Ramblings of General Geekery

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!

Iman was also David Bowie's wife!

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!

This alien probe is so fucking random. Is there a whole alien civilization that sends these things, like "hey do you still have dinosaurs, or trilobites, or dodos? because if not we're going to FUCK YOU UP WITH MAGIC TECHNOLOGY"

Did anybody chase it afterwards to see who the fuck sent it? I hope there's a follow-up and the Federation Navy acquires the probe's weapons so they can ionize waters on enemy planets or whatever

Today I’m trying to catch up to any unanswered discussions with #UE5 GameplayCameras #gamedev users who contacted me through various means. Lots of very good feedback there, thanks to all who wrote! If I haven’t replied to you by tomorrow, ping me!


My first thought after watching “The Wrath of Khan” was that it seems to eschew the “intellectual sci-fi” plots of TOS for some “action sci-fi” blockbuster plot. I wondered if fans originally criticized it and then cooled down on it later, but apparently not? Everybody loved it right away?


The coyote dad/mom (?) of Byrne Creek Park seems busy today. Saw it twice. The good fluffy boy isn’t happy about it (he’s racist against coyotes). Thankfully he’s now relaxing with a ball.


I still remember the sense of excitement I felt upon learning the existence of an animal called the “wombat”, imagining a dreadful winged creature of the night, and the utter disappointment that followed when I saw what it actually looks like.

A cute little wombat.

I played through The Last Of Us (Part 1) a couple months ago and my hot take is that it’s like a David Cage game: it’s more interested in being a movie with vaguely interactive scenes between story beats than being a video game. The difference with a David Cage game is that it’s actually very good.

Joel is about to shoot someone. Ellie says no, wait, we killed 98% of the NPCs we met so far in this story, so can we, like, ease up? Maybe give a few other voice actors some dialogue?