BlemboTheThird

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[–] BlemboTheThird 32 points 1 year ago

Trek tends to fudge the dates on purpose. It's supposed to take place In The Future, and you're supposed to be thinking about whatever philosophical concept the episode is about, not the exact timeline of events. From Wikipedia: "stardates were originally intended to avoid specifying exactly when Star Trek takes place." I hate linking to Fandom wiki pages, but I'll say the page on stardates goes on at length about how inconsistent Trek time is.

Jumping around within a single episode is a little funny, but doesn't surprise me. Some writers try to be consistent, but maybe only for a few connected episodes, and some don't try at all. Sometimes a character will die, but an earlier episode or a flashback with a clearly later stardate will see them alive. There's all kinds of technobabble about where they are in the universe, and light speed relativity, and so on, but at the end of the day the show isn't trying to hide any serious messages in its timeline so long as the story of the episode makes some level of sense.

[–] BlemboTheThird 24 points 1 year ago (10 children)

People like you would be watching the Nixon resignation saying “he got away with everything”.

I mean... yeah? You think his resignation and pardon WASN'T him getting away with everything?

I'm as hopeful as the next guy that the supreme court won't just rule that nothing bad happened on Jan 6th and that Trump is allowed to be prosecuted, but 3 years on, it seems pretty reasonable to doubt it until it's done.

[–] BlemboTheThird 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, why not? She can probably handle any danger without me

[–] BlemboTheThird 8 points 1 year ago

i always figured centaurs would be entirely their own species, so it's bestiality in either direction. Like if you could ask a goose whether it would rather pair up with a cockatiel or an ostrich, i don't think it'd be happy about either choice

[–] BlemboTheThird 1 points 1 year ago

yeah that's why it gets the dumbass poohbear.

[–] BlemboTheThird 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No I'm talking about some serious mommy milkers

[–] BlemboTheThird 70 points 1 year ago (8 children)

This is why we need a strong, massive milkers union

[–] BlemboTheThird 62 points 1 year ago (20 children)

It's new in the sense they have rebuilt large enough parts of it to fully justify giving it a new name. Certainly it's very far removed from Quake. It's not like they've been sitting on their hands for almost 30 years. But it's not like they rebuilt it all from scratch, either; just the parts they needed to. Old code is still being used, and even new code still sometimes uses the old as a base. The most obvious visual example that comes to mind is the pattern they still use for flickering lights which has been around since the Quake days.

It's a bit of a Ship of Theseus situation, but I think my point still stands: Bethesda doesn't need an entirely new engine, they need devs who can (or more likely, need to give their devs time to) properly rebuild the parts that need it.

[–] BlemboTheThird 111 points 1 year ago (36 children)

No, they need a competent dev team. To this day, Valve is using a game engine that is, at its core, the Quake engine from 1996. Goldsrc? Source? Source 2? All increasingly heavily reworked versions of the Quake engine. And they can use it for everything from Alyx to Dota 2! If Valve can do it, why can't Bethesda?

[–] BlemboTheThird 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

i don't even use search engines for cooking anymore, i go to allrecipes.com and just search there. sometimes there's a bad one that slips through, but they have like 30 recipes for whatever youre looking for so you can always just swap to another one.

also if you do find a good recipe (on any site, really) i highly recommend making a pastebin of it for yourself.

[–] BlemboTheThird 1 points 1 year ago

Idk I'd rather have bugs in my house than possum poo. Plus bug traps are also a thing

[–] BlemboTheThird 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

yeah unless they're like getting into your house somehow, you really should just let them do their thing

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