thepreciousboar

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[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

I can't tell you much about acting, because I see the shows subbed. However, the writing is terrible, in any language. Not only their choice don't make sense and there are constant plot holes, they are supposed to be seasoned Starfleet veterans, yet they act to dramatically, so emotionally, illogically and scared all the time.

And it's not a smart "logic vulcans vs illogic humans" confrontation, it's not a quirk of well defined characters with balance in their emotions; they are simply badly written for dramatic and sitting-on-the-edge type of narrative, which is fine I guess, but it's a cheap way to get traction in the narrative, which doesn't hold well for fans of the series that enjoyed the professionalism of Starfleet captains, supposedly the best of the best, capable of facing every menace.

Again, you want to do such a series, do it. But brand it as Star Trek, and you will get this kind of criticism.

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

That's not true. Enterprise was new when released and I find it quite ok. Might not be the best of the shows, but it tried a different narration perspective and decent writinf. SNW is very new and very solid, despite a similar context to DIS, with a more modern narration, relevant morality and even a less serious tone at times. It's just a better show, comparable to the "classic" ones, despite being a few years old

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, if human and terrans are identical, expect for the dim light thing, you can expect any terran to have ptsd. If you put a human brain with its psicology and needs, every single person will have ptsd from the traumatic life of violence, betrayal and torture they must endure.

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

People that had qaulity shows for decades expect quality. If you want to make a scifi show either don't call it Star Trek or accept the criticism

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It's pretty terrible, not terrible enough to not see. The main problem is they made it very very difficult to care at all about anyone. Burnam is the most intollerable captain ever, they barely develop any character at all, and if they do, it's only to kill them immediately after and try and squeeze some easy feelings from us. Well developed characters are instead falsely killed, but ultimately protected by plot armor. As you mentioned, Stamets and Saru are the only really decent guys.

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 13 points 5 days ago

I don't really think that's the same thing. The enterprise D was the flagship of the federation. It was THE ship and was given important mission, but it didn't save the entire literal galaxy in it's own. It had whacky adventure, did a lot of first contacts, fought important battles. But discovery single handedly solved galaxy level menaces and fought against entire alien fleets, all without very little help. That just doesn't make any sense

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Organic Maps is the open source evolution of maps.me, by the same developers, have a try

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

If you use Google takeout (the service that lets you access all your data), you can download your Google maps favourites as a GeoSON file. It depends on specific apps if they can directly import it, but there's surely some converter around to export it to .kml or .gpx, that can easily be imported in other apps

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Smart TVs and cae infotainnent systems, for sinilar reasons. Full of bloat, so many bugs and unreliable functioning.

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

I mean, even on a mild headache you feel like the inside of your head is swallen, even if you don't know what a brain is. Imagine a traumatic fall, fever and constant pain. After the tenth time you see that happening you grab a stone and try nad fix it.

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

It has a better car navigation interface and some nice features like traffic amd live events data, but it really looks like it's update much, if any at all. Organic Maps is a little more barebone, but it constatly gets new features

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

They never really were. Kings forked new religions to be able to divorce, popes screwed around more than prostitutes in medieval times, and the church has been one of the richest, most bloodthirsty power in history

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