Posts made by Ominous

@derp said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

TBF both Picard and Discovery show that's far from the case. Lots of black market and criminal activity with general civil unrest. It's a refreshing change of pace.

I think that's less an accurate portrayal* of Star Trek's universe and more a reflection of modern tastes in media. We want our worlds crapsack. No gleaming future to work towards and look forward to here. It's cyberpunk corporate greed, ecological catastrophe, and fascist governments from now to 41,000 AD.

** Star Trek's universe is whatever the writers want it to be, since they own the IP, but personally I feel that what we have now does not follow naturally from what previous series laid down as canon. To me it's as jarring as loading up a Zelda game, and it being about holding back a chaos invasion of Bloodletters of Khorne from the Warhammer Fantasy universe.

Too bleak? Why can't you stand a little bleakness in your life after the absolutely sunny and positive year and a half we have had?

@derp

Yep yep.

A Hobbesian would argue it's better this way, though, as the State of Nature is the same as the State of War. Those wolves outside of captivity are truly free - free to catch horrible parasites and diseases, free to get into fights with other packs of wolves, free to get frostbite or hypothermia during a sudden blizzard, free to die to farmers with rifles annoyed with them killing their livestock. We submit to government because otherwise we will murder each other, shit in creeks, and die dirty and starving.

A Lockean would say that civilization maintains something close to the State of Nature (a kind of garden of Eden-esque state where everyone is free and there is no private property and things are all sunny and happy) from the State of War that develops as the exercise of those freedoms possibly violate the rights of others. So to establish a third-party as a mediator, we collectively form a government/civilization.

Both say pretty much the same thing - government/civilization makes us get along and live in a developed society with things like electricity and clean water. The difference is that the moment civilization goes poof, Hobbes says we murderfuck everything and Locke says we kind of annoy each other and decide maybe we should have government afterall.

@silverfox

Couldn't they have just named that one Human History?

When you are delighted to log in to notifications of upvotes to your posts, then read our Glorious Leader's post about needing to ban a troll who keeps trying to re-join the board and realize all your upvotes came from them.

@lotherio

I don't recall much planetary destruction in 12th and 15th century Northern Italy, but I must say that your version of historical events is probably way more metal.

@ganymede

Or Traveller.

Or something with the Dune IP.

@lemon-fox

Funny. However it is more of an appetizer than a main course. I am left wanting substance to sink my teeth into.

Over the years the number of webcomics I enjoy has dwindled down due to comics wrapping up, going on hiatus, or creators suddenly poofing. Now I'm down to Order of the Stick and Kill Six Billion Demons, and nothing I look into is as good or interesting as what I've lost.

@squirreltalk said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

The game's needlessly sexy, but surprisingly fun and cute in a lot of its events.

Uncomfortably combining sexiness and cuteness is Japan's forte.

@zombiegenesis said in Good TV:

Hey, they can't all be winners.

@derp said in Good TV:

@greenflashlight

This is literally the first I've ever heard of anyone hating Voyager. Most of my trek nerds loved it. I loved it. Janeway was my fave captain for a while.

How does that even work?!

@zombiegenesis said in Good TV:

I loved Voyager. Actually started rewatching it last week to introduce my wife to it.

Threshold.

That is all.

@greenflashlight said in Good TV:

If you prefer, pretend I said that without TOS, there would be no Voyager, or no Star Trek V.

...I dare not even imagine such a glorious world.

My solution to people who absolutely refuse to email me their questions or arguments is to take the call and to respond to almost every thing they bring up with "I'll check into that and get back to you." Once I've crushed their spirit by wasting their time, I round out the call with, "To make sure that I don't forget this conversation or miss one of the things you asked, could you send me an email with everything you brought up?"

It tends to do an effective job of driving the damned point home.

@macha said in RL Anger:

If you spend time on social media, you fucking know better.

Not necessarily. Social media is fantastic at insulating people into their bubbles.

@arkandel said in RL Anger:

<shiftylook> Uh, I don't love spitting out seeds.

@silverfox said in RL Anger:

I'm not a huge fan of chicken in general (either too dry or too slimy and it's texture is just.... ew) and watermelon makes my throat itch and if I have a cut or something burn wildly.

I can tell you wrote something in reply, and it may have been very eloquent; however, for some reason, I can only see this gif as your posts as you feebly attempt to blend in:

@ganymede said in RL Anger:

@ominous

Watermelon is fucking gross.

And most people don’t season or prepare their chicken well before frying, so it ends up tasting bland and too oily.

You opinion doesn't count, Great Leader. We already know that you're a glorious catbot attorney rather than a feeble human being stricken with our insatiable and undeniable love of fried chicken and watermelons.

@squirreltalk said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Random idea: A Lords and Ladies game of politics and backstabbing and whatnot; but set in a demon realm of monster people of all shapes, sizes, and weird hungers.

I would never make this game, but it might be neat if it existed.

I just saw this.

I have been pondering an idea like this for while; though, more like playing the fae from Changeling rather than demons. Then again not much difference.

@arkandel said in RL Anger:

But I had to pretty much learn about stereotypes for... fried chicken?

This and watermelon are the two that I have the hardest time understanding where they came from. Who the fuck doesn't like fried chicken and watermelon? That's like stereotyping a race with liking water or air.

As for fireworks, we set them off on the 4th of July, because using them to celebrate was a thing back in 1776, and we know this, because John Adams suggested in a letter written on July 3, 1776, before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, that celebrations for the event should include:

Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forever more.

"Illuminations" being fireworks. In 1777, the first Fourth of July fireworks were set off in Philadelphia and Boston. The Pennsylvania Evening Post wrote:

The evening was closed with the ring of bells, and at night there was a grand exhibition of fireworks (which began and concluded with thirteen rockets) on the Commons, and the city was beautifully illuminated.

From there, the tradition took off, and by 1783 the public could purchase all kinds of fireworks for their own Fourth of July celebrations.

So tradition.

Personally, I don't go to fireworks shows on the Fourth. I lived in Louisville where they have Thunder Over Louisville to kick off the two weeks of festivities before the Kentucky Derby, and it's arguably the largest fireworks show in North America. Everything else besides the WEBN fireworks in Cincinnati and the two Fourth of July shows in DC and New York looks "cute" in comparison, like some fifteen-year-old threw it together.

@arkandel

"Feed me."

@sunny

But how will we be able to tell people whether our fetus has a penis or not without fireworks?