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Not that this is new to anyone, but my god living in the "Well YOUR plan doesn't hurt ENOUGH people!" "Well YOUR plan doesn't hurt people ENOUGH!" administration is depressing. I saw a quote somewhere about "my opinion that a government should support its people and protect the most vulnerable...

Welp. RIP to the dangerous and subversive Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Long post is long. TNG is the Star Trek I grew up watching, in reruns at first (too young for initial broadcast of the first few seasons), and I've never actually watched the whole thing even as an adult – favorites and best-ofs, sure. And man, I've joked about it, but I never really...

Yup. Relevant:

Guess the pigeons got their revenge. RIP Tom, and thank you.

SNW is not without its flaws, but it's certainly the most fun I've had with modern live-action Trek so far. The show clicked for me really quickly, and it's such a different tone from Disco or Picard; which of what I have seen , I haven't really enjoyed all that much. Speaking of (re)watching...

If you're like me, you back up your web bookmarks and move 'em over when changing browsers or computers. Does anyone else have one or two that are definitively dead but you just can't bring yourself to delete? For me, it's the bookmarks for a couple forums that I joined when I first Got On The...

Game time! Picked up a copy of Star Trek: Captain's Chair recently. It's a VP-acquiring deckbuilder with some neat mechanics, the gameplay is pretty standard daisy-chaining engine mechanics to claim cards and gain VPs, and there are a couple of options for solitaire mode. The base set has six...

As I said in the random thoughts thread, happy Moon Landing Day! And to that end, I have a (glare-y) box: Kinda marathoned this one, and yes my hands hurt, but this is such a neat kit and I have very few nits to pick with it. As much as I have cut down on Lego, NASA sets will always get me...

I consider it a personal holiday today. 56 years ago: Happy Moon Landing day!

Some of those scout-sized molds, man. I genuinely would have bought Hubcap in any colors, I could have gone for another Skystalker or two, I would have bought a whole jasta of Ransacks.

Picked up a copy of Star Trek: Captain's Chair since my last post. It's a VP-acquiring deckbuilder with some neat mechanics, the gameplay is pretty standard daisy-chaining engine mechanics to claim cards and gain VPs, and there are a couple of options for solitaire mode. The base set has six...

Idle packaging observation: whoever's running the 'plastic tie-downs' department at Hasbro, there's a difference between "keep Fingers McStealy from McStealing toys", and "the Decepticons are not real, they won't try to escape". Especially since you've moved back to closed boxes.

Huh. That's more recent than I would have expected. Then again, I haven't actually watched a Simpsons episode in about a decade.

Was listening to some Weird Al today. Playlist hit "Phony Calls". Setting aside the song dating itself severely with references to 7-digit phone numbers and the Yellow Pages, it strikes me: in the age of the cellphone, prank calls are nigh extinct (not necessarily a bad thing). Everything has...

As did I! He's a lot of fun, and feels like a properly big voyager - not that the Sideburn/Shadowstriker mold is any great shakes as a deluxe, but it feels like proper looming from sharkman, y'know? It's great that the shark mode isn't forced into a permanent banana pose, and the robot mode is...

New fortune cookie wisdom: "Even a dumpster fire illuminates something..."

We've been playing Flash Point fairly frequently at my FLGS board game nights, and I finally picked up a copy of the base game myself. I love co-ops, it's great for solitaire, and for as simple as the mechanics are it delivers a pretty thematic game - probably the most important thing for...

It's weird how much I genuinely love some of the coloring-error decos. Or maybe it's only weird for some of them, 'cause Stealth Thrust there is awesome.

Tripped over this fellow the other day and I just about sprung something.