u/TonyMitty

I may be imagining this, but hear me out. I got to thinking about the scenes with Bakugo in the Final War, especially the scene where he's soaring around like a firework taking out AfO. He's got this big grin on his face. Not a smug sneer, not a facade, a genuine honest joyful smile using his powers and going absolutely all out. It's when I realized that, Deku really doesn't have a similar moment. When Deku is using his quirk(s), it's always in life and death situations, or really intense moments like the sports festival fight with Shoto, there's never really a moment where he kind of just cuts loose and, I don't know what the right word is, "revels" or "luxuriates" in his abilities. It's just an interesting comment on how the two see the nature of power and their abilities. It even reminds me of how Shoto used his ice to make slides and things for people and kids.

I'm just watching a video of people fawning over the nostalgic hardware of the floppy disk, and I'm wondering if I can go down to my local microcenter and get a personal magnetic tape backup storage and fun messing around of putting a meme folder on a magnetic tape for sub-200 bucks?

Why am I just now realizing this? Why is it so cosmically aperpos? Am I dumb? Kern and Candy Man was one thing, but this? What's next? Seth McFarlane on the Enterprise?

Possible spoiler for Tenki no Ko/ Weathering with you ending as part of my point related to Kimi no na wa included if you still clicked, I thank you. I remember years ago watching this film for the first time, and being more and more nervous as the film went on. I was sitting there thinking "If this freaking ends with some melancholy 'Some things just aren't meant to be, but tis better to have loved and lost..." nonsense I'm gonna lose it." I know it's immature of me, but I hate movies with ambiguous endings. I am Legend, A.I Artificial Intelligence, etc.

Which is why both Kimi no Na Wa and by extension Tenki no Ko strike a sweeeet spot at being right at the edge of what my tender little heart can emotionally endure, because THEY FREAKING END UP TOGETHER. Come what may, these two destined hearts will date and be happy regardless of any time-stream nonsense. They could break up after a few dates for all I care, they got together.

Which leads me to my point, on the ending. I know some may think it's poetic that they may not remember each other but ended up anyways, but I choose to believe that their reunion actually brought back all of the memories, at least of the final swap, and that that wonder and beauty can be a foundational part of their relationship. As soon as art is out there, it's up to the observer to interpret, and that's my interpretation. It's beautiful and it makes me happy and ya can't tell me different. I just watched it again in theaters (English dub which is not bad for any purists out there wondering, audible laughs in the theater at multiple points) and I can now say without a doubt that it is my favorite movie.

By the way, I watched the dub, the Japanese ending is slightly more ambiguous with a possible translation being "your name is..." while the English Dub ends with "what's your name?" being definitively phrased as a question. which is more accurate? Either way my headcannon stands.

I'm having trouble finding a good ergonomic pen. I've tried the Uniball One P, and that's about the width I'm looking for, but it's too short and light in my hand. I've seen the Jetstream 4/1 of various makes and models, and the metal one looks good, but I'm a little worried about the knobbly grip. Any suggestions?

I mean, aliens are aliens so obviously not thrilled cult-wise, but they are technically the perfect merging of life and machine? I don't know much about the lore yet, but curious

The fact that the word "Murder" was in there and STAYED in there when he went fully pro always kind of bugged me. So my question is, culturally, does the direct translation just carry less weight? Cause in English, maybe "killer" can mean cool, or Deadly doesn't necessarily mean wants to kill you, but Murder is kind of grating on the ear for a someone who's supposed to be a good guy? You think they just call him dynamite?

This may be a dumb question, but I was looking for recommendations for very thin undershirts just to wear as a layer to keep my expensive graphic tees nicer longer. I say thin because summer is awful for big guys, I say cheap because I'm talking nye on disposable levels of I'm not too worried about it, though I agree with the whole buy it for life thing etc etc.

We get a lot about how Vulcans are not only mentally, but physically stronger than humans. Same with Klingons. We seem to be about on par with Bajorans and Cardassians and Trill. My question is, Humans are still pretty sturdy though. We may not be able to lift as much as a Klingon or Vulcan, but we can certainly take a hit. We also have better hearing than Cardassians apparently. Intellectually more capable than Pakleds, better eyesight than the Vorta. But do we ever hear of a species that's specifically weaker than humans?

I'm gonna come right out the gate and say Janeway made the right decision. But here's why I think this is right. From Tuvok's perspective, total "needs of the many" situation, both as a basic numbers game, and in terms of the crew. Tuvok should know that the morale and function of the ship would improve with both of them, rather than this new amalgam that was in an oddly high place of power splitting his duties.

From Neelix's perspective, I find that his character would probably have preferred not to damage the crew's feelings by forcing them to live with the new him, especially with Kes. Which brings me to my point.

Tuvix had Tuvok's stubbornness and Neelix's selfishness. He was a totally overdramatic and manipulative trying to get Kes to advocate for him, trying to rally the bridge to protect him. He lacked the courage of conviction of Tuvok and the empathy of Neelix. Just gross.

So as more and more people try to offload tasks and in some cases thinking to AI models these days, I like to return to Star Trek to point out what AI could be and what it SHOULDN'T be.

