CBS All Access has put the “Short Trek” episode “The Trouble With Edward” on YouTube. It is everything wrong with modern WokeTrek, as summarized nearly a year ago HERE. But if you want to watch it in all its “glory,” well, here ya go.
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Aug 172020
And it’s not even satire!
Zack Snyder’s 300 Remains INTENSELY Problematic
“300″ is finally getting a 4K release in October, which gives the ultra-woke author of the screed the excuse to toss every -istophobic complaint the modern left has at the movie.
So, why not get a copy and watch and laugh and cheer and poke the woke in the eye. Pre-order from the link below and I’ll get a pittance!
Aug 162020
… is apparently in the early stages of development.
Eh.
“Interstellar” was a visual masterpiece, but it was yet another one of those friggen’ mopey “space is awful, the future sucks, everything is bleak and doomed” flicks that Hollywood seems incapable of not making. And for a movie where so much was made of its scientific accuracy about black holes and how so much effort was made into making everything right, so damned much of it was nonsensical or outright bad/wrong science that it yoinked me right out of the story. For example: the “Ranger” spaceplanes that were launched into Earth orbit atop a heavy lift booster of some kind: sure, that makes sense. But then… the same spaceplanes were able to dive *deep* into the gravity well of a supermassive black hole, rendezvous with a planet, land on it, launch back into orbit and CLIMB BACK OUT of the black holes gravity well. The planet was so far in the well that time dilation was massive… years went by outside for every hour spent inside. This meant that this spaceplane not only had a phenomenal thrust-to-weight ratio, it had a delta V of a *large* fraction of the speed of light. Which means that not only would it not need a booster to get to Earth orbit, it wouldn’t take months to go from Earth to Saturn.
Bah.
At least it wasn’t “Ad Astra” though. Shudder.
Aug 142020
CBS All Access has plopped the first episode of “Star Trek: Lower Decks” onto YouTube. So… “enjoy,” I guess?
To say that it is “meh” puts it leaps and bounds ahead of STD and Picard, which actively hate Star Trek canon and the fanbase. Lower Decks seems canon-adjacent. But it’s still meh.
For all I know, Lower Decks will figure itself out and settle down into being a truly quality Trek series worthy of remembrance and celebration (I doubt it). But even if it did, CBS has spent so much time and money squandering fan goodwill that I doubt much of anyone will be there to see it. The fact that Lower Decks episode 1 was made freely available is likely evidence that not much of anybody cared much for or about it.
Aug 122020
Biden – or at least the people marionetting him around – selected Kamala Harris as his VP yesterday. I suppose that’s news…. but with everything going on,both locally and in the wider world, I just can’t get my give-a-ᛋᚻᛁᛏ-generator running. Which, for all I know, might be what Biden’s folks kinda hoped. So I’ll just leave this here:
Aug 092020
If there’s something that really shouldn’t be worthy of notice by the outside world, it’s YouTube “celebrities” going after each other. But sometimes it gets interesting, especially when the courts get involved and start setting legal precedent. it’ becomes especially interesting when you can tell that one of those involved in the spat is clearly the villain of the piece… and that they Keep Not Learning Valuable Lessons. Such is the case in the fight between “Akilah Obviously” and “Sargon of Akkad.” Short form, Sargon is a white anti-SJW, while Akilah is an anti-white SJW, and when Trump defeated Hillary in 2016 Akilah posted a video that Sargon took clips from for the purpose of satire. She sued him for copyright infringement; the court not only threw the case out, it recently awarded him legal costs. Doubling down on stupid, Akilah is claiming to be preparing an appeal. This is double dumb… not only because the case is essentially unwinnable for her on the merits, the judge who ruled against her has been bumped up to the appeals court and thus the appeal would go to *him.* Triple dumb, she has publicly smack-talked the judge. Yeah, she really is just that smart.
If you’ve got an hour to kill, or an hour to listen to something while you work (as I’m doing… for Book 2 I was successfully doing one diagram a day, but the most recent diagram tool the better part of a month… the average diagram runs about 800 kilobytes, this most recent one is a whopping 40 megabytes, so, yeah, a whole lot of bits), and you want to be amused by just how unaware of reality a professional SJW can be, check out this summary:
Note: in the thumbnail image for the YouTube video, that’s Akilah doing “whiteface.” Not unintentionally; she’s mocking the appearance of white folk while doing so. Not too long after, she said that she would never do white face, apparently having forgotten that she’d already done it. Way to go, Akilah! A winner is you!
Jul 262020
So, one of the Peaceful Protestors (TM) in Austin, Texas, decided to go to the local peaceful protest (TM) with an AK-47. This is perfectly acceptable, especially in Texas. But guess what: he got himself shot dead. How did this happen? Well… he decided that it would be a neato-keen idea to not only point said AK-47 at a car, but to fire around five shots into it. The driver of the car took umbrage at that and shot back and proved to have superior aiming capability.
So once again another victim of leftist violence and the George Floyd Riots… but at least the victim wasn’t an innocent bystander or shop owner, but one of the actual villains of the story.
A Photo Shows The BLM Rioter Who Was Shot To Dead Last Night In Texas As He Point His AK-47 At The Driver
And nothing of value was lost.
he is on camera talking about using it on cops sweety pic.twitter.com/ei96xYHBgy
— Anime gorilla wyatt (@animegorilla) July 26, 2020
One might, if one was ridiculous enough, argue about whether the driver of the car was wrong to drive towards the protest. But if one was wiser, one would realize that the car was on the *road* not the sidewalk. That’s what roads are *for.*
Jul 232020
But wait! There’s more!
Star Trek: Prodigy Is Nickelodeon’s New Animated Series, and It Drops Next Year
Prodigy, as previously revealed, will follow a group of “lawless” teenagers who find themselves aboard a derelict Starfleet vessel—which we can only speculate for now will be called the Prodigy—that they take command of, before boldly setting off on their own adventures exploring the galaxy and doing things a bunch of teens probably shouldn’t get up to aboard a former military/science/exploratory vessel.
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Jul 132020
So CBS All Access released the first trailer for the new Star Trek animated show premiering in August…
I remain unconvinced that spending money on CBS All Access makes any kind of sense. Sure, *finally* CBS made a Star Trek show that looks like the designers have actually seen an episode or two of Star Trek before… the ships and shuttles and tech all look like they’d fit into the TNG timeframe. But CBS does not yet seem to have figured out how to *write* Star Trek. This is a trailer, so it should contain some of the best stuff… and since the show is supposed to be a comedy, the trailer should be funny. But yet…
Pass.
Sigh. Used to be a time when “This new Star Trek Movie or show looks not good” would fill me with righteous indignation that the franchise was being degraded and squandered. Now it just fills me with a gray nothingness.
Cancel all the Trek. Collect all the rights back into one place, let Trek sit fallow for three to five years… then give it to Seth Macfarlane. It’s the only way to be sure.
Jun 292020
Ooh, scary, scary, don’t we look mean:
Chinese military reveals rifle-sized railgun prototypes
This video seems to be the original Chinese PLA video, with added music:
Looks cool, hits about like a paintball gun. Compare to this two-year-old video of a commercially available coilgun: