SpaceScotsman

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[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 3 points 5 months ago

According to the 3 criteria mentioned in the article, YouTube wouldn't need to be banned, logging in to YouTube would be banned. YouTube is still functional (mostly) when logged out, and wouldn't violate those 3 criteria. The other services mentioned, like gaming, would be banned.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I thought elvish meant someone who likes rock and roll music

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 46 points 6 months ago (3 children)

You can't misgender a brand. You can't deadname a brand. You can't befriend a brand.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 5 points 7 months ago

I misread that as prefix and, honestly, forthwhence doesn't sound half bad.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago

Women are a better person to be in the past than a good quality piece of wood

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

That was an OK finale.

I'm of two minds about the resolution with Ruby's mum. On one hand, there being no significance at all is a bit of a let down, but on the other hand when dealing with gods, the whole point of the power is the belief, and that explanation does tie everything up fairly neatly. (not sure why ruby kept snowing though). Seeing her get back together with her mum was a nice send off.

Getting rid of sutek by throwing him off into the vortex, and having that undo everything was a bit iffy for me. There's not been an established precedent that throwing someone into the time vortex undoes every action they ever did, and surely if that were the case that leads to a paradox?

Lots of call backs to past DW. Including the trend that at the end of the season every single person in the universe dies. But I guess that is the risk when you have a show that's gone on for so long, once you've pushed the limits of danger to the max, there's not really any way to escalate the tension further.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago

Not a fan of the anagram stuff, but i can imagine myself as a kid really enjoying that. Looking forward to the finale, I hope it delivers.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago

What option do I need to use to get support for Heptapod B?

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I could not get into the baby episode. The talking babies just put me off. Might have been scarier than the actual monster.

But the devil's cord was better. Great concept. Good mix of fun and serious and a nice follow up to the toy maker. I didn't feel it really made the most use of the beatles though, the maestro could have been in any time period with any musician. I was pleasantly surprised by the twist at the end.

RTD likes his recurring threads, so I guess the pantheon is going to anchor this series. So far we've had masters (gods?) of toys and music. What next - the different parts of what makes being human? Love? Food? And how does Ruby fit into it.

So far ncuti and millie are fitting in well. A bit different, bringing their own flair, but still capturing the right feel.

100% online games in the past were perfectly playable even after developers / publishers ended support. Online only games dying is a relatively recent invention. This petition is asking for consumer protection to return to the norm where a purchaser of an online game always has the choice of being able to play it in some fashion.

A game developer could do this by releasing a server application. They could even do this at the barest minimum by releasing documentation describing how the server ought to work, to allow for reverse engineering.

The Stop Killing Games campaign as a whole isn't asking for perpetual server access, just to ensure that games stay in some sort of playable state.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

England really needs to get right to roam legislation like Scotland. It would make it more difficult for companies to make claims like this and make it clear that everyone has a responsibility to keep nature clean as its a shared resource

I was using it, but because it periodically did load fine I assumed I was just having network trouble. Thanks for fixing!

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