this is one of those episodes of trek where you’re left wondering if you actually watched star trek at all

There’s a slight problem here, this is an ENT Prime Directive episode, which considering the track record for PD episodes post TNG (which even TNG has some stinker PD episodes I would add), so this is entirely on brand by this point. Especially if you take a look at the other notable notorious PD episode ENT has, Dear Doctor.

Like if you go look up the scene of Archer chastising Trip in this episode, you’ll find a bunch of comments about “This is why the Prime Directive exists” with zero critical thought whatsoever.

Palworld was successful enough to be seen as a threat.

Counterpoint: Digimon, which is owned by another big company, Bamco. However Bamco and Nintendo are on good relationship terms as evidenced by Smash Bros. Sony and Nintendo however, have some history with each other, history that makes them not exactly see each other on friendly terms. Let’s just say that if the original playstation plans had gone through, Sony would very likely have a major ownership stake in Nintendo today.

Again so much of the advertising, and marketing of Palworld was done by Sony, so this whole case is Nintendo trying to get Sony to back down, or at least make it very costly for Sony to take any territory from them.

Game Freak/Nintendo get to destroy the competition, which is what this is really about.

Yes and no, you see Pocket Pair had partnered up with Sony, so because of that partnership Palworld is now the metaphorical equivalent of a mob family (Sony) encroaching on the territory of another mob family (Nintendo). Had Pocket Pair not partnered up with Sony, I’d bet you that Nintendo wouldn’t have cared one bit.

Yes that’s what the whole thing is about, it’s about Nintendo protecting their territory from in their eyes a very blatant encroachment by Sony.

Another factor is the internet, you can see this in a lot of other places too, a lot more people have access to knowing what their stuff is actually worth now.

When I read what they wanted - shit that works

Here’s a good way to explain the entire Reformers deal with things. The A-10 is an airframe that sorely needs an update, however it’s biggest stans are reformers. The update that the A-10 by definition sorely needs, an actual radar. Yes it doesn’t have one, so do you want to know how an A-10 pilot (and the reason why it’s good at mulching friendly Bradleys) has to ID targets? The pilot pulls out a pair of binocs, a method that by definition wasn’t good enough for the time when it started being built, yet got adopted anyways.

In short, they think it’s still the 1940s, and we’re still fighting WWII every single time they raise a complaint.

As someone who knows the subject matter, and about the infinite stupidity of the Reformers… I can’t recommend Pentagon Wars, because the guy who actually did all the complaining about the Bradley irl (that the movie is based off of) is a reformer.

Personally, the only engineering section of a starfleet/federation ship I ever liked was the NX-01 (the Enterprise in the 09 movie is a very close 2nd place), because it actually looks the most like a god damn engineering section of a ship instead of a room with consoles and a glowing tube in the middle of it.

Not gonna lie, that looks like it’d be a pretty fun track to drive and race on.

Gaming peaked with the Mega Drive Playstayion 2.

Fixed that for you.

Yes we’ve all pretty much known this for a long while, the entire reason why we all know not a single politician actually gives a shit about it, beyond increasing the suffering.

What I mean just in case anyone is mistaking what I’m saying, is that if someone actually gave a damn about the non-issue that is immigration, they’d be shouting from the rooftops that the government should go after anyone who ‘employs illegal immigrants’ with an iron fist. So yeah, we’ve all known it’s about maintaining cheap labor.

Shut mouth hammock.

To us yes, to them it’s a government agency extreme cock up. Which is entirely different to police qualified immunity, as government agencies aren’t exactly given the same thing per say.

9-0 isn’t all that surprising considering the subject matter, tbh the worst I was expecting out of the supreme court on this case was 8-1 maybe 7-2. Judges typically don’t like when government agents/agencies blatantly or accidentally fuck someone over, then do nothing to remedy it, unless it involves cops.

I would post a joking answer “that’s the neat part, you don’t”. But my actual honest serious answer kinda ends up lining up with that anyways in a really depressing way, I really don’t know. Like the only thing that has kept me going so far despite my self-hatred, and depression is keeping myself busy/distracted from it.

Oh yeah, and here I was hating the very premise of it going in on deciding that “Korra deciding to leave the spirit gates open is a disastrous mistake”, like yes the entire show’s theme on the necessity of the avatar between ATLA and Korra is that the next avatar has to keep on continually cleaning up the previous one’s mess. But good lord I don’t want to follow another character that doesn’t learn this obvious lesson at all.

if the console profit margins drop

Which is funny because consoles are more on the razor blade (a more apt comparison is printers and their ink) model of doing business.

For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, some items like printers or razors are sold with very thin profit margins, or at a loss, then make it up with the items that’s required to get use out of it. Printers are notorious for this model as the printer itself is pretty cheap, but the ink costs magnitudes higher than it costs to produce. Consoles are also known to use this model of business too.

Because I just want to eat in peace without having to hear anyone’s bullshit, and if I do confront their shit I know I’m going to be an irrationally angry motherfucker if I do, probably enough to get tossed.

Edit: Also like, I live in a rural area, i know I’m very much outnumbered.

A Clan Nova Cat Clansman reaction to seeing a coin land on its edge: “Shit…”

How can they not get more than 1400 suspects?

The reality is that even if we go full idealistic true believers that think that the system works as it’s described and intended (assuming the US justice system), the whole justice system really doesn’t have the resources to go after every single person, and would rather go after those that they can be sure the charges would actually stick.

It’s kinda the same way with where if every single person accused of any crime refused to take a plea deal, and went to trial, the entire system would be bogged down to the point of being non-functional.

Don’t they have payment information, IP addresses

Payment info could easily be stolen cards. As for IP addresses, those can easily get semi regularly rotated around, and I highly doubt ISPs are in the business of keeping a history of who had what IP at certain dates.

I don’t trust Nintendo to make an F-Zero game for a lot of reasons, one of the main things is that F-Zero is one of those series that tells the player straight in the face “fuck you, we’re not going to hold your hand” unlike what Nintendo games have been mostly doing lately. Not to mention the best one to this day wasn’t even made by Nintendo, it was made by Sega (AX/GX).