It’s OK, the pride of stupid people will guarantee there is always a large swathe of confidantly wrong answers out there even if the "AI"s don’t hallucinate them.

That’s why I knew LLMs alone would never cut it. They do ZERO logic, and humans who DO execute logic sometimes still get it horribly wrong a lot. It takes more than the equivalent of a dreamer’s illogical dreamscape of relationships to produce logic, and LLMs are a far cry short of a dreamer…

Not clicking through just to find the title that should be in the title, so…

The corners are slowly curling up more and more until the nozzle goes completely outside of the curl and becomes an overhanged corner.

The biggest problem is what ever is causing your plastic to curl while printing. Some plastics are terrible for it and you basically need a heated chamber to get rid of it. You could try playing with cooling settings or making a warmer environment, or … something else. Half the time if it’s a problem, I have to change the print or its orientation or add geometry so it doesn’t curl… It’s such a pain sometimes.

You assume MS is competent?

Yea, I see what you mean. Actual representation and not tokenization. I wouldn’t accuse even STD or Picard of at least purposefully tokenizing. Although with the contemporary representation with a drama focus in the writing, it almost jumps the shark enough on the ST premise that the contemporary drama representation almost just feels tokenized, if that makes sense. I don’t think it’d be obvious with better writing, and I hear they get better later, so I could see people disagreeing out of pure entertainment value in the least.

My comment is not about any specific lgbtq content but about the general attitude of the writing. The focus on drama over logic completely shallows out the allegory until it’s JUST a gay couple being contemporarily gay on screen.

It’s not bad to have contemporary representation, it’s just less inspired than what older ST did. Mind, I’ve heard later Picard seasons get better on the writing, and SNW I only stopped watching because I forgot more were coming, so I’m not trying to poo poo on anything except that which people largely already agree aren’t that great.

Like the first season of TNG. It’s uh… they had some decent episodes but boy were the bad ones something. lol Or the TNG movies for the most part. They’re just … different than the show. Entertaining, but that’s not my only criteria for ST, personally.

Yea, I’d definitely say they’ve made missteps in the past. I also hear Discovery is MUCH better in later seasons as well, so the juxtaposition in general writing style that highlights what I mean may be muddied by competence showing up later.

Those are specific details, not general nature of writing. I’m talking about analysis of the writing style, not how scifi it is.

I mean, yea, basically. They didn’t let the concepts steep enough so the allegory took back stage to the simplified moralizing.

I’m not necessarily against any general angle they took, it just didn’t really do the star trek intellectual thing where they’re actually competent professional adults dealing with something. The general mood of the writing is just … too straight forward plain Hollywood. Sure, Star Trek has its TV schlock, but it was that angle of at least trying to make everyone logic-first adults that made it great.

Yea, that’s sorta’ what I mean. They cared about writing complex professional characters in ds9 and such, not drama queens doing contemporary art. Regardless of the high production value, it has the opposite soul of Star Trek for focusing on issues over humanized characters.

Ugh, it’s so hard to describe good writing when I’m not a good writer. lol

It’s not that they’re the topic of an episode, but that the show is RELYING on the basic drama of the cultural topics.

Trek is supposed to make allegory for cultural issues, not just blandly do the cultural issues.

No, it’s the modern, basic portrayal of those characters and their issues that’s the problem.

Star Trek is supposed to reflect on human problems and foibles with allegory. Not just slap you across the face with, “see, gays are normal, too!” Yes, we watch Star Trek. We know. Make it more interesting with an allegory tied to a other characters that aren’t supposed to be professional officers from a species that’s prescribed as already past these issues.

By putting so much basic and direct human drama in STD, they bastardized the entire bluepeint of the show.

Honestly, the alien stuff is exactly where there is most fertile soil for allegory there. That’s what killed it for me, too. They’re all unprofessional drama queens from the 21st century. Not space exploration officers from centuries in the future.

The show wrIters OBVIOUSLY cared. So much so it shined right through the writing.

Only like 1/4th of the new stuff even has half-decent writing. Only the last season of Picard and the Strange New Worlds or what ever are even good TV, let alone “Star Trek”

I … guess what I’m saying is, you’re not missing much. Stange New Worlds is probably the closest to old trek. The other crap is drama before even plot, let alone drama over intelligence.

Capitalists do nothing for free because they are callous, heartless monsters.

Unironically it could get to that point.

bahaha truly pathetic

Calling it a “buzzword” is dismissive of it. Or are you also too stupid to understand subtext?

I don’t think they’re entirely different. Enshittification is just a specific type. Yes, of course it has distinguishing qualities or we’d be having a totally different convo.

IMO, it’s more important to realize enshittification is not a new development! It’s just way, WAY more obvious now that the ruling class has allowed effective monopolies to rise again. When only one or two companies control an entire market, their shitty tactics become way, way more obvious and painful for consumers.