RE: https://functional.cafe/@thephoeron/117379152673037325
I also keep forgetting that Section 31 was originally invented for #DS9. Speaking of seminal.
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#DarkMatter S2 E07, “The Pyramid” is yet another incredible episode. Hard-hitting from the first to the last, a necessary reminder on accountability that more peoppe need to hear. Emotionally rich, exploring all new layers of Leighton, Blair, Amanda, Ryan, Daniela, Jason, and Charlie. Circling in on a subject that can’t easily be approached directly. Even more quotable than Episode 3. By the end of it, at the cliffhanger, I was silently screaming “FUUUCK!”, but, y’know, I sure wanted to scream it out-loud to myself. I normally can’t stand cliffhangers, but this one was executed so perfectly.
I’m sad about the “Kinder” universe going full-authoritarian under its pandemic. But it was real nice to see at least one version of Leighton as an honest-to-God real Empath, instead of just someone who only uses shallow, surface-level empathy as a sort of fake-charisma just to manipulate people, the way psychopaths do but more effectively than any psychopath can. The thing that makes the other Leighton’s so evil and yet so lovable.
I also appreciated how this episode introduced us to the problem of identifying parallel universes in a sensible and consistent manner. Oh, and how it was the PI version of McNamara from the eternal-70s universe that got to go through the box first, before the federal agent version. Nice nod to the noir genre, there.
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The countably infinite subset of uncountably infinite universes where Harry Kim owns a pineapple-motif Hawaiian shirt but chooses not to wear it
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#AcrossTheUnknown has given me an oddly-specific craving for #SurvivingMarsRelaunched
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My #Fallout4 #AnniversaryEdition #ModCollection “Demon Core” is the fuckin’ best. That 10% more nuclear fire makes a big difference. Just look at those little mushroom clouds!
https://www.nexusmods.com/games/fallout4/collections/m96k4u/
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RE: https://functional.cafe/@thephoeron/117389626231592409
Aw man, the crew mutinied and relieved me of command in the middle of “Cold Fire”. They really don’t like me cracking open every asteroid or looting every derelict I can lock our tractor beam on. And god damn the ship uses a lot of deuterium.
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To the #Autistic mind, fantasy is sacred, and has no overlap with reality, the mundane.
I wouldn’t want to live in a universe without Nana Visitor starring as Kira Nerys on #DS9, but I’d like to at least see a universe where Michelle Forbes took the gig to reprise her role as Ro Laren for the duration of the series. You can tell the show was originally written for her.
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I’m really loving the working LCARS interface, ship view, and system/sector navigation maps. It’s very well thought out and executed. I’m already emotionally-invested in the story and characters, but now I’m the one in the hot-seat and this just-the-right-amount in-universe interface empowers that while still feeling like a familiar Survival/Strategy game.
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RE: https://functional.cafe/@thephoeron/117388121204267109
When you transition to a new sector, you get to listen to personal logs of select officers, voiced by the original actors of course, commenting on the current situation and choices you’ve made. Tuvok is extra sassy. Tom Paris is noticeably more sarcastic, by a good 15%. They’re both dragging Neelix through the mud here.
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Just got #AcrossTheUnknown (the new #StarTrekVoyager game that came out this spring) with the Captain’s Bundle. I’m pleased that the standard difficulty is #SurvivalMode but it also includes a disturbingly-tempting #YearsOfHellMode
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You know what? I’m going to rewatch “Children of Time”. I’m not yet emotionally prepared to confront Eddington again or his bloody martyr-complex.
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If I had to choose the single biggest difference between the #Neurotypical and the #Neurodivergent it would be this:
NTs are only naturally offended by that which directly threatens them and their worldview, whereas NDs are naturally offended by any attack on others—punching down most of all.
But that also reveals the single biggest similarity between us:
Both NTs and NDs are only offended by that which they are made consciously aware of; so long as we can all keep blissfully ignorant, our heads buried in the sand, nothing bothers any of us.
That tells us everything we need to know about #HumanNature and the #HumanMind
Sometimes it’s really hard to believe the Orion Syndicate was invented specifically for #DS9 and only later retconned into a fundamental component of Orion society. It just feels so seminal.
