They’re musically enjoyable but I do feel like we, as a society, need to truly reckon with how bad Oasis’s lyrics are. My general thought is that they wrote the music first and then said “well let’s not worry about having coherent lyrics, let’s just have me singing words that sound good at the right time in the song”.
They are discontinuing the service :(
Yeah, there is a lot to like in it, I probably wasn’t as kind in my original message as I should’ve been. I do love that they went more episodic with it, that’s for sure! And they have had a few episodes that were pretty lighthearted and funny, which is greatly appreciated. It straddles the line of A/B tier for me.
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.
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.
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!
I really appreciate Three Busy Debras. Might just be that it matches my humor style perfectly but my gosh does it make me laugh.
Truly cruel that we didn’t get a full series of this!!!
Very nice, glad to see it! I suppose actually doing dev work is more important than updating the website 😅
They specifically say on their FAQs page that they’re not going to work with OVOS, sadly.
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.
Gen Z job seekers should be allowed to steal everything this person owns.
I had a manual for about 75k miles, mostly liked it, but have had an automatic since then (inheritence coming into play, free car = free car). I had a little Chevy Spark EV for about a year that was a joy. Honestly, not having to change gears at all is AWESOME. You don’t think about the motion caused by even the best of manual shifts (let alone terrible CVT shifts) until it’s not there. It’s so much smoother to get up to speed and I loved it.
Waiting for battery tech to get a little better and running out my current car (Shoutouts to Toyota), then will be going back to an electric car.
I had the same thought at the description!! Loved that from Kiell
Do April Fools jokes count? I was bereft after reading an article 13+ years ago from a trustworthy gaming site that said Armor Games (a popular flash game dev at the time) was taking over all development for the Elder Scrolls games.
(In retrospect, maybe that wouldn’t have been the worst thing after Skyrim came out)
Sadly, there’s not a singular ethical Amazon replacement out there. You’ve got alternatives like Walmart and Target but I don’t think they rate much higher than Amazon, honestly. I’ll throw out Grove Collaborative for cleaning supplies/home things/toiletries, Thrive Market for foods (though they have a membership fee), Kindhumans and Uncommon Goods for a wide variety of things. Here’s a list of some more places that might be useful - bearing in mind there is no one panacea.
Scenario: Harry Kim and Tom Paris both want to be your BFF, but you can only choose one. Which one do you choose?
Correct, no participation. Not even, to the best of my knowledge, from the Puerto Rico Islanders who played in USL/NASL/the USSF 2nd division. Lack of interest + funding is definitely the answer. For the Coupe de France, it’s worth noting that French overseas territories being given spots in the competition started in 1961-1962.
Bookmarked this! Going to come in handy over the holidays especially. Thank you!!
I’d just add that I think part of their popularity comes from their “safe” image. You put on an Imagine Dragons song, you know you’re getting a pretty apolitical “pop-rock” song, not like those dumb hippies from the 70s or those indie-rock losers. Which I think sucks, to be clear.