Famous warrior bitches about his shitty kid to two naked women in a mud bath.

I think this is using recomp, anybody with a rom could theoretically do this on their own pc, so there’s morning to destroy. The recomp isn’t specific to Nintendo and isn’t really violating copyright, as far as I understand.

3D printing at that scale is just too damn slow and prone to failure for serious manufacturing. It’s one thing for prototyping, but it’s not really viable for at scale manufacturing.

There’s a significant cost to making the stamping and casting molds that produce these parts but once they’re made, they can produce dozens of units per hour with minimal waste.

Printing a single bumper would take days. And there would be so much waste on support structures, I would guess must of the material cost is waste.

That’s almost half a Riker. Pretty impressive

And they obsess over really unusual stuff, like the particular way we assembled gear boxes.

“kahless unforgettable you literally travel farther in a day than all the cars humans ever made have ever traveled.”

“But look at these VALVES!”

It’s all CNC. All the way down. Always was.

Seriously, 3d printers are just CNC machines, they use the same code the mill I use that was built in 1989 uses.

There’s a community that builds 3d printed guns, and those don’t last very long either. They’re not printing barrels, they’re just printing the trigger housing and grip. They go out and buy the dangerous bits.

This is all a bit pointless.

Even more pointless when you consider that once you have a 3d printer, you can make a lot of the components for a second 3d printer, and go out and buy the other parts, without ever buying a 3d printer. Now you have two ghost gun machines!! Oh the horror.

Well well well… I guess I’m starting with DS9.

I’ve been wanting to rewatch TNG and DS9, but I don’t have access to Paramount+ and haven’t gotten around to finding an alternative source yet

There’s a good episode in season one… I don’t remember which one but there is one

I thought that was cannon? It’s that not specifically mentioned somewhere? I can’t remember when I heard it but I always thought that they were made to be hard to use, because winning a battle with a regular weapon is easy and therefore less honorable.

And if you watch the actors try to swing these things around they always look awkward.

There’s definitely extensive documentation…

Actually now that you mention it I don’t think I’ve ever seen Ferengi R34.

Aren’t Ferengi women usually naked anyway?

I love his character, I really do. When I say he’s a terrible captain, is because he consistently makes choices completely in line with his character that are awful. In universe it even makes sense. Starfleet didn’t expect much from this mission, it was politically motivated and his placement as captain was too. Vulcan high command is throwing humans a bone, the humans are throwing one of their own by placing the son of the guy who designed the ship at it’s helm. It goes exactly how you’d expect it to go, and then suddenly transdimensional aliens from the future blow up Florida and Archer is the only guy with a ship fast enough to do something about it. Thank God Trip and T’Pol were there or the humans would have been fucked

The Borg is one thing I’d actually like to see the origins of. Like we can assume it was a race of technologically advanced aliens that decided one day to plug themselves in, then their own prime directive gradually took over as they became less and less human for lack of a better term for the parent species, and more and more machine. And now they’re a universal paperclip AI, bent on advancement through assimilation, all traces of who they were completely wiped away

I loved Enterprise. Dr Phlox is easily the best Starfleet doctor yet represented. But Jonathan Archer is an idiot.

Every S1 episode is this: new species met, half the crew gives advice on how to deal with them. Jonathan Archer decides to do the exact opposite and the rest of the episode is trying to repair that damage.

Don’t get me wrong, I find it funny, realistic, and relatable. But Archer isn’t a great captain.

I always kinda thought Bones had a tail of ex wives behind him. Kinda like Alex Kamal in the expanse.