Firefly and Serenity were good. Buffy was good. I don’t need reboots or sequels or whatever. What I’d rather have are original and diverse new premises and stories. In the meantime, I’ll be watching old stuff I missed.
Ramblings of General Geekery
When someone points at problems with the excesses of late-stage capitalism, there’s always some dumbass who replies “well what do you want then? make everything free?!” and half the time it’s somebody you thought was actually educated 😬
I should be more like Conan when I read articles about regurgitative AI and other stupid new tech trends.
Would you care for some more chocolate?
And that’s it for our Dragonbane campaign, after ~27 sessions! Azrael Koth lies impaled on a demon statue after being blasted by a Critical Thunderbolt spell worth 46 points of damage! Everybody rejoice! That game was great, and super easy to run.
This little colour game is fun, but I suspect it depends more on your screen than on your eyes. I got 0.0080 on my phone and 0.0021 on my work monitor. At some point I think I could better see the monitor being dirty and imperfect than anything else.
More on Star Trek VI: Martia is one of my all-time favourite Trek characters! Iman (the actress) chewing on a cigar here is a stroke of genius. I’d love to see a story featuring Martia doing whatever she did before being sent to the Rura Penthe mines!
So Vulcans can just extract information from an unwilling person in a matter of seconds? They would make great interrogators! The Federation could be the most effective totalitarian government if they had a Vulcan Gestapo!
By the way, Kirk trying to explain Spock’s look and behaviour to 1980s people with “He did too much LDS in the 60’s” was quite funny, not just because he gets “LSD” wrong, but because it could also be interpreted as “Mormons are weird”
More about Star Trek IV: sure it’s got some funny moments, but between “Search For Spock” and this, it seems to be the point where it’s not just Gene Roddenberry’s story anymore, but some studio’s FRANCHISE. Gotta appeal to more audiences! Can I say it now? THEY RUINED STAR TREK!