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The season 9 premier of #RickAndMorty, S9 E01 “There’s Something About Morty”, is a fantastic episode. But it sure has a different tone once you’ve seen the season finale and come to the inevitable conclusion quoted below.
You have “Evil Morty” going full-Astroboy. You have Rick C-137 going full-Looney-Tunes. And you have Morty Prime catching Evil Morty red-handed and calling him out for it. You can’t help but share in the victory as Evil Morty is carted off to Time Prison, no matter how many times you watch this episode. At least until you’ve seen the season finale and come to the inevitable conclusion quoted below.
But wait. Rewind a moment. What was it for, specifically, that Morty Prime caught Evil Morty red-handed? Emotional vulnerability. Trust in the veracity of the moment. Honesty.
Okay sure. Evil Morty is still a slime-bag sporting a villain accessory. But what does that make Morty Prime?
#SciFi #ParallelUniverses #AdultAnimation #Comedy #TVSeries #AdultSwim #Spoilers #RickAndMortySeason9
RE: https://functional.cafe/@thephoeron/117366108962470976
Published the second story-pack for my #Fallout4 #AnniversaryEdition #ModCollection, “Demon Core”, this time encompassing the Thuggyverse, including the fantastic story expansions:
- Fusion City Rising
- Outcasts and Remnants
- Project Valkyrie
- Depravity
Optional compatibility mods for the Enclave story-pack included.
https://www.nexusmods.com/games/fallout4/collections/lcprtn/
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The weird thing about #RickAndMorty S9 E10, “Field of Dreams”, is that most of the episode is an anticipatory response to my specific reaction to Episode 8 outlined in the quoted post below—which is, of course, a well-documented and common pattern in #NarcissisticAbuse but not something you expect a TV show to pull off.
Imagine that. A whole alternate universe to explore the life and times of a “basic Rick” who has dealt with his alcoholism, attends AA, turns his life around, becomes a professor at MIT, and finds love in a healthy relationship. But even with a whole multiverse worth of mind-poisoning, “basic Rick” never manages to get Morty Prime back to Rick C-137. The episode makes it look like Jerry’s fault that this “basic Rick” universe goes full-Estate-Sale. But let’s face it. It was the inevitable consequence of the real point of the episode, and recurring theme of the series: Morty-Prime’s underlying psychological complex.
I’m not really sure what to call this pathological quest for a surrogate father, other than the Tom Sawyer Complex, maybe. Certainly that’s the name suggested by the episode description. Whatever you choose to call it, it’s more disturbing than either the Oedipus or the Electra complexes, albeit not by much; severe dysfunctions of the Syzygy (aka, the pairing of the anima and animus in Jungian psychology), all produce a similar full-body-emotional-revulsion when confronted head-on.
But yeah. That’s the deal. Now we know. And we can’t deny it. Every Morty is Evil-Morty. Not because of a specific villain accessory or any overt plan to conquer the multiverse for purely selfish reasons, but because he’s sick and chooses to remain sick.
God damn that’s fucked up.
#SciFi #ParallelUniverses #AdultAnimation #Comedy #TVSeries #AdultSwim #Spoilers #RickAndMortySeason9 #Psychology #JungianPsychology
When a #Narcissist tries to make you their ally, and says so, what they’re really doing is coopting everything you hold sacred for the sake of their own narrative. You’re nothing but a prop to them.
#Narcissism #NarcissisticAbuse #Psychology #PersonalityTypes #DarkTriad #Psychopathy
#DarkMatter S2 E06, “What the Universe Is Made Of” is a really intense episode, in a lot of little ways. It’s kind of like the narrative is pure setup with very little resolution. But then there were also so many perfect moments it seems pointless to single any out. Just drop everything and watch it. Even if you’ve never seen the show before, just drop everything and watch it.
As a minor postscript, I think it’s interesting that the writers chose that particular interpretation of quantum mechanics to describe entanglement. Not exactly a popular one anymore. Or a canonical approach to the multiverse problem. I wonder if it’s a setup too? Like the story can only unfold if that one specific interpretation is the correct one, which is itself an unpopular choice in the physics community these days?
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