An inherent problem with the Star Trek concept is that any time people want to make movies or videogames about it, they always move away from what Star Trek is about.
Because Star Trek isn’t very action focused or cinematic or tactile. They don’t even really have guns, they basically fight by aiming laser pointers and just standing there. You’re not gonna get sick action shooter gameplay from Star Trek. The best Star Trek episodes are the ones where no combat happens at all.
Because Star Trek wasn’t made to be an action movie, or a videogame. Star Trek is a TV show, and everything about it was made for a long-form TV format, and a long-form TV budget. It’s about character drama, and politics, and diplomacy, and encountering weird alien shit. It was built for characters making tough decisions, and going on Shakespearean soliloquies.
The only kind of game that would REALLY stay true to the spirit of Star Trek…. Would unfortunately be a Telltale style choose your own adventure game.
Funny that members of the Telltale team worked on Star Trek: Resurgence. Which is pretty exactly that.
CRITTER GANG ANIMATION DONE !!! ive been sitting on this for a couple months but it was so much to do . i love these freak creatures. design credits to @tawnysoup of coursies. love these things forever and ever
of course when you see PayPal being uncooperative your natural instinct is to want to start an independent lightweight payment processor, but that’s exactly the logic that brought us PayPal.
we could aim to charge lower fees and then not do that.
asked my cat if he wanted dinner or the slop that kills him and my twin was like “he can hear you, you know?” and when I looked down at my cat he was like this
“Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they’re 15” this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit
To wit:
I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.
In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:
“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.
“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”
Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.
Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Don’t limit yourself based on other ppl’s tastes. They’re not you, and you are incredible 💕
I think they have a bit slavic vibes cuz I was drawing them while listening to my favorite band Nervy (or Nerves) and they are ukrainian (so vibes were half intentional)
just an excuse to talk about them cuz I love their songs a lot :3
recently we were out on a hilltop taking photos of the comet and suddenly some car’s headlights blind us from across the bay. literally four miles away.
who the fuck is out here with these nuclear fusion powered headlights. who puts naval searchlights on their fucking toyota tacoma.
For so long, the US has been a battle of left vs right. But CEO Brian Thompson’s assassination has kinda done something incredible….. The conversation has shifted from being “left vs right” to “rich vs poor.” The cracks have begun to show, and maybe, just maybe, the conversation will continue…
I know I’m being an insufferable worldbuilding nerd here, but my basic metric for evaluating media with very inhuman protagonists is “how easily can one offer a complete and coherent account of this media’s plot without ever mentioning the fact that the protagonist is, for example, a talking car?”. The harder it is, the higher it scores.
@hewwbwazew I would LOVE to read this holy shit
@territorialoak I hope you don’t mind me adding your tags here, that story is just too good and I’m Obsessed
also @gilgamemesh I feel like this is your vibe too
What’s that poem about the cockroach and the moth where the cockroach is like “I wish I’ve ever wanted anything the way that moth wanted to burn itself up in that lantern” because we had to read that in high school and it still fucks me up to this day
Ok I found it it’s called “the lesson of the moth by archy” and it’s by Don Marquis
An old favorite. (And the incident with the moth in The Door into Fire is a nod toward this, though not an obvious one.)
TIL anyone who’s going to overwinter in Antarctica has to have had their appendix out. Because removing an appendix that’s not causing any trouble just as a precaution is way better than having one that’s about to burst when you’re on the ass-end of the planet with no way to be rushed to a hospital if shit gets real.
No, by the way, we absolutely did not think of this ahead of time. A dude named Leonid Rogozov got appendicitis in Antarctica. Fortunately, the expedition’s doctor diagnosed him quickly and knew how to remove an appendix. Unfortunately, our man Leo was the expedition’s doctor.
What did he do? Well, he set up a mirror, gave his belly a shot of novocaine, presumably told a colleague, “hold my vodka,” and he removed his own fucking appendix. He survived.
this picture has such “i lived bitch” energy
yknow what im just leaving this whole tag thread out here
NYPD are like uuuuh we still haven’t found the killer but we did find footage of a different, equally mysterious man with rogueish charisma and a dazzling smile. If that helps
shower. not a bath, a shower. use water as hot or cold as u like. u dont even need to wash. just get in under the water and let it run over you for a while. sit on the floor if you gotta.
moisturize everything. use whatever lotion u like. unscented? dollar store lotion? fancy ass 48 hour lotion that makes u smell like a field of wildflowers? use whatever you want, and use it all over.
put on clean, comfortable clothes.
put on ur favorite underwear. cute black lacy panties? those ridiculous boxers u bought last christmas with candy cane hearts on the butt? put em on.
drink cold water. use ice. if u want, add some mint or lemon for an extra boost.
clean something. doesn’t have to be anything big. organize one drawer of ur desk. wash five dirty dishes. do a load of laundry. scrub the bathroom sink.
blast music. listen to something upbeat and dancey and loud, something that’s got lots of energy. sing to it, dance to it, even if you suck at both.
make food. don’t just grab a granola bar to munch. take the time and make food. even if it’s ramen. add something special to it, like a hard boiled egg or some veggies. prepare food, it tastes way better, and you’ll feel like you accomplished something.
make something. write a short story or a poem, draw a picture, color a picture, fold origami, crochet or knit, sculpt something out of clay, anything artistic. even if you don’t think you’re good at it.
go outside. take a walk. sit in the grass. look at the clouds. smell flowers. put your hands in the dirt and feel the soil against your skin.
call someone. call a loved one, a friend, a family member, call a chat service if you have no one else to call. talk to a stranger on the street. have a conversation and listen to someone’s voice. if you can’t, text or email or whatever, just have some social interaction with another person. even if you don’t say much, listen to them.
cuddle your pets if you have them/can cuddle them. take pictures of them. talk to them. tell them how u feel, about your favorite movie, a new game coming out.
Circulating. Seasonal depression is creeping around now.
ALT
