2025
American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming
This Controversial Actress Looks Exactly Like Me. I’m Horrified.
Born in the US? You might not be a citizen soon
“Ratchet Game Boy” is the name of my favorite Emo band.
So You Want a Civil War? Let’s Pause to Remember What One Looks Like.
Star Trek: Fleet Command has seen better days as a game but the beautifully rendered starships keep me coming back. Now if only there were a way to get them without paying real money or grinding free to play for months on end.
It’s pretty wild that The Inspector Tuvok Mysteries got completely retooled just because Rick Berman really got into Gilligan’s Island.
Now that the excitement of the stream discussion has died down, I feel similar to the way I felt about season 3 of #StarTrek #Discovery and the resolution of The Burn. It’s an interesting conclusion but maybe not earned. I’ll have to rewatch it a few times before I know what to think.
#SNW
Self v Suff
Seeing thousands of wrestling fans chanting “therapy” is about the most wholesome thing I’ve ever seen from WWE.
The more I think about “For-and-a-half Vulcans” from #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds, the more I think about “The Naked Time” from the original series. In Naked Time, the crew lose their inhibitions because of a compound in the planet of the week. Essentially they are drunk. And they act on their emotional impulses.
While the crew in 4.5V are ostensibly unemotional Vulcans, in reality they are using Vulcan logic and discipline to make their emotional goals a reality. They are essentially “drunk” on logic. Pike uses his cooking skills and meticulously cleans his quarters because he wants to impress his girlfriend’s Vulcan boss - a classic sitcom trope by the way. Uhura uses a Vulcan mind-meld in order to turn Beto into the perfect Vulcan boyfriend. Christine Chapel uses her Vulcan stamina and intelligence to achieve her career goals. And La’an becomes convinced that it’s only logical to conquer the universe before someone else does.
I feel that much of the negativity surrounding #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #Season3 comes down to people projecting their own anxieties about the current political situation of the United States onto #SNW.
Episode 1 of Star Trek: Khan