Yes, I have. The fact that you open with “there are no laws against it” (which isn’t even entirely true but that’s a separate discussion) shows you fundamentally don’t understand the issue. This isn’t about criminality, this is about civil suits.

“Rooting for a former bad guy to do good is really, really common...and actually should where we all be.”

I think that’s a pretty popular opinion, actually. Discovery didn’t need and wasn’t improved by the Section 31 stuff.

This is exactly it. Deep Space 9 understood that a not-really-legit underground organisation like Section 31 would probably exist within the Federation because there tend to be people like that, but that its power would be limited, and it would be a solidly bad thing, and fundamentally corrupting. And they only…

I stopped doing art around 20, unfortunately. I was one of those kids who coasted on innate talent - I could see and draw faces and bodies (but especially faces) unreasonably well - but I didn’t really improve my technique enough (you have to keep working at it, every day - I was lazy and leaned on what I was already…

This much, much slower than stuff like baton rounds or other “less lethal” stuff - less than half the velocity - so a fraction of the energy (I forget how to calculate it, but less than half the velocity is a lot less than half the energy). It’s true that there’s no impact that can’t potentially hurt the wrong person.

Yeah this seems less like a menace or a barely “less lethal” weapon like the cops usually like, but rather fairly sensibly designed but perhaps not very good at its job? I’d rather have that then them having something actually dangerous.

“Okay, yeah, they said as much.”

“It just didn’t really make visual sense when the next game would establish that all the other Reapers were either giant cuttlefish ships or large beetle ships.”

Yeah it’s out of place here.

Eh. I’m not seeing it as having anything special myself, but I may be a harsh judge.

Actually yes!

To me it just looks kind of overwrought/ridiculous/over-posed. I’m thus very unsurprised to hear it’s AI.

“Considering how terrible the writing has been for a lot of television and movies in recent years, perhaps Hollywood should consider mining a bit more from Reddit.”

Really? All the adults I know who have seen it were unimpressed, “fine” being the main descriptor. No-one hated it, and no-one was particularly keen.

Leslye Headland seems competent, from her history, and the writers we know about are experienced. They actually have a writer’s room too, not just “Jon Favreau” which is all The Mandalorian essentially has (occasionally he co-writes an ep or lets Filoni write one, but it’s like 75% Jon Favreau solo-writing it!), which…

I think that’s a rather shallow take.

Well, I mean he’s still Frank Miller, but yeah, in 2018 he apologised for all the Islamophobia and the weird-ass comments he made about Occupy Wall Street (which basically boiled down to more Islamophobia), saying he was going through a very dark period in his life, and wasn’t thinking clearly. He certainly seemed…

I mean I guess the point is it’s not really stealing if it doesn’t cause real harm which was the problem for the media industry. Which, still, to this day insists on constantly intentionally creating situations where piracy makes sense and in most cases isn’t even “impacting a revenue stream” or whatever.

People have forgotten the IRA already? Goddamn. I used to go to school through the Ring of Steel every day, and have felt the shockwaves (albeit hundreds of yards distant) of a couple of IRA bombs. Weirdly I don’t hate them, I always kind of felt they had a point.