I have a buddy who won’t switch his streaming box because he thinks his in-laws will be too confused by a different button layout on the remote.

I front-end mpv with smplayer.

It’s enough for my purposes.

They themselves are contemptuous people and like someone who shares their contemptuous views.

The title of the article you posted is clearly not the same article given that it’s not the same headline or the fact it’s not even about Star Trek.

You’re clearly a troll, and I’m done wasting time with you.

I’m not sure why you’re arguing. YOU linked to the article I responded to. Did you actually read it? And did you notice that the article now redirects to a different article than the one you linked to?

It really wasn’t hard to find a different source that for the same article you originally posted. Many other sites reposted.

https://sffgazette.com/sci_fi/star-trek/star-trek-4-has-finally-been-scrapped-as-paramount-moves-on-from-chris-pine-led-franchise-a9354

Note: “SOURCE: VARIETY”

It’s previously been reported that Haynes and Grahame-Smith’s movie, produced by Simon Kinberg, "will serve as an origin story of sorts for the main timeline of the entire franchise

Literal prequel

I am all for new Trek, but they need to fuck right off with the prequels.

Every studio: “What if we instead just go back and write ourselves into a corner and risk pissing people off by breaking continuity.”

Edit: For example, I love SNW. But knowing what happens to half the cast removes a lot of the tension. I know putting Pike, Uhura, Scotty, Chapel, M’Benga or the ship in jeopardy will amount to nothing. Even Una. Because we know from “Those Old Scientists” that she later becomes the literal poster girl for Starfleet.

Edit 2: I have a lot of problems with Discovery, but one thing it absolutely did right was stop being a prequel and send the window of storytelling so far into the future that it can’t cause story problems for other Trek.

I have terrible sight, and on my TV in my living room, I can tell the difference. But I also don’t cheap out.

I am suspicious of your perfectly innocent story sir or ma’am

I got 2 temp suspensions then a ban for

• Saying Danielle Smith should stand on her head so the blood will rush there and she can have a coherent thought

24 hours for threatening violence

• When someone said JD Vance will never be President, I responded with, “He will when Trump has the inevitable coronary from all the cheeseburgers he eats”

72 hours for threatening violence

When ICE Barbie suggested Canada isn’t doing enough to defend the border, I posted “She can keep her cunt ass on her side of the border”

• Perma ban for threatening violence

I absolutely believe OP was banned for calling someone an asshole.

What a whiney little bitch.

Skin thinner than a tissue.

The looks I get when I ask about someones craic…

Because he has a history of knowing and caring about rules?

YES!!!

I hate that language.

“Donald Trump has lost out on the Nobel Peace Prize”

No. He was never in the running. He lost nothing. Just because he was nominated by some obsequious sycophant, doesn’t mean he ever had a chance.

While everyone else was in competition for the “race”, he was at the starting line shitting his diapers and crying like the giant baby he is.

The US is so full of shit.

“NORAD, he claimed, requires both the U.S. and Canada to fly the same kind of American-built planes.”

Before the 60s, and after the 80s, we didn’t. Fucking power mongering liars.

Luke is reading a translation on a screen

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/0/0c/Astromech_Translator_CCG.jpg

I started buying the paste tubes. Our cats go nuts for them. I started giving them one after I clip their nails. Now, they complain and still try to pull away, but they don’t run away anymore when I grab the clippers.

Ad hominems. The last gasp from the confused or clueless who just can’t admit when they are wrong.

Did you have anything of substance at all to add? I assume not, since several posts now not doing so.

Did you completely miss the point that I was talking about pre-internet days? In my first response to you, I literally talked about an album release in the 90s.

Maybe your entire experience in life isn’t as old as the pants I’m wearing right now, but the world existed before you did.

You’re making a lot of bold assumptions, none of which are true.

Keyword being “local”. We had no record stores. Which ones were there stocked mostly overpriced Beatles represses. They still do to this day.

So you had them, and they were shitty. Not quite the same thing as not having them. Did you ever ask if they could special order? The store I used to go to carried music zines that catered to a variety of tastes, and they would talk about any number of new albums and bands that were doing the rounds. If a band we saw live had a new release listed in one of them, we would go to the store and order it.

We too, and the DJ had dogshit taste and played random generic autotune rap.

So they had a single DJ that worked 24/7? And since you mention autotune, which doesn’t become prominent until the 2000s, you clearly have no clue, because it was already possible to discover new music then without having to hunt it down.

Ah yes, the small and indie bands that could afford to checks notes - press on actual honest to god vinyl.

There was, let me check notes… cassettes. Bands used to record music in their living room with a cheap 4 track, and put them on cassette.

And we had these really cool dual cassette radios, which you could one button copy to a blank cassette. So many of my music collection that I bought from bands I saw came from the band using one of these to copy their tapes.

https://u-mercari-images.mercdn.net/photos/m83247247555_1.jpg

I had probably a half dozen carrying cases full of albums of various music.

No, you had clubs. We had fuckall and a half and what was there was for the bourgeoisie cisheteronormative folks to listen to bland dance music in and fry out their brains on molly that was 90% caffeine and 10% undiscovered synthetic that will kill you.

Just because you lived in a shitty place, doesn’t mean your experience was universal. The city I lived in was so small, we had a single bar that catered to everything outside of mainstream. Gay, goth, punk and metalheads… all in the same place. It was not uncommon to hear a Sepultra song, followed by Bauhaus or the Pet Shop Boys or Skinny Puppy.

If you lived in some kind of fantastical Life Is Strange-esque world - I’m happy for you, really, truly, and I’d like to hear more stories, but most of us didn’t, at least not those of us born after '97.

In 1997, I was downloading music from the Internet from IRC. From album releases to bootlegs some guy at a show made holding up a tape recorder. You could also take CDs out from libraries and rip them to mp3 for long term storage. I would keep CDs full of mps, that I would then burn to CDs (because MP3 players didn’t exist yet) so we could listen to them. If you were lucky, you would get 128kbit, 44khz, but we would settle for 64kbit or 96 if it was what we could get.

If you were born after 1997 and you couldn’t find music you liked, that was a you problem. It was out there if you went looking for it.

Nowadays discovering music is really quite a lot simpler, there’s no one you gotta know, there’s no place you have to know to go to, there’s no subcultures you gotta be part of, there’s nowhere you have to be to know specific artists.

And if you were born after 1997, that’s been true your entire life. As long as the Internet has existed, there have been people putting music outside of the mainstream online. I used to DJ for an Internet radio station. We started in 2001 (and is still going), and went out of our way to discover new music. The founder was a musician himself, and wanted to spotlight lesser known music. We played anything from any drama, and had a robust request engine that people used to request music. We pre-recorded podcasts for play so long ago, it pre-dated the term podcast.

You’re completely unbound by your immediate geography, whether you’re in Pakistan or one of those places ‘Jesus of Suburbia’ was about or a dense European city, all you need is an internet connection, which even in extreme poverty is much more affordable than going much of anywhere IRL.

Even if I lived in ye olden times, there’s no way in hell I would’ve known about even bands from the time like Cleaners from Venus or like 13th Floor Elevators, and in my own time I wouldn’t have known about Sweet Trip or Cats Millionaire, and I love how much there is and how much more is left to discover, all without needing to be part of something or being somewhere, it’s more democratic, and more fitting for a global world.

It’s awesome you mention Cleaners from Venus, because they distributed their music on cassettes by mail order from listings in zines and word of mouth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_culture