SpaceScotsman

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[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 14 points 5 months ago (16 children)

Forgot about steam's forced DRM on purchases. Forgot about their inconsistent policing of content in games they sell. Forgot about steam not wanting accounts to be inherited when you pass away. Forgot about their 30% cut for small devs while bigger devs get a smaller cut. Forgot about a lot of things.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 63 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Sugars and additives are in nearly all foods, maybe we should stop asking manufacturers to disclose it on the ingredients list.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 19 points 5 months ago

Going purely by the illustration, pass it to the next person because they have a track with no-one on it

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The War Between The Land And The Sea comes to BBC One and iPlayer from 7 December, and Disney+ in 2026.

For a "very 2025" show, I see they're keeping up the age old tradition of delaying international release for no good reason. I don't care, I'm in the UK, but just... why?

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

A website generator built by a human still gave a human the chance to make some choices, feel useful, validate it worked right, possibly even an income.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

This is just RTD being RTD, and I should ignore it. But it sent me on a wikipedia rabbit hole,

If we're being pendantic that wouldn't be "racist", it would be "speciesist",as race in biology refers to subspecies differences, not species-level, which is what the aqua/sapiens distinction means.

Also, if we're being inclusive implying that homo aqua are not "sapient", i.e. intelligent, seems about as insulting as calling them devils.

Totally unrelated, but I learned that from the latin genus name, you can refer to the chimpanzee tribe as "Panini", which is fun.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 25 points 6 months ago

it took me far too long to parse this sentence. I kept trying to figure out why the grandparents calling their grandson on the phone was relevant to the story

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If there are no dangerous predators, then there is no problem voting third party

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I take issue with this comment from the article:

A Doctor Who source says the show suffered because Gatwa never fully embraced the role. “There is more to that role than performing,” this person says. “You have got to be an ambassador for the brand and embrace being that generation’s Doctor. Matt Smith and David Tennant fully understood the responsibility it carried.”

What nonsense. An actors job is to act, and Gatwa acted well. He had gravitas, he had presence, he was entertaining to watch. And much like with Eccleston's run (who was there even less time than Gatwa by the way), the problems I saw had nothing to do with an actor failing to be a "brand ambassador". If there are problems with branding, that's the broadcast executive team's fault, not the cast and crew.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 31 points 6 months ago

I first read this as MPEG and thought they were talking about the video encoding.

I wish they were talking about the video encoding.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 20 points 6 months ago

soi-sante deez nuts

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I love that "Lonely Mountains: Downhill" isn't woke, even though it gives fine grained control over your characters design, like a "feminine" body with facial hair.

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