GuyFleegman

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[–] GuyFleegman@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ken Kocienda, the engineer who led the team that created the original iPhone keyboard and predictive text system, wrote a book titled “Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs.” So there’s at least one real engineer for you who speaks highly of Jobs.

They aren’t nameless. They write books and go on podcasts, their thoughts on Jobs are available to us. Plenty of them praise Jobs for driving them to do their best work.

[–] GuyFleegman@startrek.website 10 points 11 months ago

It’s not false advertising because it did everything it was advertised to do in the introductory demo when it went on sale six months later. Google is the one faking their demos.

[–] GuyFleegman@startrek.website 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Yes, exactly. Season 1 knew what it wanted to be. When it was over, I remember thinking "alright, not bad, I'm excited to watch this show grow the beard."

But it never did. In retrospect, Season 1 is the strongest season the show had to offer. Each subsequent season got a little worse as plots got more confusing, themes got more muddled, and no breakout characters emerged to carry the show through an abundance of narrative turmoil and worldbuilding strangeness. Above all else, seasons 3 and 4 are just boring. I don't care about the crew or their mission. The most interesting characters are consistently the outsiders: Pike, Vance, Rillak. I'll be watching season five out of a sense of obligation and morbid curiosity.

As much as I like SNW, it's still not quite the show I've been waiting since 2005 for: seven curious officers on a ship called Enterprise set in the mid-25th century. I worry that SNW has robbed us of the opportunity to see the classic formula set in the immediate post-TNG era... even though that seems to be what season three of Picard was explicitly setting up.

[–] GuyFleegman@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We all know the bubbles will still be green

[–] GuyFleegman@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Sokath, his eyes uncovered

[–] GuyFleegman@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

EDIT: Apparently everyone on this website is insane

The inmates are running the asylum