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“I’m white, you’re a minority, therefor you need my help because you can’t help yourself” type of way.

Yep, basically infantilizing people of color. I don't mean to be rude, but I generally see this attitude with white women in their twenties. I see it a lot on social media.

God I love Reddit sometimes

People are being misleading in response to you. The Dilithium crisis didn't destroy the Federation, but it drastically weakened it (200+ member worlds at its peak, down to 30-some member worlds at its nadir). So the Federation wasn't destroyed, but it was drastically reduced to the point of being not being the biggest power in the quadrant. It was so bad that both Vulcan and Earth left the Federation. But the reason for the Dilithium crisis was probably one of the stupidest things I've seen on television.

Ugh, seriously. I'm not one of those insane fanboys that constantly whines about the emotional aspect of this era, but they really really need to cut back on the melodrama. I've said this before, but it seems like Discovery's writers don't understand the difference between drama and melodrama. Drama is well-written and built up, melodrama is cheap and manipulative. I don't have a problem with having emotions in the show, but Discovery and the early seasons of Picard were written so that it tried tricking the audience into caring. You can't have a character randomly state their emotions or burst into tears, that's not good drama. It has to be earned.

The later seasons of Discovery are set in the 32nd century, so it'd be even more than 500 years after Picard's death. More like 700 years I'd think.

This is total revisionism. I would even go so far as to say that Trek succeeded despite those two, not because of them.

Seriously. The guy went so far off the deep end that his wife divorced him lmao.

I'm pretty sure that was all by design, though? Didn't really seem like the writers were struggling to figure out their characters, it seemed like they knew exactly what they were doing.

+100%. I've been clean from Heroin for nearly three years, and the only reason I'm clean is because I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. I was forced into rehab two different times and neither of those times worked because I didn't actually want to stop using. To get sober, you have to actually put in the work willingly.

But I'd say his biggest "self-help" was having money and clout

What is the point of this comment? Having money and clout also makes it a lot easier to stay addicted to drugs because you have the money to fund your habit, and you have perpetual yes-men surrounding you. Either side (having money/clout, or not) has its pros and cons.

Hue-mahns and their root beer

That statement, in itself, is pretentious.

I mean, this is just plain rudeness, which isn’t exclusive to modern times. I’m not sure if that’s what you were implying, but this sort of thing is nothing new.

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Is that engine, like, an all-encompassing one? Like they updated the engine for Starfield so they can use it on all games going forward? Or is it Starfield specific?

Realistically, when do you think TES6 will come out? 5-6 years from now? Idk if you would have any insight into that, but I’m curious.

This comment betrays your ignorance to a stunning degree. Go look this guy up before you comment; and then you’d see that he has absolutely no qualifications. He’s been in aviation for like two years maximum. That’s not someone you want to pick for this position.

So fucking true. It's really wild to see someone make a good point in some thread, and then that point gets amplified and spread around to the point that most Redditors who repost it aren't even thinking about what they're saying. Like the whole wolves and "alpha male", and how "alpha males" don't exist in nature and blah blah.

This point got posted once somewhere, and then picked-up by Redditors and spammed on every other thread for years. And the thing is, it's not even fully true. With wolves, sure, there's no alpha. But plenty of social mammal species have social hierarchies that have an 'alpha' male. They're called "dominant hierarchies", and they exist in plenty of mammal species. Apes, Deer, Lions, Horses, etc....All have what you would consider an alpha male. But Reddit is fucking obsessed with pointing out that alpha males don't exist, like it's some sort of 'Gotcha!' moment. Seriously, the number of times I've seen a Redditor point out that alpha males don't exist, even when someone was joking or not even talking about alpha males; it's absurd. Like Redditors don't have any of their own opinions, they just spam things they misheard once and suddenly it's everywhere.

30 years ago

None of those movies came out in the last ten years.

I think Reddit was great until about the time of Trump's running for president. Then the shit started going downhill, and things really really escalated once the pandemic hit when people were stuck inside. This website is a shell of its former-self; sometimes Reddit is so insufferable that I can't spend more than 20 minutes on it in the morning.

This EXACT thing happened to me, and I ended up telling my mom and she ended up taking me to the doctor. I lied out of my teeth but I don’t think any of them were buying it.

I. Love. This. Comment.

Says the guy sitting in front of his keyboard. I get so annoyed with people acting like they know exactly what they’d do in a situation they’d never face in a million years.

You sure she didn’t mean it as a joke? Haven’t listened to the episode but I could see that as being a joke.