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good of you to include pike’s hair as a complaint, that way we know who to space

there’s a good joke in here somewhere about Babylon 5’s canonically lesbian XO throwing a fit when the station got a gift shop. “we’re not some deep space franchise, this station is about something!”

if you combine the ratings for Discovery and Knuckles, you get to the third position on the chart. Paramount, you know what must be done…

young ferengi takes human expression “break a leg” too literally

if i had a nickel for every time Spock faced off against a unique species of cat-like predator from Vulcan, i’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

i feel the same way about classic vs modern racers but i totally missed New Star GP getting released, it looks amazing!

rexx is my favorite programming language. it’s an interpreted language similar to python but it has actual visible block delimiters instead of going by indentation. the error handling system is also very convienent. the reason it probably faded into obscurity is it’s wild cowboy take on typing- EVERYTHING is a string until you try to use a math function on it. i get that it’s unrealistic for writing anything performance-sensitive but for writing shell scripts and utilities it is unmatched in it’s simplicity. it definitely comes closer than anything else i’ve ever seen to the COBOL ideal of resembling natural speech. the rexx interpreter was a default feature on the amiga and i think also os/2 but these days it’s really only ever used on mainframes and the few open source implementations for desktops and servers are a bit clumsy which is a real shame

it’s been pointed out that the 7800 gives you two systems and you have an SMS if you have a Mega Drive, but it’s worth pointing out that the SMS can also play SG-1000 games, which the MD cannot. the SG-1000 has a rather modest library but its very similar to both the ColecoVision and MSX1 to the point many of both console’s heaviest hitters have been ported over by fans. getting all of that PLUS the SMS library makes it the obvious choice to me IF you don’t already have an MD to play SMS games on. if you do, despite my bias i do have to say that both the NES and 2600 (via the 7800) both probably have deeper library then just the additional games SG-1000 support gets you

if you’re torn, a ColevoVision with a RAM expansion and a 2600 adaptor gives you the SG-1000/coleco/some MSX1 AND 2600 support, and if you get a Super Action Controller too you will be the fashion envy of retro gamers everywhere. decisions decisions decisions…