but on the opposite end of the spectrum i have been slowly revisiting minecraft! i have been watching some youtubers i used to watch ten years ago play it, and wanted to casually slip back into it. its been a long time and uhhh yeah im very unfamiliar with all the new content in it im so confused.... take me back to beta 1.8 (which i may do for fun, since the launcher supports all the old versions!)
Two tips: Don't use the official Minecraft launcher but instead use PolyMC, it's a lightweight launcher that allows you to have multiple installations at the same time, install modpacks with one click, and much more! It makes playing Minecraft less of a pain.
Also also, try playing modpacks! That's the best way to ensure you get super invested in it in the long run honestly.
If you want something that's designed and filmed just like TOS or TNG, then probably not. Strange New Worlds is very faithful, but it has been modernized. The bridge looks very much like the one from TOS, but it's glossier and the consoles are all touch screens instead of analogue. It's much closer to the original set design than the Apple Store look of the JJ Abrams films, though.
It's shot like a single-camera production, giving it a more cinematic look, and the acting is more natural. Not to criticize the original cast, but shows from that era are always kind of stiff. Pike has a very relaxed demeanor, even compared to Kirk, so the tone of the dialog follows suit.
Out of curiosity, how do you feel about The Orville? That seems closer to what you're looking for. Before Strange New Worlds, I considered it the closest thing to new Star Trek available.
Aye, okay. I can live with some modernization (and LCARS was touch screens anyway) but I think it's still against canon as there clearly was no touch screen control in TOS. That said, I do not actually like TOS that much (shocking right lol) so I wouldn't mind retcons there; besides, TNG retconned half of TOS anyway, so eh.
When it comes to the stiffness, I actually have the opposite opinion. Well, I do agree with your point when it comes to TOS and early TNG, but DS9 and VOY felt so much more natural than anything in DIS and PIC and what I've seen of SNW so far. Like, yeah, they use real life slang and do "relatable" little things, but it's all so surface level, like a Google Home advertisement. I actually think Sisko alone was much more of a believable, full person than anyone in Discovery. I think it wasn't stiff acting but rather theatre inspired, which befits the tone honestly. They are professional, but still emotional, in their own, mature way. I look up to how they deal with their emotions. I genuinely act like people in DS9 in real life, and I do not act like people in PIC or DIS. It's so... white-middle-class-Western-American-washed, with overacted emotions and "deep" scenes that come off like inspirational posters or infomercials. That's a big reason why I watch old Trek. It feels like I am watching something not meant for entertaining Twitter users, but a genuine look into someone's deeper life.
And when it comes to the Orville; good question! I did watch the first season a while back, and there were as many good things about it as there were bad things. I think the comedy in the early episodes falls VERY flat, with most of the jokes befitting a bad sitcom more than anything else and being about "haha failing marriage and women are emotional and men are goofy". They caught themselves quickly though and I think they gained their footing, and I enjoyed it for what it is. I will continue it at some point, but I want one of my partners to watch it with me, so I will hold out for that. That said, I still need that Star Trek franchise in my life because, as I said, I am in it for the world, not specifically even the style or genre. Klingons are as real to me as people from other countries in real life, I wouldn't bat an eye at seeing one walking down the street. That's how invested I am in this franchise.
Hi, welcome wris! Can confirm this is a cool place to be! It's nice being thrown back into familiar spaces after being away from forums for so long, innit?
Upload it to neocities after all, remaining cautious of file size (the easiest)
Use your own server and host them there, and link your thumbnail to those (maximum freedom and control this way)
Use some kind of cloud storage service such as Flickr or Unsplash (the latter will make your pictures freely licensed so anyone can use them, which is the point of the site, but it's great for hi-res hosting!)
Offer $15 express worldwide shipping for fifty (50) reasonably sized floppy disks per image request.