And I can do it in two examples. Should be: Voyager S1E13 Cathexis. When they discover that there may be a message on the medicine wheel, Janeway asks the computer to overlay the pattern with a map of the nebula. The computer throws up a graphic lining up the stones to parts of the nebula in a couple of seconds, immediately answering the question with a likely answer.

I feel like our real world models either can or should be used to do this. Aggregating a HUGE amount of probabilistic data into an at a glance pattern for quick math.

Now my SHOULDN'T example. TNG: Season 1 E18 Home Soil. Beverly is asking the computer questions about the sample, and eventually just says "Disregard incongruity, and theorize as to source" now I'm not the first to make this point, but that is so blatantly dumb it bothers me. That was a "let's just ask the computer to do the thinking for us" moment. And unfortunately, I feel like the way a lot of people use LLMs right now, no effort on the human side for pattern recognition, just ask it to spit out the low effort slop answer.

Just a rant I wanted to get off my chest. Thoughts on good vs bad computer interactions in Star Trek?

I want acrylic standies and shirts. I want licensed merch. How long will I have to wait and who will I have to get it from?

I want acrylic standies and shirts. I want licensed merch. How long will I have to wait and who will I have to get it from?

started watching last week, and I gotta say, 7 episodes in and LOVING It. I have not found a show with such perfect tone in ages. Tense battle scenes, a mature level of gore without body horror, enough comic relief to keep things light without relying on goofy character design.and it's that last point that's helping me use this to get off doom scrolling. For ages how I've avoided watching anime because I feel like I have to give full undivided attention but also because anything really worth watching is too intense to pop on and off. But this lets me watch a good half an episode, cut at a funny joke, and walk away. Instead of getting on tiktok for an hour of numbing, I can just pop in on an episode. It incentivized me to swap Crunchy roll for tiktok on that muscle memory spot on my homescreen, and it's helping me rebuild my attention span. Wierd take I know, but art affects us all in different ways

If you want to eat or do anything outside of the basic replicator, everyone else takes Issiks, Latinum, Gold, etc. So assuming a bottle of root beer is about 4 bucks, what do you think Star Fleet pays it's people?

Edit: Clarifiers, yes I meant outside the Federation, I know Sisko's creole restaurant is for the love of the game. Secondly, I assume on most Federation worlds, it's sort of a Universal Basic Income deal. You apply and get government housing, probably a decent apartment, which has a basic food and water replicator hooked up to limitless planetary fusion power. But as others are specifying, getting a nice job means you can live in Star Fleet housing (like base housing) probably nicer, and if you participate in trade with those outside of Federation/UBC worlds (Bolius has a bank), that extra money can go towards luxuries like books, trips, holosuites, and unreplicatable things like a ship or latinum watches.

This kid was 10 years old, yes Klingons grow up fast, but 10. He then decides, after a lifetime away from the culture of his father, to enlist on a ship of bloodthirsty Klingons to fight an interstellar war. He had the guts to stand up to Klingons twice his size, including Martok and his father. During his first mission, he's willing to run towards an exploding warp core to save said ship of Klingons. This kid is the bravest character ever.

I just picked it up again. Watched the prologue big hour long thing. This review will contain no spoilers except for the fact that this show makes me want to cry every . Damn... Episode. I love it, and I'm sick of it. I cried at the soda, I cried at the melon, I cried at the ... Storage solution. Come on.

I watched a YouTube (maybe it was ripped but idk) documentary following modern bakers work through different historical conditions. From a country bakehouse to a Victorian sweatshop to a luxury pastry store at the turn of the century. And it really makes you appreciate the luxuries and absolute necessities modern science gives us. I know it's cliche, but this show has that every episode.

I just don't understand how people can fit 夢, 鮮, 僕 or similar in one standard ruled line on a notebook. Even if you have a very fine tipped pen, Ican barely fit them into one lline, and even then they look super malformed and squished. I mean, three boxes stacked on top of each other in one Kanji is like 1.5 mm a box. What am I doing wrong?

I don't know how this idea got into my head, but a few years ago, I decided that I was vehemently opposed to isekai-style stories that were MMORPG style, typically the "I got reincarned as..." "... in another world" "reborn as ..." or other things with a paragraph written on the spine. Wouldn't even consider them.

But now I'm seeing these huge titles pulling huge crowds of fans, and I'm wondering if I'm robbing myself of a good genre. Suggested series to start with? Because I see titles like "The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat " and reflexively cringe?

No Federation means no Q putting the Federation on the Borg's radar? (or back on the radar given the events of First Contact and Archer's Enterprise). Since the Borg have assimilated Star Fleet higher level officers and admirals, they should be aware of the mirror universe?

The Borg clearly have no qualms about risky business like time travel or dimensional/realm hopping. Do you think the Borg of our universe thought the possibility of a competing hive mind was too great a risk, even at the opportunity to assimilate an entire alternate-history's worth of information and technology?

Do you think that the Mirror universe was too barbaric to allow a force like the Borg to gain a foothold? Are the Mirror Borg good guys like a hippie commune?