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Although it's technically a holiday in Hong Kong I am in the office, albiet with nothing to do so I have been watching DS9. Here are my thoughts...

Emissary

The best Star Trek pilot, both in terms of entertainment and setting the scene and establishing the main characters for the subsequent series. Quark and Odo aren't given much to do but nevertheless we get an impression of who they are and their relationship to one another- Quark's nephew BIPOC is presented here as more of a hardened delinquent rather than the naughty kid he would later appear as and BIPOC's father Rom only appears in the background. Kira is pretty annoying tbh and it took most of season 1 to let her calm down and stop being angry and unhinged about literally everything. Everyone else is pretty much as they would be throughout the show, including Gul Dukat who has a brief appearance.

The story revolves around the immediate aftermath of the Cardassian withdrawl from their 50-year occupation of Bajor and the uneasy new alliance between the Bajorans and the Federation, who the Bajorans fear might just be a new occupation force. The Bajoran gods, the Prophets, are revealed to be aliens who exist outside of time and space in an artificial wormhole which connects the Alpha and Gamma Quadrants of our galaxy. By the end of the episode the Prophets have agreed to allow transit to the new frontier through their wormhole after a lengthy extrapolation between themselves and DS9 commander Sisko on the nature of linear time.

This focusses on why Sisko- who insists we temporal beings are always moving forward- continues to dwell on the death of his wife during the Borg invasion, rather than moving on which he has argued is what we do. This is very smart writing- taking the very out-there concept of aliens who exist at every point in time simultaneously and linking it to the very relatable experience of grief. It would have been better without Avery Brooks' profoundly uneven performance. I think he is capable of acting some scenes very well- the relationship between Sisko and his son Jake is one of the best father-son combos in tv history- but he cannot play strong emotions and resorts to this odd staccato shouting which just seems weird.

Why exactly the Prophets- who experience past, present and future as one- would seem surprised or even threatened by Sisko deserves some exploration. Especially so since later seasons will reveal he has a very close relationship to one of them. I hypothesise that they are, to some extent, playing along with the scene but, at the same time, this actually is the beginning of a linear cause and effect series of events for them. They use Sisko's description of linear events as a template to create their own, deciding to interract more closely with the temporal universe beyond their own wormhole- that these events occur in the past from our perspective is irrelevant as the Prophets can leave their own dimension at any point along the timeline. From their perspective the line of cause and effect is- meet with Sisko, realise he's 'one of them'; send one of their own to create him; take a greater interest in Bajor and the greater galaxy (including abducting an ancient religious extremist to act as an alternative emissary- a wake-up call to goad Sisko into taking his role as emissary seriously, and saving the Alpha Quadrant from a Dominion fleet); and latterly suffering a schism among their ranks which creates the Pah-Wraiths. This happens all over our timeline but is a series of one-after-the-other events to them and is their exploration of linear existence. Of course, to some extent, they always knew they would do this as they always had knowledge of past, present and future as one- in the words of Dr. Manhattan; "We're all puppets, but some of us can see the strings".

Past Prologue

The first regular episode of DS9 introduces possibly the greatest reoccuring character in Star Trek history- challenged only by his fellow Cardassian Gul Dukat- Elim Garak (or "plain simple Garak" as he prefers). He is the only Cardassian to remain on the station and is suspected of being a spy, which is half true (but of course, the truth is just an excuse for a poor imagination). Andrew J. Robinson (who also played the Scorpio in Dirty Harry- he was wrong to feel lucky- and the heavy-bleeding father in the original Hellraiser) plays Garak a little too creepy and gay and apparently Rick Berman told him to cut that shit out, so Garak straightens out quite a lot in subsequent appearances. Garak is the best part of the episode, the rest of it is some guff about Bajoran extremists- whom we never hear from again- and another appearance by the utterly tiresome House of Duras in the form of the sisters Lursa and B'Etor (in their defence, they do seem to have nice tits) who are smuggling bomb parts for the extremists. Lets just remind ourselves of what eventually happened to them:

Anyway, none of this goes anywhere and Kira ends up looking like a bit of an idiot for initially supporting the nice-haired extremist leader- to be fair she does redeem herself towards the end. All anyone cares about in this episode is Garak and it's worth watching for him.

