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I see AI still can't render hands well. Apparently pixelated feet give it problems too, judging from Mario's nightmare fuel feet.

Um, red? You might want to see a doctor about that...

I'm half her age and I don't recover from falls and injuries anywhere near as quickly as I did in my younger days. I can barely wrap my brain around how frail a 90 year old must be.

Great point about making sure places are actually open when you want to go. I think I've taken it for granted that a large majority of the places and things I typically want to see have regular-ish business hours or are open 24/7 (e.g., something in a park or other public space).

This is AWESOME advice. I have no problem hitting up tourist spots but they can be a bit much (and sometimes hugely overrated). I try to balance those out with just living in the city eating and drinking away from all the popular spots too.

If the place you're visiting has good public transit, I've also found that I strangely enjoy riding trains and buses to random places. It's a good way to immerse yourself and get off the beaten path.

I've traveled to many corners of the planet and have a different take than most. Many people try to min/max their trip, filling up every minute of every day which doesn't appeal to me at all. I prefer a laid back, impromptu schedule to give myself time to see and do stuff I didn't plan and time to breathe and enjoy being in a new place. To me, the worst thing you can do is overplan and overschedule so you're stressed out if something happens to screw up your tight schedule.

As for selecting what to do, I usually do tons of internet and book research finding things that sound interesting. I add everything to a list and to Google Maps as saved points and then try to cluster them into days, making sure I'm not packing in too much as noted above. I'm not especially concerned if I don't get to everything--if I really enjoyed a place, odds are I'll return and put focus on different experiences.

And after that, you still have a pile of leftover screws and parts that remain unused.

I don't think it's the producers--it's the networks or streaming service. I've read a lot of articles where a showrunner says they had a 4 year plan or a one season plan, only to have the show be really popular and additional seasons added, or the opposite which we've all encountered, the show cancelled before the plan plays out.

I don't know how to get around this but I would love to see a model where more shows follow a short run K drama type schedule and get a fixed 8 or 16 or 32 episodes to tell their story, and that's it. That way, they can plan ahead of time without having to worry about network interference. Obviously this would never fly with U.S. broadcast networks but they're a dying breed anyway.

Me neither. How long till old.reddit.com goes away? That was supposed to be the next big spike in the Lemmy growth curve.

I can't believe I read that whole thing. I take that back, I can't believe Reddit actually thought this was a good idea and put it out into the world.

Hate to break it to you but you may have assembled your cat incorrectly.

Even though I was on Reddit for 9 years, I never frequented r/startrek until this year and saw the mod posts about starting a fresh Lemmy instance. Being a member of the Federation in the Fediverse just really appealed to my geek brain.

I love the Enterprise-D so much I paid through the nose to get an Eaglemoss model of it for my work desk. I'm new to that whole side of collectibles and good lord, you can drop some serious coin on those.