grahamj

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[–] grahamj 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have a gaming PC aside from MacBook so keep my Windows muscle memory mostly up-to-date but what I find is I'm constantly in the back of my head going "Why it this like this? Why are you asking me this? Why do I have to do this?" while using it. It just throws up so many stupid barriers and forces you to do things you shouldn't have to do.

That was what drew me to macOS around 15 years ago, that it got out of the way and just let me do whatever I sat down to do. It's still true today.

[–] grahamj 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Same! I've always considered time travel to be a "plot cheat code" because it allows writers to do whatever they want. This works out ok sometimes but other times it just makes for bizarre stories that defy belief. This would definitely be the latter kind!

I enjoy ST largely because it's believable (in a broad strokes ignore the details kind of way) so far-fetched stories don't do it for me as much. Time travel is firmly in "never gonna happen" territory.

[–] grahamj 1 points 2 years ago

Same reason we got a whole season pulling the old TNG crew back together, I guess

[–] grahamj 4 points 2 years ago

In some contexts this would be called a solution without a problem. I couldn't agree more!

[–] grahamj -4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'm not clicking a link that uses that term

[–] grahamj 4 points 2 years ago

Oh is this why s02e03 was set in Toronto? As a Canadian I'm always surprised when I see shows set here so I figured there must be some reason.

[–] grahamj 1 points 2 years ago

And they can sell it for hundreds more than that on top. There's the real reason.

[–] grahamj 17 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Please stop insulting Dukat.

[–] grahamj 0 points 2 years ago

Shut up Wesley!

Oh, not that Wesley...

[–] grahamj 1 points 2 years ago

I think the root issue is your first two words: "Apple wants". I have and use mostly Apple devices but I will say that often when I'm feeling friction it's because of a difference between what Apple wants and what I want and them having set things up so I don't have a choice.

This feels like one of those things. Apple wants AV to be something in particular but because XR offers so many possibilities I fear their limits are going to feel extra limiting.

[–] grahamj 1 points 2 years ago

You know what, I hadn't considered this at all and I have indeed been comparing him to Spock in TOS.

Excellent take, thank you.

[–] grahamj 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

At least he was less annoying than Neelix.

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