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metaphortune

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  • Hot Take Time: What is a popular long-running franchise that just needs to stop?

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  • That's fair, yeah! As much as I try to not let criticism impact my enjoyment of things, I'm sure it unconsciously has done so. I still don't expect to be looking back and saying "Discovery was actually fantastic" in 20 years, but I'll keep an open mind to it.

  • Hot Take Time: What is a popular long-running franchise that just needs to stop?

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  • I love Star Trek dearly, I just don't think we're ever going to get a show that hits like TNG/VOY/DS9 (and even ENT/TOS) again - largely due to capitalism and the dramatic shortening of TV seasons. SNW is watchable and has some good bits in it, but it is forced to operate at a mile-a-minute pace, and either forced or poorly chosen by the showrunners to be Action Action Action about 90% of the time. I just need some breathing room!

    That being said, Lower Decks and Prodigy both hit on a lot of what I love about Trek. Their cancellations (and the new ownership of Paramount, and Section 31, and SNW only getting 6 episodes for their last season) do not bring me any hope for the future.

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    Can you name me an underrated adult swim show?

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  • Oh yeah, Mitra did a show at a comedy venue I love dearly and sat close to me for the second half of the opener's (tremendous) set. Hearing her laugh from like 4ft away made the experience that much richer!

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    Can you name me an underrated adult swim show?

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  • I really appreciate Three Busy Debras. Might just be that it matches my humor style perfectly but my gosh does it make me laugh.

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    Can you name me an underrated adult swim show?

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  • Truly cruel that we didn't get a full series of this!!!

  • Linux on my smart tv?

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  • Very nice, glad to see it! I suppose actually doing dev work is more important than updating the website 😅

  • Linux on my smart tv?

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  • They specifically say on their FAQs page that they're not going to work with OVOS, sadly.

  • Linux on my smart tv?

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  • The fact that they mention Mycroft AI (which stopped being properly developed over 2 years ago) on their homepage is a little worrying 😬 They do mention the situation in their FAQs, though.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    metaphortune @lemmy.world

    Are there any legitimate "brain training" apps/games/etc.?

  • How many times did you and your partner break up before you figured things out? and are you happy now?

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  • Oof, that hurts my heart. Virtual hug for you 🫂

  • How many times did you and your partner break up before you figured things out? and are you happy now?

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  • Zero times and we're now very happily married. My other successful relationships were also 0 timers (except for the ends, of course 😅). I had one relationship with a lot of break ups and reconciliations and it was truly terrible, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. If it happened to a friend more than once, I'd be telling them to leave that person for good ASAP

  • What's your method of enjoying (or at least tolerating) physical exercise?

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  • I greatly appreciate your comments and clarification, and I don't mean this in a rude way but... that's not gentle for most of us 😅

  • What's something that's free that everyone should know about?

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  • Plug for Medito, which is a free non-profit for guided meditations. Not sure if the apps are open-source but still, they're a good organization in stark contrast to the many other meditation companies that are very much for-profit.

  • What is the origin of aliens looking like humans? Why and when did it become the norm?

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  • Yup, you got my point exactly! Appreciate ya.

  • What is the origin of aliens looking like humans? Why and when did it become the norm?

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  • For Star Trek, there is an in-universe explanation which is essentially that Humanity and many other classic humanoid species you see (Klingons, Vulcans, Romulans, et al) were all essentially "seeded" by the same ancient race of aliens. That race (the Progenitors) evolved way earlier than everyone else and found themselves alone in the galaxy, so they got down to the seeding. (I know this has also been touched on in S5 of Discovery so please forgive me if they changed anything lol)

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    What's your favorite artist's worst song?

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  • I don't know that my absolute favorite artist has a bad song. But here are a few songs I hate by artists that I love:

    Bloc Party (original lineup/first 4 albums): 3 x 3. Not sure why, just feels anxious in a bad way? Always a skip for me.

    Keane: Ishin Denshin (You've Got To Help Yourself). This is a cover from an EP so maybe too deep of a cut, but man do I hate this track. Just feels cloying and awkward. Like they were trying to recreate the original but were too in awe of it.

    Peter Bjorn and John: The Feeling. The first track from their true followup to Writer's Block. Just feels like it's a song that's weird for the sake of being weird.

  • LindowsOS, 2001

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  • To this day, I love to suggest my tech friend switch to Lindows as a joke. Still kills if they get it, otherwise I have to explain "so it's this old Linux distribution..."

  • What's an activity that you could foresee yourself doing every weekend for the rest of your life?

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  • I know there is a wide variety of times but I feel like 2/3rds of the farmer's markets near me are at inconvenient times for me. "3-7PM on a weekday" nope, "8AM-12PM on sunday" MAYBE if I wake up early and am feeling adventurous.

  • You're given the chance to send one singular piece of media to aliens. what do you pick to make the best impression?

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  • Darmok, S5E2 of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

  • How often do you have conversations with an LLM AI (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc?)

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  • I've done it once or twice in the early days to see what was up, never since then.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    metaphortune @lemmy.world

    How do you find motivation when it's not there?

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    metaphortune @lemmy.world

    Downloading Youtube videos with DRM