Jesus, eq is life hijacking.

Try project Lazarus, it’s the best of eq without all the painful time consuming bs.

Phantasy star 4, though it’s still great to play now anyway.

Picard, hand on face.

Picard and Riker, hands on faces.

Worf, when the threat appears.

Worf in the infirmary, screaming.

Worf in the holosuite, listening to a song…

Sisko’s mother, her son born…

There are far worse things in the darkness than jira :( but yes.

That took me a second.

Beautiful, especially Murdock.

That’s not the problem.

Software used to be an artisan job, a skilled engineer carefully sculpts a solution for a problem.

Management didn’t have much to add there, or visibility, this was a world-breaking problem for them, where was their value?

The solution was issue-tracking, make every line of code a bureaucratic nightmare, ensure panopticon-like visibility for everything, that guaranteed the manager was always in control.

Progress slowed to a crawl, that’s fine, you just need to hire more developers, hundreds, they scale, right?

Good programmers stick to startups because large companies are just well-paying torture firms. I wouldn’t go back to Google for any amount of money, but I’ll do a startup almost for free, because they let me write code.

I think so, but where are we going to find a duck and a hose at this hour?

That whole episode is a huge barrel of crazy, Avery Brooks just spooges acting juice on every surface.

Whoops, thanks my bad.

This has been a problem forever, the googleization of CS where everything is assumed to scale to gigabytes and therefore all that matters is big-O.

In systems that’s meaningless, what really matters is memory locality, loop placement, caching/lookaside and other features.

The JDk is an excellent example of both large scale and small scale optimization, the GC systems and much of the low-level features like locking use microoptimizations while the higher order data structure features use algorithmic optimizations.

No, I think you notice something subtle in tng: after the borg, for a while picard becomes less gregarious, he starts by going to spend time with family, spends more time among his crew, but doesn’t reach out to strangers as much seemingly, there’s a different kind of distance he has between anyone he doesn’t consider family, ie ent-d crew.

It wears off over time but it was noticeable to me, in a way the torture later is part of it. It shows up a few times actually. In the beginning he was proud of being picard of the enterprise and for a while he isn’t, he’s captain, but he feels the responsibility more than he enjoyed it.

I think either tapestry or the flute one are where it started to break, also for a second in Rqbin hood and a few others, and by s7 it felt like it started to pass.

But I think it wasn’t shock at siskos reaction, it was abject terror. He knew this happened, he knew he’d have to face it someday, and it was literally his worst fear, because he could deal with anything, except his bottomless guilt.

Edit: actually, they should have had it come up during redemption pt2, where he’s assembling the fleet, and some starfleet officers were nervous at dealing with picard after losing friends at wolf 359.

The holodeck: has an independent power supply for morale value.

Life support:

The first 2 episodes are unwatchable but it gets better.

But those first 2, I do not blame you 1 bit, ep3 isn’t much better but by ep4 it starts not being garbage.

Picard is a better captain for the starfleet of his age, kirk was a better captain for his younger federation.

Picard was a diplomat and mediator looking for the best way to keep the peace. Kirk was a sheriff in the wild west, and in fact westerns were a large influence on tos trek.

Watched something on that, considering the next go around.

The job system makes people a bit OP, lose to a boss and you can go back with a much better setup and just rock them.

I wanted to go through ff5 forever and never got much farther than the ship graveyard before getting distracted, I want to finish it, then make it a game I replay a lot, it’s crazy fun right now.

Ff7 is above reproach, because each character still had their own traits outside material, even if they weren’t much, ie cloud had strength, Cait sith had hp, Vincent had guns and was a fucking nightmare.

But 4 really nailed it in my heart, because otherwise rydia will nuke you.

Same on both counts, ff4 had an incredible atmosphere and story (even if they did have too much “no-ones ever really gone…”).

Playing ff5 now, it’s good, but, and I hate saying this, but the fixed classes gave them more character, rydia is awesome because she’s rydia and she nukes people while Cecil is awesome because he protects rydia while she nukes people.

But mechanically ff5 is probably better otherwise. Lot of room to experiment.

My boy woke up and chose violence here, damn.