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my corneas are still scarred from the end of Picard when they're back on the brightly-lit Enterprise after three seasons of candlelit ships. at this rate starfleet officers are going to need eyepatches like pirates for when they turn away from a screen

metaverse 3 will use ai 2 which is on the blockchain

clone wars and farscape teach us that oceanic (oceaniac?) accents come from space so it's probably a character option in one of the spelljammer books

do you have any examples? i can't think of any Coromon that resemble Pokemon aside from sharing a base animal, whereas a number of Pokemon look closer to specific Pals than they do to their own regional or gender variants

Coromon is only a ripoff in the same way that any scrolling platformer is a ripoff of Super Mario Bros. building off the basic chassis of existing games to make new ones is a practice as old as videogames itself and why genres exist. the difference is that Palworld is full to the brim with monsters that can be difficult to tell at a glance from existing Pokémon- look at this article's embedded image, that's just a Wooloo with horns on it's hind legs- whereas Coromon, Digimon, Dragon Quest Tamers, Yokoi Watch, Cassette Beasts, and anything else in the genre aren't ripoffs and are even available on Nintendo consoles

i know that's not the angle Nintendo is using in court, but it's certainly the reason why they're in court in the first place while ignoring the plethora of older games that would also clearly violate those patents

the two Who rock operas are chock full of stuff that went over my head because i heard them when i was younger than i probably should have been. in this case the songs are written from character POVs so i wouldn't say they make me think less of the band because of the content, but jeez, 10 year old me never would've figured Love Reign O'er Me for example was about a suicide attempt as opposed to, you know, feeling loved

in theory voting through mail would be easier, but in practice it's a nightmare. i needed absentee ballots for two elections when i was away for school- one arrived late and one didn't arrive at all! much easier to just do in-person voting in my experience

gus is the chief medical officer partially so he can cover up that shawn isn't from betazed

"Andorian women are far more aggressive than Earth females. She made a... an overture. I had a choice - charge her with assaulting a superior or... marry her for 32 years and counting."

we here are bluesky are thrilled to accept Series A funding for Face-Eating Leopards, Inc. despite this we ensure that Leopards will not eat your face

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