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Note to self: use a base coat when painting my nails blue or I'll look cyanotic after I remove the polish ^^;;

I saw someone play ten minutes of Nier:Automata Friday and the music and art direction immediately made me want to get it. That's a rare thing. I'll probably wait until I have income and a better graphics card though.

This (US) flowchart about whether a search is lawful or not is incredibly complex.

Probably better to just get a lawyer.

http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2256

DS9 actually gets reliably interesting, even if still suffering from some of Trek's fundamental flaws.

Anyway TNG has a lot of garbage but also some pretty okay stuff and if you go in expecting it to be the kinda thing you half pay attention to it can be pretty fun.

if you start with s2 TNG you'll miss the Extreme Gayness that is Tasha Yarr though.

I recommend people wanting to get in to Trek start with TNG (possibly at season 2) but consider DS9 to be the best the property has to offer.

Hey, just. Y'all are good and I appreciate having you in my life.

@crom I just noticed your current display name here and it is 👌🏻

Fleeting thought: It's *really* difficult to constructively communicate "I accept and will go along with this decision but would like to take this opportunity to express that this decision is not my desired outcome".

Have there been any essays on Bojack Horseman's relationship with millennial affect and culture? Because hoo boy is that a complicated thing.

I want fingernails that glow bright blue and leave phosphorescent trails hanging in the air.

So, conclusion: Star Trek TNG actually has a pretty cool example of how reading about a culture is not nearly the same as being an actual participant in it.

When Worf interacts with other Klingons on the show, there's a distinct cultural divide.

He's been raised with heavy emphasis on Klingon values such as aggression and honor, but only as seen through the filter of Federation (i.e. 1990s american liberal) values.

As practiced by native Kilingons, Klingon cultural values are expressed very differently than how Worf understands them. This frequently catches him by surprise and makes him feel like an outside.

Now here's the interesting part, which was implicit but not overt in the show.

Worf's parents were raising him basically on the Wikipedia version of Klingon culture. They did their very best to expose him to Klingon rituals and cultural values, but only with the imperfect knowledge of cultural outsiders. There was no Klingon community on earth they could participate in. They could teach the declarative content and nominal meaning of the culture, but none of the actual texture as practiced.