A Man Alone

Cut to: Bashir and Quark lusting after Dax (Jeets and Jews being notorious for this kind of shit). Everyone assumes that Sisko is going to feed her a length but he insists they're just old friends. For some reason I startrd imagining the noises Avery Brooks makes when fricking while writing this.

Anyway- none of this is the point of the episode and Odo harrumpfing and admitting to being a vocel before jumping up and slugging a guy at the dabo table and telling him he's got 26 hours (one Bajor day) to get off the station cues us to the focus of this episode. The guy he hit was some kind of smuggler but not the good kind- he let a kid die cos her family couldn't pay for the medicine she needed. He then killed a Cardassian for which Odo arrested and charged him. Later on he's seen getting a massage by a web-fingered holo-whore when's he's stabbed in the back and killed.

The tale requires us to go along with the notion that Odo might actually be the killer- after all, we don't know him that well. However Rene Aberjoniois is a fully paid up regular cast member contracted until at least the end of the season. I suppose, back in the 90s, there were still a lot of people watching who didn't understand how TV gets made but the whole thing never gets resolved and a bunch of threads get left hanging- most notably the motivations of Chudd McWrinklenose...

...who leads the witch hunt against Quark when he gets relieved of duty. I'm going to spoil the ending cos it's not very interesting. The suggler guy cloned himself and then killed his clone. Bashir demonstrates this by growing a clone of the guy revealing that, when it's grown, it will be allowed to leave medbay and go have a life- Odo states that "killing your clone is still murder". Now, I grant you that this might just be Bajoran law but lets just recall how Riker and the awful Pulaski reacted when someone cloned them:

The B-plot is about the O'Briens and Keiko being unhappy with nothing to do on the station. The woman was a botanist on the Enterprise (I assume she and a bunch of other civilians worked in specialist jobs like than somewhere among the huge and echoingly- empty halls of that ship- seriously, the Enterprise-D had a compliment of less than a thousand people -including civilians- and had literally millions of square feet of floorspace- place must've been empty as frick) and now she's sat at home with the kid. So she decides to become a schoolteacher because, when all other career choices dry up, that's what you do. She goes to persuade Rom to send his son to the school. Rom is... very different to how he'll be later. Of course,nobody likes Keiko so anything about her is unpopular. A lot of this is for the same reasons that nobody liked Skylar in Breaking Bad- male writers project onto wife characters and make them drag-wheels for the male protagonists... their feelings and ideas an obstacle to be overcome. Nevertheless, here's a compilation of Keiko being an annoying ladygarden:

In summary: meh.

I really want to know why Odo doesn't just turn his arms into tentacles and wrap up perps when arresting them or why he grunts and gasps while he's fighting considering he's a changeling who doesn't breathe.

Babel

Cold open on something I've never seen before: a hard working Irishman. Potatoneighbors usually only put the effort into three things- drunkeness, spousal abuse and the glorification of heinous acts of terrorism. But Chief Miles O'Brien will do anything to avoid having to go home and talk to his wife so he's personally taking charge of literally every actof maintenence on the station. DS9 was a shoddy rush-job, it seems and Cardassian technology is a bit shit compared to the Federation stuff. After fixing yet another anus-juice-producing replicator we see a mysterious object within release a strange gas...

The station becomes Wuhan to an aphasia virus which makes people spount gibberish. This is never funnier than when it's O'Brien- Colm Meany (an actually legitimately great actor) delivers this stuff wonderfully and it's an incredible shame that he's removed from the episode so soon. I could watch this shit for 40 minutes no trouble:

This episode is actually quite good and benefits from having no real b-plot. The closest you get is that Quark inadvertently spreads the virus further by breaking into the crew quarters on the command decks to use the replicators after the ones in his bar break and O'Brien's too busy having his spazz to fix them. Now this begs a question: what the frick are people paying Quark for if he's just using the same ship replicators as everyone else to make his food and drink? Is it ambience? I considered the idea that maybe Quark has licences to replicate stuff you can't get at home but then how's he doing it from a crew replicator? Maybe everyone only gets a certain ration of replicator credits and Quark's takes latinum for more but then that really raises the idea that his patrons are gluttons. I suppose the gambling and holo-whoring is something you can't do in your quarters but everyone acts like the food and drink is something special too.

