I held out for so long, just refusing to give up my precious HTML attributes. I was all like, "But HTML is so simple, why do we need to complicate this?" totally not hearing that whole separate layout from style argument. Now it's like the back of my hand but in those web 1.0 days I was a salty HTML curmudgeon.
Yeah I've been avoiding learning REACT. So many libraries. frameworks and languages etc. in the web dev game. I miss the days when all you needed was HTML CSS and Javascript/JQuery to do most anything. Heck I'm old enough to remember getting pissy that I had to learn CSS.
For a sec I thought I was in for some good old Irish diddly-eye. Nope, Scottish diddly. Song sounds like it'd be right at home on the Lord of The Rings soundtrack, almost has a sea shanty feel to it as well.
For some reason listening to this immediately made me want to listen to Take 6 So Much To Say. I guess it put the thought "fast acapella" in my head. Anyways interesting song.
So a courtroom drama, no sci-fi concepts, no high concept, no scientific advisors needed. SNW's complete lack of actual accomplished sci-fi writers should be able to knock this one out of the park. The result: mid. The true fan of Kurtzman era Trek will no doubt view this episode as a tour de force (those fans tend towards having very low standards). However this was a big snore for me. There was never any tension as to whether Una's lawyer was going to win. Thus the episode mostly acted as an excuse for the writers to wax philosophical on civil rights. More than that it continues the nuTrek tradition of painting Starfleet and The Federation as the bad guys whenever possible.
The Federation is supposed to be this utopia of evolved humans and aliens living in peace and prosperity, so of course the writers paint the Federation planet Una hails from as having the dystopian element of racism against the genetically modified human offshoot species the Illyrians. The planet is said to have so much racial strife over this that they self segregate into two different societies. The facepalm over this in any way being the type of world Federation policies would create is palpable.
The big reveal at the end is that Una is the one who turned herself in. An obvious retcon of her arrest at the end of last season where she says to Pike: "I've known this might happen for years." If she had JUST reported herself for having illegal genetic modifications and then a team showed up to arrested her then that line from last season makes no sense on top of being weirdly cryptic. But then this isn't shocking since the second most used writing tool producers from Bad Robot and Secret Hideout employ (after the mystery box) is the retcon. Few things make Alex Kurtzman and Akiva Goldsman jerk each other off more furiously than reframing an old plot point with some new, poorly thought-out contrivance.
All in all though this was simply a mid-tier episode that leaned a bit on the boring side. I'd rank it far below even the worst episode of excellent show 'Star Trek Prodigy' which Paramount+ just, of course, cancelled. The proof that we live in the worst timeline continues to pile up.
Perhaps an alternate route. What about multiple domain names? Throw a variable everywhere where the site name/domain is referenced (links, terms of service, site logo, etc.) And just dynamicly load the name based on which domain is being used. For instance the top logo could be "(%variable here).png" in the code and when viewed on mainchan.com would show "mainchan.png" or if viewed on main.social would be "main.png" (foo.com = foo.png etc) always showing the appropriate logo and site name to the visitor for each domain. It would make it possible to add domains for special occassions or as a joke (go to poo.social to load a joke version of the site with a poo emoji logo, brown dark mode and other poop related crap <-- see what I did there?).
Whichever domain pulls in the most users call that one the official domain and the rest alts. I do think sticking with the Main(something) nomenclature would be ideal though since the mainbros/mainhoes stuff is fun.
Edit: Also random feature request, a toggle in user settings to automatically upvote posts you reply to. I feel like a lot of people, myself included, forget to upvote posts when interacting with them.
I got one on that post too, niiice.
Get a Samsung Android, I've had hover on mobile since like the first Note phone.
Best of both worlds, only show the separate upvote/downvote count when you hover the combined count.
I'm all for it
Fighting + Trading Card Game.
Was done amazingly with "Phantom Dust" but no one has touched the concept since.
