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What’s the deal in TNG with transporting. Sometimes they have to use the transporter room, while other times they can just be like “transport them straight to the bridge.” What’s the transporter room for then?
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May 12, 2024 00:21
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From what I remember they use the transporter room for ship to ship transport and transporting people to the surface. And in the former case the people they're transporting aren't wearing combadges. Of course, there's always the "what the plot demands" situation that sometimes crops up.
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May 12, 2024 00:26
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Hdr is cool for movies with explosions. I don't notice it much anywhere else. Speed racer would probably kick more rear end
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May 12, 2024 00:28
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Speed racer and Tron 2 both existing only on no-hdr formats is a crime
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May 12, 2024 00:29
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I think they gotta do like math and poo poo and worry about stuff being in the way of the transport to places other than the transporter room. The transporter room is the preset and the pads are always clear so it’s just easier.
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May 12, 2024 00:40
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Sunk Dunk posted:What’s the deal in TNG with transporting. Sometimes they have to use the transporter room, while other times they can just be like “transport them straight to the bridge.” What’s the transporter room for then? What you’re talking about is “site-to-site” transport and it takes more energy and is just a bit riskier of a maneuver overall. Did I make this up? Yes.
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May 12, 2024 00:41
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Sunk Dunk posted:What’s the deal in TNG with transporting. Sometimes they have to use the transporter room, while other times they can just be like “transport them straight to the bridge.” What’s the transporter room for then? when they're transported e.g. "straight to the bridge" what's really happening is they're being transported to the transporter room where instead of materializing there, the information of their disassembled self is then used immediately from there to reassemble them in the secondary location with no pause. they don't do that every time for the same reason that you don't drive to a restaurant every time you want to eat- it's easier, less resource-intensive, and, though the risk of something going wrong is low, why double it? the transporter room is also like a locker room or triage, it's the place in the ship best equipped for all the little things people have to do when getting in and out of the ship so the characters can have conversations in the turbolift
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May 12, 2024 00:42
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Sunk Dunk posted:What’s the deal in TNG with transporting. Sometimes they have to use the transporter room, while other times they can just be like “transport them straight to the bridge.” What’s the transporter room for then? They just like to give O'Brien something to do
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May 12, 2024 00:43
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Man I watched field of dreams, what a weird rear end movie that is. Some real 90s white people american kind of thing. Really didn't expect it to setup the field of dreams premise in the first like 20 minutes, and then pivots hard for an hour to the weird road trip between Costner and jones. Will tell you what, Kevin Costner creeps me out. Feels like there's nothing behind his eyes, and I don't just mean he's a bad actor, I see no emotions or expression in his eyes. I'm convinced he's a sociopath or psychopath or something and just became a mediocre actor.
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May 12, 2024 00:56
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Yeah I never got why costner was an a-lister back in the day.
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May 12, 2024 00:58
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It's pandering directly to men of a particular age. I had a mostly absent father so it never really did anything for me.
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May 12, 2024 00:59
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sharknado slashfic posted:It's pandering directly to men of a particular age. I had a mostly absent father so it never really did anything for me. Same (but my dad wasn't absent and we have a normal relationship). I also can't bring myself to hate it, but there's something so annoying about it. Every beat they do is so transparent you see it coming. Oh a hitchhiker on the highway? Wow I bet he's going to be some baseball player related to the last scene involving a guy out of time. Oh a family crisis bringing Richard Dreyfuss (look I know he's not Richard Dreyfuss but every time I see him I think it's him) closer to what matters (it's a movie about family) and now he can see a ghost. Oh a lone baseball player at the end, I wonder who could that be, obviously it's going to be absent daddy. But it still works, it's so stupid and on the nose but it works dammit.
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May 12, 2024 01:11
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Yeah it works because of how completely open and earnest it is.
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May 12, 2024 01:14
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Yeah it's not a bad movie. I've just never had it make me tear up at the end the way a bunch of 50 year old men keep saying. Additionally I actually thought that was Richard Dreyfuss.
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May 12, 2024 01:23
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And don't get me started on having the all star game in a cornfield a few years ago.
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May 12, 2024 01:24
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sharknado slashfic posted:And don't get me started on having the all star game in a cornfield a few years ago. That poo poo rocked.
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May 12, 2024 01:25
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As baseball fans we're legally obligated to hate anything new and different. (it was more all the hoopla about the movie)
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May 12, 2024 01:33
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It'd be cool if they did Field of Dreams but for a good sport, like League of Legends.
