MalikMuaddibSoong

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[–] MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Misogynistic post-apocalyptic Holden Caulfield

Lol that's a new one for me. It's funny because it's true 🤣

[–] MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I haven't read any of the long sun books but I feel like I understand that feeling. Fwiw, I first finished all 4 books and was only satisfied with the end of book 3. Thankfully there's so much meat between those endings that it kept me going.

That disappointment is what made me realize that I must have missed some important details and start an immediate reread.

Once I started over on the first book it was amazing to realize how the clues are just everywhere. I'm reading the exact same words, but this time they're hitting way harder.

 

One of my absolute favorites and I'm hoping folks want to talk about it.

Hands down my most reread book. Me, an atheist, never imagined a twisty/puzzly novel about the life and times of future space jesus would speak to me so deeply.

The prose is multidimensional and layered with meanings that only come into focus once you know where it's going.

Some of my favorite examples:

  • The title of chapter 1
  • Severian first finding his dog.
  • Thecla's story of a fortune teller predicting she would sit on a throne.
  • The ending of book 1
  • The ending of book 2

Any other trek fans delighted by Group of Seventeen in book four, realizing it was 10 years ahead of the TNG episode "Darmok"?

Sage advice. In the meeting I will assume positive intent, like he's protecting me from mummy's curse.

Ya I will figure it out, it's just another clown lording over an imaginary fief.

Can't wait for code review lol.

Thanks! I always enjoy trying to decode German memes with what I recall from school and some guessing.

This is the first one I thought I actually understood haha.

[–] MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

How did I do?

Fresh mountainbarn milk

Chug the carton

Not barn drink

 

Been here 5 days and I hate it already, I understand this vacancy now.

 

My personal journey of crawl > walk > run > slap

if they ever do an oral history of the development of that series, it will be a juicy read.

I agree. I've never been interested in meeting any of the cast of any of the shows, buuut if I got the chance to meet any of them I would absolutely choose disco so I can ask how it went down.

It's just the same story, Netflix picked it up then declined to renew.

Their process ignores gems like Scavenger's Reign and workhorses like Prodigy in favor of, I dunno, bean counting?

[–] MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

... the removal of the hair, having done hairless Klingons with J.J.’s films. So I’d personally already gone through the Internet backlash, and so when Bryan said, ‘Yeah, we’re going to do bald Klingons, like it’s gonna be tricky, man.’ And so everyone was salting the broth.

Sometimes you just gotta keep making the same mistake until you learn. At least this guy is humble and practical about it.

[–] MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

cries in Scavenger's Reign

[–] MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Fine, I'll use a sword. I've already failed at magic enough times I may as well forget about it.

Holy shit I can just cut these fuckers down. Why was I wasting blue bar on Glintstone Pebble when I could have been using Square Up.

Lordsworn's Longsword, u my only friend.

 

Yall got any of that hitbox porn?

 

still not worth watching subrosa

 

I really like the beginning, but it’s all downhill from there

 
 

I actually read somewhere that Archer did nothing wrong and afterward I began remembering all these scenes haha.

 

They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my ~~pain~~ privacy taken away. I need my ~~pain~~ privacy!

 

Also, Engineering: divert all life support to shields and Helm: initiate attack pattern alpha 💪

 

House of Quark is a high point where he saves Quark’s life and allows a Klingon woman to inherit her own house.

Tacking Against The Wind is a low point where he is reduced to a cartoonish mustache-twirler.

 

The movie’s still great, but the book was really that amazing.

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