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mindbleach,

Like TNG, the pilot episode is a solid intro, but the first season is rrrough. Y’know “Code of Honor?” The same writer submitted the same script as “Emancipation.”

Decent formula episodes: Cor-Ai (s1e16), A Matter Of Time (s2e16), The Other Side (s4e2), Scorched Earth (s4e9), The Fifth Man (s5e4), Revisions (s7e5).

… and honestly the episode everyone goes on about is not a bad introduction. Window Of Opportunity (s4e6) stands alone.

mindbleach,

as though they knew him from his brief period as a vorlon or whatever.

You are really crossing the streams on this one. But fuck, it was a missed opportunity not to have John de Lancie as a cameo in that diner.

Oh, and I really hope Jellico is visiting the station.

“O’Neill - you punched an admiral?”

“I mistook him for someone else. A real sonofabitch.”

“Who’s he a mirror of in your timeline?”

“The vice president.”

mindbleach,

who the heck torrents porn?

People with very specific tastes, apparently.

mindbleach,

They don’t even need to fly nose-forward. The Enterprise could exit warp at any damn orientation it wanted. Blasting across the alpha quadrant nacelles-first, like Powdered Toast Man.

mindbleach,

You don’t trust… a company that licenses an ISA?

When your current alternative is a duopoly spearheaded by Intel?

mindbleach,

And computing might be hard if Godzilla eats all the power stations.

mindbleach, (edited )

That’s worse!

edit: Actually it’s also incorrect, since Nvidia is making ARM chips, not x86.

mindbleach,

Seriously though, if you spray-paint bubble wrap black, then run a sponge of gold paint over top, that’ll just about do. I’d only worry about the spray paint somehow melting the thin plastic… and the inevitable damage to all your shiny bumps.

Do pre-strung sequins come spaced-out? I am unclear how those work. If their orientation can be fixed then you could get a little tool and snip each circle into more of a Pac-Man shape.

Oh - “honeycomb sequin” might do. Gold on black, then delete the bottom of each sequin.

mindbleach,

Mask and spray paint, maybe?

Rubber molding is probably the least-bullshit way to get it exactly right. Press or roll a bunch of little divots into some reasonably firm material you’ve made damn sure is level, pour in dark latex, get a thin sheet of flexible material with a bunch of bumps. Try to dip that bumps-down into a very shallow pan of metallic paint. Any goofs can be touched-up by hand.

The quick way is to run a paint roller over some bubble wrap.

mindbleach,

Christopher Judge also wrote three and a half late-season episodes. The one Amanda Tapping directed was written by Michael Shanks.

mindbleach,

“They say you should never hit a man with a closed fist, but it is on occasion hi-larious.”

mindbleach,

Low bullshit quotient. No sudden garbage.

I switched when one guy unilaterally decided Ubuntu would completely flip its user interface, for no goddamn reason, the night before a long-term-support feature freeze.

mindbleach,

if it’s bad enough to merit a ban, there’s no way the comment stays.

If you can’t be a good example, you can still be a dire warning.

mindbleach,

Don’t you have it when you have to exist in a context?

mindbleach,

Apparently the problem with a state putting down a popular protest through overwhelming force and censoring all coverage or discussion of the event is that acknowledging atrocities is wrongthink.

mindbleach,

All flavors of tribalism are the same. That core conservative zeal to say whatever promotes the ingroup and condemns the outgroup seems innate to the human brain. Reasoned argument is a learned behavior - and so is faking it.

mindbleach,

Had some single-frame GIF images converted to WebP and presented as video.

mindbleach,

“Public companies” are owned by private individuals, you absolute dingus. Being for sale means private. They belong to specific persons and organizations.

mindbleach,

Who owns the Post Office? Nobody, because it’s a public utility.

Who owns Johnson & Johnson? The shareholders. That’s what they’re holding. That’s what they bought. That’s what the money was for. Because being “a public corporation” only means any rando can participate in that textbook fucking definition of capitalism.

It’s a joint-stock company! That is what defines the advent of capitalism!

mindbleach,

We beat scarcity. We’re up to our eyeballs in labor-saving technology. We just left people in charge who cannot imagine using it to save labor.

mindbleach,

Leading to intergalactic war accidentally started by DankPods.

mindbleach,

To say nothing of his new rival, Scarlet Fire.

mindbleach,

One of those shorts where Joel is not acting.

mindbleach,

Doing it faster doesn’t take a miracle - it takes flooding deck seven with deadly fluorine gas.

Do you need this done more than those people need to breathe? Serious question. I have the button right here. Tell you what, you press it when you’re ready.

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