Genz here, there’s this sweet spot from about 1985 to 2010 where games and even movies just peaked for me. (Yes I’m aware most of that is before I was born). For movies special effects were finally good enough to still hold up today if used well but not so insanely cheap as to get the modern michael bay problem where writing has actually become secondary to often pointless spectacle. With games its a similar story, the end of that time range is pretty much the point of highest technical capability before online updates allowed a ‘fix it later’ philosiphy to creep in as well as all the cool secrets (Red levels + star world + extra second secret star world is still unmatched in sheer childhood wonder) becomming paid DLC.

TLDR: Retro stuff doesn’t nickle and dime you and survivorship bias means we can pick from the best of it.

On the other hand in certain applications you can replace a significant amount of programming ability with a good undertstanding of vector maths.

Best episode this season, still mad about whatever that space king episode was though.

What… what did I just watch?

The entire warp is just that at some point holocrew become ubiquitous enough to have holo emitters installed all over every ship. Inevitably the holograms became evil and one of them was able to reprogram the computer to turn on the holo emitters every time the warp drive is used. The flawed design was subsiquently replicated on every single ship because no one in 40k understands their own technology anymore. All a gellar field does is fuck with the holo emitters.

So I’ve worked out whats been bugging me about the new episodes, not just for futurama but also all the new simpsons episodes for a while too. They’ve been trying to run distinct A and B plots at the same time without any interplay in them beyond happening to occur in the same space of time. The result is that instead of an interesting A plot with a small B plot running alongside we instead get what’s pretty much two completely seperate half length plots that end up feeling underexplored and rushed.

The momazon episode is a good example, we started with leela moving in to fry and benders appartment and the emotional effect that has on bender, but then bender just goes to work at momazon so abrubtly that it doesn’t even feel like a consiquence of the earlier events so much as a really forced way to segway into the momazon plot, the appartment plot is then pretty much completely ignored for the whole episode only to come back up right at the end for a last minute resolution. The result is basically a rugpull on the apartment plot while leaving too little time for the momazon plot to really get interesting, they just jump right from problem straight to solution with no real obstacles that don’t immediately resolve themselves.

Both plotlines could have been served far better if the momazon plot had been the main focus with the apartment situation being sprinkled in as interactions during the momazon plot; this would have given the A plot the full screen time to properly play out while also keeping the B plot relevant throughout the whole episode. I think a good example of this would be the episode where nibbler gets flushed down the toilet, the A plot is finding nibbler and a B plot between bender and leela/nibbler takes place within the A plot without cutting into its run time.

TLDR: B plots have become too seperate from the A plots and end up detracting from them rather than complimenting them.

People won’t believe me that windows is an absoloute dumpster fire, sure it works most of the time but when it doesn’t it quickly becomes apparent how much the whole thing is creaking edifice built atop pretty much every past version of itself. I could do a whole rant.

Milenium falcon for sure, if there’s one thing thats constant throughout all the (startrek) series its that larger ships routinely get their asses handed over to them by far smaller vessels including somehow their own shuttle craft.

Agreed it feels a bit stale. Most of the jokes are just references to past episodes, this episode in particular felt incredibly missable.