Quark and Odo are the only two main cast members who don't get affected by the virus by the end of the episode which actually makes a lot of sense as Odo's a changeling and numerous TNG episodes established that Ferenghi brains don't work like goyim brains do.

Anyway- first objectively good regular episode of season 1. The next episode will be even better...

i always love games of intersectional twister, and this one's amazing: leftists standing up for anesthesiologists who make an average of 472k, and whose slaraies increased by an average of ~70k from 2022 to 2023 at a time of tons of bill-paying struggles

~~ L E F T I S M ~~ https://t.co/ovTyZxd2Az

— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) December 5, 2024

He rpeosted tihs thraed

BCBS told some extremely overpaid specialists (median salary: $430,600) that they would be cutting their pay by applying some of Medicare's payment rules.

This is how single-payer works: Squeeze rentier providers, lower costs.

If you're outraged by this, you're getting played! https://t.co/1mc5TJ8bD0

— Eric Levitz (@EricLevitz) December 5, 2024

anesthesiologists should be paid infinity dollars, and anyone who thinks they should get $1 less should be immediately executed without trial https://t.co/32Aq797DcO

— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) December 5, 2024

my bad: the us healthcare system is great, costs are kept under control, and there's no corruption or rent-seeking behavior (as lefties have been saying all along!) https://t.co/dedxN7TTh7

— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) December 5, 2024

he gvie me lot to tihnk abuot tbh

https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/naval-warfare/royal-new-zealand-navy-loses-first-vessel-to-the-sea-in-eighty-years/

https://dailynews.co.tz/new-zealand-loses-first-naval-ship-to-sea-since-ww2/

https://www.facebook.com/story.php/?story_fbid=917537986907920&id=100059551808655&_rdr

https://von.gov.ng/new-zealand-loses-first-naval-ship-since-wwii/

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/07/world/new-zealand-navy-ship-sinks-intl-hnk/index.html

https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/NZ-Navy-ship-with-lesbian-captain-goes-down-in-Samoa/5-2752309/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/new-zealands-lesbian-navy-captain-loses-100m-naval/

"The New Zealand Defence Force stated that the cause of the grounding is currently unknown and will require further investigation."

DEI posting in the comments

"this is what happens when you put MUFF Divers in command"

Drinking age should be 25 for men and 45 for foids

SPIDERCHAD ALWAYS HELPED ME WHENEVER I NEEDED

HE IS A JACKED BWC BVLL WHO MET BARDFINN IRL

UNIRONICALLY ONE OF THE BEST USERS ON RDRAMA.NET

I DUNNO WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE CURRENT META DRAMA AROUND HIM BUT HE ALWAYS SEEMED TO BE A COOL AND DOWN TO EARTH DUDE

LEAVE SPIDERMAN ALONE AND STOP HARASSING HIM IMMEDIATELY

!metashit !friendsofspiderman

Tbh she probably does have an eating disorder, but it's funny that being too thin is all it takes for white women to start hating on you, when you know they could care less about her other scandals if she was a higher bmi

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArianaGrandeSnark/s/YlzKjBESEp

/u/futuresuperhiro

She posts on both the snark subreddit but also the fans subreddits?, what a unique specimen.

It's weird seeing these redditors talk about how she need to grow up but if it was a picture of a morbidly obese couple in their 30s with mickey hats at Disney World it would suddenly be mean to "not let people enjoy things"

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArianaGrandeSnark/s/hFOGfFKqsW

New account muslim women who has also posted in /r/edanonymous /r/fasting so I don't know whats up with her

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArianaGrandeSnark/s/WfnYHaxM0Z

/u/limonadebeef

This reddit women writes a long essay about how online randos are so sick of her yelling about a random celebrities weight, and how heckin wrong this is.

Before making 10+ comments a day and multiple post on the snark subreddit, basically making it their life mission to tell everyone how unacceptable her weight is, they posted things like these

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArianaGrandeSnark/s/udkYbgt5VJ

/u/_ZoroX_

Everything is a bodycheck

This is a warthunder and blackops 6 moid, so I have no idea why he cares so much, but he makes posts and comments on the subreddit almost every single day lmao

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Anyways, I'm too lazy to post more because I could care less about celebrities, but it was fun.

