People who criticize new (or old) Trek for its wokeness are overwhelmingly not on this platform. People here who dislike Kurtzman-era Trek take issue with the lacklustre writing. At least, that’s my impression. I suppose it’s possible that there are a bunch of bigots commenting that I’ve blocked and/or have defederated with.

Absent that, the proliferation of these sorts of memes just strikes me as pandering, coupled with a misguided, combative defensiveness of anything that falls under the corporate-owned Trek umbrella, regardless of quality.

Indeed. Conversely, if the GOP had had superdelegates, Trump may never have won the nomination. Superdelegates are inherently anti-populist, which cuts both ways.

I think where a lot of this comes from is that HRC had locked in the vast majority of the superdelegates right from the start. The media consistently represented Bernie as having no chance to win, due to all the superdelegates being in the bag for Clinton, regardless of how people voted. This depressed progressive turnout, as a Clinton victory was apparently a foregone conclusion. Absent the superdelegate system, and the lopsided media coverage it engendered, many would argue the result would have been different. Obviously, there’s no way of knowing at this point, but it’s not as if these claims have no basis in reality.

Just shuffle through a few vpn servers until it works. Always does the trick for me ¯\(ツ)/¯

Edit: same goes for commenting with a lemmy.world account

Hey, thanks, I’d never heard of this one! I’ll check it out.

Yeah, I think the adventure genre is the best fit for Trek games. TNG: A Final Unity, ST: Judgment Rites, ST: 25th Anniversary, and ST: Resurgence are all excellent, imo.

I enjoyed the Elite Force games back in the day, and I’m sure I’ll pick up this Voyager game and try it at some point, but I doubt it will capture that feeling of being in an interactive episode of Trek, the way those games do.

They aren’t. That’s an easy scapegoat. Influenced by Russian propaganda, sure, but we’re all influenced by propaganda. The vast majority are ordinary citizens, who are as convinced of the righteousness of their beliefs as anyone. Dismissing them, en masse, as bots and trolls isn’t helpful.

The fact is, many of them have very valid points. Where they need to be fought is, very specifically, when they encourage non-voting. There’s no good argument for non-voting, and it’s easy to defeat them there.

Every time you vote, you are granting the rich permission to continue to fuck you regardless of who you voted for.

And do you think that, by refraining from voting, you would somehow deny the rich that permission? That’s probably why all the openly corrupt, unapologetically authoritarian politicians go out of their way to ensure everyone is able to cast a ballot, right? Because they know that, the more people vote, the more permission the rich will have to fuck everyone. That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for your enlightened contribution here.

When I start a rewatch of DS9, it still grates on me that he seemingly felt justified in holding Picard responsible for what happened to his wife. The guy was assimilated by the Borg, and Sisko has had years to come to terms with what happened before the conversation with Picard.

Later, I was able to appreciate the appeal of a flawed, complex, possibly more realistic Star Trek captain, but it did make him pretty unlikable, right off the bat, especially when I first saw it as a kid. I grew up on TNG, and Picard was my main man. Still, Brooks did a hell of a job on the series, and Sisko was a fantastic character.

Yeah. I was in basic on 9/11, out at a machine gun range. All the instructors heard about it on the radio, then came and told us about it while we were in the bleachers, waiting to shoot. We didn’t really believe it, until we headed back to BN, and random checkpoints had sprouted up on the route since that morning. Crazy times.

They had guys manning checkpoints with loaded rifles, some of whom hadn’t even qualified on their weapons. Rumor was, we’d be rushed through training and sent straight to Afghanistan. But things continued on schedule, and 18 months later I found myself in Iraq.

Lol, they’re mostly variations on “idiot” and “fash”, with a smattering of more positive and/or specific ones.

Unless a game looks right up my alley, “mixed” and below is usually an automatic skip to the next thing in the discovery queue.

Yes, I have them tagged as “agent provocateur”

I’m also on the spectrum. Sometimes I think the spectrum is so wide as to be functionally useless for describing behavior. I feel like my comment maybe implied that I think less of people that feel compelled to 100% games, which is not the case. I just have different compulsions.

I’ve been gaming for over 30 years, and probably have thousands of games in my digital library. I don’t think I’ve gotten all of the achievements in any of them. I tend to predominantly play rpg’s, and other games with a strong narrative bent, and I try not to peek at the achievements, so as to avoid spoilers. I appreciate when the developers hide them, so it isn’t an issue.

I’ve seen many people argue that achievements have had a net negative effect on gaming, and I tend to agree, but I don’t really have strong feelings about it, since it typically doesn’t affect my experience very much.

I enjoy seeing the little achievement pop-ups, especially when it’s a rare one, but I almost never go out of my way to get any. Don’t see the point, tbh. I’m not interested in playing the game in a way that’s less fun for me, just to check an utterly meaningless box. I guess you could reasonably argue that every goal in a game (quests, completion, exploration, what-have-you) is meaningless, but achievements have always struck me as particularly hollow.

I mean, the first one was good. It was all downhill from there, sadly. The second was decent, but suffered from a ton of re-used assets and a dumbed-down combat system. By the third, it seemed like they were trying to make a single-player MMO, which just made no damned sense to me. Never played the 4th. Maybe I’ll get it for free at some point and check it out.

Puts me in mind of the loop at Action Park. Highly recommend the documentary Class Action Park, if you haven’t seen it. Pretty entertaining!

You’re right, I think. All the smug schadenfreude has always felt hollow to me. Where does it get us, anyway? Just another distraction from the goal of worker solidarity, fostering an attitude that’s actively harmful to that goal.

I agree, and my comment probably ought to have been directed at OP. I just see you around a lot, and while I obviously empathize with your frustration, I think this line of argument is counterproductive.