Wooster

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[–] Wooster@startrek.website 10 points 11 months ago

IMO, it’s more a consequence of a black & white morality. Nuance isn’t even a blip on the radar. I guarantee they aren’t considering the ramifications, and wouldn’t understand them if explained.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Good point. I admittedly missed that part when I skimmed the article.

I found the Ukraine page on Girl Scouts’s website… it certainly paints a damning picture on Girl Scouts end.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 42 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I have to admit, my gut reaction was to ponder if this rule would be enforced if it was to raise money for Israeli children instead… but I know diddly squat about Girl Scouts and did about 5 minutes of research.

What I learned was that money raised by Girl Scouts is intended to be spent on local community projects. So helping local kids would be cool, but not foreign. Girl Scouts doesn’t forbid one from aiding foreign needy, but you can’t do that under the Girl Scout banner/as a Girl Scout project.

So, at the moment, I’m inclined to side with Girl Scouts on this issue. But, again, I don’t know squat about how Girl Scouts is run in practice, and if this project is being singled out or not.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 6 points 11 months ago

I remember playing this on the Wii, it felt like, going in, it was a spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie with Mario Sunshine mechanics, and a threat to the existence of Kingdom Hearts.

Then I played the game, and my impressions sank.

The morality system was, IMO, poorly balanced. Trying to do good is excessively tedious, and it’s easy to accidentally do evil (Oswald’s kids, anyone?) Then you decide you’re not having fun finding all of Mecha-Goof’s parts, and decide to come back to that collectathon later, only to find that you’re locked out of that and have to pay a ransom instead.

I really hope this version is more than just a new coat of paint.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 7 points 11 months ago

What a world we live in, where “most affordable” and $70,000 dollars can be used in the same sentence.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 6 points 11 months ago

It still burns that Prodigy was barely included in the tribute to Trek animation.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I got the book too! Did you have any luck de-dacting the Rubber Ducky Room pages?

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 56 points 11 months ago (15 children)

Article mentions nothing with regards to holding corporations accountable nor any plan or threat of action on the president’s part.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The very last thing you need is for Trump to become a martyr.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Teddy Roosevelt?

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 28 points 11 months ago (4 children)

… I really dislike how headlines are designed, not to inform, but even to the opposite in the name of drawing clicks. I realize this isn’t on you, but more the AP, but still.

TL;DR The warning light FONT is too small.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 6 points 11 months ago

We probably get our best look at penal rehabilitation in Lower Decks' "A Few Badgeys More"

We learn that Daystrom Institute has a facility dedicated to evil robots, but through therapy, and exploration of art, sports, and other hobbies and psych-evaluations they may earn parole, and from there re-enter society.

Peanut Hamper made it to parole, initially as a ruse, but actually ended up taking it seriously.

Agimus is lagging behind her, but also shows signs of sincere reform.

Honestly, while a lot of it was played for laughs, I really appreciated how it really was Star Trek's optimism at its peak. People can be reformed, and are not sentenced to life in a cubical if they are capable of earning it.

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