Thank goodness, now I can defend my home against tyranny and people who look different than me with a pseudo-machine gun, just the way the Founding Fathers intended! (/s just in case)

aesthetics, i would guess. everyone has different tastes.

I don’t know why, it’s a perfectly cromulent word.

I can (anecdotally) confirm the overclocking sensitivity. Although it seems to be more that this game just REALLY pushes hardware if you let it which is naturally gonna draw out overclocking instabilities.

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This is a very good point. We’re supposed to be seeing how he becomes the Kirk we know.

the united states is a part of the world

I’m sorry but have you seen what a drone with a grenade does to a tank with an open hatch?

“The bypass uses a CXH (cloud experience host) URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) string during the OOBE to invoke the hidden local account setup screen.” this had to be data mined or something yeah.

the one with the biiig built in “leather” wrist rest? loved that thing!

Broadcasting your own theme song while jetting around the galaxy in the flagship of the Federation is possibly the biggest Riker move I’ve ever seen hahahaha.

lol I was gonna try and continue the joke but i went to look up the lyrics and this amused the shit out of me. It’s apparently more popularly known as “that song from star trek enterprise” than as a rod stewart song!

Thank you for taking the time to respond, I realized very quickly that I am FULLY out of my depth with this conversation haha. You all are very thoughtful and knowledgeable.

It’s fascinating seeing the responses to this from you all who obviously know a lot about philosophy. Coming at it from a layman’s perspective, and not really knowing who David Hume was, the science definitions bit was all I could really understand and I interpreted it the way that you say it could have been written. I’m now wondering if just placed my own preconceptions about the bits that I did understand onto the author without really considering the rest.

That’s fair. But the idea of approaching the universe from a standpoint of not being able to truly “know” is kind of the basis of all science isn’t it? We can have evidence of something, maybe even enough evidence to make reliable, repeatable predictions in the context of our infinitely short existences, but it will forever and always be transient knowledge. Nothing in the universe is static and unchanging forever.

Being that this is a Star Trek post I’ll just add this.

Lt. Cmdr. Data: “Sir, our sensors are showing this to be the absence of everything. It is a void without matter or energy of any kind.”

Commander Riker: “Yet this hole has a form, Data; it has height, width…”

Lt. Cmdr. Data: “Perhaps. Perhaps not, Sir.”

Captain Picard: “That’s hardly a scientific observation, Commander.”

Lt. Cmdr. Data: “Captain, the most elementary and valuable statement in science, the beginning of wisdom, is, “I do not know”. I do not know what that is, Sir.”

Clearly she just hadn’t had her coffee yet! On a serious note though I have to agree with @Corgana@startrek.website. The evolving definition of “medical death” as more of a logistical necessity than anything is something that I never really thought about before.

Janeway apologist! (/s)

“lopsided” font plate was almost a badge of honor back in the day lol because it meant that you had a front mount intercooler that needed air (and if you did the offset plate without an FMIC you were ridiculed endlessly for being a buffoon)

Unironically this movie is in my top 5 favorite trek movies. It counts.