Akuchimoya

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[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

Except I'm not really sure what the look is, it doesn't really feel like any ST aesthetic. The delta is obscured at all times, and the rest is not really Star Trekky.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was really hapy for Wil to be included in Prodigy. I felt like Picard S3 snubbed him. Of course, his presence there would have basically made the whole season pointless, but they got everyone back together, including Michelle Forbes, but not him. And Grown Up Traveler Wesley was basically just an in-universe Wil Weaton, my friend and I both kept calling Wes "Wil" instead.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To be serious, yes, absolutely. How many children hear their parents just bark orders at their virtual assistants without a please or thank you, and then do so themselves? I consciously say please and thank you because I want the children around me to learn they should say please and thank you.

And, let's be honest, how many adults get used to just barking orders without a please and thank you and then interact with people that way, too?

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago

I would guess CTV would want to do a weekly release, as normal television goes, and Netflix putting out all the episodes at once kind of ruins that. People who want to watch will go online and pirate/VPN it from Netflix. So them putting it on their tv line up ends up being business-stupid.

But why not just stream and also put them all out at once, too? Must they also broadcast on television? I really don't know the intricacies of television networks. CTV has the rights for both (otherwise they couldn't do both), but I presume it's only their own internal policies that would prevent an online-only release.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago

I was so pleased for her, that she got to be immortalized in the show like that. I feel like that's something really special that this generation of Trek shows can do: really honour the people behind it.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Personally, I think it's the best season so far, however the bar was not very high to start with. I wish Discovery started like this season, instead of the way it actually did.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

BBC series Merlin was a little like this. King Uther hated magic, Prince Arthur was kinda against it because he was told it was dangerous, but didn't exactly hate it himself. Meanwhile Merlin took a job as a servant, doing magic-y things to protect him. Wasn't a great series (writing), but it had enjoyable aspects.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I know people who were Christians in Afghanistan, who were outed to the government (Taliban). The word they use is "spy". It may not be the normal, English use of the word, but it's the word that real-life people who have been on the receiving end of the betrayal use.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Consider the phrase "be real with me" colloquially means "be honest with me". Also "real talk", "your real self", etc.

How can mirrors be honest if our eyes aren't honest?

Kid wasn't wrong, in fact, was quite right. People are in denial about their outward appearances never mind other things) all the time. People with anorexia see themselves as overweight when they may actually be dangerously underweight. People think they're ugly when they're not. (Conversely, may think they're really hot about when they're not.)

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 2 points 8 months ago

You can download Signal APK directly from their website.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago

In some different countries, WhatsApp is how people conduct business. I am anti WhatsApp in my regular life, but I used it with a VOIP number when I was traveling abroad.

It's one thing to tell your friends and family you use Signal, you can't tell literally every business. Well, you can, they just won't to do business with you.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I miss flip phones for similar reasons. I loved flicking them open and snapping them shut.

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