I held out for so long, just refusing to give up my precious HTML attributes. I was all like, "But HTML is so simple, why do we need to complicate this?" totally not hearing that whole separate layout from style argument. Now it's like the back of my hand but in those web 1.0 days I was a salty HTML curmudgeon.
Oooh you fargun bastige
Yeah I've been avoiding learning REACT. So many libraries. frameworks and languages etc. in the web dev game. I miss the days when all you needed was HTML CSS and Javascript/JQuery to do most anything. Heck I'm old enough to remember getting pissy that I had to learn CSS.
One day a rap producer is gonna find this song and sample it into a fire beat.
For a sec I thought I was in for some good old Irish diddly-eye. Nope, Scottish diddly. Song sounds like it'd be right at home on the Lord of The Rings soundtrack, almost has a sea shanty feel to it as well.
For some reason listening to this immediately made me want to listen to Take 6 So Much To Say. I guess it put the thought "fast acapella" in my head. Anyways interesting song.
♫ ♬ DON'T SWITCH THE BLADE ON THE GUY IN SHADES, OH NO! ♫ ♬
♫ ♬ DON'T MASQUERADE WITH THE GUY IN SHADES, OH NO! ♫ ♬
So a courtroom drama, no sci-fi concepts, no high concept, no scientific advisors needed. SNW's complete lack of actual accomplished sci-fi writers should be able to knock this one out of the park. The result: mid. The true fan of Kurtzman era Trek will no doubt view this episode as a tour de force (those fans tend towards having very low standards). However this was a big snore for me. There was never any tension as to whether Una's lawyer was going to win. Thus the episode mostly acted as an excuse for the writers to wax philosophical on civil rights. More than that it continues the nuTrek tradition of painting Starfleet and The Federation as the bad guys whenever possible.
The Federation is supposed to be this utopia of evolved humans and aliens living in peace and prosperity, so of course the writers paint the Federation planet Una hails from as having the dystopian element of racism against the genetically modified human offshoot species the Illyrians. The planet is said to have so much racial strife over this that they self segregate into two different societies. The facepalm over this in any way being the type of world Federation policies would create is palpable.
The big reveal at the end is that Una is the one who turned herself in. An obvious retcon of her arrest at the end of last season where she says to Pike: "I've known this might happen for years." If she had JUST reported herself for having illegal genetic modifications and then a team showed up to arrested her then that line from last season makes no sense on top of being weirdly cryptic. But then this isn't shocking since the second most used writing tool producers from Bad Robot and Secret Hideout employ (after the mystery box) is the retcon. Few things make Alex Kurtzman and Akiva Goldsman jerk each other off more furiously than reframing an old plot point with some new, poorly thought-out contrivance.
All in all though this was simply a mid-tier episode that leaned a bit on the boring side. I'd rank it far below even the worst episode of excellent show 'Star Trek Prodigy' which Paramount+ just, of course, cancelled. The proof that we live in the worst timeline continues to pile up.
Perhaps an alternate route. What about multiple domain names? Throw a variable everywhere where the site name/domain is referenced (links, terms of service, site logo, etc.) And just dynamicly load the name based on which domain is being used. For instance the top logo could be "(%variable here).png" in the code and when viewed on mainchan.com would show "mainchan.png" or if viewed on main.social would be "main.png" (foo.com = foo.png etc) always showing the appropriate logo and site name to the visitor for each domain. It would make it possible to add domains for special occassions or as a joke (go to poo.social to load a joke version of the site with a poo emoji logo, brown dark mode and other poop related crap <-- see what I did there?).
Whichever domain pulls in the most users call that one the official domain and the rest alts. I do think sticking with the Main(something) nomenclature would be ideal though since the mainbros/mainhoes stuff is fun.
Edit: Also random feature request, a toggle in user settings to automatically upvote posts you reply to. I feel like a lot of people, myself included, forget to upvote posts when interacting with them.
Grats on your inaugural tug
Kraken