Recent content by MarkVI

Respectfully, you're seeing the older stuff through a modern lens. It doesn't shock you to see Uhura on the bridge, but it was a big deal for its time. I'm sure many people at the time saw it as, to use your words, "beating people over the head" and "recruiting less talented people because of...

Nintendo and Squeenix can't do a thing if I want to pop in my Chrono Trigger cart at any time. In fact, I just did a few days ago. The worst thing we have to deal with on old systems is dying CR2032s, and that's not exactly hard to fix. I don't know if I'll keep up with the hobby if the digital...

You beat me to it by a minute!

I'm always confused by people complaining about liberal ideas in sci-fi. It's not exactly a new phenomenon. Have people forgotten the black woman, Japanese man, and Russian on the bridge of the original Star Trek? It may not seem that unusual now, but in the context of the times it was pretty...

They also need to cut out the Starbucks and pull themselves up by their bootstraps. /s

There is a market for expensive clone consoles (Analogue products), but those clones offer bespoke features you can't get in an emulator box. This seems like a weird hybrid of classic aesthetic and premium price that will appeal to nobody. I'm theoretically their market (middle aged, disposable...

Ugh, I wish I could be done with Windows. I hadn't used it in more than 18 months, but when COVID hit and I had to go all online for work there was no choice. The Linux version of Zoom is stripped of all of the audio options I need so I'm stuck with Windows until this is over. My wife has gotten...

This is why I'm still on an LG G5. When I cracked the screen it took me 5 minutes to replace it. The battery takes more like 5 seconds.

I hate this crap where they play with the scale of the graph to make it look like vast improvement. You can make anything look like a huge change when you don't start from zero and zoom in enough...

You seem to fundamentally misunderstand the first amendment. It doesn't protect you from corporations or any other private entity. Facebook has the right to censor you or me or anyone else they wish. If you don't like it, the only remedies are anti-trust action, amending the constitution, or...

Don't assume you know what I've read. You're just gaslighting. First, progressive doesn't mean Marxist any more than conservative means white supremacist. It's that whole all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares thing. Second, there is no denying that the Nazis were...

If what you are saying was true, that ideology would be dominating the political scene. Last I checked, Trump won the presidency and no left-wing cabal stopped him. Heck, Facebook was complicit to some degree in the whole Cambridge Analytica debacle. Do I hate that Facebook is full of...

Sorry if I come across as rude, but you're just incorrect. Fascism is extreme right wing nationalism. Ask any reputable historian. The inclusion of the word "socialist" in the Nazi name was a rhetorical gambit. Socialism and Fascism are literally polar opposites on the political spectrum. We...

Your analogy isn't even close. You don't have to use Facebook. I don't and I'm getting by just fine. Facebook isn't imposing it's speech on you. If you don't like it, don't use it. It isn't a government entity, therefore the first amendment doesn't apply. Hobby Lobby is absolutely applicable...

You jumped the shark with the Nazi thing. You would have been better off comparing them to Stalin since he was left wing and Hitler was right wing. /s Just because potentially dangerous speech (i.e. Alex Jones doxing a Sandy Hook parent) is censored doesn't make it a vast left wing conspiracy...