage. Based on that, if I were going to try to make some I'd double brew a large strong dark blend, add hazelnut flavor and cream, spices to taste and serve iced (I love iced coffee myself). McSpanky fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Nov 21, 2023 |
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Nov 21, 2023 08:06
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McSpanky posted:Based on that, if I were going to try to make some I'd double brew a large strong dark blend, add
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Nov 21, 2023 08:31
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I always got the impression that Romulan Ale was more than just alcohol. The effects are described as hitting you instantly and basically knocking you on your rear end from the first sip.
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Nov 21, 2023 09:11
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Atlas Hugged posted:I always got the impression that Romulan Ale was more than just alcohol. The effects are described as hitting you instantly and basically knocking you on your rear end from the first sip. hey everyone look at this poster who's never had a strong spirit neat
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Nov 21, 2023 09:18
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My friend, lemme introduce you to 高粱.
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Nov 21, 2023 09:54
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Kind of lol that alcohol is barely consumed in the federation due to deleterious effects, but slamming quadruple espressos all day is totally fine.
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Nov 21, 2023 10:26
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thotsky posted:Kind of lol that alcohol is barely consumed in the federation due to deleterious effects, but slamming quadruple espressos all day is totally fine. I'm sure it like synthehol they replace alcohol with. They probably change out caffeine with some probably harmless stimulant that wears off far quicker like cocaine. Anyway suddenly Janeways character makes far more sense.
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Nov 21, 2023 10:35
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SlothfulCobra posted:Yeah eating food on camera is tough in general, because you'll usually have to do multiple takes. Makes me wonder how much chicken John Noble went through in Return of the King
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Nov 21, 2023 11:08
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I think Romulan Ale is meant to be kinda like what absinthe was thought to be back in the day.
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Nov 21, 2023 11:39
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V-Men posted:Makes me wonder how much chicken John Noble went through in Return of the King Or how many tomatoes considering the take they went with.
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Atlas Hugged posted:My friend, lemme introduce you to 高粱. Hey sure you just gotta post like it :p
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davidspackage posted:Watched the DS9 episode where a second Emissary shows up and tells everyone to bring back d'jarras, and it made me think how impractical it would be in a rigid worker caste system to have a dedicated artist caste. Like you're not allowed to do any job except one that requires people to buy luxury items from you. presumably the artist caste would work almost exclusively for the religious caste, producing hymns, temple decorations, icons, and such.
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A.o.D. posted:presumably the artist caste would work almost exclusively for the religious caste, producing hymns, temple decorations, icons, and such. Yea, davidspackage is thinking of it too in modern terms and not what it would be like. Real life had entire villages of artists producing poo poo for the ruling class/religious class, whatever. Also that episode originally had David Warner cast and his wife persuaded him not to do it. Which is a real shame!
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Arivia posted:The main actresses on Gilmore Girls had a lot of trouble with caffeine intake because of this. In the show's story they're chugging tons of coffee, to be kinder to them they're actually drinking cola, but it came up so much and so often it still had them a bit loopy from the sugar high. Similarly in GoT the "wine" was mostly grape juice and it gave everybody horrible digestive issues. In one of the commentaries Dinklage is constantly giving Lena Hedy poo poo because she's always doing "lift wine glass , pause halfway to lips, deliver line, put wine glass down, repeat" for nearly every scene.
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MikeJF posted:I think Romulan Ale is meant to be kinda like what absinthe was thought to be back in the day. Yknow that thing when some innocuous human food turns out to be an intoxicant for the aliens, like milk in Alien Nation? I bet Romulan ale is like that for humans, it's just regular-rear end beer (albeit flat and blue) to most other Alpha Quadrant people but there's something in it that gets us fuckin hammered
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I do love how when the embargo is lifted in DS9, Ross takes a sip and his body just goes into revolt over it, and the Romulans and Bashir are in disbelief that he genuinely had never had it before because they all just assumed "he's an admiral, surely he's snuck himself some at some point." I also love the rest of that episode. Great episode and the last time Section 31 showed up in the plot and it didn't suck.
