SpaceScotsman

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[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I really don't know what to make of this episode. It was very creepy, and had time travel, but I don't really know what it means. Is there a moral here? Is it literally just "don't mess with sacred monuments you find on a walk in the countryside"?

And yes, as said above, if it was Ruby all along (somehow?) what made people scared?

Still, not a bad episode, but somehow a bit unsatisfying.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago

It would be hilarious if this was just a massive misdirect because all the fans expect there to be a link and the real mystery is answered by something no one has noticed yet

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 5 points 6 months ago

What option do I need to use to get support for Heptapod B?

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

It's still not as bad as we've had in the past (looking at you, love and monsters) at least they're not suffering endlessly.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I feel quite dumb, I hadn't even realised Susan was the same person. I noticed familiarity, but i didn't put it together.

With that, the snow, and everything around Ruby I'm really not sure where its all going.

I think what works really well about the Anglican marines is it's a perfect stand in to allow the writer to criticise the concept of English exceptionalism (acting in God's name makes everything all right, going to war whether we're needed or not, colonisation because we know best, etc) , but adding a bit of fantasy abstraction so they're not being too literal about it.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

That was a fantastic episode. It spares no punches on the military industrial complex, healthcare, acting purely on belief, and ai, all of which are incredibly timely topics. It's an episode rooted in concept science fiction and yet this one felt realistic which only adds to the horror.

I would contest that it would be so easy to take over an entire organisations AI, but then again even here and now it seems any company that taints itself with ai tends to put good practice to the wayside,so maybe it's not quite deus ex.

Not loving the gory bits though, doctor basically kissed a mutilated dead body at the end there...

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 4 points 6 months ago

I always thought that when the timeless child idea came up it seemed like it had something interesting going on. But the entire time I couldn't figure out what was actually going on. RTD seems to actually care about overarching story arcs, so I look forward to seeing what he does with it.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I could not get into the baby episode. The talking babies just put me off. Might have been scarier than the actual monster.

But the devil's cord was better. Great concept. Good mix of fun and serious and a nice follow up to the toy maker. I didn't feel it really made the most use of the beatles though, the maestro could have been in any time period with any musician. I was pleasantly surprised by the twist at the end.

RTD likes his recurring threads, so I guess the pantheon is going to anchor this series. So far we've had masters (gods?) of toys and music. What next - the different parts of what makes being human? Love? Food? And how does Ruby fit into it.

So far ncuti and millie are fitting in well. A bit different, bringing their own flair, but still capturing the right feel.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 32 points 7 months ago

100% online games in the past were perfectly playable even after developers / publishers ended support. Online only games dying is a relatively recent invention. This petition is asking for consumer protection to return to the norm where a purchaser of an online game always has the choice of being able to play it in some fashion.

A game developer could do this by releasing a server application. They could even do this at the barest minimum by releasing documentation describing how the server ought to work, to allow for reverse engineering.

The Stop Killing Games campaign as a whole isn't asking for perpetual server access, just to ensure that games stay in some sort of playable state.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

England really needs to get right to roam legislation like Scotland. It would make it more difficult for companies to make claims like this and make it clear that everyone has a responsibility to keep nature clean as its a shared resource

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago

I was using it, but because it periodically did load fine I assumed I was just having network trouble. Thanks for fixing!

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Instead of arguing about 0Mg vs 0mg - use the best of both and upset everyone: 0ᴍg

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