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The sad thing about Oblivion is that there are in-game books in Morrowind and previous games that describe the empire as being in the middle of a bamboo jungle. The vibe comes off as the Roman Empire in South East Asia.

Instead we got generic high fantasy with the occasional guy wearing Roman armor.

Only as far as storyline and setting go. Other than that, it was an okay shooter.

The main one would be, in 53 years of Trek before Discovery, Spock never mentioned a sister.

Which is mostly of explained at the end of Season 2 of Discovery.

If you just noped out in Season 1, which a lot of the more conservative sort of trekie did, then you’d miss that.

I do like that they sort of explained the Klingon Empire was getting really into genetic experimentation. It kind of ties in the DS9 tribbles episode as seen here.

The simple “We do not discuss it with outsiders” line is great. Which actually makes me want to watch more DS9…

Anyway… some of the continuity issues are explained away in the second season? Sort of?

It’s still my least watched trek. I’ve even watched more of the Animated Series than Discovery.

While replication of research is important, one must be sure to use a diverse selection of subjects to compensate for any discrepancies caused by subject idiosyncrasies.

One may argue that a follow-up study may be warranted for any specific individual subject, yet without that additional, supplementary testing on diverse subjects, the follow-up study might present the appearance of some sort of emotional attachment.

I do apologize for the tone of my rebuke.

Cutting costs and laying people off makes the books look slightly better (more cash on hand) which makes the stock price jump, which is all these ghouls want because they’re going to sell off on the high, and then bail out.

That’s not how it works. Making money today is the only thing these ghouls care about, ruining a company or brand is just dandy because they won’t be holding the bag when it bursts. They’ll have passed it to someone else. Someone else who will then work to gut the company even more before selling it to someone who will gut it and close it down.

And nothing of real value will have been made, but lots of rich asshats will be slightly richer.

Basic used “else”.

It’s nice. “if”, “then”, and “else”. I spent a year programming a shitty roulette game on an Apple 2e back in high school. I still remember the joy of using if/then/else paired with goto to make a horrible mess of spaghetti logic.

But yeah, “else” is nice.

They aren’t on the same level of fraudulent bullshit, but they’re close.

Fingerprint matching is done “by eye” and often involves an “expert” saying that one smudge is a 100% match for another smudge.

DNA matching is the only forensic science that’s worth a damn, and only if it’s done correctly.

So I forever work on legacy systems.

Not ideal, but there’s quite a bit of job security in it.

I don’t know.

This one is maybe a better representation of his talent. Or any of his other original songs. He’s released a lot of them the last 7 or so years. He also has a bunch of tour dates in England, some of them are already sold out.

They wanted to explain why there were so many accidental alien-human hybrids. Because someone forgot that Spock was originally described as being a product of medical science.

Which should have been the answer to every hybrid, their parents made a deliberate choice to have a child, and then did some genetic engineering to get it done.

But the writers wanted to inject drama with accidental hybrids. Also they decided that genetic engineering was banned so that Khan could be an enemy. A good choice because that movie was great. But a bad choice as well because it led to this episode.

5th pin down on the far left side in the picture.

There’s no solder on the pin.

Most of the joints are questionable, that one is flat out bad.

There are a bunch of questionable solder joints.

Like half the pins.

But the absolute worst is the 5th pin down on the far left side. There’s so little solder used that you can see into the hole.

A few others are also a bit lacking as well. Almost all of the joints are ugly as sin…

The main problem with colonizing places is the displacement of the people already living there. You’ll notice that space is notorious for not having people. It’s one of the defining traits of space, really.

As to staying where we are, well. That comes with all sorts of issues. The first of which are big rocks. Then there’s gamma ray bursts, and coronal mass ejections, and a host of other potentially life ending things that could hit our planet at any time.

We have all of our eggs in one basket. This is the height of stupidity when we could do something about it.

As to fixing our own planet? Why the fuck do you think we can’t also work on that? There are billions of humans, we can surely multitask. Especially since actually living on the moon or Mars or whatnot will be a monumentally hard task in and of itself.

The first moon base will need to be 100% science to figure out some pretty important biology, like is it even possible to maintain a population at 1/6 Earth gravity.

That’s a huge question that we don’t actually have an answer for.

Brother is the go to because their stuff is basic and functional.

All the other companies have “innovated” to the point where their shit is unusable for daily use.

Seems his heart is malfunctioning.

Since it’s an implant, does he take it to medical or engineering?

I’ve never actually had problems with Manuskript, but then I don’t write anywhere near as much as I tell myself I should.

I also once paid for Scrivener, back when I still used windows regularly.

I seem to have a history of looking for an interesting piece of writing software, and then using it to write a chapter or two, then nothing more.

Another fun writing program (that goes to the other UI extreme) is FocusWriter. I actually managed four or five chapters of a story using it.

A program that’s similar in many ways is Manuskript

I’d say it does exactly the same thing, except you just download it and go. There are linux, windows, and mac os versions.

Then for the closed source world, there’s Scrivener. I’ll not link it because it doesn’t support linux. But same concept.

Except that several of them were…

There was Rory Williams as the main standout, but Martha Jones was working as a nurse when she joined the show. She was still at the end of Med School, and it was a (very minor) plot point at one point when she earned her doctorate.

Strax also counts, Well, he did until the Doctor screwed up and got him killed. The resurrected Strax was not much of a nurse.

There were a few more who were outright medical doctors when they joined the show. One was a British Navy surgeon, and the one that might not count, the cardiologist from the Doctor Who movie, which most people sort of ignore.