Oh thank you for the resource! That's super cool. I think I will cook up an onionring at some point! Although I am not too hyped on the license. But at least it's permissive, so hey.
seeing as quite some people here are into Star Trek, we should maybe try to organize a Star Trek webring! Not for just homepages of people who are into Star Trek, as that does not tend to be very interesting in and of itself, but perhaps we could choose to only accept Trek-related shrines, fanpages or subpages to the ring. I thought that'd be a super cool idea! That way you could click your way through the pages and find sites full of fanfiction, opinions, graphics, ships, gifs, reviews, blogs, and so much more, all Trek related.
I have never organized a webring before though so I don't know how it works but I could read myself into it. I'd gauge interest though before that, so, uh, hi, would anyone among you want to join? <3
This is interesting, and I have similar opinions about NuTrek.
I started watching Discovery very enthusiastically, as when it came out I was just 16 and I had never really interacted with the online fandom before, so I was going in practically blind expecting awesome new Star Trek. I have not even considered not liking the series because so far every single one was great and I had watched them all. But the very first episode felt like such a gut punch in every way that I could not get any further than like four episodes in.
Since then, I have only really interacted with the new series by watching highlights and analyses of it, and it's always so unfathomably stupid and spits on everything the series was for me. Like, not even in a "if you had watched the series you would understand the context" or "you have not even watched it and yet you hate on it" way, but even standing alone these things were so dumb and undeserved. Again, I was hopeful about Picard and actually watched several episodes of it but legitimately cried because it, too, was shit, and quit it too.
I did watch Lower Decks though and enjoyed it, even though some jokes were a bit too cringe for me, but hey, that's adult animation I guess. It's definitely a show I enjoy watching though, and I consider it Trek, because they seem to be poking fun at Trek from a Trekkie perspective, not from a "I think Star Trek is stupid and needs to be updated" perspective. Same with Prodigy, which was okay but still a very generic kids' show.
Now, to SNW though... what to think about it? I have, as with Picard and Discovery, only really interacted with it by watching highlights and clips and recaps, but I still think it looks like other NuTrek. It's great that it is moving towards an episodic structure, but I don't get over some things: This all might come across as nit-picky and typical online-nerd-complaining, but honestly, I have a strange relationship with Trek. I have immersed myself in Star Trek for such a huge part of my life that I often joke that I genuinely would not bat an eye at an actual Vulcan or Romulan crossing the street in front of me. It's real in a way, even though I intellectually know that it is not, I have invested so much time and fantasy into this franchise that it feels like an actual part of the world now.
Watching new Star Trek is like watching someone make a movie about your own childhood. No matter how faithful it is, you are going to feel really weird about it and like it is not what actually happened, because the sets are different, the actors do not look like your friends, and the way people talk is slightly off. I am not watching Star Trek for the episodic nature, the politics, I don't even watch it for the utopia, or the exploration, or even the philosophy. Those are all big parts of what made the originals great and stand out (and the lack of which made DIS and PIC so much worse), but I could definitely enjoy Trek media that is completely different than that.
No, in fact I am consuming and creating Star Trek media because of the world itself and because it is real to me, in a sense. And that means that I need visual continuity: I need LCARS computers or TOS style design, I need the static camera angles, I need relatively slang-free and mature dialogue, silence and engine humming instead of background music, naval conduct when appropriate, I need the tacky costumes, the wood plating, the muted colors. Those are all things I want and expect from Star Trek, because that is what the world looks like. I don't want heavy makeup actors in hairstyles of the 2010s or 2020s . I know this is hypocritical because TNG-ENT was very much a product of their times just as much as new Trek is a product of our times but, hey, I was born in 2001 in Europe, so for me that TNG/VOY/DS9/ENT aesthetic just means Star Trek, not any real life time or style period. If it means that new Trek media that appeals to me has to have 70s-90s design language, so be it.