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May 12, 2024 01:41
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Mega64 posted:It'd be cool if they did Field of Dreams but for a good sport, like League of Legends. This should have been an oldpainless post
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May 12, 2024 01:47
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So, would you get in a Star Trek teleporter considering the distinct possibility it just kills you and creates a perfect copy elsewhere so noone really knows what's actually going on with it?
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May 12, 2024 01:51
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khwarezm posted:So, would you get in a Star Trek teleporter considering the distinct possibility it just kills you and creates a perfect copy elsewhere so noone really knows what's actually going on with it? They swear that's not how it works but you can tell when they say it that they all know they're lying to themselves
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May 12, 2024 01:55
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There are at least 200 copies of Ensign TuxedoOrca. Starfleet doesn't want you to know this.
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May 12, 2024 01:56
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PostNouveau posted:They swear that's not how it works but you can tell when they say it that they all know they're lying to themselves nothing they say about how transporters work adds up, it's definitely the dirty secret of the federation that they're actually just replicators thomas riker only exists because the death ray missed him
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May 12, 2024 02:16
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piratepilates posted:
glad im not the only one. he fuckin cannot act. he is just there
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May 12, 2024 02:20
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khwarezm posted:So, would you get in a Star Trek teleporter considering the distinct possibility it just kills you and creates a perfect copy elsewhere so noone really knows what's actually going on with it? It is proven that there is a continuation of consciousness by the episode where Barclay wakes up mid-transport. This dumb conversation keeps happening even though it’s quite clearly settled in the text of the show.
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May 12, 2024 02:28
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Gripweed posted:It is proven that there is a continuation of consciousness by the episode where Barclay wakes up mid-transport. continuation of consciousness doesn't actually prove anything, it's just as possible for replication to feel like a seamless experience to the one who comes out on the other end but also god that was a stupid plot point, makes no loving sense that anything about you or your body would work while being transmitted as a beam of energy
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May 12, 2024 02:36
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Barclay experiencing things while being made of scattered energy is nonsense and that episode is a secret holodeck episode where he’s in an exposure therapy program for transportphobia
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May 12, 2024 02:38
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Was that the one where he saw transporter worms or something? I love Barclay always being a terrorized weirdo.
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May 12, 2024 02:42
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For real though, if transporters did exist it would probably result in a similar issue as fears of flying for a lot of people, perhaps moreso if that question is in the back of your mind.
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May 12, 2024 02:43
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priznat posted:Was that the one where he saw transporter worms or something? I love Barclay always being a terrorized weirdo. yeah and then the worms were actually people??? that pulled the transporter trick scotty did in the dyson sphere episode
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May 12, 2024 02:43
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Barclay is basically someone from present day who got jumped ahead to the 24th century and of course is skeptical of transporters and uses the holodeck for jacking off
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May 12, 2024 02:46
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priznat posted:Barclay is basically someone from present day who got jumped ahead to the 24th century and of course is skeptical of transporters and uses the holodeck for jacking off People will be like "oh I'd be a captain Kirk type", "oh I'd be a sisko". Let's be real, we'd all be dumb versions of Barclay. With some neelixes thrown in there, you know who you are, creeps.
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May 12, 2024 02:56
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Let's be fair, everyone had the thought of using the holodeck to jack off
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May 12, 2024 02:57
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like we all wouldn't be shut in's that jailbreak the replicator to make weed
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May 12, 2024 02:57
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if you could put a bullet in my head but a new body complete with intact memory popped up in new york while my current body evacuated its bowels and started rotting in los angeles, I would be a globehopping son of a bitch
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May 12, 2024 03:00
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Endless Trash posted:Barclay experiencing things while being made of scattered energy is nonsense and that episode is a secret holodeck episode where he’s in an exposure therapy program for transportphobia Actually this is just incontrovertible evidence of the existence of the human soul and an intelligently designed universe.
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May 12, 2024 03:01
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Kingo Ligma posted:Actually this is just incontrovertible evidence of the existence of the human soul and an intelligently designed universe. tbf gene did write in thought or consciousness being some fundamental force of the universe all over the first season or two
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May 12, 2024 03:02
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Kingo Ligma posted:Actually this is just incontrovertible evidence of the existence of the human soul and an intelligently designed universe. Atheists in
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May 12, 2024 03:06
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roger cormans dead you fucks https://variety.com/2024/film/news/roger-corman-dead-producer-independent-b-movie-1235999591/
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so sad. he was only 98
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