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Sadly when I left Somerville I left behind the owner-occupied perk. Rockland not only doesn't do the homestead thing, they have a crazy high tax rate to pay for their fancy new schools.

I'm definitely not whelmed

Lorca doesn't seem all that impressed by your puny human morality

Yeah this is both cool and not cool at the same time. I am continually in awe of the minds that come up with these mechanisms to put chinks in the armor of technology we've woven around us, but this could potentially be a headache and a half. Since I pass through Kendall Square on my way...

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I will give them credit for doing their level best to keep "the twist" under wraps.

So the preload of this included a free copy of The Stick of Truth so I downloaded it and figured I'd refresh my memory a bit... aaaannnnndddd I ended up playing the whole damn game again over the weekend. I hadn't tried the fighter class at all before and found it pretty fun to go at things...

I'm angry with myself for having subscribed to CBS All Access, especially since it doesn't seem like they are doing 4K HDR anytime soon**. However I'm entertained enough that this has become 'appointment viewing' for me and I devoured the most recent episode shortly after the stream went up...

The production values really are quite high for this. At least the technical FX people were clearly on the ball from the start.

Jesus. The "6pm" shows here in Boston were only $25. I still opted to go with the $18.75 tickets for the 7pm showing instead knowing I may miss out on some sort of collectible doo-dad. I do think Rian Johnson has carefully crafted some misdirection in all this. I honestly wouldn't be...

I have taken to forcing people to watch the first season upon threat of kicking them in the balls. Luckily they get hooked pretty fast and once they hit the twist they go apeshit and yell at me for not having forced them to watch sooner...

Did anyone else catch that the Klingons Also the Discovery going all Stargate with the spinning rings on the saucer section when it activates Fungus Drive is a bit weird. They have said they are fully aware of the implications of the Discovery's tech with respect to the future timeline so I...

I do like Captain Lorca and Commander Saru....plus they at least have lots of background non-humans wandering around.

This show... holy crap this is bad. Back in the dark days when we were lucky to have one 'genre' type show on the air at a time this would still have been an unworthy of our attention... and we watched Automan , The Phoenix, and Mistfits of Science

Im gonna guess this is a massive miscommunication between marketing and logistics. I mean it couldn't have been trivial to manufacture the packets and such for this limited run, so why not do a 'full press' of it? Hell they would have gotten more free advertising and value out of this than...

Goddamn space goths...

Technically not fast food, but weirdly mesmerizing...

Lorca is clearly a whackjob. At least this explains why one of the main characters is a fungus researcher. I'm going to assume the prison shuttle never makes it to it's destination in order to cover up Burnham's continued place on Discovery. This is based on Saru's death-antenae activating...

Did the Nightfall this week and also managed to finish Rat King. Judicious use of upgrades and turning in faction tokens got me to 291 which aint too bad given that I started the week at 278. I fear that this week's Nightfall being so easy will spoil us for next week when it will once again be...

Armin Shimmerman as Quark was just damn superb. The whole way that DS9 turned the Ferengi into a running gag and then not a running gag was genius.

I think they regard the old makeup as being not alien enough. By this point we as fans are so steeped in Klingon history and lore from TNG/DS9/VOY that we don't really regard them as being 'the other' at this point. So they throw this big curveball in and show us a radically different sort of...

Re-watched the Mists of Pandaria cinematic owing to the 5-year anniversary of its release. I may be in the minority, but I really liked MoP. I think I had more actual fun during the Pandaria era than at any other point in WoW history. I wonder if we will get another cultural-exploration /...

This is pre-history, maybe this is why they were able to free up money in the 'design a probe' sub-committee and get some probes built.

Are there any leaderboards or similar for the faction rally? I would have expected some sort of UI element in the Tower or elsewhere that showed the relative rankings

Nah the whole season is an arc that deals with the Klingon War and we will be getting updates to the story from both sides. Two of the regular cast are Klingons and show as appearing in all or nearly all of the episodes.

You gotta admit that Les Moonves has pretty big balls. Not only putting the new Trek series on a streaming service that has no other content that would ever appeal to the core demographic of the show, but including commercials! That takes serious stones.

Why do you like VW? I've been playing Storm since I unlocked it and can't see giving up Arc Soul anytime in the forseeable future. Also: Who uses Healing vs Damage buff circle on their Warlock? I actually tell my Fireteam I'm using damage boost and instead put down a healing circle since...

The ship's overall aesthetic with the holographic everything and transparent touchscreens is certainly more in line with the Kelvin timeline. About the only nod to this being 'olde tyme Trek' was the satellite dish transporter pads.

Ive often wondered if Starfleet ships aren't designed by the worst electrical engineers imaginable... Why does the outer hull of the ship taking damage result in your duty station console exploding in a cascade of sparks? What the hell are these displays made out of?

Add me to the chorus of "bullshit" on the NightFall having a timer. Was having a good time with my buddies yesterday doing the Nightfall for the first time and even though we were moving at a quick pace we still managed to lose on time. Managed to get to 278, so a couple more points and I can...

I borrowed a friend's CBS All Access and was watching the first episode via the PS4 app when the service crashed. Seems to have done so within a couple minutes of the first episode's delayed Live airing so I am guessing they got hammered with server requests. For the part I saw Lt Saru was by...

So Iris and Barry try to get married and Nazi's from Earth-X invade which they stop with the help of all their wedding guests plus The Ray (and other Freedom Fighters?)

I have not done those, so that's something I suppose -- although my primary weapon is already at 275 I suppose having a boost to 287 in that slot can only help things along. I mainly want to get to 280 so I can at least actively participate in Mod Slot Machine fun

Grrrr 272 and the only way 'up' are Powerful Rewards and the occasional Exotic I can infuse into another item to boost power. Naturally, everything I get is for the two equipment slots I already have at 275 and 280 respectively :(

How does Real Eleanor fit into this? Does she become a foil for Michael constantly trying to get him to slip up so she can report him to Sean?

Ive had an HTC One for the last several years (a couple of iterations of it) and thoroughly enjoyed the phone and so was hoping to hold out for the Pixel 2, but my phone died and I had to switch ASAP. I have to say I love my Pixel XL. All the things I like about the HTC hardware and supreme...

Was interesting seeing things from the Bad Place workers point of view. Obviously they can't keep rebooting, so I'm guessing Michael ends up getting the humans to help him fool Sean / Bad Place workers in order to not be eradicated. It also bugged me most of the episode until I realized I knew...

So loading into the Tower and I get a black screen. Can hear the ambient sounds around, just no visuals. This has happened before where it was slow to load and black for 10-20 seconds, but it's at a few minutes now and counting...

Puerto Rico is already financially wrecked and now it is getting hammered physically. At what point do you just throw up your arms and condemn the whole island, evict everyone, and start over?