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That’s an underrated episode Probably the best of the Section 31 arc episodes
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Decided to make another attempt at watching DS9. Watched the first episode last night. Not much to say about it, it does its job of establishing the setting, characters and stakes. We'll see how it goes from here.
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FlamingLiberal posted:That’s an underrated episode Yeah, it's a little better than Inquisition (which is itself great!) and way better than Extreme Measures.
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W.T. Fits posted:We'll see where it moves along from here.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Similarly in GoT the "wine" was mostly grape juice and it gave everybody horrible digestive issues. In one of the commentaries Dinklage is constantly giving Lena Hedy poo poo because she's always doing "lift wine glass , pause halfway to lips, deliver line, put wine glass down, repeat" for nearly every scene. She'll have had it rough, her character being an alcoholic.
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Phy posted:Yknow that thing when some innocuous human food turns out to be an intoxicant for the aliens, like milk in Alien Nation? The Prawns in District 9 eating tires and tripping on cat food is my favorite version of this
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Nov 21, 2023 22:39
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Look at what I just found at half price books! (it cost much more than half cover price.)
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8one6 posted:Look at what I just found at half price books!
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It's not that Janeway killed Tuvix, it's the stone cold way that the crew turned on him at the end that does it. gently caress. Also what the gently caress is Michael McKean doing? I did not need to see the Joker Matrix. Dumb as hell.
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FlamingLiberal posted:That's a good get. The book is pretty rare now since it has been out of print for a long time. They had it in the locked collectables case and the guy who unlocked it asked why it was worth so much. He said they had a huge lot of Trek paperbacks come in yesterday and that was the only one their system flagged as worth more than half cover.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Also what the gently caress is Michael McKean doing? I did not need to see the Joker Matrix. Dumb as hell. Oh no
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Atlas Hugged posted:It's not that Janeway killed Tuvix, it's the stone cold way that the crew turned on him at the end that does it. gently caress. Bullshit you didn’t
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MikeJF posted:Oh no Please don't tell me this is some divisive cult classic that a portion of the fanbase violently defends while everyone else is just baffled that it was allowed to be made. Kibayasu posted:Bullshit you didn’t Welp.
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It's pretty widely popular, actually, if only for the ending where Janeway pretty much scares Fear to death.
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The Thaw is one of the best episodes of Voyager. If you didn't like it you're probably not going to have a good time with the rest of the series.
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8one6 posted:The Thaw is one of the best episodes of Voyager. If you didn't like it you're probably not going to have a good time with the rest of the series. Yeah even as an ardent defender of Voyager I have to agree with this. The Thaw kind of sets the tone/mold for the one-off episodes of the series.
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Atlas Hugged posted:It's not that Janeway killed Tuvix, it's the stone cold way that the crew turned on him at the end that does it. gently caress. Yeah, it's always seemed odd to me that everyone gives Janeway poo poo for being the one to pull the trigger, but the rest of the crew gets a pass for just standing there and watching it happen without anyone speaking up. Pretty loving bad when the only person to object was the Doctor, and even that was less "Yo, this is really hosed up that we're doing this," and more, "Sorry, I literally can't carry out the procedure if the patient objects." As far as The Thaw goes, it had its moments. Not their best outing, to be sure, but far from their worst.
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I will give The Thaw credit for sticking the landing, but that's not really Janeway scaring Fear to death. Fear just realizes there's no brain to read and the program has nothing to run off of and deactivates. To my own credit, I've enjoyed a lot of the Voyager weirdness so far, but this one annoyed the hell out of me.
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Yeah but she definitely makes him poo poo himself before he dies She didn't even need to either she just did it for the sake of it
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In another life, if they had meet under different circumstances, I think Janeway and thaw could of been friends.
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