AppleTea

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[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

Part of the reason the show works is that we never really see Federation life outside of Starfleet. Mostly this is for practical budget reasons; what does a post-scarcity egalitarian society actually look like? That's difficult to depict in a show designed to recycle the same set every episode and only very occasionally go outside to film.

So what little we see of the civilian federation looks... a lot like the US. There's a president. Member ~~states~~ planets. Constant references to US history. A military that operates how Americans like to think their military works, rather than what it actually historically has done.

Newer shows take this even further. Section 31, as it was first introduced, was supposed to be a highly illegal, unsanctioned conspiracy acting in the shadow of the proper Federation. Now they're presented as the ultra official, coolest badasses who are the only reason any of the egalitarian principals are able to survive.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago
[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago

That image is at least a decade old, note that it says "wi-fi" and not "5G".

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 35 points 5 days ago (12 children)

I feel like if I was gonna put a computer attached to a motor & heater inside a bed, the very first step would be making sure that if the software goes wrong, it always defaults to staying bed shaped and not catching fire.

I know I know hindsight is 20/20, I'm sure I'm just missing something. Venture capitalists would just give their money to any random idiot with a pitch, right?

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the Sun does the same thing but also with a profit motive

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

the effects were nice, the sets memorable, the costuming was good

too bad it was a boring slog that kinda soured any desire I had to go back and see the first one again

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

Some answers may literally beyond our comprehension.

Sure that may definitely be the case. But in practice, that means we should be exhausting the comprehensible possibilities first. Many Worlds is an explanation of last resort.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

So what is this "objective" perspective? Could you break it down like you broke down the subjective one?

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We also put people who happened to have a few grams of weed in there.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 week ago (8 children)

The point of the thought experiment is that a cat that is both alive and dead is absurd and clearly not what actually is happening. Schrödinger intended it to demonstrate that quantum mechanics was not a complete description of the universe, we're still missing something(s).

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by AppleTea@lemmy.zip to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
 

Hey, so when moving through the main menu, I get all kind of weird artifacts and flickering. It almost looks like its randomly displaying textures and image files from the game? Too fast to get a screenshot of it. For a second, I swear it had overlaid the sprite-sheet for the needle rather than the arrows for the menu selection. Doesn't happen anywhere else in game, only the main menu.

I was wondering if anyone else was experiencing this? Is it unique to running the game through proton?

 

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