I believe the answer may be “neither”, and in fact he just figured on more eyes on Trump, like he likes.

b. is the most obnoxious question anyone ever asks in Trekdom. The stupid, simple answer is “it was made in the 60s”. I would argue that Kirk’s ship looks very nice and very advanced, once you acknowledge the differences in set design capabilities and technological understanding between now and then.

TNG era and beyond? Large parts of ships ARE replicated. But remember, to replicate something you need a replicator bigger than what you’re making, and you need to be able to feed in the massive energy requirements for it, plus any necessary base matter sources. It is quite probable that such a facility might be…

Kinja used to be more helpful with this. I believe the URL to the comment included some of that info, so you could hover over and figure out which comment it was. Then suddenly it was just numbers, and pfft, useless.

Or Xena, Warrior Princess! She has many skills.

October. Yes, which is when they start airing the Christmas stuff in earnest (not counting the other times during the year it crops up also). Others in my house watch this channel constantly, and I was angry, maybe even offended when I realized the first time that they were kicking off their non-stop Christmas barrage…

A thing like this is great if there’s trust in the parent/child relationship. If the parent knows better than to use this as the first-resort contact option, and even then reserves it only for actually important situations, it can be a benefit to everyone. Otherwise it quickly does devolve into harassment.

As a person originally from Texas, I always thought it was incredibly strange that there were Six Flags parks in other states. The historical significance of those 6 flags was taught as part of state history in schools, and the park’s use of them was called out as a footnote kind of reference. It’s a meaningless name…

Is... this one actually real? The others all seemed like they were at least attempting a clinical tone, but this one seems to abandon it almost entirely. It reads more like a high school or jr. high essay.

Noone ever said “traditional taco”. Unless it was in the video and I missed it. So no need to be “that guy” in the first place. I’d say it’s fair to assume the Americanized Tex-Mex style taco was the goal from Lay’s (though the submitter of the flavor idea may have meant otherwise). I mean... it’s pictured on the bag.

It’s true, Hasbro is hugely fan driven with its Generations line, granting tons of fan wishes they you used to have to pay massive amounts to “third party” companies to get. Are they always perfect? No, since Hasbro still has to market to kids and keeps figures to strict budgets. But given that it’s official product,…

Made me panic there and recheck my usage in my post. I used both of those words... correctly, thank goodness.

LOL, don’t poke the dragon there. I see what you did.

“Begs the question” bugs me too. I’ve mostly finally learned to live with it, mostly on the basis that it’s a useful phrase as used and makes semantic sense. But it still nags at me.

You might hold off on correcting people on that one. Just a quick online dictionary check suggests that both usages for the word are actually correct, or at least generally accepted as such. It’s one of those that I think you’re just going to have to grit your teeth and accept. The “study of” definition didn’t even…

This was the minifig that was “me” in all my Lego adventures. Definitely my favorite. It’s still a touchpoint for me in my scifi designs, many many years later.

I have never had end credits cut off without warning. Usually they shrink into a little box and give a prompt and countdown, which you can typically dismiss (but I’d rather I didn’t have to). It does vary a lot by platform though. I have 6 different things in my household that play Netflix, of various ages and levels…

I think Netflix does it because they presume people want to jump to the next episode, not due to bandwidth (or not ONLY due to it). I think if bandwidth were the primary issue, it wouldn’t automatically start playing the next episode of a thing.

I’m not sure why he’s not putting every word he says in quotes at this point. He seems to believe that when he uses them, the words he said can later be claimed to have meant almost anything whatsoever.

The key word here is “panic”. Totally short circuits the higher reasoning centers of the brain. Some people don’t have much of a handle on those to start with.