0/🎹 music recommendation (i recommend, but do not require, that you send me one as well!) 1/📺 video recommendation (don't send me recommendations back, i won't have time to watch them) 2/💽 cool open-source software or services (you may specify a type of software/website you are looking for) 3/👽 Star Trek character (one I associate you with, or just random if I don't know you well enough) 4/🖖 Star Trek episode (you may specify a type of episode you are looking for, or ask for a way to get into the series) 5/🔣 Random fact (most likely about one of my interests)

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As long as I don't get too many asks about this to the point that it starts to feel like a job, I'll gladly answer any tech questions!

(If it starts to feel like a job, then I'll start demanding a living wage. But I enjoy helping folks.)

I want to talk philosophy with Jean-Luc Picard.

I had some very mixed feelings about the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard. I was excited to see all the TNG characters coming back, and especially happy that they had all changed as people since we last saw them in very believable and compelling ways. It didn't feel like a forced or by-the-numbers "reunion", it was a compelling story about these old friends coming together to fight a new threat, which held a vendetta against them due to the mistakes of their past.

Then [spoiler alert, I'm not sure how to do inline spoilers here...]

They revealed that said threat was the Borg, the most obvious possible villain for a TNG reunion. That made the entire season feel less like a good season of Star Trek, and more like an Avengers film. It also felt out of character for the Borg, because they're supposed to be a mindless destructive force susceptible to neither reason nor emotion, rather than a ruined civilization on a quest for revenge. The season finale was one of the most epic and tense episodes of television I'd ever seen, yet it also felt kind of empty and by-the-numbers, and left me uncertain as to why the writers felt that TNG needed a third "series finale" (after the actual series finale and the last movie).

Definitely LoadingReadyRun, a team of hilarious comedians and gamers who were some of the first people to create videos for the Internet (two years before YouTube!)

Contact (1997). It's a really cool depiction of what would happen if SETI (the Search for Extraterrestial Intelligence) actually succeeded, and a meditation on what place spirituality has in our lives if humans are not the center of the universe. The book is as good as the movie, and takes it in a somewhat different direction.

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probably Sonic 3 & Knuckles if I'm being honest

comfort show is Star Trek (just, any of the Star Trek series)

comfort game is classic Doom

cory in the house

kino's journey, perhaps?

those are certainly three pieces of music I never expected to be in the same sentence

I always get either INTP or INTJ, which would respectively match me with the Star Trek: TNG characters Data and Jean-Luc Picard. No surprise there.

Kraftwerk's Computerwelt was such an accurate vision of the future, I don't think I'd notice the difference.

Unless we're trying to fit all the Kraftwerk albums into one consistent universe, in which case, still pretty similar to ours, except with robots and half-human half-things who might try to run over your sports bike on the Autobahn.

I'm afraid the only one I can think of is "snooping as usual, I see..." because YTPs

Not including remixes, my favorite minigames include Karate Man GBA, The Bon Odori, Space Dance, Built to Scale DS, Karate Man DS, Lockstep, Night Walk Wii, and Kitties. If I had to pick one, it would be an extremely difficult choice between Space Dance and Kitties. They're both so cute and positive and meld the cues with the music so well it's incredible.

My favorite remixes would be Remix 5 GBA, Remix 8 DS, Remix 8 Wii, Remix 9 Wii, and all the medley remixes (aside from Left-Hand and Right-Hand, which are merely decent in my eyes). I also like the music in Lush Remix, but I don't like the gameplay.

only if someone genuinely wants to know which one is better for their use case and you recognize that your chosen thing isn't better for all use cases

also systemctl is a part of systemd, I think you mean "systemd vs sysvinit" (or I guess nowadays the systemd haters are more likely to use openrc)

I always get Alex G and A.G. Cook mixed up, so I come into Alex G stuff expecting hyperpop and get mild whiplash from how soft and quiet it is... anyway, Serpent is Lord is decent, has some good vocal layering, but it's not really my thing, I like music with a more complex or unusual timbres

Such as... Daft Punk - Face to Face

christmas I guess. and as always, I look forward to more Star Trek.

desert bus for hope is happening right now, so I can't exactly say I'm looking forward to it... I'm looking forward to the rest of it! from the same group of people, I'm also looking forward to the return of Friday Nights (the officially licensed Magic: the Gathering sitcom).

🎹 Tsunku, Annette Marie Cotrill, Aimee Blackschleger - Beautiful One Day (from Rhythm Heaven Fever)

📺 Super Mario 64 TAS World Record Explained

🔣 In the Star Trek universe, the starship Enterprise was named Enterprise in order to place it in a long line of Earth starships and sailing ships with the same name, including the US space shuttle Enterprise. In reality, the space shuttle Enterprise was named that due to pressure from Star Trek fans.

Arctic Monkeys are decidedly not for me (aside from Tranquility Base Hotel, because I like electronic music), so I went for "Sweet Dreams TN". Apparently it has the same lead vocalist, and sounds a lot like an AM track, but it avoids being as boring as I usually find AM with some really good string sections that remind me of late-career Beatles stuff.

How about all three?

0: Yes - Siberian Khatru

1: jan Misali - how many Super Mario games are there? (and the follow-up from a year later if you have time)

5: It can be mathematically proven that the fastest possible sorting algorithm has a time complexity of O(n log n). (I'm having trouble thinking of a fact that doesn't require knowledge of algebra, so I'm sorry if you don't understand what this means.)

I listened to "Terrapin". It was like something off of Pink Floyd's first album, but softer, which is pretty much what I expected, but still a good song.

No! But I usually don't find K-Pop interesting anyway

Got any recommendations?

my LoadingReadyRun DVDs, and my OpenPandora (if it still worked, grr...)

I like the old-school 88x31 buttons

present

if I were better at learning languages I wouldn't mind living in Zürich or Geneva, Switzerland

for nostalgia reasons: Feraligatr for cool factor (and also nostalgia reasons): Xerneas for good cards in the TCG: Charizard for funny anime moments: Machoke would be my favorite but I'm not sure it really counts: MissingNo.

Making a bucket list.

Second is remembering what's on it.