Seeing that background, do you think I would enjoy Strange New Worlds as much as you did? Genuinely asking, because I'd be willing to give it a chance but I don't want to be kicked in the nethers once more by a show that tries to adapt Star Trek but does not come close to what that universe means to me. All I have seen from that show was - again - big sweeping Dutch angle shots, ridiculously oversized bridges, 2020s slang, quippy characters devoid of mature reasoning, and occasional references to the old shows, all set in front of a Guardians of the Galaxy like atmosphere among the crew.
lots of threads with vague titles ("So...", "Um" ":grin:omg:es anyone else", etc), threads about the same topic on the same page, threads made to just post 1 image or 1 phrase, and so on... they're big peeves! is this a trend with newer forums?
I think it is. People are just unfamiliar with the idea of a forum or sitting down at a computer doing something for a few hours on end, honestly. When I look around non-technical people in my own age group and people who are a bit younger than me, they generally don't even use computers anymore except for school. They want to type something up on their phone and get a short answer in seconds. Post a meme for some quick attention in the shitposting channel. Typing a paragraph, even such a short post such as THIS ONE, would be far too much work for them. Plus remembering to look into the thread later or, lord knows, subscribing to it or email updates? RSS? Get out of here!
I don't mean this too negatively, after all there is a reason why they do what they do. It's just my personal preference to do it this way. Forums are more permanent in a way, more personal, less fleeting. People might look at this very thread in one, two, five or ten years and read my words -- that's pretty cool! They'll never do that with a Discord server or a Telegram chat group. Forums are just a different medium than instant chat, and that's OK.
But this trend has been going on for a long while in forums. Even five to ten years ago we had "funny image" threads in the spam section, and it just bled into other sections from there I guess.
I don't like it if a website goes 100% width. It just looks so uncomfortable to read and all the lines get really long! I prefer it if it flexes across my screen to cover only 60% in the center or so.
Creating a text version statically is also an option, but you'd need a good workflow in order to make sure there are no discrepancies between the two.
Oh don't tempt me, I already do everything statically in the most impractical way possible. Now excuse me as I open up the Mousepad text editor to continue my XHTML-only static blog I wrote from scratch and copy-paste my CSS from one document to another so I can then upload it via SFTP to the server so I can debug the changes I made. Ahem. After that I need to refactor a little piece in the layout so I will open up every post I have ever written to make that change in each.
oh yeah! once i was watching a minecraft video where the two guys were acting like an earthquake happened in-game. they then walked around to look at the damage done to their builds. it's probably laughably unbelievable now (doesn't make it a bad video though!) but i 100% believed that minecraft earthquakes were a thing and that they weren't acting.
Oh that doesn't have to have been a fake video! There were and are wild mods for that game. Weather 2 for example adds actual tornados that also make blocks fly around, it's super cool!
I think it would've been better if you posted this in the actual introductions section but hey. XD I see you noticed! Don't worry, Melon will probably move it. You don't have to do anything.
That said, super cool to have you here! I'm also a trekkie although I am quite a bit younger than you (born 2001). We should open a Trek thread though! (By the way DS9 > VOY > ENT > TNG > LD > TOS > TAS and if you disagree I will pout. Just kidding.)
I also selfhost my website because I think "libre.town" looks way cooler than "libretown.neocities.com" or whatever the format is. It's just a preference.
Your website is cute by the way! It's SO small on my 2.8k screen though. ;P The pixel art is extremely cute! I think I will yank a few for my own site (with modifications)! x) I will give credit of course. Oh and thank you so much for the graphics collection. I think I talked too much now though!
I guess if we're all somewhat into alternative culture already, it'd be fun if we'd share our local artists here too!
That could be people you know personally, random gigs from your pub and the town over, or even your own music.
I'll start:
This isn't exactly specifically my own town or anything but I hung around with people who are also in her social circle:
Tags: Rap, Hip Hop, German
And this guy is actually secretly my history and politics professor in real life which is really hilarious because his second identity is "communist rapper".
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im so confused.... take me back to beta 1.8 (which i may do for fun, since the launcher supports all the old versions!)
That's super cool.
