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In DS9 Kira is an unabashed terrorist. She did what she needed to be done. If you were enslaved by the Cardassians and got blown up working in their mines or factories that's what you get for being a collaborator. She planted a bomb in her mother's quarters in the hopes it would kill Dukat...

Sure, Star Trek was always progressive but it was also even-handed. You present a complex issue and if it's a real world allegory there's enough distance between the real thing and it's simulacrum that the audience doesn't just immediately know what you're up to. You do a bit of work so there's...

That's the exact face my cat makes when she ain't got no time for my shit. It's uncanny. unrelated -

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3909036 Woo!

And they're good!

You ever give Will Wight's Cradle series a try? Travis Baldree brings the audiobooks alive. @OU Ariakas and they've even finished. Twelve books with a competent ending.

Vaniki had some problems but going out in to the world and seeing what you could do with +10 levels of leeway and no level based resistance modifers was fun as hell.

Hey, Dan Simmons. I just finished Carrion Comfort last week. A secretive cabal of psychic vampires pull strings behind the scenes. Our main characters are a group of people that had their lives upended from one of the little games these elite like to play. With "The Ability" they can make...

I don't think a single person that disliked season one said season two was better.

Show us on the doll where Robert Jordan touched you.

I know what you mean.

Probably. Although I really did not like Harry Dresden the World's Saddest Wizard the book did stay in my thoughts for a few days after finishing it. That's worth another point. There are plenty of books that I have read that have stirred not a single extra moment of additional reflection...

Sure thing John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.

It's James.

Finished it up. It takes a turn in tone and structure back to the familiar once and that turn is firmly cemented once From there on out it forms a very decent entry to the series. Rated against all the others I'd be willing to put it in the upper half. Harry does still get sad a couple more...

There are a few quest items associated with epics plus the epics themselves that cannot be traded. It's a pretty short list all things considered.

18 weeks Velious, 18 weeks Luclin, 16 weeks PoP gets you to 52 for a new launch and new bag purchases.

It's okay. Most horses can't talk. unrelated -

He's getting his shit together as it goes along but we're still a long way away from the wizard that battled one of the darkest horrors of faerie in the heart of Arctus Tor, bested it and shouted to all the monsters closing in "WHO'S NEXT" Harry Dresden Has a Sad is just a big part of this book...

I'm not fatigued. Dresden is clinically depressed. We're inside his head so we get to hear all his self-loathing first hand. One character after another has a scene where they tell him he doesn't deserve what he's doing to himself. Given the author's battle with depression including a suicide...

It does not.

I'm three hours in to the audiobook and I am enjoying it but my desire to listen to Harry Dresden the World's Saddest Wizard is not without it's limits.

Crazy shit. Anyway I just finished Minute by minute account of a hypothetical nuclear war that begins with a "bolt out of the blue" ICBM launch by North Korea combined with some pretty extensive research and citations. It's a very tight package with the audiobook clocking in at under...

It's not a great episode. unrelated -

The vote was yes for berserkers and beastlords but the official ruleset has not been released.

You can't patent food or drink. You can trademark a logo and you can patent a unique process or piece of technology that lets you make the thing but that's about it. unrelated - Finland and alcohol bring you The Beatles Yellow Submarine Even if Coke had an initial patent that shit would...

No complaints but I too am surprised.

That might have gotten a pass in 2017 when Discovery launched today it's viewership poison.

Objectivity is going to be tough given STD still had some goodwill to work with when it launched and this was showing up to the party already hated.

Voyager's ratings were low enough that the local affiliate stopped airing them. Two or three seasons in the show just went away. The show eventually came back (and with a marathon to catch everyone up) but putting another Star Trek series on the network could not have been a good idea.

My liking the mirror universe stuff way late isn't really much praise given it's not the show's proper characters or story.

Back when it was airing, despite liking Scott Bakula from Quantum Leap, I didn't get more than a few episodes in before bailing. All my nerd friends bailed on it too. I did end up watching some of the final episodes of season four and then the finale when it originally aired and the show seemed...

I know I can't throw stones given Seven was in a skintight suit in nearly even scene she was in but those decontamination gel scenes in Enterprise were ridiculous.

Voyager. Perhaps you were judged too harshly.

The song in the opening credits had lyrics. The franchise never recovered.

Maybe secondary viewers (gag) feel negative emotions and that impacts viewership? You're watching a thing, it's confusing, being confused makes you feel bad, etc.

Getting eyeball time from young people is already tough. I have no idea why anyone thought Star Trek would be something that would get their attention. Seventy-five minutes is a big fucking ask.