crazy that so much tv is just so bad. don’t people literally go to school and dedicate their careers to this in a highly competitive job market. aren’t you paid to be good at this. 

my problems with discovery's spore drive have nothing to do with the wacky mushroom science. Like this is Star Trek™ not some bonefide diamond on the Moh's Scale of Sci-Fi hardness like The Martian. I know to expect the writers playing a bit fast and loose with physics and how the real world works. I'm here for that wackniess, actually. Love me some technobabble about mycelial spores or tetryon particles or whatever! the thing that doesn't work for me is the way the spore drive acts narratively, and how the technology was introduced within the timeline of the series. Like it's just obvious that the writers aren't willing to let anyone else but Discovery have access to the spore drive. They twisted up the Glenn in season one, so Discovery is the only ship with a spore drive. They hemmed and hawed about genetic modification in season 2 so no one else got a spore drive. They purged records of the spore drive's existence from history and claimed that no one else had tried to make anything like it in 900 years despite a massive dilithium shortage and canonical search for other methods of propulsion in season 3. And then at the very end, just when you think, oh hey maybe the entire population of Kwejian will make for a nice crop of new spore drive pilots, the writers fucking blow up their whole planet just so they don't have to let anyone else have the spore drive. And to be fair, they can't really let anyone else have it, or else Discovery loses it's right to be "the only one we can turn to in a crisis". And that's really all it has going for it. So, I get it! Still hate it, though. And, even moreso than all the silly narrative contrivances that are used to nerf transporter technology so that the plot can still happen, this bothers me. Because sure, all the ion storms and interference can get a bit stupid. We all make fun of star trek for inventing a technology that could immediately yoink our blorbos away from their problems, only to turn around and force it to not work when it's needed most. But at least there isn't just one ship that has the ability to use the transporter at all. That would be ridiculous. Everyone would want their own transporter. And yet, that's the situation we have in Discovery. Only one ship can travel across the galaxy in the blink of an eye. The show writers keep contriving to keep it that way. And given how useful instantaneous travel is, the fact that it hasn't been replicated once, by any species in the galaxy, not just the Federation, in 900 years is just stretching the limits of my willing suspension of disbelief.

An Jew: here is a recipe for a traditional dish we’ve been making since [century]! It is a yiddish name and was inspired by a recipe our neighbors in [country] made, but this one adheres to kosher laws! Eastern European Goy (WITHOUT FAIL): Ugh you fucking IMBECILE how DARE you you are STEALING our CULTURE everyone KNOWS that [the not yiddish version of a similar dish] is the REAL spelling and it mUST be made with [non-kosher ingredient]. Educate yourselves and stop STEALING my CULTURE!!!!

Legendary beasts that once warred with the horse-riding Arimaspians.

Apparently the Indian Griffin is a type of griffin about the size of a wolf with a unique plumage coloration. Regardless, this particular variation of the species also nests as close to local gold deposits as possible, just like their relatives outside of India.

Marvel added Web of Spider-Man to the Spider-Man line of titles that already included The Amazing Spider-Man and Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider-Man. The first issue had a cover date of April, 1985. The issue introduced the Vulturians (Honcho, Gripes, Pigeon, and Sugar Face) created by Louise Simonson and Greg LaRocque. This issue played into the symbiote lore as Spider-Man was saved by the symbiote that appeared to die. However, in later issues we learn that the symbiote had survived and it bonded with Eddie Brock. ("Til Death Do Us Part!", Web of Spider-Man 1#, Marvel Comic Event)

Working on my command squad.

Why did I go heresy era World Eaters, white is such a bitch to work with.

One slip with the brush and you have to repaint the white... Which is painfully watery because GW fucked up the latest paint range with it being either to thick or to thin.

haven’t we all had enough of stock sword and sorcery settings as worldbuilding? i know dnd is having a moment right now but can we speed ahead to the point where everyone realizes it’s not good and starts getting more creative

WHY don’t we have an option to be like, neutral. Like, I want you, full stop. I don’t want sex, that’s not what this relationship is built on (for anwir). And. She doesnt wanna be a vampire, she doesn’t really care abt if he’s learned, like tf she’s not the kinda gal to ask herself those post-elementary-book critical thinking questions. She just wants to be with him. She wants to know if he’s okay. Why does that line (2) have to say ‘i want your body’ like no!!!!!! Don’t objectify him!!!

A little hardware rant

So today I went to a local electronics retailer to look for some thermal paste to soothe my poor overworked CPU's temperature problems. This, being a bit of a departure from the store's usual fare of prebuilt electronics actively hostile to modification, repair, or upgrades, I found no logical place for the thing, so I had to wander around a bit while waiting for someone who worked there to have a spare moment between hocking overpriced laptops to help me out on this.

So, being the impeccably efficient and very reasonable young man that I am, I decided to kill some time by browsing for a new keyboard. It's sad to say, but my current one has been with me since the days of the Party Rock Anthem, and it's getting a bit long in the tooth. So, what could this unnamed major Scandinavian electronics retailer offer me? Well, as it turned out my search would be more frustrating than I anticipated.

When it comes to pc parts, I'm reasonably utilitarian. As long as it lets me do what I want to do, it's doing its job. Keyboards are different though. I have preferences. As a writer, I like my keyboards to have the three following features:

Intuitive layout with some slight spacing between the letters to facilitate easier cleaning

A wired USB connection, this is non-negotiable. I don't want to fiddle with Bluetooth or whatnot.

No foofaraw. No fancy extra buttons, no lights, no fiddly gimmicks.

Now, do you want to know how many keyboards fulfilled all of my criteria in this big ol' store? Exactly none. I found an ergonomic one that seemed nice but was, unfortunately, wireless and one that was wired and had nice key placements but unfortunately also had this regrettable "Gamer"-branding and my old nemesis LEDs.

Now, if I may ask, what exactly is the purpose of LEDs on a keyboard? Are there scores of people who'd love to game in the dark if they could only see their input devices? It just seems alien to me since my ideal input device just lets me get into the zone while writing and stay there without disturbing me. This is, as one might expect, a taller task for a keyboard with pulsing RGB light and a dedicated button for playing the 2012 Skrillex hit Bangarang or whatever.

What frustrates me most about this is that I don't think my demands are particularly extravagant and that I assumed that having access to a wide range of Products was supposed to be the draw of living in this here late-capitalist hellscape that we navigate on the daily. It isn't the case though, as the selection of products that are deemed Most Profitable to sell to us narrows further and further. Sure, The Man could sell you parts to upgrade or repair your PC, but that's not as good of a deal (for them) as just selling you prebuilt underperformers that burst into flames if you even look at them with a screwdriver in hand. Similarly, there's no reason to say every goddamn keyboard has to be wireless now, but wireless tech is cheap enough (and harder for amateurs to repair) so it goes in everything. I'm convinced that is the reason you basically can't find high-end wired earbuds anymore.

Now, this is perhaps getting into a slightly conspiratorial headspace, but I do think there's something to this trend of consumer goods being less tailored to the needs of consumers and more kind of pushed through to the customer, which I don't love. Hell, I don't love the Faustian bargain of "live in an unsustainable unfair system that does a fuckery to our biosphere but you have infinite varieties of consumer goods to choose from to distract you," in the first place, but when that slowly gets replaced with "buy our garbage peasant" before my eyes, I can't help but wonder if I'm being played for an absolute fool.

So in short, capitalism bad, it's surprisingly hard to find the keyboard you want, perhaps the discontent of the masses should topple the fat cats of the world, turns out the place didn't have thermal paste in the first place, eat the rich, you know, that kind of stuff.

I don't think anything done in any musical has ever pissed me off as much as changing "but who will I take care of" to "but who will take care of me" when they flipped the gender of Bobby in company. On an unrelated note my least favorite fucking post I still see sometimes is that "I love how men love" post shut up shut up shut up

I despise Jack Crusher for a lot more substantive reasons, but the fact that he’s named the same as Wesley’s dad (who isn’t even his father) is incredibly annoying.

Hey, @staff ? Making the Tumblr Live feature snoozable for thirty days is nice, but maybe not at the cost of making it impossible to snooze the damn bug "feature" on mobile.

idk its genuinely really annoying to be invested in a story that the dm seems to think everyone hates and is trying to end asap . maybe ill write some fanfic or smt when s2 ends . like the characters are good and compelling the story while messy has good elements if he would STOP RUSHING and SLOW DOWN and THINK ABT WHAT HIS ISSUES ARE WITH THE NARRATIVE AND ADJUST it would be about ten times less flawed

hey I’m tired of a specific type of logo

delayed because i had to choose the most difficult angle possible