I wish more sci-fi would come up with ships where the direction of thrust is perpendicular to the decks. There's not many of them and most of them are ugly. The design space is criminally under explored.
Even if you have artificial gravity, for a spaceship that never lands, it makes no sense to have to cancel out the g-forces produced by the thrust, then expend additional energy to reorient gravity to deck plates.
For me, at least, it's the fucking bad audio. So goddamn often the sound makes someone difficult to understand so I watch most things with subtitles.
I don't have to do that with games. Why? Because I get separate volume sliders for music, sound effects, and speech. Trouble understanding just means I need to adjust those to make the speech louder over music and fx.
Why in the hells tv and movie audio tracks don't have this separation I don't understand at all.
It is interesting, but it's also frustrating, and forced, effectively uncompensated work. I say 'effectively' uncompensated because they pay you a token amount that may have been adequate 100 years ago but now is not. Indeed, many people wind up making negative money when taking in the cost of travel and food, to say nothing of actual missed pay from their normal job.
That said it is actually kind of easy to get out of it if you really want to most of the time. When I served, the judge accepted any reasonable excuse from those who needed to leave. The most annoying part though was that it felt like the attorneys liked wasting time on irrelevant bullshit.
Additionally, when the judge asks if there's any reason you can't serve you can state you will never vote against your conscience regardless of the law, and that if you don't believe a person should be punished you will not vote them guilty no matter what the law says. They do not want and will not take someone who votes their conscience above all else.
Compatibility could be solved the Paradox way. Most of their games I can roll back to a specific patch. So if a player pays for a mod, and later game updates break it, as long as the player can roll back to the last patch on which the mod worked correctly, the player still has what they paid for.
All the other problems remain though.
I mean clearly the best choice for the mods is to comply with removing the nsfw tag but tell their communities that they are not going to be moderating nsfw posts, so please post maximum porn.
Tell Reddit with that action that they can make all the rules they want but it's not going to get the mods to actually follow them.
A rule based on 'canonical age' is nonsensical. They're fictional characters.
Not to mention rule 2 and 3 when put together are incoherent. Either 'canonical age' is relevant and rule 3 should go, or it is irrelevant and rule 2 needs to go.
Since the appearance of a character is more important than whatever number an author decided for age, then rule 2 makes sense to remove.
I think it would be a good thing in the long run, but if suddenly people could do this it would be a hell of an adjustment period that our civilization may not survive.