SatyrSack

A popular PS5 console exclusive is finally making the jump to Xbox Series X|S more than three months after its timed exclusivity deal with Sony Interactive Entertainment came to an end. MiHoYo’s action RPG Zenless Zone Zero launched in July 2024 on all platforms except Xbox, much to some players’ dismay. However, Xbox’s exclusion from the fun won’t last much longer.

I laser. It's like a turtle shell down there.

This is the type of interesting thing that I apparently miss by diligently always skipping the Enterprise theme religiously every single time without fail.

Looking at the IMDb pages for the last three sci-fi shows I have watched (Eureka, Dark Matter, Stargate SG-1), the top episode for each is a time loop episode. I think that's a trend.

If you look it up, this is Dark Matter 2015, not Dark Matter 2024 which is a completely different show by the looks of it.

Dark Matter (2015) is based on a short-run comic series. Dark Matter (2024) is an adaptation of an entirely unrelated novel that just happens to have the same title.

That's a good way to differentiate their capacities for emotion: Android could experience but not express, while Data could express but not experience. Their respective chips allowed them to do both.

Good point. That difference probably makes for a subjectively "better" (more entertaining) plot in which we get to watch Data adapt to the chip and learn from it. Android's chip is arguably a more realistic scenario, being that it is effectively a software upgrade that takes effect immediately. But that plot point in and of itself is less of a story to be told onscreen, and acts moreso as exposition toward the actual plot of exploring the benefits of those human mannerisms that had been immediately mastered.

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I don't know if either necessarily did it "better", but the purposes of the chips were definitely different. We eventually learn that Android had been secretly programmed with some emotions from the start, which explains behaviour like its jealousy towards the Australian pleasure bot. The chip that Android receives simply makes its mannerisms more human. On the other hand, before the emotion chip, Data already had much more of a personality and human mannerisms than Android did. Data could successfully mirror the expression of human emotions somewhat closely, but the chip allowed it to actually experience those emotions for the first time.

Where are you seeing that requirement? Like I said, there should be nothing stopping you from simply building the APK and letting any arbitrary user download/install it. Think of all the APKs available on GitHub, itch.io, etc. Anyone can download/install those without the user or developer having had to register for anything. Android is not a closed system like iOS in which distribution of applications is restricted to some official channel.

Definitely my favorite episode