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I remember once I was listening to a podcast and they were discussing Star Trek and how the shows (especially TNG) were fundamentally about excellence. As in, Starfleet is all about doing your best...
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I was thinking about Stargate SG-1 in that light, and I think the show is fundamentally about perseverance and progress.Yes, excellence obviously is a factor, but when you look at the entire show as a...
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In a lot of shows, the stakes in the plot are raised kind of arbitrarily; a bigger, more dangerous baddie shows up out of nowhere.In SG-1, the stakes get raised *because* humanity is learning and...
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At the beginning of the show, SG-1 is bumbling around, getting into trouble they don't even understand. They are constantly encountering foes that are far more powerful, both in terms of number and...
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And things slowly get better. The odds of Earth of achieving a degree of safety go from hopeless, to impossible, to unlikely, to good.Always because SG-1 and SGC never give up the fight, and never stop...
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Star Trek: Voyager is very similar in this respect. They get stuck in an impossible situation and have to persevere to get through it.But progress in that story is more direct and banal: they get...
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Having another one of those days when I spend a couple hours doing something repetitive and dumb like cleaning my nails, and then feel like crap about it because I don't understand why I just wasted...
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It's one of those things that makes me feel broken. I'll waste most of a day doing something that, in retrospect, was not worth the time I spent on it. It wasn't interesting or constructive in any way....
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And really, the problem is not that I lost a few hours today. The problem is that I do shit like this *a lot*. I feel like I lose several days every week doing nothing.Is this all I am? Who I am? This...
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I try to avoid visiting Facebook, but at least I got a delightful Voyager meme this time 😂
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My niece asked for one of those 3D printer pens for Christmas. I got it for her, and I'm *really* curious how easy/difficult it is to use. I'm almost tempted to get one for myself, but it's definitely...
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I've been very impressed with this plant's resilience and persistence to keep going despite all of my various and continued offenses to botany
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For reference, I've had Pedro since like 2019(?) when the management at my previous apartment handed them out as gifts. The poor guy never grew very much, but he also never died. I left him outside a...
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Brain: You aren't trans. You fucked up on account of you being stupid.Me: Oh okay. I'll stop taking estrogen then.... But you do realize that means I'll get hairy all over again, smell gross, stop...
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