Guinan @guinan@tenforward.social

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@staticsafe and YUNG C talk about Rolling Hamsters, Apple Maps, Macbook Keyboards, Youtube Music, the Surface USB-C Dongle, and Skype Redesign.

Content Warning: Politics, Food, Chat App Discourse

SHADES Of Brown Episode 64: Dongle Buds

https://twoshadesofbrown.com/2018/07/01/episode-64-dongle-buds/

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Recommended viewing for this year's Pride: DS9, S7 E14, "Chimera"

Watch for the "changeling Pride parade" mention

@guinan The French Republican calendar (created in the 18th century) uses Roman numerals for years as well, but it was in use for less than two decades, so they never had to deal with large year numbers.

@guinan Doing some research, it looks like Arabic numerals replaced Roman numerals in science because they were a lot more convenient for the numbers scientists had to deal with.
Centuries are small numbers, so that was not an issue.

Oh yeah! So I've hardly ever used reference photos for my illustrated haikus, but decided to start incorporating that occasionally. Having used myself in a previous one, I thought I'd draw that same character again, so here's another sorta self-portrait! (except, according to my partner, without my "pleasant calf eyes")

#selfportrait #portrait #mastoart #art #illustration

Ghostbusters (2016) is at least as good as Ghostbusters (1984)

Rogue One was another example of an idea I hated but turned out to be great. It's definitely the best Star Wars film since Return of the Jedi, and actually makes a New Hope better. The other films (I haven't seen solo) have been enjoyable but have actually somehow dulled my overall enjoyment of Star Wars as a whole. I feel like this effect will grow with the more movies they make.

I'll re-iterate, I'm a pessimist - I thought Discovery looked kinda crappy when I saw the trailer. So what do I know!

But yeah - as much as I don't have a problem with a lot of the end product stuff that's being rebooted, I guess I'm a bit frustrated with myself for lapping a lot of it up when there's probably so much good, original indie stuff struggling to get funded.

Obviously people want to make money, I gettit. But Disney is so transparent about it (They're halting all Star Wars spin offs because Han Solo didn't do that well.) and people still buy into it instead of supporting original ideas. I guess that's what's irking me - suffocating any potential new ideas in favour of nostalgia/ reboots stuff.

DS9 took some relatively fresh ideas from TNG and made a long arc story about them, which is nuts for the time it was made.

In terms of a Khan series, I mean, okay. But that's not really expanding the universe is it? it's kind of doing the opposite.

Khan was a good villain, sure. But come on, there are so many good villains. I guess I don't really have a problem with expanding old ideas (I think ENT did it great with the temporal cold war, DIscovery did it great with the mirror universe) but I'm worried about a Disney style franchise freakout.

errrrrr. What's everyone's feeling on this?

http://www.mymbuzz.com/2018/06/20/star-trek-tv-universe-set-to-be-dramatically-expanded-by-cbs/

I'm pessimistic by nature, but It still doesn't sound greeaat. Apparently the previous showrunners were fired because they were verbally abusive to writers, which is totally fair dos. But I guess I really enjoyed Discovery, and am a bit concerned it will turn into more of a whitewashed JJ affair.

I figured I should try some more realistic digital painting (have been very inspired by @hannahcomb 's posts on here)
I found an old photo of a friend and had a go at that (I very much neglected the fingers, and the mouth looks odd, but I'm happy with it otherwise)
#art #mastoart #portrait

@guinan Experimental test: <s>switch the bags of name and generic brand cereal in the boxes and see if they tell the difference</s>

have their grandmother replicate food secretly and give it to them telling them she made it ;D

@guinan [Theory] it actually is as good as grandmother's; they just perceive it as not being so--ie, "essentialism" ;D

(there's a ted talk about that but Mastodon uses like all my ram and freezes my browser and I'm lazy)
(and I can't find bio-neural gel packs for my computer on eBay :3 )

🖖 "Alex Kurtzman Sets Five-Year CBS TV Studios Pact, Will Oversee Expanded ‘Star Trek’ Universe"
https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/star-trek-tv-shows-cbs-discovery-alex-kurtzman-1202842335/