Were they female? 'Cause you know, when you get in bed with four bitches…

Like radioactive rubber pants?

The fact that he finds this joke funny says a ton about him. I get the roast comedy angle people bring up here, but I just don’t see how anyone could find that line funny.

I mean, I’m a leftist, an anti-racist, and yet there are are some racist jokes I still find funny due to the way they’re crafted, even if I don’t tell them anymore because some people still take them on the first degree (both racists and non-racists.)

But I just don’t see the joke here.

Hey, no making fun of 256-man phalanges, those things can successfully defend against a tank.

It plays a sound that says, and displays a popup which reads: “Please do not press this button again. Thank you.”

Check out Gandahar. Anyone who thinks Star Trek has the most messed up time travel plotlines needs to watch this.

I love Bakshi’s LotR and Wizards but I think his best movie is American Pop. Not as WTF as Wizards, but it’s so epic!

Missed opportunity: the body in the picture should have been for an arch-top guitar.

I think we have something contemporary to compare this sci-fi scenario with: recorded vs. live music (especially now that we can keep making exact digital duplicates as nauseam.)

When you play a CD, it sounds the same each time (ignoring things like the equipment you’re playing through, the room, the ambient noise, etc.). Usually, the studio recording is the best, most pristine recording of a song you can get.

But when you see the original artist performing the song live, it’s different! A good performer will make you feel like you’re experiencing something special. And the little variations, and even, imperfections, make the song even more compelling!

It’s the CD recording of the song bad? No. It’s perfectly serviceable. It might even contain things that can’t be performed live. But it’s the same each time. And for some people, that makes it less desirable, and live performances, with all their deviations and mistakes become more desirable.

And going back to replicated food, apart from Eddington and grandpa Sisko, I don’t remember anyone else saying replicated food was bad. Just less desirable. And even Eddington grudgingly admitted that the TV dîner he was eating in the shuttle with Sisko wasn’t that bad.

It’s harder to draw attention to yourself when you’ve got no arms to wave.

The term you’re looking for is “uncanny valley”

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Schrodinger’s license?

Earliest game I can think of would be Super Metroid, with it’s X-Ray Scanner, which is an upgrade you get partway through the game. It’s not 100% necessary, but some of the game’s secrets are designed with it in mind.

The Metroid Prime games implemented an FPS version of this pretty well. Really contributed to the atmosphere in some places. Also, while the visors let you see otherwise invisible things, they also made other things harder to see (or, in the case of the scanning visor, you couldn’t shoot while it was on.)

People with freckles tend to avoid sunlight, yeah.

Threshold is an attempt at remaking The Fly (mostly the Cronenberg version.) Even though it’s a valiant attempt at body horror, the limitations of network TV really prevent it from reaching its full potential. From the same era, I’d say The X-files did that sort of thing better.

And in fact, the reset button ending is what completely neuters Threshold. The ending to Cronenberg’s The Fly is really powerful because of the final pathos and irreversibility. Instead of leaning on this, Threshold just goes incomprehensibly weird.

I think Star Trek’s most successful body horror episode is probably TNG’s Genesis (though I think Enterprise might have had a couple valiant attempts I should try to remember.). Genesis also suffers a little from its reset button, but since it doesn’t lean on pathos like Threshold and The Fly, the reset isn’t as annoying.

But in general I really feel like Star Trek should now be able to do good episodic TV which still shows real character progression and avoids total reset buttons. Some recent series leaned too far into serialization, but I’m hoping SNW strikes a good balance.

It’s because of the sums people keep paying.

The last two Dell laptops my work provided me with have little sliders that physically cover the camera. I use them all the time while working from home.

Is the debate being simulcast on all the major networks? I seem to remember seeing the Trump/Harris debate on ABC, CBS and NBC (just with different talking heads before and after).

If so, ABC should broadcast the debate with fact-checking overlays (Pop-up video style?) and advertise the shit out of the fact that they’ll be doing this.

Ackshully…

The TOS Enterprise, as well as the A, D and E are usually referred to as “The Enterprise”. B and C aren’t on long enough for me to remember if it applied to them as well.

However, the NX-01 was always referred to as “Enterprise”, (without the “The”). It’s like they were making a point of it, too. So I wouldn’t count it with regards to this meme.

So you then have to decide which ones you would count, such as the J, the one in ST:P, whatever came up on Discovery… Or whether you want to consider alternates as distinct.