As an admin, when I’m scrolling through and I see a post with -200 votes, it immediately lets me know I should look at what’s going on. That said, I’m sensitive to the fact that certain content gets downvoted … unfairly? disproportionately? and it’s not fun for a lot of people. I’m honestly of two minds.

One layer for stripes, one for dots, one for a drop shadow (when it’s necessary). And yes, I like 260 degrees but it can take other angles as well.

It’s a dirty job but someone has got to do it.

Will do.

Second one.

Half million twitter followers, bunch of mainstream company releases, not an A-lister but well known if you’re into their specific genre. Female. They are a friend, we chat all the time. She’s hella autistic, but a nice person.

It was during a shoot and the shot needed it. I was directing and I wasn’t gonna ask someone else to do something if I wasn’t willing to do it myself so… I did it. It’s not my thing at all but we didn’t have anyone who really really wanted it, so…

Nope it sure was

Now you tell me.

Didn’t even blink. I asked them to give it a sec to let the cherry burn down a bit but otherwise there was no hesitation.

You know, it felt like someone was putting a cigarette out on my wrist. It’s absolutely not my kink, but the shot needed it so…

Also there are a few tricks you an use so you’re not as badly burnt as people may think. You give the cig a little bit to cool down so it’s still lit, but not bright red, and you lick your wrist a couple of times immediately ahead of the burn. Still hurts like a motherfuck though.

Essentially forever. If I want to orgasm not only do I have to concentrate, but I need very specific kinds of stimulation. It’s a real bother most of the time, but I have never in my life finished early, so…

I love musicals and I love Trek so I was hoping I would love this episode, but I just didn’t, and I think it was mostly because the music was… bad? It wasn’t catchy, it wasn’t fun, there was not one single legitimate bop during the whole episode. Uhura’s last line about an earworm struck me as a sour note because… no. Not a single earworm to be had in the whole thing. I couldn’t hum a single song from that episode and I watched it less than an hour ago. The only number that had any spark to it at all was Chapel’s number at the lounge, and it was barely a spark.

Even Una’s alleged Gilbert and Sullivan riff was barely, barely recognizable as a take on G&S. It was to G&S as a brick spraypainted orange is to a glass of refreshing orange juice. You’re gonna do G&S in a musical episode and not do patter? Come on, son.

I just can’t get behind this episode, and I was truly prepared to be thrilled. I mean the cast tried hard, but in a musical the music has to be good, and this wasn’t.

The Defiant is an interesting middle ground, basically a corvette type of thing, and it’s only practical because it has a cloak and it’s (for the ST universe) grotesquely overpowered and overgunned. Well it’s only practical because the writers wanted it to be, but that’s the in-universe explanation.

ST doesn’t have carriers because fighters are uncommon and bombers are unheard of, for a variety of good reasons. There are a few exceptions, like Jem’hadar “fighters” (which are basically equivalent to a smaller Bird of Prey in terms of crew and armament, but actually seem to serve as troop transports?), runabouts, or the Delta Flyer. That size of ship is also roughly equivalent to the Jedi ships, both in terms of travel range and capacity for violence.

I still can’t decide whether or not I like or dislike that design.

I screamed when he appeared on screen. It scared my dog.

That’s true!

Well you can upload images to Lemmy itself, up to a few MB per image. Otherwise, I think a lot of people are using redgifs. I have also heard good things about jpg.pet and pixl.li for images, and saint.to and pixeldrain.com for video.

This is inaccurate. It did not say “childlike” at the time that Ada complained. After we got defederated, I asked a new mod of that community to update the sidebar because it was very light on rules, purpose, etc. and I thought that maybe our conflict with blahaj could have been avoided if the sidebar was more explicit about what the community was about. As part of his revision, on his first pass he copied and pasted a dictionary definition of “adorable” which included the word “childlike”, then went back and re-edited it to remove that word on a later editing pass. I want to say it was in there for about two hours? During that time, a couple of people spotted it and made some unwarranted assumptions.

The viewer naturally sympathizes with Worf and adopts his view of Klingon culture, but remember that he was raised by humans and most of his knowledge of Klingon culture came from very early childhood and books. Imagine a human child raised by another species whose knowledge of Human culture came from fairy tales and like Arthurian stories. He’d come to earth and be outraged that everyone isn’t following some virtuous code of chivalry. A politician broke his word? DUEL TO THE DEATH! That’s Worf.