《Takeaways》

●Valkyrae reveals that she has a cameo in the Minecraft movie.

●While filming this cameo, she says she saw Jason Momoa "mistreat" the crew.

●She says Momoa was "angry, really mad and yelling".

Streamer Valkyrae says that she saw Jason Momoa "mistreat" the crew of the Minecraft movie. She says she saw this was shooting a cameo for the film, during which she alleges to have seen Momoa "yelling" at workers behind the scenes.

As spotted by Insider Gaming, Valkyrae - real name Rachell Marie Hofstetter - revealed this during a stream with fellow content creator JasonTheWeen. Here, she reveals that seeing Momoa on set was her worst celebrity experience, and that she would "not be happy working under these conditions".

"So, Minecraft movie. I have a cameo in the Minecraft movie that's coming out," Valkyrae explains. "I would have to say, Jason Momoa. I just saw him mistreat some of the crew, and it was pretty disappointing. It was a very emotional scene so maybe he was still in character, I don't know. But I was kind of surprised by how he treated some of the crew.

"He was just really mad at them that they weren't doing something right, like setting up like the shot," she continues. "He was just angry, really mad and yelling. So I was like, man, this is not a good work environment. I would not be happy working under these conditions."

The Minecraft Movie Has Faced Issues Since Its Reveal

Momoa's alleged behaviour on set isn't the only issue the Minecraft movie has faced. The first trailer dropped last week and was met with near-universal backlash across the gaming community. From the casting to the visuals, fans seem to think this film is going to miss the mark. The comments on the trailer are overwhelmingly negative too, and it seems like many have already written this off as a miss, not joining the ranks of successful video game adaptations like The Super Mario Bros. Movie and the Sonic series.

In any case, Minecraft is coming to theatres next April. It remains to be seen if it can win back some good will with fans as we see more of the movie.

《Minecraft》

The best-selling video game of all time, Minecraft is a sandbox title developed by Mojang that bridges the gap between video games and education. Whether you want to raid dungeons and build whatever you choose, there's something for everyone across almost every gaming platform you can think of.

lol

Did I *plan* this week's new episode knowing in advance I'd be in the (so far?) minority of critics with a positive take on a new release? No, but it's funny when it works out that way 🤣 youtu.be/50-PDnWMzVE?...

— Bob Chipman (@bobchipman.bsky.social) 2025-02-13T03:19:50.936Z

Review - "CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD" (2025)Marvel goes back-to-basics with lean, fast-paced throwback to Tom Clancy potboilers and its own 'Winter Soldier'/Phase2 mode of solo-franchise "multiverse who?" sequels.youtu.be/E6oPFS9dAvc?...#CaptainAmericaBraveNewWorld#CaptainAmerica

— Bob Chipman (@bobchipman.bsky.social) 2025-02-12T17:18:42.113Z

https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fmikef141.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3li76gvercc2w

everyone who disagrees with me is the same person

— josh (@fevered.earth) 2025-02-09T17:49:42.709Z

https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fcinemacultist.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lhrbebputc2q

Every time I'm reminded of how Moviebob writes/talks I laugh so hard bro

— Lew (@strongest-lewman.bsky.social) 2025-02-05T20:13:19.952Z

Years ago I ripped the DKD soundtrack off YouTube by searching various things + also took requests from people here and then I renamed the files to basic, ordered numbers because that seemed to make the most sense. You can see this here:

https://fsdfsd.net/MarseyWorld/MarseyWorld/src/branch/master/files/assets/events/DKD/music

However

I want to add the Now Playing to the bottom of the page, a really small footer with a cute lil equalizer graphic or something beside it. This will apply to all holigays. But it's DKD right now so let's tackle that.

Identify the tracks, include a link to the youtube video it came from to prove you're not full of shit. 500 per track identified. Obviously tell me which file the link corresponds to.

Do as many or as few as you want, some are actually really easy like the fricking DKC Funky's Flights theme.

Be first or be broke.

Thank you me because this is all happening as I have had a tab open since yesterday morning with some sort of Kong remix playing and I need to know what it is because it's SO GOOD.