Just gonna have to swipe right and find out.

Nice, and yeah, definitely. Until my senior year English class, the only books were were allowed to use for any reading assignment were Shakespeare or Newberry award books.

What’s the saying?

“What do you call someone who got all D’s in med school?”

Doctor. You call them “Doctor”

Definitely different experiences, but yeah, agree. Generally, I only like to listen to the audiobook after I’ve read it (unless there’s no other option). It’s difficult for me to not miss important plot points when I’m listening to it, but that’s probably just my ADHD.

If you do, post it!

SNACO?

He could just be on vacation? Someone just pointed out earlier today he hasn’t posted in 2 weeks.

No clue, but it very easily could have come from the one I grew up in.

The_Picard_Maneuver is MIA, so I dove into my ~2014 era meme folder and am posting some golden oldies

I just started this one yesterday. Enjoying it so far. I’m only a few chapters in, but it definitely fills in a lot of blanks from PIC S1 like “Who is Raffi and why are she and Picard suddenly BFFs?” After reading her introduction, yeah, I’d want to be best friends with her, too.

It puts so much of the first season into context that I felt was missing when I watched it.

Thanks for the recomendation.

Lol, well, maybe if Eeyore would can it once in a while and just let people enjoy things…

The genre doesn’t exist, but it should: “Bedtime Stories: Narrated by Morgan Freeman and Stepehn Fry”.

Seriously, this. I can’t stand to read “the classics” but I love reading things that interest me. Would be nice if schools recognized that and encouraged reading just for the sake of it rather than forcing kids to trudge through endless stanzas of “ye art incorrect and thou must protest this injustice. Oh Horatio! Oh, lamentation this! Lamentation that!” Like, fuck, I lost the plot 3 pages of lamentations ago.

Just let kids do book reports on Harry Potter (or whatever’s cool these days). At least they’re reading and their brain cells are firing.

Provided it’s got a decent narrator, audiobooks are like literal bedtime stories, and a lot of players have “sleep mode” that will either set a timer or stop it after the current chapter. Seems like an easy way to get people into them, IMO.

I have two of Stephen Fry’s autobiographies on audiobook and would basically let his smooth voice lull me to sleep. 😆

Ugh, I had the Sega Master System version (same game) and it was pretty awful.

Skip episodes become brand new episodes after enough time has passed!

They absolutely do! I was thinking that earlier. They become like your own personal “lost episodes”.

VOY has, by far, the most “skip” episodes for me. Other than “Threshold”, they’re all Chakotay episodes (Tattoo, Nemesis, Initiations, The Fight). Don’t get me wrong. I love Chakotay as a character, but Robert Beltran’s wooden performance is just hard to watch when the rest of the cast isn’t there to offset it.

Maybe it’s because it’s shorter, but I don’t think there are any ENT episodes I skip (not even the finale)

Fair (counter) point. That was basically a clip show which are fair game for skips especially with home media / streaming.

The only thing worse than that is emailing them a simple boolean question and then your phone rings.

LOL. I would try, too.

I don’t think I’ve done a re-watch of LD yet, but I tend to skip very few episodes these days and start from the beginning.

Like, I used to always skip “Take Me Out to the Holosuite” but I didn’t on the last circuit. It’s definitely not one of my favorites, but I did enjoy it that latest time around where I hadn’t before. So now I tend to watch them all even if it’s on my usual skip list.