paulryanrogers

I think all the treks are heavily influenced by the culture in which they were made. All are trying to say something in a format that will be profitable.

The ones nerds glaze are the shows normies complain about. IMO because there is tension between what the mainstream wants from trek and what niches like ours want. That's ok. It just requires trying to understand the era of creation as much as the art itself.

Really because Spain and Norway did it through government interventions to guide markets.

We don't have to be slaves to unregulated markets or the oligarchs they naturally breed.

With oil prices rising, climate tech is still quietly advancing.

> To clarify there's good evidence that people overestimate the degree to which people on the other side of the political divide hold extreme views by about a factor of two.

Where can I read more about that evidence?

Because ~70 million of my countrymen have voted for a convicted rapist.

Not to settle and raise their families

I am right now. Though perhaps not with GPU acceleration.

Firesticks are quite popular. I'd like to see what percentage in the wild actually does decode AV1 in hardware, and without stuttering or buffering problems. Even my newer devices sometimes choke on h265.

DOGE's mandate expired July 4th 2025.

It's absurd to argue the executive can intentionally delay and shuffle money earmarked specifically for certain purposes, like USAID. Why not just give the executive all power over the Treasury? Why have Congress at all?

Most DOGE activity was in 2025, no?

Best of luck in your travels.

I come from a faith culture where seeking mental healthcare is both a sign of weakness and lack of faith. Instead you must first pray it away. Meanwhile I'm surrounded by so many "professional" faith based councilors that it's hard to find providers who take religious trauma seriously.

Perhaps I'm misremembering then. I too did have an Intellisense mouse. So that may have been a factor. It's also possible I was thinking of focus follows mouse, which I believe is in TweakUI for Win95.

> OG gamers expected to have their hair blown back through some combination of novel game mechanics, setting, and storyline pretty much every title every time, and if a game didn't deliver it didn't sell.

That is not my experience having gamed "seriously" since 1992. Everyone has different tastes. And besides folks over identifying with a console or platform, I recall most folks just trying a lot of different things then settling into what they enjoyed.

Sports games in particular have always been popular through many phases of low/no innovation because that just wasn't a priority to most of that demographic.

Your expectations remind me more of GameGate than 90s and oughts era gaming.

You can scroll without focus in Windows 95 with the Tweak toolkit from Microsoft.