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When you hear it's Dax meme day and you can't wait to look on Lemmy

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Which game started this? It's everywhere.
  • 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.)

  • Voyager's preoccupation with fake-outs
  • 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.

  • Trump is killing free speech.
  • 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.

  • Proving that you're a Trekkie
  • 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.

  • Mon père médecin à la retraite aimerait démarrer un podcast sur la médecine. Quel concept pourrait intéresser ?
  • Je ne sais pas si vous avez les mêmes problèmes en France que nous avons au Québec, mais des suggestions pour aider à désengorger le système (surtout les salles d'urgence et les cliniques) par exemple en expliquant quand c'est mieux de voir un médecin vs. quand c'est mieux de rester chez soi, pourraient aider.

  • Applebee’s customer arrested and charged with disorderly conduct over an “All You Can Eat” deal
  • As long as you left some for the other patrons, and took your plate back to your table, I don't see much of a problem. But I've seen people just sit down in front of the buffet, right where the shrimp or lobster tails or whatever are, and just start eating right there.

    The other thing I've heard of was someone coming into the buffet at lunchtime, having lunch, and then just staying until dinner (without paying again)

    One (really really good) Chinese buffet I've gone to twice gives you a coupon for a single lobster. The rest is all you can eat, but they had to limit the lobster (probably because of the people who exaggerated)

  • You can't choose your descendents...

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