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  • MudMan@kbin.socialtoRisa@startrek.websiteRansomware
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    1 year ago

    Ah… ok, wow, that’s a lot of relativity to explain from scratch for a non-physicist. There must be someone else…

    Here, this one is a bit dense but it addresses Star Trek by name, so:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTf4eqdQXpA

    Bonus points for starting with the point that forget warp, subspace communication breaks causality already, so you don’t even need to boldly go anywhere for any of it to be kinda busted.

    If that’s a bit too dry you can search for a similar subject line, there are TONS of explanations like this one out there.

    Anyway, none of it makes sense, it’s all for funsies anyway. Suspend disbelief, ye nerds, and enjoy your sci-fi.


  • Don’t make me break out the spacetime diagram, young man. Because I WILL break out the spacetime diagram.

    Anyway, doesn’t matter. Star Trek has messed with time travel since TOS season 1. And that was after they started introducing magic men with god powers, which they did in episode 3. It makes zero sense to get nerdy about it. That’s my point here.







  • MudMan@kbin.socialtoRisa@startrek.websiteCope
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    I like that you like DS9. Good for you. It’s there for you and that’s fine.

    But it’s a weird show that is a fundamental contestation to what makes Star Trek appealing and pretends it isn’t.

    It’s fine. All of Trek is fine. But if you ask me if I’d rather watch Discovery, I’d watch Discovery any day. Which, again, is fine, because both of those exist and are at the very least decent.

    I’m not sure how much “teen humor” there is in modern Trek, though. I mean, there’s Lower Decks, but that’s the point of Lower Decks and I kinda warmed up to it over time. Ditto for Prodigy.

    If anything Picard was overly self-serious, and one could argue the same of Discovery, at least during the first season. I kinda see it in SNW, and I do think Season 2 tries to do too much too soon, but whatever, that show has a specific niche and that’s where it lives.

    Man, can I just stop to say that I just rattled off five different Star Trek shows, all of them different and all of them at least decent? What a time to be into this particular series.


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    Here’s a controversial thought: The worst Trek is at the absolute worst kinda decent, and it only goes up from there.

    My Trek power rankings don’t line up with most (Discovery is pretty great, DS9 is kind of annoying, all the Kelvin Treks are fun and the first one is pretty great), but even the parts I don’t like I can watch and be chill about it.

    Picard is bordering that line, honestly, but I can’t be actively mad at Patrick Stewart and I actually would have watched a cheaper, longer show about the La Sirena crew without the TNG baggage.


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    Oh, bless you.

    Being old enough to have Voyager and especially DS9 be my “nuTrek” and also never having let it go I can feel your nerdrage as a warm, fuzzy winter fire.

    Can I interest you in how DS9’s focus on greed, war and moral compromise is a betrayal of the concepts behind Star Trek and if they wanted to make Babylon 5 they should have just made Babylon 5?







  • I mean, that’s fair enough, I suppose. Like I said elsewhere I’ve had more problems with the PS5 controllers than the Switch ones, but my guess is this is luck of the draw. Some people just don’t like the Joycon form factor, and that’s also fair. I have some wrist issues and split controllers are amazing for my specific issues, so I’m very on board with the design for very specific reasons.

    FWIW, I suspect a lot of the issues people report with those things are down to connectivity, not build quality. The BT antenna in those is terrible and it’s being power starved to run on their tiny batteries. I’ve used literally hundreds of Joycon at one point or another and rarely seen legit stick drift, but I’ve had controllers where in a noisy environment just your hand grip could make the connection get all flaky. What the Switch does in that scenario seems to be to just hold your stick position and call it a day, which isn’t great.


  • No, I read the whole thing, including that line, but that’s entirely editorializing from the reporter. The quotes from the actual patent are pretty clear, machine translation word soup aside.

    You being nitpicky made me go dig up the full patent, which makes it even clearer: “(…) The intensity of the magnetic field can be designated from the application. Thus, it is possible to perform flexible control in accordance with the application”.

    I don’t blame the commenters for not going that extra step, though, that’s just me being fastidious. I do blame the reporters focusing on stick drift because mah clicks for not reading the patent properly, though.

    EDIT: For what it’s worth, I find the idea of a stick being full of ferrofluid or whatever else they’re using for this to be… likely finicky and potentially messy and fragile, depending on how much you need in there to make it work properly. This sounds intriguing and weirdly high-tech, but if you made me bet I wouldn’t feel comfortable putting money on this showing up on a Switch 2 just yet. Could be wrong, though.