lbargomancer

6414 pts ยท October 14, 2017


You're thinking too hard: they appear to be burning a baby to roast marshmallows; combustion byproducts should be a distant second concern.

2 days ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It also helps to archive every complaint & piece of hate mail in a format that will last long enough to be dug up in a couple millennia.

6 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

To borrow someone else's line: he's gay, not blind.

1 week ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

So, he's a wind-up toy?

3 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just a foreign flag? Yes. Along side your actual flag? Maybe? Maybe not.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Depends on how long he takes:

Eventually? Not impressive.
In one sitting? Impressive.
All at once? Impressively disturbing.

7 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Y'know, we never actually see Bernice and they never had kids--for all their years of marriage and despite Red's allusions to their healthy sex life.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

On the one hand, that case of Miller Lite can't be enough to share with the class; on the other hand, that's probably for the best.

7 months ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

The real question is whether they'll respond.

7 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

They promised a lot of old people eternal youth.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

One Jack Crusher special, coming right up?

7 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The son might be Jack, not Wesley.

8 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Especially once they realize the error in keying all of their traps to exclude Shepard's DNA.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The cape stays on.

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Even when they're caught lying.

ESPECIALLY when they're caught lying.

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's Vulcan arrogance.

They are among the oldest space-faring peoples in known space and they pride themselves on having overcome the flaws of emotionality through logic, but it's all a veneer.

Spock has repeatedly conceded that Vulvans feel emotions very strongly and constantly struggle to control theirs, and their dogma labels lying as an emotional exercise, so they have to deny that their lies are lies to maintain the appearance that they have conquered emotion.

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I don't recall it being phrased as "can't lie" as much as they hold "honesty is the best policy" as an axiom, holding willful dishonesty as being generally illogical and thereby offensive to the Vulcan concept of decency.

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also, Spock is very capable of lying, he just prefers to dress it up as something else: in Wrath of Khan, it was a tactical misdirection; in Undiscovered Country, it was "an error"; in Abrams' 2009 film, it was an implication.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It was a joke by the writers, implying Spock is descended from either Holmes or Doyle. Although it's equally possible it was a Vulcan ancestor who came to the same conclusion.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

In Star Trek VI, Spock attributes the saying to one of his ancestors.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

In Star Trek VI, Spock attributes the saying to one of his ancestors.

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Pretty sure that Kobayashi, of Dragon Maid fame.

8 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That's the emergency power source for vital systems: can't service the peak load demanded of a primary energy system, but consistent enough to maintain station functions at a minimal survivable level.

8 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's a Cardassian space station: spite is its primary energy source.

8 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The "malfunction" affected other camera(s) with line of sight on his cell door, unlike this camera which only overlooks part of the common area outside his cell.

The other camera(s) would show anyone entering his cell, which would either show the guards failing to perform the checks required because he was under [self-checkout] watch or show whoever [handled his checkout].

This camera is less capable of showing that.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's obviously Freddie Thornhill.

8 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yes... the uniform. Definitely the ...uniform.

8 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Simply surviving a mass-death incident just means it wasn't your time; to cheat death, your death needs to be guaranteed, then averted--hence the premonitions at the start of every film.

So maybe if you had covid, were on death's door, and made a "miraculous" recovery, you could qualify. But for someone like myself, who only maybe caught covid once earlier this year, it's not gonna count.

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Only works if you've previously cheated death.

8 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Sure, Dems aren't in a hurry to fix anything, but they aren't actively making things worse like the GOP does whenever they get the opportunity.

8 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0