Riker_Maneuver
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•When you vet someone for whether you can be close friends with them, what's a seemingly unimpactful characteristic about someone that would instantly rule them out as a potential close friend for you?English
73·2 years agoFor real this seems like a major red flag.
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RetroGaming@lemmy.world•Nightdive's Quake 2: Enhanced, out nowEnglish
1·2 years agoAwesome, the episode they added to the original Quake was fantastic so this should deliver as well. Also, I never played the N64 game either. Nightdive is too good for this world.
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Movies and TV Shows@lemmy.film•'King Of The Hill' Dale Voice Actor Johnny Hardwick Dead At 64English
432·2 years agoFor real. I imagine they’ll be finding someone new, but no one will ever truly be able replace him.
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Technology@beehaw.org•YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history onEnglish
11·2 years agoCool, now make the search useful again by letting me do -thingIdon’twant or “thing I do want” in quotes. Why did that functionality even go away? Search is such garbage now that tries to get you to click on shit you didn’t search for.
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Technology@beehaw.org•YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history onEnglish
34·2 years agoI love the content/creators, but hate the company that runs it. Sadly, unless you are willing to give up the channels you love there isn’t much in the way of alternatives.
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Futurama @lemmy.world•Season 8 Episode 3 - How the West Was 1010001 [Discussion and Spoilers]English
121·2 years agoToo many current-thing jokes has been an issue in 2/3 of the episodes. Forget aging well; the jokes didn’t even land now. For me, it’s 0-3, and I think I’m going to be dipping out unless I later hear it has a consistent return to form.
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Science Fiction@lemmy.world•Your thoughts on The Orville?English
6·2 years agoWhile I don’t regret watching it—and I’d probably even throw on a new season if it gets one—I felt like it was missing any true classic episodes. I also kept having this strange sense of familiarity with episodes, as if it was just repurposing or rehashing older Star Trek plots.
I kept thinking, “Wasn’t there a TNG/DS9/Whatever episode that explored this same general concept/idea, but better?”. It felt like it was maybe borrowing just a bit too much from it’s inspiration.
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Privacy Guides@lemmy.one•Brave releases its own privacy-preserving image and video searchEnglish
6·2 years agoWhat is the reason for removing search functionality? Is it really just to make it harder to find what people want and potentially be served more ads? Hopefully site:whateverbutprobablyreddit.com never goes on the chopping block.
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Movies and TV Shows@lemmy.film•‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ makes its debut on Disney+English
51·2 years agoIt felt very much in the vein and quality of the previous Guardians films to me, so I figured, if people loved those, they would also love this. Personally, I thought it was probably one of the better non-Spider-Man marvel offerings we have gotten in a while. The last phase had a lot of underwhelming releases.
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Science Fiction@lemmy.world•Any fans of sci-fi comics here? East of West was such a cool world to delve into.English
5·2 years agoAtomic Robo! Not enough people talk about Atomic Robo.

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Science Fiction@lemmy.world•Any fans of sci-fi comics here? East of West was such a cool world to delve into.English
7·2 years agoTo name a few other sci-fi ones: Saga, Low, Black Science, and if you love pulpy sci-fi there is also Fear Agent. They have some really cool art too.
From Black Science #1:

Edit: Oh, also want to shill James Stokoe’s Aliens: Dead Orbit just because I’m in love with the art in everything he does.
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Science Fiction@lemmy.world•Any fans of sci-fi comics here? East of West was such a cool world to delve into.English
2·2 years agoYeah, luckily, around the time I started to burn out on the endless events and reboots in Marvel and DC was when I feel like Image Comics really hit its stride. I wanna say early to mid 2010s(?) they really started branching out/expanding in what they published, and finding recognition and success—well, as much as comics can expect—for it.
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Science Fiction@lemmy.world•Any fans of sci-fi comics here? East of West was such a cool world to delve into.English
7·2 years agoNow that you mention it, it does give off those 5th Element vibes. Though, The Endless Nation is actually comprised of Native Americans, so it’s the complete opposite of aliens in both the extraterrestrial sense and the immigrant sense.
No one really knows what went down, but at some point they went into isolation for a considerable time, then emerged as a technological superpower. As the comic puts it:
There is no record of the internal revolution which resulted in the Machine State, only the oral history of cast-out believers who now reside in the dead country. One day there was no Machine State, and then the next there was.
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Science Fiction@lemmy.world•What are you Watching? (August 2023)English
4·2 years agoI think I’ve watched it completely at least four separate times; I love it so much. It’s just such good fun.
Harvey was the best.

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Science Fiction@lemmy.world•What are you Watching? (August 2023)English
11·2 years agoI’ve been watching the X-Files. Back in the day I’d only ever sometimes catch episodes here and there on TV, so this is actually the first time I’ve sat down to watch the whole thing. Only partway through season one at the moment, but really digging it.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Bot posting in new communities seem to discourage human engagement.English
3·2 years agoFrom where I sit, this instance of Lemmy is too small to worry about bots denying the users. 😉
Is it? I myself have gone to post something I found interesting, and saw a bot beat me to the punch. I feel it hurts the smaller communities even more. You end up with those bot post graveyards. Though, I get this a complete non-issue to some; It’s why I suggested letting the communities and moderators themselves decide. I see no harm in that.
My personal preferences make me more likely to comment and contribute to content posted by other humans. I get lemmy is small right now, but I don’t see why communities should wait to address these bots when they are already clearly a divisive subject.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Bot posting in new communities seem to discourage human engagement.English
3·2 years agoThe problem is that this seems like a band-aid fix to me. I mentioned this in another thread, but I feel like the bot posts deny the human chance to post and engage with the same content. When a human is the one to create the post they often have both knowledge and passion for the subject and will continue to engage in the comments. Bots do not.
I think ultimately this is something that should be handled by community mods. Ask for feedback from their communities, and if it’s what the people want disallow the bot posts.
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science@lemmy.world•NASA is launching a new 'Plus' streaming serviceEnglish
26·2 years agoSame, I had a knee-jerk angry reaction until I saw that it was free.







Yeah, I was about to say, 99% of people are either unaware or do not care. Don’t mistake Lemmy’s privacy opinions as representative of the general population.