I’m with you on this completely, it seems Zack just wanted to see Picard potter about chatting to the old crew and maybe having the odd adventure, and claims that’s what the series promised to be, but I don’t think that’s true at all and the trailer made it out to be a very different beast.

I can’t say I’m surprised I…

I guess part of the reason I’m enjoying this more than most is I didn’t go into it feeling like I was promised ‘a visit with old friends’. I knew there would be nostalgia and fan service, yes, and it is very effective as this episode shows. But what I was expecting, and wanting, was a new story in the Trek universe -…

There’s an enormous difference between controlling an infection with asymptomatic spread and one where people are only infectious when they are symptomatic. For the first, there is essentially no way of screening individuals for the infection and spread is much more likely. Hence the draconian measures being put in…

Well that was absolutely insanely irresponsible of them. The most important piece to come out of that paper was the asymptomatic spread, that changed everything including the way that people were being handled in quarantine. Wow.

Thanks for making it clear to us you are a racist hate monger.

She is spewing hate, that’s it, that is all she’s doing. Any redeeming qualities she might have are drowned out by the vile nature of her beliefs.

I would love to believe that our Elliot was born with the Hello Friend opening speech of the first episode. That those were his first words.

I disagree. As children we’re all taught there are consequences for our behavior, but the richer you get, the less that is the case. You can act however you want and face almost no consequences.

To think, until now I only avoided Razer products because they are overpriced glossy garbage. Now I have Reason #2!

Well, he’s not American, he’s Singaporean, and his crap attitude is typical of the management culture in the tech industry there more broadly. Managers at Creative are also famous for being assholes in precisely the same way. I legitimately wouldn’t be surprised if he has them on his resume- Creative has a horrid…

That guy sounds like a huge asshole. Jesus

It’s almost like you have to be an abusive sociopath to be a CEO in modern capitalistic societies.

>A new cinematic trailer for the game showed a group of treasure hunters fighting against what could be demons, or private equity executives.

Somewhere along the line I was told that detergents do their best work above 72 degrees, and I can see that when I wash my hands. You’re not so much interested in killing germs as getting them out of the clothing and bedsheets and down the drain. I have learned to use a bit less detergent in the wash, warm wash/cold…

I’m reading a book right now that refers to the actual object of these dopes’ worship as Tactical Jesus.

How do people live normal lives and get angry about these things. Holy crap.

Absolutely. I used to buy cheap gray office chairs at office Depot or whatever for years (I moved a lot). After 6 months or so, they were all broken in some way, or creaky or uncomfortable or whatever. Bought a big DxRacer chair 4 years ago. It’s held up every day and is super comfortable. I use a Herman Miller at…

*flips back a few pages to choose the other option*

The way this reads reminds me of the bad endings of the old Choose Your Own Adventures books.

Eventually you play for hours on end as the comfort of the chair allows you to play for far longer than in a normal chair. You sink in its folds as it envelopes you. The neck brace is your neck. The backrest becomes a permanent vertebrae. You become an amorphous blob, effortlessly transitioning between chair and…