Notices by ocdtrekkie (ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social), page 4

@lunareclipse Ah the struggle between just appreciating this awesome point, and telling everyone how they are probably using the dishwasher wrong...

But yeah, there is a stunning amount of stuff we do as humans not because we have to but because society has pressured us to believe it's the right way to do it, and sometimes it's entirely fine to set that stuff aside.

I hate the waste, but paper plates and plastic forks if it is what gets you through the week.

@clacke I read a thing that basically said Anson Mount was like "I don't really sing", and that's not too surprising? But he did fine.

I wonder if Anthony Rapp feels like he got cast in the wrong Star Trek now. :D

@Polychrome @yuki2501 Perhaps technically, but not practically: Anyone who tried to make their old Blu-rays unplayable would get sued horribly. I don't believe it has ever happened.

@Polychrome @yuki2501 Intel removed support for 4K Blu-ray decoding (a feature called SGX) from newer Intel processors due to security vulnerabilities.

That being said, the keys to decrypt most Blu-rays are out there.

@vantablack I feel like if someone starts their post with "But what if there IS", we have been sucked into a live Tucker Carlson episode. Yikes.

@adamconover Glad to hear it, we're pro-unions here!

@aeva Sites like Vudu usually get rentals within a couple weeks of theatrical release now, but it's like $20, "theater at home" pricing. Digital purchase is usually like a month or so, but it varies by studio of course. Nobody's really letting you watch their movie day one on streaming apps anymore, David Zaslav put an end to that real quick.

@aeva He runs Warner Bros. Discovery. He killed all the cool things on HBO Max like day one streaming releases.

@clacke It does but Trek has *always* been subject to some retconning. And yeah, sometimes temporal activity is used as an excuse for that.

@clacke I am really curious how Dr. M'Benga ends up serving under Dr. McCoy after being the Chief Medical Officer himself.

But these roles were so minimal in TOS it is not hard to rewrite them a bit without drastic continuity problems. And the depth they added to Pike's TOS stories was still a work of pure brilliance.

@michaelcoyote @cwebber I would say that developing something for a specific case that also works really well in more general cases is a particularly @zenhack way to engineer things.

Realizing some fix he wrote makes sense to just like... apply to every other thing as well is something that happened regularly. So the fact this works with normal cards when you don't have this special deck available... makes sense.

@cwebber @zenhack Will probably be a couple weeks until I can form coherent thoughts about how to move forward, but will try to attend tomorrow.

@feditips @bitflipped I'm explaining Tucker Carlson's disinformation model and calling it a grift. If you recognize you fit it exactly, my message got through.

@feditips @bitflipped And in that thread he... said anyone could donate to Patreon just like anyone else... and that conveys no authority, influence, or strings.

So unless the Patreon income has hockey-sticked way more than just "Mastodon is super popular this week", I'm not sure what you're on about, and even if they did donate, it wouldn't impact... anything?

@bitflipped @feditips If you think it undermines, you need to understand how the grift works. Because this is the exact style. Invent a conspiracy, and since there's no proof of it, ask about it! Followers who believe you're an authority will accept it as fact regardless of the fact that nobody ever said it happened.

Fox News has run a multibillion dollar enterprise on this model.

@bitflipped @feditips He tried and now it's "not clear enough" because conspiracy theorists will always look for a way their wrong beliefs could still technically be true. This is an *embarrassing* thread for feditips to have propagated.

Doing a Tucker Carlson needs to be a bannable offense, imho.

@feditips Okay, Tucker Carlson. Just asking questions, got it.

Like seriously please step back and look at your behavior in light of your popularity here amongst newcomers. Take your conspiracies elsewhere.

@bitflipped @feditips Eugen has already said it's false, see the link elsewhere in the thread.

@bitflipped @feditips If there's no secret deals, and there are no non-secret deals... there are... no deals.

@feditips @alexpostfacto @catalyst You expect something substantive about... nothing existing? Nothing exists. He has told you.