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“Tim Cook hears you, Tim Cook don’t care.”

Hawkeye is unironically a new Christmas classic.

Also the What If…? Episode that riffs on Die Hard counts as a Christmas special.

Well, first of all, Michael Caine is best Scrooge.

(Muppet Christmas Carol)

And of course Die Hard is a Christmas movie.

The usual family classics like the Charlie Brown & Garfield Christmas specials, all the Rankin/Bass specials, the first two Home Alones (shame they never made any more), newer classics like The Santa Clause and Elf…

But also a few that are a bit esoteric.

• Santa’s Magic Toy Bag - From the creators of Alf, a cute and short morality tale about an elf that can’t find his place in Santa’s workshop.

• The Snowman - A sad and wonderful story about a boy who builds a snowman that comes to (an all too short) life.

• The Christmas Toy - A Jim Henson production, two toys risk being seen moving on their own to stop new Christmas toys from replacing them. Sounds a bit like Toy Story, right?

Others that I still remember fondly but haven’t seen in a long time are The Berenstain Bears Christmas Tree, A Muppet Family Christmas, Ziggy’s Christmas Wish, and The Chipmunk’s Christmas.

Sticky all of the index posts and they will always be on top. Then other people can post their own additions/discussion to allow the community to trend and be seen by people who are not subscribed.

Just a potato sack.

That’s… why it’s called the Great Plains.

I played and perfect-cleared DKC & DKC 2, but I never played 3. This is exactly what I want.

The driver:

I’m reading the “problematic rank history” subsection of Miles O’Brien Memory Alpha article, and oh boy what a journey!

Here is a summary of what it says and my personal conclusions based on inconstant on-screen dialog and visuals:

O’Brien is seen in a red and gold uniform. That uniform either has a single black pip, a single gold pip, or two gold pips. And he is referred to as Ensign, Lieutenant, (a) Chief ( of some capacity), Warrant Officer, or Ensign Junior Grade depending on the episode/script/book prior to him getting a proper noncom badge sometime during Deep Space Nine.

Timeline of events:

• Ensign Miles O’Brien served as officer on the Rutledge. He became the ships tactical officer and got his first gold uniform.

• Due to his service record, he was handpicked to be a bridge officer on the new Enterrpise-D. This put him on the command track and gave him a red uniform.

• O’Brien felt under-utilized on the bridge and since there were no openings for a tactical officer, he requested a transfer to operations. During this time he bounced around the ship as needed, spending most of his time in Main Engineering or a transporter room. He was promoted to the rank of full Lieutenant for his hard work.

• During this time, O’Brien briefly outranked Lieutenant Junior-Grade Worf. But due to them being in different departments, neither reported to each other except for when O’Brien had to defer to matters of ship’s security.

• Starfleet Command floated the idea of reintroducing non-commissioned officers into the ranks after having been phased out over the past few generations. They decided to testbed the idea with an officer aboard the Enterprise. O’Brien was approached and he accepted the “demotion” to Chief Petty Officer. Because this idea was only in testing at the time, he formally retained his rank of Lieutenant.

• When O’Brien transferred to Deep Space Nine, the NCO test was formalized and his rank was officially changed to Chief Petty Officer. At first, he was given a single, black pip which previously indicated someone was a Warrant Officer. The reasoning was that as an enlisted officer his rank was technically inferior to an Ensign. Ensigns fresh out of the Academy jokingly referred to noncom officers as “Ensign Junior-Grade.”

• Some time later, after non-commissioned officers became more ubiquitous in Starfleet (and probably after receiving multiple requests for more distinct rank insignia), Starfleet updated the noncom uniforms to display tiny badges with chevrons. These badges also display pips representing the equivalent rank were that enlisted person an officer. The badge worn by O’Brien displayed three chevrons (Chief Petty Officer) and two pips (Lieutenant, preserving his original commissioned rank).

There’s a TNG porn parody that is a legit fan sequel to Unification. There are edits with all the porn cut out and it’s actually a decent episode.

We have Janeway and Tuvok at home.

Janeway and Tuvok at home:

2. Whoever says yes is doing so with the expectation of at least a decade’s worth of films.

There was six years between Spectre and No Time to Die, so… two films?

That seems to be the insinuation.

Based on what I know, lengths of track with a single line of rail typically have periodic sections with sidetracks to allow trains to “pull over” and let an oncoming (usually the faster) train pass them before returning to the main track.

Multi-track meaning two “lanes” of track laid side by side to allow for bi-directional operation.

There is a user setting that delists communities you’ve subscribed to from All, so that you get different posts in your All and Home feeds.

The most amazing part was the claim that the in-game soundtrack was reencoded as lossless audio.

I looked at the new audio as a spectrograph and compared it to the original MP3s. Not only were they the same level of compression as the originals, they were the same exact graphs. The same files, renamed from .mp3 to .flac.

That’s some proper gaslighting!

Jellyfin: Tower of Babel Edition

The .ml is literally the reason why I didn’t subscribe before.

The Original Series straight-up used the Downtown Mayberry set from The Andy Griffith Show twice.

Star Trek used a LOT of stuff from other properties due to money. But I still feel like the western sets were used by choice. Especially in Enterprise, which was meta at that point.

I always thought the glaring western motifs were a tribute to the original concept of Star Trek being “A wagon train to the stars.”