Star Trek: This one is about drinkin' kanar with Damar and Gull Dukat

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thoughts and prayers: Apr 22, 2013; Love heals all wounds. We hope you continually carry love in your heart. Today and always, may loving memories bring you peace, comfort, and strength. We sympathize with the family of (Name). We shall never forget you in our prayers and thoughts. I am at a loss for words during this sorrowful time.

Pieces of Peace posted:

Yes, it did. Dirk Benedict, the most "Can't believe he's not a porn star" actor of the 70s and the original Starbuck got all huffy and MRA about Katie Sackhoff being the new Starbuck and rallied a bunch of vaginophile nerds before the new BSG even had a chance to start.

I made the mistake of reading a chapter of his autobiography once.

He tried to make the case that we should feel sorry for those poor rapists that are being controlled by their hormones and brain chemicals into doing things that they never had a choice to resist. He's trash.

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thoughts and prayers: Apr 22, 2013; Love heals all wounds. We hope you continually carry love in your heart. Today and always, may loving memories bring you peace, comfort, and strength. We sympathize with the family of (Name). We shall never forget you in our prayers and thoughts. I am at a loss for words during this sorrowful time.

Tighclops posted:

And the mystery of why they went with Richard Hatch for the original series nerdbait stunt casting (aside from just feeling sorry for finally killing his attempts to revive the old show) is solved!

Well, he also stood up in the audience in the unveiling of the new pilot and basically said 'This loving rocks, I was totally wrong, I completely support you' so...throwing the cool idealistic dude a bone

# ¿ Sep 9, 2015 21:30

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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

Picard claims in TNG Journey's End that the Feds actually strongly discouraged colonists from settling there beforehand because it was contested territory, but I'm sure someone will be along any minute to offer some tired contrarian "well actually captain picard is just parroting lies like a good Federation stooge" line.

Nah more like 'the writing changed from episode to episode to suit that specific plot and had no overarching theme but that won't stop nerds from doing nerd archeology to win a stupid argument'

HTH

# ¿ Oct 22, 2015 15:40

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Orange Sunshine posted:

The 50% of the population with sub-100 IQs are not going to be inventing anything, creating or exploring. Well, ok, they'll do the 24th century equivalent of horrible fan fiction, poetry and scrapbooking. Accomplishing things is hard, but cheering a sports team and then feeling a great victory when they win is easy.

Most of the rest will get their inventing/creating/exploring needs met through games, as people do today. Saving or conquering the world in a video game is easy. The creative types will sit around painting pictures and writing stories that even their friends have no interest in, as they do today.

I think your optimistic vision of a post-scarcity future only works if you have a high IQ population and somehow no drugs, and even then half the people don't do poo poo.

Many rich Millennials today might as well exist post-scarcity. They spend their times curating the most perfect Instagram feed, the most envy-worthy lookbook, the most pumped muscles, the coolest graduation party location, etcetera. The super rich ones now try to appear the most authentic at the coolest music festivals, the most ironic with their meta humor, and the most DGAF with casual risk taking.

Hell, this was written about Arnold when bodybuilding was first a thing. George Butler - his original photographer, the one that took those iconic black-and-whites - made a book about him, and the forward was brilliant. It basically said 'Arnold helped create never-seen-before bodies that would go on to invent amazing new forms of sin.' Just wait until everyone can have any body.

Post scarcity people will peacock the gently caress out about the absolute weirdest poo poo in the most bizarre, meta, in-group one-upmanship the world has ever seen. They'll create their own celebrities, rivalries, and drama that makes insulting the Bieliebers on Instagram seem like greeting a room full of old friends.

You think orange Jersey Shore Mafia kid bros look like freaks? You think Bilzerian lives a decadent life? You haven't seen poo poo.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2015 08:45

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Tujague posted:

This thread has taken a sharp turn for 100% retarded fatass idiots pulling profoundly philosophical knowledge clean out of their greasy belly-buttons, totally trumping Mr. Misspelled Username McSmartguy's efforts a dozen pages ago, but this right here takes the taco. Especially given the devastating certainty in which it was delivered and the raging, pseudo-intellectual autism and obvious complete ignorance of the terms in which it was couched.

Yeah. Many rich young people, who for some strongly relevant reason were born in a certain time and not before, exist in a tiny little post-scarcity society. We know this because we are loving dumbass goons who seem to think that actual smart people just sort of look out the window before ginning up ringing socio-economic truths and just sort of ream them through the poo poo-covered tube of our vague, hilariously unsupportable impressions. Yeah. Top marks from the old critical thinking department.

What the gently caress does it smell like inside your heads when you are this hardcore faux-smug and stupid?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4em8_iu-Tw

# ¿ Oct 24, 2015 20:53

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Ein cooler Typ posted:

Lol at casuals saying McCoy isn't as much a main character as Spock and Jim

The relationship between those 3 is the heart of the show and what makes it so great. None of the other series have been able to replicate it and that's why they aren't as good

If you don't get that you don't get TOS and would be better off watching a technobabble show like TNG

Yeah, it had strong archetypes with vivid personalities and goals that caused good-natured conflict among friends.

B5/DS9 had them.

TNG had flat bloodless background noise that one incredible actor rose above by sheer charisma. Oh, and one autist for comedy relief.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2015 10:09

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I'm an old gently caress, and I'm sad I won't be around to see The Bible having his beloved, ground-breaking-for-it's-era entertainment savaged by his edgy, ignorant nephews and grandchildren

# ¿ Dec 6, 2015 19:16