SerLava [he/him]

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  • Yes. Strange New Worlds is surprisingly good.

    The show is basically this:

    • Let’s take TOS
    • NuTrekify it
    • BUT THEN fill 30% of the writers table with people who actually liked TOS and TNG

    I don’t know who the writers actually were, but that’s how it feels watching it. It’s actiony but rarely over the top, it’s light at times, the characters grow on each other, and there are plenty of honest to god star trek plots. It’s not perfect at all and it can annoy but it’s way better than most new star trek. And it’s obviously a prequel, but they handle the prequel aspect really well by basically incorporating it into the plot regarding Captain Pike, as well as having just a few TOS characters. You know the TOS characters are all plot armored, but you still get tension because almost all of their friends and crewmates could die or not die.

    They also have a crossover episode with Lower Decks… yes with the animated show… and it’s INSANE








  • OK so every conspiracy about the actual physical building is written by people who have no idea about anything at all.

    It really mirrors the JFK grassy knoll, multiple shooter shit- the interesting questions are all about whether the CIA put him up to it, and the theories about how he shot a bullet at a guy’s head are really distractions. Like if the CIA didn’t come up with those physics conspiracies, they would have kicked themselves for being so stupid.

    The official story is that intelligence knew 9/11 was maybe gonna happen and somehow ignored it.

    But it was PLANES. They let PLANES hit buildings. If it was an op, the op was done with fucking planes!

    Like okay, the biggest 9/11 truther meme is “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” - this one is so fucking embarrassing. Steel performs like shit in fires. Wood is literally way better.

    I’ll say it again: Steel fails faster than wood in a fire. Steel is dog shit in a fire. Steel doesn’t need to MELT in order to fail. The melting point is where it becomes liquid like soup. Before it becomes soup, it becomes play-dough. Before that, it becomes weak steel that can’t hold up a giant-ass building.

    Every 9/11 truther confidently said “but jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” millions of times, and didn’t have the brains to picture a blacksmith bending moderately hot metal like it’s rubber.

    “Why did it fall like that though? That’s not how—” Because it was built like an eggshell. The tiny windows were because basically the entire strength of the structure was on the outer edge. Practically no buildings are built that way, because it kind of sucks ass.

    Talking about dumb shit like thermite is just a distraction from asking if the worst intelligence failure in American history was an accident and exploited, or done on purpose.