Rincewindnz

joined 6 months ago
[–] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I had a peek at season 5, new captain and no ivanova. The new captain has some of the Ivanova attributes from what I can see in the first episode.

First impressions I don't think it's a huge loss, I found ivanova the least engaging of everyone, Marcus was an interesting foil for her as he was so engaging.

[–] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Interesting, the story feels finished to a certain degree. I'll go looking for this third space movie.

 

What an absolutely amazing story! I thought it was reasonably well paced as well. Best week of recovering from covid ever.

Sheridan getting shafted by Earth in the end and still out politicking them was the chef's kiss. After watching that over one week, What now?

[–] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

About 15 episodes into season 3, holy crap it just keeps getting better. They manage to do the "war" thing sooo much better than ds9 did the dominion war.

Also Walter Koenig is fantastic. Just watching Ship of Tears.

 

Just got up to the episode where they introduce the Nightwatch. It's a brilliant piece of writing depicting the use of "special roles" to "help".

They instantly reminded me of the "brown shirts" and equivalent that Mussolini and Hitler used when Fascism was first popularised.

It's scary that it is still so relevant. Almost as if we don't learn from history (or science fiction for that matter).

[–] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

The purple Drazi look cooler.

[–] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

These are an essential piece of beach/holiday gear to fix your jandals(flipflops or thongs in Australia)with.

[–] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I get visions of HAL or that Simpsons Halloween special with the sentient house.

[–] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Also enjoying the episode on fanatical xenophobia too!

 

Just watching Babylon 5 through as I sit recovering from another bout of COVID. This line from the episode "Infection" was brilliant.

Really enjoying the binge so far, even if the jump between the pilot and episode 1 was a little jarring.

[–] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Totally, kinda hope the majority of American voters agree this year.

[–] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I've also noticed that for some communities, such as the conservative community, the posts get downvoted heaps because they are as accessible as any community. On Reddit I just wouldn't have seen their posts. This potentially makes it unwelcome for people of particular ideologies. (Possibly a self governing trait of the wider community)

[–] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

No such thing as a fish promotes Babbel, they have a code thingee too to get some percent off the first year.

[–] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

I mean, in this day and age why isn't [insert what I know to be true] accepted by [everyone who I perceive to be wrong]. Hegel leads to another Russian smart man who argues a bunch of it might be due to this idea of perezhivanie; how we make sense of what is happening (particularly dramatic events) through our cognition, our emotions and filtered through our needs.

How we make sense of stuff leads to how we behave/believe. This is impacted by our social environment, how we are brought up, our experiences, and our reasoning of those experiences.

It's why it is argued that information alone will never change someone's mind about something, it needs to be attached to an emotion and an experience to unpack.

[–] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

This is an absolute win and should be promoted.

 

I like having knives, forks, spoons left to right as that is how I say it "grab a knife and fork".

I am staying in an Airbnb and they have the spoons separating the knives and forks and wonder if this is in insane or maybe I am the minority/insane one?

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