Oracle was one of the first companies on my personal shit-list. I feel validated.

Geoffrey is disqualified because his character is flat as a board. He was simply sadistic, evil for evil’s sake, and his only motivation was to indulge. His presence enabled more interesting characters to have a dynamic, and allowed the plot to happen by legitimizing the Lannisters’ claim to the throne, but on his own, he was a nothingburger, a one-trick pony, and an absolute tool. No offense to the actor, he did a great job, but I was glad to see the character gone.

Louise Fletcher fucking nailed her character. It’s difficult to create a villain that the audience can hate with a passion. Fletcher and Ronny Cox (Robert Kinsey from SG-1) are the best villain actors I’ve seen.

It suffers from the same iconic issues as Ubisoft games: mid gameplay stretched out far too much. It has some interesting concepts, but doesn’t do anything noteworthy with them. Skip or buy at a heavy discount.

For many years now, Apple has been sustaining its quasi-monopoly in the smartphone ecosystem by drip-feeding features that have been part of the baseline for other brands, and having the most hard-core blinkered Apple cultists proselytize about what innovations they (supposedly) represent. This advantage doesn’t exist in the silicon or VR markets. They’ve managed to keep their CPU successful because it’s built on existing technology and because of vendor lock-in, but the Vision Pro didn’t have the same training wheels and ate shit right at launch.

In case it isn’t obvious, I don’t have many positive feelings towards Apple.

New Intrusive Thought Unlocked!

“It’s just a station? That stays in one place? How can it measure up to the galaxy-spanning adventures of TNG?”

Three seasons later it had its hooks in me and wasn’t letting go.

No, it really is super simple, just:

Set-HostElevatedPrivilege -SubstituteUser Administrator -Privilege [Microsoft.Automation.HostPrivilege]::new("Administrators", $(hostname)) -Credential $(Get-Credential) -Command "ping 1.1.1.1"

FINALLY! It only took them WAY TOO MANY FUCKING YEARS! Good job catching up to literal decades-old practices, guys! How do you like living in the 1990s?

Man, I’ll almost miss having to run a VNC session in parallel with WinRM to click on the UAC popup.

Take a look at the Pioneer spacecrafts’ plaques. NASA scientists have broken down our abstract expression of distance to language-agnostic universal constants. I refuse to believe that a space-faring civilization with friendly intentions wouldn’t do everything in its power to find a common language, no matter how far removed from their spoken language.

“Our communication happens through references to well-documented historical events and figures, but still uses the same vocabulary and grammar as the federation and most of the galaxy’s civilizations. Maybe we should share a short summary with the captain, to assist in establishing relations.”

“No! I wanna wrassle the monster like Darmok and Jalad!”

Holy one-byte indexed color palette, Batman!

BONUS! 80 Years of Emotional Baggage!

It depends on where you draw the line between magic and technology, and it blurs significantly after Shadowbringers.

FFXIV has both. It gets weird.

The alien anti-horny device is worthless against the degeneracy of the average Gamer.

I’m not sure if it’s good for your case, but I learned programming in Garry’s Mod - specifically the Expression 2 chip from the Wiremod addon. It uses C-like code either running on I/O triggers or in an infinite loop, and can interact with Wiremod’s other components or the game world itself.

Reminds me of that US-whatever-armed-forces medic who would give drunk soldiers high-pressure saline enemas by stomping on an IV bag connected to their rectum.