[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I can't tell you much about acting, because I see the shows subbed. However, the writing is terrible, in any language. Not only their choice don't make sense and there are constant plot holes, they are supposed to be seasoned Starfleet veterans, yet they act to dramatically, so emotionally, illogically and scared all the time.

And it's not a smart "logic vulcans vs illogic humans" confrontation, it's not a quirk of well defined characters with balance in their emotions; they are simply badly written for dramatic and sitting-on-the-edge type of narrative, which is fine I guess, but it's a cheap way to get traction in the narrative, which doesn't hold well for fans of the series that enjoyed the professionalism of Starfleet captains, supposedly the best of the best, capable of facing every menace.

Again, you want to do such a series, do it. But brand it as Star Trek, and you will get this kind of criticism.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That's not true. Enterprise was new when released and I find it quite ok. Might not be the best of the shows, but it tried a different narration perspective and decent writinf. SNW is very new and very solid, despite a similar context to DIS, with a more modern narration, relevant morality and even a less serious tone at times. It's just a better show, comparable to the "classic" ones, despite being a few years old

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I mean, if human and terrans are identical, expect for the dim light thing, you can expect any terran to have ptsd. If you put a human brain with its psicology and needs, every single person will have ptsd from the traumatic life of violence, betrayal and torture they must endure.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

People that had qaulity shows for decades expect quality. If you want to make a scifi show either don't call it Star Trek or accept the criticism

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's pretty terrible, not terrible enough to not see. The main problem is they made it very very difficult to care at all about anyone. Burnam is the most intollerable captain ever, they barely develop any character at all, and if they do, it's only to kill them immediately after and try and squeeze some easy feelings from us. Well developed characters are instead falsely killed, but ultimately protected by plot armor. As you mentioned, Stamets and Saru are the only really decent guys.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

I don't really think that's the same thing. The enterprise D was the flagship of the federation. It was THE ship and was given important mission, but it didn't save the entire literal galaxy in it's own. It had whacky adventure, did a lot of first contacts, fought important battles. But discovery single handedly solved galaxy level menaces and fought against entire alien fleets, all without very little help. That just doesn't make any sense

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Organic Maps is the open source evolution of maps.me, by the same developers, have a try

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

If you use Google takeout (the service that lets you access all your data), you can download your Google maps favourites as a GeoSON file. It depends on specific apps if they can directly import it, but there's surely some converter around to export it to .kml or .gpx, that can easily be imported in other apps

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Smart TVs and cae infotainnent systems, for sinilar reasons. Full of bloat, so many bugs and unreliable functioning.

[-] [email protected] 94 points 2 weeks ago

We need to, because they are the only ones fighting against Chrome monopoly. It's so sad to read news like this

[-] [email protected] 65 points 3 weeks ago

We are in a time where a single invention can rarelt be great. For technological development you need thousands of small inventions, each that use previous technological breakthrough through decades of research. And even great things we have, are just refinement and miniaturization of things we already had.

But if a single thing had to be said, I would say mRNA vaccines. Covid vaccines saved milions of lives, were developed in record times, and their technology could be used for HIV or even antitumoral vaccines.

[-] [email protected] 78 points 4 months ago

You see the bad sex education when you think "a good girl" is the one not having sex. Sex is perfectly normal and teenagers will have sex, at least teach them about it

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