The industry was terrible but there were lots of good phones out there. The Samsung BlackJack was a pretty awesome device, and HTC was making some pretty compelling devices for Windows Mobile. Then the BlackBerry, of course, was a great device in a lot of ways too; very functional given the limitations of a hardware keyboard.

I really don’t think it’s a protest on the part of Minecraft anyway; what they were really saying is that because subs were no longer enforcing rules and content moderation wasn’t happening anymore (or was being actively discouraged) and porn among other things was becoming more prevalent on the site, they didn’t feel comfortable having an official affiliation with Reddit, even if it was only with one sub.

The protest worked in a way, but I wouldn’t give Microsoft credit for actually backing the protests.

Be interesting to see how much the Holy Priest DPS changes impact things; I have been leveling an hpriest again for the first time since I started playing a healer in early Shadowlands (was a Mage prior to that...going back to Vanilla) and I actually enjoy the lore/aesthetics of it more than any other healing class. I mean, honestly, I am not a high key player anyway so I can really play whatever I want.

There’s always a chance another service will pick it up if Paramount+ really goes away I suppose.

Seems like a risky move when Microsoft is going to court to try and get approval to buy Blizzard.

What spez wants is to be a notorious billionaire, respected for making reddit a profitable social media company. What he is, and what he probably always will be, is a shitty leader who doesn't actually have a lot of business sense making decisions using emotion and ego and alienating a chunk of the user population.

Hard to say if he will suffer any real consequences for this, but at least in some important circles he's lost a lot of clout.

Better that than suffocating to death slowly on the bottom of the ocean. Sympathy for their families.

I am certain that lab grown meat will be one of the most heavily scrutinized advancements in food technology probably ever. If there’s even a hint that something is wrong with it the news will be everywhere.

Android hamburger menu doesn’t feel right in a native iOS app

Think of it as killing two birds with one stone: they monetize users by getting AI firms to pay for all the valuable content redditors have posted over the years, and they kill off app competitors who are giving redditors alternatives to the mobile app.

That’s really all it’s about.

This will be when the true test for Reddit begins; if the outcry is large enough that spez ends up relenting in some way then he will have already alienated a lot of users. If the outcry is minimal then I guess he won, but the prize hardly seems worth the drama that has been spun up.

Boy, me too. Completely news to me; I am getting old! 😂

I agree; Discord is great for voice chatting, but I can’t follow conversations in there. Maybe I’m getting too old but it’s not a style that I think is a natural evolution from Reddit.

Even though I wouldn’t be terribly surprised to learn that this is the case, I think you’re making a lot of assumptions based on little to no evidence. That the notoriously private Worf didn’t mention Alexander to anyone doesn’t necessarily provide that they have a strained relationship; Alexander may very well have died and Worf suffers in silence over it. Conversely, Alexander may be a prominent member of the House of Martok and is well-known in the Federation so no one needs to ask about him.

I’d like to think that Worf’s emotional maturity means that he probably did or does maintain a better relationship with Alexander, and it’s simply that he didn’t come up in the context of what was going on in the story.

Is meth a cause or do people who become homeless eventually look to meth as an escape from their life circumstances? I suspect that it’s probably a bit of both.

I hope the Democrats hammer away at every single Republican on abortion rights and reproductive healthcare over the next election cycle.

I wonder if Alexander eventually followed up on his desire to bring peace between the Houses and ended up dying instead of Worf? Maybe he somehow learned of Worf’s fate and decided to intervene, ultimately sacrificing himself to save his father. That might be part of why Worf has changed so much; embracing the things that Alexander believed in (peace and calmness) and making it a part of who he is in honor of his son.

I hate to think of Alexander as dead, but at least as a Klingon if he went out fighting for his father it was an honorable way to go.

That Worf is a bad father to Alexander is canon; I wish that Jadzia had lived and he could have had a second chance at fatherhood with her. I think his episode with Yoshi on DS9 showed that if he’d had a chance he could have become a good father.

The situation with Alexander was particularly challenging though. Kehylar hid Alexander from him until he was a young boy; she raised him to essentially hate/fear everything that Word venerated; then she was killed and Worf without more than a few days’ notice suddenly had an angry, hurt, and resentful son. His solution of sending Alexander to live with his parents was obviously a huge mistake because it exacerbated Alexander’s abandonment issues which stuck with him the rest of his life, and Worf wasn’t emotionally mature enough to either recognize or deal with it properly.

Anyway, I guess that’s a long way of saying that I understand Worf and Alexander’s relationship even though it’s sad and kind of painful. But I do think that Worf had it in him to be a good father eventually with the right partner. His bad luck with the women in his life certainly didn’t help though.

I would make the case that in the Star Trek future, people have learned to be able to see beyond an individual’s mistakes (even egregious ones). The M-5 was certainly a dangerous mistake, but Daystrom had good intentions and was working on a project of great interest to Starfleet Command. The results were completely unintentional on Daystrom’s part, and he clearly was not emotionally stable by the time “The Ultimate Computer” occurs, so I think that in light of the many tremendous impacts Daystrom had in computing that society was able to understand and forgive.