Shrek is love. Shrek is life.

Even a broken Berman is right twice a season.

Many of my self hosted solutions are just DIY cludges. I was talking to a friend of a friend on Saturday about media streaming and he told me all about his Jellyfin setup and then asked about mine and I was just like “I just store MP4s on an SSHFS drive and play them in VLC on my TV (which runs Linux Mint).” When the survey asked about the various types of software I was like “No… I don’t use anything like that… wait… yes I do! I just don’t use a prebuilt solution!”

Data has scanned everywhere,

Searching for a sign.

And there within the warp core,

Is the answer to a never ending time loop!

They are aimed at like 10-12 year olds. But they also take 10-12 year olds seriously and assume they want to read good stories with interesting characters. They’re in a similar subgenre with Treasure Planet. I would absolutely devour an animated or CGI adaptation. Spacebread is fun and beautiful, but Born of Flame is amazingly good. The world building for the books is unique and deep.

Well, yeah, when white dudes do it, it’s just healthy sexual domination, helping the poor, traumatized white women heal from the experience of being assaulted by orcs / killer whales (happened!) / brown people. Also, wanting to have sex with 14 year old girls is just, you know, a dude being a dude right? It’s just natural! (Also discussed in the same book with the killer whales)

Yeah, they decisively defeated the Mohdri in book three. Then he wrote like 4 more books.

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Ooo, I loved those when I was 12, probably read them 6 times. I should read them again.

Spacebread and Born of Flame also stood the test of time.

There’s also Bill Barr’s dad.

I was reading some Heinlein a little while ago

Oh yes, the guy who gave us the line " A father and his daughter got onto a starship, a husband and his wife got off." I

Zahn has no defense as a modern author.

I mean, he has been writing sci-fi since the '80s. But if you go back and read some of his earlier stuff, he really hasn’t grown much as a writer. In fact, I think he kind of peaked in the '90s with the original Thrawn cycle (and the Icarus Hunt and the Conquerors trilogy). Most of what he’s written since then has been formulaic rehashes of his glory days (sequels to the Cobra books, sequels to the Icarus Hunt, prequels to the Thrawn books).

If an author constantly talked positively about the rape in the book

**Cough JohnRingo cough cough

That’s exactly how I’m feeling right now.

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Now Lt. Warf, Tasha and I jump out of the targ, taking them totally by surprise!

Because Lemmy is like social media and Matrix is like Slack and Discord and they both followed the conventions of their predecessors. You’re welcome to go take it up with the devs on Lemmy.ml.

Every fricken’ time. Someone posts that they want something specific and everybody dog piles into the conversation to recommend a bunch of the stuff that ALWAYS gets recommended, but that doesn’t really have anything in common with what the poster asked for, and are even stuff they straight up said they already read.

There’s not much out there like Murder Bot, though IMO it owes something to the Stainless Steel Rat. If you liked the humor, you might like Expeditionary Force (the Skippies from Bobiverse are named after an absurd AI character from ExForce). Craig Alanson’s, let’s call them “old fashioned” feelings about gender are on FULL display (which I find off putting, but I can look past it), but the books are hella funny.

I also just the Jinn Bot of Shantiport, which is a fun take on the Aladdin story (if Aladdin was a hot girl and the genie was an old bot from an era with better tech, so its’ basic hacking skills make it a god). The writing style is very different, but it’s also fun, funny and has goofy AIs.

Neither my wife or my ex (my son’s mom) thought this joke was funny.

But my son laughed at it.

IDK,n if it’s going to give me a Bollywood experience, I expect singing and dancing in my terminal.

Be as uninteresting as possible. Millions if not billions of people’s information of this sort is out there.