OnyxRex

Sisko punched Q once, and Q was so entertained that he didn't do anything about it. Don't play.

It's a funny joke, but lets me real. Shran would probably win that fight.

I watched so much scifi on Netflix back in the day. It was really an end of an era moment when they lost Star Trek and Stargate.

It's not fully accurate to lay the blame at the feet of Netflix. At the time, they just saw the writing on the wall and did what they had to do to survive. Their catalog was massive because, early on, no one thought streaming would work. They had a massive collection of shows and movies that didn't pull enough of an audience to air on TV for ad revenue. Netflix was able to get a TON of long-term deals that they used to grow, but when those contracts were coming due, the rights holders pulled out and started trying to make their own services. At that point, Netflix basically had to become a studio and pivot to original content, or else they wouldn't have content at all.

The long and the short of it is that because Netflix was first, it got to set the stage for the golden age of streaming, but because it worked, it was inevitable that streaming would become cable.

It's not Netflix's fault. It's just the course of the entertainment business. They suck now, but back then, I couldn't think of a single bad thing to say about them... well, maybe that they got rid of the 5-star rating system. That system was definitely used to get metrics for their early programming.

It does seem like the tech bros in power now saw those 80s dystopia movies and went, "yes. that."

She's angling to be my handler while I'm just angling to handle her.

I would honestly be surprised if America as we know it exists by that time. I hope whatever hell hole Elon runs off to has the foresight to just shoot him but I think even that is asking too much.

I think the mid-terms will be the moment that becomes clear to everyone here.

Agreed. I'm an American. I'm not going to sit here and pretend the country did things right in the world, but along with all the bad is the counter balance of the US dollar and world stabilization through world trade. It was economic diplomacy. Again, this is just a statement of observation and not an endorsement. We're dead and we just don't know it yet. Our world credibility is at an all time low, our military is depleted, our reserves are depleting, food scarcity is on the rise and our debt has balloon with the guardrails and safety nets that we spent 100 years developing being gutted and undermined.

I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It's devastating. I don't say that asking for sympathy. I've seen enough of what happens on the world stage to understand that such things are deserved in one way or another.

I hope that in the history books, people will understand that no country is a monolith, and that our greatest failures on the whole was not malice but inaction as a response to our leaders' complete disregard for our wishes.

shit, I think I spilled some VtM in my Sponge-bob.

Nah man, This here American just thinks we're fucked.

I'm constantly thinking about how much we've domesticated ourselves over the last few hundred years.