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  • Mariner in Lower Decks is far more immature and makes far more questionable choices, but she is a beloved character. I think Burnham’s issue is that she has the emotional stability of a high schooler. You can have immature characters, you can have characters that disrespect the chain of command, you can have characters who make lots of mistakes; but you can not have characters who have a mental health crisis every other week.

    Discovery is like a Star Trek show if nearly every character was some version of Lt. Barclay; crippled by their own insecurities and forced to overcome them again and again without ever seeming to actually grow out of them.


  • They recently introduced a new format that has, in my opinion, fixed a LOT of the issues that have built up over the years. All cards are now legal (yes, even Pot of Greed) but they have a point cost; decks can only be 100 points. The most broken cards cost all 100 points.

    It’s brought a lot of balance to a game that suffered hard from power creep and rules creep.




  • I’m always amazed at the hoops some home owners will go through in a vain attempt to renovate an existing bathroom in their house, rather than just burning their house down and building a new one from scratch. It’s gotta be Stockholm syndrome or something.

    Despite it being literally the biggest barrier brought up anytime someone suggests people should switch to Linux, it’s like you guys just can’t seem to get it through your head that literally 99.9% of PC users lack the technical knowledge needed to make the switch and find the amount of time and effort needed to learn how intimidating to the point that, yes, those “hoops” you mention are actually the easier option.


  • Imagine a house fire. Imagine that instead of directly fighting it, people are trying to organize a mass demonstration to show the fire that people really want it to just go out on its own.

    And then when you point out that will accomplish nothing, that it’s entirely performance just to make the participants feel better, that time should be spent fighting the fire instead of dancing around the issue and trying to combat it by wishing really really hard that it would just go away, people respond with “Fine, I guess we just do nothing then! Is that better?!”


  • Here’s my prediction: In the grand scheme, nothing will happen.

    The majority of the protests will be uneventful. In a few cities, police forces will crack back unnecessarily hard and a few protesters will be arrested, with most released after a day or two.

    There will be a near media blackout of these events, eventful or otherwise. The administration will not feel any pressure, and within a month, everyone will forget it even happened.

    This is what will happen every time a peaceful protest is planned on a weekend that inconveniences nobody.






  • I don’t think you’re understanding the analogy, or at least there’s some fallacy in the way you’re applying it.

    I would be perfectly fine with one that holds 35 cubes since I only use about 13% of that per day. That doesn’t mean I will accept arguments that my ice tray should hold LESS than 35 cubes, which is what this article is trying to do with the range of electric vehicles.

    Just because I’m not using the maximum amount every day, does not mean I want the maximum lowered. Again, if I had an ice maker that could only hold 5 ice cubes, while it would technically fulfil my needs most days, it would still be a shitty ice maker.

    We aren’t talking about “what if I had a large party?”, just like we aren’t talking about “what if I need to drive 1200 miles in a single day?”. We’re talking about “what if I have a single guest over?” or, in terms of the car, “what if I have a few extra errands to run?”