Snowcano

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hm, well, can YOU think of any potential differences in how those industries work that may have resulted in a pay structure like this?

Because there are very specific reasons why tv/movie pay works this way, but if they get in the way of your self-important whinging then maybe we shouldn’t bring them up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Actually boycotting ironically hurts in this situation.

Writers and actors are encouraging people to keep watching and taking about shows & movies because that underscores the value they bring and are trying to get recognition for, ultimately bolstering their case.

Keep watching anything and everything folks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Curious what others think about this, but I was wondering about the mechanism for how the parameters of the quantum uncertainty field were defined to create a reality that follows the 'rules' of the musical genre. Uhura transmitted Anything Goes into the subspace fold, but that's just a structured harmonic pattern (or however Pelia called it) and even if you took the song's content into account, it doesn't inherently contain any kind of comprehensive definition of common musical tropes (songs tending to give voice internal character motivations, choreographed dancing, songs combined into a medley, etc).

So were the crew thoughts somehow influencing the "selection" of the improbability fields? If so, how? Is the subspace fold sentient somehow? And even if so, all the anomaly knew was that a ship full of life forms was beaming something at it, how would it know which life form in which room was the one pressing the button and that their thoughts should be doing the 'driving'? (Heaven help us if it decided to read Ensign Johnson's mind down on Deck 7 and get a glimpse into the world of Federation-era Furry fandom!) What do you think?

Personally, I think this is some good ol' fashioned TOS-style handwaving that we're not meant to think too much about, but that's not the kind of thinking we get paid for around these parts. 😜

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact that “patient dumping” happens often enough for there to be a term for it infuriates me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ahhhh, thank you. Hadn’t seen that one, and was pretty sure I wasn’t missing a Trek reference.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which musical episode?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Content leaving is totally a problem. I’ve lost track of the number of times my spouse and I say, “Oh hey, what about we finally watch xyz that’s been in our queue for ages? Yeah that seems like a good one for Friday pizza night! …oh, it’s vanished from our queue, hooray.”

It’s not my full time job to keep tabs on what’s coming and going from the damn entertainment service that I hope to use in my ever dwindling reserves of free time. Especially when there’s alternative means available that are not too difficult to use.

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