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Software engineer. Loves the cars you hate. Imported from Detroit.
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"I think controlling your will might involve sloe gin and a Trans Am." - Tom Servo
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Haha, the MST3K YouTube channel is running a marathon that appears to be "Mitchell" and "Final Justice" back to back in perpetuity.
The parody song over the end of the "Final Justice" credits is fantastic.
HE'S GONNA STEEEE-AAAL... YOUR LUNNN-NNNCH...
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Same! The interplay between Quark and Odo at the end was great.
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I remember this one being one of my early favorites back when DS9 was in first run. To this day, O'Brien's exasperated shouts of "Way link complete! WAY LINK!" still pop into my head at random.
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I paid money for this shit in 1990-whatever (because I would buy anything that looked like a Wolf3D clone) and I got way more entertainment value from your video trashing it than I ever did trying to coerce my 486 into playing it.
Is there really enough money in meme sales to justify this insanity?
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Reminds me of how one of the medical procedural shows in the ‘90s had a character named Lisa Catera because the producers heard the phrase “lease a Catera” on a Cadillac commercial.
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My grandfather had a Town Car just like that one in the last pic. I drove it a couple of times. It was like piloting a Barcalounger down the road. You felt nothing and liked it.
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Gorgeous. I’m blown away by what a good job they did on this set.
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What! That’s crazy. Makes me want to go check my old Doctor Who DVDs… 😬
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Thanks again for making me aware of the Blu-ray set. It's among the most impressive remasters I've seen -- especially given the source material, much of which was shot on videotape. The new effects are also very faithful stylistically to the originals while being sharp and clean. Can't wait for S2.
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The costumes were ridiculous, but I liked the on-location shooting and actually didn't hate this one overall. It had kind of a disturbing undercurrent that I thought was effective. Particularly liked Miles Fothergill as Novara...kept envisioning him as SV7 every time he spoke, haha.
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My brain says the Lincoln, but my heart wants the Olds.
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Looking forward to your posts on B7...I love this series too. The characters and actors playing them are tops. I discovered Paul Darrow through B7 and he's fantastic.
Apparently Cmdr. Uvanov liked the cream-colored couch in Glynd's office because his quarters on Storm Mine 4 have the same one!
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Cool, I've never seen this album before. As a kid I collected everything I could find that had the Star Trek theme on it.
When the original TOS scores for "The Doomsday Machine" and "Amok Time" were released for the 25th Anniversary, I was ecstatic. Picked up this album at a convention in '92.
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Odo looks like it says 22,333?
Given the condition, that's definitely with an implied 0 on the left.
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We had one just like this back in the day, except it was blue.
That thing looks brand new--especially inside. How the hell.
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If that's too much to ask, I'll settle for fake Star Trek where the ships still had carpeting and no one had discovered the lens flare filter yet
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Thought this was real for a second and my interest in the console actually went up.
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Ouch, I just saw the $80 software costs for Switch 2. Nintendo software rarely goes on sale, too.
If I'm not really able to afford to buy games regularly, I'm not sure how much value the system would be...
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I do all of my gaming on a PC these days, so now I find myself asking: Steam Deck or Switch 2?
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I was then asked to make sure I let them know if this is the kind of work I enjoy doing, and boy howdy, given the calendar date I was so tempted to ask if they were fucking kidding me.
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Which, translated, means: "The company realizes that its strategic apparatus is completely non-functional and needs someone to make responsible for all of upper management's lack of ability to think and plan, so we have a scapegoat when it blows up and meanwhile we can all fuck around in peace."
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I totally agree. I complain all the time about how like 3 large companies basically control all the content anyone posts these days. Think I might get myself a Neocities page and dump nerd content on it like it’s 1996. Blue UAC carpet background, baby
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As much as we used to rag on Geocities' storage limits, ads everywhere, and stupid URLs, is it crazy that I want a Neocities page now, to just post dumb stuff on?
Like, they've even got guestbooks and stuff. Guestbooks.
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I had a whole animated GIF of the eponymous button being pressed, but Bluesky doesn't support animated GIFs because apparently web technologies from 30 years ago are too hard to pull off.
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I would be enjoying the self-ownage more if we weren't all flying into the pits of hell right along with these idiots.
I had to sell my classic a few years back, but this is just one more hobby closed off to me now because I'm not uber-rich. Not sure why; guess I didn't own enough libs
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Update: got the four DIMMs installed, XMP enabled, system booted, no problems yet. I need to put it through some kind of paces to see if it's going to puke on itself, but so far so good.
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I think I've mentioned this before, but my dad also designed most of the body assembly automation logic for the Fiero plant and I got a backstage tour before start of production. (Too young to remember most of it.)
With all this history you'd think I'd have owned one of these things... :)
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Years ago I met the dealership owner where the first Fiero that burned up was brought in and examined by GM for root cause analysis. That part of the shop was treated like a crime scene.
I've never had a Fiero, but always loved Pontiacs and it's one of the few I've never driven. Yours is gorgeous.
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For when you want to sit on both sides of the Airbus cockpit and shout “DUAL INPUT”
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IMO, this is the best Star Trek series finale and it’s not even close.
Hell, I’ll go so far as to say this is up there with the best series finales in all of television.
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Incidentally, Selaco is one of my favorite games of the last couple years and I still think about it regularly. If you grew up in the original "boomer shooter" era or just like that kind of game, I highly recommend it--and it's 30% off on Steam right now.
store.steampowered.com/app/1592280/...
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I still have a CD of this somewhere that I bought years and years ago. Love it
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Yep. The joke was that KITT’s scanners were on the fritz and he thought Doohan was a dangerous criminal, so KITT hit him with his “sonic disabler” which partially stunned Doohan until he started rambling Star Trek related things. Fairly cringe.
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*1990, not ‘99
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Yep, that was Knight Rider 2000 (from 1999 or ‘91). I think Stam Fine had a good video on that one too.
They had him driving a Pontiac Grand Prix that was just like my first car, haha. Likely some GM product placement, like the Chevy Beretta cop cars.
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Oh yeah, you're right, it was technically a sequel. I agree this is better than a remake or reboot.
They tried something similar with Team Knight Rider in '97; that was kind of terrible.